Awaken your Senses - Women’s Retreat
Oct
18
to Oct 21

Awaken your Senses - Women’s Retreat

Welcome to Awaken Your Senses

A JOURNEY OF DEEP AND SENSUAL SOUL NOURISHMENT + EMBODIMENT AWAITS YOU.

A retreat  intended to create space for you to luxuriate + awaken your senses 

a delicious + rejuvenating experience for your mind, body & soul.

Join Fiona Loughran and Nicky Halliday, with over 30 years of combined experience in sensuality, embodiment, and empowerment, for a transformative retreat. Nestled in the divine wild nature of West Cork, this weekend is designed to invite you to slow down, ground you in the present moment, hold you in a supportive community and enjoy a truly blissful weekend over 4 days. 

About the Retreat

Theme and Focus

After our beautiful opening on Friday evening, our intention is to bring you on a journey deep inside of yourself on Saturday to fully embody your true authentic self and to bring all of your senses to life. On day two we can then find a deeper connection to each other with some really beautiful connection practices.

Our retreat offers a plethora of experiences including sensuality, embodiment, empowerment, movement, food, cacao, dance, and guided massage. Inviting pleasure through awakening your senses, you will also learn healthy boundaries and find plenty of time for rest and play.

On this delicious retreat you will not only have one talented chef cooking your mouth watering meals, but TWO!! We strive to bring you the greatest healthy food experience you can imagine. We will even have a dine in the dark experience to become a more mindful eater and enhance the flavours of the delights we will be serving. We will also discuss our relationship to food, while enhancing your radiance and desire.

Schedule and Activities

Friday Evening

  • Arrival: Settle in with nourishing food

  • Welcome Circle: Opening circle with rose and hawthorn, transitioning from the busy mind to the heart space

Saturday - Connection to Self 

  • Morning: Slow flow, breath-centric movement and deeply nourishing brunch

  • Afternoon: Time to rest and digest, transformational breath work, NLP sessions & blindfolded dance 

  • Evening: Delicious dinner, creative chocolate making, and self massage. 

Sunday

  • Morning: Kundalini Kriya Yoga, Kriya and dance 

  • Afternoon: Connection Rituals, Boundaries and Awaken your Senses, Sauna/Walk 

  • Evening: Delicious Dinner, dress up dance 

Monday 

  • Morning: Cacao Ritual for Self Love before a nourishing Brunch

  • Closing Circle: Reflect and integrate your experiences

Accommodation and Meals

Accommodation Experience comfortable and serene accommodations designed to support your rest and rejuvenation.

Meals Enjoy delicious, nourishing food throughout the retreat, including brunches, dinners, and snacks. Special dietary needs are accommodated to ensure everyone is well-nourished.


Special Offerings

Unique Experiences

  • Guided Massage: Relax and rejuvenate

  • Sauna: Unwind and detoxify

  • Cacao Ceremonies: Open your heart and enhance your creativity

  • Rituals: Connect deeply with yourself and the community


Pricing and Registration

Cost

  • Early Bird:€444 to be paid in full by September 8th

  • Regular: €495 to be paid in full from September 9th onwards 

  • Early Bird Payment Plan: €222 x 2 paid before September 8th

Payment plans / reduced rates available on request


Booking policy 

Full refund available up until 1st September (excluding booking fee of €20) 

Half refund available up to 14th September (excluding booking fee of €20)

After 14th Septmeber there is no refund available 

What’s Included

  • Accommodation

  • All meals and snacks

  • All workshops, sessions, and activities

Nicky Halliday, motivational holistic health practitioner & creative chef

Nicky is a qualified Nutritional Therapist (Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health 2011) and Natural Chef (Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts California 2013). 

In 2014 she created the fresh food deli and worked as head chef in the Hopsack Health Store for 3.5 years, which led to a nomination for the best “free from” restaurant in the Irish Restaurant Awards. 

From there she went on an adventure to Costa Rica and worked as head chef at Farm of Life Healing Centre for a year, mainly focusing on raw vegan food. Here, she learned much more about holistic health and healed her cervical dysplasia and HPV virus within 6 months. She deeply connected to the plant medicine cacao while she was there, completing an apprenticeship with Cacao Magic Costa Rica and continues to share this beautiful heart opening medicine in Ireland. 

Nicky then put her nutrition and lifestyle knowledge together with her cookery expertise and wrote a book called “A Practical Guide to Cooking for Health” which has been a help to many kitchens around the world. 

Nicky has been working the last 6 years as a freelance chef for healing retreats around Ireland. Her food is artistic and truly wholesome, bursting with fresh vibrant flavours, while supplying the body, mind and soul with delicious nourishment. 

Nicky also works as a Nutritional Therapist and a Belief Coding® practitioner, mainly with women who have been diagnosed with HPV virus and cervical dysplasia. 

She also facilitates workshops and retreats with Cacao Ceremonies, Shamanic Trance Dance, Song Circles, Connection and Meditation. 

Nicky has also worked with Inwardbound Celtic Psychedelic Psilocybin retreats as a chef and facilitator for the last 6 years and continues her studies in Shamanism. 



Fiona Loughran, the luminous force and wayshower of transformative and blissful experiences.

 An intuitive guide in the realms of embodiment, empowerment and authenticity. 

Holistic Breath-Centric Yoga, Divine Alignment Bodywork, and the potent  Pyramid BreathPLAY Method - Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World. 

Fiona gracefully creates delicious and colourful feasts in harmony with Mother Nature as a High VIBE - Private Retreat Chef.

"In the sacred space I craft and invite you to breathe, move, connect, and rest. 

An enchanting environment unfolds, inspiring a life woven with a tapestry of magic for the mind, body, and soul. Each individual touched creates ripples of radiance, weaving a luminous thread through their lives and community.

Through the alchemy of transformational breathwork, blissful yoga, aligning pilates, Intuitive healing bodywork, divine oils, herbs, nature immersion/hikes, vibrant food, rituals, ecstatic dance,  wild sea swimming + laughter, the rediscovery of your potential emerges — a radiant revelation of your glorious essence.

For over fifteen years, I've danced in the realms of teacher, trainer, guide, intuitive and therapist. As a Corporate Wellness Coach at two of the largest European IT headquarters, my canvas expanded and I took a leap of faith. From the shores of Ireland to the embrace of Balearic Islands Mallorca + Menorca, the spiritual embrace of Bali, and the serenity of Portugal, I've shared the multidimensionality  of wellness. Aboard privately owned sailing yachts as a private chef, I meticulously craft experiences with an unwavering commitment to detail and heartfelt connection.

I offer you a holistic experience, an awakening of the senses, where empowerment, yumminess, and wholesomeness intertwine in a blissful dance.





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I have seen time and time again, when women come together to share and be vulnerable, incredible healing can occur. Come and witness the magic of women holding space for each other.

I will also answer any questions we have time for.

The cost is €28 and a zoom link will be sent to you after booking your place.

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Really looking forward to having another beautiful online gathering <3

Love Nicky xxx

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to Jul 18

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