IRELAND
May 28-June 3, 2026
7 of 8 spaces available
Think of this retreat as a creative adventure through your inner world.
Over six magical days in Ireland,
we’ll explore the patterns of your life- woven from your desires, detours, and dreams- guided by myth, magic, and the wild beauty of the land.
Come as you are. Leave a little more you.
Land
There will be a moment when you feel yourself LAND, that drop in your nervous system that bespeaks safety, the weight of life lifting just a little bit. Landing in a new place, taking in its smells and tastes, the feel of mist and wind on your face, is the beginning of your journey here.
Something powerful happens when you step into a place that feels ancient and alive. Buried under the noise of everyday life is a quiet knowing. This retreat is your permission slip to press pause, breathe deep, and listen in.
Bonus: cliffs, ocean, sisterhood, and soul truths.
Explore
Always, the biggest part of a Heartventure is an exploration of your inner world while exploring the gorgeous environment of the outer world. This isn’t just a retreat—it’s a homecoming. Through stories, creative workshops (journaling, collaging, photography and play), meditations and somatic practices, you’ll reconnect with your voice, your joy, and the power of your own unfolding myth. Think deep soul work with a side of laughter and sea air.
We will do all of this while also taking the time to explore the City of Galway, walk the Cliffs of Moher, take walks along beaches close to our house, check out a castle or two, all while indulging in Ireland’s cuisine.
Folklore & Myths
Our sacred feminine myth lives in our bodies. It is the morphic field that shapes our unfolding story from its roots up and out. Over six days, while weaving in Ireland’s folklore we’ll explore how our personal myth maps onto the collective one to gives us a clearer picture of our inner heroine’s journey. Together, while we laugh, cry, write, create, walk, rest, dream, we will let them show us who we’re becoming.
This isn’t about fixing anything about you. It’s about hearing the part of you that already knows, and giving her space to speak.
Ireland will hold us while we remember what we love, what we long for, and what we’re here to do with this one wild, beautiful life.
“You have to experience it to understand what I cannot put into words. I arrived completely depleted and by the time I left, I felt full- my soul was happy and replenished, like it hasn’t been in so long.”
-Sherrie, Heartventure Participant, 2023 & 2024
What’s included
-6 nights accommodations: 5 in beautiful farmhouse and 1 night in Dublin
- Food and snacks (entrees at restaurants, and all meals at the Villa)
- Transportation for the duration of the retreat (pickup will be at the Dublin Airport)
- Workshops to guide you into exploring your personal myths and stories.
- Photoshoot with Deedee Morris to celebrate your story
- A group of amazing women who will be there for you from now on (priceless)
- Online gallery of images of the trip from Deedee Morris (so you can fully unplug if you want to!)
- Art supplies necessary for the workshops
Not Included:
- Flight to Dublin
- Alcohol
- Incidentals (the odd coffee, snacks while wandering, and personal purchases)
- Medical (required) and trip insurance
Imagine yourself here, on the Cliffs of Moher, wrapped in wild wind and ocean mist, as Deedee does a mini photoshoot for you, that reflects your power, presence, and story, realized and embodied more fully from your personal myth explorations with Simona.
Schedule
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May 28
-Arrive at airport and drive to New Quay
-Opening circle
-Dinner at Bayfield House (our house for the week)
-Relaxing evening -
May 29
-Self serve breakfast at Bayfield House
-Morning workshop with Deedee: Myth Makers: Crafting Your Story Through Art:
Using drawing, painting, and collage, you’ll create a colorful timeline of your your story, your magic, your journey. No art skills needed—just bring your imagination and a sense of fun!
- Lunch at Bayfield House
- Beach Walk
- Afternoon Writing Workshop with Simona Weik on Lineage: The Untold Stories that Made Us — a gentle workshop to connect us to the blessings and wounds that were passed to us, and what wants to transmute through us.
- Dinner at Linanne’s Bar and Restaurant - Storytelling into Dreaming: we end our day by listening to a portion of the Irish myth we’ll be exploring all week and heading into dreamland soothed like little children by the magic of story. -
May 30
-Writing Workshop with Simona Weik:
Rooted & Radiant: Land/Place as Mirrors into Selfhood an exploration of how travel enacts the first rite of the heroine’s journey, the rite of separation. By entering into a landscape that is both foreign and familiar, we can temporarily step out of the roles, patterns, and routines that define us, allowing for our deepest Self to speak. A boon from the land ( a rock, a sacred site, a flower, or blade of grass) can also become the gifted symbol of our awakening into a new consciousness and a true seeing of our unfolding story.
- Picnic lunch (weather dependent)
- Afternoon walk into New Quay
- Dinner at Bayfield House
- Storytelling into Dreaming: we end our day by listening to another part of our Irish myth and silently moving into delicious rest. -
May 31
Galway Day!
- Drive to Galway for the day with a stop at Dunguaire Castle
-Activity throughout the day:
Lens & Landscape: Discovering You in the Flow of Your Day: Explore the landscape of your day—and your inner world—through the lens of your camera. Capture in your journal the moments that reflect your story by continuing your relationship to the land, listening to its whispers and revelations. You will see yourself in a fresh light.
-Meet for dinner and hopefully some live music
-Drive back to Bayfield House late evening. -
June 1
-Writing Workshop with Simona: Language: How Words can Breathe us Into Life Begin the crafting of your personal myth in the shape of a story or legend, braiding together the themes of your lineage, the symbols from the land, and now the words that are true, are yours, are your sacred act of writing yourself into being. Into Life.
- Lunch out
- Afternoon free
- Picnic dinner at Cliffs of Moher (picnic weather dependant, cliffs are rain or shine)
- Personal sunset portrait sessions to celebrate YOU and your week, by Deedee, at Cliffs of Moher (rain or shine). Embody and Celebrate the deep Soul -Self you’ve been discovering all week. -
June 2
- Drive to Dublin
- Spend the afternoon exploring Dublin
-Closing circle
-Celebration Dinner -
June 3
- Farewell, not goodbye!
- Checkout at 10am
“Coming home, I have a new sense of peace and calm. I feel like my heart and mind are more clear than before I left. I’m learning to give the same grace and understanding to people closest to me as I did to the women I travelled with. I’m listening more, asking questions, and learning rather than reacting. I also have great new friends!”
-Ashley, Heartventure Participant, 2024
“Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her stories form the personal myth that calls a woman home to herself.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run With the Wolves)
Investment
Private Room (3 available): Early Bird Price $5897 + applicable taxes
After Dec 1st: $6200Shared Room (5 available): Early Bird Price $5397 + applicable taxes
After Jan 1st: $5697
Payment plans available.
All prices are in Canadian Dollars.
$800 deposit due upon booking.
Meet your Hosts
Deedee Morris
Heartventure Co-Owner, photographer, baker, MEd in Counselling Therapy, mama to twin girls and Rosie the dog.
Dr. Simona Chitescu Weik
Poet, therapeutic and creative coach, somatic practitioner, beautiful mama to two sweet girls, and co-host of our Ireland Retreat!
“May the power within me forever feel the support around me. This has helped calm my nervous system.”
-Marcia, Heartventure Participant, 2023
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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You will fly into Dublin, Ireland where you will be picked up by Deedee and Simona and driven to Bayfield House in County Clare
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Anything from a random coffee at a cafe, to tampons, to medicine.
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We will be staying at a place called Bayfield House in New Quay, County Clare. You can check out the house HERE
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As much as possible we will cater to your needs in the meals we create, however, there may be times, when it’s not possible when we go to a restaurant. Ultimately, when eating out, you are responsible for your dietary needs.
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Absolutely NOT!! The purpose of these retreats is to give you space from your every day to go inward and see what comes out of this time and space. It’s always beautiful.