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Just Be : A sacred spiritual womb for women in seasons of becoming.
From darkness into Light. Our journey begins in darkness. Hidden within the womb. Formed by a wisdom beyond our own.
From darkness into Light.
Our journey begins in darkness.
Hidden within the womb.
Formed by a wisdom beyond our own.
Completely held in our vulnerability.
Nourished.
Completely dependent on the One who created us and the mother we are given.
Then we are born into another womb...
The womb of the world.
Here too, we are continually being formed.
Discovering that life itself is full of seasons of darkness and light.
Seasons of endings and loss.
Seasons of waiting and isolation.
Seasons of trials…where everything familiar falls away, and we don't yet know who we are becoming.
These are not failures.
They are sacred thresholds.
Darkness isn't the absence of life.
It's often where life begins.
A seed grows in the darkness of the soil.
A baby grows in the darkness of the womb.
Our souls are formed in the darkness of surrender.
The stars are only seen in the darkness of the night.
Perhaps the seasons we try so desperately to escape...
are the very places where God is quietly growing something new within us.
We call it darkness.
He calls it preparation.
Everything sacred begins in hidden places.
The womb.
The soil.
The heart.
The Just Be retreats are created for women walking through one of these seasons.
Not to fix women.
Not to give answers.
But to create a safe spiritual womb...
where what the Divine is already forming can continue to unfold.
Perhaps you're exhausted from years of giving.
Perhaps you're grieving the end of a relationship, a career, a dream, or a version of yourself.
Perhaps you're standing in the unknown, sensing that something new is being born, but unable to see what it is yet.
This is your spiritual womb.
A place not to be rushed through...
but honoured.
At Home House, I offer bespoke retreats for women who simply need somewhere to rest, surrender and be held with love in the space of your spiritual womb.
A place where nothing is expected of you.
Where you don't need to perform, explain or have the answers.
Only to breathe.
To pray.
To listen.
To allow what no longer belongs to gently fall away.
And to trust that, even in the darkness, God is quietly forming something beautiful within you.
If you're in a season of transition...
of endings...
of waiting...
or becoming...
I'd love to hold that space with you, for you.
Home House offers women a safe womb space while they journey through one of life's many deaths... and new beginnings.
Together, we'll honour this sacred in-between…
Like the spaces between the inhale and exhale….
You choose when you come and how long you stay.
What you need whilst you are here will emerge in the sacred space of the unknown.
Home House is a spiritual womb.
A space where you can just be.
Remembering who you truly are...
And who you are becoming.
Just Be Retreats
Home House
A sacred spiritual womb for women in seasons of becoming.
Love Hawa
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Hawa is a Sufi healing practitioner, spiritual guide and mother whose work is rooted in lived experience, devotion and deep personal transformation. Drawing from Sufi Spiritual Healing, breath and bodywork, sacred sound and Holy Hijama Therapy, she offers compassionate spaces for healing, remembrance and reconnection to the Divine. Based at Home House Homestead in the Norfolk countryside, her path is one of surrender, simplicity and the unfolding journey of the heart.
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Hawa’s path has been one of deep longing — a search for love, truth and a more meaningful connection to life.
Originally studying music at the University of East Anglia, she was first introduced to yoga in her early twenties, where she discovered a quieter and more connected way of being through breath, movement and inner awareness.
Motherhood became one of the greatest loves of her life. Becoming a mother at 23, and later raising twin boys, her early adult years were devoted to family life. Yet beneath the surface remained an unshakable longing for something deeper.
Her journey led through periods of grief, addiction, disconnection and profound inner searching, whilst yoga remained a constant thread throughout her life. Following the death of her stepfather, unresolved pain and deeper questions began to surface, marking the beginning of a sincere healing journey.
Over the years, she immersed herself in many healing modalities including yoga, meditation, bodywork, ceremony, sacred sound and transformational practices — not initially as a profession, but as a path towards healing her own heart and life.
A major turning point came after the breakdown of her 17-year marriage. During this period of surrender and personal transformation, she was guided back to her voice, to song, and to a deeper relationship with herself and the Divine. It was also during this time that the spirit of the Hummingbird came to her as a symbol of unconditional love, resilience and the ability to find sweetness amidst suffering.
In 2020, she stepped away from her growing healing and coaching business, left city life behind and moved to Home House in the remote Norfolk countryside. There, immersed in simplicity, nature and spiritual devotion, a new way of living began to unfold.
Her path eventually led her to Islam and the mystical tradition of Sufism — the path of the heart — where her lifelong longing found a home. She was given the name Hawa, meaning Eve, the first woman and mother of humanity.
Today, Hawa walks the Sufi path devotedly whilst studying Sufi Spiritual Healing through the Sufi University, continuing her training towards a Master of Divinity. Her work is grounded not only in study, but in lived experience, surrender and ongoing spiritual practice.
Through Sufi healing, breath and bodywork, sacred sound, Holy Hijama Therapy and the spaces she holds at Home House Homestead, she offers others a compassionate space to heal, soften, reconnect and return to themselves and to the Divine.
Her work is rooted in the belief that when we empty ourselves of what no longer serves, Divine Radiance can begin to shine through.