Catherine Roy-Stanley
Supporting humans, horses and the unique relationship they share​
Restore & Renew
Personal Development & Retreat day
Because you deserve a nourishing space too.
Finally have the space and time to step away from the busy hum of endless responsibilities to fill your cup, replenish your resources and come away feeling joyfully alive.
Expect a morning of rebalancing with personal development coaching & mindful movement, enjoy a delicious vegan lunch and experience an afternoon with a zinging dip in the wild lake and warming in the hot tub, and wood sauna.
What can you expect from the experience?
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Morning:
Shift what no longer serves you in a growth coaching & facilitation workshop in a beautiful yoga studio, and soak it up with a mindful moment on our yoga mats.
Lunch:
Enjoy a delicious veggie mezze boxes with a hot drink in the café.
Afternoon:
Revitalise & refresh with a dip in the lake, take a long soak in the fire heated hot tub and warm your bones in the wooden sauna overlooking the lake.
Step away from the busy hum of life, for a day with likeminded women, surrounded by trees by the gentle ripples of the lake. Enjoy the space & support to come back to you.
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This experience is for heart led horse women who are:
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Ready to re-fill their cup and take a big exhale.
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Feeling like their horses are guiding them towards taking time for themselves, and putting some are back into their own nervous system.
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Curious about themselves, and want to understand themselves more deeply.
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Wishing for a mind body & soul reset, to come back to their lives more replenished, regulated, and ready to create meaningful change.
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Wanting to feel more alive, connected to themselves, their horse, likeminded people and nature.
Because sometimes there is simply not the time to really allow things to sink in.
Details of this experience
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When?
Restore & Renew: Spring
Saturday the 31st May
10:30am-5pm​
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Where?
FLÖ Spa, Blackpit Farm Dadford Road Buckinghamshire MK18 5LJ
Click below to book your spot.
Questions, queries or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out. Catherine@balanceandalign.com
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Why might this experience support you?
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Why?
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During my time as a coach, I used to run self development days for equestrians. These days were wonderfully intense, shifting blocks and bringing new concepts to the table for each person to take away.
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HOWEVER...
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What I was noticing is, how by the end of the day, people were looking MORE tired and frazzled.
You see, just like our horses, we need to process too. To digest and integrate what we are discovering, in order for it to sink in and make space for the changes and feelings we really want. And as these wonderful women had busy lives, responsibilities, horses, families and work... creating that time and space just wasn't accessible to them.
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So what was missing? The right environment, support and time to let it all land.
As humans we think that the shifts happen in the THINKING. This isn't necessarily a helpful narrative, because we are now discovering that the thinking can make sense of what needs to shift, but the real change happens in the BEING. ​​
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As hunters, gatherers and walkers on this earth, the natural world would have been our best friend in helping us to feel connected with ourselves and the world around us. Each element will have brought something to support us: the cold, heat, water, earth, air. Now we live in sedentary lives, in domesticated environments, we are limited to the opportunities to tap into natures gifts for us.
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This is why this experience focuses on balancing the inner work, with the work of nature. To bring it back to the being. To bring it all back to you.
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If you want to connect, find out more or ask questions about this event, please do get in touch.
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How water helped me
Before I was a horse child, I was a water baby.
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Water has always been such a huge part of my life. My mum had me in the pool at a few months old, and I was a competitive swimmer by the time I was in primary school.
Water always felt like home. It made me feel light and free, and when I was swimming... nothing else mattered.
The noise and inner chatter melted away, and all that remained was the present moment.
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When my life went full horse mode, I lost touch with swimming. However, I still did cold dips wherever I could. In the shower, the sea, rivers and lakes.
And every time I got back in, it all made sense once more.
There was something exhilarating (and terrifying) about feeling the cold rush down your spine and feeling utterly and completely alive.
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What was even wilder, was that when I got out of the water, I found that my tolerance had grown. I was able to be in situations with my horse and not panic, my body didn't need to escalate as quickly, because it had practiced coming back down from adrenaline.
The water continues to teach and humble me, and each element reminds me something a little different along the way.
Another reason I created this experience, is because part of me wanted to share that feeling of capability. Aliveness. Empowerment. Stillness.
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Where you remember who you are and what you can do, and gather experiences that are yours to keep.
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I look forward to joining you there,
Cat x