Hoghton Tower Mindful Stronghold
Blackburn Old Rd, Hoghton, Preston PR5 0SH
Our shield of strength Guided meditations. Our unique sound bath using instruments evocative of Norse culture — deep drums, horns, and voice. Group connection drawing on the spirit of the shield wall — strength through unity. Gentle movement practices reminiscent of warrior grounding and body awareness. Time for reflection in the peaceful gardens and ancient halls of Hoghton Tower.
This evening you will …
Step back in time and reconnect with your inner strength at Shield & Stillness, a unique Viking-inspired mindfulness retreat held within the ancient stone walls of Hoghton Tower.
1. Power of the Setting
- Ancient Stone and Silence: The thick, timeworn walls of a fortress create a profound silence and sense of shelter. This helps deepen presence by removing modern distractions and grounding participants in stillness.
- Echoes of the Past: The historic energy of such a space evokes reverence. Practicing mindfulness where ancient warriors once stood taps into a lineage of resilience, focus, and
- This beautiful venue you can immerse yourself in raw nature—wind, snow, moss-covered stone—making every breath feel you are reconnecting to your own self care
Tuesday September 23rd
6-8pm
(with home made cake)
£29
Exchange for this amazing evening
Shield Maiden Workshops
These events will be continual throughout the year
Nordic Community Mindfulness for Wellbeing Ladies Event.
Partly funded for our awards
We can all learn to be a type of Shield-maiden. A woman who cares and prides herself on both inner and outer strength. The Shield maiden spirit can live on in any person who holds these things dear.
Stand strong and hold up your mindfulness shield. Improving your health and well-being helping you understand how in time your brain and nervous system can respond and change. This beautiful course I hope will empower you by my teachings.
Grow Resilience for better Health and Well-being. My passion is to teach you how to embed new powerful techniques so you too can learn and feel better both mentally and physically.
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The Shield Your personal boundary of peace, resilience, and focus.
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The Maiden Your inner strength, compassion, and clarity of purpose.
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Mindfulness The practice of holding that shield with calm confidence, even in life’s storms.
Sunday October 19th
This is a three hour event
£20
Exchange £20 supported by our funding
Hyggeligt Fest
Cosy community festival of wellbeing
Held at The ABD Centre Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8AB
This is our third year of our unique well-being festival with Nordic themed cultivation of health.
We want you to experience an event like no other!
Hygge HYOO-GA Danish: is a word in Danish that describes a cozy, contented mood evoked by comfort and conviviality. This will be a fantastic festival and something different to embrace wellness healing and self care. We will create a warm cost atmosphere and enjoy chat, hot water bottles, wooly socks and a warm glow.
Like the Danes who are known as one of the happiest nations we will cultivate and enjoy some happy time together in this difficult world. We will be certainly be doing this in the beautiful zen room at the Healing Centre Bacup
Hygge refers to “a form of day to day togetherness”, “a pleasant and highly valued everyday experience of safety, equality, personal wholeness and a spontaneous social flow”
We will come together and practice powerful and beautiful techniques of mindfulness. The Nordic drum will sound with our Nordic Sound Session.
Hot chocolate and cake by candlelight as the Danes love their hot chocolate as we sit in our togetherness circle. We will bless and drink mindfully as we hear the beauty of the Saami Nordic drum with its beautiful resonant sound.
The festival will be invigorating for your mind and a lovely vibrant nature to stimulate your senses especially during these cold winter months.
You will hear the beautiful Nordic sound chants to lower our breathing rate. The human heartbeat will tend to match the rhythm of music. This will slow our breathing rate and heart rate and change our brain wave pattern from beta to alpha. The chants also calm our nervous system and affect metabolism.
Myself and Heather are so happy to invite you to a lovely evening.
Sunday 14th December
2-4-30pm
£15
This exchange is supported by our lottery win to offer this low cost as part of our fearless heart project.
Courses Terms and Conditions in person and online
Access to each online class whether video or live stream is per person – links and passwords to our online events are not to be shared.
Video recording, social sharing or downloading are not permitted unless discussed prior.
Online Classes & Courses Payment, Cancellation and Refund Policy
Full payment is required at the time of booking of each online class/course unless pay in 3 option selected with PayPal. We will give a full refund for cancellations received up to 14 days prior to the start of the retreat, course or festival. However, fees are non-refundable if cancelled within 14 days of the start of the class.
We reserve the right to cancel or reschedule any class as circumstances dictate at any given time.
In Person Courses Payment, Cancellation and Refund Policy
All Courses must be booked in advance.
Full payment must be made online or in person before the course.
We will give a full refund* for cancellations received up to 14 days prior to the start of the course. However, fees are non-refundable if cancelled within 14 days of the start of the course.
We reserve the right to cancel or reschedule any class/course as circumstances dictate.
We reserve the right to refuse bookings from persons who repeatedly book and do not arrive to pay for the course
*For events taking place at certain venues there is a non-returnable deposit of £20. This is to cover our external booking costs.
For retreats and venues with lunch there will be a £30 non returnable deposit.
How we can work together
One to One Sessions
group Sessions
Remote Sessions
