Illuminating Ireland’s Gold
Retreat to Ireland’s Ancient East
Spring Equinox
14 – 23 April 2026
With Dubliner,
Eimear Stassin as your guide
~ Step inside the story of your own becoming in a unique retreat that starts in Dublin’s Fair City and traces a circular route around the sacred sites of Ireland’s Ancient East ~
Journey to the magical island of Ireland and walk the sacred land with Eimear to illuminate the wise mystical frequency of gold within you.
We buried the wisdom within the hills and mountains; the rocks, rivers and stones, within the bogs and crystal caves; within the stories, myths and the indigenous tongue.
Now is the time to retrieve this wisdom that is waiting for you to excavate.
This is a cultural, educational and enlightening retreat AND also a deeply healing, spiritual and transformational pilgrimage where the voice of the ancestors of these lands are waiting to commune with you once again.
~ Illuminate Ireland’s Gold Within You ~
Step inside this sacred pilgrimage and we will:
Share Stories: Because Ireland is the Seanachaí
She aches for her stories to be told.
For her secrets to be shared.
She cradles the heaviness held in the land to support it’s (and your) transmutation.
She is ready now to share her draíocht, her magic, her deep wisdom, with you.
What do you wish to know?, she whispers,
as she gently guides you home to your Irish and Indigenous roots.
Dream Big: Ag brionglóideach ~ dreaming
What is your dream? Ireland asks.
The emerald crystalline heart of Ériu welcomes you home to her primordial roots; her riches, her sacred wealth that is waiting for you.
She invites you to step barefoot, soles to soil, upon these sacred lands. To remember the soul seeds that you planted eons ago.
To retrieve these now for these times.
Her soul song is ripe now to sing freely across Her love lines once again.
Gather with Soul Family: Meitheal ~ A Sacred Gathering
Meitheal is the Irish word for a gathering. It’s a way of coming together in community to plant, weave, harvest and celebrate. To support eachother in work and play in mutual co-operation.
It’s an ancient expression of the spirit that upholds community in a natural, organic way by bringing us closer to pure harmonious ways of living that are innately familiar to us.
Iomramh: Embark on The Immram~Sea-voyagE
Enter the lands where ancient treasures are buried beneath the mounds, in the rivers and out upon the salty ocean.
Embark on your unique voyage of discovery through meditation and walking the lands, to The Otherworld, to retrieve your buried treasures. This is a voyage like no other, a pilgrimage voyage from which you never return the same.
Ireland is ready now to share her draíocht, her magic, that went underground with the Tuatha Dé Danann and is ready to be resurrected by your presence, frequency and energy once again.
An Seanachaí ~ Ag brionglóideach ~ Meitheal ~ Draíocht ~ Iomramh
These words sum up the deeply profound voyage of discovery that awaits you when you say YES! to this epic pilgrimage opportunity.
Join us!…
In a small intimate group of 10 participants maximum.
With beautiful hand-picked single occupancy accommodation in early 19th Century Country Houses and 18th Century hotels, refurbished of course!
In a comfortable minibus as your transport.
With personal visits to 12 and more sacred sites, royal hills, holy wells and royal seats of Ireland, with Eimear, who has a deep relationship with these places.
Dine like Queens and Kings on the delicious nourishing food of Ireland.
~ ór: aurum: gold ~
Gold runs through our bloodlines and through the arteries of Ireland.
Gold illuminates, activates and heals. Ireland’s emerald crystalline core cradles Her heart of gold.
Throughout this retreat journey we will be connecting to the powerful frequency of gold as a pure, royal, noble, stable energy that’s resurrecting now to weave and support us in our work…including Eimear’s dreamtime and awake-time initiations with the element of GOLD.
Our Route is a loop around Ireland’s Ancient East beginning and ending in Dublin city.
Our Magical Itinerary:
This retreat begins on 14th April and ends on 23rd April 2026.
Please arrive into Dublin city no later than 2pm on 14th April 2026.
Day 1 - Wednesday 14th April 2026: Dublin’s Fair City
Meet at 2pm in Dublin City centre
Leaving the hustle and bustle of Dublin city, we drive west to Slane in Meath to begin our connection to Ireland’s Ancient East
We stay in Slane at an Boyne House Slane, on the River Boyne and by the Hill of Slane ~ Boyne House is a former rectory dating from 1807, magnificently renewed to offer spacious luxury accommodation. The perfect place to begin to quieten, connect and commune with the land
Once checked in, we gather on the land in an Irish Medicine Wheel meditation opening ceremony to orientate for the journey ahead
Welcome to Ireland’s Ancient East Ceremonial Dinner– a special royal 2 course feast for Queens and Kings cooked especially for us!
Breakfast and Dinner included
O’Connell Bridge over the River Liffey Dublin.
Dublin’s Fair City ~ cross the bridge over the River Liffey.
Day 2 - Thursday 15th April 2026: Into the Heart of the Boyne Valley ~ Sacred Tour to the Triple Sacred Sites of Newgrange, Knowth & Dowth
Enjoy a leisurely breakfast, with time to connect to the sacred trees in our private garden and enjoy a morning meditation on the land
We drive to Newgrange Visitor Centre, Brú na Bóinne, to begin our tour connecting to the ancestors of these lands, including the Tuatha Dé Danann, the fairy beings, Goddess Bóinn and Sun God Dagda
Experience a private tour of the 5,000 year old sites of Newgrange (Sí an Bhrú) & Knowth’s (Cnogba) ancient mysteries where you can touch the ancient symbolic stones and immerse yourself in these power places, to which Eimear has very strong connections
Enjoy the Newgrange Experience Museum at the visitor centre which also has a delicious café and wonderfully unique gift shop
Lunch at the visitor centre cafe ~ the Lemon Meringue Pie is recommended!
We drive onwards to the third in the trilogy of ancient monuments in the bend of the River Boyne, Dowth Passage Tomb (Dubhadh meaning darkening) where we connect to the giant kerbstone Stone of the 7 Suns. We will hold a sacred healing and honouring ceremony for and on these lands, taking time to just lie on the summit of Dowth in stillness, surrounded by newborn lambs!
We return to Boyne House Slane to integrate our day and relax
Dine at Conyngham Arms Hotel ~ 2 course set menu meal, across the road from our accommodation
Stay a second night in Slane at Boyne House Slane
Breakfast & 2-course dinner included
Sí (Shee) rises, her belly pregnant with the eternity of ancient spirals at Sí an Bhrú at Brú na Bóinne, Newgrange.
The River Boyne by Newgrange. Goddess Bóinn’s sacred river ~ the bright, illuminated cow goddess.
Knowth, Cnóbha ~ Portal to the fairy realm, the Sí ,at Brú na Bóinne, Newgrange.
Day 3 - Friday 16th April 2026: The Royal Seat of Kings & Queens ~ The Hill of Tara
Reach out and touch the Lia Fáil, The Stone of Destiny, and hence your royal destiny upon the Hill of Tara.
Make your offerings and drink from the sacred well waters at the holy Well of Tara.
After another hearty breakfast at Boyne House Slane, we drive deeper into the heart of Meath to The Hill of Tara
The Hill of Tara is the royal seat of the ancient Kings & Queens of Ireland. This ceremonial site holds secrets held beneath the mounds upon the Hill of Tara where we will commune with the Lia Fail – the Stone of Destiny, the Mound of the Hostages and more to remember your pure royalty within
Lunch at the Hill of Tara Maguires Café & Gift Shop (which has beautiful gifts!)
Visit The Well at Tara to connect to Ireland’s pure holy well waters of wisdom. This is a haven peace and bird life. A place to be still, to sing, to dance, to move!
We return to Boyne House, Slane to integrate our day and relax
Dine at Conyngham Arms Hotel ~ 2 course set menu meal, across the road from our accommodation
Stay a third night in Slane at Boyne House Slane
Breakfast & 2-course dinner included
Day 4 - Saturday 17th April 2026: The Hill of the Cailleach Witch at the Loughcrew Cairns
After a leisurley breakfast, we checkout of our accommodation and journey further into the belly of the Boyne Valley to the home of The Cailleach Witch at the Loughcrew Cairns
It’s a short steep climb to the summit where you are greeted by her rocky cairns and ancient carved stones. 5,000 year old story keepers that hold messages for you ~ are you ready to take your seat, or indeed stand tall, upon her stone throne?
Lunch at Nelly’s Cafe, Loughcrew Megalithic Centre ~ relax in the atmospheric courtyard (open if the weather is fine, otherwise we have an alternative!)
Enjoy Maggie Heaney's cottage to experience Irish life in the olden days through a short video
We then take a short climb to The Cailleach Witch’s final resting place on Patrickstown Hill to commune with the now eroded and weathered, yet highly energetic Cailleach’s Calendar Stone
We drive onwards towards the centre of Ireland to check-in to the Bloomfield House Hotel & Spa for the next 2 nights by Lough Ennell
Breakfast & dinner included
Step onto Your Throne: Return to Your Power at Sliabh na Cailliagh, the Hill of the Witch, Loughcrew.
The summit of The Hill of Uisneach, the spiritual centre of Ireland
Day 5 - Sunday 18th April 2027: Lough Ennell ~ Gentle Rest Day
Today is a rest day to allow time to journal, integrate and meditate together as a group or alone in silence amidst the beautiful setting of the Bloomfield House Hotel
Book in for a spa treatment
Join the optional short trip to the banks of Lough Ennell, a lake that is steeped in the mythological association with the Fir Bolg, the clay men who arrived in Ireland from Greece with their bags of clay to fertilise the Irish soil. Goddess Tailltiu is a Fir Bolg who brought Agriculture to Ireland. The Fir Bolg inhabited Ireland prior to the Tuatha Dé Danann
Water offerings, releasing and cleansing
Enjoy a 2-course dinner at Bloobfield House Hotel
Breakfast & dinner included
Day 6 - Monday 19th April 2027: The Sacred Centre of Ireland at The Hill of Uisneach
After a leisurely breakfast, we drive to the rustic Hill of Uisneach Visitor Centre to enjoy a private tour at the Hill of Uisneach
Uisneach is the sacred and geographic centre of Ireland, home to Ail na Muireann, the Stone of Division or The Cat Stone. This is the stone that unites the 4 provinces of Ireland and the final resting place of Goddess Ériu
We enjoy a packed lunch on the Hill of Uisneach
A short drive brings us to a sacred well called St Brigid’s Well and Church near Uisneach where we rest with the sacred well waters
Saying goodbye to Uisneach for now, we drive to Kildare to check-in to our delightful rooms at Firecastle for the next 2 nights, which is located beside St Brigid’s Cathedral & Fire Temple
Breakfast & dinner included
Ériu at The Hill of Uisneach with her hair adorned with apples and foliage. Ériu is the sovereign goddess from whom Ireland receives Her name.
The Cat Stone at Uisneach ~ Ail na Míreann, The Stone of Division. The Omphalos naval of Ireland. The Stone that unites.
“Among all the miracles of Kildare nothing seems to me more miraculous than that wonderful book which they say was written at the dictation of an angel…if you penetrate with your eyes to the secrets of the artistry, you will notice such intricacies…all these things must have been the result of the work, not of men, but of angels.”
Day 7 - Tuesday 20th April 2026: Reignite the Embers of Your Sacred Flame at Kildare
Brigid’s Flame at Brigid’s Holy Well Kildare.
The 12th Century Round Tower on the grounds of St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare
Enjoy a delicious breakfast at Firecastle
Today we enjoy the sacred sites of Brigid in Kildare on foot
Kildare is Cill Dara in Irish meaning The Church of the Oak. It’s where Goddess Brigid awaits your arrival with her sacred flame
After a leisurley breakfast, we walk to Kildare Heritage Centre for a fun virtual reality tour and talk, bridging the lives of Goddess and Saint Brigid
Onwards to St Brigid’s Parish Church to witness St Brigid’s relic
We then wander on to visit St Brigid’s Cathedral, Brigid’s Fire Temple, the Round Tower
Lunch in Kildare town
After lunch, we walk in ceremony to the Solas Bhride Spiritual Centre, home to the Brigidine Sisters who tend to Brigid’s perpetual flame. Here we meet the Brigidine Sisters for a private meeting where they will speak about St Brigid and their centre of peace. We will have time to walk the grounds, enjoy the labyrinth, the new Peace Pole and the 7 oak saplings symbolically planted on Earth Day 2015
We continue our walk to Brigid’s Holy Well where we take time to dip your toes in the water and pray to her holy well waters
We walk on to another hidden gem of a well - another Brigid’s Well to commune with these spring waters
We stay another night in Kildare at Firecastle
Enjoy a delicious 3-course dinner in the Firecastle restaurant
Breakfast & 3-course dinner included
“Walk with me along Brigid’s Way which too is the Magdalene Way.
Follow the flicker of Brigid’s flame as the Magdalene’s flame of pure truth. The veils are lifting, lifting, lifting, allowing access to vast libraries of wisdom. Wisdom that has been held secret and sacred until now.”
Day 8 - Wednesday 21st April 2026: St Endas, Patrick Pearse & Return to Dublin City
The Pearse Museum at the tranquil St Endas Park, Dublin.
The Wayfarer poem by Patrick Pearse carved out in stone.
We enjoy breakfast and check out of our hotel
Leaving Kildare we drive to County Dublin and St Endas Park which is near Eimear’s birth home
Enjoy the tranquility of St Endas Park which is home to The Pearse Museum, a former school for boys founded by Irish Revolutionary Patrick Pearse
Here we spend time connecting deeply to the history of Ireland’s rising and the role of the poets, teachers, visionaries and dreamers in Ireland’s freedom including a private tour of the museum
We enjoy lunch in the relaxing courtyard of St Endas Park where you can visit the original classrooms when the museum was a school for boys
After lunch, we return to Dublin city
Check into Dublin hotel
There is time to explore Dublin City to enjoy shopping for gifts and souvenirs or a drink in one of the many pubs
Closing Ceremonial and Integration dinner (dinner is not included)
Breakfast included
“Mise Éire, Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra
I am Ireland, I am older than the old hag of Beara.”
Day 9 Thursday 22nd April 2026: Dublin Departure
Breakfast and check out of our hotel
The Long Irish Goodbyes & Departures forever transformed
“Eimear you have been a beautiful beacon of magic to me over this journey. Your authenticity, beautiful heart and innate wisdom have been such a gift on this journey. You have a natural ability to welcome all into the circle and know exactly what is needed to hold a safe space. The witches have a strong connection through you and they really have found a flaming beacon of light through which to shine.✨”
“Eimear, you’re so good at crafting journeys and your voice and accent make it the perfect package. Thank you for this profoundly profound wisdom!”
Knowth Monuments in the Newgrange Complex
Walk the land, soles to soil, to activate your sacred remembrance; sing your soul song and resurrect the magical truth of who you are.
Walk the path of Golden Celtic Codes of magic, mystery and deep meaning to enliven your path.
Knowth in the Newgrange Complex
This is a magically immersive pilgrimage for souls who seek solace in a land that holds deep wisdom and mysticism.
Return to earth, return to the land and step back onto your throne in a sacred remembrance of the master seer that you already are.
Receive energetic and spiritual recalibration.
Open to the motherland of Ériu, Ireland as a deep ancestral remembrance and pure expression of your Soul Gold.
“Eimear, you help people awaken to their soul truth, the parts of them that are asleep. You help sing them back to the light, to remembrance through the beauty of your words and the magic that you weave.”
Your Investment:
Full Price: £4,499
I am delighted to offer you the Early Bird Price for this unique and transformational retreat of £3,499 in single occupancy rooms.
**This early bird price is available until 19th January 2026.**
After this the price will rise to the full price of £4,499.
Initial Deposit:
Secure your early bird price place with a 15% deposit of £372 on or before 19th January 2026.
This deposit is non-refundable.
Retreat Balance:
The retreat balance is payable on or before Friday 13th March 2026.
Instalment options are available if you wish to spread out your payments.
**Please note that there are only 9 spaces available on this retreat.**
If you have any questions, please email eimear@stassin.co.uk.
What’s included:
Entry to all sacred sites, museums and tours listed on the itinerary
A generous Irish Breakfast each morning
5 nights dinners which will range from 2 – 3 courses
Carefully selected luxurious accommodation in character filled 4 star 18th Century Houses or Hotels
Single occupancy rooms
Transport in a comfortable minibus
An immersive, luxury, activating, healing and transformational retreat journey that includes sacred storytelling and powerful meditation journeys with Eimear as your guide, infused with so much love and fun!
What’s not included:
Daily lunches
Airfare / train fare and travel to/from Ireland
Travel Insurance
Any spa treatments
Spending money
Minibus driver tip
Restaurant staff tips
Souvenirs
Drinks / beverages
Meet Your Retreat Guide, Eimear Stassin:
Dia duit / Hi! I’m Eimear (rhymes with dreamer).
I’m from Dublin, Ireland and, after travelling the world for a year in ‘99/ 2000, I laid down new roots in Scotland where I live with my husband, 3 children and Border Collie dog called Riley. I love rocks, travelling to sacred sites, gathering people in circle and walking the land!
In early 2017 I stepped out through the revolving doors of Corporate into the setting sun of Edinburgh’s West End, leaving my 20 year Global Financial Services Career for good.
Choosing entrepreneurship set me on a path of deep spiritual exploration of self, identity and our purpose here on earth. With no road map other than my growing trust in the wisdom of my soul, I could not have planned for what has unfolded since!
A dramatic witch awakening on 8:8:2020 whilst going on tour of the Edinburgh Dungeons plunged me deeper into healing the witch wounds of persecution, suppression and silencing. Opening my channels to the transmissions of The Witches and my own gifts that I had shut down; healing my throat chakra to speak this wisdom into the collective.
Around the same time, my curiosity piqued into my own Irish heritage including my namesake Eimear of the 6 gifts of womanhood, re-aligning me with The Irish Medicine Wheel and Irish Goddesses and Gods, who I would come to befriend and forge deep and lasting relationships with.
Ireland was calling me home! The pull was strong to travel to the sacred sites mainly around Ireland and Scotland, to embody the remembrances and to continue to heal and share my experiences with others. Returning to my deep Irish roots and to stories of my ancestors continues to unlock so much magic, inspiration and creativity from within me in an endless well of wisdom so rich and profound! Which is why I have created this special retreat, to share all I’ve experienced with you.
Goddess Brigid made herself known to me in early 2023, handing me a tiny ember that became a flame in the palm of my hand. Alongside her came The Magdalenes, who stepped into my awareness as a collective returning now as one, of deep nurturing love.
In late 2024, I founded The Irish Wisdom School where the voices and wisdom of Ireland could speak freely once again.
From WITCHES to GODDESSES to MAGDALENES to QUEEN to ÉRIU once again.
The message from The Witches and wise ones has always been to rise up, return to our power and step back onto our throne. To be the Queen/King that we are and have always been. Displaced from our throne, our seat of power, we are being called now to reclaim our own rites of Queendom/Kindgom within our divine temple.
I’ve carefully curated and crafted this retreat in order that you can rise up and return to your innate power that has always been here. Ireland, the land and my connection with these sacred lands, are catalysts where I encourage you to walk alongside me, learning, inspiring, healing, uplifting, embodying and illuminating your unique royal noble frequency of Ireland’s Gold.
I look forward to walking the deeply sacred lands of Ireland’s Ancient East with you.
Le grá / with love,
Eimear x
Read about what other’s say about their retreat experiences hosted by Eimear:
“Fabulous. Magical and very comfortable.
The comraderie with Eimear and all the participants was wonderful!
I loved it all, the choices of the sites we visited and the healing ceremonies/journeys were amazing!
A wonderful retreat, would highly recommend!”
- Monica McCarthy, Canada. Dingle 2025 Retreat
“Personally I found the retreat to be unique and transforming, each day I experienced a touch of nostalgia.
Our host Eimear has a nurturing and joyful nature, welcoming us all like we were family! Each song, each meditation and each sacred journeying session was deeply felt spiritually!! We celebrated each day for what we have accomplished and for making our wishes possible! Lots of laughter and tears, a lifetime experience I’ll hold close to my heart for I now have Anam Cara’s (soul friends).
I didn’t want the retreat to end and would have loved more days added for more adventures and time spent together! - Sophia Jennings, Australia. Dingle 2025 Retreat
“THANK-YOU!!!!! Thank-you for sharing your precious childhood memories and places and making it all special for US to appreciate and enjoy.
I loved that we were all together in the same place for a true group experience. Having the lounge was wonderful for our morning and evening wandering in and out. The inn was just the right size, really cozy.
I appreciated the way things just unfolded naturally, rather than trying to "force" fit into a predetermined schedule. The stories were discreetly sprinkled in throughout…I also loved the way we could improvise around the "plan"- we pretty much did everything/went everywhere, but in the right time, with lots of lovely surprises sprinkled throughout.” - Evelyn, Canada. Dingle 2025 Retreat
"There was such a sense of acceptance and freedom. Loved the fun and laughter. It was so infectious.
Everything was compact, the kitchen, the bedrooms, the meeting area. This gave a cosy welcoming energy to retreat. The love and respect between participants. The way you allowed the flow to change as it needed too. Everyone was encouraged to participate in whatever way the energy moved them.
Eimear, what to say about you, dear one! Your warmth, love, sense of fun and total Professionalism all rolled up in a witch with a huge smile and even bigger heart.
You are the central wheel that had an idea and made it happen. I'm eternally grateful.
It was why I was meant to travel all the way from Australia to experience magic - your magic." - Suzanne Dainer, Australia. Scotland 2023 Retreat
"The stunning & very powerful location. The facilitators & creators who had clearly been working & weaving this for a long time so it was inspirational & a privilege to be a part of! The spontaneity & inclusivity.
Wow! I tear up each time I think back to our amazing shared experiences together. To me you are a visionary, a leader, a powerful & inspirational storyteller, a mother, an Irish goddess warrior & witch of the earth & fire! You have great insight, wisdom & strength that resonates so deeply yet you are beautifully humble, open, candid, vulnerable & modest about your divine abilities & gifts.
You do not seek the limelight, glory or accolades. You have a deep truth in your heart that is leading the way & attracting many loyal believers & this is merely the beginning for an entire spiritual transformation as a result of your awakening & desire to speak your truth & resonate deeply with those who will walk beside you on this path in true faith, trust, honour & gratitude. Thank you so much!" - Liam Imison-Harvey, UK. Scotland 2024 Retreat
"Given the experience of the weekend - it’s impossible to be anything but in awe of it!
Eimear, your graciousness, ease and warmth set the tone and temperament for the entire experience - and that was important as we each rode the rollercoaster of our own experience. You are a generous leader and your steadying presence was important through all the work that was undertaken. I was blown away with what I received.
The schedule was good - with enough time for rest and breaks, and to enjoy breakfast. The balance of opportunity for each to speak so that we all got a sense of who each other is, was really good. Each had time, no one dominated.
I have not attended anything like this before...your event was grounded, possible to step into for me - and in a most compelling place! I think it was an off the charts success - and thank you for it!" - JB, Canada. Scotland 2023 Retreat
"I liked the fact that we all participated, I felt each of us brought his or her gift and it was shared in service to the healing of all of us.
For me to see my book come alive as a play, and realizing my work was so well received was a Wow moment. The bowls, the singing, the oils, the drumming and our presence, all together made it a powerful experience.
Just say how grateful I am that Eimear hosted this retreat and made us all feel welcome and valuable. I never felt there were "teachers" and "students". We were all powerful witches.
How I wish I could participate in many more of these retreats..." - LC, UK. Scotland 2024 Retreat
Ériu Speaks
Be our voice.
Speak our stories.
Honour our flesh and bones upon native soil. Home grown on the lands of Ériu.
Don’t shy away from what’s painful.
Don’t use the name of Ireland to profit only your pockets.
Turn gently towards all of that painful history that’s still embedded in the bones of the collective.
It’s ok to speak about these wounds – the colonial wounds and all these wounds deeply felt by the people of Ireland and beyond.
When you speak, this loosens the density of the shame and silence that’s holding these lands captive.
This sets your cells free organically, naturally repairing your DNA as the pain releases and returns to earth source to be transmuted home to truth.
Come, step into sacred space.
Remember how we lived in wondrous co-creative ways.
Dancing with the spirits of the land.
Communing with the elementals.
Weaving magic with the fairies.
Dreamweaving together.
Birthing new worlds into existance.
May the voice of Ériú be heard now.
Le grá / with love,
Eimear agus Ériu / Eimear and Ireland xx
Retreat to Ireland’s Ancient East next Spring Equinox ~ a powerful initiation is waiting for you!
With love,
Eimear x
Photos & words credit: Eimear Stassin on her many wanderings throughout Ireland.