The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
Owner & Founder
Katie created Acornwellness through her natural drive to support others. Her creativity was allowed to thrive; inspiring the design and development of the place itself. She loves being a central part of The Acorn and has found key interests and learning in Yoga, chakras, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Doterra Essential oils, Whole Food Plant Based living and reiki. Katie loves welcoming people to this haven of healing and watching them flourish.
Co-manager and therapist
Sarah is a beautiful part of the tapestry of Acornwellness. She is an amazing chameleon; adapting from kitchen to therapy rooms to administrator and manager. She is an imperative part to the flow, care and attention to detail.
Sarah is a highly qualified Complementary and Beauty Therapist who has followed her heart, developing her skills and qualifications in massage and Reiki, leading her to also be a Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Degree Master Practitioner and teacher.
Sarah’s passion include crystals, which she likes to use intuitively with her treatments whenever possible to enhance the benefits of her treatments in balancing your mind, body, soul and spirit.
Sarah is currently undertaking further training with the Harrogate Natural Health School to enhance her skills and treatments in massage in cancer care.
She is also introducing her latest treatment – Daoyin Tao which Sarah is really passionate about.
Sarah looks forward to welcoming you to the tranquil cocoon of the Acorn Wellness Retreat. She will bespoke your treatment to suit your needs and desires wherever possible.
Yoga Teacher
Julie is our fantastic yoga teacher. Teaching a range of classes including Vinyasa Flow and Kundalini yoga. She also specialises in gong baths and yoga nidra which are so therapeutic and soothing.
‘I didn’t find yoga, yoga found me. After losing my son in 2002 my life was scattered. My mind was a runaway train, I had no control over my thoughts and at times I couldn’t see the woods for the trees. I began as a yoga student in 2003/2004. With posture, breath and meditation I soon found the most valuable tool I could ever have imagined. My life changed completely after that. I found focus and a healthy way forward. I started to see my life as a journey and this excited me.’Jules holds healing day retreats, shamanic retreats and one to one shamanic journeying.
Body, Mind and Soul Practitioner
Body, Mind & Soul Evolution Practitioner. Wellness, Sacred Feminine, Intuitive, Energy & Shamanic Teacher. Advocate for Sacred Womanhood Growth.
www.anotherlogonthefire.com
Evolve, embody and move forward.
Know, accept and love who you are.
Kay Turner has been teaching and working with children and adults in a pastoral and healing capacity since 1996. She graduated from Durham University with a BA (hons) First-Class in Theology in 1995 and went on to study a PGCE in Religious Education at York St John the following year.
She worked in Secondary Education as a teacher of RE, Psychology and Health and Social Care, a Curriculum Leader and a Sixth Form Head of Year between 1996 and 2016, apart from a short career break during which she gave birth to three children, completed a counselling qualification, MA in Theology and undertook volunteer pastoral work at a Healing Centre.
Kay is walking the Priestess Path and is an Advocate for Sacred Womanhood Growth. She works as a Body, Mind & Soul Evolution Practitioner working with clients individually, in addition to facilitating group workshops and retreats. As a Wellness, Sacred Feminine, Intuitive, Energy and Shamanic Mentor and Teacher Kay creates resources and online courses on these topics. As a lifelong learner, since 2016 Kay has qualified as a Wellbeing Coach, Yin Yoga Teacher, a Trainer and Advanced Practitioner in Energy Medicine, Mysticism and Shamanic Healing, completed a year Rose Lineage Priestess spiral and is currently training to be a Somatic Erotic Educator.
Holistic Therapist
Tiffany is a highly qualified complimentary therapist and reflexologist offering a range of wellness treatments to balance your mind,body,spirit and emotions.
Tiffany believes in the body’s ability to heal itself and works intuitively to assess your needs and create a bespoke therapy.
Therapeutic techniques are used as well as energy healing to reconnect your mind and body.
With 15 years experience in the hair and beauty industry and 3 years in the world of spa, Tiffany’s passion is healing and nurturing her guests.
Tiffany is available to offer treatments including Swedish body massage,hot stones massage, holistic facials,Indian head massage, mikao usui second degree reiki (OKUDEN)
Her passion is restorative foot reflexologist after receiving many benefits during her pregnancies and beyond,she would like to study maternity reflexology in 2021
Tiffany is looking forward to welcoming you at Acorn Wellness Retreat and will endeavour to make your treatment-whatever you may choose, as nurturing as possible
Naturopath
Practicing the latest techniques in evidence based, anti-ageing medicine for the last 17 years on Harley Street to combine my holistic techniques with their physical and mental-emotional techniques. By understanding the combinations you can see where you are losing your edge, which is preventing you from achieving your maximum potential in health, fitness and thinking/memory.
This proven health screening system is looking for:
The causative reasons of the problem and not chasing around after symptoms.
I specialise in:
Digestion and food.
Circulation, how you get oxygen and nutrients around the body for energy (or lack of), flexibility of arteries, oxygenation, reasons for inflammation and premature ageing.
Cardiac, including a single, three or six lead ECG.
Stress measurement of the Autonomic Nervous System. SNS – get up and go. PSNS – rest and digest. Physical or emotionally driven, as you are perceiving it.
I take a finger prick sample of blood. Using a Biomedx fibre optic phase microscope, I find it very helpful to be shown what is happening in the live blood. This shows instantly on my laptop and can then be discussed within the consultation. Used correctly, in combination with other tests, it is incredibly helpful for finding causative factors and the best methodology of correcting them.
Before doing my PhD in Naturopathic Medicine my original doctrine was Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Acupuncture, so after conventional screening I use TCM for diagnostics from a completely different perspective. Where the two methodologies are the same we know that we have the causative factor and focus on that.
In TCM everything is interconnected and ebbs and flows together. With every action there is a reaction. Every organ has its own emotion – where is the imbalance coming from?
TO BOOK A SESSION WITH JOHN PLEASE USE THIS LINK John works from The Acorn on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.THEN BUY A £95 CONSULTANCY VOUCHER AVAILABLE HERE (go to vouchers under events calendar)
Yoga and Reiki
Beccy has been practising yoga for over 15 years. She found it so beneficial to the mind, body and soul that she embarked on a two year journey to further her knowledge and become a qualified teacher. Beccy enjoys teaching about feminine energy and holding a safe space for women to grow and develop themselves. She uses kundalini kriya and relaxing breath work – creating a space to feel nurtured.
Through Yoga, Beccy was inspired to create herbal teas to support the physical and emotional health of her clients. She is also a Reiki master and offers treatments at The Acorn.
psychologist and forest therapy practitioner
Helen is a HCPC Registered Psychologist and Integrative Forest Therapy practitioner. Helen is trained in therapies including Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), and has an interest in Polyvagal theory and Somatic practice to support body and mind healing. She has over 10 years’ experience in delivering 1:1 and groupwork therapies.
Helen has a love for all things nature and recognises the power of nature in promoting well-being. She offers both 1 to 1 and groupwork sessions. These include a 6 week forest therapy group for well-being, as well as nurturing self-compassion groups interwoven with nature-based exercises. Helen specialises in creating a safe space for individuals to slow down and move into their body, as well as supporting facilitation of a deeper connection to nature to promote healing. She enjoys translating psychological theory and practice, into simple achievable ways of achieving a more mindful approach to life.
To have a taster of what Helen offers, visit our VIRTUAL RETREAT.
Open water swim coach
Lucy is a Swimming Teacher and Open Water Swimming Coach who is passionate about the benefits of cold water for our physical and mental health.
She offers guided swims as part of retreats and holds a range of group swims in the local rivers. Often found in the river Nidd she is a year-round swimmer who loves being immersed in nature and held by the water.
Lucy has 20 years’ experience of working in targeted services with young people and young adults, she is a mentor and trainer who specialises in Mental Health and Safeguarding.
Her love of the water is infectious, she will hold space, make you feel safe and supported so you can experience the many rewards of wild swimming.
Wellness coach
Meet Emma, she is a trainer, speaker, coach and change champion.
Emma specialises in helping you grow into your conscious optimal self through coaching and energy psychology. She believes every person is born to flourish. However, on our experiential journey we pick up stories and self-limiting beliefs which can hold us back from bringing our whole selves to the world. Emma helps you see these blocks with clarity to enable you to be fully present and live a meaning led life.
Emma blends the latest science of positive psychology and well-being with powerful coaching tools to help you find your authentic self, enabling you to flourish and share your gifts with the world.
Coaching is not always easy. Having the mirror held up to you can be challenging, but until we see our true selves reflected back, its difficult for us to fully grow and develop. We all have the powerful answers and insights we need to be our best within us, sometimes you just need someone to help you find them and see them. That’s where coaching comes in. Emma will hold space for you to explore, reflect and dig deep, helping you to find your authentic self and supporting you to create practical actions to get you where you want to be.
Emma also uses a combination of psychological acupuncture (also known as, emotional freedom technique or tapping) and gamut point tapping to release any emotional, mental and energy blocks.
Emma offers coaching and energy psychology separately or can combine the two elements to help you to flourish and thrive.
A coaching or energy psychology (or combination) session typically lasts for around an hour and half and most people have between 1 and 6 sessions spaced accordingly. The sessions can be taken at the Acorn or virtually over zoom.
Emma sees a wide range of clients who work on things like, personal well-being, self-limiting beliefs, creating new habits and releasing ones that no longer serve, career progression, defining purpose and designing goals.
Emma co-founded Growth Pod with Chris Gibson. They work together in bringing optimum all round potential to individuals and businesses.
Mentoring and coaching
Chris Gibson brings with him over 34 years military and governmental experience. He has held leadership roles and key appointments throughout his career which have seen him serve on specialist military operations all over the world including 18 months in Beirut attempting to gain the release of Terry Waite, 12 months in Sarajevo on a Special Forces Team charge with the capture and arrest on indicted war criminals and 16 months in Sierra Leone during the civil war. Further deployment on operations in Zaire, Uganda and Algeria brought many challenges. Having lead the Close Protection operation in the Middle East during the 2nd Gulf War which saw him planning and leading the protection of various world leaders Chris moved on to further challenges that the military offered.
Having graduated from NHS Staff College he has taken his inventive enthusiasm for adapting military leadership and wisdom for the wider benefit of enterprises such as the NHS. Having gained a post graduate award in Medical Simulation Management from Harvard University, Chris was appointed as The Chief Instructor of The Army Medical Services Training Centre, the world’s largest medical simulation centre. Whilst there he co-developed a training and assurance methodology for hospital care which has been adopted by American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand militaries as international best practice.
Chris was given the task of leading on the development and delivery of a training model for military and NHS volunteers to combat the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. This was an irrefutable success which saw over 1200 personnel deploy appropriately trained and equipped for the rigor of delivering care in a West African jungle, for which he was awarded the MBE. A known innovator, Chris was recently awarded with The Health Service Journal Special Recognition Award, the first occasion this has been issued for his development of innovative solutions to healthcare this was latterly followed by Ideas UK as International Innovator of the Year 2017-18. Of late Chris has been the government lead on assisting London Ambulance Service NHS Trust out of Special Measures. He completed his assignment in September 2019 working as a Special Advisor to the Ministry of Justice as a Leadership and Cultural Advisor.
Of late Chris has worked with the Irish Government on strategic contingency planning. He works with various professional sporting teams and business groups on how to translate this positive philosophy into a winning capability. He remains much sought after as a key note speaker on leadership and innovation by leading academic institutes.
Chris offers a wide range of expertise and training to both the individual and businesses. He thrives on supporting others in obtaining optimum wellness and all round potential.Emma and Chris founded The Growth Pod to bring together and share their skills creating workshops and programmes on leadership for businesses and wellness strategies for companies looking to work to their potential.
Wellbeing Therapist
Trish is a wellbeing therapist and mentor with over twenty years experience.
She has a wealth of knowledge in the holistic approach to health and wellness. With multiple qualifications including, Biology (MSc), Stress Reduction Therapies (ITEC), Chakra Teaching (CA) and Mindfulness (MA).
Trish is a UK listed Mindfulness teacher and has supported many people to find ways to relax, heal, de-stress and cope with a wide range of challenges, including physical and emotional pain, addictions, anxiety and life pressures.
If you choose to have a talking or body therapy, her approach is guaranteed to be personalised, mindful and informative. Trish also facilitates classes, seminars and workshops at the Acorn; in particular the 8-week Mindfulness Based Living Course (the first step to a pathway of learning/teaching Mindfulness) and the Chakra Consciousness course for women.
Spiritual Teacher/ Life Coach
Michael is our incredible life coach who runs 1-1 consultations and runs interactive workshops and seminars. Michael’s use of Vedic astrology as a tool to coach clients provides deep insights into their lives and circumstances. It is a time-honoured ancient system that supports self-realisation. Consultations last between 75 to 90 minutes and are digitally recorded for your later reference.
Herbalist
Natalia is our expert herbalist and educator; passionate about promoting health and wellbeing.
Using the natural healing properties of herbs, she is wonderful at incorporating herbal medicine traditions from around the world. Based on the teaching that every one of us is created with our mental, physical and emotional spheres are interwoven and inseparable, she treats patients with this in mind.
Offering both one-to-one consultations to heal patients health and vitality and improve their lives and also workshops and courses. The workshops include plant medicine, self-healing and wellness.
With a focus on our connection to nature, inner-self and one another with the teaching that these are all key ingredients to healthy, vibrant living. Leave Natalia’s workshops feeling enthused and empowered.
Natalia also offers vitality screening with the aim of finding out where your vitality is at and finding your wellness balance.
Yoga, Reiki and Dance
Andrea’s mission at the Acorn is to empower women and encourage their progression to discover their strength and power. After falling in love with the Acorn, Andrea now offers Radiant Woman Retreat Days and also Radiant Woman weekend Retreats and also Radiant Reiki Training days.
Andrea brings her expertise to the Acorn, including training in Yoga, Meditation, Holistic therapies, Reiki to Master level, Energy 4 Life Wellness Coaching, Chakradance, Gypsy Caravan Tribal Bellydance and is also a Sacred Cacao Medicine Carrier & Soul Midwife
Yoga Retreat Teacher
Georgina hosts weekend yoga retreats here at the Acorn. The yoga she teaches is vinyasa. Speaking of the retreat and yoga, Georgina said, “I am in love with idea of losing yourself in movement, so we learn to flow better and the incorporate that into the classes we do together. The food we eat over the weekend is almost just as important as the yoga, everything is homemade and delicious, and just happens to be vegan. We sit together, chat, laugh and create a real sense of community. It is a huge passion of mine.
The weekends are always so amazing, we have yet to have had a group who haven’t left friends.”
Herbal Remedies
Based in Yorkshire, Katherine creates herbal remedies that are aimed to relax, release and re-balance on the healing journey. When she discovered the ancient recipe of Fire Cider an immune boosting tonic, while on a herbal remedy course, she couldn’t wait to make it and give it to her clients and friends. It didn’t take long before they all wanted more of this powerful potion full of natural anti -bacterial ingredients such as Horseradish, ginger, garlic and many more.
