Returning Home to Yourself

A Six-Week Journey Into Rest, Warmth & Inner Connection

Beginning Monday 2 November 2026

The Serenity Lounge · Cockermouth

Six weeks · £122

As the days grow shorter and the outside world begins to get busier, nature quietly invites us to do something very different.

To turn inward.

To slow down enough to hear ourselves again.

To reconnect with the parts of ourselves that can become buried beneath all the doing, giving, organising, caring and keeping everything going.

Returning Home to Yourself is the next chapter of Serenity Seasons, a carefully created six-week journey through November and into December.

This isn’t six separate yoga classes with a different theme added each week.

It’s one journey, unfolding over six weeks.

Each week builds upon the one before, combining gentle yoga or deeply restorative Yin with breathwork, seasonal reflection, deep hypnotic guided journeys, Angelic Reiki, crystals, essential oils, journaling and simple practices to take home.

You don’t need to be flexible.

You don’t need to be experienced at yoga or meditation.

And you certainly don’t need to be good at switching your brain off.

You simply need somewhere, for 90 minutes each week, where you get to matter too.

Serenity Seasons

Returning Home to Yourself

A six week seasonal journey back to yourself.

Starting in the week commencing Monday, 2 November 2026

Gentle movement • Deep relaxation • Nervous system restoration • Seasonal rituals

Maximum 6 beautiful souls per journey

Your Six Week Journey

Week One

Turning Inward

We begin as the year moves more deeply into its darker season.

This first week isn’t about fixing or changing anything.

It’s about withdrawing some of our attention from the constant noise of the outside world and beginning to notice what’s happening within.

We’ll begin creating a familiar pathway towards what I call the Still Point, that quieter internal place beneath the thoughts, roles, responsibilities and noise.

What happens when I stop looking outside myself for a moment and turn towards me?

Week Two

Listening Within

Once we become quieter, we can begin to hear the things that busyness has a wonderful habit of drowning out.

What do I actually need?

What have I been ignoring?

What does my body tell me?

What do I know before everybody else’s opinions, expectations and shoulds get involved?

This isn’t about finding all the answers.

It’s about becoming quiet enough to hear the questions.

Week Three

Your Inner Fire

Now we introduce a little more energy.

After two weeks of turning inward and listening, we begin to ask:

What lights me up?

Not what should I be doing.

Not what does everybody else need from me.

What brings me energy, curiosity, confidence, joy or that little spark of me?

The physical practice becomes a little stronger before gradually softening into Yin and deep rest.

This isn’t about adding more to your life.

It’s about remembering what makes you feel alive within it.

Week Four

Enough

So many women become incredibly accomplished at giving.

Doing. Helping. Coping. Achieving. Looking after everybody else.

And somewhere along the way, it can become very easy to absorb the idea that when we’ve done a little more, achieved a little more or finally got everything under control, then perhaps we’ll have earned the right to stop.

This week gently challenges that.

What if you were enough before you did another thing?

Week Five

Deep Rest

This is our softest and most restorative week.

We’re not resting so that we can become more productive afterwards.

We’re not earning our rest.

And we’re not squeezing relaxation into another box on the to-do list.

We’re exploring what happens when the body is deeply supported and there is genuinely nothing required of you.

Expect bolsters, blankets, beautiful supported Yin and one of our deepest guided journeys.

Your only job is to receive.

Week Six

Returning Home

Finally, we bring the journey together.

Over six weeks you’ve travelled from turning inward to listening, rediscovering your inner fire, questioning the need to constantly prove your enoughness and learning to receive deep rest.

By now, the Still Point you’ve been visiting each week is no longer simply somewhere I guide you towards.

It’s somewhere you’re beginning to know how to find for yourself.

And perhaps that’s what returning home really means.

Not escaping your life.

Knowing how to come back to yourself within it.

More Than the 90 Minutes We Spend Together

Every week, your space is waiting for you.

Your mat. Bolster. Blankets. Cushions. Eye pillow. Soft light. Herbal tea.

And time to arrive rather than rushing straight from the outside world onto a yoga mat.

Across the six weeks you’ll also create your own Returning Home collection, including:

🍂 A beautiful hardback journal for your journey

🍂 A carefully chosen crystal each week

🍂 A small essential-oil vial connected with the week’s theme

🍂 A weekly affirmation card to add to your journal

🍂 Guided reflection and journaling

🍂 Breathwork and mudra

🍂 Seasonal wisdom and reflection

🍂 Deep hypnotic guided journeys

🍂 Angelic Reiki

🍂 A simple weekly ritual to take into everyday life

🍂 Herbal tea and time to settle before we begin

🍂 A new guided recording each week, gradually building your own Serenity Library

The spiritual elements are always an invitation, never a requirement. You can connect with them in whatever way feels meaningful to you, or simply enjoy the opportunity to move, breathe and rest.

Choose Your Sanctuary

Arrive up to 30 minutes early to settle, enjoy tea and choose an oracle card, with space after your session for reflection, journaling and connection.

With only six places available in each journey, early booking is recommended.

Monday Morning, 2 November

10.30am – 12noon

Yin Yoga & Deep Relaxation

A slower, predominantly floor-based practice with supported, longer-held postures and no standing flow.

Beautiful if you’re craving softness, stillness and deep restoration.

£122

Maximum 6 places

Monday Evening, 2 November

6pm – 7.30pm

Gentle Flow Yoga & Deep Relaxation

Accessible, gently flowing yoga combining breath and movement before gradually softening into Yin and your deep guided journey.

£122

Maximum 6 places

Tuesday Morning, 3 November

10.30am – 12noon

Gentle Flow Yoga & Deep Relaxation

The same Gentle Flow experience in a daytime session.

£122

Maximum 6 places

Thursday Morning, 5 November

10.30am – 12noon

Gentle Flow

A little note for Thursday Lounge Sessions: This class is also livestreamed, with the camera focused on the instructor, so there’s no need to worry about being on camera.

£122

Maximum 6 places

Thursday Evening, 5 November

6pm–7.30pm

Gentle Hatha to Yin

A little note for Thursday Lounge Sessions: This class is also livestreamed, with the camera focused on the instructor, so there’s no need to worry about being on camera.

£122

Maximum 6 places

Why Six Weeks?

Real transformation happens gently.

Week by week.

Breath by breath.

Rather than leaving feeling wonderful for one evening, this journey allows you to create new habits, calming rituals and simple daily practices that become part of your everyday life.

The true transformation happens between our sessions as much as it does within them.

Is This Journey For You?

This journey is perfect if you:

  • Feel overwhelmed or stretched too thin.
  • Long for more calm in your life.
  • Enjoy gentle movement rather than fast paced exercise.
  • Would love to sleep more deeply.
  • Want to feel more connected to yourself again.
  • Are completely new to yoga.
  • Simply need somewhere to exhale.

No flexibility or previous experience is needed.

Simply come exactly as you are.

The Serenity Lounge
Carole-Anne Knott - Hypnotherapy in Stokesley

A Personal Note…

 

Nature reminds us that letting go isn’t an ending. It’s a gentle preparation for what comes next.

My hope is that these six weeks become a peaceful pause in your life.

A place where you feel completely held.

Deeply rested.

Gently reminded of the wonderful woman you already are.

I would love to welcome you into our sanctuary.

With love,
Carole-Anne 🤍

For more information on the different therapies I offer please check the website pages or get in touch.

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Contact

caroleanneknott@gmail.com
07487 224 910

Location

Serenity Lounge
4 St Helen’s Street
Cockermouth
CA13 9HX

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