If you’re a heart-centred, spiritually-leaning seeker, eager to step away from the daily grind and immerse yourself in a week of luxury, inspiration and transformation, then this is the Retreat for you.

Deep in the heart of the world-renown South of France, surrounded by vineyards, come stay in a stunning 17th century luxury château, on its own parkland of a hectare with century old trees.

Join us for a 7-day immersive ‘Get to Know Your True Self’ experience, where the whole agenda is YOU. 

Come ready to fill your cup, find your tribe, discover lasting insights and levels of awareness, all while taking time out of your routine to focus quality time on you.

Picture this:

You’re in the serene surroundings of the Occitanie heartland. Nature abounds and your every need is met.  You’re invited to unplug, unwind, relax and immerse yourself in opulent surroundings.  With a curated selection of like-minded people, we will take a deep-dive into unearthing the hidden ‘true self’. You’ll return home re-energised, with a life-changing focus on your true-soul identity and heart-felt vision, with actionable strategies and a clear path forward.

You’ll be invited to open into the person you were born to be.  Inside each of us is the ‘true self’, the part of us that transcends lifetimes and speaks from the soul. Everything that we have planned for ourselves before being born in this lifetime is waiting for us now.  Get direct access to the wisest, most evolved part of yourself that not only knows how to read the maps we’ve created for ourselves, but also knows the purpose of the journey.

You’ll be guided through exercises that reveal more about yourself than you ever knew. These life-enhancing personal insights, using cutting-edge healing modalities, will dive into levels of awareness of the self that will change the way that you see the purpose of your life.

Opening up to ever deeper layers of the self, we will arrive at a memorable place where self-awareness at both the eternal, and at the present moment, merge.

Fully functional, practised, practical techniques, designed to help you to discover the deeper levels of your soul contract, will guide us through a deep-dive exploration of who we are and what we came here to do, all while being supported and nourished by the healing environment and exceptional staff, while savouring gourmet meals and soaking up every moment in this refined, regal estate.

This is your invitation to an exclusive adventure, where play and insights await, one that will redefine how you approach life and relationships.

This is not just another healing retreat, it is for those who are ready to be nurtured through to accessing their ‘higher self’, where breakthroughs are inevitable, and who are ready to bring that awareness into their everyday lives.

Who You’ll Be On Retreat With

You’ll be diving deep into conversations and exercises with people who share the same compassionate vision and understanding of the world as you. People with whom I’ve worked for years will be here, seekers whose lives revolve around ‘giving back’ and ‘showing up’.

People who are high achievers and ambitious go-getters, but also quiet game-shifters and meditative directors of flow. This is not a workshop or a conference; this is a completely immersive shamanic and constellation Retreat where you are the agenda.

What You’ll Experience on Retreat

Each day is filled with dynamic, in-depth, guided and problem-solving sessions and discussions, tailored to guide you from where you are on your process, to where you can be.

This will be a results-driven environment where participants can experience the nurturing support of community, while accessing depths of the self that will open you up to potential that you didn’t know you had.

Expect insights, awareness and immersion in community that, when you’re relaxed, inspired and experiencing the brilliance of your higher self and soul contract, magic happens.

Couple this with dishes that are created by a private chef, intended to bring you into the full South of France experience. And round this with an environment fit for a lord of the 17th century.

Why Do We Need Such Fabulous Surroundings?

Make no mistake; the work that we will be doing will be highly-intensive and game-changing. The luxury with which we will be surrounded is essential. We will absolutely, without doubt, need the highly supportive environment in terms of accommodation, food and environment that I’ve chosen to support us as we navigate this exciting itinerary.

This will be deep-dive work, and finding a quiet corner in the grounds of the château to process what we’ve uncovered will be essential.

There is also an outdoor swimming pool and an on-site spa to facilitate further processing and ownership of the work that we will be doing.

So, Why This Particular Château?

This beautiful castle has been hand-picked by me because of the energy of the building and land and the quiet environment itself. The energy of the property is serene, smooth and calm. This is partly because of the old stone retaining the ‘held’ presence of the spaces, but also because of the uses of that building in the past. The castle used to be a monastery for nuns long ago, and has its own priory still standing on the grounds, so it all has a serene quality to it, but, equally because such respect has been given to the care of the land that buildings stand upon, energetically, the energy of nature on the property is prominent.

The space upon which the Château sits is ten thousand square metres of parkland, allowing us to spread out and soak up that energy. Couple this with some of the trees that have stood on that parkland for over 100 years and the energy has a ‘rootedness’ to it that is effable and perfect for us anchoring ourselves into the living, breathing life-force of nature. We will be drawing upon this life-force energy, to ‘root in’ our consciousness-expansion work, so we will definitely need somewhere energetically ‘settled’ and quiet that has a lot of nature and this Château has that.

I also wanted a bijou château that was big enough to accommodate everyone for a small retreat, but small enough so that I could rent it exclusively, meaning that it will just be us there, and that is what we have.

In addition, the surrounding rolling fields of vineyards, deep in the countryside, but close enough to airports and train stations, make it accessible while also being idyllic.

Why the South of France?

The French understand how to live in a way that is second to none. And the French in the South of France understand this more than anywhere. The produce is fresh and locally grown, the local olive oil is fragrant and rich, and meat, poultry and seafood delicacies abound. Wine-making has been a tradition in the region for millennia. Desserts are an art-form. Baguettes and buttery, flakey croissants are always baked on site that morning, and French cheeses are a matter of national pride.

The Mediterranean weather allows for 300 days of sunshine a year, meaning that friends in rural Sud de France meet over coffee at outdoor cafés, greeting each other with three kisses, and the pace of life is slow.

It is only when you fully unplug from the day to day noise of modern day living and submerge yourself into the calm and beauty of a culture that encourages a ‘joie de vivre’ (joy of life) that you fully appreciate how much we need to rest, revive and reset. The South of France is the perfect place to settle the system and restore the senses.

Why You Should Be Here

This is a curated event for spiritually-leaning, heart-centred seekers just like you, who know that to step into flow while creating change, opens up an inclusive, creative process between us and the universe that helps us to know ourselves better, which ultimately helps us to ‘be in service’.

You should be here because you want a profound sense of inner peace and clarity, a renewed energy and enthusiasm for life, improved relationships and emotional resilience, and a clear understanding of your life's purpose.

You should be here because you have, or want, a vision for what you are doing in the world that includes you and people being the best that they can be, and want support in creating that reality.

The Cuisine

When it comes to culinary adventures, the South of France is a world-class destination. During our week, you’ll indulge in a culinary journey that blends Mediterranean flavours, fresh ingredients and time-honoured traditions.

Famous for it’s incredible seafood, fragrant olive oils and the freshest produce, all of which will be prepared for you by our private chef, you’ll experience the delights of the region, brought straight to your plate. Expect mussels, clams, octopus, sea bass, and prawns, simply grilled with lemon and herbs.

Whether you’re in the mood for monkfish with mussel and ginger lemongrass broth, or octopus served with a delicate couscous, every meal is wholesome and flavourful, reflecting the culinary heritage that is the South of France, while embracing an innovative touch.

Breads and cheeses are a staple and expect a variety to please the palate.

Meat-lovers will savour dishes like beef fillet with glazed veal sweetbreads and potato gratin or veal tenderloin with grape jus and parsnip puree.

Deserts will be inventive sweets with a French flair; the creamy richness of a Crème brûlée, the warm, gooey perfection of chocolate soufflé, or the zesty freshness of lemon sorbet.

Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, or whatever requirements and needs you have, all dietary preferences will be catered for, just let us know.

Sunsets, delicious food and transformational healing; does it get any better than this?

What Does Each Day Look Like?

Imagine awakening in your private (or shared, if you wish) room, the morning sun streaming in the tall French windows of this exquisite recently refurbished château, in time for breakfast awaiting you downstairs.

A feast of artisanal breads and creamy cheeses, sun-ripened fruits and fresh juices, and continental breakfast, à la carte, with the smell of fresh coffee filling the air. The dining room has walls of glass, overlooking the park, giving a view of the sun through the trees, and the day begins.

We move through the first session of the day, a guided experience to open the senses and drop awareness into the body and soul. The teachings will be immersive and somatic, allowing the body to be our guide and the container that will embody the memories of what the learned experiences. We will step into our ‘knowing through remembering’ and our experiences will be sacred and whole.

Lunch and dinner will be a full range of delicious meals crafted by our in-house chef. After lunch, we will engage in exercises to allow the experiences of the morning session to ‘land’ and settle. Moving through the itinerary, pausing for meals and breaks, we will engage in shamanic ritual, constellation work, body-led teachings and the process of ‘knowing through remembering’ as a way to access our truths.

The methods are cutting-edge and profound; consciousness-accessing energy healing modalities that strip away the mind and access the depths of who we are before we were born and beyond death, bringing that knowing into our day to day realities.

Expect deep ‘ah-ha’ moments, moments of discovery, release and connection. Expect to renew a profound joy-filled awareness of the magnificence of life-force in nature, in its perfect, wholly divine form. Expect to find yourself, interconnected with life, in a way that the daily grind doesn’t invite, but that you will recognise and allow yourself to be restored within.

Whether you have been on a spiritual path for a while, or are finding your way afresh, this course will meet you where you are.

We will have intentional breakout time for reflection, absorption and processing. We want you to see and know who you truly are, just as I see my clients, at their energetic core. And we want you to incorporate that knowing into your daily lives.

Extend Your Stay

Come a few days early, or stay a little longer, to explore the iconic countryside of the South of France, it’s beautiful historic villages, world-famous beaches, hiking trails and the area’s many vineyards. From the mountains to the Mediterranean Sea, this region is certain to delight a rich variety of tastes.

The Languedoc-Roussillon region has historically been one of the world's largest wine-producing areas and today, it remains France’s largest wine-producing region by area, with approximately 300,000 hectares of vineyards. While you're here, you're perfectly situated to explore this dynamic wine region, which offers a rich blend of history, innovation, and exceptional value.

Go visit the nearby medieval city of Montpellier, which dates back to the 10th century, and visit the city’s narrow winding streets in its ‘Centre Historique’ for a magical stroll back in time.

Café culture is thriving in Montpellier, with its numerous outdoor terraces, and its Mediterranean climate with approximately 300 days of sunshine annually, make it a beautiful place for seeing the sights, hiking, trips to the beach, hiring bikes and visiting the local wetlands with flocks of flamingoes.

Why Did I Design This Course?

The prejudices of the last epoch are embedded in our cultures and in our subconscious, impacting our relationships with each other and our respect for the earth herself.  The prejudices also made us forget who we are and, in so doing, we became subjugated and lost our innate power.

The transition underway is helping to remind us of who we are and of our belonging to each other and the earth and to bring that awareness to the fore.  If we step into the consciousness required for this shift, and own it, we will reclaim our innate power, which will help to provide a smoother transition between these epochs.

The main goal of this retreat is for participants to remember their true soul identity and to be enabled to live from that place, in practical ways, and to bring that awareness into the world.  

To know who we are at a soul-level, and what lives we chose for ourselves, we need to access who we are originally, before we were born, and access our consciousness earned over many lifetimes, not just this one. Our multi-lifetime consciousness is vastly more wise and knowing than our consciousness that accesses this lifetime only.

We don’t need to know who we were in those lifetimes, but instead we can access the wisdom gained from those lives and bring that knowing into our lives here and now.

Both our original identity and our wisdom earned are contained within us at a soul-level and unpacking that will give us access to that knowing. This deep-dive retreat is about how to do that work.

To Access the Self, Clear the Layers

To understand what we chose for ourselves at this time, means to access our soul-level identity and our map for our soul to navigate. This means to know who we truly are and our purpose and how to get there. To access that, we need to clear our wounds, our identification with the mind and the ego. Once these false layers are cleared, we move into heart-centred awareness and then deeper still into soul-awareness. At this deepest level, we can access who we truly are and stand in our power.

The retreat will be an opportunity to unplug and relax for a week, while being supported in doing a deep-dive into the true self. Who we are at a soul level is who we have been over many lifetimes. To access this awareness, is to regain our knowing and our innate power.

Authentic Power

Being in our power emanates a strength of ‘knowing’ from within that is without judgement or controlling for others. This brings an authentic deep reverence for all of life and an acceptance for all humans with all of our differences. It calls upon us to build a collective belonging for all, with inclusivity and equality to the fore. This collective belonging is our work, as a species, now.

As humans, our nature is to be humane. Bringing this humanity to everyone with radical acceptance is the next step in the rising consciousness of our species. This step is being gifted as an invitation to us all now.

Do you feel called to do this sacred, deep work? Scroll down for a course overview.

Course Outline: Key Pieces of Work Covered in the Retreat 

The main goal of this retreat is for participants to remember their true soul identity and to be enabled to live from that place, in practical ways, and to bring that awareness into the world.  There will be several key pieces to this work.  These include:

Healing What Doesn’t Serve:

1. Clearing the False Self: Mind, Ego, Wounds

2. Healing the Mother Wound: Trusting the Feminine

3. Balancing the ‘Masculine-Feminine Self’

Belonging:

4. Connection to Earth for Guidance

5. Connection to Each Other with Empathy: Becoming an Ally

True-Self Consciousness: 

6. Body Consciousness: Heart Space, Gut Read

7. Multi-Lifetime Consciousness: Soul Space

8. Living from Soul Consciousness: Owning Our Power

Conclusion:

9. The New Consciousness in the World

Course Overview:

Healing What Doesn’t Serve

1. Clearing the False Self: Mind, Ego, Wounds

Identifying and acknowledging the false layers of self as ‘not us’ enables us to release them and reclaim our power in authentic ways.  The mind and our thoughts are not who we are.  We will do simple exercises to redirect our attention away from the mental body and into the physical body.  Having a disciplined mind, where you control it and not the other way around, is essential if we are to have the mind be quiet, so that we can do our deeper work.  The body is divine and has a consciousness of its own.  We will learn how to communicate with the body in ways that will open up communication, so that we can ‘hear’ what the body has to say.  This is pre-requisite work for accessing the heart-space and the Soul-level consciousness, later in the week.

Consciousness that is merged with ego tends to believe that its identity is wrapped up in whatever can be associated with that person, whether it’s a label, a name, a career or even whatever that person owns.  Our true identity is none of these things.  These labels belong to a ‘this-lifetime’ consciousness and not a transcended ‘multi-lifetime’ awareness.  Identifying the ego in action helps us to disregard what it has to say.

While participants are expected to have completed the majority of their personal work to attend the workshop, we will briefly cover the most effective ways to clear any remaining wounding that participants may be facing.  We will practice this healing method, taught to me by my Helping Spirits, so that participants can complete their personal work outside the workshop.  

2. Healing the Mother Wound: Trusting the Feminine

We are all masculine and feminine, we all have both. The patriarchal epoch cut us off from the earth mother, all of creation, when it denigrated the feminine.  So, too, were we disconnected from the feminine within, the intuitive and self-healing self.  And we were disconnected from our reverence for the spirit of creativity itself.  To trust in the flow of life, the creative spirit within that guides, to revere the healing muse, was taken from us.  

In this part of the workshop, we will step into what the divine feminine is and open ourselves up to it, so that we can reach back into our ancestry to reignite this knowing in our bodies.  

3. Balancing the Masculine-Feminine Imbalance in the Self

One impact of the prejudices of the last epoch is the imbalance between the masculine and the feminine within each of us.  In the indigenous epoch, prior to the patriarchal one, we revered the feminine power to grow life, the earth herself and the wisdom of the Goddess.  The patriarchal epoch reduced the feminine to body parts and ravaged the earth for resources, without concern. 

Within this imbalance, we discovered that ego and physicality combined could create wars and force others to bend to our will.  As the Romans came across Europe, desecrating the Druidic communities, they brought the coin to England and capitalism was born.  Capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy are all close bedfellows, all believing in the subjugation of ‘other’. 

Living through a thousand years (minimum) of patriarchy, causes us to relegate the ‘natural-world wisdom keeper’ in all of us, and to elevate the ‘braun and the logical mind’. Instead of integrating the ‘wisdom keeper’ and the ‘braun and the mind’, we were taught to keep the two apart.  The rise of the mind and ego as supreme has disconnected us from the heart and soul-level consciousness.  Our disconnect from the earth and her benevolence has made us see the mother as a resource to which we are entitled.  We lost our wisdom and connectedness to nature and, as a result, we lost our way.  The imbalance in favour of the masculine over the feminine, is in all of us.  This resulted in us living in an in-cohesive, dislocated way.  We have forgotten how to be in integrated harmony with our own masculine and feminine aspects of ourselves.  

We will examine this in detail and do work to bring both aspects of the self back into harmony with each other again.  Energetically, understanding these aspects of the self and bringing them back into harmony with one another will eliminate toxic masculinity and bring the wisdom keeper, the reader of maps, back to the fore as the inner guide.  This is crucial work that is much needed at this time and will be a key piece of work done in this retreat.

Consciousness of Belonging:

4. Connection to Earth: Belonging and Guidance

One of the key impacts of the last epoch is that we have lost our identification with our earth mother.  Our connection with the earth is the energetic imprint that keeps us ‘grounded’ and in flow as we co-create with life.  Without this grounding, we experience a sense of isolation, loss and derealisation. 

Throughout the week, we will step back into right-relationship with the earth in a way that reminds us of our true nature and our belonging to this planet as her dependents.  When we are in right-relationship with the earth, we can hear her speak and receive her guidance, and know that we belong, bringing support and connectivity with all of life here.  

5. Connection with Each Other in Empathy: Becoming an Ally  

The last epoch had us disengaged from each other in extreme ways, such as to enable war and oppression.  In order to disengage from each other, we needed to see others as ‘less than’ and to dis-identify from them.  In order to reverse that encoding in our collective, we need to begin to see ourselves in others and become allies for one another, even, and maybe especially, if we are all radically different.  The interconnectedness of all things and beings identifies us all as belonging to one another; an ecosystem, that we all need to care for in its entirety.  This has already begun to happen in the collective.  

In the retreat, we will do energy work to explore what it feels like to be ‘other’ people.  When we feel these truths in our bodies, ‘empathy’ opens in us and we are immediately connected with those who are ‘other’, even if we all have nothing in common except that we are all human. 

The growth potential for this work extends, not just to humans, but to all lifeforms and to the earth herself, offering a deepening of our appreciation and gratitude for, and an identification with, the ecosystem to which we all belong.  This work creates and knits the weblike structures that are emerging in consciousness on the planet at this time, that will replace the hierarchies that belonged to the previous epoch. 

True-Self Consciousness: 

6. Body Consciousness: Heart Space, Gut Read 

Having cleared what does not serve, and fully opened up to reconnect with the earth and each other, we now will look at who we truly are.  To do this, we must turn our awareness inward.  Opening up to who we are begins with with connection to the body, because the body is the container within which the soul resides.

The body is divine and is in service to you, but it also a guide and a support.  We will begin with the gut consciousness, as it is usually the easiest intuition to read to access our inner knowing.  Then we will move to the heart consciousness and see how it compares with the gut, in terms of faculty, compassion, support, etc.  In this work we will discover that each organ in the body has a consciousness of its own, each serving a different purpose. 

Coming into conscious awareness of the role of these two aspects of the self will help us to know ourselves more fully and to gain a strengthening of purpose and meaning in our lives.  How can we rely upon them?  What wisdom do they carry?  How can they support us in this work?  We will finish this work wiser about the inherent gifts we have that are needed for guidance on this human-spirit journey.

7. Multi-Lifetime Consciousness: Soul Space

Having built a strong foundation of knowing throughout the week in terms of clearing what does not serve, reconnecting with belonging to each other, the earth, and our bodies, now we will turn inward to connect at a soul consciousness level to discover who we have been and are being from a multi-lifetime, and beyond, perspective.

Opening our awareness to who and what we are is to transcend the physical, mental and emotional human experience.  This is the most essential work required of us at this breakthrough moment in human consciousness.  We are more than our lives, our bodies and even our relationship to each other and the planet.  We are god-creatures, trying to remember our namelessness, our divinity, who we were before we were ever born.  

All of this information, and more, resides in the soul, which is located either in behind the heart chakra or above the head in the eighth chakra.  Merging with this luminous consciousness gives us the knowing that we crave to answer all of the questions that we have about our true identity, the lives that we have chosen and what our purpose and meaning has been over many lifetimes.   Doing this sacred work allows us to step fully into the knowledge of the self as an ‘inter-being’, that is, as a being that belongs to itself and is part of a greater whole, and to access the wisdom and to own the power that resides there.

Owning this level of awareness of ourselves at this time will serve to guide us into knowing what we have encoded into our Soul Contract, that map of the soul that we co-created with our Council of Elders before each lifetime.  The Soul Contract guides us to fulfil the work that we came here to earth to do in each lifetime, but the soul itself carries all of those Contracts over many lifetimes and the soul is the container for all of our wisdom through all of our learned experiences.  We do not need to know the details of the lifetimes in the past, we need to know the wisdom we have gained from them, how to navigate our maps going forward and the purpose of the journey.

8. Living from Soul Consciousness: Owning Our Power

At this point in the workshop we will take a decidedly different direction.  Instead of simply accessing and communicating with awareness, we will now embody it into our systems as a way of owning that power.  

Accessing and drawing down who we are, into the body, allows that awareness to become grounded, or rooted, into the earth.  Drawing down that high consciousness into our bodies will increase the Light Quotient in our bodies, but also it will enable us to ‘live’ from that place of power.  We will do exercises and take practical steps to embody this consciousness in a way that enables us to function from a very high resonance frequency but in very practical, down to earth, ways.  

This work will benefit our personal work in our healing journey, our relationships, our understanding of who and what we are, our knowing about our soul-path and our relationship with our Helping Spirits.  But it will also help with our work on, and with, the earth at this time and with all forms of life on this planet and beyond.  This work is our inheritance and our right, as humans, and it will bring bliss.

This is the beginning of the work being asked of us to “bring heaven to earth”. 

Conclusion:

9. The New Consciousness in the World

Accessing our highest awareness and identity, and owning it in a good way, is the first step to bringing that consciousness into the world.  

We are not alone in this work; everyone is being gifted with the invitation to waken from the sleep of ‘less than’ and ‘not enough’.  This is not ego work; this is soul work.  This is authentic power and true identity work, in the world, guiding and delivering what we need to co-create with Source, as we have been guided to do.

Stepping into our power in this way sheds everything negative that the patriarchal epoch embedded into us as ‘normal’, and allows us to stand anew.  

This work is timely.  It is only when we all own our power and carry that fearlessly into the world, that the shackles of the old order will fall away.  Empowerment isn’t about anything external to us; it is always about knowing and owning who we truly are.  We are being asked to bring that empowerment into the world to weave community, knitting connectivity and togetherness, identifying with one another, with wholeness among us all.  

This capacity to live authentically and harmoniously within oneself and within the greater spiritual ecosystem, achieved through healing, self-discovery, and compassionate practices, is our birthright and our purpose at this time.

Do you feel called to this retreat?

Cancellation Policy

The organisers of this event reserve the right to cancel this Retreat if there are insufficient numbers signed up to make the event viable.

Therefore, please note that private travel insurance is essential for all of those interested in attending in case the Retreat is cancelled due to lack of numbers participating. This private travel insurance, that participants will be responsible for themselves, will cover any lost payments for airfares or other expenses in the case of the course being cancelled.

Should the course be cancelled for any reason, any monies paid by any would-be attendees to Suzanne Connolly will be repaid in full.