ROOT AND RISE Retreat 18th to 19th June 2025
✨ROOT AND RISE 🌿
A Restorative Retreat of Healing Movement and Earth Connection in a Georgian Garden Haven.
Come back to yourself through nature.
This retreat is a gentle, nourishing invitation to rediscover the power of grounding in the natural world. In embracing a lush Georgian garden, you'll explore how connection with the earth can awaken your energy, restore your confidence, and bring a deep sense of safety and inner peace. Reconnect, Rewild & Recharge in the Garden 🌿
Join us for an unforgettable luxury exclusive 24 hour retreat designed to awaken your senses and restore your spirit — through nature, movement, and mindful connection.
What if 24 hours could ground you, inspire you, and reconnect you with what truly matters? Step away from the noise and into something sacred.
Join us for a soulfully curated retreat where the rhythms of the garden meet the wisdom of the body — a space to reconnect, root down, and rise. Awaken your senses and restore your spirit — through nature, movement, and mindful connection.
🌱 Grow Your Own Goodness & what Heals you.
Learn simple, soul-nourishing tips & tricks for growing your own food — whether you have a small garden, field or a windowsill.
Discover the quiet joy of growing your own food — simple, sustainable tips to take home and nourish your life from the soil up.
🌸 Mindful Garden Moments
Drop into deep calm with Chi Gong mindful movement, a guided garden meditation, and a transformative sound bath beneath the trees.
🌼 Be Guided by Nature & A Luminary
Co-Led by an award-winning garden designer, author, and advocate for nature-based healing, whose life’s work is rooted in the deep, ancient healing power of the land, this retreat is rooted in the belief that nature doesn’t just heal — it empowers. Explore the sacred connection between humans and plants, and discover how consciously sensing and communing with plant life brings deep peace, protection, and alignment with the divine creative force.
🔔 Stillness in Bloom
Sink into a serene garden meditation, immersed in nature’s scent and sound — carried deeper by a gentle sound bath.
🗓️ When: Wednesday 18th June 4.30pm to Thursday 19th June 4.30pm
📍 Where: Kilmokea Country Manor & Gardens.
Take a deep breath, this is your day. Reserve Your Space now which Includes introduction to your beautiful room. Evening meditation. Vegetarian Supper. Bed and Breakfast and the complete day retreat with a gift to take home and Organic Lunch.
Tickets are non-refundable although fully transferable to a friend should you not be able to attend. Do please let us know your friends name if transferring.
✨ Benefits of Sound Healing ✨
Sound healing, alternatively known as Sound Therapy or Vibrational Medicine, is the practice of using sound and frequency to bring harmony, healing and relaxation to the body, mind & soul. Vibrations from the instruments assist the release of energetic and emotional blockages in the body and stimulate healing. Sound healing also massages the nervous system, enhances mood, releases buried emotions, improves sleep and reduces anxiety.
🌿 The Gentle Power of Qi Gong
A moving meditation for body, mind, and spirit Qi Gong Eases the Mind with each breath and movement, it calms the nervous system and restores inner peace. At the same time it awakens your Energy to flow freely bringing you fully into your body. It’s where stillness meets movement. Through gentle motion and deep focus, it helps release tension returning you to your natural state of harmony, improving circulation, balance, flexibility, and vitality. It is kind on the joints and deeply healing at any age or ability deepening our connection with the land and our breath. This is not just movement. This is medicine. A quiet return to your own inner garden.
🌱 The Quiet Joy of Growing Your Own Food
A garden is more than a place — it’s a practice of presence, patience, and nourishment.
Growing your own food is more than a nourishing act — it’s a return to rhythm, ritual, and relationship with the Earth. Each seed planted is a quiet promise, reconnecting you to the seasons, the soil, and your own inner stillness. The flavors are richer, the nutrients deeper, and the joy immeasurable. Gardening becomes a form of moving meditation, easing stress, building confidence, and cultivating resilience. As your hands nurture life from the ground up, you’re reminded that abundance begins within — and that even the smallest patch of green can become a sanctuary of healing, beauty, and belonging.
🌿 Sacred Communion: The Gifts of Deep Connection with Plant Life
When we slow down and listen to the whisper of a tree or the subtle intelligence of a flower, we remember: we are not separate from nature — we are nature. This remembrance softens the heart and anchors us in deep peace. In the presence of plant life, our nervous systems settle. We begin to feel held, protected, and seen by the very fabric of creation.
Your Hosts.
Bernie Doran is an award-winning garden designer whose work is rooted in a deep belief that the most powerful designs are a reflection of nature—because nature, in its purest form, speaks directly to the human soul. Alongside Bernie’s design work, she is an Energy Healer, Nature Intuitive, and Teacher of Higher Consciousness, dedicated to guiding others on their healing and inner transformation path.
For over 40 years, she has devoted her life to the study and practice of helping people move through their struggles and conflicts into greater understanding, peace, and harmony. At the heart of this journey is a sacred reconnection with nature—a living, conscious presence that mirrors our truth and gently supports our return to wholeness.
Emma Hewlett is a Vital Energy Practitioner, certified Aromatherapist, Organic gardener, and whole-food chef. With a deep-rooted belief in the healing power of nature, Emma creates immersive experiences that awaken the senses, restore balance, and nourish the whole self. Her work blends mindful holistic practices — from the grounding art of growing your own food to the subtle alchemy of scent, breath, and energy. Whether guiding a sound bath in a blooming garden or sharing the joy of seasonal cooking, Emma invites others to slow down, reconnect, and return to the rhythms that truly sustain us.
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✅ Please bring:
✨ a coat
✨ a pair of outdoor shoes
✨ a small towel
✨ a water bottle
✅ Facilities at Kilmokea
Country House Bespoke Accommodation
Seven Acres of Gardens to explore
Holistic Health & Craft Shop
Café serving Lunch(organic soup and home baked bread included)other options may be purchased and sweet treats, hot & cold drinks.
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