About Healing Waters Sanctuary
Healing Waters is a spiritual and healing retreat centre, guest house, and sanctuary on the slopes of Glastonbury Tor.
Guests come here to exhale, soften, and reconnect with what matters most. The house, gardens, and the land are held with the intention that you feel safe, welcomed, and supported in your own unique healing journey.
Whether you are arriving for personal retreat, trauma healing, spiritual renewal, or simple rest, Healing Waters offers an atmosphere of kindness, quiet, and deep listening.
Deep Rest & Nervous System Renewal
A sanctuary created for deep rest. Quiet rooms, soft beds, and an atmosphere that gently settles the nervous system and invites the whole body to unwind.
Therapies & Healing Support
Work with Juliet through trauma-informed healing, energy work, massage, and somatic practices, or explore her book and digital workbooks during your stay.
Retreats & Sacred Space Hire
Whether visiting alone or leading a group, Healing Waters offers peaceful retreat options or whole-house sanctuary hire for your work and guests.
Held by the Land of Avalon
Held By The Land of Avalon
Healing Waters sits on Wearyall Hill, a short walk from Glastonbury town, Chalice Well and the Tor. The Sanctuary looks out across wide open skies and the ever-changing Somerset Levels. It is very much a house in conversation with the land.
Around the Sanctuary are flower gardens, quiet seating areas and, just beyond, our six-acre field with a healing spring at its heart and the community Healing Gardens. Here, vegetables, herbs and flowers are grown using organic and biodynamic principles, supporting both the Sanctuary and local community projects. Deer, birds and other wildlife often visit at dawn and dusk, reminding us that this is their home too.
A Sanctuary That Holds You Gently
Healing Waters is more than a place to stay, it is a living field of quiet presence.
Every room, every corner of the gardens, every sunrise over the Somerset Levels carries
the intention of rest, safety, and inner softening.
Here, you can move at your own rhythm.
Sit on the wooden deck and feel the warmth of the morning sun.
Breathe deeply in the meditation room held by the ley lines beneath the house.
Wander through the healing gardens or pause by the spring, listening for your own
still, small voice.
This is a sanctuary where your nervous system can exhale…
and where your spirit remembers itself gently, without effort.
The Heart Behind Healing Waters
Juliet founded Healing Waters in 2005 with a simple and steady intention:
to create a sanctuary where people could soften, rest, and reconnect with the deep intelligence of their own bodies and hearts.
Her work is rooted in decades of trauma-informed healing, spiritual practice, and a lifelong devotion to understanding what helps the nervous system feel safe.
She believes that healing does not come from striving, but from allowing, meeting ourselves with compassion, presence, and curiosity.
Juliet holds the Sanctuary with a gentle reverence.
Every room, every garden path, every window that opens to the Tor carries her intention that you feel welcomed, met, and supported exactly as you are.
Her approach is simple and deeply human:
healing happens when we feel safe to breathe again…
and safe to be ourselves.
When You Feel Ready, We Welcome You
Healing Waters is a sanctuary for people returning to themselves, gently, slowly,
and in their own time. Whether you are seeking rest, healing, clarity, or simply a
peaceful place to breathe, you are welcome here.
There is no right way to arrive. Only a soft invitation to take the next step when
it feels true.
Words From Those Who Have stayed With us
Every person who comes to Healing Waters brings their own story, their own tenderness,
their own longing for rest. These reflections are shared with gratitude, gentle reminders
of the quiet healing that can happen when we are held with care.
“Great location and views. Everything we needed in a wonderfully calm space.”
— A.K.
“We had a truly wonderful stay at Healing Waters. The place radiates a luminous, nurturing energy — perfect for spiritual retreats. We held a five-day retreat there with a group of twenty people, surrounded by peace and inspiration. Sue welcomed us with exceptional kindness and care, and her delicious vegetarian cooking delighted everyone. A heartfelt thank you for this beautiful experience in such a vibrant and sacred place.”
— M-H.P & E.
“Das Healing Water Sanctuary ist ein Platz der einem Sicherheit und Ruhe bietet. Wir waren zu 11. da und hatten sehr gut Platz inklusive Seminarraum. Sue erfüllte uns alle Wünsche und organisierte sogar eine Feuerschale. Zudem war sie Tagsüber für Fragen erreichbar. Gab zusätzlich gute Tipps. Das Haus / die Räume wurden auf unseren Bedarf angepasst. Das Haus ist 15 Min vom Zentrum gelegen und bietet direkte aussicht aufs Tor. Zudem ist die gute Energie auch beim Haus spürbar. Die Betten sind bequem, die Räume unterschiedlich gross, doch gut eingeteilt. Wir buchten ein tägliches Abendessen. Das war definitiv der Hit! Einige Teilnehmer äusserten noch nie so gutes Seminar- Essen gehabt zu haben. Jeden Tag frische vegetarische reichhaltige Kost. viel Salat und auch warme Speisen. Grosszügige Portionen die bei guten Essern immer noch Reste fanden. Zum Teil wurde es dann auch von uns ins Frühstück integriert.”
— M.W.
“Thank you for the opportunity to stay solo. I hear you are more often than not exclusively booked by private groups. It was so lovely to sit on the decking in the spring sunshine and be in nature with the surrounding fields. It was also a blessing to sit in the meditation room. Thanks a million Juliet”
— L.M.