Reflection Retreats

03/09/2026

Last few places available for our retreat this November.

31/07/2026

Golden light at the beautiful valley we hold our retreat in this November

Thank you July!☀️
It has been an amazing month!

20/07/2026

Stillness speaks... at our next retreat in November

Gougane Barra | West Cork

In a world filled with constant noise, choosing stillness can be its own form of connection. Sometimes, the quietest moments bring the greatest clarity.

20/07/2026

Space to connect on our next retreat in November

Many different strands of your past experience begin to weave together until gradually the new direction announces itself. Its voice is sure with the inevitability of the truth. When your life-decisions emerge in this way from the matrix of your experience, they warrant your trust and commitment. When you can choose in this way, you move gracefully within the deeper rhythm of your soul. The geography of your destiny is always clearer to the eye of your soul than to the intentions and needs of your surface mind.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Eternal Echoes.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

The Burren
County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

16/07/2026

I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Fluent, from the book, Conamara Blues.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Galway, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

15/07/2026

Blessings

If you allow yourself to be the person that you are, then everything will come into rhythm. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessing in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love, rather we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara, 25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Iona Abbey, Isle of Iona, Scotland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/06/2026

Early dawn at our retreat venue

30/05/2026

The gorgeous valley where our retreat in November takes place, captured beautifully.

Gougane Barra looking like something out of a dream tonight.. the moon glowing through drifting clouds adding a quiet kind of magic to the valley

30/05/2026

Just for today...

30/05/2026

Remembering solitude and what it can do for us. Experience more at our only 2026 retreat in November.

Solitude is one of the most precious things in the human spirit. It is different from loneliness. When you are lonely, you become acutely conscious of your own separation. Solitude can be a homecoming to your own deepest belonging. One of the lovely things about us as individuals is the incommensurable in us. In each person, there is a point of absolute nonconnection with everything else and with everyone. This is fascinating and frightening. It means that we cannot continue to seek outside ourselves for things we need from within. The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by yourself. They are at home at the hearth of your soul.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill