Annual Residential Retreat

An Invitation to Return to Breath, Body, and Self

Each year we gather for a deeply immersive rebirthing breathwork retreat — a dedicated space to step away from daily life and reconnect with the rhythm of breath, body, and nature.

Held in the quiet sanctuary of Westcove House in County Kerry, this residential retreat offers time to rest, breathe, and gently explore the inner landscape in a supportive and grounded environment.

Surrounded by gardens, sea air, and expansive views overlooking a peaceful pier where wild seals swim and boats rest along the shoreline, the land itself becomes part of the experience.

This retreat is an opportunity to pause, restore, and reconnect — both inwardly and with a community of people walking a similar path.

The Setting

Westcove House offers a simple and welcoming country atmosphere.

Quaint cottages with open fires create a home-from-home feeling, inviting deep rest and ease.

Located on the Ring of Kerry:

  • 10 minutes from Derrynane Beach
  • 5 minutes from Whitestrand Beach
  • Surrounded by wild Atlantic landscape and quiet coastal beauty

Nature becomes a gentle companion throughout the retreat, supporting grounding, reflection, and integration.

The Rebirthing Intensive Experience

A rebirthing intensive offers the rare opportunity to work consistently with the breath over several days, allowing deeper layers of awareness and regulation to unfold naturally.

Through conscious connected breathing, participants are supported to:

  • release accumulated tension and stress
  • deepen emotional awareness
  • reconnect with the body’s natural intelligence
  • explore patterns held beneath conscious awareness
  • cultivate greater presence and inner spaciousness

Rather than forcing change, the breath creates conditions where insight, integration, and shifts in perspective may arise organically.

Many participants experience a renewed sense of clarity, connection, and vitality.

The Breath as Teacher

Rebirthing Breathwork is more than a technique — it is a practice of meeting ourselves honestly and compassionately.

By turning inward through the breath, we begin to notice the patterns, beliefs, and emotional responses that shape our lives. Often these patterns were formed early in life, even before conscious memory.

The breath gently expands awareness, allowing us to meet both pain and possibility with greater understanding.

Nothing is forced.

The breath reveals only what the system is ready to meet.

Through non-judgemental awareness, space opens for healing, acceptance, and new ways of relating to ourselves and others.

Theme for This Year’s Retreat

This year’s retreat includes an exploration of:

  • The Mother and Father Wound
  • Family and ancestral patterns
  • Unconscious loyalties within family systems
  • Repeating relational or emotional cycles

Drawing from Family Constellation–informed practices, participants will explore how inherited patterns may continue to influence present-day experience, and where movement toward resolution and integration becomes possible.

This work is approached gently and respectfully, always guided by personal readiness and choice.

Retreat Practices

Throughout the retreat, we weave together:

  • Rebirthing Breathwork sessions
  • Dynamic meditation practices
  • Family Constellation–informed soul work
  • Somatic awareness and integration
  • Nature immersion and grounding practices
  • Rest, reflection, and community connection

Together, these practices support a journey back into embodied presence.

A return home to breath and body.

Who This Retreat Is For

This retreat may be supportive for those who:

  • feel called to deepen their relationship with breathwork
  • seek space for reflection and renewal
  • wish to explore personal patterns with compassion
  • long for rest, clarity, or reconnection
  • feel ready for a deeper inner journey held in community

No previous breathwork experience is required.

Accommodation & Atmosphere

Participants stay in shared or private accommodation within the cottages at Westcove House.

The atmosphere is relaxed, grounded, and supportive — balancing structured practice with spacious time for rest and integration.

Healthy meals and shared gatherings create a sense of warmth and connection throughout the retreat.

Safety & Care

All practices are facilitated in a trauma-aware and choice-led way.

Participants remain in control of their experience at all times, and sessions are adapted to individual needs. This retreat is intended to support wellbeing and self-awareness and does not replace medical or psychological care.

Contraindications for conscious connected breathwork apply. Please review the Safety & Contraindications page before booking.

Safety & Contraindications

There are contraindications with conscious connected breathwork. It is important to read our policy and be aware of all safety & contraindications.

Join Us

This annual retreat is an invitation to step out of ordinary time and into a space of breath, presence, and deep listening.

To slow down.

To reconnect.

To remember the wisdom already held within you.

For booking details and availability, please get in touch

Let’s Breathe Together

Going on these retreats rebirthing retreats with my wife was one of the most challenging and beneficial activities I’ve ever been through. The growth at a personal and relationship level is substantial over such a short period of time. Geraldine and Tomas have a no-nonsense and refreshingly honest approach to each phase of the retreat. This allows for an incredible psychological safety within the group. – This is needed as the steps along the way are very deep but hugely eye opening. The location is a true gem on the west coast of Ireland and you’ve a feeling of being on a dessert island. Have been back to this brilliant location and team again since my first retreat

It’s really hard to put into words and describe what happens anytime Geraldine and Tomás gather groups in Westcove. A strange type of magic unfolds where all the stories, all the burdens we think we carry can be transmuted through the simplicity of the breath, the intelligence of the body and the integrity of the space held by them both. I am forever grateful to Geraldine and Tomás for the ways they have not only changed my life but in truth have helped change my perspective on the simplicity in the beauty of the lives we already live, here and now.  It has also deepened and massively informed the space I can hold in my own work.

I found my experience on the rebirthing retreat extremely powerful, uplifting & freeing.

It was my first retreat and I absolutely loved it. Geraldine was so informative, kind and welcoming.The experience was so unique.I really enjoyed my time on the retreat and did not want it to end.The location was outstanding and everything was done to a “T”.

I’m looking forward to the next retreat!!

Just after a magical weekend filled to the brim with laughter, love, connection, fun, dance, sea swims and breathwork hosted by Geraldine A Ahern of Rebirthing Breathwork Ireland which was held in Castlecove,Co.Kerry.

It was an experience I will never forget, a rebirthing retreat in the perfect location.

With 15 amazing people. Each so honest and so full with a Grá (love) for Life.

YES! TO FUN. YES! TO LIFE

I was on Geraldine’s retreat and it was an amazing weekend. Brilliant group of people, great connection, fantastic healing, lovely food and I also faced one of my fears sea swimming and felt great afterwards venue was amazing I was sitting out on the rocks with my cup of tea at 7.30am off loading some of my story to the seals, and the night sky was unbelievable. Thanks to Geraldine A Ahern for supporting me on my journey also Thomas O’Sullivan they are two amazing people and so dedicated to this work. The power of our Breath is amazing since I have started this my life has changed so much, my ways of dealing with stuff, my work, my family, my whole life really I am so grateful to have this. I highly recommend it, please give it a try and what better way to start is by going on one of these retreats.

Attending the retreat with Geraldine and Tomas last year was a pivotal moment in my life’s journey towards healing. Reflecting on the experience now, I find myself overwhelmed with gratitude and awe at the profound impact it had on me.From the moment I arrived, I felt a sense of trust and warmth envelop me, knowing that I was in the presence of two extraordinary souls who were there to guide me on my path towards healing. Geraldine and Tomas exuded a sense of genuine care and compassion that made it easy for me to open up and begin my healing process. During those transformative days, it felt as though I was shedding layers of emotional baggage that I had been carrying for over 40 years. It was a liberating and cathartic experience, one that marked just the beginning of my journey towards self-discovery and healing. The retreat provided me  with a safe space to explore and confront aspects of myself that I had long neglected. Through their guidance, I was able to see life through a different lens, one that allowed me to break free from old patterns and embrace a more authentic way of living. Now, as I continue on my healing journey, I am filled with excitement and hope for the possibilities that lie ahead. I am grateful for the profound impact Geraldine and Tomas have had on my life, and I am eager to see where this newfound sense of freedom and authenticity will take me. Thank you, Geraldine and Tomas, for sharing your gift with the world and for creating a space where healing and transformation can flourish. I am deeply grateful for the experience and look forward to joining you again at the next retreat. Here’s to more growth, healing, and authenticity in the year to come!

I took part in Geraldine’s Rebirthing breathwork retreat in Westcove and loved it.

I was amazed at Geraldine’s depth and authenticity which led me to life changing inner truths and releases. 

It had given me an inner peace that lasted a long time.

Thank you so much Geraldine. You’ve made a huge impact on my life in that very short time.

The rebirthing retreat genuinely is life changing, I made realizations over that weekend that had never crossed my mind in my 44 years on this earth. Very powerful in bringing to light anything that you are holding onto & is holding you back. The whole weekend is just gorgeous too, with each exercise as powerful as the next, Geraldine & Thomas are the real deal, 12 months on and I still feel the positive change from that weekend in my life.

The rebirthing retreat genuinely is life changing, I made realizations over that weekend that had never crossed my mind in my 44 years on this earth. Very powerful in bringing to light anything that you are holding onto & is holding you back. The whole weekend is just gorgeous too, with each exercise as powerful as the next, Geraldine & Thomas are the real deal, 12 months on and I still feel the positive change from that weekend in my life.

I attended a rebirthing breathwork retreat last year and am still feeling the effects of it unfolding through my life almost a year later.Having gone through huge loss & grief in my own life I was struggling to embrace life again & to find the joy.I found the retreat was the medicine I was seeking through various healing modalities that gave onky a shorterm reprive.I returned to life in total acceptance of all that is.Everything got better.I can now meet life from a different space created within me by my own breath.My heart cracked open and from there my true healing journey began as I finally found a space to access what was ready to be met.What helped me so much was both Geraldine and Tomas have both gone through so much in their own lives and show up not only as facilitators but as ordinary people and as parents whose love for the family unit is the most important thing to them