WILD & FREE
Spring Equinox Day Retreat
A day of deep Feminine, Celtic wisdom with Emma Rose Lowe & friends
Saturday 18th March 11am - 6pm
Shake off the stagnation of Winter and awaken the deep feminine energy, healing power and creativity of Spring in your bones with this immersive day retreat set on a beautiful Georgian farmhouse in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.
This generous retreat includes a foraging/ID walk and herbal workshop, practices that help you cultivate your creativity, meditation, live music from celebrated singer songwriter Rachel Sermanni and a Spring inspired feast.
The day has been designed to help you align with the energies of the vernal equinox and connect to your body wisdom, inner rhythm and intuition.
This is a whole day dedicated to nurturing you - to reset and plant seeds of intention for the season ahead that is guaranteed to be a wee bit magic and leave you feeling aligned, inspired and deeply nourished on all levels.
A Spring Equinox / Sheela’s Day event :::
Spring Equinox is an astronomical event where in the waxing year day and night are equal length for a moment. As an ancient Celtic festival point, Spring Equinox marks a time of balance and unity between the masculine (day/solar) and feminine (night/Earth) energies of the natural world. As buds burst through naked branches and flowers flash through previously bleak and barren spaces, the feminine energy of the Earth is unashamedly in her element in Spring. As day and night come into balance, the feminine Earth energies are met and supported to rise and bloom by the growing solar masculine energy as the light returns, stretching the days and warming us all up after the long winter. When we attuned to this naturally arising energy we, as nature, can equally be supported in our own growth.
With this very special event we will also be reclaiming the ancient Celtic celebration of Sheela’s day - which is the long forgotten feminine counterpart to St Patricks Day representing the Mother archetype/goddess of Ireland.
On a deeper level, Spring Equinox is also a time for new beginnings, working with our intentions and actively cultivating courage and creativity and is a great time for trying new things.
Included in WILD & FREE:
This day of folklore, feasting, fire and crafting includes:
Schedule:
Arrival + Welcome: 11am
Morning workshop: Ecotherapy and plants as medicine: 12 - 2pm
On a guided foraging/ID walk with Herbalist Cait O’Neill (Hawthorn Herbalism), we will explore the beautiful wild fields and hedgerows of our Georgian farmhouse sanctuary, pausing to learn about edible and medicinal plants and flowers. Experiencing the benefits of ecotherapy, before being guided in a hands on workshop to create your own healing herb tincture or salve to take home with you.
Lunch: 2pm - 330pm
There will be the most delicious Ostara/Spring Equinox Feast catered professional Chef Lorna Mills. Lorna is the founder of award winning Tacacucina, an artisan food producer, stocked and acclaimed throughout the North of Ireland. Lorna will be curating and cooking up a sensational seasonal lunch to nourish bodies and warm our hearts.
Afternoon workshop: Creative Juicer, deep rest and sound healing 330pm - 530pm
The ever enchanting, wise, funny and playful, Rachel Sermanni will be offering you a workshop that inspires creative energy and how to trust your desires and creative abilities. She will also offer live music to the day….
If that wasn't enough, I feel deeply honoured to have one of my favourite humans, singer songwriter (and Belonging graduate!) Rachel Sermanni join us to share some fun creative practices as well as the total treat of live, original music, meditation and sound journey.
If you have never come across Rachel before, check out her spotify here.
And of course there will be plenty space to connect with each other in person around the fire which is always a highlight of the day!
An invitation to join the community :::
The container that I hold allows you to feel and heal places that cannot be reached alone. It is an invitation to drop the comparisons, judgement and shaming of others and heal the inner wounds of connection that patriarchy has beaten into us all and instead choose to rise together. So if you have been yearning for the beating drum of kindred hearts, the smell of mossy Earth and sacred fire, dancing under an open sky, and the freedom to express all parts of your being, then this retreat day is for you.
Emma Rose Lowe :::
Host, Emma Rose Lowe is a Celtic Wisdom Guide, Senior Tantra Yoga Teacher as well as a Fertility and Holistic Sexuality Coach, Ceremonialist and creatrix of magical, healing experiences where brilliant people connect. Emma has supported thousands of people to tap into their own, innate healing power, pleasure and inner authority. She uses ancient Tantric and Celtic practices validated by science to help you restore and remember your body's wisdom, natural rhythm and wild nature.
Rachel Sermanni :::
Rachel Sermanni is an internationally renowned Scottish singer-songwriter, storyteller, meditation facilitator and creative educator who makes the mundane moments mystical.
As an acclaimed musician, Rachel has been touring the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe and the Americas for over a decade, including headlining and performing at many Indie/Folk festivals as well as Reading Festival. She has supported well known artists such as Mumford and Sons, Fink, Elvis Costello and Rumer as well headlining BBC’s Hogmony live and Celtic Connections on live television.
Her soul stirring music has been described as:
‘Minimal, Murky, Magnificent’ – MOJO
‘Unnervingly pretty and graceful’ – NME
‘Stately, Poetic, Rooted in the Traditional’ – CLASH
She also hosts a Creative Podcast ‘Rachel Sermanni’s Finger that points to the moon’ and delivers Creative workshops that inspire and support artist and musicians from all around the world.
Cait O’Neill :::
Cait O’Neill is a Herbalist, Nutritional Hormonal Health expert, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Reiki and Ecotherapy practitioner. Cait is deeply immersed in social justice and ecological restoration work, attuning to the natural cycles of nature for personal and planetary healing.
An Irish native, currently living in Scotland, Cait has a wealth of wisdom in Celtic Mythology and lives by the cycles of the Celtic Wheel and the moon.
She is also a talented multi instrument musician and performs with her band Wailing Sidhe reclaiming ancestral stories through song.
Things you need to know:
This event will held at a beautiful Georgian farmhouse nestled in magical and idyllic land in the rolling hills of Co Antrim (only 10 minutes from Carryduff, Saintfeild, Ballynahinch and the Saintfield road roundabout, Lisburn and 20 minutes from Belfast City Centre).
Please note the location is not on a public transport route. The closest bus stop is approximately a 2 mile walk.
The fire will be weather permitting.
Please let me know on booking if you have any dietary requirements.
The booking is only refundable if we are able to resell your ticket - in which case a partial refund, minus a 10% administration fee will be returned. 72 hours prior to the event date, the ticket is completely non refundable.
You will receive the full location address after payment has been received.
This is a substance free event
Let your soul lead:
Saturday 18th March 11am - 6pm
Investment £97
This event is open to everyone and is a BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ friendly space.
Please note, the event space requires stairs but wheelchair users please reach out and let’s see what we can accommodate.