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Private Retreats

Looking for a retreat designed specifically for you?

I offer private, fully customisable retreats from 3 to 90 days, at a beautiful property beside a tranquil lake in Ireland. The Embodied HeartSpace (Instagram: @EmbodiedHeartSpace) is a small mindfulness-based intentional community rooted in compassion and loving-kindness. It’s a quiet, welcoming refuge to rest, release your burdens, and find your footing again.
 

This is not a spa break. It’s a place to be in community, do your inner work, and leave with the support you need to keep going. Nothing is rushed or forced, and no one here will judge you for where you are.

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Build Your Retreat

Your retreat is fully customisable. Choose what you need, in any combination:

  • Rest & Reset: Fasting (water or bone broth) or simple nourishing meals, digital detox, and time in nature

  • Restorative Therapies: PEMF-infrared, red light, sauna, cold plunge, and a hot tub by the lake

  • Inner Work: Internal Family Systems (IFS), shadow work, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

  • Contemplative Practice: Mindfulness, compassion, and non-duality

  • Lasting Change: Habit formation drawn from neuroscience and behavioural science, alongside mindset work from NLP

  • Community Connection: As much or as little as you like
     

Meet Your Guide

I'm Michael. For nearly twenty years, I've supported people with their inner work and wellbeing.

A suicide attempt at eighteen set me on this path, and it has taken me on quite a journey. I've moved from chronic anxiety and depression to a much more consistent peace, stability, and happiness. From a troubled marriage to a peaceful divorce and a warm co-parenting friendship. From loneliness, addiction, and years of travelling alone to a loving, secure partnership and a life I love. Along the way, I've faced the loss of meaning, existential crisis, challenging physical traumas, and coming to terms with my neurodiversity.
 

I'm not here to offer you a generic programme. I'm here to help you heal your emotional wounds, overcome your challenges, and design a way of living that works for you.
 

Before you arrive, we talk through what you need and whether the space will be the right fit. During your retreat, we help you recharge and work through your personal struggles while building a sustainable daily routine from the practices that suit you. Before you leave, we map out the support waiting for you at home, such as people, groups, and practitioners, and we stay in touch with follow-up sessions afterwards, so you don't have to go it alone.
 

I draw mainly on shadow work, Internal Family Systems, Nonviolent Communication, the mindfulness and compassion of Thich Nhat Hanh, the non-duality of Ramana Maharshi, and the way of the Tao, alongside neuroscience and behavioural science.
 

Complementary Support

This retreat is designed to complement, not replace, any therapeutic work you've already done, giving you the time,support, and tools to deepen your ongoing process.
 

Who This Retreat Is For

People come for many reasons. You might be:

  • Simply needing to stop and catch your breath

  • Wanting a short fast to release and move forward

  • Struggling with boundaries and knowing your own needs

  • Finding communication difficult

  • Dealing with burnout that sleep doesn't fix

  • Living with anxiety, depression, or loneliness

  • Facing a loss of purpose, meaning, or direction

  • Processing a relationship ending, or other forms of grief

  • Caught in a conflict that feels stuck

  • Navigating addiction, or the early days of recovery

  • Ready to face old wounds, past trauma, or long-held resentment

  • Recovering from illness or a hard chapter
     

Often there's no single crisis, just years of pushing on while things accumulate under the surface. I'm here to support you wherever you are.
 

Accommodation

Private en-suite cabin or private room with a shared bedroom, 1 minute from the lake, shared community spaces, peaceful surroundings.
 

Investment

From €100 per night (Pricing depends on length of stay from 3 to 90 days and chosen custom options).

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Next Step

Contact me to organise a call. We'll discuss your needs and see if the retreat is the right fit for you. 
Whatsapp & Mobile: +447383552911
Email: thinkmichaeldale@gmail.com

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