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Home of inspiring personal growth retreats, workshops and support groups run by artist and life coach Claire Lucas.

14/11/2025

I am so excited! I already have 2 women booked onto my March Retreat.

All the details can be found on my website: www.artofceremony.co.uk and I am offering a 10% early bird discount for any bookings made before winter solstice.

It's a week long, fully residential retreat in the most beautiful setting. It will be a wonderful way to welcome the return of the light.

As the sap rises in the trees around us and the Cornish spring flowers blossom in the woods and hedgerows, it's the perfect time to tune into what you want to use your energy for in the spring and beyond; to seek, to clarify and to nurture the seeds, the shoots and the buds of the next chapter of your life.

If it sounds like something you'd like to do, you're welcome to private message me to arrange a chat before you book. xx

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07/11/2025

In September I ran a residential women's retreat at Rosemerrynwood in Lamorna. It was one of the most profoundly moving groups I've ever facilitated, and it has spurred me on to plan more! The next one will be in March, and more details will follow.

For now though, here's some of the lovely feeback from the last one:

"The Retreat was unquestionably the best break I have had for years. It was so perfectly and painstakingly planned in every respect.

The house was wonderful and the perfect place to host a retreat.

The food was remarkable; the best and healthiest ingredients creatively made into exquisite meals.

Claire is an exceptionally skilled facilitator with a very nurturing presence. She uses many different techniques, incorporating lots of lovely activities.

The group were all kindred spirits whose company I enjoyed very much. We laughed and cried together and came away replenished, refreshed and more in tune with ourselves."

TF 2025

03/11/2025

I've just spent a few days visiting my parents, who live on the Malvern Hills. It's about as far away as you can get from the sea, but is blessed with the most beautiful trees. I always try to visit at this time of year because the autumn colours up there are stunning (most of the leaves around my house get blown off before they get a chance to change colour!)

I am so grateful to still have my parents. They are in their late 80's....and we are starting to have intense conversations about the body's ageing process and their mortality. It feels surprisingly natural and down to earth to do so. Although we have always been a loving family, I have spent most of my life feeling like we were from different planets, but it turns out it's never too late to connect, to communicate and to find mutual understanding and respect. I feels like such a gift to spend this time with them.

As I approach my next decade (I'll be 60 in March) I am more and more committed to understanding and respecting myself as much as I do other people! Isn't it odd how we don't always do that? As I begin to do this, I realise how important it is to honour my "calling"; what a privilege it is to have found a way of working that makes my heart sing, and how crazy it is that I've not yet been brave enough to jump into that work with both feet..... That time is here now though!!

I have lots of news to share with you in the coming weeks about upcoming Art of Ceremony dates, so please do follow me to find out more xx

01/11/2025

Heavenly massage yesterday...they just keep getting better & better, thank you .massage ...i'm a very lucky - & proud - Mama.
As the cold weather and longer nights draw in, my body needs treats! All summer I am barefoot & sun-kissed, but the winter presses me indoors & if i'm not careful I end up cooking & eating more than exercising!! Having one of Kia's massages reminds me to love my body & treasure it. Essential!

15/09/2025

Sancturary Retreats - Autumn and Spring, celebrating the Equinox, a time of change, a time to be held and nurtured

Look out for my updates on my forthcoming Autumn 2025 Retreat starting on 21st September - soon after i'll be taking enquiries for Spring and Autumn 2026

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12/09/2025

ONE SPACE REMAINING for a deeply nourishing experience

come and discover your sacred self with other like minded women for my 6 day journey

Contact me to find out details for this September retreat or enquire about my Spring 2026 or Autumn 2026 retreats, waiting lists available for both

09/09/2025

Are you ready to embrace change?

Join us on 21st September 2025 - ONE SPACE REMAINING

Contact me for details

06/09/2025

Last chance to come on my Autumn Equinox Retreat; Sanctuary, in far West Cornwall

I have one residential and one non-residential space still available.....but won't take any more bookings after September 11th.

If you are feeling called to make some big changes, or are in need of some deep nourishment and nurturing, or if you are ready to step into the next phase of your life and wanting to honour that in a sacred way, please do get in touch for booking details.

03/09/2025

We live in a wild and windy spot, less than a mile from the sea in 3 directions, so when we bought this house, we planted 400 hedging trees (with the help of friends) to create shelter and privacy. The added bonus is that the hedges are full of birds nesting and the garden is now filled with birdsong.

Of all the birds we see on a daily basis, the wren is my favourite. For such a tiny bird it can be very loud, especially when threatened.

I did this panting, entitled "It's time to be heard", as part of my oracle card series. The wren reminds us that you are never too small to be heard, and that your values and dreams are always worth standing up for.

This year has been a "Time to be heard" sort of a year for me. I have finally listened to the voice inside me that has been saying "it's time to believe that you can make a living doing your soulwork" and I have begun to open my mind, raise the bar, and take the leap.

The life coach Mandy Morris uses the metaphor of a box, saying that we keep ourselves (in every area of our lives) in some sort of a box, with a ceiling and a basement/floor, and that in order to grow and blossom we need to recognise where we are containing ourselves below a too low ceiling, or hovering above a too sparse a basement.

The Wren's gift can really help in this process; can help us to expand our too small voice; our too small box, so we can finally sing the song we were born to sing.

31/08/2025

I use the word Sacred a lot. It is not a word that I used until I came to Cornwall, but once I began visiting the "Sacred sites"; the standing stones, stone circles and holy wells that abound in this area, I understood how important the quality of sacredness is to me.

Of course, it doesn't have to be linked to a designated place; I believe one can experience and create sacred place and space almost anywhere, with the right intention and open heartedness.

When I trained in the "Virtues Project", one of the 5 core strategies we learned to facilitate is "Honouring the Sacred". That was what drew me to the Virtues Project; the fact that it was an organisation who put such value on what is sacred to us individually and what we need to hold sacred both individually and collectively.

Most of the life coaching work I do, as well as my painting, involves finding our deepest connection to what is sacred, both within and around us, and finding ways to honour and celebrate that.

My favourite sacred site in West Cornwall is Boscawen'un stone circle. This is a painting that honours it

28/08/2025

This is a bitter sweet time of year for me. I love being warm, and I love swimming in the sea, and as August draws to a close I can feel Autumn around the corner.....and then it's only one season until winter!

But I do love Autumn; I love the colours, I love the warmth that is lingering in the earth and the sea, and there's something unique about the quality of the light in September; it feels so magical. So I am sad to say goodbye to summer, but opening my arms to the riches of September.

Do you have things to look forward to at this transitional time?

this painting is one of my oracle card images; it's entitled "Tending the Fire". It's of a beautiful place by the river Dart that we used to camp at (and would love to revisit). We always visited at the end of the summer, once it started to get quieter. I think the painting captures the quality of light I mentioned.

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