::Personal Retreats ::

Take advantage of this unique possibility to join our household for a few days.

Spacious Private room (double bedded) with shared bathroom and kitchen.

Self Catering with possibility of some shared meals.

Payment by free will offering suggested at £15-£20 per night (3 night minimum, week- long retreat recommended).

Private guidance for meditative practice while here. Also join in weekly group meditation sessions and other programmes on during your stay. Miles of walking at your doorstep, 2 acre garden complete with walking labyrinth.

Please Note: This is suitable only for people WITHOUT animal allergies, as we share our home with several cats and dogs.

Comments from recent retreat guest:
The invitation to undertake a retreat at Sally’s felt like a blessing and a gift at a time when I was feeling overwhelmed and stressed. All I knew was that I needed to be still and close to nature, and the images on Sally’s website of her garden, coupled with her carefully chosen words and quotations, drew me there. My large comfortable room, overlooking the garden on two sides, still bore the traces of Sally’s eldest son, now at college abroad, and was at the very end of Sally’s house, affording all the quiet and solitude I needed, as well as ample space for yoga and bodywork. Sally’s home is light-filled, its focal point the garden, and is suffused with a sense of ease and relaxation. It is the perfect place to just be. It offered me the chance to slow down completely, to stop and ‘smell the roses.’ Sally’s gentle presence was a blessing; she has that rare gift: a wholly unobtrusive availability to her guest(s).

Central to my experience was time spent outdoors, from the gardens to Sally’s woodland and the winding road by the lake. The dogs were the perfect companions on my daily rounds, and I was blessed with perfect spring weather. In addition, I attended Sally’s regular meditation classes. I also took a private yoga class in the yurt, and had Reiki treatment and massage, all arranged by Sally and provided by visiting therapists. I found the labyrinth powerful and inspirational.

I love that Sally’s retreat space is local; it somehow reduces the gap between the retreat and the ‘real’ life; I hope that this will make the integration of some of the retreat’s lessons and practices easier for me. I left feeling rejuvenated and with a clearer sense of how I might slowly effect small changes in my life.

Paula, Belfast , March 2009