Composting for your Soul: Shedding, Seeding and Sacred Rot

Lucy Furniss, Gestalt and Wild Therapist

Let go, root down, rise slowly. A soulful Autumn retreat to compost the old and plant what longs to grow.

Burley Village

🌿 Composting for your Soul: Shedding, Seeding and Sacred RotA Day of connecting with Autumns’ rhythm: slowing, releasing and tending the shoots of what’s yet to come.🕕 Sunday 28th September | 9-30am–4-30pm📍 Longbarn, Burley (New Forest)Maximum 8 participantsJoin this workshop for a soulfully curated day of surrender, guided by the wisdom of Autumn and the wild edges of the land. This is a space to shed what no longer serves, seed what longs to emerge, and compost the stories and survival strategies that have run their course.This workshop will allow you to slow and connect to your inner wisdom, to wriggle like a worm into the dark. It can be scary to take time to delve around in that which will we usually keep buried. Together we’ll follow the sacred rhythms of the season—welcoming death not as an end, but as an initiation into fertile becoming.This is for you if you’re sensing:<ul><li>Something in you is breaking down—and might be feeding something new</li><li>Grief, fatigue, or old identities are ready to return to the earth</li><li>A deeper rooting is calling</li><li>You’re longing for a ritual container to reflect, release, and reweave yourself</li></ul>Through a blend of somatic movement, earth-based ritual, and quiet communion with the more-than-human world and ourselves, we’ll tend to questions like:<ul><li>What is asking to be laid down?</li><li>What is already decomposing in you that might nourish what you cannot yet name?</li><li>What sprouts are stirring beneath the mulch?</li></ul>When we walk into the fertile shadows and trust the land to hold what we cannot, something ancient reawakens. You only have to see the tree growing sideways towards the light to know the possibility of adaptation, the resilience within the roots. We are part of this, not separate and the same wild possibilities live in us – if we let them.🌬️ What to Expect:<ul><li>Dream matrix to weave a collective intention.</li><li>Wild ‘sit spot’ time in nature, being in silence to hear the messages of the soil, the trees, the wind, the stone and more than human.</li><li>Rituals of burial and becoming with embodied gestures to release, grieve and plan new possibilities.</li><li>Moments of soulful reflection, journaling, and quiet witnessing by our group.</li><li>Firelight and grounding rituals to close the circle in warmth and community</li><li>Homemade vegan soup and sweet nourishment.</li></ul>Come as you are knowing that all that you bring is decompostable and that the old feeds the new. Leave with more space in your body, knowing the support of the land beneath your feet, and a sense of being deeply rooted in your wild self.This offering is limited to 8 participants to support a spacious and held container. We will move slowly, gently, and with care for whatever is emerging in the compost heap of each soul. Nothing here needs to be polished. Everything is welcome.Please be aware we will be outside for much of the day and you will need warm, waterproof clothing and suitable footwear.💳Investment: (Sliding Scale): £57 / £72 / £87 / £102 / £117This workshop is offered with a sliding scale to acknowledge different capacities and circumstances. Please choose the amount that feels aligned for you. If you're able to offer more, know that your generosity helps make space for others to participate who might not otherwise be able to.Let this be an act of collective care, not a transaction—a shared investment in a living field we’re weaving together.Feel free to email me at contact@lucyfurniss.co.uk if you wish to book direct and of course you can offer to pay anything in between the scales offered.🎟️Booking and Cancellation🎫 Spaces are limited, and these will likely fill. Book early to avoid disappointment.Payments are non-refundable, but in compassionate circumstances, I’m open to exploring transfers or alternative options. Please don’t hesitate to reach out – I’m always happy to discuss your situation with care.🌿 Your GuideLucy FurnissWild Therapist | Gestalt Psychotherapist | Ritualist | Somatic GuideLucy’s work is rooted in softness, nervous system wisdom, and earth reverence. She creates sacred spaces where grief, truth, and new life are all equally welcome—where you can soften, unravel, and root back into your wild self.She’ll be weaving movement, silence, ritual, and deep listening into a day that honours both the decay and the dream.