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NAKED SOUL- A weekend retreat with Pause Place on 2nd and 3rd November
Nov
2
to Nov 3

NAKED SOUL- A weekend retreat with Pause Place on 2nd and 3rd November

NAKED SOUL 

SATURDAY 2nd and SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER 2024

Deep rest and Reflection 

A weekend retreat with Pause Place

Sculpture by Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966)

It is the soul of things that must be loved. Any other form of loving is simply not enough 

And this loving is often silent,
for the nature of the soul is beyond description, beyond words 

On the 2nd and 3rd November we will be gathering in the studio in East London for our event Naked Soul. 

The priority for this gathering is deep quiet, deep rest and deep listening. 

I am hoping it will be dark, so we can flood the space with tea lights. This time, I hope that we can make a mandala of light. 

We will begin with our blankets, protecting the soul and the body. I cannot wait to give you your mug. Elio and I are working together to create a beautiful mug for you to take home.

And then we will begin to explore the soul. What it means for the soul to be known, intimately. Not necessary by another. But by life. A dialogue, an intimacy between you and life. 

Of course we all do this, we all know this, what it means to be known and felt nakedly. But this relationship with life continues on. We are all taken deeper, if we allow it and if we are open. 

Stopping everything and taking time for your soul is one of the most important things that you can do. So that you can really listen and really hear and really respond. 

This will be a very safe space for the unfolding of your own soul. You can go at your own pace. You do not have to say a word. Unless you choose. You do not have to be known, unless you choose. 

With love,

Katie Abbott

Founder, Pause Place

Please join us in London on the first weekend of February, for warmth, companionship, mystery and beauty. 

Concessions and payment plans available upon request. Please email katie@pauseplace.com

ALL WELCOME. 

Please note that each day will run from 10.30am- 4.30pm with arrival from 10am. 

Our venue is a private studio in East London. 

Each person who books their place will receive a hand made Pause Place mug, made in collaboration with Elio @jaak.london This mug is a labour of love and one we cannot wait to share with you.



"There truly is no space like Pause Place, anywhere, and to be led and held by Katie is a rare and infinitely precious gift- presence, mystery, space, warmth, love and tenderness awaits." Lucy Lovett

"I can attest to this being one of those rare doors that lead to the most magical of places.” Ella Carey 

"Wanting to write words about my experience, but at it’s core, there really aren’t any! Just an overwhelming flow of love, truth and realness." Kelly Vittengl 

"All I can say it is this space is infinitely precious beyond measure." Sarah Thorneycroft 


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Jun
22
to Jun 29

CALL OF THE HEART- Retreat in Morocco with Kate White and Katie Abbott

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CALL OF THE HEART

Retreat in Morocco with Kate White and Katie Abbott

22nd June- 29th June 2024 for 13 guests

The heart is always calling. Sometimes more distant and sometimes closer. But it is the heart that takes us Home.

This is a rare and beautiful opportunity to travel to the magical land of Morocco with Kate White and Katie Abbott to experience the Call of the Heart within your own being.

What this will mean for your own life is somewhat of a mystery. Where the heart will take you, how it will speak to you, what feelings it evokes or awakens.

For each of us this is unique. But coming together, with a group of gentle and sincere travellers, means that your heart will have the space to feel it’s own deepest calling, and together, we can discover what it means to awaken from within and to live the hearts purest devotions.

Grounded in respect, compassion and presence, Kate White and Katie Abbott both have their own unique way to care and hold for this awakening.

Through a series of spontaneous and heart led sessions, the group shall meet each day to soften, expand and explore.

Silence, poetry, the power and grace of the beyond, meditations, sharings, healings and gentle movement. We shall be surrounded by the grace of nature, incense and a feeling of deep, held safely.

As a group, we shall enjoy the luxuries of our Home together. The warm airs, the pool, the luxurious outdoor living areas and open fire within as the evening draws us closer.

We have our own cook to nourish us with three meals a day, time for rest and time for reflection.

This truly is a journey of a lifetime.

For those who are interested to explore the mysteries of life in an exquisitely gentle and loving place, we welcome you.

The power of love is uncontainable, alive and ever so precious.
And we invite you to join us for the Call of the Heart.

To awaken your own being to the eternal love that surrounds us all.

What is included in your journey to the heart of Morocco…


Seven nights at a beautiful private home

Seven nights at our beautiful, Moroccan home. Nestled in the heart of the land, surrounded by the bloom of flowers and the scent of the orient. With our own private pool, areas to rest and explore, we will be held in the most precious kind of natural beauty. All rooms on this retreat are sharing rooms, with each room being spacious and made each morning afresh.

The warmest embrace in a safe place

A warm welcome by your two guides, Kate White and Katie Abbott who will be there each step to ensure your stay allows for the complete surrender and nurture of your being. Kate and Katie will be there throughout the whole adventure- giving plenty of opportunity for group exploration and relaxing moments by the pool.

Your meals cooked lovingly and with care

Three meals a day cooked on site by our own private chef, with local knowledge and insight into traditional specialities and flavours. There will be a fresh foods selected especially for the group from the local market each morning.

The Quiet of the Dawn

The opportunity to rise early and greet the day with the sun rising. Meeting one another at this sacred hour, allowing time for the call to prayer to find us. Incense, gentle stretching and the peace of the land. Waking early is of course optional.

The Spiritual Journey Home and the Call of the Heart

Each day we shall be entering the sacred nature of our circle together. Exploring spirituality, mysticism, devotion, healing, awakening and surrender, together we shall explore the mystery that is the Call of the Heart. No experience is necessary- simply an open mind and heart…

The magic of moonlight

As evening approaches, we can soften into the quiet of the moon light. Sharing dinner together we can then sit and explore in such a way that is unconfined and free. Listening to the life around and sharing the quiet together, this is an opportunity to arrive at a place that is both liberation and illumination

Exploring the land

The opportunity to explore the surrounding nature together. Excursions to the sea, local markets and the beauty of the land. We will no doubt find the Medina together- so we can search for the beauties Morocco has to offer- from textiles to pottery, spices and oils.

The heart of community

The opportunity to be together with a group of individuals who are exactly that- individuals. Everyone has their own rhythm and their own way and freedom and space is paramount to this experience. With plenty of time together, plenty of time to rest, silence and sound, we will respect the feeling of each person and allow everyone to be as they are.

The mystery unfolding

Although we cannot guarantee what will unfold on this very special adventure, we can place our hands on our heart and say that we will be engulfed in beauty and the sacred. It is our greatest honour to welcome you and invite you on this Moroccan Retreat, to allow the mystery to unfold together….


About your guides:

Kate White and Katie Abbott both share a devotion to the unnamable beauty of life and the great mystery. Both in their own way expressing this uniquely through the whole being.

Kate is devoted to truth, simplicity and love. She facilitates healing spaces where people can rest and directly experience the radiant source of being.

www.katewhite.org

Katie Abbott is the Founder of Pause Place, dedicated to the strength of love, presence and connection. Her first book of poetry was published in 2022.

www.pauseplace.com


What you need to do to join us…


The cost of this retreat is £1800 which includes the whole experience, food, accommodation and teachings. A deposit of £600 confirms your place. Payment plans are available upon request.

  • Please note you will need to organise your own transport to and from the venue- flights and taxis are not included in the retreat price. The arrival time is between 3 and 4pm for our opening at 5pm on the first day. On the last day we will close at 10am.

We have kept the price as low as we can to ensure accessibility and this retreat may not be offered at this rate again in the future. Now is the time to go for it if you feel the call of your heart!

Please note this retreat is for both men and women. Everyone is welcome.


THE CALL OF THE HEART

MOROCCO SUMMER 2024

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May
5
9:30 AM09:30

Awakening Love- a weekend retreat in London with Pause Place on May 4th and 5th 2024

Awakening Love

A weekend retreat in London on the weekend of the 4th and 5th May 2024

Photo by Elio, Jaak London

‘Your grace and generosity made my body like a soul.

In this realm of endless toil, nothing could be finer than this.’ Sanâ’î


The real magic is in how divine you are, the way your heart opens to life

Contained within every human being is this spark of light, a spark so bright it contains every shade and shadow, every colour and every texture, there is no limit there 

Awakening Love within your own being is a beautiful adventure, one that can take you off course and show you the real road home, the one in which your tenderness and beauty governs every moment and every decision

This very special weekend retreat with Pause Place is an opportunity to step into this ocean of love. To have every part of you moved and healed until it is radiating from your centre. With gentleness and with pressure, in equal measure, you will be moved from within. 

If you are looking to expand, explore or continue the awakening of love within your own being, join us. 

It is truly a radical act of service, to life, to be awake, to be thriving, feeling and holding all the potentiality that exists here. 

Please note this experience is open to you. Whoever you are. Wether you have joined us before or dipping your toes into the water. Expect magic and mystery beyond all expectation. 

With love, 

Pause Place 

Each person who joins us on this retreat will receive a very special limited edition hand crafted ceramic tea mug for drinking and feeling made in collaboration by JAAK LONDON X PAUSE PLACE  with our own special engraving

Each day will run from 10am-4.30pm in a private studio in East London. Arrival from 9.30am

To book your place, please email angie@pauseplace.com

Katie Abbott, Founder of Pause Place will be running this retreat.

 

‘There is a bright light pouring into a room from two large windows; it enters from difference places but becomes one light.’ Teresa of Avila

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE HEART
Jan
13
to Jan 14

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE HEART

The Transformation of the Heart was created for those beings wishing to connect to the deepest flame of truth within themselves, who wish to live this passion to the fullest of its potential and who desire the container and community to go on this very personal, very private and intimate journey together.

For more information, please email angie@pauseplace.com.

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A conversation with Kunal Nayyar and Katie Abbott
Jun
24
7:00 PM19:00

A conversation with Kunal Nayyar and Katie Abbott

Come and join Kunal Nayyar and Katie Abbott and a group of lovers for a dialogue based and formed around the spiritual quest. 

The love affair that is life and the places, traces and memories it leaves, the scars that remain. 

With full heartedness and joy, we welcome you to explore this most crazy adventure. 

When this world is not enough, where else do we have to go, than with one another, those fellow beings who are pulled from birth till rebirth to take this journey, to venture on, to return Home. 

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Love's Secret Book Launch and Private Gathering
Oct
1
7:30 PM19:30

Love's Secret Book Launch and Private Gathering

This book came during a period of life that was filled with Love. It wasn’t always an easy love- sometimes it was sweet and other times turbulent but I was learning about the Mystery, about how the Great Beloved reveals themselves through every facet of life- both the created world we can see but also the inner- the deep unfolding of the heart.

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Sep
16
to Sep 19

Spiritual Leadership- The Online Training with Katie Abbott

SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Please note- this training is now fully booked. If you would like to receive information about our next online training please email angie@pauseplace.com

THE ONLINE TRAINING

Image, thank you @pijama.land

Image, thank you @pijama.land

This is a time of incredible metaphysical, social, environmental, spiritual and physical transformation. 

The heart of a human being is needed at this time. 

And a heart open and aligned with the power of the beyond, knows no limits, soaring way, way above reason and logic. 

The power of love cannot be measured. It is free, it is alive and it is pure, undiluted. 

Presence is the only source of energy that can stop time, and bring all to a standstill, to a turning point. 

And our connection to one another and to the world around us is a living, breathing entity that can heal, soothe, empower, transform and ignite compassion on the deepest level. 

Spiritual Leadership is honouring our capacity to be in service to love, presence and connection. 

It may be very gentle and almost visible, it may be strong, and sharp and cut through all that is unreal. But one thing is for certain, a human being alive with the grace of love is a power of unspeakable measure. 

This training is for you if you are ready to: 

  • Give yourself in service to Love

  • Explore the intimacy of a true and devoted connection to the beyond

  • Join a group of fellow travellers to be together in a place of complete and unconditional love 

  • Explore the depths of spirituality and mysticism 

  • To discover the peace that resides within and around

  • To discover the power of divine grace, divine love and the embodiment of this power for your own sake and the sake of the whole 

What is included in this training:

  • Eight weekly group sessions on Wednesday evenings from 8.30pm- 9.30pm GMT hosted by Katie Abbott. During these calls you will join the group online via Zoom.

  • Messages from Katie emailed throughout the programme to support the soul’s journey

  • An invitation to an online forum to connect with the group during the training and beyond


When will this training take place: 

This training will take place on Wednesday evenings from 8.30pm-9.30pm GMT, beginning on Wednesday 16th September and completing on Wednesday 4th November 2020.

You will be invited to join the training via Zoom and will receive a Zoom link prior to the training beginning that can be used throughout the training.

‘I am certain that every person who ever experiences Katie finds love at its most real and most powerful and builds a life that is profoundly richer because of it.’ Nancy Kline, Author, Time to Think

‘You have taken me further than I have ever known into this mystery’. Cassie Yukawa McBurney

‘Life as I knew it has changed. It feels like a new way of seeing, an inner softening, a pure gateway into becoming yourself.’ Lou Villstrup

Image, thank you pyjama.land

Image, thank you pyjama.land

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The Soul of Devotion
Mar
9
7:30 PM19:30

The Soul of Devotion

We are devotional beings. Somewhere, somehow, longing to devote ourselves to something, someone, anything. There is restlessness within the human being that can sometimes prevail over whole lifetimes, never once allowing us to touch upon the deeper truth of belonging and wholeness. And then there comes a time, through chance, through fate, through destiny, when the soul turns and to be devoted to anything other than beauty, truth, love, fades far off into the distance, revealing the hidden nature of our being, a devotion to what is real. 

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Pure Heart, an evening of simplicity, tenderness and spiritual power with Katie Abbott
Jan
26
8:00 PM20:00

Pure Heart, an evening of simplicity, tenderness and spiritual power with Katie Abbott

Somemtimes we are pulled away from the outer forms of life and into the depth of our being. This experience, personal and intimate beyond measure, draws us deeper into the spiritual heart, where both tenderness and power awaits. Where love can reveal her mystery. 

Once we have been called deeper, we can begin to respond to what is most real in life. To the truth within our own being, to the calling of the soul and to the needs of the world around. With both beauty and sorrow, joy and longing, we can be made whole. 

This will be an evening for all. Candlelight, the sound of silence, the intimacy of presence. No pressure to do or say anything. I will share honestly- both of the fear and challenge contained within the human journey and of the mystery and grace given on the spiritual path. 

...

Oh Lord, give me a pure heart and an 

enlightened soul;

Give me the sigh of evening and the tears 

of sunrise;

On the way to Yourself, first make my self 

without self;

When I am without self, open the road

from Yourself to me. - Persian Poem, unknown

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Deepening Meditation
Dec
4
7:00 PM19:00

Deepening Meditation

You are welcome to join Katie at Highroad House for an evening of peace, tranquility and soul. This is an opportunity to explore both our spiritual and human nature in the serenity of candlelight. This is a private member event for Soho House and Highroad House members.

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Awakening Soul, A day retreat at 42 Acres
Nov
18
10:00 AM10:00

Awakening Soul, A day retreat at 42 Acres

You are welcome to join Katie Abbott for a day retreat at 42 Acres on Sunday 18th November. The day will run from 10am until 4.30pm. There is nothing that you need to do accept come with an open heart and mind. There will be space for deep rest, spiritual reflection, healing and complete letting go. Nothing will be expected from you. If you want to come and be quiet and absorb the flow you are welcome. The magic will unfold as we surrender.

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Surrender into Mystery
Jun
27
7:15 PM19:15

Surrender into Mystery

Tomorrow evening I will be in Maida Vale with Anoushka, with a completely open mind and open heart. We will be exploring the mystery. Nothing is ever planned but our hearts will know we are fully alive.....these words came earlier on today.... I have no idea if they will resonate but they come with love....

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Sacred Presence with Pause Place Founder Katie Abbott
Apr
26
7:00 PM19:00

Sacred Presence with Pause Place Founder Katie Abbott

♥️ SACRED PRESENCE ♥️ at 42 ACRES in Shoredtch on Thursday 26th April 2018 at 7pm. This will be an evening to explore the simplicity and sacredness of presence. Together we will deepen into our spiritual nature and discover the truth that speaks from deep within. If you are curious about the power of being and how it can have a profound impact in every area of our lives, come and join us.

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