The Ripening 1-Day Retreat, Wellington, NZ
Date: Dates for 2025 coming soon
Hosts: Kirstie Cleary and Angela Baker
Venue: The Home of Compassion, 2 Rhine Street, Island Bay, Wellington
“A woman’s heart is like a wild bird;
it beats with the rhythm of her dreams.”
— The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou
The Ripening is a 1-day retreat for women to explore a heart’s desire and how to bring it into fruition.
If you have a heart’s desire that you want to ripen into reality - even just the whisper of a desire - this retreat is for you. Your heart’s desire might be about the kind of work you really want to do, a project you’re passionate about beginning, or an adventure you want to go on. Perhaps it’s a creative yearning, living a different kind of life, or shifting a dynamic in a relationship. Your heart’s desire can be big, small, or somewhere in-between, and it will be deeply personal to you.
Our predominantly masculine world prioritises logic, productivity, and predictability while ignoring body-centred feminine practices in service of our desires. When we neglect the wisdom of the feminine, this heartless approach leaves us feeling disheartened and heart-sore. This retreat is a day inspired by the feminine; it’s a day to ripen your heart’s desire from the inside out.
We provide a nourishing process of circlework, somatic movement, yin yoga and yoga nidra, meditation, breathwork, story-telling, journaling, and the inspiring company of like-minded women to support your exploration. Our holistic approach integrates the deep wisdom of your heart, mind, and soul so that ripening your desire into fruition becomes an organic process. Your next steps will reveal themselves in a natural and intuitive way.
Join Us
The Ripening 1-Day Retreat is an intimate gathering limited to 20 women.
No previous experience is necessary.
This is for you if:
Your heart has been whispering to you about something important and you want time and space to deeply listen.
Your heart has a desire that you want to explore and clarify in a safe and supportive environment.
You want a set of holistic and nourishing practices to help begin to bring your heart’s desire into your reality.
You’ve been feeling disconnected from your heart’s desires and want to reconnect to this deeper dimension of yourself.
You want to access more intuition, creativity, and the wisdom of your body to enliven your heart’s desire.
You want the collective support and insights of a group of heart-centred women to help ripen your desire into fruition.
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Circlework
Embodiment practices including somatics, gentle yin yoga, yoga nidra
Guided meditation, breathwork, voice activation
Self-enquiry, story-telling, reflection, journaling
Wellbeing teachings to support the “ripening” process
An inclusive and welcoming community of women
Morning and afternoon tea
What’s not included:
Lunch is not included. There is a dining room if you want to bring lunch with you, and there are nearby cafés if you want to venture out -
$165
“Ripening is a process that requires time and nourishing conditions.
Just like living things, a heart’s desire needs tender care and light to ripen.
We need to gently turn our heart’s desire this way and that way to illuminate what’s important.
Ripening is also a refining process;
what isn’t needed naturally falls away to reveal the heart of the desire itself.”
— Kirstie Cleary
Kirstie is an exceptional, dedicated, and gifted practitioner.
Kirstie has sought and received the knowledge, methods, and tools to impart centuries of teaching, and intuitively recognises and contextualises what will benefit you.
— Terese
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You are helping us to remember … Our Rasa … the juiciness of our Body when inspirited.
Through embodied presence.
Through the tidal influx and release of our breath.
Through words that drop so softly onto the pillow of our minds that they create a perfect concentric ripple of understanding in the body.
— Stefania