Fire
Built by hand, fed by the circle, never lit before you arrive. Fire asks for attention and gives back heat, and both of those are medicine.
Meet Fire
Everything here starts with a fire
Ceremony evenings at the Star Stones, grounding days, men's and women's circles, beach fires by the sea and food cooked on flame. Ten people maximum, eight around the smaller fires.
Why fire
Relighting the fire within us
People do not arrive here empty. They arrive damped down, carrying something that has been smouldering for years without enough air to either burn clean or go out.
Fire is honest about that. You cannot fake attention in front of a fire, you cannot hurry it, and you cannot keep it going without deciding what you are willing to feed it. Every circle we hold turns on that question.
Humans have sat in this exact position, at this exact distance from the heat, saying true things to each other, for longer than we have had words for any of it. Nothing we do here is new. It has just been put down for a while.
Fire, stone, sea, food
Four things, one evening
The fire never works alone here. It sits between the old stones, near cold water, and it always ends with something to eat.
Stone
Our stones are not a stone circle. They map the sky, one of the very few of their kind in the country, and fire inside that alignment feels like nothing else.
Sea
Cold water before flame. Driftwood fires on the sand at the cove, tideline in one ear and embers in the other.
Food
Everything cooked on open flame, picked from the garden or grown within a few miles. Long table, lanterns, nobody rushing the plates away.
Shapes it takes
An evening, a day, or two days
Come for four hours after work or give it a whole weekend. Everything below can be run private for your own group.
Four hours, dusk to dark
Fire ceremony evenings
Build the fire, sit the circle, name a thing and give it to the flame. Held at the Star Stones or in the wood depending on the weather.
One full day
Fire day retreats
Grounding barefoot, movement, honest circle work, water, then the fire itself and food cooked on it. This is the relighting day.
Evening or full day
Men's and women's fires
Separate fires for masculine and feminine work, and days where both circles are held apart and then brought back together for balance.
Two days, one night
Two-day fire immersions
Fire evening, cabin overnight, sunrise water and a second day of integration. For people who want the thing to actually land.
Every fire we hold
Choose your fire
Each one opens into its own page with the rhythm of the evening, what is included and the options you can pick from.
What happens at the fire
The practices we work with
- Fire building as practice, not as a task somebody else did earlier
- Grounding barefoot on the earth before anything is lit
- Fire-gazing meditation, the oldest screen there is
- Breathwork close to the heat
- Spoken circle with a talking stick, speak or pass
- Drum, rattle and voice held live
- Releasing ceremony, written or spoken, given to the flame
- Cold water before or after, sea or trough
- Ash blessing and banking the embers together
- Silence walking out, which most people say is the strongest part
Everything is optional, always. Sitting quietly by the heat for four hours and saying nothing is a complete evening, and nobody will ask you why.
Choose your own
Build your fire
Pick the pieces that call to you and send them over. We'll shape the evening or the day around it and come back with dates.
Enquire about this day
Nothing chosen yet, that's fine too.
Practical
Before you come to a fire
- Ten people maximum, eight around the smaller fires.
- Dress for standing outside in Cornwall after dark, layers and boots.
- We run in all weather. Rain around a fire is not a problem.
- No phones in the circle. There is a box by the door.
- No alcohol. Tea, cacao and ferments only.
- Consent is asked for out loud, and can be withdrawn without explaining.
- We leave every site cleaner than we found it, on the beach especially.