Not your usual kind of day
Events & Retreats
Nature-led experiences, seasonal gatherings and retreats designed to be genuinely enjoyable, grounding and memorable.
Upcoming
A transformative day of manifestation, clarity and possibility in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains.
Join us for an inspiring day of manifestation, self-discovery and intentional living at Anam Kara Wellness, nestled within the beautiful Glendalough House Estate.
Hosted by Saoirse Doyle and Sophie Anderton, this immersive retreat is designed to help you step away from the demands of everyday life, reconnect with yourself and gain clarity on the life you truly want to create.
Through a powerful combination of guided manifestation workshops, reflective journaling, ceremonial cacao (to connect with what is truly in your heart), intention activating yoga, meditation and visualisation, you'll learn practical tools to help align your mindset, intentions and actions with your future goals.
This is more than just dreaming about what's possible, it's creating the space to reconnect with yourself, uncover what you truly want and leave feeling inspired, empowered and ready to take your next steps with confidence.
The Experience
We'll begin the day by gathering together in a welcoming circle, where Saoirse and Sophie will share their own personal journeys and introduce the foundations of manifestation.
Throughout the day you'll explore powerful manifestation practices through guided workshops, reflective journaling and practical exercises designed to help you gain clarity, challenge limiting beliefs and reconnect with your vision for the future.
We'll drink ceremonial cacao. Have and embodied intentional yoga practice, creating space to quiet the mind, reconnect with the body and deepen your intentions.
The afternoon will include a deeply relaxing guided visualisation and manifestation meditation, allowing you to connect with your future self and leave feeling grounded, focused and inspired.
Expect a day of meaningful conversations, practical learning, movement, reflection and genuine connection.
Your Retreat Includes
• Inspiring manifestation workshop with Saoirse & Sophie
• Guided journaling for clarity and intention
• Ceremonial cacao
• Practical manifestation tools and techniques
• Gentle yoga practice
• Future Self visualisation
• Deep manifestation meditation
• Closing reflection circle
Optional Premium Full-Day Experience
Enhance your retreat with:
• Woodland sauna experience
• Optional cold plunge therapy
• Nourishing seasonal lunch in beautiful surroundings
This premium experience offers the opportunity to extend your day with time to unwind, reflect and connect with others while enjoying Anam Kara's beautiful wellness facilities.
Premium Manifestation Experience
Our retreats are always designed to create space for rest, reflection and meaningful connection.
For this special Manifestation Retreat, guests also have the opportunity to extend their experience with access to Anam Kara's woodland sauna, optional cold plunge and a nourishing seasonal lunch.
The contrast therapy provides a beautiful opportunity to integrate the day's work. Leaving behind old patterns, embracing fresh perspectives and giving yourself time to pause before returning home feeling refreshed, clear and inspired.
Why We Chose 8th August
This retreat takes place on 8th August (8/8), a date often known as the Lion's Gate Portal.
For many, it's seen as a powerful time for reflection, intention setting and stepping into a new chapter. The number 8 symbolises abundance, confidence and infinite possibility, making it a meaningful day to pause, reconnect with yourself and consider the future you're creating.
The Details
Date: Saturday 8th August - The Lions Portal
Time: 10am – 1pm / 3pm
Location: Anam Kara Wellness, Glendalough House Estate, Wicklow
Price: €50 - €95, depending on your chosen experience
This Day Is For You If
• You're ready to create positive change in your life.
• You want greater clarity and direction for your future.
• You're curious about manifestation in a grounded, practical way.
• You enjoy personal growth, mindfulness and meaningful conversations.
• You'd love a day to pause, reflect and reconnect with yourself.
• You're looking for inspiration, motivation and a supportive community of like-minded women.
Leave Feeling
Clearer about where you're going.
More confident in yourself.
Inspired to take aligned action.
Connected to your vision.
Empowered to create the life you truly want.
Book Your Place
Spaces are limited for this special collaboration with Saoirse Doyle and Sophie Anderton.
Reserve your place below and choose the experience that's right for you.
A 90-minute evening of ceremonial cacao, yin yoga and meditation in Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow.
Cacao & Yin is a 90-minute experience designed to give you time to slow down, reconnect and enjoy a little calm within the summer months. Held in the peaceful setting of An Lár in Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow, spaces will be limited, creating a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.
Ceremonial cacao invites us to slow down and arrive fully into the moment, enjoying a warm cup together while creating time to settle, connect and prepare the body and mind for the restful practice ahead.
Yin yoga invites us to do less, hold mostly floor-based poses for longer periods of time, giving the body an opportunity to slow down and release tension while encouraging greater mobility and flexibility.
We’ll finish the evening with a guided meditation and time for deep rest, allowing you to leave feeling calmer, more grounded and ready for a restful summer evening ahead.
What to Expect
Your 90-minute Cacao & Yin experience will include:
• A warm cup of ceremonial cacao
• Time to arrive, slow down and settle into the evening
• A 60-minute yin yoga and meditation practice
• Slow, mostly floor-based movement
• Longer-held poses to encourage rest and release
• Guided meditation and deep relaxation
• A small and intimate group
No previous experience of yoga, yin or ceremonial cacao is needed.
The Benefits of Cacao & Yin
Cacao & Yin brings together three simple practices - ceremonial cacao, slow movement and meditation. Creating an evening centred around rest and reconnection.
Taking time to slow down helps to:
• Reduce feelings of stress and overwhelm
• Encourage physical and mental relaxation
• Release built-up muscular tension
• Support mobility and flexibility
• Create time away from screens, responsibilities and everyday busyness
• Encourage greater awareness of the body and breath
• Support a calmer transition into the evening
• Give you dedicated time to rest and reconnect with yourself
Who Is This For?
Cacao & Yin is for anyone who feels like they could benefit from slowing down.
You do not need to be flexible, experienced in yoga or familiar with ceremonial cacao.
Whether you already attend my weekly yoga classes or are completely new, you are very welcome to join us.
This experience may be particularly suited to you if you have been feeling busy, tired, overstimulated or simply in need of an evening to yourself.
Event Details
Location: An Ear, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
Date: Wednesday 19th August
Time: 7pm - 8.30pm
Spaces Limited
The Serenity Summer Series
Cacao & Yin is part of the Serenity Summer Series - a collection of seven experiences taking place throughout July and August. Each event has been created to offer a different way to enjoy the summer months through nature, movement, cacao, meditation, connection and rest. From intimate evening gatherings to longer nature-led experiences, the Serenity Summer Series is an invitation to make a little more time for yourself this summer.
Get the most majestic and best start for your day in the stunning setting of Glendalough.
We will start the morning with an a mild walk around a beautiful trail around Glendalough, offering us stunning views of both lakes, surrounding mountains and all the enchanting spring greenery and nature that one could behold - a very grounding experience. With some of the most beautiful viewing point to stop, take it all in and breath.
We will have a (optional dip) in the lake. Some of the benefits of this dip will include - boosting the cardiovascular circulation, which is beneficial for a healthy heart, a strong immune system, well-balanced mental health and a high level of energy for the rest of the day.
If the weather allows we will spend the day completely outdoors immersed in nature with a secret yoga and cacao spot along the hike or will then go inside a stunning secret cabin, overlooking Derrybawn Mountain. This is a beautiful setting to take time out to do some inner work, surrounded by beautiful nature and in a cosy indoor room. We will enjoy some gentle yoga, a cacao ceremony and enter into a wonderful and relaxing meditation to go within. Bring a journal, bring a yoga mat, bring your favourite cup and bring an open heart of enthusiasm for a magical morning in the most majestic spot.
What’s included
Cacao Ceremony
Guided meditation
Yoga - suitable for all levels
Guided hike - suitable for all levels, this is never a fitness walk, Serenity with Saoirse hikes are always with the aim to be intentionally slow so everyone can join and connect with nature. Plenty of stops and pauses to take the magical beauty around us in.
Wild Swim (optional)
A morning with like-minded individuals
Details
Saturday 15th August
9.30am - 2.30pm (sometimes we finish at 3/3pm depending on the day, but mostly 2.30pm)
Location / meeting spot - Exact details will be sent to attendees
This event is for all ages, all levels of fitness and is safe for anyone who is pregnant.
Mindful Morning
Finish your week with a morning of mindfulness, ready to walk into the new week ahead.
Will start with a cacao circle to connect with the heart, moving on to a gentle but invigorating yoga session to connect with the body and breath - yet invigorating yoga practice that opens the body, softening tension, and creating ease in the breath.
Finishing with a rejuvenating mediation of gratitude and manifestation.
We will aim to hold this outside connecting with nature - taking in breathtaking mountain views and listening to birdsong. If needs be due to the weather we will be holding this inside.
Sunday | 8.30am - 10am
Limited spaces available
Location shared upon booking
A Half-Day Nature, Cacao & Yoga Retreat
Join us at the beautiful SoEarth Projects in Kill, Co. Kildare for a special half-day retreat created to honour one of the most overlooked moments of the year - the quiet space between the carefree days of summer and the return to everyday routines.
As August draws to a close, there is a brief window where the long days still linger, the evenings remain warm and nature is full and abundant. Before school bags are packed, calendars fill and life finds its familiar rhythm again, we invite you to press pause.
Whether you've spent the summer caring for children, supporting others, travelling, working or simply keeping life moving, this is an opportunity to step away from the demands of daily life and spend a few hours replenishing yourself.
Throughout the morning or afternoon, you'll move gently between the beautiful outdoor spaces and cosy indoor studio at SoEarth Projects. We'll begin with a mindful walk through the surrounding woodland and gardens, allowing the body to slow, the mind to settle and the senses to reconnect with nature.
We'll then gather indoors for ceremonial cacao, inviting us to arrive fully in the present moment before flowing into a slow, breath-led yoga practice suitable for every body. Through mindful movement, conscious breathing and moments of stillness, we'll create space to release tension, calm the nervous system and reconnect with ourselves.
The experience will finish with a deeply restorative guided meditation and a gentle closing reflection, leaving you feeling rested, grounded and ready to move into the next season of life with greater calm and clarity.
Event Details
Location - SoEarth Projects, Kill, Co. Kildare
Date - Saturday 29th August
Two sessions are available to book:
Morning Gathering : 10:00am – 1:00pm
Afternoon Gathering : 2:00pm – 5:00pm
What to Expect
• A mindful walk through the beautiful grounds of SoEarth Projects
• Ceremonial cacao
• Slow, breath-led yoga suitable for all abilities
• Guided breathwork to calm and regulate the nervous system
• A deeply restorative guided meditation
• Gentle journaling and reflection
• Time to slow down, reconnect with nature and simply be
How You'll Leave Feeling
This experience is designed to help you leave feeling...
• Rested after a full summer
• Lighter in both body and mind
• Calm and grounded
• More present and connected
• Ready to embrace the return of routine without feeling overwhelmed
• Reconnected with yourself before giving your energy back to everyone else
The Benefits
As summer gently draws to a close, many of us move from weeks of spontaneity and busyness into the structure of everyday life. Taking intentional time to slow down before that transition can help create a greater sense of balance, clarity and resilience.
Combining time in nature with gentle movement, breathwork, meditation and mindful rest supports both physical and emotional wellbeing, creating space to recharge before a new season of routines begins.
Science-Based Benefits
Research shows that gentle yoga, breathwork and meditation can:
• Reduce stress hormones such as cortisol
• Support nervous system regulation
• Improve sleep quality
• Reduce anxiety and overwhelm
• Increase mobility and circulation
• Improve focus, mood and emotional wellbeing
Time spent in nature has also been shown to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, improve attention and support overall mental health. Even a short period outdoors can help restore mental energy and create a greater sense of calm.
Choosing Your Session
Morning Gathering - Begin the Day Slowly
Start your day with space to breathe before the weekend unfolds. Morning light, mindful movement and time in nature create the perfect opportunity to reconnect with yourself and carry that sense of calm into the days ahead.
Afternoon Gathering - A Gentle Afternoon Retreat
Spend a peaceful afternoon immersed in nature, movement and stillness. As the day softens, you'll have the opportunity to unwind, recharge and savour the final weeks of summer before everyday routines begin again.
“One of the nicest experiences I’ve done in a long time.” - Niamh Conway
Testimonials
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"I had the absolute pleasure of joining one of Saoirse’s magical Glendalough sunrise events, and I honestly can't recommend it enough. From start to finish, it was the most grounding, calming, and rejuvenating experience I’ve had in a long time."
Gillian Conway
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"Perfect retreat event Had a pleasure to experience a wellness event organised by Croga Comforts. Everything was delivered as described and exceeded any expectations. The event was seamlessly organised along with unusual experiences and plenty of opportunities to take in the surroundings. If you are looking to reset from the hustle and bustle of life look no further."
Anna
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A day of Bliss 🤍 I recently attended one of Cróga comforts retreat days and it was just such a beautiful day from start to finish. Saoirse is such a gorgeous girl and so welcoming to everyone. We started with a beautiful forest walk, then an idyllic setting for yoga and cacao ceremony, followed by a refreshing group wild swim. Life is a bit intense sometimes so if your looking for a day of escape this is what you need.
Ali
