A spiritual retreat is not an escape from reality, but a deliberate return to it.
In a world defined by non-stop connectivity, endless noise, and constant doing, step away to pause is a radical act of self-care and realignment.
Retreating Away from Home, creates the necessary space to quiet the outer noise so you can listen to your inner voice. Away from everyday responsibilities and digital distractions, you gain clear perspective on your life's path, process unresolved emotions, and restore drained energetic reserves.
Whether spent in silent contemplation, deep meditation, nature immersion, or guided reflection, a retreat offers a rare sanctuary to remember who you are beneath your roles, routine, and stress.
You return to your daily life not just rested, but renewed with clarity, purpose, and a grounded sense of peace.
Retreating at Home, for those with limited time and budgets, can be exactly what you need to feel spoiled and rejuvenated
A spiritual retreat doesn't require a plane ticket, a luxury resort, or a lightened wallet. If a full weekend or day-away retreat isn't in your budget or schedule right now, you can still step out of the daily rush—right from the comfort of your living room. A home retreat is simply about setting intention, clearing a quiet space, and declaring dedicated time to rest, reconnect, and restore.
Prefer a shared experience without leaving home?
You can also host a small, intimate retreat in your own living space.
Gather five or more of your favorite people for a day of shared reflection and renewal—and as our thank-you for opening your home, your host spot is completely free.
True sanctuary isn't a destination; it's the space you choose to make for yourself.
Anam Chroi Retreats
Program Creators, Fiona Newman & Jennifer Brady
- The Sacred Return: Returning to your true, unburdened self after periods of drift, transition, or exhaustion.
- Belonging & Rootedness: Grounding your energy deeply into ancestral wisdom, natural elements, and personal truth.
- Soul Reclamation: Gathering back the fragmented pieces of your spirit to restore inner balance and quiet peace.
- Sacred Space: Creating a physical or energetic sanctuary where authentic expression flows without restriction.
Home is not always a place on a map; it is the quiet frequency where your soul finally breathes easy. Home is where your Heart is. It is within, It has always been there.
Anam Chroi in Irish, with the fada accent as Anam Chroí translates directly to "Soul of the Heart" or "Heart Soul"
An Anam Cara is traditional Irish for "soul friend"—a relationship of unconditional trust, presence, and deep spiritual understanding. While we often seek that sacred connection in others, the most essential soul friendship you will ever cultivate is the one you build with your own heart.
To be an Anam Cara to yourself means offering your inner world the same fierce compassion, soft grace, and unwavering patience you so freely extend to others. It is the practice of meeting your doubts without judgment, tending to your fatigue with gentle rest, and standing as a loyal, quiet sanctuary for your own spirit.
"Before you can be a sanctuary for the world, you must first learn to lay down your armor and become a soul friend to your own heart." Fiona Newman
Gentle Self-Sovereignty: Honoring your personal boundaries and intuitive knowing without needing outside validation.
Radical Compassion: Replacing self-criticism with the warm, accepting presence of a true friend.
Inner Sanctuary: Creating a safe emotional home within yourself where every part of you is welcome.
When you become a soul friend to your own heart, you stop searching outward for belonging—you anchor deeply into the warmth, truth, and home that has been within you all along.
Anam Saoirse translates directly from Irish Gaelic as "Soul Freedom" or "Freedom of the Spirit."
(Pronounced "AH-nam SEER-sha," drawing from the Irish word saoirse, meaning liberty, freedom, and independence).
As the final, empowering culmination of the Anam Cara Retreat Journey—building upon the foundational sanctuary of Anam Abhaile (Soul Home) and the heart-centered healing of Anam Chroí (Soul Heart)—Anam Saoirse is the threshold of true liberation.
It is where you untether yourself from outdated expectations, shed spiritual armor, and step fully into your uninhibited, sovereign strength.
The Sacred Unburdening: Gently dissolving external expectations, inherited patterns and self-limiting armor that no longer serve your spirit.
Sovereign Presence: Honoring your authentic voice, intuitive knowing, and inner boundaries without needing permission or approval.
Spiritual Expansiveness: Opening to joy, clarity, and higher-frequency alignment as your natural way of being.
Embodied Alignment: Walking forward with confidence, clear vision, and the freedom to express your true self in daily life.
The Culminating of the Anam Chroi Retreat
Having anchored deeply into your inner sanctuary (Anam Abhaile) and opened the quiet wisdom of your heart (Anam Chroí), it is time to cross the final threshold: Anam Saoirse.
Soul Freedom is not about escaping your world; it is about dropping the weight of who you thought you had to be so you can step into who you truly are. In this powerful gathering, we shift from restoring into embodying.
Through intentional ceremony, restorative sound, and guided integration, you will release lingering stagnation, claim your personal sovereignty, and align with your highest expression.
Sacred Release Ritual: Symbolically clearing old ties, outdated commitments, and subtle energetic clutter.
Expansive Integration & Sound Work: Vibrational modalities to open the throat and solar plexus centers, restoring courage and clarity.
Sovereignty Invocation: Sealing your energetic boundaries so you retain your sense of freedom long after our circle completes.
Celtic Trinity Soul Fire
Celtic Trinity Soul Fire Meditations assist in igniting passion and fire in your life while releasing and burning away karma in the past, present and future.
We light a fire and burn all experiences, hurts, negative experiences from the Past in this lifetime and in other lifetimes. While doing this we bring in or reclaim the knowledge, wisdom, teachings we had in Past Lives. that can assist us at this time in our lives.
We light a fire and focus on the Present. We concentrate on the here and now, by burning away past negativity, we replace it with pleasure and joy in the present. Here you receive guidance and messages for the current situations in your life.
The third and final fire is for creating the Future you want for yourself. By placing positive intention into the future you create a pathway to ensure your future plans fall into place with ease and Grace.
$90 pp 6 hr Gathering
$50 pp 3hr Gathering
Individual Appointment with Fiona $120 90 mins
Designed to awaken, honor, and ignite your divine feminine energy, this space invites you to embrace all sides of who you are: intuitive, grounded, sacred, and unabashedly vibrant. Through heart-centered practices, soulful connection, and plenty of lighthearted joy, you’ll shed the weight of everyday expectations, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and reclaim your authentic magic. Come as you are, leave fully aligned, inspired, and radiantly refreshed.
DAY Retreats
WEEKEND Retreats
Keeper of The Flame
It is a simple and empowering initiation, where your soul is connected to the Eternal Flame of truth and healing. With little effort you will feel a flame in one or all of these areas, palms of hands, over crown chakra on top of head, in front of heart area.
This initiation to the Eternal Flame is to increase your spiritual connection with Bridget and with your divine.
This flame can do many wondrous things, it can burn away all that is no longer requires for your soul growth, it burns away old fears and residual negative energy, it is essential to use this energy on yourself as often as you think about it...if it comes into your awareness it means you need to use it on yourself first and perhaps on others following your own cleanse.
This tool can assist your potential as a practitioner as it will ensure you do not take on any of your clients or students issues...it can assist in clearing a clients aura in moments when used in accordance to Bridgets guidance. connecting with her is instant when you have had the attunement to her flame.
Enlightenment is here!
Wound to Wisdom
Your Pain Becomes Your Teacher.
Painful experiences become wisdom. Here the pain from our past is not something to Overcome, but something to reconcile with.
This day you lay down old armor, reclaim your story, and step forward more whole, rooted and Sovereign to yourself.
Rooted in the Old Ways of Healing and held in a sacred ceremonial space, this retreat includes, defragmentation, soul retrievals, return to soul and essence.
Journey to Joy WEEKEND RETREAT
Friday Evening
We gather for introductions and to reflect upon our intentions and goals for the Retreat. We officially open the circle of sisterhood, support and celebration.
Sacred Flame Initiation followed by a Drumming Circle
SACRED FLAME is a simple and empowering initiation, where your soul is connected to the Eternal Flame of truth and healing. With little effort you will feel a flame in one or all of these areas, palms of hands, over crown chakra on top of head, in front of heart area.
The initiation to the Eternal Flame is to increase your spiritual connection with Goddess Brighid and with your divine.
This flame can do many wondrous things, it can burn away all that is no longer requires for your soul growth, it burns away old fears and residual negative energy, Raising Your Vibration to access a purest for of Joy.
It is essential to use this energy on yourself as often as you can.
Saturday
MANTRAS, MUDRAS & MEDITATIONS to Access & Honor Sacred Feminine
Honoring our Souls by having returned to the place of nourishment.
Lunch
Free Time for Contemplation and or Journaling
Flower Ceremony Access to Joy
Profoundly Enlightening and Joyous Ceremony using Flower Essence, Aromatherapy, Colour Therapy. It is a Powerfully Peaceful Ritual which raises your vibration to an almost Euphoric State.
Feast / Dinner
Personal Reflection-Area exploration
Drumming Circle & Sacred Soul Dance
Dancing optional but We promise the energy will be entrancing.
As you dance in Joy, you will feel that Joy in all aspects of your being.