Guided Walking Retreats Along the South West Coast Path
Immerse yourself in the wild beauty of the South West coast and allow peace, friendship and adventure to unfold step by step.
What We Offer
We offer mindful walking retreats supporting you to trust in yourself, your body and your place in the world. Enjoy a blend of walking meditations, natural beauty, wild swimming, nature connection practices, ritual, poetry, folklore and supportive community.
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Are We Right For You?
People who join us are often seeking meaning, a sense of belonging, or simply space to listen to the land and cultivate their relationship with the natural world. Whatever your call may be, we trust that along the way you’ll rediscover your innate gifts that make you, you.
What’s on offer
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Cornish Retreat May 2026
Our retreats are gentle invitations to slow down. Rooted in nature and shaped by the turning seasons, they offer space to breathe deeply, rest well and remember what brings you alive.
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Weekend Walks Away
Two planned day walks over a single weekend, in a place you’ve yet to discover. Whether your call is a gentle nudge, or a strong urge, walk with us as we celebrate the extraordinary in the everyday.
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Pilgrim Journeys (3 days +)
Whether you’re marking a life transition, seeking peace, or simply craving a deeper walk with purpose, these journeys help you slow down, notice beauty, and feel connected to the land and the people you walk with.
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Yoga Classes
Join a weekly yoga class from my home based practice space near Calne. Private sessions and Beginner’s Courses are also on offer. Classes run on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in".
— John Muir
Our Approach
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Venture out on a walk in nature and it’s not long before your shoulders drop and your mood lifts. A growing body of research points to the beneficial effects that time in the natural world has on health, reducing stress and promoting healing.
At Heartlands and Wild Edges, mother nature provides the backdrop to all of our experiences, offering a rich, sensory environment for us to explore, play snd rest.
We encourage you to engage with the natural world in whichever way you feel called - walking, sketching, foraging, listening to birds, identifying wildlife, the list goes on!
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Informed by professional training in heart-based emotional regulation and coherence practices, our offerings are infused with tools you can incorporate into daily life to bring more balance, creativity and intuitive insight whilst supporting healthier relationships and communication, anxiety and stress.
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Being able to come home to ourselves and create a safe internal space is incredibly important to our wellbeing.
Our bodies are a rich source of information. Many of us live today spending most of our time in our heads, meaning we often miss the messages our bodies send us and aren’t able to respond to it’s needs.
Informed by training in embodied movement and body-based awareness practices, we work with techniques that support listening to our bodies and recognising that our emotional and mental experiences deeply affect our bodies and, in turn, our bodies affect how we feel and think.
How it all began
It was the summer of 2023, and our founder, Camille, was in a time of transition. She’d just sold her small business, a yoga and creative workshop studio, and found herself craving space to process what had been, and what was yet to come.
She felt a calling to walk.
To walk, and walk far.
A desire to pilgrimage.
She settled on the South West Coast Path. Why? Because she knew the healing power of the sea, and, knowing she was not gifted with the best sense of direction, she figured this path had the least possibility of getting lost. All she had to do on her 630 mile journey from Minehead to Poole was keep the sea to her right.
If you’d asked her at the time, she wouldn’t have considered herself an experienced walker.
The echos of a pressured education meant detailed plans and preparation felt overwhelming, and the doing of them would be sure to stop her in her tracks before she even began. So she decided she’d figure it out along the way.
As to the backpack, tent, sleeping bag and hiking boots? Her father had come to visit a few years back and taken himself on a trip to Scotland - all his kit was waiting patiently for their next adventure in her hallway cupboard.
So off she set, with shoes a little too big, a backpack that didn’t quite fit and a pair of walking poles from her mom’s nordic walking days.
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We’re made up of women from all walks of life: creatives, teachers, carers, elders, mothers, students, businesswomen, healthcare workers and everyone in between!
What defines us is our dedication to care for each other and the natural world. To live from the heart - a place of inner resource and kindness, so we can be effective catalysts of change in our homes, communities and the world at large.
Meet our founder Camille, and the team behind Heartlands and Wild Edges.
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Something Camille remembers most from her pilgrimage along the South West Coast Path were the small acts of kindness from strangers. The gift of a scented dryer sheet so that, if just for a day, her clothes smelt like clean laundry again! The offer of shelter in the form of a sofa bed on a particularly damp and windy night. An aptly placed honesty-style cooler box full of flapjacks and water bottles next to a bench.
These small moments of delight that peppered her path, kept her going on the days her feet ached and her morale dwindled.They were a visceral reminder of the ripple effect of kindness and care.
This, paired with an immersion in the natural world, spending almost all her time outdoors was incredibly healing.
We aim:
To give people immersive, nature based experiences to support their health and healing.
To inspire people to develop a relationship with the land through which they travel, and encourage them to question how they might tread more lightly on the earth.
To notice how the feelings evoked by connecting to the natural world can enrich their lives and cultivate a sense of belonging.
To share practices which enable people to live from the heart - radiating more care, compassion and kindness. To find the courage to walk their own authentic path and share their gifts. To learn to draw from their wellspring of inner resource.
To help people recognise that the health and wellbeing of ourselves, our communities and the natural world are deeply intertwined.
To play, rest, be creative and have fun whilst doing all of the above!
Field Journal
Reflections on the relationship between the natural world and our inner landscape.
Kind words
Do you have a skill or passion that would complement our walks?
We love the beauty, richness and creativity that comes when two wild edges meet. If you’d like to collaborate, please don’t hesitate to reach out.