Rest & rise

Retreats 2026:

Women’s Wellness Retreat, Snowdonia, North Wales –

Come home to yourself, in nature’s most inspiring landscape

June 4th – 8th 

September 10th – 14th  

4 nights, 5 days

Rhiw Goch Inn, North Wales | £650 all-inclusive (food, accommodation, facilitation)

✨ Early Bird Discounts book by 6th February 2026 – £585 (save 10%) 

WhyThis Retreat Matters

If you’re seeking a women’s retreat in North Wales for deep rest, transformation, and genuine connection, you’re in the right place.

We invite you to join us in co-creating and participating in an immersive retreat in the wilds of Snowdonia—a time and space to pause, listen, and reconnect with what matters most: attuning to our own individual still, small voice of wisdom and to the wonderful wild voice of nature’s wisdom.

This experience is designed especially for women leaders longing to deepen their individual sense of purpose while also nurturing the collective vision and strength of our group.

Modern life asks so much of women—balancing demanding careers, family commitments, relationships, and the invisible weight of holding everything (and everyone) together. It’s easy to lose touch with your own needs, let alone your dreams or true direction.

This women’s retreat in Snowdonia is your invitation to gently step away from it all. Here, there’s no need to wear the strong mask or hustle for your worth. You receive wholehearted permission to slow down, find real rest, and simply be yourself—in a space free from pressure and expectation.

We’ll move between dance, song, nature inquiry, shared meals, and moments for honest reflection—always held with warmth, science, and a dash of wonder. The experience is co-facilitated by me, Caroline Mason and Jenny Mackewn, ensuring the space is beautifully held for true transformation.

You’ll find yourself surrounded by stunning wild nature and a supportive community of women—free to exhale, restore your energy, and reconnect with what nourishes you most. Whether you crave clarity, inspiration, confidence, or true breathing space, these days are yours to reset, rise, and reclaim your natural rhythm.

As well as deep rest and renewal, you’ll leave with practical tools and simple practices to integrate into everyday life—empowering you to lead, care, and live with greater ease.

At the heart of Rest & Rise is this: you come as you are, connect with your own wisdom, and return home lighter, more alive, and with a renewed sense of self.

What You’ll Experience

You’ll leave not with a to-do list, but with a felt sense of spaciousness, connection, and clarity.  ✨

This women’s wellness retreat in Snowdonia, North Wales is all about rest, renewal, and rising together in a supportive, beautiful natural setting

Your retreat experience begins before you ever step foot in Snowdonia. About three weeks before your arrival, you’ll have a gentle, private coaching session (15 minutes, via Zoom) with Caroline or Jenny—an invitation to explore what’s calling you, the enquiry you’ll carry during retreat, and how we can support you best. It’s the first step in co-creating a truly bespoke and nourishing experience.

Each Rest & Rise retreat is shaped by those who gather, the energy of the moment, and the wisdom of the land. Here’s a flavour of what you can expect—anchored enough to reassure, always open to play, fun, and emergence.

Day 1 (Thursday): Arrivals, Welcoming & Grounding

• Arrive and settle in from 4pm.
• Welcome circle outdoors on the historic bell tent pads (or in the cosy barn if it’s wet): time to land, meet each other, and gently begin letting go.
• Grounding & gratitude practices on the lawns below Rhiw Goch’s ancient walls help us reconnect with bodies, earth, laughter, and each other.
• A relaxed communal supper and gentle reflection open the retreat.

Day 2 (Friday): Setting Your Intention & Inquiry

• Gentle morning movement or mindful nature walk

• Guided circle (outdoors or in the barn): connect to what brought you here, explore your personal “question” for the retreat.
• Outdoor solo time—walk stone paths, meander lawns, or rest in the woods, listening for your own wisdom and nature’s messages.
• Creative practices (journaling, drawing, movement) to capture insights and find your “still, small voice.”
• Evening sharing circles around the fire pit—deepening connection and witnessing each other’s questions and intentions.
• Delicious shared meals, time to rest, optional song or movement to close.

Day 3 (Saturday):

Deeper Journeying & Nature Immersion

• Morning check-in and gentle embodiment practice.
• Nature quest or intuition walk—guided solo time in pastures, woodlands, or by flowing streams.
• Group reflection and supportive coaching to clarify what you’ll embrace and what you’re ready to release.
• Afternoon workshops—movement, expressive arts, or constellation work (always tailored to group needs).
• Evening gratitude ritual: gratitude as a lever for bringing more joy and ease into your life.

Day 4 (Sunday): Integration & Emergence

• Gentle movement and mindfulness in the barn or outdoors.
• Harvesting your journey—sharing, mapping, or expressing visually the transformation you’ve experienced.
• Closing circle: presencing, sensing into what’s next, and gathering resources to bring home.

Day 5 (Monday morning): Celebrating & Farewell

• Integration circle: ceremony to celebrate what has come, and what you’re letting go of.
• Check out at 10am, departure 12noon.

Every Day Offers:

• A choice of walks, from gentle lawns and smooth paths to wilder mountains (supportive for all mobilities)
• Indoor and outdoor practice spaces: barn studio, Lodge, and (if the weather allows) the woods and streams
• Opportunities for laughter, play, rest, connection, and soulful conversation
• A flexible, responsive rhythm—some structure, always shaped by you and the group

We’ll confirm the closing schedule nearer the time, ensuring everyone can participate fully—whether your journey home starts Sunday night or Monday midday.

The Rest & Rise retreat follows a spiral path: from arrival and grounding, to deepening inquiry, to letting go and listening (to self & nature), then emerging renewed. Whether you come seeking clarity, rest, or joyful connection, your journey is honoured start to finish.

All you need to do is get yourself to Rhiw Goch Inn — everything else is taken care of.

Your retreat fee includes:

• 4-star accommodation in the Rhiw Goch Bunkhouse (shared or private upgrades available)
• All meals (with all dietary preferences warmly catered for)
• All facilitation, coaching, and workshops
• The support of experienced retreat hosts, with deep roots in women’s leadership and embodied transformation

The only additional cost is your travel to Snowdonia National Park, North Wales.

This women’s retreat UK takes place in the tranquil Barn and Grounds at Rhiw Goch Inn, right in the heart of Snowdonia National Park, North Wales:

• Spacious, light-filled barn for circles and workshops
• Serene woodlands and mountain views
• Comfortable indoor and outdoor reflection spaces
• Close to local walks, lakes, beaches and nature reserves

A women’s wellness escape in the heart of Snowdonia—revitalise your body, mind, and spirit with group and solo time in wild nature.

Caroline Mason

Is a coach, facilitator, consultant and women’s leadership guide who specialises in helping women reconnect with their truth, regulate their nervous systems, and lead in ways that honour both ambition and wellbeing.

With over 20 years’ experience leading change across global organisations — including as former Head of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Co-op (£5.4bn food brand) — she brings both depth and practicality to her work.

Caroline is an ICF-certified executive and team coach, a certified trainer with the Centre for Compassionate Leadership, and a trustee of LEAF, a global food and farming certification body. She has supported senior leaders and teams across five countries, combining evidence-based learning with embodied, somatic approaches to create transformation that lasts.

Known for her warmth, systems-thinking perspective, and ability to create psychological safety, Caroline holds spaces where women can lay down the weight of expectation, breathe deeply, and rediscover their natural rhythms of power, presence, and aliveness.

Jenny Mackewn

Is a writer, facilitator, and pioneer of creative leadership with over 30 years’ experience in holding transformative spaces.

She is internationally recognised for her expertise in systemic constellations, creative approaches to leadership, and organisational change, and has designed and led some of the most innovative learning programmes of the last two decades. Jenny created and directed the MSc in Transformative Leadership and Organisational Development at the Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University, co-founded Schumacher College’s much-loved Co-Creative Leadership programme (running since 2015 and still selling out today), and has been a long-time faculty member at Schumacher, where she continues to develop and lead programmes in regenerative business, creative facilitation, and collaborative leadership.

Her work extends internationally. She has trained leaders, coaches, and communities across sectors—developing advanced accreditation programmes in systemic coaching and team constellations with the International Coaching Federation, teaching at the University of Bath, and introducing Transition Towns training to cities in the UK and France. Most recently, she has joined the new Naess Centre in Portugal, leading retreats on letting go and letting come.

Jenny’s presence is both grounded and playful, combining deep wisdom with a lightness of touch that makes real change possible. She brings imagination, humanity, and authenticity into every room she steps into—and is passionate about community, creativity, and the power of women coming together to co-create the future.

Julie Leoni

Is a creative facilitator, coach, educator, writer, and yoga teacher who thrives at the intersection of human connection and the natural world. For over 35 years, Julie has danced between roles—life coach, mindfulness guide, teacher, researcher, poet, permaculturist—always drawn by a restless curiosity and a love of helping people find their place, their pace, and their peace.

Her path has taken her from the Himalayas (where she first learned to meditate nearly 40 years ago) to classrooms, retreat centres, and community circles across the UK. She has worked with teenagers, leaders, teachers, and wild-swimming women, making even the trickiest concepts simple and inviting people gently toward growth, resilience, and real human connection.

Julie’s facilitation is spacious, exploratory, and playful—offering yoga, meditation, and creative practice as ways to come home to yourself. She has written two personal development books, an award-nominated poetry collection, and holds a PhD alongside three Master’s degrees, but her greatest credentials are her love of people, laughter, and wild nature.

Known for her warmth, directness, and ability to meet everyone “just as they are,” Julie believes learning is a team sport—and that wisdom is always a shared, living thing.

Julie will be weaving her magic with us for the June retreat.

Ceri Jordan

Is from Turiya Yoga & Wellness, is an experienced Yoga and Meditation teacher, advanced Breathwork instructor and Sound Bath practitioner.

After an early career in corporate, she has now been teaching yoga for more than 10yrs, (and has been practising  for 30yrs), running a studio on the Welsh borders, and teaching classes, workshops, retreats and festivals, in the UK and around the world.

She has studied with teachers from various yoga traditions, including Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Iyengar, and she integrates these practices with yoga philosophy, pranayama (breathwork) and meditation, as well as functional anatomy – blending ancient traditions with modern knowledge.

​Ceri loves to share these teachings and support others to discover the benefits of these practices for body, mind and spirit.

Ceri will be joining us to lead our embodied practices in September.

Together, we create a space to breathe, connect, and return to yourself.

Rest deeply. Rise renewed. Rekindle your inner flame🔥

Who attends this women’s retreat in North Wales?
The Rest & Rise Retreat is crafted for women from all walks—leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives, and visionaries—longing for genuine rest and renewal in a stunning natural setting. Whether you’re navigating change, craving time to reconnect with your deeper self, or seeking space to breathe away from daily pressures, you will find both gentle support and joyful community here.

Can I come solo?
Absolutely! Most women join our UK wellness retreats on their own, and many leave with meaningful new friendships. You’ll have plenty of time for solo reflection, and a circle of supportive, like-minded women ready to welcome you.

What if I have dietary or access needs?
We warmly welcome all women, whatever your needs. Just let us know when booking—and we’ll happily caters for allergies, vegetarians, vegans, and more, and we’ll do everything possible to make our Snowdonia retreat accessible, relaxing, and spacious for you.

Is there free time?
Yes—every single day! Start your morning with a gentle walk or wild swim, take quiet time to journal, or explore the mountains at your own pace. There’s time before breakfast and in every afternoon and evening for solitude, conversation, rest, or mini adventures in the vibrant Snowdonia landscape.

How do I get to Rhiw Goch Inn?
The retreat is located at Rhiw Goch Inn, North Wales, in the heart of Snowdonia National Park. Most guests arrive by car (ample free parking onsite). Nearby train stations include Bala, Dolgellau, Porthmadog, and Barmouth, each about 25 minutes away; we’re happy to help you plan connections or share taxi details.

What is your cancellation policy?

We understand that life may take unexpected turns.

For the June retreat:
If you cancel before 2nd April, we will refund your ticket in full (minus any transaction fee, if applicable). If you cancel between 3rd April and 30th April, we will refund 60% of your ticket value. If you cancel after 1st May, we will not be able to refund your ticket, but you may be able to transfer it to someone else.

For the September retreat:
If you cancel before 9th July, we will refund your ticket in full (minus any transaction fee, if applicable). If you cancel between 10th July and 13th August, we will refund 60% of your ticket value. If you cancel after 14th August, we will not be able to refund your ticket, but you may be able to transfer it to someone else.

Can I pay in instalment?

Yes! We want to make it as easy as possible to say “yes” to yourself.

You can either pay in full or choose our 50/50 split payment option:

• First 50%: Due at booking to secure your spot and lock in the Early Bird rate (before Feb 6th).
• Early Bird Rate: £292.50 (non-refundable deposit)
• Standard Rate: £325.00 (non-refundable deposit)
• Final 50%: Due by April 2nd (for June) or July 9th (for September).

Is there ongoing support after the retreat?
Absolutely! Caroline offers executive coaching for women—in North Wales, the UK, and online globally. Whether you’re integrating retreat learnings or looking for bespoke support at any stage in your journey, coaching is available year-round.

Still have questions? Drop Caroline a line at caroline@carolinemasoncoaching.co.uk and she’ll respond personally.

Work with me, Caroline directly and explore 1:1 Executive Coaching for Women—transformative support for women leaders ready for clarity, confidence, and renewed purpose in work and life.

Important Information & Disclaimer

This retreat is designed for personal growth, wellbeing, and community. It is not a substitute for therapy, counselling, or medical treatment. If you have any physical or mental health concerns, please consult a healthcare provider before booking. By booking, you accept responsibility for your own health, wellbeing, and participation in all activities.

Any personal or health information you share will be treated with strict confidence and processed according to our [Privacy Policy]. For questions about access, dietary needs, travel, or anything else, please email us—we’re here to help!

Travel to and from the retreat venue is not included in the price. Full booking details, cancellation, and refund policies are set out in our [Terms & Conditions].