THE
BORROWED AETHER
Where The Wild Things Heal
““And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Anaïs Nin”
Explore what we offer
This is not your average wellbeing space. There’s no pressure to have it all figured out. No performance of peace. Just honest, held space to feel what needs feeling, breathe what needs breathing, and maybe—just maybe—let something go.
The Borrowed Aether offers a handful of intentionally crafted sessions that invite you to come back into your body, back into nature, and back to yourself. All rooted in lived experience, somatic practice, and the deep wisdom of the earth.
We’re not here to fix you. We’re here to walk beside you as you remember how to listen inward.
Breathwork Session
St Mary’s Church (Underley Chapel) Kirkby Lonsdale
Inside the historic walls of St Mary’s Church Kirkby Lonsdale, within the quiet hush of Underley Chapel, you’ll find space to just be. These evening sessions offer a held, gentle container for breath, reflection, and return.
This is a private, protected space—quietly enclosed for your comfort—where you can reconnect with your breath, your body, and whatever wants to be met.
The church is closed to the public, so the space is private, quiet, and beautifully prepared—soft lighting, intentional music, and room to be with whatever may be moving in you.
Each session begins and ends with time for reflection and quiet connection. No pressure, no performance. Just a shared invitation to meet yourself—just as you are. In safety. In stillness. In breath. In the quiet company of others doing the same.
Come as you are. You are welcome here.
Monthly Reflection Space
St Mary’s Church (Stone Gazebo/Glebe Field) Kirkby Lonsdale
A gentle pause. A seasonal reset. A space to be still and seen. Once a month, we gather in a place held by the landscape—a stone gazebo on the edge of the view that inspired Turner and Ruskin—to reflect on the season, the self, and everything in between.
With principles drawn from Environmental Art Therapy, this circle helps us reconnect to natural cycles as mirrors for our own inner rhythms.
There is space for expression. Space for silence. And space for you.
Environmental Art Day Retreat
St Mary’s Church (Glebe Field/Yurt) Kirkby Lonsdale
Rooted in the wisdom of the earth and the rhythms of the Celtic calendar, these retreats offer a therapeutic and reflective space to slow down and reconnect. Guided by principles inspired by environmental art therapy, we explore the natural world as a mirror for our inner landscape.
Through gentle creative practices using materials gathered from the land, you’ll be invited to engage deeply with the cycles of the seasons — their shifts, symbolism, and stories — to support your own process of renewal and growth.
In this held, safe container, you can pause, reflect, and realign with your own rhythms — tapping into ancient seasonal wisdom as a guide for healing and self-discovery. No experience is necessary, only a willingness to be present and curious.
Who
we are
We are not gurus. We are not wellness influencers with tidy lives and ten-step plans.
We are humans—like you. Messy, complex, curious, healing. The Borrowed Aether was born from lived experience: trauma, transformation, and a slow, stumbling return to the body.
Founded by Trish Phillips, breathwork facilitator, artist, and educator with over two decades of experience holding space, the work here is rooted in depth, not trend. It’s for those who feel things deeply, who’ve tried to hold it all together, who are finally ready to lay some of it down.
This is a place for the misfits and the over-feelers, the control freaks and the people-pleasers, the ones carrying silent storms inside them. You are welcome here. Fully. As you are.
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Whether you're arriving with clarity or uncertainty, with longing, fatigue, or inspiration—you are welcome here. This is a place to pause, to create, and to be.
Whatever brings you here—curiosity, questions, or a sense of something beginning—you’re welcome to reach out. We’ll meet you gently, wherever you are in your process.
Whenever you feel ready, we’re just an email, a message, or a call away.
Contact: Trish Phillips
Email: Darcy.Phillips@outlook.com
Telephone: 07443 651719