Rest to Rise

A Spring Equinox Retreat for Women

Well Rested Woman Retreat Venue

You’re not broken - you’re just tired

It’s time to let go of what’s weighing you down and rise into what’s next.

Step away from the noise, the pressure, the constant holding-it-all-together.

Nestled in the still beauty of the Scottish Highlands, Rest to Rise is your invitation to exhale, soften, and come home to yourself.

This is more than a retreat — it’s a sacred threshold. As winter turns to spring, you’ll release what no longer serves and gently root into a new season of clarity, confidence, and calm.

Held by Suzi Gibson, this luxurious 2-night experience weaves psychotherapy, somatic healing, and ancient ritual to guide you into deep rest and soul-led renewal.

Private and shared rooms available | Small group only | March 2025

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You’ve Been Holding So Much, for So Long

There’s a quiet ache you’ve been carrying.

A heaviness that rest alone hasn’t touched.

You’ve done the inner work. You know the language of self-awareness.

But lately, it’s like something’s missing.

You feel tired in your bones.

Disconnected from your own rhythms.

Like life is asking for more than you have to give.

And somehow, you’re the last person on your own list.

Maybe you’ve been the strong one for everyone else.

The carer, the leader, the one who keeps it all moving.

But now, your soul is whispering: enough.

Enough overriding your needs.

Enough trying to figure it out alone.

Enough postponing your own peace until later.

What if you didn’t have to push through another season like this?

What if this Spring was your turning point?

Enter…Rest to Rise

A Spring Equinox Retreat for Women Ready to Begin Again

Rest to Rise isn’t just a weekend away.

It’s a soul-led recalibration, where nervous systems settle, emotions soften, and a deeper clarity begins to surface.

Across 2.5 nourishing days in the Scottish Highlands, you’ll be held in a gentle, expertly facilitated space designed for your healing, remembering, and renewal.

This retreat weaves Suzi Gibson’s 20+ years of therapeutic experience with somatic practice, sacred ritual, and feminine psychology to guide you through:

🌿 Deep rest that reaches your core

🌿 Nervous system reset through breath, movement, and stillness

🌿 Reconnection to body, intuition, and inner guidance

🌿 Release of old identities and stuck patterns

🌿 Spring Equinox ritual to honour your past and welcome your future

You’ll walk away feeling rested, clear, and rooted in the next version of you, not through force, but through grace.

This Retreat Is For You If…

✨ You feel burnt out, disconnected, or uninspired, but you know there’s more waiting for you.

✨ You’re craving time away from the noise, space to breathe, and a deeper connection to yourself.

✨ You’ve been doing the work, but still feel stuck in cycles that no longer serve.

✨ You’re ready to stop performing wellness and actually feel well.

✨ You value depth, honesty, emotional safety and want to be held in sacred space.

✨ You’re ready for a real reset. Not a spa day. A soul return.

I was bone tired, exhausted and wired. I leave refreshed, deeply embodied, grounded and with laughter and joy in my heart.
— Laura, Rest to Rise Retreat

This Is Not For You If…

⛔ You want a fast-paced itinerary or lots of high-energy activities

⛔ You’re looking for surface-level self-care or a weekend of distraction

⛔ You’re not open to reflection, rest, or emotional depth

⛔ You’re unwilling to be with your inner world gently and honestly

This space is deep, slow, and sacred.

If that feels like a yes in your body - you’re in the right place.

I feel calm, restored, connected to myself in a new, more powerful way.
— Wintering Retreat Guest

What You’ll Walk Away With

This isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you were before the noise, the burnout, the striving.
And rising into the woman you’re here to be, rooted, rested, and real.

💤 Deep, Cellular Rest

Nervous system-calming practices like Yoga Nidra, breathwork, and stillness give your body a chance to truly exhale, so you leave feeling rested in a way sleep alone can’t reach.

🔥 Release + Rebirth

Through ritual, sharing, and movement, you’ll shed what’s been weighing you down and create space for what wants to emerge. It’s Spring Equinox energy embodied.

🌀 Emotional Clarity

You’ll reconnect with your inner guidance and intuition, clearing emotional fog and finding answers that feel rooted in truth, not pressure or people-pleasing.

🌿 Soulful Connection

Held in a small group of likeminded women, you’ll be seen, supported, and inspired. Many arrive alone, none leave feeling that way.

🌸 Lasting Integration

You’ll receive take-home practices, prompts, and a ritual journal to help you carry the shift with you, not just for the weekend, but into your next season of life.

A safe place to be totally myself surrounded by a lovely group of like-minded women.
— Well Rested Woman Retreat
The perfect healing facilitators of this beautiful retreat. They will hold you with love and leave you changed.
— Well Rested Woman Retreat

Meet Your Guide

Suzi Gibson | Space Holder, Therapist, Ritualist

Suzi has been guiding women home to themselves for over two decades.

With a background in psychotherapy, coaching, and integrative wellbeing, her work bridges the clinical and the sacred, blending deep psychological insight with embodiment, ritual, and feminine wisdom.

She’s facilitated hundreds of retreats, circles, and sacred spaces over the years. And time after time, women say the same thing: I’ve never felt this safe, this seen, this held.

You’re Held By Someone Who’s Been There

✔ 20+ years in psychotherapy, women’s wellbeing, and ritual

✔ Hundreds of women supported through retreats, circles, and private practice

✔ Consistently described as nurturing, safe, wise, and soul-deep

The spaces you create are life changing… I feel forever blessed to have found A Wee Retreat.
— Wintering Retreat Guest

Still Wondering If This Is Right For You?

“What if I don’t know anyone?”
You won’t be the only one. Many women come solo and leave feeling deeply connected.

“Will there be time to rest?”
Yes. Spaciousness is built in. This retreat is about nervous system nourishment, not jam-packed schedules.

“What if I feel too tired or stuck to make the most of it?”
That’s exactly why this space exists. You don’t need to arrive energised - just honest. You’ll be met where you are.

 
 
I booked to recover from burnout, but I left with a whole new sense of who I really am.
— Jo, Wintering Retreat
 
 

The Invitation

🌿 Rest to Rise

A Spring Equinox Retreat for Women

21–23 March 2025 or ??????????? | Scottish Highlands

What's Included:

✔ Two nights of luxury accommodation in a private Highland retreat centre

✔ All meals — nourishing, seasonal, and lovingly prepared

✔ Expert facilitation by Suzi Gibson

✔ Somatic and nervous system practices (Yoga Nidra, breathwork, movement)

✔ Rituals and ceremonies, including a Spring Equinox fire circle

✔ Reflective journaling, sharing circles, and integration support

✔ Take-home Ritual Journal (PDF) and post-retreat practices

 
 

A Gentle Flow for Your Retreat

This retreat isn’t about schedules and structure.

It’s about rhythm - yours.

But for those who like to know what to expect, here’s a soft sketch of our time together.

Everything is invitational. Spaciousness is built in. Nothing is forced.

🌸 Friday – Arrival & Grounding

From 4pm - Arrive, settle in, exhale

6pm - Opening circle & sacred intention-setting

7pm - Nourishing dinner

8:30pm - Yoga Nidra for deep rest

🔥 Saturday – Releasing & Remembering

8am - Gentle morning movement + breakfast

10am - Breathwork & nervous system reset

12pm - Time to rest, walk, or journal

1pm - Seasonal lunch

2:30pm - Sharing circle & emotional clarity session

4:30pm - Free time or optional 1:1 support

6pm - Dinner

8pm - Spring Equinox Fire Ceremony

🌿 Sunday - Integration & Rising

8am - Morning movement & meditation

9am - Breakfast

10am - Closing circle & visioning ritual

11:30am - Goodbyes and onward journeys

The whole experience… I felt safe, rested, lighter, and more in control. I’ll treasure it forever.
— Well Rested Woman Retreat

Your Retreat starts as soon as you book your place

Often the messaging we hear around us and sometimes inside our own head regarding rest is one of pushing through, being busy all the time, there isn’t enough time to rest or maybe you feel guilty prioritising yourself. Simply by making your booking you are choosing for something else. Choosing to rest, choosing to relax to restore your energy levels. To go on our retreat sends a powerful message which is a wonderful antidote to all of this. When we give to ourselves we are in a much better place to meet the demands of life and to give to others.

Subconscious Reprogramming

30 days before the beginning of your retreat you will be sent a deeply relaxing hypnotherapy audio to listen to regularly before your retreat. Your hypnotherapy audio will help you begin to relax and prepare for your retreat experience. Hypnotherapy is a wonderful way to help you make significant and positive changes in a relatively short period of time. The hypnotherapy audio will help you look forward to a well rested future and is deeply nourishing. It might be lovely to listen do as you drift off to sleep.

 
 

Our Promise

While all bookings are final due to retreat logistics, we want you to know this:

You don’t need to be “ready.” You don’t need to be perfect.

You just need to arrive, as you are.

This space is designed to meet you there.

And if you need to speak with us first, you’re welcome to reach out.

This is your decision, your timing, your next season.

A Weekend of New Beginnings

From the moment I arrived I felt safe… I leave feeling rested, lighter, and ready for what’s next.
— Well Rested Woman Retreat
“This retreat has brought me home to myself.”
— Fiona, Well Rested Woman Retreat
I looked in the mirror and smiled to myself. It’s been a long time.
— Carol, Well Rested Woman Retreat
 
 

You Don’t Need to Push Through Another Season Like This

There’s a version of you on the other side of this retreat - Rested. Rooted. Clear.

She’s not far away. She’s waiting in the stillness.

In the firelight. In the breath.

In the choice to say yes to yourself.

If your soul has been whispering “I need this” - You already know.

Join us for Rest to Rise

21–23 March 2025 | Scottish Highlands

Private + shared rooms available

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Retreat Host Suzi Gibson

Suzi has spent the last 20 years in health & wellbeing. From running a busy wellbeing centre in Edinburgh, Suzi now runs A Wee Retreat a wellbeing studio in the Scottish Borders town of Peebles. Suzi is passionate about providing people with the space & skills to relax and find peace & contentment in life. A natural nurturer, Suzi is an expert at creating a relaxing space for you to just be.

Suzi will be facilitating group activity sessions during the retreat and will always be on hand to ensure you are well looked after.

Suzi will be supported by other team members. All there to support a wonderful retreat experience for you.


Retreat Support Laura Swan

Retreat support will be provided by Laura Swan. Laura has been an integral part of the Wee Retreat team since the beginning. We have collaborated on many events together and Laura has experienced our Retreats first hand. Laura’s warm welcoming and joyful presence will be a wonderful addition to your retreat experience.

Retreat Chef Charlotte

Having had the desire to travel early on, I spent three years exploring the world before I landed a job on-board an environmental research ship as Chef.

I worked for six years sailing the high seas before deciding to start my own venture in Aberdeen, a food van on the beach, and to cater for wellness retreats.

I completed my yoga teacher training and enjoy my meditation and yoga practices.

I am also studying English Literature to further my passion for reading and writing. I enjoy being out in nature and hiking with my dog, cold water swimming and of course cooking for my friends and family.

Massage Therapist Hayley Gardiner

You have the option of booking a massage with our wonderful massage therapist Hayley. A great way to unwind & rest! Hayley is qualified in Remedial and Sports, Deep Tissue Massage, Myofascial Release and Hot/Cold Stone therapy. Hayley creates bespoke treatments informed by a mix of these modalities to bring a sense of deep calm, reduce stress and tension, restore balance and encourage ease of movement. When you receive your pre retreat questionnaire you will have the option to book a wonderful treatment with Hayley.

 
 

Investment

 
 

Are you ready to rise?

From £750pp for a shared room

A £300 non refundable deposit is required to secure your place

Payment plans available please enquire

Example payment plan £300 deposit, then 3 monthly payments

Full balance due 8 weeks before the retreat begins

 
 

Date & Location

 

2nd - 6th March 2023

Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland

Very accessible whether you are driving, catching a train or flying.

DRIVE from Edinburgh City Centre the drive is approximately 1 hour & 50 mins, 77 miles.

AIR from Edinburgh airport 69 miles, approx 1 hour & 30 mins drive.

RAIL the nearest train station is Crianlarich which is approx 17 miles and a 25 minute taxi ride from our venue. We can provide recommended local taxi company details so you can arrange your transfer.

Arrive from 4pm on Day 1 and have afternoon tea and settle in to your gorgeous home for the next few days.

Depart by 11am on Day 5 after a nourishing breakfast for the 4 night retreat.

Venue

On the scenic banks of Loch Tay, this exclusive-use property offers the perfect setting for your retreat. Step into a luxurious country house in Scotland that’s steeped in history, where you will make unforgettable memories, new friends and experience the transformation of the retreat. Enjoy cosy surroundings, breathtaking views (from the hot tub perhaps!) and time spent together.

Each perfectly appointed bedroom has a modern ensuite bathroom. Each bedroom is named after a local bird – Kestrel, Pheasant, Ptarmigan, Robin, Golden Eagle, Osprey, Peregrine, Heron, Swan, Merlin, Kingfisher, Snowy Owl and Mallard.

There are many social spaces and it’s always possible to find a quiet moment in the Library or by the fire. Outdoors offers even more: we will gather around the fire pit, explore the enchanted forest, burns and bridges, and unwind in a luxurious jacuzzi hot tub.

A magical stay in the comfort and beauty of this historic house and its stunning setting awaits.

 
 

 
 

Outside

Spectacular views over Loch Tay

Indoor and outdoor dining space

Sun terrace and extensive lawns

Jacuzzi hot tub

Enchanted forest with woodland paths, 3 fire pits, Highland swing, Goblins & gargoyles, Highland burn

Secure electric gates giving complete private access

 

 

How to book your place

Ready to book? Click book now to go to our booking page.

If you would like any further info or have questions please email us at hello@aweeretreat.scot.