Wellness Retreats on the West Coast of Ireland

Breath-Led yoga and Meditation with Eleanor Dawson

Start Date: November 21, 2025
End Date: November 23, 2025

The Burren Escape

The Perfect Balance

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3 days / 2 nights Retreat
21st - 23rd November 2025

Experience the perfect balance of relaxation, immersion in Nature, healthy exercise, deep restful sleep, delicious healthy vegetarian food and a complete digital detox.

Hatha yoga and meditation classes, Yoga Nidra deep relaxation, breath-focussed meditation and our famous vegetarian food.

You Choose

  • vigorous hillwalking or a relaxing stroll in the magical Burren
  • gentle yoga or more challenging
  • socialise and make friends with new like-minded people, or take time for yourself
The Burren Yoga Retreat is all about choice, flexibility and options.

Eleanor Dawson

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Breath-led Yoga and Meditation

Eleanor has lovely soft energies and brings a sensitivity and acceptance to allow you be yourself.

Eleanor teaches yoga with a sensitivity and awareness that allows you to tune inwards and bring a mindfulness to your physical yoga class.

Over the week Eleanor will expertly guide you through yoga and meditation practices which centre around the breath, the life force energy which will help you to drop into the ‘now’ and be fully present both on and off your mat.

Her classes place a lot of awareness on the breath.

Eleanor teaches breath focussed meditation, which develops a deeper, more subtle awareness. It helps the body and mind to settle down, and can bring a deep state of rest, replenishment and clarity.

She weaves the philosophy of yoga into the physical practice, so we really embody the essence of yoga – to let your light shine!

Eleanor is a very experienced teacher, and her classes include both gentle and more challenging postures. All postures can be safely adapted to meet the needs of each individual. In this way, you can go deeper whilst respecting your own needs.

Eleanor brings a meditative awareness into the physical practice and utilises awareness of breath, to help bring us into the present moment.

Relax and Rejuvenate

Escape to the magical Burren for a rejuvenating weekend

25 years of experience running our retreats.

Award-winning yoga retreats Ireland.

We know how to give you the best experience.

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What is included

Not included:

Lunch on Saturday as during our outing we stop at one of the local cafes to sample the best local cuisine.

Travel to and from the retreat centre.

Highlights

The Perfect Wellness Retreat

Whether you want to immerse yourself in a very positive uplifting environment, or just need some down-time to get away from a stressful life situation, or would like a holiday in Ireland and be shown some beautiful locations, or want to learn new techniques for your health and wellness, you will enjoy and benefit from your time at the Burren Yoga Retreat.  This is the perfect wellness retreat Ireland.

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Schedule

Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd November 2025

Friday

17:00   Settle in and relax.   Enjoy welcome drinks or go for a walk

19:00   Delicious dinner and dessert by our chef and socialise with like-minded guests

20:15   One-to-one chat with the teacher about any health conditions or special requests

21:00   Welcome meeting and introduction to the retreat

21:25   Breathwork and Yoga Nidra deep relaxation

08:00  Meditation including introduction for beginners

08:30  Yoga class

10:00   Delicious breakfast with plenty of choice

11:15     Guided outing in The Burren and hang out with yoga teacher

14:00   Lunch at local cafe

15:30   Optional swim at our local beach

17:00   Yoga class

19:00   Delicious organic vegetarian dinner and scrumptious healthy dessert

21:00   Meditation & Yoga Nidra deep relaxation

08:00  Meditation class

08:30  Yoga class

10:00  Delicious breakfast with plenty of choice

12:00  Yoga class to prepare you for practice at home

13:00  Delicious lunch by our chef

14:00  Departure from the retreat centre

Eleanor's training & background

Eleanor began yoga in the 1990s with Hanne Gillespie, following the teaching of T.K.V. Desikachar, which is designed so that ANYBODY can practise yoga.

Eleanor completed two preliminary yoga teacher training courses of yoga using soft gentle awareness with Hanne Gillespie of Clonlea yoga studios in Dublin.

Later she completed the 750 hour Sadhana Mala Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy programme with UK-based teachers Ranju Roy and Dave Charlton, (2007-2010).  This training is long, rigorous and thorough, enabling the teacher to draw on a wide range of tools and techniques, and to apply them to each individual.

Eleanor began a regular twice-daily meditation practice in 2007, having previously worked with various meditative practices.

Eleanor worked with Paul Lambillion, a teacher of subtle energy, and is indebted to him for his insights, and for opening doors into the subtler worlds of perception, especially chakras.

Eleanor’s work with yoga has been deeply influenced by all her teachers, but particularly by the late Peter Hersnack. Peter’s teaching was steeped in the wisdom of yoga philosophy, especially the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, which “comes alive” when we work deeply and very subtly with body, breath and mind.

She continues to study for her own personal practice with Sylvie Palot, a long-term student of Peter’s. She also studies philosophy, Vedic chant and voice-work with Sheela and Ravi Shankar, former students of Desikachar’s, who are based in Chennai, India.

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