Sound Healing, Women’s Circles, Retreats and Yoga in Oxfordshire and London
Charlotte Hastings has spent her career being recognised for her ability to see what others miss and hold space for what matters. She historically did that in boardrooms, delivering high-stakes projects and events with global impact; now you find her applying these skills to create the conditions for genuine stillness and presence as a lived, physical experience that infuses and informs your everyday life to create an experience of integrity, wholeness and fulfillment.
Journey
After two decades navigating the high-pressure worlds of fashion, media, property development and strategic consultancy, she understands, from the inside, what it costs to perform without rest. She left that world deliberately, gradually creating the world you are invited into via this site.
Her training spans classical voice, Crystal Sonic Therapy, Yoga Alliance certification (Vinyasa with additional study in Yin, Breathwork and Yoga Nidra), and over twenty years of immersion in psychotherapy, yoga and indigenous ceremony. Her instruments — Crystal Tones Alchemy bowls, her own-made Colombian drum, chimes, bells and voice — are chosen for their specificity, not their aesthetics.
Philosophy
If all matter is vibration, then sound is our most direct tool for transformation. Charlotte’s approach is non-linear and non-classical. By allowing sound to move through the body without the constraints of language or traditional harmonic structure, she facilitates an encounter with the subconscious unique to this modality.
Whether through the resonant song of Crystal Tones Alchemy Singing Bowls, the ancestral heartbeat of her drum and rattle, or the delicate clarity of chimes and bells, Charlotte adds her vocals to create an intuitive aural landscape that allows the nervous system to relax into a state of deep, fluid fullness.
Space
Charlotte’s work—whether in her home studio, an historic venue, or under the light of the full moon—provides a sanctuary to connect with the seasons of the land, the inner landscape of your body and the tidal rhythms of your own being.
Charlotte works with private clients in London and Oxfordshire, and hosts bespoke retreats and immersive sound experiences in her loft studio in the North Cotswolds.
If something here resonates, I would be glad to hear from you.
Invited by and in collaboration with:
Lie Down and Listen - unique music events where you lie down to receive classical and healing sound performances
Dr. Rocío Alarcón - supporting the work of Ecuadorean ethno-pharmacologist
Woodstock Pilates - Pilates/Sound/Herbal Infusion monthly gathering
Reformer Studios - occasional Pilates/Sound/Cacao collaboration
Retreat To The Barn - monthly Lunar Sisterhood gatherings
Julia Fairrie/Fair & Co - seasonal series ‘Heart Activation With Rose’
Nicholsons Nurseries - retreats in collaboration with Sian Eden, The Yurt At Nicholson’s
Soho Farmhouse - residency offering sound ceremonies that often incorporate journeys with plants such as Rose and Hawthorn; monthly sound journeys
Heart of The Rose Festival - supporting song and rest with workshops at this uniquely glorious women’s festival
Medicine Woman Festival - sound journey with Rose
A Place to Heal by Arrigo - creating their first online retreats with multiple practitioners holding space to move, rest, journal and evolve through the portals of Beltane and Samhain 2020
Roscop Practice - hosting sound journeys and offered one-to-one sessions as well as co-creating a unique movement, treatment and healing programme with founder Frederic Roscop
The Morpheus Project - co-creating an immersive journey into the realm of dreams with story and sound, in collaboration with Javier Rodriguez, Stewart Gilchrist and the Royal Opera House - you can listen to this and purchase via Bandcamp
Dreamover - the first all-night lucid dreaming workshop on midsummer night with Ben Wolff, 2018
Lunar Sisterhood - a series of full moon circles of sharing sound movement and mystery, with Beth Win
The Apartment - Spring Break, a bespoke series of yoga and sound sessions to host international bloggers during London Fashion Week, with Liforme as a partner
Ayla Shafer - workshops to open the voice and connect with Rose
Lauren Baker Art - negotiation of pop-up space in Covent Garden and hosting experiential immersive sound activations in gallery, co-ordinating sponsorship and ticket sales