Private, Transformational Retreats in Ireland

Solo Bespoke Retreats

Solo VIP Retreats are private, transformational journeys designed for those navigating change, seeking clarity, or simply longing to return to what matters most. Held in the sacred landscapes of the West of Ireland, while staying in the award-winning Westport town.

You will be guided and held within a sacred container by Mary Berkery from the start of the conversation through its completion. Each experience is deeply personalized, combining thought selections, intuitive insight, soulful presence, and holistic support. Start a conversation to learn more

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One-to-one sacred retreats guided with care and presence

What Awaits You

Are you at a crossroads in life, or simply feeling called to pause and reflect?

With Solo VIP Retreats, you’ll step away from the noise and return to your inner knowing. These private spiritual experiences in Ireland offer you space to process, realign, and move forward with clarity.

Moreover, you’re not walking alone. You will be supported by Mary’s skill, her equine assistants and the sacred land of Ireland West. Mary as a soul coach listens deeply, reflects wisely, and walks beside you as you reconnect with your deep self.

What To Expect

– A release with grace of what no longer serves
– Renewed connection to your truth and clarity
– Emotional spaciousness and calm
– Expansion into a new version of self
– Courage to move forward with a grounded, aligned purpose
– Re-enchantment with life through a multi-sensory connection to nature, place, and self

Celtic Three-Fold Principle

Inspired by ancient Irish wisdom, the sacred land of Ireland West, Equine and Body Wisdom, each retreat flows through the threefold journey.

  • Mind – Insight, perspective, fresh clarity, and practices to keep the mind in line with true vision
  • Heart – heart mind coherence, feeling, longing, listening, and discernment on purpose
  • Will – Grounded action, integration, commitment
  • This path supports realignment of the whole body-mind in balanced, grounded, and actionable ways. Reconnect with the person you truly are and wish to live from.
Your Retreat

Every Solo Retreat is Personalized for You

Experience the transformative power of Solo VIP Retreats, designed around your unique rhythm, story, and intentions. From the moment we begin, you and Mary will co-create a sacred journey that meets you exactly where you are.

Moreover, each personalized Solo VIP Retreat calls forth and creates space to listen to the deeper self waiting to emerge. It allows clarity, integration, and soulful alignment to unfold naturally in a safe and held space.

Wisdom à la Carte Menu Experiences

  • Image Prompt Reflections
  • Frequency Resonance Analysis
  • Sacred Land Rituals
  • Body Renewal
  • HeartMath Coherence Practices
  • Equine Assisted Learning
  • Heart Aligned Coaching
  • Aromatherapy Gift Package
  • Wild Atlantic Swim and Sauna
  • Irish Music and Culture

What’s Included

  • Each Retreat Includes:
    – Recommended accommodation
  • – One to One Coaching Sessions
    – One-to-one sessions with the horses
    – All meals (locally sourced where possible)
    – Transfers from/to Ireland West Airport (Knock)
    – Curated sessions, rituals, and enhancements
    – Follow-up online Retreat Integration Coaching
  • Included Retreat Gifts:
    – Personalized Journal with Custom Prompts
    – Custom Aromatherapy Blend
    – Personalized Guided Meditation
  • Optional Extra Enhancements:
    – Forest Bathing
  • – Recommended accommodation
    – Equine Assisted Wisdom
    – Clew Bay Island Cruise
    – Island Pilgrimage
    – Sea Immersion
    – Traditional Irish Music Evening

Meet Your Guide– Mary Berkery

Heart Aligned Coach, Equine Assisted Learning Facilitator, and Retreat Leader.

Mary Berkery is the dedicated facilitator behind you Retreat experience. With decades of expertise, she empowers individuals to reconnect with their authentic selves and live with purpose, clarity, and presence. This is especially true during times of great change, inner seeking, and questioning.

Moreover, Mary is known for her intuitive ability to see what lies beneath the surface. She creates sacred, safe spaces where alignment with self and spacious transformation can happen.

As a Projector in Human Design with emotional authority, she blends strategic clarity with deep intuitive guidance. This unique combination allows her to support clients in identifying what once felt intangible and then gently turning it into heart-led, grounded action.

In addition, Mary’s approach draws from a rich foundation in professional coaching, somatic wisdom, Celtic teachings, and nature and equine-assisted practices. She specializes in supporting leaders, creatives, and seekers who feel called to step into their next chapter with grace, integrity, and soul.

Mary also facilitates one-to-one and group mentoring sessions offered both in person and online. Her work isn’t about fixing; it’s about remembering who you truly are and leading from that truth with presence and alignment.

If you’re entering a new season of life and seeking to listen to the call of your deep being, her soulful support will help you begin.

Book a call to learn more and explore what’s emerging for you and how a Solo VIP Retreat can support your next steps.

Let’s Connect

Clarity Call

Mary offers Solo VIP Retreats to support individuals during pivotal life transitions.

Through these deeply personal experiences, she helps you reconnect with your true self and move forward with clarity, courage, and purpose. Her integrative approach blends Celtic wisdom, somatic practices, heart coherence, deep listening, and professional coaching.

As a result, you’re guided to remember who you are and take aligned, confident action from a place of inner knowing.
Ready to begin? Book a call to explore where you are now and what is calling you forward.

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Testimonials

What People Say

Retreats guided with presence, intention, and care — created to help you step away from the noise of daily life and into a space of rest, reflection, and reconnection. Through gentle ritual, deep stillness, and the quiet wisdom of nature, you’ll be supported in returning to your true rhythm and inner voice.

  • “If you need a tune-up, a tune-in, or an audit on following your purpose and personal mission in life, do attend any retreat in the West of Ireland with Mary Berkery. From the start, Mary and her team expertly nurture and gently facilitate attendees individually and on a group level. Their unique approach draws on diverse perspectives and wisdom. Mary’s experience in equine therapy is phenomenal. Her love and understanding of the power of and connection between the horse and the human is powerful to experience. Courageous Heart retreat lifts the spirit, clarifies the mind, and nurtures the soul.” — Monica Leech, Co. Waterford Ireland
  • “Angels in our Landscape” was a magical retreat I attended in Ireland, hosted by Mary Berkery (Ireland) and Barbara Alexander (Asheville, NC). They wove Equine-Facilitated Experiential Learning with the heart and history of Ireland, and its mystical, spiritual side. Our leaders provided their unique styles and came together in their hearts, love of horses, and attention to each participant and her path, to provide a deep and heartfelt experience.” — Kim Kupfever, Columbus, North Carolina