Is this for you?
This programme is for women who feel the impact of seasonal change and want gentle, practical Chinese medicine support through the year.
You might be:
• Curious about Chinese medicine and how to weave its wisdom into everyday life
• A practitioner or therapist wanting to deepen your seasonal understanding
• A woman in midlife seeking natural ways to support energy, emotional balance, and change
• Someone who feels the pull to slow down, reflect, and live more in tune with the seasons
You don’t need any prior experience — just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore the seasons through your own lived experience.
The Seasonal Living Programme
Discover the Wisdom of the Seasons
The Seasonal Living Programme invites you to explore the art of living in rhythm with nature,
guided by the practical wisdom of Chinese medicine.
Through gentle movement, self-reflection, and everyday self-care, you’ll begin to understand how each season influences your energy, emotions, and overall wellbeing — and how to respond in ways that feel supportive rather than demanding.
This year-long seasonal journey blends ancient insight with simple, accessible practices you can weave into daily life. Instead of pushing against change, you’ll learn when to rest, when to move, and how to care for yourself in alignment with the natural rhythms around you.
It’s not about doing more — it’s about listening more closely, living with intention, and feeling steadier and more connected as the seasons unfold.
About The Course
The Seasonal Living Programme is a year-long exploration of how to live in rhythm with nature’s cycles, guided by the wisdom of Chinese medicine.
Each season invites a different quality of energy, emotion, and focus. Through the Five Elements system, you’ll explore how these seasonal shifts influence your body, mind, and overall wellbeing — and how to respond with greater awareness and care.
Across six live online sessions and optional in-person retreat days, you’ll learn how to apply seasonal wisdom to everyday life. We’ll explore simple, practical ways to nourish your energy, prevent imbalance, and support yourself through times of change.
Rooted in the Taoist principle of Yang Sheng — the art of nourishing life — this programme offers gentle, embodied practices to help you feel grounded, resilient, and supported throughout the year.
What's Included
Each part of the Seasonal Living Programme blends learning, reflection, and embodied practice — offering gentle guidance to help you live in rhythm with the seasons.
Over the year, you’ll receive:
Six live online seasonal sessions (2 hours each), including one Foundations session and one for each season.
Access to all replays for 6 months, so you can revisit the teachings in your own time.
Five optional in-person retreat days to embody the seasonal teachings through movement, rest, and nourishment.
Printable seasonal workbooks for journaling and reflection.
Simple, practical self-care tools, including Qi Gong, acupressure with essential oils, seasonal food therapy, meditation, and reflective journaling.
You can choose the level of involvement that suits you — join a single season, commit to the full year, or deepen your experience with optional retreats and extra seasonal support.
Pay-as-you-go
Join any of the six live 2-hour seasonal sessions.
Perfect for those who want to explore one season at a time.
- Join any of the six 2-hour live seasonal webinars
- Choose which seasons you explore
- Includes replay access for 1 month
- Printable workbook for each session you attend
- Flexible option with no long-term commitment
- Ideal for trying the course before committing to the full year
Full-Year Programme
Commit to your full year of seasonal wellness and receive:
- Save 10% on pay as you go
- All six webinars + replays for 6 months
- Includes all six 2-hour live seasonal webinars
- Replay access for 6 months for every webinar
- Printable workbooks for all six sessions
- Certificate of completion after the full year
- Clear, structured journey through all Five Elements
- Priority updates on optional in-person retreat days
- Perfect for those ready to build consistent seasonal self-care
The Immersive Path
For those who want to embody the teachings through practice and connection.
- Everything included in the Full-Year Certificate
- Save over £264 compared with booking everything separately
- Five in-person retreat days at the loyalty rate of £139 (normally £149)
- Priority access to secure a space on each seasonal day retreat (subject to availability)
- Goody bag at each retreat containing the seasonal oils and teas used during the course
- Free annual subscription to The Tao of Self Care (worth £49)
- Exclusive seasonal audio rituals to deepen your practice
- Replay access for 6 months
- Most embodied and transformative way to experience the full year
- Connect with an intimate, supportive community
A Year in Rhythm with Nature
The Seasonal Living Programme follows the natural flow of the year, moving through the seasons as they unfold.
Each phase offers a different quality of energy, focus, and reflection — inviting you to respond to change with more awareness, care, and ease.
Rather than pushing against the rhythms of nature, you’ll learn how to move with them, supporting your body, emotions, and wellbeing in a way that feels sustainable and nourishing.
Across the year, you’ll explore:
Foundations - The Wisdom of the Seasons - Saturday 7 March 2026
Begin your journey by exploring the roots of Chinese Medicine — Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and the Chinese Body Clock. Discover how seasonal energy moves through the year and how to recognise it in your own body, emotions, and daily rhythms.
You’ll learn how to observe the cycles of change, reconnect with nature’s flow, and begin building your personal seasonal self-care toolkit.
Focus:
Understanding Qi, Yin–Yang balance, the Five Elements, and how to live in rhythm with the seasons.
Saturday 7 March 2026
Summer – Fire Element: Expansion & Joy Saturday 2 May 2026
Summer invites warmth, openness, and connection. It’s a time to live from the heart — to express yourself, communicate freely, and share joy. You’ll explore how to nourish the Heart, Small Intestine, Pericardium, and Triple Heater systems, balancing outward energy with inner calm.
We’ll use movement and breath to expand the chest, calm the mind, and bring balance to the fire within.
Practices include:
Heart-opening Qi Gong, meridian stretching for the Fire channels, cooling foods and teas, acupressure for calm and sleep, and essential oils to soothe anxiety and uplift the spirit.
Saturday 2 May 2026 10am-12pm
Late Summer – Earth Element: Nourishment & Stability Saturday 18 July 2026
The Earth element teaches us to centre, digest, and nourish ourselves — physically and emotionally. As the season of abundance, it invites reflection and gratitude. You’ll focus on the Spleen and Stomach meridians, exploring how to transform worry into grounded presence.
Practices include:
Qi Gong for digestion and grounding, abdominal self-massage, foods that strengthen the Earth element, acupressure for balance and calm, and essential oils for comfort and emotional steadiness.
Saturday 18 July 2026 10am-12pm
Metal Element: Letting Go & Renewal Saturday 29 August 2026
Autumn is the season of refinement and release. The Lungs and Large Intestine teach us to let go of what we no longer need and to breathe in what truly sustains us. Through mindful movement and reflection, you’ll learn to find beauty in simplicity and strength in stillness.
Practices include:
Breath-led Qi Gong, meridian stretching for the chest and arms, acupressure for grief and immunity, autumn food therapy for resilience, and essential oils to support clear breathing and emotional lightness.
Saturday 29 August 2026 10am-12pm
Winter – Water Element: Rest & Restoration Saturday 24 October 2026
Winter draws us inward — the most Yin time of year. It’s the season of rest, reflection, and renewal. You’ll explore the Kidney and Bladder meridians, learning how to preserve your energy and cultivate wisdom through stillness.
Practices include:
Slow Qi Gong and Dao Yin, acupressure for fear and fatigue, restorative foods and warming teas, essential oils for courage and calm, and journaling to connect with your inner stillness.
Saturday 24 October 2026 10am-12pm
Spring – Wood Element: Growth & Flow Saturday 15th January 2027
Spring marks the return of light and movement — a time for growth, vision, and new beginnings. The Wood element teaches us to stay flexible while moving forward with purpose, to channel creative energy into clear direction, and to meet life’s changes with ease.
You’ll explore the Liver and Gallbladder meridians, learning how to release tension, restore flexibility, and cultivate emotional flow. This session helps you transform frustration into focus and step confidently into the next phase of your year.
Practices include:
Qi Gong to awaken and stretch the body after winter’s stillness, meridian stretching for the sides and hips, acupressure with essential oils to support flow and clarity, and guidance on seasonal foods to nourish the Liver and renew vitality. Journaling and reflection will help you clarify your vision and nurture growth — inside and out.
Saturday 6 March 2027
Optional In-Person Retreat Days
Each season, you’re invited to deepen your experience through an optional in-person retreat day.
These gatherings bring the teachings to life — offering space to move, rest, eat well, and reconnect with nature and yourself.
Together, we explore the element of the season through Qi Gong, meridian stretching, meditation, acupressure rituals, seasonal food, and reflection.
It’s a chance to step out of daily life and embody what you’ve been learning online — to feel the seasonal wisdom in your body, not just understand it.
Held in beautiful Sussex and selected nature-based venues, these retreats are optional, yet deeply nourishing.
They offer a gentle way to reconnect with the rhythm of the seasons — in body, mind, and spirit.
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Meet Your Teacher
Jo has been helping people live happier, healthier lives for almost 20 years. She has a degree in Acupuncture and years of extensive study and practice utilising the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine.
With deep expertise in the art of Yang Sheng, the practice of nourishing life, Jo creates a truly transformative wellness retreat. Blending acupuncture, Qi Gong, and self-care wisdom, she guides participants in how to eat, sleep, move, and feel in harmony with their bodies and nature. At each retreat, Jo ensures that every aspect of the experience is thoughtfully tailored, offering a deeply personal and enriching journey toward lasting well-being.
Through her retreats and Acupuncture practice she has witnessed the profound impact that self-knowledge coupled with bespoke, natural self-care practices can have on people’s lives. She has curated her retreats to give you the rare opportunity to do just that.
Testimonials
Jo is a great teacher, extremely talented and so much fun. She held the space for us all to be safe and open and flawlessly had the balance to be on the same level as everyone else.
Her healing talents are in her listening, understanding and communication as much as in her teaching and treatment sessions
Jayne
Molino Del Rey 2023
Retreating with Jo was life-changing for me. And the impact is still strong. The changes that I’ve made to certain aspects of my life feel permanent as there’s been some kind of fundamental shift in me It feels much easier now, as that’s just who I am now!
Sasha
I had never been on a retreat before so I didn’t really know what to expect - it was the most incredible experience! It was a week to step away from daily life into a bubble of self care and laughter with a wonderfully supportive group of ladies. Jo’s knowledge, empathy and skill in leading the retreat gave us the perfect balance of learning, guided practice and also time for ourselves. Molino del Ray is a beautiful centre lovingly and sympathetically created in the stunning Andalusian mountains, the food was perfect, freshly homemade and nourishing and the massages were a real treat! Thank you Jo.
Vanessa
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A Journey of Wisdom and Wellbeing
By the end of this year-long journey, you’ll understand how to support your body, mind, and emotions through every season — not with complicated rituals, but with simple, nourishing practices that fit naturally into your life.
This is your invitation to live the Tao of self-care — to feel more connected, calm, and at home in yourself, all year round.
Join the Journey
Enrolment is now open for The Seasonal Living Programme, beginning March 2026.
Choose the level of involvement that feels right for you — whether you’d like to explore the seasons online at your own pace, or join me in person to move, rest, and reflect together.
This is an invitation to live more consciously with the rhythms of nature — to feel steadier through change, deepen your self-care, and reconnect with what your body and energy need through each season.
