There’s a revival happening and countless people are coming home to and reclaiming their Christian faith. People are seeking the deeper truth behind life and many realise that the shallow, click bait society of instant gratification isn’t attending to their deeper human needs.
In a culture that is being rapidly excelled by AI and technology, there’s a remembrance happening, and people are tentative yet brave as they being to retrace the steps of our ancestors. The Celtic Christian path cultivates a culture of hope, joy and peace-making that brings compassion to the most tender aspects of life.
Does this resonate with you?
Are you finding yourself reclaiming and reconnection to your Christian heritage?
If so, we invite you to join us on this IMBOLC for a weekend experience that will open a new dimension to your faith life with embodied prayer, breath work, Celtic customs, pilgrimage and communal sharing.
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.
– We invite you then to join us for some soup and soda bread before our workshop with Patrick-Joseph and Mel.
– For the afternoon we’ll have a 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 reflection on the day.
Sunday 1st
– Breakfast
– 11.30am Mass at Glendalough
– A hike in Glendalough with a packed lunch included to keep you nourished 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
Weekend 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 tested.
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.
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 (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. 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. 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.