Blood and Bone A Winter Journey
A SACRED PATHWAY OF REST, REMEMBRANCE & RECLAMATION

SHE IS CALLING...
A pulse. A feeling. A pull from deep within.
Something once silenced, now stirring in your blood, in your bones.
Something ancient shifts in the dark, just out of reach and still… you feel her.
She stirs within you… the one who remembers the old ways. The one who dreams in symbols and speaks in songs.
The wild one who once danced barefoot on frostbitten soil, who spoke in smoke, in silence, in song.
She dwells in the hedgerows.
She howls through the bones of winter.
She tends the earth with her blood and kind words.
She is the heartbeat of the feathered and furred,
the dreamer, the weaver of the unseen and unbound.
She is the rhythm of drumbeat, spindle, loom.
Of breath, of bone, of becoming.
She is the crone’s steady gaze beside the fire, the smoke rising from the cauldron of your own remembering.
The cloak woven by your mother’s hands - and hers before her.
The ache between your ribs that says: there is more.
She walks the old pathways - of moss, stone, stick and bone; of womb, word, salt and flame.
She gathers the red - from menarche to pause and wraps it around you like a blessing.
She does not rush.
She waits.
Not for your readiness, but for your remembrance.
No map. No promise.
Just the hush of something sacred stirring.
Just the knowing that winter is not the end… it is the door.
She is calling.
Not to fix you.
Not to teach you.
But to call you home… to your bones, your blood.
To the wild breath beneath your breath.
To the truth that has always lived inside you.
Come. Gather your basket of herbs, your spindle, your silence.
The red thread is ready. The path is opening. She will meet you there. As you are.
Winter is not a pause, but a portal.
A threshold.
A return.

WHAT IS BLOOD + BONE?
Blood + Bone is a six-month journey of deep remembrance and reclamation - an intimate circle held for just seven women each year. This is not a course, but a sacred unfolding that invites you to reconnect with the ancient wisdom of your blood, your bones, and the rhythms of the earth. It is a living prayer, a return to the wild, a powerful reclamation of all that has been lost, forgotten, or silenced.
This journey is an invitation to step fully into your own power, to listen to the teachings of the land, and to embody the seasons and cycles that run through you. You are called to weave your story, your soul and your energy back into the fabric of the earth.
As you walk this path, you will...
→ Reclaim your inner wisdom by reconnecting with the sacred bloodlines and ancestral bones within you, remembering the cycles of your body and soul that guide you back to your true wild essence.
→ Draw inspiration from the natural cycles of the earth, aligning with the rhythms of the seasons and the elements, and allowing these to ground and guide you.
→ Learn the ancient crafts of natural dyeing, spinning and weaving, passed down through generations, and use these practices to connect more deeply with the earth and your own creative power.
→ Join a circle of like-hearted women, where sisterhood, deep listening and shared healing create a space for transformation, growth and support throughout your winter journey.
→ Experience profound rest and deep reflection, creating the time and space needed to clear the way for new beginnings, deep healing and the remembrance of your truest self.
"It’s a feeling of being deeply held by her and by everything that she brings into the relationship with you as you work together. A feeling of being supported at such a deep feminine to feminine energetic way, and this is the reason I work with Katy year on year - and will continue to do so"
Stacy, Awakening the Wild Woman
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, I WOULD LOVE TO JOIN
WHO IS THIS FOR?

Blood + Bone is for you if you feel the quiet pull of something deeper — a yearning to root yourself more fully in the land, in your body, and in the ancient knowing that lives within you.
You may not have the words for what’s stirring inside you, but something within knows it is time. There is a deep ache. A quiet knowing. A longing for something slower, truer, older.
You may feel tired of holding it all together, of constantly needing to be strong. You may be weary of spaces that ask you to fix, improve, or keep performing. You long for something gentler. Truer. More honest. A space that honours all the bits of you.
You may be carrying stories you’ve never spoken aloud. Grief that’s never been witnessed. Cycles that have never been honoured. Love that has been lost or changed.
And still, you hold an ember of something ancient — a spark that knows you were made for more fullness.
You don’t need another course. You don’t need to be more healed, more certain, or more anything than you already are.
What you may need is gentle space. A gentle space to unravel. A gentle space to be held. A gentle space to meet yourself again. Bravely, fully and tenderly.
Blood + Bone a place of remembering, reclaiming and reweaving what’s always been yours.
This journey will meet you exactly where you are.
Whether you arrive feeling tender or strong, certain or unsure, please know that you will be welcomed with warmth, reverence and care. And big Katy hugs. Always big Katy hugs.
This journey is for you if you feel the pull to:
→ Enter the winter cave willingly - not to hustle or fix - but to listen, feel and remember
→ Reclaim the sacredness of your blood and your stories - no longer hiding the grief, the power, the rites of passage that shaped you
→ Root your voice and your work more deeply into the land, aligning your life with a rhythm older than words
→ Be witnessed and held in sisterhood, among women who honour truth over performance, and magic over perfection
→ Carry the medicine of your journey home - not as a concept, but as something woven into your body, your rituals, your way of being
"Katy's magick is subtle, almost invisible at times, yet deeply potent. She brought warmth, love and creativity in the air. She breathed kindness and compassion into our hearts. She reached places I have never been able to reach before. Spending time in her presence made my heart swell with love. I felt open hearted, accepted, worthy and loveable. Katy shone a mirror into your heart and all the pieces that were fragmented and hurting were beautifully pieced back together, woven with twigs, moss, leaves, berries, magic, love and joy.”
Katie, The Wilding Escape
HOW WILL THIS JOURNEY BENEFIT ME?
This is not a journey of self-improvement. It is a journey of remembrance - a slow, sacred returning to the woman you’ve always been.
Through Blood + Bone, you will be held inside a living rhythm - one that honours the land, the lineage, the body and the unseen threads that bind them all. We will move through a season of deep rest, ritual, creativity, and ancestral connection - together.
This is a space where you’ll feel met, not fixed. Where you’ll be guided, not told. Where your path will unfold not through striving, but through softening, shedding and listening to what wants to be remembered.
Here’s what you’ll receive and how it may transform you:
→ During our monthly online gatherings, you’ll explore themes of self-discovery, nature-based spirituality, and feminine archetypes - grounding into your own inner truth, and deepening your connection to self, source, and sisterhood.
→ At our in-person retreats, you’ll drop deeply into your heart, rest in our beautiful home and create sacred tools with your own hands - weaving meaning into every thread and reclaiming ritual as a living practice.
→ In our WhatsApp group, you’ll be lovingly held in a private circle of women walking this path beside you - a space to be witnessed, celebrated and supported through each layer of the journey.
→ You’ll learn the sacred crafts of natural dyeing, spinning, and weaving - working with madder root and Dartmoor fleece to spin your own red thread, then weaving it into a ceremonial womb wrap with Rosemary Riedel O'Brien, a ceremonial weaver and spinner. This wrap becomes a cocooning cloth for your womb space - a reverent offering to the feminine mysteries and to yourself.
→ You’ll connect with The Red Thread - the symbolic lifeline that binds all women across time. This thread becomes a living reminder of your place within the web of life, helping you honour your own womb, blood journey and connection to the collective feminine experience.
→ You’ll begin to carry sacred songs - sounds woven for ceremony, prayer, and healing. This practice opens you as a vessel for the divine feminine, and for the Earth herself to speak through you.
→ You’ll deepen into your own responsibility as a wild woman of the Earth - growing your confidence in your womanhood, honouring your roots and kindling the fire to inspire change in your own life and community.
→ You’ll journey with the Earth’s tides between the Autumn Equinox and the Spring Equinox - aligning with the great turning of the wheel. Winter will no longer be something to endure, but a potent time to receive, reflect and re-root what wants to grow through you.
And perhaps most of all…
You’ll leave with a felt knowing of your own medicine. A stronger root of self-trust. A deeper relationship with your womb and the land. Sacred artefacts made by your hands.
And a reverence for your path - as it is, not as it “should” be.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL OFFERING, I WOULD LOVE TO JOIN
"The energy that this woman holds is an energy I’ve never felt in anyones presence before. Katy has a magick in her bones, in her waters, a magick that holds you whether you are with her in person or on Zoom.
A feeling of being deeply held by her and by everything that she brings into the relationship with you as you work together. A feeling of being supported at such a deep feminine to feminine energetic way.
She has helped me to remember parts of myself that, fragments of me that had been lost and in some respects I didn’t even know. And it has really changed the way that I view myself, how I know myself, how I show up for me, not only everyday, but in my new business". Stacy
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Katy Theakston is The Wilding Witch, an intuitive & inspirational mentor and speaker who has helped hundreds of women to rediscover themselves through the development of self, spirituality & sisterhood.
She has 25+ years working in leadership roles and knows how to instinctively read, safely hold and intuitively guide women to step into their power.
Katy has spent the last nine years building her experience-led business and her work has been featured in titles including Kindred Spirit and Project Calm. She has guested on podcasts and hosted panels at wellbeing festivals, and won numerous awards in the Health & Wellbeing sector.
Katy loves twigs and hugs, and leads with an innate and warm authenticity. Her charisma is a beacon of inspiration for those she guides. It's no secret that she’s dedicated her work to supporting women and the earth.
Awakening The Wild Woman is her offering to take you on a journey of self-discovery, nature based spirituality and land you in the heart of your own sisterhood.
Rosemary Riedel O’Brien is a mother, spinner, weaver, ceremonialist, folk herbalist and poet. She has been holding sacred space for women to connect to their alchemy and creativity through the ancestral crafts of weaving, spinning and natural dying for over 6 years. Her work combines the gentle teaching of practical skills with the symbolic and spiritual element of craft.
She has been holding sacred space for women to connect to their alchemy and creativity Rosemary’s work is inspired by the Earth and her elements. She works with heritage slow craft processes to combine ethical materials, spirituality and raw creativity - an alchemical combination that forms the foundations of her bespoke textiles and workshops that are rooted in ritual, reverence and authenticity.
WHEN DO WE START?
Blood + Bone will commence on Friday 17th October 2025 and close on Sunday 22nd March 2026.
Autumn Residential Retreat, Cornwall
Friday 17th October (4pm) - Sunday 19th October (3pm)
Spring Residential Retreat, Cornwall
Friday 20th March (4pm) to Sunday 22nd March (3pm) TBC
All circles will be held either day time or evenings, via Zoom. Dates to be confirmed.
THE INVESTMENT
The exchange for Blood + Bone is £3,555.
You can...
- Book and pay £3,555 in full today and receive two mentoring sessions or
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Book and pay deposit of £555 and and spread your payments over six, nine or twelve months. Subject to terms & conditions.
This includes...
- Two in-person residential retreats in Cornwall (Two nights in October + Two nights in March)
- Monthly online circles through the Winter months (Online via Zoom)
- WhatsApp group support
- All materials for weaving and crafting, including your womb belt and altar cloth
- Delicious food, accommodation and full ceremonial facilitation
* Please note… that there is additional cost for a solo occupancy room with a shared bathroom of £222 and for a solo occupancy and ensuite of £333. This additional cost covers both retreats. Deposits are non refundable. All experiences are alcohol free.
HOW DO I BOOK MY PLACE?
Are you ready to create and distil the power of blood + bone into something potent and powerful for yourself?
The doors to join Blood + Bone are now open. Email Katy to tell her what’s calling you to join this experience and what you are hoping to get from being in this powerful and potent space. She will then schedule a call so she can open a pathway for you to start this incredible journey.
Don’t worry if you’re feeling unsteady or unsure about what’s calling you. Taking the first step to change isn’t easy, and experiencing uncertainty is perfectly normal.
Please email Katy with any questions or worries you may have - please know that this is a lovely, safe space for you.
THE DETAILS
TWO UNIQUE LUXURY RETREATS WITH KATY & ROSE
- Autumn Residential Retreat... The gathering of blood + bone
- Spring Equinox Residential Retreat... The altar of the threads
BLOOD + BONE CIRCLES WITH KATY
- A beautiful journey to deepen self-trust, compassion and self-knowing
- Four online earth based circles & teachings with Katy
GROUP MENTORSHIP & SUPPORT WITH KATY
- Intimate & intuitive group guidance to empower your spiritual growth
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Group What's App access to share & support with your group of like-hearted women
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE JOURNEY
MONTH ONE ~ THE GATHERING OF BLOOD & BONE
October | Autumn Retreat | North Cornwall
We begin where all life begins… in the dark, the deep, the red. A circle of like-hearted women gather to root into the land, lay down the bones of our stories and stir the cauldron with madder, wool and thread. This is the remembering.
~ Gather in sisterhood & descend into the season of bone & belonging
~ Stirring the red cauldron to create your threads for your womb belt
~ Laying the bones to form the sacred structure to hold your journey
MONTH TWO ~ THE ALCHEMY OF BLOOD
November | Online circle
We sit in sacred witness to the rivers of blood that shape a woman’s life, honouring what has been shed, what has been carried, what still lives within.
~ Honour the three blood gateways: menarche, birth & wise blood
~ Reflect on your own initiations, ruptures & rites of passage
~ Reclaim blood as sacred, cyclical & alive with power
MONTH THREE ~ SPEAKING TO THE BONES
December | Online circle
In the quiet of winter, stripped bare, we meet what remains. The raw, ancestral, known. Ashes from the fires we’ve walked through - grief, growth, loss, becoming - revealing what still lives in our bones, what might now feed the roots of what’s to come.
~ Sit with the embers of your own fires… what has been burned, what remains
~ Let the bones speak: what needs honouring, what needs reweaving?
~ Meet the Bone Woman within - the one who rebuilds from ash & stories
MONTH FOUR ~ CARRYING THE SONGS
January | Online circle
From deep within the marrow, the songs begin to rise. Not always as words, sometimes as hum, sometimes as howl, but always as truth. This is where the medicine that lives in your body finds its voice.
~ Let your voice rise as offering, shaped not by thought, but by feeling
~ Connect to the songs that live in your bones and blood
~ Sing to reconnect, to remember, to reclaim
MONTH FIVE ~ GATHERING THE THREADS
February | Online circle
We hold all we’ve woven close to the chest - red thread, bone wisdom, blood memory - and begin to shape what wants to be offered to the world.
~ Pause & reflect on what has been woven within & around you
~ Tend the energy of integration & preparation
~ Dream into what will be offered back to the land, to your life & to each other
MONTH SIX ~ THE ALTAR OF THE THREADS
March | Spring Retreat | North Cornwall
We return to the land with our threads steeped in story. Together, we weave an altar cloth - a living prayer - to lay at the heart of our practice, our ancestors and the Earth herself.
~ Return with your red thread, steeped in six months of your becoming
~ Weave together a sacred altar cloth, an offering to your spiritual practice, your ancestors & the land
~ Ceremony, integration & soft emergence into Spring
LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE - CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR JOURNEY
"Katy's retreat was a truly magical experience, an enriching journey I cannot wait to embark on again. It allowed me to transcend my expectations and discover a profound connection to myself and those around me. If you're seeking a transformative experience that combines relaxation, adventure, and inner growth, I wholeheartedly recommend joining this retreat. It's an experience that will leave you feeling replenished, inspired, and eager to embrace the journey within".
WHERE ARE WE STAYING?
Our home for the two residential retreats in Spring and Autumn will be a stunning and lovingly restored 18th century barn, tucked away in the wild countryside on the north Cornish coast.
The space is simply beautiful… the interiors have been beautifully restored and brought to life, creating blissfully tranquil spaces in gorgeous-hued loveliness. With under-floor heating downstairs and two wood burners, this is a stunning escape for us to rest, restore and replenish.The house is built in gorgeous Cornish stone, and I always find these beautiful greys and blues hold quite a masculine vibration to them. I love the idea that we will be held within these walls, that we will be held safely in this space, that the very walls will allow us to feel what needs to be felt, will hold us to see what needs to be seen. That the walls will hold us, for us to simply be the feminine that flows through the space.
Perfectly, there are two outside places for a little fire magick. The gorgeous open fireplace on the terrace just outside the kitchen is an ideal setting for journaling under a pile of blankets and The Scrape at the bottom of the garden is surrounded by a stone circle.
Where will we sleep?
There are six beautiful bedrooms, each named after the paint or fabrics the designer has used within them. All of the beds are covered with super-soft bedding, sumptuous throws and cushions to ensure a blissful nights’ sleep. All rooms are solo occupancy, three are ensuite.
Anthos This room is on the top floor at the cottage end with a super king bed with padded headboards in Sanderson Anthos fabric. This room has lovely views over the garden. Solo occupancy & shared bathroom.
Orton This room is on the lower ground floor at the cottage end. Handmade super king bed with padded headboard Romo Orton. Gorgeous French windows that lead out on to the garden and its own private terrace. Ensuite shower room and access to an outdoor shower. Solo occupancy & ensuite.
Brassica This room is on the top floor at the Bothy end of the house and has a king sized, handmade bed with padded headboard in Andrew Martin linen. With delightful views over the courtyard garden. Solo occupancy & shared bathroom.
Oasis This room lies on the ground floor at the Bothy end of the house and has a king sized bed with padded headboard in Lewis and Wood Boukhara fabric. With views on to the courtyard gardens plus a walk-in double shower with double basins. Solo occupancy & ensuite.

Agate is a sweet twin bedroom with beautiful handmade beds and padded headboard. The lamps are made with beautiful Agate crystals. Shared occupancy. Shared bathroom with Anthos.

Calluna is on the top floor and is a super lovely twin room. The twin beds are handmade with padded headboards in Lewis and Wood Etienne. Shared bathroom (with Brassica). Double occupancy.
I WOULD LOVE, LOVE, LOVE TO JOIN - PLEASE BOOK MY PLACE NOW
"The timing of me meeting Katy felt written in the stars. I’d been wanting to experience mentorship in my personal unfolding, but had not yet met the right match. Katy uses words and an energetic understanding of Gaia that had me nodding and thinking “Yes she will understand me, even when I talk of dragons”.
Katy uses an intuitive approach which really suits me. It feels free flowing with higher guidance and we reached places of healing I was not consciously aware of needing work. I thought I needed guidance, instead what came through from working with Katy was a neutral & caring witness to pull the threads of my story forward so that I could rise from within.
Katy held me beautifully as I worked my way energetically through layer upon layer to get closer to my authentic self. A new me was rising through the ashes of my own story. I quickly saw things from a new perspective. Dust was brushed off. Scars were healed. My energetic field was ready to shine brighter. I was lighter. I felt the transformation from victim mindset to creator mindset in some key areas of my life.
I am forever grateful to all energies that hold us as we rise with Mother Earth. Katy is a channel of potent energy and I thank her for the moments we got to co-create" Astrid
A LITTLE NOTE FROM KATY
I could neither articulate what this was or find a thing that came close to what I was yearning for.

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"I'm feeling much more in flow since working with Katy. And what really shone through for me was her authenticity. There are so many people coming forward to coach others, but it never felt like that with Katy. Katy’s work is unique and it all came from her heart and soul, it was real and raw but professional and considered. I will definitely work with her again”. Elizabeth