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🌹 A sanctuary for the feminine, nestled in The Meadows, Dodleston
Yoga • Sound Healing • Ceremony • Somatic Practice • Energy Work
Rooted in rhythm with the earth - a space to soften & remember who you are.
🌀 Come home to yourself 🌀
📲 07778062230

30/08/2026

Each Tuesday evening, we gather online in prayer.
Around candles and open hearts, we come together for our weekly Prayer Circle and Rosary, offering prayers for our community, our loved ones, the Earth, and all those walking through difficult seasons.

If there is something weighing heavily on your heart right now, you do not have to carry it alone.

Whether you are navigating illness, grief, uncertainty, loneliness, heartbreak, fear, or simply a time when the path ahead feels unclear. Perhaps there are no words, only a feeling that you need to be held by something larger than yourself...

You are warmly invited to leave a prayer request below, or send it to me privately if that feels more comfortable.
No explanation is needed.

This could take shape simply as a name, a situation, a single word, a hope.
Each prayer offered will be carried into our online circle and held with care, compassion, and devotion - held anonymously should you wish.

And if, as you read this, you feel called to join us, know that there is always a place for you within the circle, wherever you are.

May we remember that even in our darkest moments, we were never meant to walk alone.

🕯️ Prayer requests can be left in the comments or sent via private message.
If you would like to join our weekly online Prayer Circle and Rosary, send me a message for the details.

With love,
Laurie, The Barn Temple 🌹🕊️

29/08/2026

As the wheel of the year turns and the earth begins her slow descent towards autumn, we gather to light the first candle against the darkening season.

This is a day of gratitude & remembrance - A day to honour the abundance that has sustained us throughout the year and to give thanks for all that the earth so generously offers. A day to gather what is precious, to lay down what has become too heavy to carry, and to prepare ourselves for the quieter season that awaits.

For months we have lived beneath longer days and open skies. We have watched the hedgerows flower and fruit. We have felt the warmth of the sun upon our skin. We have witnessed the quiet miracle of things growing, ripening and coming to fullness.

Now the season begins to change.

The mornings arrive a little cooler. The evenings draw in a little sooner. Leaves loosen their grip upon the branches and the earth begins her slow exhale.

Together we will journey through the elements, listening for their wisdom and remembering our place within the living world.

Earth will invite us to remember our belonging.

Water will carry our prayers and offerings.

Air will move through breath, drum and silence.

Fire will illuminate what we are called to tend as the days grow darker.

Your place includes:

• Elemental ceremonies and ritual

• Guided movement and meditation

• Red thread ceremony

• Anointing

• Sound bath

• Autumn banquet

Saturday 3rd October ~ 10:30am-2:30pm 🌹

26/08/2026

As of next week, the temple doors will be opening during the daytime too.

For a long time, everything I've offered has lived around evenings and weekends, woven around family life and the realities of working motherhood. But it has always been my dream to see this space alive throughout the day. A place where people can come not only for classes, but for conversation, reflection, healing and rest.

So I am incredibly excited to announce a new offering:

Each week we'll gather in the warmth of the temple for an hour of yin yoga, meditation and reflection, exploring a different theme inspired by the seasons, the natural world and the lives we find ourselves living.
See this as an hour carved out of the week to arrive exactly as you are.

This class is the beginning of a new chapter for the temple, with daytime classes and 1:1 sessions soon to be woven into the rhythm of the space.

And honestly... I couldn't be more excited. Details below 👇

Wednesday Morning Yin Yoga & Meditation
Women only
All ages and abilities welcome
10:00am–11:00am
£10
🌹

23/08/2026

The sacred isn't hidden, it is everywhere.
In flowers picked from the garden.
In the women who walk through these doors each week.
In shared tears, shared laughter, shared silence.
In the changing of the seasons, tending to what we love, in paying attention.
Perhaps that's all any of us are really trying to do.
To pay attention to this one precious life whilst we're here. Perhaps that's why we gather. Not to escape life but to return to it.🌹

22/08/2026

Our beautiful Rose & Womb Flow returns on the 30th of August, 5-7pm.

I'd love to share a little more about what this offering is...

This work is born from a passion and a deep desire to create spaces for women to remember their innate power and wisdom that lives within and not outside of us. Whilst being human can be complicated and messy, particularly as a woman in this world, I believe that when we have a rooted connection to ourselves and our bodies, the wisdom becomes clearer and easier for us to grasp.

It is through this reconnection that we can make powerful shifts and changes within our lives - I speak from personal experience and through the witnessing of this within many women I've both walked with and worked with.

The rose and womb flow brings together many of my passions - somatic, heart and womb flow movement - don't think yoga - think fluid, think spirals, think curves, think intuitive flow.
We connect with the breath to journey through the layers of self. We gather in an intimate circle with the option to share should you want to share, we enjoy the magic of the sweet rose within a tea ceremony, and energy work upon the womb space is offered as well as sacred anointing.

If you feel the call to gather with me, please do get in touch or book via my website - I so look forward to gathering with you.

Love and blessing,

Laurie 🌹

03/08/2026

August within the temple ☀️🌿🍁

01/08/2026

The changing of the seasons has always offered me a gentle mirror.☀️🍁

This week, as we arrive at Lammas, I've found myself reflecting on the practice of receiving, which is quite the change from always thinking about creating, striving or dreaming about what's next... but truly allowing myself to enjoy the fruits of what's already been cultivated.

Perhaps that's why two hares crossed my path on the same evening. Perhaps it was simply a beautiful coincidence. Either way, they invited me to pay attention.

This carousel is a collection of reflections on the hare, the first harvest and why this year's summer pause feels especially significant.

Before the temple doors close for a couple of weeks, we still have a few beautiful gatherings to share together.

🌿 Monday evening we'll sink into Sound Bath & Meditation.
🌿Tuesday is our beautiful prayer circle
🌿 Wednesday will be our final reflective flow for a couple of weeks
🌿 Thursday is an additional Deep Exhale with Yin, Yoga Nidra and sound healing
🌿 Saturday Catherine returns with her lovely block therapy class
& finally...
🌿 Sunday morning we'll gather for Earth Based Yin Yoga.

Then I'll be stepping away for some much needed rest, family time, slow mornings, countryside walks, cups of tea in the garden, and a chance to soak up the abundance of all that has unfolded over the past year.

When we reopen, we'll gather again with fresh eyes, rested bodies and open hearts for another season together.

As we celebrate Lammas this weekend, I'd love to leave you with a question...

What in your life is asking not to be improved, expanded or fixed... but simply received?

Happy Lammas, loves.

May this first harvest remind you to pause long enough to taste the sweetness of all you've already grown. 🌾🤍

25/07/2026

Over the years, I've received a few questions about why our yoga and movement classes are held as women only spaces.

It's a question that deserves more than a simple answer.

This has never been about excluding anyone. It has always been about protecting the intention of the space.

From the very beginning, The Barn Temple has been a place devoted to women's wellbeing. As I've listened to the women who gather here, one thing has become beautifully clear: many experience a different quality of presence when they are practising alongside other women. There is often a greater sense of ease, safety and belonging, allowing them to soften into themselves in ways that feel deeply meaningful.

That doesn't mean mixed spaces aren't valuable. They absolutely are, and there are many wonderful teachers and communities offering them. It simply isn't the particular sanctuary I feel called to hold through our movement classes.

Our Sound Baths continue to welcome both women and men into the Temple, as the nature of that practice feels different and has always felt right to share more widely.

If you've ever stepped into The Barn Temple, you'll know that everything here is created with intention. This boundary is no different.

Thank you to everyone who has trusted me to hold this space with care, and to those who have shared so honestly about what these gatherings have meant to them.

As always, I hope The Barn Temple continues to be a place where women can come home to themselves.

With love,

Laurie 🌹

23/07/2026

What if the land still has something to teach us?...

High above the Dee Valley sits an ancient hillfort.
Over two thousand years ago, people chose this place as home. They gathered here, shared meals, tended fires, raised children and watched the seasons unfold across these same hills.
We can't know exactly how they understood the world - but perhaps we don't need to.
Because gathering, sharing food, walking together and living in relationship with the Earth aren't ancient practices - they're simply human ones.

I believe many of us carry a quiet longing for that kind of connection. Not because we want to live in the past, but because somewhere along the way we've forgotten what it feels like to truly belong.

Held by the Hills was born from that longing.
A weekend of remembering our place within the living world.
For three days we'll gather in the hills of North Wales to slow down, walk ancient pathways, share nourishing meals, sit around the fire, immerse ourselves in nature and explore what it means to live in deeper relationship with ourselves, one another and the land beneath our feet.

Just 11 women.
📍 The Forge, Corwen, North Wales
🌿 May 2027
Bookings are now open via the link in my bio.
I'd love to welcome you 🌹

Address

The Meadows, Church Road, Dodleston
Chester
CH49NG

Telephone

+447778062230

Website

http://www.thebarntemple.co.uk/

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