Rooted in the Old Ways:

A Pilgrimage of Remembering & Sovereignty

Glastonbury & Somerset

22 July- 27 July 2026

Wednesday to Monday
5 Nights · 6 Days

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I invite you to join me as we bathe in the White Spring, chant and sing in circle on the Tor at sunrise, sip the sacred waters of the Chalice Well, and listen to the whispers of the medicine of the hawthorn trees…

This is a place that is sacred to me, and now, it is time to share it with all of you…

Experience the vibrations of the ley lines beneath your feet and the steady pulse of the Earth’s heart chakra moving through your body.


We will dance in stone circles, laugh under the stars, howl at the moon and cry around sacred fires where nothing needs to be held back…


Your hands will rest on the trunks of ancient trees in sacred forests, and you will hear their whispers saying, “welcome home.”

You may move through the mystery of Arthurian legend and feel the awakening of the Divine Goddess within you — not as an idea, but as a lived, embodied knowing.
To remember your wisdom from lifetimes of herbcraft and magick.

You may also delight in the quirks and humour of this place — feeling like you’ve stepped into Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley as you wander the High Street, enthralled by shops filled with magick, crystals, and herbs. You may see Merlin chatting with a local shopkeeper, or someone wearing a halo and fairy wings on their way to work.

I cannot describe in words the initiation and activation these lands bring — the storytelling, the mystical, the vibrations, the glimpses of the past on every corner.

 But I can show you, so you can feel it for yourself…

Come with me into the land of magick.

Why Glastonbury?

  • Glastonbury sits at the intersection of several energetic ley lines, long associated with sacred sites and pilgrimage routes

  • The area has been a spiritual centrefor thousands of years, with layers of Pagan, Druidic, Christian, and Arthurian history

  • It is often described by researchers and spiritual geographers as the “heart chakra” of Mother Earth due to its long-standing role as a place of healing, reconciliation, and devotion

  • The landscape itself — the Tor, Chalice Well, and surrounding wetlands — has been used for ritual, prayer, and pilgrimage since ancient times

  • Many people report a strong sense of heightened awareness or “thin veil” here, likely influenced by the density of sacred sites and uninterrupted ceremonial use of the land

  • The UK, and Glastonbury in particular, offers rare continuity of spiritual practice, where ancient traditions remain embedded in the land and culture rather than reconstructed

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Accommodation

22–24 July | Glastonbury

Two nights shared accommodation in a welcoming Phoenix Rise Retreat B&B in Glastonbury— a comfortable, grounding base as we arrive, settle, and begin attuning to the land. Nestled at the base of the Tor, and a ripple away from the Sacred wellsprings, this place oozes the vibrations of these lands.

24–27 July | The Apothecary Gardens

Three nights immersed in the beauty of The Apothecary Gardens — a sacred, nature-rich sanctuary where the deeper rites of the pilgrimage unfold. A working apothecary, distilling roses, and other magical plants, we have our own private stone circle, fire pit and gardens for sacred ritual.

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This Pilgrimage Is For You If…

This pilgrimage is for women who feel the stirring of the Wild Feminine within them.

It is for the Wild Woman who longs to run barefoot through ancient lands, to howl, to laugh, to weep, and to feel her body as a living prayer.
It is for the Crone who carries deep knowing in her bones — wisdom earned through living, loving, losing, and becoming — and who feels the call to remember what she has always known.

This pilgrimage is for you if you:

  • Feel the ache to unleash parts of yourself that have been hidden, muted, or tamed

  • Sense that your wisdom comes not just from books, but from the land, your body, and lived experience

  • Are drawn to earth-based ritual, myth, magick, and ancestral ways of knowing

  • Are standing at a threshold — perimenopause, menopause, grief, rebirth, creative awakening, or a deep internal shift

  • Long to remember who you were before the world told you who to be

This journey honours both the wild and the wise. There is space here for feral joy and deep stillness, for laughter and reverence, for the Maiden’s curiosity, the Mother’s devotion, and the Crone’s truth-speaking — without needing to perform, explain, or soften any of it.

You do not need to arrive fully formed, healed, or certain. You only need the willingness to listen to the voice that has been whispering (or roaring) within you.

If you feel the ancient pull to remember yourself through land, ritual, and sisterhood, this pilgrimage may be calling you home.

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The activation

This is a pilgrimage of sovereignty — not the hardened kind, but the gentle power of self-belonging

You’ll be guided to:

  • reconnect with your inner witch and the wisdom of the old ways

  • honour your lineage (blood, earth, spiritual, chosen) with reverence and clarity

  • deepen your relationship with the Divine Feminine as an embodied truth

  • leave with ritual tools and practices you can actually keep living with

    There is no pressure to be anyone’s version of “spiritual.”
    Only an invitation to be real — and to let the land meet you there.

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Facilitators

Laura Yates

Organiser, Guide, Facilitator

Laura Yates is the founder of The Hummingbird Life, a retreat facilitator and guide devoted to the Divine Feminine, earth-based spirituality, and the remembering of ancient ways. Her work weaves together ritual, ceremony, and embodied practices with a distinctly witchy, intuitive edge, inviting others into deeper relationship with land, self, and soul.

Charlotte Pulver. Pulver's apothecary. Rose medicine making day on The Hummingbird Life Glastonbury retreat

Charlotte Pulver

Charlotte Pulver is a herbalist, gardener, and devotional steward of the green world, rooted in a deep relationship with plants, seasons, and the subtle intelligence of nature. Charlotte’s teaching is soft yet grounded, blending traditional herbal wisdom with lived experience, sensory awareness, and a profound respect for the spirit of the plant.

Discover the Seasonal Plant Ally workshop Details here

Guest Facilitator
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Kubi May: wand crafting and folklore workshop in Glastonbury UK. The Hummingbird Life Glastonbury retreat

Kubi May

Guest Facilitator

Kubi May is a Glastonbury (Avalon)–based therapist, wand maker, and creative arts practitioner who blends Celtic-inspired land lore with hands-on craft and healing arts. Through her work she weaves together shamanic Reiki, creative therapy, and storytelling-rooted workshops—inviting people into a grounded, “earth-in-the-hands” kind of magic.

Discover the wand crafting and folklore workshop details here

Laura Rose 

Retreat Chef

Laura Rose will sharing her food magic at the Apothecary Gardens; she is a retreat chef and baker, devoted to celebrating the seasonal abundance of Somerset and the wider South West. Her cooking is rooted in local gardens, hedgerows, woodlands, and fields, blending responsibly sourced meat and fish, organic flours, and homegrown and foraged botanicals with a deep respect for sustainability.

White Spring Glastonbury entrance
The scared spiral, Chalice Well Glastonbury

Retreat Price Includes

  • All accommodation

  • Support and guidance from Laura Yates throughout the retreat

  • A return transfer from Glastonbury to The Apothecary Gardens

  • A themed welcome gift bag, curated with care and intention

Special Guest Experiences

  • Wand Crafting & Folklore Day with Kubi May
    A day devoted to ancestral craft, storytelling, and the creation of your own wand as a ritual tool and ally.

  • Flower Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
    Working with the seasonal plants as teachers and healers, crafting medicine infused with devotion and intention.

Suggestions and tips for your onward journey

  • If you wish to visit additional sacred sites such as Silbury hill, Avebury, West Kennet Barrows, I might organise a group to do a day trip on Tuesday 21 July (subject to interest)

  • After the retreat is the The Goddess Conference is on in Glastonbury from 28 July - 2 August. Should you wish to stay after the retreat, I recommend you book your accommodation in Glastonbury soon as accommodation and tickets for the conference is almost fully booked.

  • If you wish to visit Stonehenge, I recommend visiting on your way to and from Heathrow

  • I have some healers, mediums and practitioners that I can recommend for you, should you wish extend your stay.

  • Please note that most accommodation in the area is fully booked and practitioners will be busy with the conference from 27 July. So if you wish to extend your stay please book this soon.

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Retreat Price Excludes

  • Flights (Bristol and Heathrow airports - see FAQ)

  • Bristol airport is great for those coming from Europe

  • Visas

  • Airport transfers

  • Additional Spending and Incidentals

  • Site donations

  • Additional Tours and Excursions Outside of the Itinerary

  • Travel Insurance is Recommended.

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Booking and Information

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Initial booking is a general deposit for a room.

Once deposit is paid: Rooms will be allocated based on preference of bathrooms and room type. 

The remainder of the payment will reflect the balance reflective of room preferences 

Shared room - deposit
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SGD 2,450.00
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SGD 3,000.00
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Frequently asked questions

  • Bristol airport is the closest to Glastonbury with many flights arriving from Europe and the Uk.

    If arriving from Singapore or further away. I recommend flying into Heathrow.

    I will provide a list of airport transfer services (for Bristol and Heathrow)

  • By Train: Castle Cary (20 mins away) and Yeovil (30 mins away), you can then take a cab from here to Glastonbury town.

    If you are coming from Heathrow, Bristol Airport or other; booking a private transfer might be best.

    There are also buses from Bristol to Glastonbury

  • Glastonbury offers several women-only retreats that focus on spiritual growth, healing, and connection to the divine feminine. This retreat is unique in that along with visiting scared sites, we will learn to create tools for magic, remembering our own sovereignty in weaving the old ways

  • We have an opportunity to bathe naked in the white spring (optional) . and I would like to keep this private.

  • Glastonbury is not just a place — it’s a living threshold. A landscape steeped in myth, mystery, and memory, where the veil feels thin and the land itself seems to listen. For thousands of years, people have come here to pray, heal, initiate, and remember who they are.

    Often called the Heart Chakra of the world, Glastonbury holds a rare convergence of ley lines, sacred wells, ancient pathways, and powerful hills — from the quiet presence of Chalice Well to the watchful spiral of the Tor. There is a softness here that invites deep rest, and a potency that gently stirs transformation.

    Retreating in Glastonbury allows you to step out of ordinary time. The land supports inner listening, emotional healing, and spiritual insight with an ease that can feel both subtle and profound. Nature, myth, and spirit weave together, offering a sense of being held by something much older and wiser than the thinking mind.

    A retreat here isn’t about escaping life — it’s about remembering your place within it. Glastonbury meets you where you are, and if you listen closely, she quietly reminds you of who you’ve always been.

  • Sacred Wells
    The Chalice Well and White Spring have been honoured for thousands of years as places of healing and blessing. In Pagan traditions, sacred wells are gateways—where earth, water, and spirit meet—inviting purification, renewal, and deep inner listening.

    The Crossing of Ley Lines
    Glastonbury is believed to sit at the convergence of powerful ley lines, often described as the heart chakra of the world. This crossing creates a palpable sense of balance and coherence, where many feel more grounded, open, and emotionally attuned.

    The Tor as a Threshold
    Glastonbury Tor is understood as an axis mundi—a meeting point between heaven, earth, and the underworld. Walking its spiral path mirrors ancient initiatory journeys of descent, vision, and return.

    The Thinning Veil
    Many experience Glastonbury as a liminal place where the veil between worlds feels thinner. Intuition sharpens, ancestral wisdom feels closer, and ritual, prayer, and divination deepen with ease.

    Avalon & Living Myth
    Long associated with Avalon, Glastonbury carries stories of priestesses, the sacred feminine, and the Grail. Whether held as myth or memory, these stories shape the energetic field of the land, inviting remembrance of earth-honouring spirituality.

    A Land Still in Practice
    Glastonbury is not a relic—it is alive with ceremony, pilgrimage, and devotion. This living relationship gives the land its power, welcoming seekers not as observers, but as participants.

  • Yes, you're welcome to book a shared room on your own, and then I can pair you up with someone, or even introduce you all before on a zoom call, and we can see who aligns.

    I always trust who comes into circle together is exactly as it should be.

  • We will begin at 6pm on Wednesday 22nd.

    We will finish around 9am and our transfer is booked to take us back to Glastonbury town for 10am.

Some little Video inspiration for you:

This Documentary, by Filmmaker Marijn Poels, highlights a little bit about the magic of Glastonbury, energy and ley lines

What people say about Laura’s retreats

  • Thoughtful and Conscious

    "Thank you Laura for opening my heart and arms to the beautiful land of Sri Lanka. Firstly, the beachfront villa and staff were wonderful. The meals were so fresh, tasty and nourishing. I felt so well taken care of and I know you put great care and thoughtfulness in putting together this retreat.

    Everything from the welcome gift to allowing flow, gentleness and spacious. Last but not least, thanks for always looking out and caring for us throughout the entire trip and after.

    To top it all, I appreciate how you consciously honour and give back to the local community. The cinnamon tour was definitely a highlight!" - Michelle, Singapore

  • Laura's Magic Touch

    “The few days spent with Laura on the beautiful Sri Lankan beach were magical.

    A perfect mix of engaging and exciting activities, restorative time and rest, always curated with intention and Laura's touch of magic.

    I recommend it to anyone wanting to step out of the busyness of life to reconnect. “ - Lena. Switzerland

  • Beautiful experience and balance

    “A beautiful experience that brought me exactly what I was looking for.

    A great balance between guided moment and time for self.” - Lucie, France

  • Kind, supportive, safe community

    “Beyond the organisation and setting, there was a profound spiritual quality to the experience.

    Laura’s awakening retreat created space to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with what truly matters.  Being immersed in nature, surrounded by stillness and intention allowed for a deep sense of grounding, clarity, and alignment.  It felt like a gentle yet powerful invitation to reconnect with my inner compass, purpose, and sense of gratitude.

    Laura organising team, was truly remarkable, committed to create a safe, supportive, and uplifting experience for everyone involved.

    What made the experience truly special was the community it fostered. Being surrounded by a group of kind, supportive, and inspiring women created an atmosphere that encouraged authenticity, connection, and growth. It was a space where you felt seen, supported, and empowered to be your best and most authentic self.

    I would wholeheartedly recommend this retreat to anyone seeking a beautifully curated, meaningful, and transformative experience,  one that nourishes not only the mind and body, but also the spirit ,  all set within the most amazing natural surroundings.

    Laura’s leadership and commitment to this retreat is truly remarkable” - Angeles

  • Intentional, deep, connection

    “Laura’s presence was the steady hum beneath it all, soft yet fiercely intentional.

    She didn’t force anything into place but held the space with such clarity and devotion that everything naturally found its rhythm.

    What was most special was the way she trusted the unknown and made room for it. The depth of connection, not just with the other women, but with the land itself.

    The way Laura and the team held the energetic container, even amidst unpredictability, created a realm that felt otherworldly yet safe. That exceeded everything I thought I came for.” - Joan, Canada

This is your time.
Are you ready to Remember?