29/08/2023
Wanna know how we all came to be…… 😻
I'd like to share just a little bit of the origin of this retreat, as it is unique and very, very dear. There are 6 of us, an Assembly of Hearts, who have come together to bring this dream into reality.
We met through the Nourishing Heart Yoga 300 Hour Online training in 2021. Of that cohort, some were from Indiana, some from California, and one (Cathy Healy) from Ireland. After a year of moving through the transformative work and study of yoga together, we grew very close and beloved to one another. We knew that we would all need to come together one day in person to meet and hug and cry and laugh.
That day came in May of 2022. The yogis flew in from California and Ireland to gather in Bloomington for a weekend celebration that only solidified our love and friendship for each other more deeply. During that weekend, a smaller group of us decided that we would work together to explore the possibility of us all, along with others who were called, visiting Cathy's homeland in Ireland.
We began to meet regularly on zoom some from Indiana, some from California, and one from Ireland to sort through the many details of putting together this week. You see, it is not an ordinary retreat that we are planning. Cathy is a yoga teacher in Ireland and we knew we wanted to somehow bring together the American yogis and the Irish yogis. So, within the yoga retreat, over the weekend, we are also putting together a Yoga Festival in her hometown of Ballybunion which will bring us all together.
This retreat features the passion, loving wisdom, experience, heart, and soul of 6 dedicated yoga practitioners and teachers. You will also be held in your practice by 6 hearts who have gone deep in their own yogic and soul journey and who long to share the magnificence of yoga with you.