Working Garden Retreat with Fanny
at Droridge Barn, Droridge Lane, Dartington, Devon, TQ9 6JG
5pm Friday 29 to 5pm Sunday 31 August 2025
For anyone who loves to be outdoors, connecting with themselves, each other, and this beautiful garden. We create community together, drop into this embodied presence work; explore what it is to be alive; and deepen our relationship to the natural world by attuning to it through our bodies and hearts, and then putting our mark on it through weeding, digging, pruning etc.
Saturday and Sunday will start with a 20-minute sitting meditation at 8am, followed by movement outside for 20 minutes, then breakfast, and a session with Fanny from 10am-1pm. Lunch is followed by 3 hours working in the garden, each person choosing an area to concentrate on. Some like to work alone, others work as a team. We end with a brief sharing.
It is less intense than an ordinary retreat, but no less profound and comes at a very affordable price to honour that it is an exchange. I will give priority to those who can come for the whole weekend but also allow people to join closer to the time (if there is space) for one Saturday only for £30. Cost £70 including two nights’ accommodation and food.
“Alternating between intimate internal enquiry work and getting my hands in the soil worked really well for me. Much of the enquiry work took place outdoors, weaving together the two strands of the weekend. Fanny's teaching was infused with humility at her own stewardship of this piece of magical land, and with a deep wonder at the intimate miracle of being alive.” Liam
To book your place on the retreat, please sign up here: