Upcoming events
Yin Yoga - Slow Down. Soften. Let Go
A calming Yin Yoga practice designed to release tension, quiet the mind and leave you feeling grounded, spacious and restored.
Wild Swimming Woman - Fundraiser for Vallis Farm Education Centre CIC
Join Tara (Wild Swimming Woman) and Tamsin (Head of Land and Learning at Vallis Farm) for an evening talk on the benefits of wild swimming and how and why we created the natural pool here at Vallis Farm. This will be followed by a beautiful evening swim (not lifeguarded) for up to an hour in the natural pool surround by the sights and sounds of nature.
Be prepared to feel amazing not just because you’ve done the cold water swim but because you’ve done some good by helping us raise funds for our Education Centre CIC!
We have three time slots available. Each will be a half hour talk followed by a hours swim time. Please note: you must be a strong swimmer. There is no shallow end and no lifeguard. The pond is not temperature controlled or under cover.
See you in the pool xx
Frome Women's Circle Collective
This is a space for women to feel included and supported.
Hatha Yoga - 6 week course
End your week feeling nourished by mindful movement with breath awareness. These Hatha Yoga classes are rooted in cyclical wisdom and with an emphasis on meeting yourself with acceptance, exploring postures with a playful attitude and finding pleasure in both movement and rest.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Yoga for Mental Wellbeing
A 4-week yoga course to discover practices to give a greater sense of calm and ease
The Autumn Equinox Retreat day
A day to support our entry into the autumn and winter months. A day of balance, to experience the healing and restorative powers of both cold water and sauna heat. A gentle day of connection, with yourself, the natural world and other people, in the most beautiful and tranquil of settings.
Garden Design 101
Enhance your gardening knowledge with insights on permaculture, horticulture, sustainable gardening and more.
One-day writing retreat with Claire Jefferies
A one-day writing retreat surrounded by nature
The Reset Ritual
An invitation to slow down, feel deeply & restore your nervous system.
Yin Yoga - Slow Down. Soften. Let Go
A calming Yin Yoga practice designed to release tension, quiet the mind and leave you feeling grounded, spacious and restored.
Crafting Retreat Day with Swim and Sauna
A restorative day of crafting, delicious food, and relaxing.
Harvest Festival
Celebrate Harvest Festival with this family, fun-packed day at Vallis Farm.
Yoga for Mental Wellbeing
A 4-week yoga course to discover practices to give a greater sense of calm and ease
Yin Yoga - Slow Down. Soften. Let Go.
A calming Yin Yoga practice designed to release tension, quiet the mind and leave you feeling grounded, spacious and restored.
Yoga for Mental Wellbeing
A 4-week yoga course to discover practices to give a greater sense of calm and ease
Yin Yoga - Slow Down. Soften. Let Go.
A calming Yin Yoga practice designed to release tension, quiet the mind and leave you feeling grounded, spacious and restored.
Frome Women's Circle Collective
This is a space for women to feel included and supported.
Autumn Botanical Gelli Print Workshop
Come and relax, play with colour, and let your creativity shine this Autumn
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Autumn Foraging Workshop and Lunch
Learn how to identify common edible plants and what to do with them!
The Reset Ritual
An invitation to slow down, feel deeply & restore your nervous system.
The Wild Swimming Woman - Winter Weekend Retreat
Connect with the Land, water and each other on this weekend retreat.
Frome Women's Circle Collective
This is a space for women to feel included and supported.
Crafting Retreat Day with Swim and Sauna
A restorative day of crafting, delicious food, and relaxing.
Autumn Botanical Gelli Print Workshop
Come and relax, play with colour, and let your creativity shine this Autumn
The Reset Ritual
An invitation to slow down, feel deeply & restore your nervous system.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Frome Women's Circle Collective
This is a space for women to feel included and supported.
Winter Solstice Celebration
Solstice Circle round the firepit followed by cold dips and hot sauna ending with lunch inside by the woodburner
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Creating Garden Structures
Master the craft of natural weaving in our hands-on workshop to build beautiful and functional garden structures from willow and other pliable woods!
The Spring Equinox Retreat Day
A day full of connection and community spirit, a joyful end to winter.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Soil - Why it matters and how to improve it.
Learn the alchemy of compost and learn how to create soil from your kitchen waste!
Crafting Retreat Day with Swim and Sauna
A restorative day of crafting, delicious food, and relaxing.
Feeding our Communities – Sustainable Market Gardening
Learn all the essentials of market gardening in this intensive LANTRA accredited course running across six weekends from April - October 2027.
This course gives you the basis of an organic approach to growing food whilst looking at different approaches to market gardening. You will learn the importance of soil and plant health, how to manage pests and diseases without the use of chemicals, how to capture and store rainwater to irrigate your crops in a sustainable way and how to build to build a resilient business around your preferred type of growing, space and skill set. We will focus in on business planning and overall designs for you to take away and build on.
Unit titles are:
Plant and soil health
Different approaches to growing
Irrigation and water management
Pests and diseases
Propagation
Crop planning and harvesting
Sources of revenue
Business planning
Designing your market garden
Dates are:
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th April
Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th May
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June
Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th September
Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th October
Pricing: Prices are based on the cost of teaching, resources, marking your final assessment and accredited certificates.
Thanks to funding via our CIC - Vallis Farm Education Centre we are able to offer some reduced price spaces for those on a low wage. We can offer payment plans if you are unable to pay the full amount in one go. Email: claire@vallisfarm.co.uk for details of how to do this. We also have limited fully funded bursary spaces available.
For guidance on which price bracket you’re in and whether you qualify for a bursary application click here. If you’ve read through this and would like to apply for a bursary space click here to find out how to do this.
If you’ve read through the guidance and would like to pay now and reserve your space then click the appropriate button below. Otherwise get in touch with Claire to organise a payment plan or make a bursary application.
Spring foraging walk and lunch
Join us for a tour of our farm, looking at what nature can offer us at this time of year.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Introduction to Forest Gardening
Learn the principles of Forest Gardening and the benefits it can have on both smaller and larger scales.
No Dig Veg Growing
Learn the principles and practical techniques of no dig veg growing.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Cultivating Colour: An Introduction to Plant Dyes
Cultivate a living palette in our inspiring workshop on creating a multi-purpose dye garden that blooms with colour, fragrance, and creative potential for your home!
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
The Autumn Equinox Retreat day
A day to support our entry into the autumn and winter months. A day of balance, to experience the healing and restorative powers of both cold water and sauna heat. A gentle day of connection, with yourself, the natural world and other people, in the most beautiful and tranquil of settings.
Crafting Retreat Day with Swim and Sauna
A restorative day of crafting, delicious food, and relaxing.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Crafting Retreat Day with Swim and Sauna
A restorative day of crafting, delicious food, and relaxing.
Winter Solstice Celebration
Solstice Circle round the firepit followed by cold dips and hot sauna ending with lunch inside by the woodburner
Hatha Yoga - 6 week course
Start your week feeling nourished by mindful movement with breath awareness.
Seaweed Gelli Plate Printing Workshop
Come and relax, play with colour, and let your creativity shine where art meets the ocean!
Yoga for Mental Wellbeing
A 4-week yoga course to discover practices to give a greater sense of calm and ease
Hatha Yoga - 6 week course
End your week feeling nourished by mindful movement with breath awareness. These Hatha Yoga classes are rooted in cyclical wisdom and with an emphasis on meeting yourself with acceptance, exploring postures with a playful attitude and finding pleasure in both movement and rest.
Yin Yoga - Slow Down. Soften. Let Go
A calming Yin Yoga practice designed to release tension, quiet the mind and leave you feeling grounded, spacious and restored.
Autumn Botanical Gelli Print Workshop
Come and relax, play with colour, and let your creativity shine this Autumn
Lucky 7’s Fundraiser at Vallis Farm
Spin your favourite records and raise money for a good cause
Summer Botanical Gelli Print Workshop
Come and relax, play with colour, and let your creativity shine this Summer 🌼✨
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
The Reset Ritual
A weekly invitation to slow down, feel deeply & restore your nervous system.
Wild Floating Ritual: Sound Bath & Sauna
A floating sound bath in the wild pool at Vallis Farm
The Reset Ritual
A weekly invitation to slow down, feel deeply & restore your nervous system.
Mindfulness for Pregnancy
Time to step away from the busy, focus on your body and reconnect with yourself and your baby.
Evening Wildlife Walk & Supper with Ecologist Rob Frith
Supper and a Sunset walk with Rob Frith around Vallis Farm.
Soma Bloom Yoga & Sound Bath
Somatic Yoga & Crystal Bowl Sound Bath in Nature with Min
Step away from the noise of everyday life and immerse yourself in a deeply nourishing morning of movement, stillness, sound and connection.
Nestled within the beautiful gardens of Vallis Farm, Soma Bloom invites you to reconnect with yourself through gentle somatic yoga, conscious breathwork, tea & cake and a restorative crystal bowl sound bath. Weather permitting, we have indoors booked as a back-up, we'll gather outdoors, surrounded by nature's beauty, allowing the calming rhythms of the natural world to support our practice.
There is something profoundly healing about moving and resting beneath the open sky. Nature itself follows patterns of harmony and balance, reflected in the golden ratio found throughout flowers, leaves and landscapes. When we spend time immersed in these natural environments, our bodies often respond by softening, slowing down and returning to a more regulated state.
Together, we'll begin by grounding into the earth beneath us, awakening awareness through mindful movement, breath and gentle somatic practices designed to release tension and invite ease into the body. We will then break for refreshments, tea and homemade cake.
We'll then settle comfortably into a crystal singing bowl sound bath, allowing the soothing vibrations to wash through the nervous system, creating space for deep rest, integration and restoration.
No previous experience is needed. This experience is suitable for all abilities and is designed to meet you exactly where you are.
Please Bring
✨Yoga mat
✨Water bottle
✨Blanket
✨Pillow or cushion
✨Eye mask (optional)
✨Comfortable layers suitable for the weather
Hi, I'm Min.
I'm passionate about creating spaces where people can soften, breathe deeply and reconnect with themselves.
After 15 years in education supporting children & families’ wellbeing, I felt a calling to explore a deeper understanding of what helps us truly flourish. This journey led me into the worlds of yoga, somatic movement, breathwork, nervous system regulation and the healing power of sound & nature.
I've come to believe that so much of what we're searching for—calm, clarity, balance and connection—is already within us. We simply need the opportunity to slow down enough to hear it.
That's why I create experiences like Soma Bloom. A chance to step away from the demands of everyday life, immerse yourself in nature, move gently, rest deeply and remember what it feels like to simply be.
My intention is for you to leave feeling lighter, calmer, more connected and nourished from the inside out.
I look forward to welcoming you, Min x
Spaces are limited to maintain an intimate and supportive atmosphere. Reserve your place today and gift yourself two hours of rest, renewal and reconnection. The exchange for this experience is £25 per person.
To book, please email: support@minrobertsonwellness.com
Or connect via Instagram: min_soul_som
Intro to Embroidery
Intro to Embroidery
Join this fun and inspiring course for just a session, a handful or all 6 weeks. We will be exploring a new embroidery technique each week, from the whitework and drawn threadwork of the Regency to the blackwork of the Tudors, we will discover Sashiko from Japan and Pepenado from Mexico as well as the best stitches to add lettering to your clothes.
All premium quality materials and tools included; each session is 2 hours long, from 9.30 - 11.30am Friday mornings from 1st May to 5th June at beautiful Vallis Farm, near Frome.
https://www.lovemakerscafe.com/vallis-embroidery
Friday 19th June : REGENCY WHITEWORK
Elegant and dainty (much to the dismay of many an Austen heroine), nowadays the classic embroidery techniques beloved by the Georgians are often modernised with colour and creative license to bring personality to textiles of all sorts
Friday 26th June: LETTERING
There are numerous options for sewing letters, and they depend on many things - we will consider them all before having a go at a few of the most useful techniques for you to carry on at home.
Friday 3rd July: SASHIKO
The stunning Japanese craft of building up surprisingly complex patterns from the humble running stitch
Friday 10th July: BLACKWORK
A fun but fiddly embroidery technique that has been traced as far back as c13 Egypt, made famous in the UK by Holbeins the Elder and Younger due to their incredibly intricate portraits of Tudor royals and aristocrats. Neat, occasionally double-sided and often incredibly intricate, traditionally worked in black silk on linen.
Friday 17th July: BORDADO PEPENADO
A traditional rural craft from the villages of pre-colonial Mexico, embroidery styles varied widely between communities. Deeply iconographic, pepenado embroidery emulates pre-colonial weaving patterns with long lines of running stitches creating pagan symbols and shapes as well as flora and fauna.
Friday 24th July: DRAWN THREADWORK
Deceptively simple, elegant and surprisingly robust, this decorative technique was traditionally practiced on simply woven linen and hemp. Use it to add a touch of class to table linens or plain clothing.
Prices
1 class: £342 classes: £64
3 classes: £92
4 classes: £122
5 classes: £153
Full course (6 classes): £165
To book:
- please email hello@lovemakerscafe.com
- or sms/ WhatsApp Anna on 07494545841
Stating which dates you’re interested in, and we will book you in and send a booking link.
Summer Fete
Expect local produce, a sizzling BBQ, stalls, crafts, face painting, storytelling, and live entertainment.
Wild Circle: a women's group in nature
Women sharing honest conversation around a fire in a beautiful garden setting.
Intro to Embroidery
Intro to Embroidery
Join this fun and inspiring course for just a session, a handful or all 6 weeks. We will be exploring a new embroidery technique each week, from the whitework and drawn threadwork of the Regency to the blackwork of the Tudors, we will discover Sashiko from Japan and Pepenado from Mexico as well as the best stitches to add lettering to your clothes.
All premium quality materials and tools included; each session is 2 hours long, from 9.30 - 11.30am Friday mornings from 1st May to 5th June at beautiful Vallis Farm, near Frome.
https://www.lovemakerscafe.com/vallis-embroidery
Friday 19th June : REGENCY WHITEWORK
Elegant and dainty (much to the dismay of many an Austen heroine), nowadays the classic embroidery techniques beloved by the Georgians are often modernised with colour and creative license to bring personality to textiles of all sorts
Friday 26th June: LETTERING
There are numerous options for sewing letters, and they depend on many things - we will consider them all before having a go at a few of the most useful techniques for you to carry on at home.
Friday 3rd July: SASHIKO
The stunning Japanese craft of building up surprisingly complex patterns from the humble running stitch
Friday 10th July: BLACKWORK
A fun but fiddly embroidery technique that has been traced as far back as c13 Egypt, made famous in the UK by Holbeins the Elder and Younger due to their incredibly intricate portraits of Tudor royals and aristocrats. Neat, occasionally double-sided and often incredibly intricate, traditionally worked in black silk on linen.
Friday 17th July: BORDADO PEPENADO
A traditional rural craft from the villages of pre-colonial Mexico, embroidery styles varied widely between communities. Deeply iconographic, pepenado embroidery emulates pre-colonial weaving patterns with long lines of running stitches creating pagan symbols and shapes as well as flora and fauna.
Friday 24th July: DRAWN THREADWORK
Deceptively simple, elegant and surprisingly robust, this decorative technique was traditionally practiced on simply woven linen and hemp. Use it to add a touch of class to table linens or plain clothing.
Prices
1 class: £342 classes: £64
3 classes: £92
4 classes: £122
5 classes: £153
Full course (6 classes): £165
To book:
- please email hello@lovemakerscafe.com
- or sms/ WhatsApp Anna on 07494545841
Stating which dates you’re interested in, and we will book you in and send a booking link.
Soul Circle
A shamanic women's circle which works with the energies we are currently in.
Mindfulness for Pregnancy
Time to step away from the busy, focus on your body and reconnect with yourself and your baby.