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Temple of Venus

6 hour retreat in North East England
In-person
Women only

Introduction

The Venus Goddess Retreats are an invitation to come home to your pleasure, your womb space, your body and your innate sensual power.

These retreats may be for you if you have felt disconnected from your body, your pussy or innate sensuality (perhaps for a long time), through busyness, being in your masculine, sexual trauma or other wounding which has disconnected you from your life force (your innate, magical innocent playful Eros).

This is for those who may feel burnt out, disconnected from pleasure or joy, and from their deeper femininity.

Many of us are cut off from our body due to sexual trauma, childbirth, illness, surgery, or just generally being disconnected from them, often for generations. We can carry energies which aren't ours.

What to expect

During these retreats we will gather in sacred sisterhood to share our stories, come into council, experience powerful shamanic journeying, breathwork, shadow work, somatic and embodiment practices, and dance!!!

Together we will explore what it is to be a woman and embody more of your true innate goddess self (which is unique to you), working with different feminine archetypes all held in sacred sisterhood council, so you can embody more of your Inner Queen!

Each retreat will have a theme, working with the goddess archetypes/Grail Queens  - Venus (Ishtar/Inanna), Isis, White Buffalo Woman, Joan of Arc, Hatshepsut, Cleopatra and Mary Magdalene.

This programme may be for you if...

How being disconnected from your femininty can show up

  • Feeling stressed/burnt out
  • Being in your masculine energy (control freak?) too much
  • Not able to follow the flow of life
  • Blocks with being able to fully receive
  • Difficulties with being available for love and intimate connections
  • Challenges with intimacy, such as pain, low desire, or a sense of disconnection from this sacred part of our body (feeling cut off)
  • Creative blocks, feeling uninspired
  • Lack of abundance, feeling stuck

Benefits of working with your feminine energy

  • Feel more creative, inspired
  • Being more in flow and in your innate Goddess energy
  • Feel more comfortable in your skin
  • Be aware of your desires and what gives you pleasure
  • Better relationships with those around you
  • More able to receive and be 'in joy' - money, abundance, allowing the gifts of the universe to flow to you!

This programme may not be for you if...

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How to prepare

Programme structure

What will I learn on the programme?

What's included in this retreat?

  • Opening sister sharing circle
  • Kundalini Yoga/Meditation
  • Seasonal goddess lunch and foraged herbal tea 
  • Grounded feminine breathwork connecting to the Grail Queens
  • Dance, somatic movement, or embodiment practices
  • Closing circle

What else is included in the programme?

An introduction to your guide

Welcome pleasure seeker

I’m Dawn Love (real name!).

I am a mother, nature lover, shamanic teacher/facilitator, energy/oracle healer, breathwork facilitator, consent and somatic practitioner, and kundalini yoga teacher.

I lovingly guide people to remember their unique gifts, their soul's magic and who the fu*k they really are.

I live in North East England, love travelling, being in nature, wild swimming, dancing.  

Since being little I have always been interested in spirituality, and qualified as a Reiki Healer back in 2012. However, it was never fully embodied as I struggled to switch off the mind.

My shamanic awakening (which I believe is your soul coming 'online') began as a Kundalini activation in 2018 which manifested as a mental health breakdown/spiritual emergency.

I quit my corporate job and began to piece myself back together, determined to understand what was happening to me so that I could help others. This led me to the magical practices of shamanism and breathwork...

Before this I was a functional alcoholic, full of social anxiety, imposter syndrome and a people pleaser… it's still a work in progress!

Hey beauty,

I'm Dawn, and I have been disconnected from my body for most of my life.

In the last few years I have been on a journey to reconnect to my body, sensuality and pleasure.

With the birth of my son in 2013, I experienced birth trauma which left me with life changing injuries. In 2024, after being diagnosed with a triple prolapse and threatened with a full hysterectomy, I went on a journey to heal myself, my body, my womb, my pussy and to keep my uterus. It has been one of the darkest journeys - one of self disgust, hatred and feeling like my body was broken and had failed me.

I recently trained as a Hyperpressives Trainer (Level 1) so I can help women like me affected by this really common, but taboo and not talked about issue, which affects millions of women.

On my healing journey, I have tried pretty much everything - from twerking to self pleasure temples, and what I found should be taught to every girl at school. Our pleasure, our bodies, our sacred temples. If we learned how to connect to our bodies at a young age, the world would be an entirely different place!!!

So, with these retreats I bring beginner practices, carefully curated and designed to help you reconnect to your body and your innate unique goddess energy, so you can feel more alive, inspired, creative, turned on and in flow with life.

I am a trauma informed breathwork facilitator, shamanic teacher, facilitator and healer, somatic practitioner, kundalini yoga teacher and experienced women's circle facilitator - so you will be in safe hands!

I hold space with love, working with sacred sister council guidelines.

Dawn wearing a red shawl and walking up from the beach

I’ve really loved the course. Dawn holds space with warmth, humility and wisdom. there is room to experience the path for ourselves within a supportive container. The small group is nurturing and encouraging.

There’s opportunities to go as deeper with the shamanic year and I know this is just the beginning of my journey with shamanism.

I feel so much more connected to myself, my embodiment and my intuition, and to the world around me. Open to messages coming through and open to living in a spiritual way daily around my ‘real’ life.

The highlights have been learning to journey and connect with the upper and lower worlds, guides, clan, animal guides and spirits. Feeling confident enough to do this myself.

Claire McP

Ever since being a child I was drawn to the magical and mystical. I had awareness of my gifts and abilities but what I lacked was a supporting teacher to help me understand and develop these.

As someone who often has my head in the clouds, going around the medicine wheel with has helped me to ground, feel safer and more connected to nature and spirit than I ever thought possible.

My confidence has grown and the anxiety I once had has been replaced with a deep sense of trust in myself, and the earth.

Dawn is a fantastic guide who brings these ancient teachings to life and a simple yet magical way. The course has transformed my everyday world!

Carly

She was embodying a whole new version of herself, stepping up and into a greater level of courage and confidence as she has invested in herself and is showing up for her daily practices and focusing on her self-healing.

C

Saw a massive shift in her energy. She started a new job a week into the course, this helped give her confidence to stand in her power and not be afraid of stepping up into this new role, and be in her truth and face everyday challenges. She connected more to her intuition, her spirit and being able to trust her magical experiences (and quiet the left brain).

Sophie

Was setting boundaries and stepping more into her power, but also releasing judgements and ego and being from compassion and her heart to communicate more of her wisdom and her magnetic truth.

Ingrid

The highlights of being as a mentor on, the shamanic embodiment was, the transformations that have taken place for everybody that has, participated on the course.

Just watching those transformations, the depth of it, the flourishing of their own sort of magic coming through. The magic is just being absolutely divine to watch unfold.This being really lovely.

What challenges have you faced as a mentor? Oh gosh, I think it's the exhaustion, the exhaustion, it's constant.It's that devotion to spirit and letting it move through you in every way and really getting out of your way that's what you I can't came close to the things that was asking me to let go and to really, step in to, the letting go of phase was the most challenging through the whole light.Is it like it, there's things that happen before the actual ceremonies take place every week.

So it's the things that surprise me is the rapidness of it. Cause I'm a therapist myself, so I could be sitting and put with people for 12 months before they come up with their own, their own agency.It take, that takes time where I feel like with the shamanic horse, it's the rapidness of people's transformation.

That's really surprising to be part of.I don't know if the word surprise and it kind of fits that. But that's the thing that really strikes me where I'm like, whoa, how did they get from that to that in by themselves? It's like that real stepping in of their own power.

Things I'll be taking into my own life diversion, the feeling, of what embodiment feels like. It's truly, it's magical. The, the diversion of really being with spirit and the connection with it.I always say, I think when is that sort of anticipation, you feel like you've got a call in and there's an anticipation like that. That's probably the time that you supposed to step in. It's when it feels more scary.

Yasmin

I'm a Reiki master and masters teacher and also a quantum healer. And this is just completely different dynamics. But I guess really what I've learnt is that there's so many similarities between each of the modalities that I use.

And I guess lots of surprises have particularly been around, things that I was struggling with on the shamanic core. So for example, going up to the upper world, and I was really struggling mentally to get my head around that.

And then I actually realised that when I'm doing all of my healing sessions for quantum healing, I'm actually operating in the upper world. So, that kind of helped challenges for me. I've been on a practical basis, just around getting to lessons cause I've got other stuff that I teach myself at night time.

But it's been absolutely amazing to be able to have the recordings, to watch afterwards. So that's been super helpful for me, on a personal basis. Biggest surprise for me was when we started to facilitate doing journeys for each other. And I haven't fully appreciated what that was gonna entail, but how much I would really enjoy it.

Just a total privilege, a massively heart opening, when I did that. So absolutely amazing. So I teach which school, and in my, level 3 course that I am pulling together at the moment, I was going to be spending a period of time on shamanism, but that's gonna take a larger proportion cause I guess I really want to share now what I've learnt, and be able to enable people, to go and do the same thing.

So hopefully make some further instructions to Dawn as well. It's a fantastic course. Dawn's an amazing teacher and she makes everybody feel, cared about, heard. And the structure of the course is great.

You've got time to be able to go away and do your further research yourself if you want to, and to really take it to whatever level you want to take it to. So it's a fantastic course, highly recommended. That wasn't as scary as I thought it was gonna be.

Sarah

I was blown away from my session with Dawn. She is such a nurturing and caring healer, yet was fierce with the energies coming through.

She really took her time with me as she tuned in and gave what was needed.

She began with prayers and the drumming while bringing in all the guides and using light language.

I was purging so much of what needed to be released, then was shocked by how much was coming up to be cleared. It was so helpful with her magic touch and to see all my blind spots. She cleared out implants, thought patterns and distortions as well as memories of past partners in my field. I felt more energy in my body and the energy felt more clear for divine union.

I felt the divine guardians helping us and angelic energy, especially Melchizedek and the emerald dragons.

It was a very deep healing and I felt so much lighter.

A love interest also sent me a message in the middle of our session!

I was very grateful for such a powerful, beautiful session and for feeling much more secure with myself. Thank you!

Jennifer C

The last nine months have been beautiful, enlightening, empowering into shamanic practice. A deep dive into reconnecting to myself and the spirit of all things. Dawn is an inspiring and thoughtful teacher who weaves the magic of shamanism into a safe and supportive container for growth and learning. Developing these practices has changed my perspective, helping me to feel calmer in daily life, to be true to myself and to find out who I really am.

It's the adventure of a lifetime and I'd recommend this to anyone looking for more of a sense of meaning, fulfilment and magic in their lives!

Claire
Student 2022, mentor 2023

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Testimonials

Claire McP

Dawn holds space with warmth, humility and wisdom. there is room to experience the path for ourselves within a supportive container. I feel so much more connected to myself, my embodiment and my intuition. I know this is just the beginning of my journey with shamanism.

Claire McP
Jo W

The way Dawn holds space for people is unique and genuine. You can tell she is really there to help empower you and support you on your journey. The ceremonies, journeys, meditations, yoga and everything in between have been absolutely magical. Transformational. I am so very grateful to be on this journey with Dawn.

Jo W
Diane F

The last 2 years have been the most transformative of my life, peeling back layers of trauma that has needed to be healed. Dawn creates a safe space where you are able to do the hard work including shadow work and inner child work, welcoming all parts of ourselves with an open heart and without judgement. If you are ready, then you couldn’t have a more supportive, beautiful, authentic, creative, knowledgeable teacher and guide than Dawn.

Diane F
Claire

The last nine months have been beautiful, enlightening, empowering into shamanic practice. Developing these practices has changed my perspective, helping me to feel calmer in daily life and to find out who I really am. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for more magic in their lives!

Claire
Student 2022, mentor 2023

Practical details

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LocationNorth East England

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FAQs

There are a maximum of 8 spaces in each day retreat.

Venue details will be provided after booking, however the temple space is located near to the A1 and is a 10-minute drive from Durham railway station.

The retreat will be fully catered, with delicious gluten-free vegan food and snacks.

Please inform us upon booking of any other dietary requirements you may have.

Yes, come with an open heart and mind! The practices are suitable for anyone - whether you have done embodiedment or pleasure practices before.

The breathwork we practice has contraindications - for example, heart condition, stroke, epilepsy, glaucoma, early or unstable pregnancy. When you book, please let us know if you have any health issues as you will be provided with an alternative breathing technique.

If you have any questions please do reach out.

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