At the time of the Summer Solstice the sun is at the height of its power. The sun brings us warmth, brightness and all life. There is something so simple and restorative about being in the sun – as healers we have an innate need to go out into nature and replenish our energy, no matter how diligently we connect to source and walk our path. The Summer Solstice is a perfect time to tune in to the needs of our healer self and connect to Power. What if you could bottle that sunshine, keep that life giving force with you to see you through the darker months? What if that power and healing was yours to hold?

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Restoring the Healer Self
An Online Summer Solstice Retreat for Healers & Teachers
with Kay Gillard & Leanne Cruz
15-24 June 2026

This 10 day online retreat is a ceremonial space for Healers & Teachers to connect with power and receive the healing they need to support their amazing work in the world. We will come together in circle – online, from wherever you are in the world – under the Solstice Sun for 4 healing ceremonies over the 10 days.

At our opening ceremony, we will build a group altar and begin a visualisation process we will be returning to and developing in our daily email check-ins throughout our time together. You will also be invited to undertake a shamanic drum journey to connect with a healing guide or power animal of your own. Over the 10 days, we encourage you to create an altar of your own and to make time every day to sit with the ongoing healing process.

Sessions 2 and 3 are dedicated healing sessions for everyone in the group. Through systemic constellation work on 18 June and shamanic power retrieval work on 21 June, we have created healing processes specifically tailored to the needs of healers and teachers. Everyone in the group can expect to receive healing insights and release old patterns that do not serve them in life or work. And as well as receiving powerful energy healings and spiritual connections, everyone in the circle will be guided into being able to hold more and stronger energy. These healings are designed to help healers become more powerful – and stay that way. Learn more about these specific healing sessions here.

Our final live session together focuses entirely on integrating the healing and insights gathered over our 10 days. We bring the work to a close with a focus on maintaining the power and vision achieved during our retreat, and leaving participants feeling grounded and strong for their next steps on the healing path. Find out if this retreat is for you here.

Our entire retreat honours healers and teachers walking a spiritual path in the modern world. This is a path we have walked ourselves for decades; in this retreat we blend multiple healing disciplines and our love of ceremony with our own grounded approaches to the work. Find out more about your facilitators here.

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The 4 circles

“Dawn” – Circle 1 15 June 2026, 7-8:30pm (BST)

An opening ceremony, calling in the Sun and Healing Source energy, with intention setting for the healing and empowerment of all healers & teachers who are part of our circle.
Leanne will guide the group through a deep meditation to begin the process, and Kay will lead a Shamanic Reiki Drum Journey to call in support and clarity for your retreat experience.

“Morning” – Circle 2 18 June 2026, 7-8:30pm (BST)

This circle is a Constellation session for the whole group, led by Leanne. The whole group will receive healing and clarity as the Constellation forms, teaches us, and reshapes us as Healers & Teachers.

“Afternoon” – Circle 3 21 June 2026, 7-8:30pm (BST)

On the day of the Solstice, Kay will give a simple teaching on Power and why it is an essential part of the healer’s path. Two Power Retrievals will be performed, combining ancient shamanic methods with modern Reiki healing.

“Dusk” – Circle 4 24 June 2026, 7-8:30pm (BST)

In our last circle together, Leanne will lead the group through a healing meditation to consciously integrate the restoration and power of our Solstice retreat. The whole group can then rest and receive a Shamanic Reiki healing from Kay, before we close our circle and take our power and healing back out into the world.

Book now using the payment link below, or keep reading for more details.

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Our healing sessions are for healers

The two main healing sessions – Systemic and Family Constellations (18 June) and Shamanic Reiki Power Retrieval (21 June) – are specifically tailored for the needs of healers and teachers.

Systemic and Family Constellations

Leanne Cruz will lead the first of our deep healing sessions, a group constellation. This session will use one single constellation for the healing good of all our retreat participants.

Systemic and Family Constellations is a therapeutic approach developed by Bert Hellinger that explores how our struggles are often linked to hidden dynamics in our family or wider system. It works on the idea that we can unconsciously carry patterns, trauma, or emotions from our ancestors or family members. These can show up as repeating issues in relationships, wellbeing, or life direction.

In a constellation, these unseen patterns are made visible, often through representation or guided processes, so they can be acknowledged and gently resolved. At its heart, the work is about:

• Restoring belonging (everyone has a place)
• Honouring order (family roles matter)
• Rebalancing give and take

Ultimately, it helps people release what isn’t theirs and return to a more natural, grounded sense of self. In the case of a group constellation, all participants will be able to receive a shift in understanding.

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Reiki Power Retrieval

Kay Gillard will lead the group in individual shamanic power retrievals, and to integrate that power.

In core and contemporary shamanism, power refers to two concepts: raw energy, and the medicine that is woven into that energy. It is the raw energy we use in order to do anything. It fuels everything we do, from getting out of bed in the morning to creating magnificent works of art. Our healing work requires a lot of energy and medicine; it requires great power. In life, through interactions, illness and truma or difficulty, we suffer from Power Loss.

Power Retrieval is the cure for that loss. It is a traditional healing ceremony, where a journey is undertaken into shamanic reality to locate the lost power, usually (but not always) in the form of an animal. In the journey we communicate with that representation of power and discover how to connect with and use that energy, or what specific medicine we need. This power is then deliberately integrated into the body – traditionally it would be physically blown in by the practitioner – and the person is able to both receive healing from and access that power after the session.

Kay’s power retrieval sessions are enhanced by the Reiki source at every stage of the process, and she has developed methods of working with groups remotely so that healers can safely journey as a group and are then guided to safely and effectively integrate the power they have called back.

Power Retrieval doesn’t just give us more energy, it provides clarity on both the healing we need and the medicine we provide for others. We are able to mindfully walk with that power long after the healing ceremony is completed.

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Who is this retreat for?

Do I need to have healing experience to attend this retreat?

Yes. We have designed this retreat specifically for healers and teachers. Between us own healing methods include Reiki, shamanic healing, systemic constellations, Theta healing, crystal healing, sound healing… and more! We welcome anyone with experience in energy healing, psychic and spiritual healing, shamanism, magical self development work, etc. We are working to give the best support possible to those of us providing healing work and spiritual guidance or ceremonies for others; however those who are engaged in committed personal spiritual practice will also receive great healing benefit. There is no requirement to be currently working as a professional healer.

What will I receive?

The main events of our retreat are the 4 (90 minute) live sessions on 15, 18, 21 and 24 June. You will have access to all 4 live classes and their recordings. You will also receive emails every day during our 10 day retreat, keeping the work of our opening meditations and powerful healings alive throughout, and providing prompts to go deeper with the work. Kay and Leanne will be holding the circle space and calling in healing and empowerment for all participants throughout.

How much work do I need to do for this retreat?

We recommend that you create an altar for the work throughout this time, and also make a commitment to engage with the healing work for a short time each day. Guidance on creating this space and prompts for the work will be provided every day. This commitment will make it easier to integrate the more intensive healing we do on the 90 minute live sessions, and bring about more awareness for you to carry forward after the retreat. However, we like to meet our healing community where they are (as we are sure you do with your clients and students) so everyone is welcome to take a light touch or to go deep, as feels needed each day. Our container will hold you either way.

Will I have to attend live?

We would love to see you at the live sessions! Coming together as a community of healers is so joyful, and it is an honour for each of us in the circle to witness and support each other’s work. But we do understand that life is busy and timezones can be tricky. All 4 sessions will be recorded and participants will retain access to them for 6 months after the retreat. Those on the call will be able to feedback and ask questions in realtime, however we will respond to questions posted on the recordings. Everyone who is enrolled on the retreat will be held in our healing prayers of intention for each ceremony – so we will be holding space and doing healing for everyone, whether they are on the call or not.

Is there a booking deadline?

We will be closing booking on Saturday 13 June, in order that we may complete our preparation work and build the safe healing space for our participants. We won’t be able to accept any bookings after our work has begun.

Still have questions? Get in touch to ask…

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Your retreat facilitators

Kay Gillard

Since 2009 I have been working to combine the skilful and ceremonial work of shamanic healing with the profound healing power of the Reiki source. I always work using Reiki as my source energy, but bring in the ancient wisdom of shamanism to release attachments and intrusions, retrieve soul parts lost through trauma, heal ancestral patterns and inherited patterns, and restore healers to power. Sound healing has always been the thread that runs through my healing ceremonies, and I use intuitive voice work and drumming with Reiki to create powerful healing experiences for individuals and both public and private groups.

Personal healing that brings lasting personal change is at the core of my work for both my clients and teachers. Teaching is the beating heart of my business: nothing gives me more joy that giving healers the skills they need to create healing and transformation for themselves and their communities.

Leanne Cruz

I support people to reconnect with their inner truth, to release what does not belong to them and to awaken to their soul.
The space I hold is not surface level, it is intentional, grounded and a safe container. I am a trauma informed practitioner.

To me healing is not about fixing you. It is about Re-membering who you were before the world told you who to be.

So whether through meditation, constellations, journeys, group workshops or ceremonial work, I hold a space where transformation feels safe, where you feel held and seen, to meet yourself.

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