Beacon Retreats

08/09/2025

As the nights draw in after summer, classes here start to get fuller again! Gentle Yoga for all is currently Monday and Wednesday 6:30 -7:45pm! Reach out if you’d like to join a class ❤️

21/10/2024

The temple doors are gently closing for the start of my next intake of Priestesses of the Oils, a 13 week online course starting tomorrow. It’s not too late to join and I’d love to guide you in this journey. Message me if you’d like to chat more about this beautiful journey! 🌹❤️

https://www.donnagerrard.com/donna-gerrard-yoga-workshops-and-retreats/magdalene-myrrophore-mysteries-2024-to-2025

21/09/2024

Autumn equinox cacao ceremony for this gorgeous bunch today! Massive gratitude ❤️❤️❤️

27/08/2024

Did you miss out on The Goddess Conference this year, or do you want to continue immersing in the amazing content? The Goddess Web is live now! Among many other amazing lectures and practices, you can join me for a practice with Blodeuwedd, the goddess I was embodying for this year’s conference, to experience shapeshifting as a healing practice! 💚 see the link in the images here 💚

14/08/2024

I’m gently landing and integrating from the amazing experience of ceremonial priestessing at The Goddess Conference. Sharing a few beautiful memories here in the comments, and I wanted you all to let you all know that I am continuing the beautiful vibe of the conference’s theme of ‘Goddess of Healing’ with my first weekend retreat offering since breaking my arm. It’s an offering that I have been wanting to create since 2020, since Morgan Le Fay was such a key part of the story of us finding our beautiful house. (I will post the link to the story of our house in the comments).

Introducing: ‘In The House of Morgan Le Fay: A women’s healing retreat’ over Samhain / Halloween this year. You can apply the discount code on checkout SAMHAIN10 for aa early bird 10% discount until 15th September.

These tickets are selling like hot cakes so please jump in soon to ensure to be part of this! I can’t wait to share this with you ❤️❤️❤️

The season of Samhain / Halloween / Calan Gaeaf is the time when our ancestors would gather to mark the completion of the old year, and welcoming of the new. It’s a time when the veils are thin between the worlds of the living and that of the ancestors and it is a time which is rich in ancestral s...

09/07/2024

Well here’s a weird thing… I’ve been trying to delete an old FB page of mine I used to use for pilgrimages, events and things…. But I just have not been able to. And suddenly lately people have been following it like crazy! So I’m going to go with the flow and start using it again! Come on over to The Violet Rose for news about my events, retreats and pilgrimages 💜

https://www.facebook.com/share/26Fda5irfbtiq7hd/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Welcome to all my new followers here at The Violet Rose 💜

Let me introduce myself 💜
My name is Donna. I’m a Yoga teacher and pagan priestess, and together with my partner have spent the last 3 years restoring a beautiful Victorian Gothic rectory in the Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog) National Park in Wales as a beautiful retreat venue.

I’m really passionate about feminine transformation and empowerment. Here’s me dancing with a healing broken wrist (sustained during a ladder incident in our house renovation!) at the temple palace of Knossos in Crete last month, calling in wishes for my own healing and transformation.

I’d love to know more about you all. Please do introduce yourselves!
💜 Donna

11/03/2024

I really love my Monday night yogis ❤️
Thank you for showing up and really giving 100% ❤️❤️❤️❤️

A reminder that we’re on Easter break now until the Monday after Easter Monday (April 8th! Eek! Where is this year going?!!!!)

photo to Ibiza in 2016. Wish I still had those yoga pants….

09/03/2024

All set up today for The In the Temple of the Yoginis practice over Zoom, this afternoon, honouring women and our many facets and the cycles of our lives. It’s not too late to join if you would like to - just DM me before 1pm UK time to join live, or any time if you’d like the recording afterwards ❤️

03/03/2024

I feel like I have been painting these doors forever - my critical eye can still see a few places I’m not 100% happy with, but they **are** looking beautiful! Thank you to English Period doors for their beautiful reclaimed and restored doors ❤️

24/02/2024

It has been a magical week ❤️ 💫
I returned from my ceremonial Cacaoista training last weekend and we had the last (Dhumavati the Crone) practice in my Ten Weeks of Self Care practice. On Tuesday was in Glastonbury for a meeting with the ceremonialists team for The Goddess Conference, creating some of the beautiful ceremonies for this summer’s conference. Please check out this year’s details here:
https://goddessconference.com/

Then on Thursday I was back in Glastonbury for the closing ceremony of the Magdalene Myrrhophore Mysteries course I’ve been leading with some truly amazing and humbling women. We have been in a deep journey with sacred oils. If you’d like to join the second intake of this course, please check out the details here or message for more info:
https://www.donnagerrard.com/donna-gerrard-yoga-workshops-and-retreats/magdalene-myrrophore-mysteries-2024

Then on Friday a meeting with my lovely friend Emma Rose Knight to refine the details of our ‘In the Path of the Magdalene’ pilgrimage in southern France in September. Again, full details on my website or message for more details:

https://www.donnagerrard.com/donna-gerrard-yoga-workshops-and-retreats/in-the-path-of-mary-magdalene-pilgrimage-in-southern-france-with-donna-gerrard-and-emma-rose-knight

I rounded the week off with a little stone bothering at Stanton Drew and making friends with the swans at Chew Valley Lake on the way home ❤️ Feeling very lucky to have this life 🙏❤️