Big Bleed
Retreats
What is a big bleed?
In order to experience the powerful gifts held within our cycling bodies @Redschool encourages us to experience a practice they call The Big Bleed. It is retreat time, where you remove yourself from your everyday and surrender into your bleed.
It is a practice where you allow yourself to be submerged in the tides of menstruation from the first call, through purification, into healing and renewal and the opening to receive the dreamtime and visions that are evoked by aligning with your roots through deep rest and receptivity.
Our blood time is Sacred Ceremony. Contrary to the dominant norms about menstruation that override, suppress and deny the potency of this time, a Big Bleed offers you time to rest, tune into your own needs and desires and to receive the support, love and guidance of life.
You may want to practice a Big Bleed as you are bleeding.
However, not all of us can predict our next bleed time and some of us don’t have a bleed. In my own experience, it is possible to intentionally and ceremonially evoke the energetics of a bleed time and have a fully embodied evocative journey. The body knows. It has the capacity to evoke the subtilties of this passage through what @Redschool has coined The 5 Chambers, so that you may experience the initiations that lie within this hormonal chalice without an actual bleed.
Big Bleed Bespoke
Overview
You may be new to The Big Bleed. You may never have allowed yourself the chance to surrender into the bliss of your blood tide. Or, you may have given yourself some hard won and much needed space during your bleed and are hankering for the full unadulterated experience. You may be well versed in the way of The Big Bleed and are looking for more.
This is why I have created The Big Bleed Bespoke, where you can create the experience you want.
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Duration: 6 nights / 5 days
Booking: Scheduled according to bleed time or availability
Accommodation options:
The Studio – a self- contained apartment with basic kitchen, shower and your own outdoor space with full use of the garden. Ideal for a single person, private retreat
The Gite – fully equipped kitchen with 2 bedrooms: one double, one twin with large living room, dining room and your own outdoor space with full use of the garden. Ideal for 2 – 4 people sharing.
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Hands Off – I want to be left alone to explore my Big Bleed in my own way. I will look after and cater for myself.
Weaving My Own Way – I want to explore my Bleed in my own way as much as possible. However, I would like to benefit from some of the gifts you have on offer and will schedule some treats for myself before I arrive. If I need anything while I’m there, I will let you know a day in advance but know you might have other plans.
Be the Banks to My River – I welcome your support and guidance. I would like to invite directed ceremony into the shape of my Big Bleed journey. I want you to prepare for some or all of my meals and may enjoy sharing some of them with you. I am open to receive nurturing touch and will book the treatment(s) you provide in your healing cabin. I invite prompts, conversation around insight related to my Big Bleed journey.
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Gite:
· Summer Season (June & early September, incl. pool): €74 pn
· Spring/Autumn Season (April & October): €69 Euro pn;
· Wintering Season (November-March): €58 pn
Cleaning fee: €50
Studio:
· Summer season (June & early September, incl. pool): €64 pn
· Spring/Autumn Season (April & October): €54 Euro pn
· Wintering Season (November-March): €45 pn
Cleaning Fee: €15
Your accommodation fee needs to be paid in advance on booking.
Travel:
Pick up and drop off from Beziers airport (Cap d’Agde): €45 each way
Pick up and drop off at Bedarieaux train station: FREE
Catering:
Jonathan is a food lover and passionate self- taught chef. Inspired by the quality of food in this region and by what we can access in the garden and wild foraging, he creates dishes of pure culinary delight to serve many different kinds of palettes, eating choices and allergies.
Breakfasts: €9
Lunches: €15
Dinners: €22
Our special touch:
Ceremony:
If you want to be held in ceremony we can create the space for you or we can do so collectively, either in your sanctuary or on the land.
You may want to open and/or close your Big Bleed with ceremony: €15
You may want to mark each day or as you pass through each Chamber with a ceremony: €25
Check in and mentorship:
You can choose a light touch approach with a daily check-in: €10
You may want a deeper dive into what you may be encountering through a mentorship session: €40
Treatments:
We have a rich variety of individual wellbeing treatment(s) on offer in our beautiful blue chalet with a choice of:
Lomi-lomi therapeutic massage
Reflexology
Indian Head Massage
Reiki
Feldenkrais Functional Integration sessions
Each treatment may be an individual modality or a combination of different techniques to suit your needs: €50-65/ 1hr
Or try a gentle Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson:
€15 per person
Big Bleed Red Tent
A biannual space for us to gather and explore various aspects of Soul Informed Cyclical Living, starting from the foundational place of Temple Time.
Big Bleed Red Tent
Spring and Autumn 2026
4 spaces available
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Big Bleed Retreat
15th January 2025
4 spaces available
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