Singing for Wildness & Joy Retreat
All voices are welcome!
12th - 14th September 2025
Launde Abbey, East Norton, Leicester LE7 9XB
About the Retreat
Come to play, learn, express, have fun and build community using voice and movement.
Itinerary
The retreat is fully catered, starting with dinner on Friday and ending with lunch on Sunday, with delicious food that will be tailored around your own diets and allergies. The food will be largely vegetarian and the retreat is alcohol free.
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All rooms are ensuite, we have access to twins and singles, but space is limited, as the rooms are also rented out to individual retreaters who have come for spiritual reflection. This retreat is for all genders, but if you have someone in mind you want to share a room with, please let me know at time of booking.
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Arrival Friday early afternoon. Departure Sunday after lunch. Full schedule will be shared on social media/newsletter nearer the time, but you can expect daily singing workshops, movement, rhythm, space to share your thoughts, feelings and voices! This weekend promotes wellbeing through singing, and is funded by Arts Council Money as part of the wider Rewilding Voices project that I started working on over three years ago. At least three voice teachers will hold the space and offer a variety of workshops as well as daily circlesinging and sacred music time in the chapel at Launde Abbey. There will also be optional yoga and meditation available daily.
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This retreat would suit:
​* People who are curious about their voices and want to explore new territory and PLAY!
* Musicians who wish to deepen and develop their improvisation skills
* Musicians looking for inspiration for themselves and to share with groups/choirs they teach
* Those wishing to have fun and build community with like minded individuals.
* People who need a break away in nature that is guaranteed to uplift and inspire them. Music is a bonus!
* People who have experienced life transitions and who are looking for a way to balance themselves through music.
* People who love to sing, and who want to explore the amazing things that the voice can do!
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Booking
For more details about the venue and surrounding area click here: https://www.laundeabbey.org.uk/
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BOOKING
There are eight single rooms and six twin rooms available, all with ensuite bathrooms.
Twin rooms are £260 per person
Single rooms are £299 per person
Spaces on this retreat might be busy as its being run as not for profit offering, its first come and first served, I cant hold spaces for you without payment.
All costs include Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, all meals, and teaching.
Please email anandkirtan@outlook.com to book specifying which room option you prefer (again, first come, first served) and then paying - please let me know at time of payment if you need to spread the cost over two or three months.
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The booking and payment is non refundable. Please read booking information below and protect your booking with your own insurance.
​Booking payment goes to Anand K Carslake, LLoyds Bank (personal account)
Sort Code 30-93-14 Account number 03897101
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at any point, you are welcome to self-organise reselling or gifting your place to another person who'd like to attend. We can't offer refunds, so it is strongly recommended that at time of booking, you take out comprehensive travel insurance for your peace of mind.
If the organisers cancel the retreat, you will have the choice of being refunded or offered another retreat date option.
Thank you.
About Us
Anand Kirtan works internationally as a medicine musician and kirtan artist and locally as a counsellor and leader on funded artistic/music based projects in the UK community. For the last eighteen months she has been intensively studying Collaborative Vocal Improvisation with peers and various teachers including Briony Greenhill and Guillermo Rozenthuler. She will be leading this retreat alongside other Vocal improvisation teachers including Ruanna Xerri-West and Christa Sinclair.
