Lost for a Day

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‘Lost for a Day’ is a one-day and one-night immersion in the ancient, unsettling, and ultimately liberating experience of being lost. Set in the wild reaches, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to step out of the patterns of certainty and control that shape so much of modern life, and to discover the unexpected gift that waits when we allow ourselves to not know.

Over the course of 24 hours, participants are guided through a series of powerful nature-based practices designed to shift the relationship with lostness from fear or frustration into curiosity, spaciousness, and insight. Through blindfold work, solo wandering, natural navigation, night walking, fire-based sharing, and time in solitude, you will explore what it means to relinquish your usual ways of orienting in the world and to encounter deeper, older ways of knowing.

This retreat invites you to:

• Explore your personal conditioning around getting lost — where it came from, how it shaped you, and what it asks of you now
• Practise letting go of maps, plans, and certainty, allowing the land to become your guide
• Discover what becomes visible, audible, or true when you stop trying to find your way
• Experience night in the wild without artificial light, letting your senses awaken and widen
• Learn simple techniques for natural navigation and staying safe when disoriented
• Reflect on the lostness of our wider culture and how you might navigate differently going forward

Throughout the journey, you are held by experienced facilitators who accompany each stage with guidance, safety, and gentle challenge.

‘Lost for a Day’ stands alone as a profound encounter with your own edges — and also forms the first part of a trilogy exploring lostness, finding, and being found. For many, this initial step becomes the beginning of a deeper inner pilgrimage.

If you feel called to loosen your grip on certainty, to rediscover your relationship with the land, or to meet yourself in a newer and wilder way, then this experience is for you.

Come prepared to let go.

Come prepared to wander.

Come prepared to meet the gift that only lostness can offer.

Lost for a Day is for people who sense that something meaningful lies beyond certainty, control, and having all the answers.

It is for those who feel drawn to explore their relationship with not knowing — whether in the landscape, in life, or within themselves — and who are willing to meet uncertainty with curiosity, courage, and care.

This experience may be especially suited to those who:

• Feel stuck, disoriented, or at a crossroads in life, and are curious about what their lostness might be asking of them
• Sense that modern life leaves little room for mystery, intuition, or deeper listening
• Are seeking a direct, embodied encounter rather than a purely intellectual or therapeutic process
• Feel called to reconnect with older, land-based ways of knowing and orienting
• Are comfortable being outdoors and open to periods of solitude, reflection, and gentle challenge
• Are drawn to rites of passage, threshold experiences, and conscious personal growth

Lost for a Day is not about fixing yourself or finding quick answers. It is for those willing to pause, wander, and allow something deeper to reveal itself.

You do not need prior experience of retreats or nature-based practice — only a willingness to step into the unknown and be changed by it.

Course & Meals  £240.00

Discounts available for block bookings of 3 places or more.

If you are a group or a venue and would like us to come to you please contact us for more details