There’s a revival happening and countless people are coming home to and reclaiming their Christian faith. The world is a precarious place and people are meaning making beings. We look for the deeper truth behind life and many realise that the shallow, click bait society of instant gratification and cheap thrills isn’t attending to their deeper human needs.
There’s a remembrance happening, and people are tentative yet brave as they being to retrace the steps of our ancestors, praying rounds on rosary beads and humming along to hymns from school days.
Many have started to realise that it wasn’t just scandal and misuse of power that existed in the Body of Christ but teachings of a Way of Love that gives suffering a depth of meaning.
A culture of hope, joy and peace-making that stays with the trouble and brings compassion to the most tender aspects of life. The pain points are still there but a deep well of ancestral gifts is also there waiting to be reclaimed.
In a culture that is being rapidly excelled by technology there’s a deep humanism in the tradition of our forebearers that offers a balm of dignity and a personal love that we are all desperately in need of.
Does this resonate with you?
Are you finding yourself reclaiming and reconnection to your Christian heritage?
Are you following the pilgrim routes and seeking companionship for the Way?
If so, we invite you to join us on this IMBOLC to breathe fresh life into your faith!
Imbolc Retreat
We’ve curated a weekend experience that will open a new dimension to your faith life with embodied prayer, breath work, Celtic customs, pilgrimage and communal sharing.
Come join us to feel the embrace of the Holy Trinity, land and friendship.
What to expect?
Saturday 31st
– As you arrive you’ll be shown around our farm gardens and retreat centre in the heart of Wicklow town.
– Then we invite you to warm your belly with some soup and soda bread before our workshop with Patrick-Joseph and Mel.
– For the afternoon we’ll have a Scripture based Breathwork session designed to help you explore the embodied dimensions of your faith and the power of the Holy Rosary. You’ll have time to share and listen as we begin to deepen into our faith together.
– We’ll finish with a nutritious meal with ingredients sourced from our farm and a local community of food growers.
– For the evening we’ll invite a contemplative silence to allow God’s word to magnify in our hearts and till the soil of our shared space.
Sunday 1st
– Breakfast
– 11.30am Mass at Glendalough
– A hike in Glendalough with a packed lunch included to keep your belly full and good company to make friends and deepen connections.
– Arrive back to our retreat centre for a cosy afternoon.
– Dinner
– Join Kate and Mel for to make Brigid’s crosses and embrace the beauty of the oral storytelling tradition as we reflect on our Patron Saint, Brigid, and the synergistic interplay between the Celtic and Christian traditions.
Monday 2nd
– Breakfast
– Morning pilgrimage to Bride’s Well with Mel and Kate
– Closing circle to reflect on the weekend
– Celebratory meal to Celebrate Brigid’s Day together.
– We will finish around 3pm
DATES
January 31, 2026 - February 2, 2026
LOCATION
An Tairseach Organic Farm & Ecology Centre
CATEGORY
Retreat
FEE
€495, includes two nights accommodation, all meals, course content, tea/coffee
Over the last 3 years each of our facilitators has independently had life altering experiences with Christ that completely reorientated their paths. As a team we intimately know the challenge, joy and immensity that experiences like this bring. Often, when people accept Jesus into their heart, life gets more challenging. Often, we're sent out into the wilderness and everything we taught we knew about ourselves and our lives gets challenged and test.
If this is you, please know that you are not alone.
This is the pruning season in the wilderness. A time when every aspect of life is tested to see if it can coherently exist with the immensity of love that now burns in your heart. On this path community is essential. A Christian alone is a Christian in danger. A like-hearted network to pray, struggle, share and journey with is key on what can often feel like a lonely path.
Patrick-Joseph, Kate and Mel have all been deeply embedded in this process over the last few years and we're passionate about bringing people together to explore, deepen and share our faith.
While we are all finding our way back to our Celtic Christian and Catholic faith, our space is open and designed for all who feel a resonance with Christ and who are curious, open and ready to bravely deepen their faith in fellowship and friendship.
Patrick-Joseph
Patrick-Joseph is a seasoned holistic health practitioner with a deep focus on breathwork, using it as a bridge between the physical body, emotional landscape, and conscious awareness. Through Breathe Trust Flow, he has built a space where breath becomes a practical tool for grounding, resilience, and honest self-connection. He is also the co-founder of Men Rising Together, one of Ireland’s leading men’s mental health organizations, known for creating environments where men can meet themselves with courage, truth, and accountability.
Currently studying Level 8 Honours in Psychotherapy and Counselling, he blends academic discipline with years of lived, integrative practice. This mix is shaping a grounded therapeutic approach, pairing clear psychotherapeutic understanding with embodied methods that meet people where they are, with sincerity and structure.
Since 2020, Patrick-joseph has been a committed Wim Hof Method Advanced Instructor, guiding individuals into deeper physical and emotional capacity through breath, focus, and cold exposure. He is also the founder of Moonstock, host of the “Doing Me Thing” podcast, and co-founder of The Anam Tuatha Soul Tribe retreat, each offering its own pathway into community, connection, and meaningful growth.
Faith in God, and his return to Christ underpins the hearth of his work. It informs the way he listens, the way he serves, and the way he understands human change, not as a performance, but as a return to truth. Through this foundation, he supports individuals in uncovering purpose, building structure, and stepping into a life shaped by integrity and potential.
Kate Murphy
Kate is a photographer, filmmaker, musician and facilitator who creates spaces for people to deepen their connection to their bodies through loving presence and learning to embrace their true biological nature and Godly design. Her visual work (https://www.kateflomurphy.com) focuses on documenting the raw beauty of humans in an intimate and empowering way, by exploring their sense of meaning and belonging in the world, in both a physical and spiritual context.
After several years of spiritually seeking and travelling around the world, she has come home to her Irish roots and Catholic faith where she has found the only way to truth is through Jesus. “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
Currently, Kate is weaving this revelation of God’s love deeply into her work to support people to remember and embrace who they are in His image. She offers 1:1 photography sessions and ‘Wild and Holy’ group experiences for both women and men to re-connect to the divine within.
One of the main themes throughout her work is focusing on the meeting place within that bridges our earth bodies and our heavenly consciousness, and she explores this through rewilding experiences. She values community and is passionate about bringing people together through music, ritual and ceremony.
Melanie O'Driscoll
In 2020 Mel trained as an interfaith minister with the OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation, gaining a solid, foundational training in spiritual counselling skills, ceremony, ritual and personal development. She has since reverted to the Catholicism of her ancestors and is passionate about supporting people to re-engage with their ancestral faith in new and dynamic ways.
She is a group facilitator with 15 years of experience in environmental education, and faith based, trauma informed reclamation of the Christ-led way. She focuses on creating brave and compassionate spaces where people feel encouraged to share with depth and honesty. As a storyteller, she's passionate about enhancing communal communication skills and sharing the joy of the gospel in a new light.
Mel is passionate about supporting people as they heal their relationship with Self, God and Other. She uses sound healing, meditation and voice work to help people feel and access their creative power. Her work invites people to live courageously and to actively co-create a future that is nourishing and regenerative for all life on Earth.