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Foraging & Herbalism Day Retreat – Lynton, UK
Hey I’m Zena…
I believe that strengthening our relationship to nature is a remedy to the modern overwhelm & disconnection that many of us experience.
For the last eight years, I’ve been apprenticing with the land & herbal mentors through studies, curiosity, and the magic of my apothecary. I’ve learned that rebuilding a relationship with the earth, plants and my local landscape is a gateway to a sense of belonging, rootedness, health, empowerment & community that I was craving.
I created this space at Domnu Valley because I’m passionate about reclaiming our indigenous culture that’s living more with nature. Through wild food, herbal medicine, ritual and building familiarity again with the aliveness around us, that in turn feeds a wealth I believe is unobtainable through modern means.
A Return to What Is Real and Alive
Build confidence, familiarity & skills to safely identify, honourably harvest & co-create with the power of nature.
Learn how to integrate wild food and medicines into your everyday.
Return you to an ancient skill, practice and art that is cathartic, rewarding & a remedy to life’s complexity & overwhelm.
Restore & rejuvenate your energy away from the digital world of stimulation & modern hustle through the pure medicine of nature.
Strengthen your sense of belonging, safety & harmony with the wild through awareness, observation & experience.
Give you the practical and quiet confidence to take agency over your own health, nutrition & wellbeing.
Foraging Walk
Learn the basics & beyond of safe identification, honourable harvesting, ancient uses, folklore tales, sensory skills, energetics, medicinal and edible uses of the plants through the valley, forest & coast.
Medicine Making
Strengthen your sovereignty and self reliance for you & your community’s health. Create your own herbal medicines, infusions, oxymels, tinctures, teas, balms and seasonal wild remedies.
Wild & Gourmet Meal
We will feast together around the table with vegetarian, foraged & wholesome nutritious dishes. As a retreat chef, I pour my heart & soul to make exquisite, hearty food from scratch & with wild ingredients.
Herbal Sauna & Wild Spa
Indulge & revitalise your body through the elemental extremes of fire & water in the sauna and cold stream plunge with prepared wild plant steams, foraged crafted spa products and seaweed baths.
Nature Immersion
Bask in the peaceful sanctuary of Domnu Valley, a remote co-living residence and retreat centre. Rich in biodiversity of rare native rainforest with rivers, waterfalls, rugged coastline & secluded beaches for wild swims.
Flow of the Day
⚘ 10:00 – Welcoming Drink at Domnu Valley
⚘ 10:30 – Forage & Frolic through the Woods & Valley
⚘ 13:30 – Medicine Making Workshop
⚘ 15:00 – Wild Feast
⚘ 17:00 – Wood-Fired Herbal Sauna with Wild Spa Treatments
⚘ 18:30 – Departures*
*With the option to stay overnight in our Wild Willow Meadow Bell Tents (+£60)
Please note exact address will be issued upon booking
