Our People

Your experience is bespoke and unique. There will be 6 guests including you and the specialist team consists of 4 senior and experienced healers who work together to provide a programme of group and individual attention so you can rest into your inner wisdom and find peaceful contentment. You can relax knowing you are in good, mature hands and let yourself receive.

Justine Horton

Justine is a General Practitioner, guided by a lifelong calling to care, heal and tend. This way of being has always extended far beyond medicine, living in her role as a mother of four, in her devotion to the animals she has shared her life with, and in her work as a much-loved, top-rated Airbnb host in the Derbyshire countryside. Her presence is calm and reassuring, with a natural ability to create spaces where people feel safe, welcomed and at ease.

At Wise Women Retreats, Justine brings all of these threads together. As host and first point of contact, she listens deeply, holds individual needs with gentleness, and attends to the practical details — from rooms and food to the subtle rhythm of each stay — with care and intention. She creates a steady, grounded container in which women can soften, connect and simply be.

Miriam Grace

Miriam is a highly experienced psychotherapist, who specialises in women’s issues. She has been running workshops, groups and retreats for 35 years, and weaves together her expertise with trauma, body psychotherapy, and the transpersonal (spiritual) in guided visualisations and meditations, laughter yoga, creative and physical exercises and skilful group process facilitation. Her focus for the last 12 years has been on working with women during times of life changes.

The principles of inclusion, acceptance and compassion are central to her practice. She is a specialist and published in her work on women coming out as lesbian.

Miriam is responsible for the overall therapeutic programme and themes at Wise Women Retreats and leads twice daily group sessions in our seasonal retreats.

Anita Nathan

Anita has a special interest in meditation and deep relaxation (yoga nidra) and is constantly amazed by the power of sound therapy to bring about healing and balance.

Anita is a qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher since 2003 and has been practising yoga since 1990. She teaches Hatha Yoga which includes both Yin and Yang practices with the aim to bring about balance. Sessions include breath work, as well as the physical yoga practice and a relaxation to finish. 

Anita is also a qualified nurse, sound healing practitioner, aromatherapist, massage therapist and children’s yoga teacher.

Anita brings all her training and experience to date into a synthesis of relaxation, movement and sound healing, in bespoke classes based on the individual needs of each member of each retreat.

Gina Hinks

Gina provides reflexology treatments at the retreats. She has practised Reflexology and Homeopathy for many years as part of a lifelong interest in complementary medicine.  She has many regular clients who come to her for her Reflexology skills as well as for her warm and empathic nature.

“Gina you have Magic in your fingertips. Thank you so much. I have felt like I am wading through treacle in recent months, burned out and unable to take a proper full breath. I immediately felt better after the treatments and this has continued over the days since, lighter in step and heart“

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  • "The therapy I received was life changing. I loved painting a plant pot and planting seeds and of course, the laughter therapy was amazing!"

    —Retreat Guest

  • "Every moment with Miriam was enlightening, nourishing and inspiring... intellectually, emotionally and spiritually"

    —Retreat Guest

  • "I LOVED the morning yoga and the handouts were lovely so we can keep up a little gentle practice at home. The closing ceremony was incredibly beautiful."

    —Retreat Guest

  • "The therapeutic group work was just incredible! Miriam you are gifted and share your gift warmly and with love to help others find their way. Thank you."

    —Retreat Guest

  • "The breakfasts were amazing! | particularly liked the cinnamon oats and the bread and butter pudding breakfast. There was not a single meal that wasn't deliciously tasty, filling and nourishing."

    —Retreat Guest

  • "Miriam, you are a wise woman and it was a privilege to spend this time with you. Your combined knowledge, experience and intuition is amazing and I find it really hard to put into words what I saw you creating. Magic!"

    —Retreat Guest

  • "A beautiful and relaxed family home with all the creature comforts you could ever ask for. My every need and comfort was catered for and nothing was too much trouble."

    —Retreat Guest

  • "You have given me hope for a different future Gina, You are the embodiment of magic."

    —Retreat Guest

  • "Such a beautiful, calm, homely and welcoming space. The bedroom was a comfortable private retreat perfect for relaxing and resting. The little welcome gifts were so thoughtful. LOVED the addition of the heated blanket!"

    —Retreat Guest

  • "The venue is very atmospheric, it exudes warmth, comfort and safety. A beautiful house where you feel comforted and at home from the first moment you walk in."

    —Retreat Guest

  • "It was absolutely lovely. Very nurturing and healthy. Thank you for the huge amount of thought, effort and love that went into every meal."

    —Retreat Guest