Spirituality of Walking retreat at Holland House

Led by Rosie Miles

Come and spend a weekend at Holland House, where (weather willing) we will both walk in the local area and explore together writing about walking in prose and poetry. The writers who will help us do this may include Robert Macfarlane, Raynor Winn, Kerry Andrews, Graham B. Ussher, Thomas A. Clark, Fréderic Gros, Cheryl Strayed and Rebecca Solnit.  We will reflect on what a ‘spirituality of walking’ might look like, consider the relationship between walking, identity and transition in our lives, and how more recently women are claiming their voices as walkers and travellers alongside men.  Robert Macfarlane writes of walking as “enabling sight and thought … [and] paths as offering … ways of feeling, being and knowing”.  This is very much the spirit of our journeying together over this weekend.