Past Events

Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space for deep rest and reconnection with the natural world.  Join Claire this summer at Asthall Manor for a Mindful Forest Bathing walk. You will be guided to slow down and connect with nature through your senses in our beautiful grounds.…

Handlebards return to Asthall Manor for a hilariously high-octane production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ like you’ve never seen before. Forget the tears and tragedy, our Macbeth is chock full of mishaps, mayhem and mirth. We all know the story. Three Witches promise Macbeth the Scottish crown and like any normal people would, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to kill the king. Things get rapidly out of hand from there as foul deeds are done, plots unravel and mysterious spirits appear… Suitable…

Join The Arborealists for an inspiring one-day drawing workshop led by two experienced artists, featuring a special guest art history talk, lunch and refreshments, all set in our beautiful ballroom and garden.   10.00 Welcome and introductions with tea/coffee 10.30 -12.30 Drawing Session 1 Annabel Cullen in the ballroom using a range of monochrome dry media, and Fiona McIntyre in the garden using natural coloured dry and water-based media. 12.30 - 1.15 Vegetarian lunch by Will Pouget of Vaults and Garden Cafe 1.15…

Cézanne used colour in place of tonal gradations to model three-dimensional space, with brush work that created a mosaic-like effect. Learn how to develop an oil painting from direct observation by using this rhythmic, diagonal brush approach to build up the volume of fruits and objects. Explore how Cézanne allowed individual patches of paint to float freely, often leaving the ground canvas showing through. This avoided perfectly rendering rigid shapes and instead captured the essence and mass of the subject.…

Friday 28 August Metamorphosis 12pm, 3pm, 7pm An experience of potentiality and transformation. Sounds: Tibetan Bowls + Phillip Glass Harp Music + time for dwelling and gentle reflection Saturday 29 August  Illumination 12pm, 3pm, 7pm Welcoming in the lightness, joy and mystery into your heart and being.​ Sounds: Tibetan Bowls + Classical Harp featuring Einaudi + time for dwelling and gentle reflection ​​​Select from one day or two days of blissful 2hrs sessions​​ "A new frontier in wellness...utterly blissed out" -The Financial Times ​…

Are you due between September and December? Run by the Odyssey of Motherhood and Fern and Feathers Photography, and with guest speakers, this day is crafted entirely for you. A dedicated pause before your baby arrives to map your postpartum, nourish your body, and connect deeply with other women who are walking this path alongside you. Bring yourself exactly as you are. The details Held mainly in our ballroom with access to the garden. A women's circle for pregnancy A…

Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space for deep rest and reconnection with the natural world.  Join Claire this September for a Mindful Forest Bathing walk. You will be guided to slow down and connect with nature through your senses in our beautiful grounds. Forest Bathing is…

Join us for a workshop on saving seed, here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden (opposite Asthall Manor) Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. It is well documented that the best seed you can sow is the seed that you have saved from your own garden, where those plants have learned to love to grow! In this all-day workshop you will learn the basics of saving seed from different vegetable plants and their beneficial companion plants. This will involve…