OPEN YOUR EAR to the GREAT BELOW 2025

DATE: SATURDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2025 - 10am - 4:30pm

LOCATION: The Annexe @ No 4 Brookside, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7PJ

We welcome you to this day-long deep immersion.  Rest and descend into the composting season with the ancient Sumerian story of Inanna and Ereskigal, through mythic embodiment and somatic practices.  This is a group retreat open to adult women/femme identifying folks.  Guided and facilitated by Jackie Singer (in person) and Tracy Chipman (on a live video link from USA).  

Whether you are revisiting this womb space of experience again (we first led this retreat in 2024), or arriving fresh for the first time at this threshold, welcome, welcome!

What gifts await you in the Great Below?

How might your soul be fed by beholding and being held, by deep time story, in the sacred vessel of your body, in the circle of women, resting and descending together?                     

THOUGH THIS EXPERIENCE, YOU MAY:  

- Descend into the sacred terrain of the Great Below

- Open yourself to hear, feel, see & know what you are ready to hear, feel, see & know

- Risk being seen and heard in new ways

- Truly rest into the soft animal of your body

- Reclaim lost aspects of yourself

- Open to the power within you

- Allow yourself to be playful

- Learn somatic practices that you can use to sustain your over the winter 

- Practise giving and receiving to / from the mutually supporting container of our group

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Feedback from our 2024 Retreat Day

"Thank you so much for a truly amazing day. It held, supported, loved and nourished me in the best way that I so desperately needed. Really opened my eyes to a lot about where I currently am on my healing journey and paved a way for some wonderful transformations." 

"Superbly planned and run"

"I was more in my body than I’ve been for a while. I feel the changing that I talked about at the end continuing."

"An amazing experience for me personally.  I felt safe, held, treated as adult, loved and you both showed great skill and awareness for the well-being of all." 

"There’s something magical about how a group of mostly strangers can connect so well in these gatherings. I feel like I got to know so many people on a different level than such a short meeting usually delivers, and I hope to meet up with all of you again."

"I felt the somatic experience released so much and yet so subtly it happened with an ease and gentleness that surprised me."

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Jackie Singer is an Oxford-based performer and shamanic practitioner with over 30 years’ experience of holding space for creativity and healing, particularly for women. She is the author of Birthrites, Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-bearing Years, recently published her first booklet of poetry: Loom - Poems of Love and Loss and is currently making an album of medicine music: Songhold. Jackie originally trained as a drama and movement therapist, specialising in story enactment. She first encountered the story of Inanna and Ereskigal when she was in her twenties. It has been a long courtship leading to this retreat day! (www.thehummingbirdlodge.com)

Tracy Chipman (she/her/they) resides on the traditional territories of the Ojibwe peoples. She is a somatic healing artist, oral storyteller, creative writer/author, and a certified TRE® provider. Tracy weaves with ancient & new experiences inviting us into embodied transformation & interconnectedness with the animate world. In March 2023 Tracy published her first book, Borealis Mundi - Resting in Place, Loss & Grace. (www.tracychipman.net)

Jackie and Tracy enjoy a trans-Atlantic collaboration. This year, Tracy will be holding space via a live video link from her home in Northern Wisconsin, USA, near the shore of the massive inland sea - Lake Superior.

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JOINING DETAILS

COST: £145* 

Early Bird Rates in effect until midnight 1st October: £120*

Your place is confirmed upon receipt of £30 deposit.  Full amount due by 26th October.

* Price includes fresh herbal teas, nourishing snacks and a delicious vegan lunch created by vegan queen Sarada Wong (Shakti Kitchen).

Payment instalments are possible if needed, and two concessionary places are available. Please contact Jackie at js@jackiesinger.co.uk for more information.

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For those travelling from outside of the area, some accommodation is available at The Annexe.  Please contact Sarah Stewart-Brown s.l.stewartbrown@gmail.com for more information. (See https://wellbeing-ventures.co.uk/workshop-venue/)

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Will you join us? If so, please continue to respond below and submit payment.  A deposit of £30 secures your place.

We so look forward to welcoming you and journeying in this way together!

Hands to heart,

Jackie & Tracy

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We are both looking forward to coming together for this exploration!

Jackie and Tracy

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