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.

Here you allow yourself to be cermonially submerged in the tides of menstruation from the first call, through purification, into healing and renewal and then opening to receive the dreamtime and visions that are evoked by aligning with your roots through this deep rest and receptivity.

Our blood time is Sacred Ceremony.

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 evoke the energetics of a bleed time and have a fully embodied evocative journey. The body knows. It has the capacity to reflect 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

     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.

All Bespoke Big Bleeds are 6 nights and 5 days.

They are scheduled according to our availability and either the time of your bleed or when you can create the space and time.

Your Bespoke Big Bleed Choices

  1. 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. All I need is a place to retreat.

 2. 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.

3. 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.

Please get in touch so we can create your best Big Bleed Bespoke together.

For travel, accommodation and other practicalities, see Groundwork

Our special touch

Check in and mentorship

You can choose a light touch approach with a daily check-in.

You may want a deeper dive into what you may be encountering through a mentorship session.

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.

You may want to mark each day or as you pass through each Chamber with a ceremony.

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.

Or try a gentle Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson.

Cost of sessions: €55 per 1 hour treatments session

Cost of classes: €15 per person

Big Bleed Red Tent

A biannual space for us to gather and explore various aspects of Soulful Cyclical Living through the transitional seasons of Spring and Autumn.

We start from the foundational place of our womb born body and its cycling nature.

We will heed the call of our bleed to honour the rest and insights of Temple Time through ceremony and dreamtime. Thereafter we will follow the thread of the nature of Soul through the cycle in our emergence into the Follicular Stage, the fullsomeness of Ovulation and the wisdom of the Luteul stage.

Spring 2026: 20th-25th April
4 - 6 spaces available

Autumn 2026: 9th-14th November
4-6 spaces available

This is a retreat for you if:

  • you want to explore and deepen into your cyclical nature whether you are with a bleeding cycle, journing in menopause or post menopausal.

  • you are yearning to forge a deeper relationship with your Soul and the Soul of the World.

  • you are curious about how Soul Informed Cyclical living can inspire, inform and nourish your life.

  • you are wanting to be held within a community of women.

  • you are wanting to heal and/or tap into the magic that is held in the intelligence of the womb.

  • you are inviting more pleasure and presence into your life.

  • you are sensing a call to offer your unique gifts and show up in the world and need the encouragement and witness of others to feel empowered and capable.

  • you are feeling a little lost and need to lean into some guidance in order to find a way forward.

  • you are feeling a YES!