Tree Space, Surrey

25/05/2026

22/05/2026

🩷 Fizzing here at Tree Space Retreat with temperatures rising ☀️ following nourishing, cleansing rain.

🌿 Nature's vibing high in all her spring glory. Joy for the birds, the bees, the humans, the trees ...

♾️ Here where giving, receiving, caring (and sharing 😏) are mutually pleasurable. We know we're one wonderful interconnected web.

🌊Sending ripples your way... And yours ... And yours.

With Love 💚🤗

15/05/2026

😤🤍 If this speaks to you, I invite you to join me, Nicola, at our next
lean-in gathering

🌳Tree Space, Surrey
On Thursday 21st May from
7pm - 9.30pm.

🕊️ In this contained, safe space we will explore transforming anger for peace.

🌀 Through gentle movement, guided awareness, sharing and then rest time to digest the experience.

🌿 Come with curiosity. Come for yourself, for your loved ones, for our world and our planet.
Sliding scale exchange from £10 - £25.

It would be a joy to share time and space with you again or for the first time.

Comment ANGER FOR PEACE for the full details.

With Love.
Nicola 💚

Please note the error in the captions. Our trainer was Gabriel Shiraz.

07/05/2026

💚 Life ... in all its hues ... has been abundant with meaningful experiences, work, transitions ... leaving neither time nor inclination for reels, posts, social media in general ...

🔥 So, with fire season nigh, a little reminder of what we're about here at Tree Space Retreat -
No frills - we choose to be immersed in recreating and remembering embodied living, loving, being, connecting. With nature too.

🌳 An eco-friendly wood cabin and Nicola's biodynamic therapy clinic, which emerged organically to fully embrace the surrounding natural beauty. With a design that evokes a feel of Africa, where she grew up, Tree Space has played a significant role in her own personal journey.

💗 Clients and guests often remark on the deeply grounded and safe atmosphere, which inspires profound connection, healing and growth. Truth and constancy abide here.🙏

🌿 Conveniently located on the Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex borders, and easily accessible from London by train or car, Tree Space offers a serene environment for regular weekly sessions, or 3-day retreats.

🪻Alongside her therapy work with clients, Nicola collaborates with experienced local complementary health practitioners to create bespoke therapeutic experiences tailored to each client's specific journey, starting from where they are when they arrive, and working with what emerges during the time and space they share together. 

We welcome you with open arms and hearts 🤗.

For further info on working with Nicola, our affiliated practitioners, or retreats in Tree Space, the links are in our bio.

Limited summer availability remains - head over to book your stay soon.

01/05/2026

'The whole human organism functions as one. Structure, posture, muscle tone, movement, emotion, memory, libido, energy charge, vegetative process: all are simply different aspects of that organism's activity and of its history. They all function in one inter-relating cycle'.
Clover Southwell

In biodynamic work, the therapist has the flexibility to work with any of the above aspects of the human organism, and knows that effective work on one aspect of the organism - for example, re-awakening repressed memories, encouraging emotionally expressive movement, biological purification etc., will, in time, inevitably effect every other aspect.

Abridged from Clover Southwell's article, The Energy Distribution Treatment, 1977.

This quote applies to a specific biodynamic treatment, which helps the organism remember its autonomic capacity to distribute the organism's energy in order to self-regulate - no nervous system regulation practice required 😅

If you're tired of ever more doing, even when you're unwell, and long to feel the Joy in simply being, you'll find links to more info in my bio.

24/04/2026

🐆 Greetings All,

As Spring gently unfurls upwards and outwards here in the northern hemisphere,

I wanted you to know that the connecting experience of a couples massage course, which I offer during Tree Space retreats, can also be enjoyed in the comfort and ease of your own home.

💗 It would be my pleasure to guide you towards what I know can be the beginnings of a beautiful awakening and deepening of your relationship with your Love, the ripples of which are expansive.

If you would like further details, please dm me.

The leopard photos were taken at Amani in the Klaserie Private Game Reserve in South Africa where I had the privilege of spending time with these graceful creatures interacting in their timeless habitat, during a morning game drive with my cousin.

17/04/2026

💚 "A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. And a Joy shared is a joy doubled". 

🌀These words from one of my teachers capture the ethos of our monthly lean-in circles in Tree Space. 

🌳Being with the high energy times in our world,
our April session is 
next Tuesday
21st April
7pm - 9.30pm

You're invited 🤗 it would be a joy to share space and time with you.

🪻These circles recognise that 'being' is the other half of 'doing'

🪻That receiving is the other half of giving.

🪻That coming together in community can co-regulate, which is a channel towards inter-connected, integrated living.

🪻That vulnerability is a part of the whole.

As spring's verdant green unfurls, we'll take this in fireside from Tree Space's deck -
we'll move. gently. 
share. gently.
breathe. fully.
be with. gently.

All are welcome and a few spaces remain. Pop a yes in the comments if you'd like to join the circle limited to 6 for intimacy.
(£8 - £25 sliding scale)
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06/04/2026

🌿Truth be told, I'm a tad envious every Friday when I prepare Tree Space for each weekend's guests ...

💚Envious of their opportunity to rest and reconnect with themselves, often with a loved one too, and with Nature.

🤔While connection is simply being in the present moment, quietening noise and patterns from the past, it does take reconfiguring.

⛰️ So this last week was my turn; rest and reconnection on magical Madeira, a little island west of Morocco. Its vertiginous black volcanic cliffs, which rise imposingly from the azure Atlantic, ensured its human free existence until the 1400s.

The cliffs give way to steep, terraced rich red earth hills dotted with banana and sugar cane plantations, and white houses with terracotta tiled roofs. Then mountains, alive with varied, verdant vegetation. Gazing upwards, scattered across this awe-inspiring tableau, water falls freely from in between the greenery.

🌀 Weather moves in and through the island constantly; the sunny southern side is sheltered by the mountains, in stark contrast with the moodier northern side where the weather arrives from, and where the rain falls. This mix is how the island can support life. All the weather and its hues are needed.

I was enchanted by the colours, the timelessness, the welcoming locals, the simple way of life and the island's pulsing heart.

I rested. I released. I reconnected with my essence. I enjoyed spending quality time with my family, savouring the opportunity to appreciate each other away from life's demands. I love that there's always something new to discover about someone.

🌳And it's always a Joy to return home to Tree Space and its pulsing heart; to resume hosting guests and working with my clients offering biodynamic therapy.

We have but one precious life and who knows what tomorrow brings; challenging though it can be, I believe making time for reconnection with yourself, your loved ones and nature are key; the way to acceptance. A life's work in my human experience🙏

With Love.
Nicola 🌿

30/03/2026

🐇The latest addition to our carefully curated book collection.

changed the way I consider not only hares, but all animals, and their innate service to their breed, despite the extreme odds they face, mostly due to human encroachment on their land.

I felt humbled by the book. These brave creatures truly exemplify being in the moment and following their intuition.

writes intimately about her extraordinary experience raising wild hares, and respecting their wildness.

It got me thinking how us humans can tap into our unique purpose for this one chance we get to live our lives. I hope you can see your unique role. I wish for all to live meaningful lives.

Wonder-full spring unfurling to all.

Warmly.
Nicola 🌱🐇🪻🐝☀️💚

19/03/2026

Spring Awakening at Tree Space Retreat 🔆🌸🌱🌍🐝🐞🪻

Hope, Helplessness, Pain, Uncertainty, Despair, Grief, Joy, Doubt, Anger, Regret, Disbelief, Exhaustion, Apathy, Wonder ...

All feelings which make up the colourful palette of being a feeling human.

Here and now.

If it feels heavy, overwhelming to navigate alone, reach for the light.

We're all about movement towards trust in the Life Force and human potential here.

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Tree Space Retreat, Surrey, W Sussex, Hampshire, biodynamic psychotherapy, body psychotherapy, embodiment, bespoke retreats, sustainability, connection, bio-energy, healing, love, relationship

10/03/2026

🌊 Dreaming of summer holidays (this was a colourful one in Mallorca a few years back) ...

🤔 And pondering challenging transitions which require sitting in the proverbial soup; messiness, fogginess, discomfort, pain, grief, fear even.

⏳There. is. no. rushing. change.

🫣 Even though we may try to fight and push for it to go faster, for healing to happen quicker, to brush it under the carpet, avoid or deny its presence.

🔆 Embodied bio/psycho/social change takes at least 2 years.

🌳Support and guidance through these times is so helpful because we humans are not made to endure challenges in isolation.

🤯If this speaks to a holding resistance in you, how might it be, to come to a place of ease from where you can trust your Self to guide you through?

🩺Biodynamic therapy can offer support through tough times. I offer an initial conversation free of charge for you to get a feel for me and how I work.

I work from Tree Space Retreat on the Surrey, Hampshire, W Sussex borderlands, nearest train station Haslemere, and 5 minutes off the A3.

2 spaces have opened up for new clients. If you feel a pull, please get in touch.