Sacred Steps

A seven-day ancestral pilgrimage through the wild landscapes, myths, and remembering places of Kerry

Samhain October 27th - November 2nd
County Kerry, Ireland

THE INVITATION

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At the edge of the year, when the light thins and the world turns inward, we gather.

Sacred Steps is a seven-day pilgrimage into the ancestral heart of Ireland - held in the wild, elemental landscapes of County Kerry, where mountain, ocean, myth, and memory still move together.

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We arrive at Samhain -
the ancient threshold between harvest and winter,
between the living and the dead,
between who we have been and who we are becoming.

This is the season when the veils are thin.

When the ancestors draw close.

When the land remembers us.

And slowly, through breath, ritual, walking, voice, grief, stillness, and story, something ancient within us begins to remember too.

Not as history.

But as something living.

7-Day
Pilgrimage
Residential Samhain immersion across sacred Kerry landscapes
Small
Intimate Group
Maximum 6 women
Includes
Accommodation
Meals & Practices
All essentials included
Ancestral
Practices
Breathwork, keening, constellations & more
Sacred Sites
& Ceremonies
Ancient places. Living myth.
Open to
Women
Ireland, the UK & those called to travel

AT A GLANCE

the cailleach

DARKNESS & THE CAILLEACH

This journey is guided by the wisdom of the dark.

By The Cailleach - ancient keeper of stone, winter, land, and deep time.

She teaches us how to rest in the unknown.
How to listen beneath words.
How to let the old fall away.

Here, darkness is not something to fear.

It is a womb.

A remembering.

A return to what has always existed beneath the noise of modern life.

We dwell simply — in stone cottages overlooking the Atlantic, with turf fires burning and the rhythm of the land setting the pace.

Time slows here. Silence becomes a companion. Stories surface beside candlelight and sea mist.

This is a return to an older rhythm — where land and lineage are inseparable, where belonging is felt in the body, where the nervous system softens enough to listen again.

We walk in pilgrimage to the Paps of Anu — ancient mountains shaped like the breasts of the Great Mother. At their feet lies The City of Shrone, a ceremonial landscape of stone and memory.

Here, we walk softly. Listening. Remembering what it means to belong to the land rather than stand separate from it.

We journey into the lands of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna — through mountain mist, ancient pathways, and living story.

At Coomasaharn Lake and Seeffin Mountain, we enter landscapes shaped by myth, vision, and memory. Ancient markings remain etched in stone. The stories still live here.

And through body, breath, ritual, and place, this becomes not only something we learn — but something we experience directly.

At dusk on the River Laune, we enter Samhain through fire and prayer. Letters are written to the ancestors — of grief, gratitude, release, and remembrance.

Placed into the White Hare, they are carried through flame across the thinning veil.

This is a ceremonial crossing. A meeting between worlds. A moment to honour what has shaped us and what we are ready to lay down.

This journey works gently — through presence rather than force.

  • Rebirthing Breathwork & early imprint work
  • Family Constellations & ancestral line exploration
  • Keening — vocalised grief & release
  • Women's circles held on the land
  • Irish shamanic journeying & ceremonial practice
  • Fireside reflection, myth, storytelling & integration

Healing happens here not through fixing — but through listening.

We dwell simply — in stone cottages overlooking the Atlantic, with turf fires burning and the rhythm of the land setting the pace.

Time slows here. Silence becomes a companion. Stories surface beside candlelight and sea mist.

This is a return to an older rhythm — where land and lineage are inseparable, where belonging is felt in the body, where the nervous system softens enough to listen again.

We walk in pilgrimage to the Paps of Anu — ancient mountains shaped like the breasts of the Great Mother. At their feet lies The City of Shrone, a ceremonial landscape of stone and memory.

Here, we walk softly. Listening. Remembering what it means to belong to the land rather than stand separate from it.

We journey into the lands of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna — through mountain mist, ancient pathways, and living story.

At Coomasaharn Lake and Seeffin Mountain, we enter landscapes shaped by myth, vision, and memory. Ancient markings remain etched in stone. The stories still live here.

And through body, breath, ritual, and place, this becomes not only something we learn — but something we experience directly.

At dusk on the River Laune, we enter Samhain through fire and prayer. Letters are written to the ancestors — of grief, gratitude, release, and remembrance.

Placed into the White Hare, they are carried through flame across the thinning veil.

This is a ceremonial crossing. A meeting between worlds. A moment to honour what has shaped us and what we are ready to lay down.

This journey works gently — through presence rather than force.

  • Rebirthing Breathwork & early imprint work
  • Family Constellations & ancestral line exploration
  • Keening — vocalised grief & release
  • Women's circles held on the land
  • Irish shamanic journeying & ceremonial practice
  • Fireside reflection, myth, storytelling & integration

Healing happens here not through fixing — but through listening.

HOW THE JOURNEY WILL UNFOLD

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WHO THIS JOURNEY CALLS

This pilgrimage is for women who feel the quiet pull of the land - whether you are here in Ireland, nearby, or called to travel if it feels right.

For those who sense that healing is not separate from place.

For women who long to walk slowly, listen deeply, and remember something ancient within themselves.

For those who feel the ancestral thread in their bones —
not as history,
but as something living.

You do not need to come from far away to meet this work.

For some, the call is closer than expected.

The Threads We Carry
The Threads We Carry As we explore ancestral lines, we begin to see more clearly how inherited patterns live within us.
Beliefs, emotional responses, survival strategies, and relational patterns —
carried not because they are ours — but because they once helped someone before us survive or belong.
And when these threads are finally seen, something softens.
Space opens —
for compassion, for choice, for new ways of relating, for a more conscious place within our own lives.

THE DETAILS

grief and family constellation work and rebirthing  breathwork geraldine ahern

Whats included

  • Accommodation

  • All meals

  • Guided walks & sacred site visits

  • Ceremonies & ancestral practices

  • Breathwork, keening & constellation work

  • Integration circles & fireside gatherings

Flights and transfers not included (support provided).

Dates
October 27th - November 2nd, 2027

Location
Westcove Estate, Co. Kerry

Group Size
Intimate cohort of 6 women

Single Occupancy
€3000
(only 2 spaces remaiming)

Attendance
Attendance for the full residential is required

“A return to land.
To lineage.
To the quieter wisdom beneath the noise.”