Heart of the Rose is a festival for 500+ women that has now been running for 6 years. We say it is a ‘festival’ but really it is a Mystery School. A temporary Mystery School of remembrance to reclaim what has been forgotten through many lifetimes as women.

We say ‘temporary’ as the long-term vision of Sophie’s has always been that Heart of the Rose is just a taste of what will happen ‘year-round’ once the Eridge Rose Community, Rose Retreat Center and Temple is in full bloom on the land. Please see the rest of the website for more…

In 2025 the Guidance was to take Heart of the Rose ‘online’ to start to connect the Global Rose Community…

After 2025, Heart of the Rose will now run every other year in-person on the land of Eridge Park and also as an ever-growing permanent online global community (for all).

*THIS 2026 YEAR - HEART OF THE ROSE will run back in-person again from the 3rd-7th SEPTEMBER*

This year we will also be anchoring and mindfully growing Brotherhood of the Rose men’s gathering (for around 50-80 men) that will be the in-person ‘brother’ festival to Heart of the Rose and will happen on the opposite side of the park at the same time as Heart of the Rose this 2026 year.

This brother gathering was seeded in 2024 and Sophie has been gently and patiently tending to it through many smaller events and it now feels finally time to come into full form this year.

In September, both gathering’s will meet independently on different areas of the park, and journey separately over the weekend - one by the white spring and one by the red spring (one hour walking distance apart). Please note there will be no men at the heart of the rose women’s festival throughout the 3 day festival and there will be no women at the men’s gathering. Then after both gatherings have ended on Monday, the hope is that those who choose can buy a ticket to a Sacred Union event on Monday afternoon, where we will all come together on the Land for a deeper reparation ceremony with the Rose. Working with the rose and this divine frequency of love to heal, rebalance and restore all that is needed personally, collectively and ancestrally at this time. 

As within so without, as above so below…

(we will be sharing more details about this Sacred Union event in July and one must buy a ticket to either the Heart of the Rose weekend or Brotherhood of the Rose - in order to be eligible to buy a ticket for Monday afternoon. The event will be limited to 80-100 people so it will be on a first come basis. We will be intentionally keeping Brotherhood of the Rose + the Sacred Union event small this year, with the deep and clear knowing that this is a seed that will grow much larger in the future and that *many* more collaborative and reparative events like this will happen on a large scale on the Land in the coming years).

To read more about these in-person gatherings, as well as how these are just one small piece of a much bigger, long term vision Sophie is seeding on the Land, including the ever-growing permanent Eridge Rose Community, Rose Mystery School, Online Global Rose Community, AWAKEN festival and more - please see the rest of our website and instagram @heartoftherose_festival.