Women & Non-Binary Weekend Retreat with Jaqui Wan, Dora Rubinstein & Lauren Azor
Join us in Yorkshire for a weekend-long acro retreat to celebrate the experiences, skills and abilities of women and non-binary people. A weekend to empower women and non-binary voices – as well as to have loads of fun and acro play!
When:
Friday 4th - Sunday 6th April 2025
Check-in starts at 3pm on Friday and the event finishes at 2pm on Sunday.
Where: Westwood Retreat Centre, Westwood Edge Rd, Golcar, Huddersfield HD7 4JY
Prices: Start from £380 inclusive of two nights’ accommodation, all meals and snacks, and multiple daily workshops in acroyoga, handstands, yoga and therapeutics.
Expect:
🤸🏻♀️A mix of acro sessions each day, from l-basing to therapeutics to standing acrobatics, in a welcoming and inclusive environment for women and non binary folks 🤸🏻♀️
🧘♀️ Yoga, handstands, Thai massage
🍲Amazing, plentiful veggie food from local caterer @bilberrybeeleeds
🛁 Comfy, luxurious rooms in a beautiful converted church space
🌄 Gorgeous scenery to explore nearby or admire from the big beautiful windows!
This is a small group event and we’ll plan the workshops around your interests, needs and desires!
What’s not included: –
Transport to/from the venue (we are happy to help coordinate car-shares and taxi-shares from local train stations)
Travel Insurance
Venue Information
Westwood Retreat Centre, a 19th century church building converted into an events hall and accommodation, surrounded by a lawn and gardens for private use and lush green countryside beyond.
Please note the venue operates a noise curfew from 11pm through to 8am, our retreat will also comply with this.
Transport
The nearest train station is Slaithwaite (pronounced ‘Slawit’), which is accessible from Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly. It’s a 1-mile very steep uphill walk from there so most guests prefer a 4-minute £5 taxi ride.
Your Hosts:
This retreat weekend is led by acroyoga, handstands and yoga teachers Jaqui Wan, Lauren Azor and Dora Rubinstein.
Jaqui is a yoga asana & acroyoga teacher based in London. She has been teaching full-time since 2008 and has had an ongoing yoga asana practice spanning almost 30 years. She is challenging yet playful and has an attention to detail that actively celebrates difference and group learning. She is the founder of Bodhitrix and the L Basing Compendium. She is an acrobatics elder in the London community and is one of the main organisers of the London Acro Convention.
Lauren is a playful teacher, who is keen to share her love for acroyoga. She is also a RYT300 Yoga teacher, who has taught Yoga in the UK & India. She currently teaches weekly Yoga and AcroYoga classes in her hometown of Brighton, workshops in the UK and Europe, and updates her experience at Acrobatic conventions.
Dora is a yoga and acroyoga teacher, and a theatre and circus performer. Classes are lively, light-hearted, and usually full of laughs! She is based in York, but teaches and performs internationally. Most recently a tour has taken her across the USA where she’s acro-jammed in Missouri, Nevada, Ohio and California. She can’t wait to share the fun things she’s picked up on her travels.
Catering is provided by Bilberry Bee, and will be a hearty, healthy and wholesome fare catering to dietary requirements. Expect breakfasts like turmeric porridge, stewed apples & pears, homemade granolas & smoothies. Lunches might be buddha bowls, flans or jacket potatoes with chilli. Dinners will always be 2 or 3 courses with mezzes, curries or lasagnas, plus homemade cakes and desserts for both lunch and dinner!
Please register before payment, the payment link is in the registration form.