SINGING RIVER
A Voice Yoga & Embodied Dream Weaving Retreat
South of France | 24-30 June
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
Mary Oliver
SINGING RIVER
A Voice Yoga & Embodied Dream Weaving Retreat
24-30 June | South of France
What is creativity?
Where does it live?
She resides in the depths of your soul, waiting to be sung.
Every experience, every dream, every word and sound, every sensation, secret, story, vision, wish, and echo lives as a seed within you. A vast inner landscape, quietly fertile.
Yet the chaos and clutter of daily life can desensitise us to the subtle movements of these inner saplings. When we long to create, to express, to flow, we may find ourselves floundering - disconnected from a current that once felt natural. What was instinctive can begin to feel distant, unfamiliar… even intimidating.
Singing River is a return to the steady hum between land and soul. You will gather with 9 other souls (plus Liv and Libby) to sing what is alive for each of you. This is an invitation to come back into relationship with flow, not as something to strive for, but as a place you already belong. A river you can step into. A current you can trust. A living intelligence that knows how to carry what is ready to unfurl.
Singing River will be intimate, deep and extraordinary.
Held by the banks of the river Charente in the South of France, you will gather to listen deeply to what is moving within you. Through voice, dream, and imagination, you will follow the subtle threads of creativity back to their source, allowing the pearls of your inner world to surface and take form.
“Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens
so you can read what was written inside you all along.”
David Whyte
Libby and Liv, alongside the gentle presence of the river itself, will guide a nourishing and spacious process drawing on Embodied Dream Weaving, Voice Yoga, somatics, sounding, improvisation, ritual, and time in nature. Together, these practices invite you into deeper presence, where creativity is no longer something you do, but something you are.
We will open together with a mugwort ceremony to honour the full buds of life at this time of year. We will tend to those buds as the magic of mugwort infuses your dreaming body with the aliveness of the animate, the imaginal and your innate capacity for creative flow.
Under the waxing potency of the moon, we will tend to that creative flow with somatic movement, meditation, song, silence and storytelling.
You will be immersed in the practices of Voice Yoga and Embodied Dream Weaving. This is a deeply restorative and revealing process. You will have plenty of time and space for your inner creative wisdom to stir and settle. We will also gather in group to explore what insights, emotions, and discoveries long to be gently met and integrated.
From this fertile ground, musical expression will naturally arise: through improvisation, sounding, and song. Liv will support and nurture your emerging ideas, guiding each participant to shape and birth a song: a living expression of your inner river, carried into sound.
We will close our time together with a Full Moon in Capricorn Circle, as the luminosity of the moon steps into fullness and you offer your creative spark to her brilliance. Witnessed by one another, the moon and the river, you will share what is most alive for you after a week held by the river’s rhythm.
“When you listen generously, you are held by what you hear.”
John O’Donohue
What You Will Do:
Arrivals are from 4pm on 25 June and we will open that evening, after dinner, with a Mugwort Ceremony.
Throughout the retreat, your days will be a combination of silent presence, practice and creative coccooning.
We will open each day with optional silence for you to listen for what is alive, create, dream tend and tune in.
Our group morning practice will combine either somatic movement and embodied writing, silent walks in nature or music making.
You will have free time to explore, create, swim and absorb both before and after lunch.
We will join back together before sunset for Voice Yoga as you channel all that’s alive within you, the land and the group.
You will enjoy a nourishing dinner under the trees.
After the evening meal, we will gather around the fire for storytelling, singing and star gazing.
On the penultimate day, Liv will lead a song writing workshop for you to pour all that is alive in your soul into song.
We will close on 29 June with a Full Moon in Capricorn Ceremony. This will be your chance to offer your creative spark back to life, the group and your soul.
Departures are after breakfast on the 30 June.
What’s included:
Song Writing Workshop: Birth a song to honour your creativity, aliveness and to encompass your experience on the retreat
Mugwort Ceremony
Full Moon Ceremony
Voice Yoga
Somatic Movement
Embodied Writing
Embodied Dream Weaving
Space for inner listening, creative inspiration and animate wisdom to emerge
Holding by the land and the river’s song in a secluded, sacred garden that backs onto the River Cherante
6 nights Accomodation in a rural and rustic French Mill
Support in travelling to the retreat location by connecting you with the group, recommendations for car hire and travel links
Nourishing food, enjoyed in community along the banks of the river (5 days with 3 full meals, plus dinner on day 1 and breakfast on day 7)
What’s not included
Cost of travel to the retreat. We recommend you fly to Limoges (1 hour by car) or get the train to Poitiers. We can support with linking the group so you can car share etc.
Food before dinner on day 1 so please make sure you eat before you arrive. The last group meal will be breakfast on day 7 before departure.
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Rooms and Rates
An intimate retreat with just 10 spaces available. Choose from the following:
To book your space, please email your room choice and to arrange paying your £300 deposit.
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Private Room
£1100
1 bed (double)
Top floor ensuite -
Twin Room
£950 pp
Master bedroom
2 beds (1 double 1 single)
Top floor, ensuite + veranda access -
Triple Room
£850pp
3 beds (1 double bed, 2 singles)
Ground floor, ensuite -
Dormitory
£790pp
4 single beds
Mezzanine, shared bathroom + veranda access
Terms and Conditions
Please read through all these details before booking and let us know if you have any other queries.
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Please email us to book your spot and let us know what room you would like to choose.
A £300 non refundable deposit is required to book your spot.
We will send you the bank details for you to pay this.
Please let us know if you are travelling with a friend you’d like to share with and want to stay in the same room together. -
Transportation to Le Moulin de Caillier - (we recommend you fly to Limoges and rent a car and/or carpool with other participants or take the eurostar to Ruffec or if you wanna take it slow, you can take car ferry Portsmouth to Caen and drive from there (6 hours).
The best way to travel to Caillier (in between the small towns of Benest and Alloue) is to rent a car. You can also take a train to Rufec and take a taxi from there. We will help participants to coordinate carpooling with each other. -
When booking, you can choose to pay in full, or pay only your deposit with the remainder due by May 24th, 2026.
If you need additional support to arrange a payment plan for the remaining fee (minus deposit), please get in touch and we can arrange something.
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Yes, please arrange travel insurance so you are covered if you need to cancel and to help keep you safe and taken care of on retreat.
Please forward us your policy once you have confirmed it. -
Your deposit is non-refundable. If for any reason you need to cancel, we encourage you to see if you can transfer your booking to another person. If not:
Cancel before March 1st, you'll receive a refund of 100% of your fee minus deposit
Cancel between March 1st and May 1st, you'll receive a refund of 50% of your fee minus deposit
We will not be able to issue refunds of any payments after May 1st 2026
Only in the case that we have to cancel the retreat for some reason will you receive a refund of your full investment.
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Absolutely not! This is not a singing retreat though there will be song. We are listening for the song inside you which can be expressed many ways.
You don’t need any experience of singing, Voice Yoga or Embodied Dream Weaving to join.
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With Voice Yoga and Embodied Dream Weaving
“Libby reignited a spark in my imaginal world, I now offer that world as much devotion as my waking life. I am immersed in symbols that flicker behind closed and open eyes. I have dream companions, protectors that are by my side. I am living with big questions but I have a whole universe of wisdom to tap into when I sit with soul. If you are wondering what is deep inside your soul, what is whispering or screaming to be heard, which path to walk down, which way to swim or how to live with such deep hunger for life, then sit with Libby.”