The Simple Pleasures Retreat Ireland includes;

• 2 nights accommodation in a stunning, spacious retreat centre in County Donegal that boasts an outdoor firepit, hot tub and sea views 

• Revitalising food: You will be nurtured with meals that are rich in nutrition and taste, catered by the incredible team at The Cultured Club. All meals will be wholesomely made from fresh, sustainable, local produce to fuel your body with what it needs to feel good from the inside. This will include a welcome reception with the Cultured Club’s signature fabulously funky fermented tipples and a sit down meal. Saturday and Sunday sit down brunch, and a special sit down evening meal. Snacks and drinks will be available throughout the day.

• Morning yoga and wild water dips: Sunrise connects us to hope, and reminds us how beautiful beginnings can be. Sunrise and sunset are sacred times of the day for you to connect to yourself when the veil between the two worlds is the thinnest. Just as nature transforms, it is a powerful time for you to do the same. Our yoga practice will be designed to release stored emotions, tension and stagnant energy. Followed up by all the incredible benefits of sea dipping.

• Restorative Yoga Therapy for Women: A gentle yoga therapy practice that invites you to slow down. Nurture the mind and body, resolve pain, reduce stress and anxiety and can tap into spiritual insights. Yoga Therapy promotes the flow of blood and energy into the specific endocrine glands and organs that play a key role in Women’s hormonal balance, whilst also reconnecting us to the more feminine aspects of our 'being' nature, inherent in embodying, feeling, sensing and intuiting on the mat. The ultimate decompress and rest. 

• Yoga Nidra: Emma has specialised for many years in the art of Yogic Sleep having first accessed the practice 18 years ago. Yoga Nidra is a guided, meditation and conscious relaxation practice that is intended to induce total physical, mental and emotional relaxation and restoration. It is said to be like mindfulness on steroids with one practice being the equivalent restoration as three hours of good sleep. 

• Breathwork: Every inhale nourishes every cell in the body and exhale releases waste. We now know it does this on a psychological plane as well as a physiology one. Breathwork is profoundly healing for body and mind. The breath knows exactly what to do to bring us into balance for optimum health. In our breathwork we will practice Connected Mandala breath. This is relaxed breathwork where we give space and surrender to the intelligence of the body to release what it needs to.

• Cacao ceremony: A centuries-old ritual and the ultimate heart-opener. In addition to being a superfood packed full of vitamins and minerals, cacao supports the cardiovascular system and is a natural antioxidant and antidepressant.  This is a beautiful practice to drop out of the head and into the heart.

• Women’s circles: Experience the art of sharing and receiving within a small group of women from a heart centred, non judgemental space to make deep and lasting friendships. Practising taking up space, being heard and listening.

• Goddess Ritual: Our top secret pleasure sauce for the weekend. Sorry, not sorry, ladies, this workshop of indulgence is something you simply have to experience.