14-19th September 2025 | Cae Mabon, Eryri (Snowdonia) UK
A unique 5-day retreat with exceptional facilitators using traditional knowledge, wisdom,ceremony & ritual to enable deep connection for participants,and an invitation to take this wisdom back to your community and continue the work.
Remembering who we are…
Are you ready?
This is your invitation to awaken and connect to our next stage of growth.
Will you accept?
Don't go back to sleep…
Where you are not is just as important as where you are.
If you are ready for the next stage of our journey, to embody the dignity of service;
to self and others, nature and spirit.
Then we are ready for you…
You are called to join us.
Rare immersion in sacred between-world places
Growth and development that transcends words
Enhance your personal awareness and professional impact
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Specially designed for wellbeing professionals and passionate individuals working with people and communities, especially those wishing to deepen their understanding of the role of Eldership in their work and to facilitate Adult and Elder transitions.
Previous Nature Awakening's have been remarkable events and life changing for everyone involved, participants and facilitators. We have learnt things and grown further.
The 2025 event will reflect this growth..
Being in Nature is our natural state, our heritage, a state that we just have to remember our way back to, we just have to awaken to…
Is this for me?
Let’s create, become and empower our inner Elders.
This is what you will receive at Nature Awakening 2025.
Building on the transformative events of Nature Awakening 2023 & 2024; an embodied retreat, held on some of the most Sacred land in the Celtic world, designed to foster transformation and a stepping into Eldership and Connection with Place, People and Planet.
A unique 5-day retreat with exceptional facilitators and wisdom keepers, using traditional knowledge and wisdom to enable deep connection for participants, with an invitation to take this wisdom back to your community and continue the work.
An Elder-level understanding of the essential role of Nature, community, people and meaning in the ecology of the planet. Includes “A Storytelling Pilgrimage to Dinas Emrys, the tower or legend, through Mythic Snowdonia’, and the only opportunity to commune with the secret Sacred Druidic Site. A rare opportunity to visit one of the most sacred and ‘thin’ places. This will be the only occasion this group of wisdom keepers will be teaching together this year.
There is an optional pilgrimage to Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island, "Island of the Bards"), known as the legendary "Island of 20,000 Saints", including the mythic resting place of Merlin and King Arthur. In 2023, the island became the first site in Europe to be awarded International Dark Sky Sanctuary certification.
The Retreat
We live in a world that is more fractured and disconnected from nature and humanity than any previous generation. The impact on mental health and by extension our will to protect the environment is corrosive and unsustainable.
There is great grief and suffering in the world today, but we can heal ourselves, our communities and the land, through connection and re-awakening to the power of Nature.
We may be optimistic that the generation growing to adulthood right now will see and feel the world differently to their leaders, but they need to inherit a world with the possibility of change to have the opportunity to change it.
Society has limited time to divert this emergent crisis and is unlikely to achieve sufficient impact without the benefit of a generation of wise-people, or ‘Elders’, humans taking the longer path; the kinder, more compassionate and connected way...
Why Now?
Nature Awakening 2025 will be an Elder-level understanding of the essential role of Nature, community,people and meaning in the ecology of the planet.
To create a sublimely safe and expertly held experience unfolding over several days, using Nature and embodiment as container and teacher, facilitated with compassion and empathy by dedicated and experienced wisdom keepers, using Spiral Path, Medicine Walk, elemental, Druidic and Shamanic knowledge, wisdom, art, movement, song and breath.
Intention
Location
Sacred Eryri (Snowdonia),
Wales, UK
Perhaps the greatest facilitator in the team, the land of Cae Mabon Eco-Retreat Centre, Snowdonia, in one of the most emotive and deeply rooted locations on the planet.
Cae Mabon, called the ‘Welsh Shangri- La’, sits within an ancient valley, beside a river that courses down from hilltop waterfalls to form a llyn (lake) in the foothills of Eryri (Snowdonia). The 800 acres around Cae Mabon is profoundly rich in myth and legend and forms the ‘songline’ of the Math-Mabon part of the Mabinogi, part of ‘the most mythically rich twenty miles in Britain’ as Cae Mabon founder Eric Maddern calls it. Professor Tom Woolley declared Cae Mabon the ‘number one natural building project in the UK’.
Read about the historic setting of Cae Mabon here https://www.caemabon.co.uk/historic-setting or below.
Hot tub
Wild wood walks
Horney goat spotting
Pilgrimage to Dinas Emrys
Waterfall bathing
Wild swimming in Lake Padarn
Foraging
Bardsey Island
The many things to do at Cae Mabon
Embodiment
Healing our grief and sorrow
Expressing our fears and anxieties
The Spiral Path as a container for growth
The heart as an organ of perception
Merging the inner and outer landscape - the microbiome and the mycelial world
Sound, music, movement
Trauma and Soul healing
Beyond words - feelings and emotions
Developing Anti-fragility
Medicine Spirit Walking to enquire of the land
Support of Ancestors & becoming a Good Ancestor
Exploring the Great Mystery
Reclaiming the sacred power of Ritual & Ceremony
Nature, Druidry, Shamanism, Animism
Connection
Themes
Praise for
Nature Awakening,2023/24
“I know that I will never be the same again...this has enabled me to get thru a creative block and I now know what I need to do.”
“I took away a new capacity to grieve & transform it into praise.”
'We came as a bunch of strangers and left as a village.”
“Magic. I took away an embodied feeling of a new way of being. In the midst of a challenging life experience the community and land held me with such care and strength.”
“A place where men can cry and women can chop wood”
“Challenging, painful, scary, meeting my shadow, cathartic, soulful, healing, loving.”
“The facilitation was excellent and the activities and processes were engaging and enlivening.”
Time & Place
14-19 September 2025
Sacred Eryri (Snowdonia), Wales UK
Includes
Attendance and all events
Simple and shared accommodation with communal showers and composting toilets with river views
Evening meal (gluten free options can be provided)
Cost
We aim to be as inclusive and diversified as possible at Nature Awaken and the fees are based on covering our costs only. Anything above the direct costs is split between the co-facilitator crew and this is how we get paid.
A scholarship place is made available, please ask for more info.
The number of places is strictly limited. Reserve your spot now.
Booking your Place
Don't go back to sleep
The breeze at dawn
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī