July Food & Wellness Retreat at Woodhouse Estate

Nourishing, revitalizing, simplicity and a little luxury, this exclusive and intimate experience will allow you to relax, unwind, connect and embrace a new approach to a modern lifestyle that works best for you and ultimately provide you with an unforgettable wellness experience.

Designed by Food & Wellness consultant Aisling Larkin, one of Ireland’s most well-known and loved tv cooks and broadcasters. Aisling has spent the last 15 years teaching, creating, learning, consulting and delivering on all things food and wellness and now she is thrilled to invite you to her innovative food and wellness experience at the luxurious countryside location of Woodhouse Estate, nestled in along the Copper Coast and the Waterford Greenway, this is a secluded sanctuary and a unique and stunning location to retreat.

Our all-inclusive small group lifestyle retreat is centred around a welcoming atmosphere, mindfulness, wellness, reflection, gratitude, adventure, movement, nature and of course wholesome and delicious organic food sourced from local producers and suppliers.

This immersive restorative day of self-care will allow you to take timeout to reconnect with your inner self and rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit. Come on your own or with a friend; either way, it will be a great opportunity to meet like-minded people and make new social connections in a beautiful and tranquil setting.

Arrive at Woodhouse Estate bright and early for a warm welcome by Aisling and fellow guests.

We will begin our morning together chatting and connecting over tea, coffee and a nourishing wellness breakfast. Your freshly prepared buffet breakfast will be ready in our dining room, including overnight oats, my homemade high satiety granola,yoghurts, fresh fruits, smoothies, selction of fresh breads, chia jam and local artisan pastries.Then we will quickly get started with a mindfulness and mindset workshop. In order to get benefit from a day like today, we need to begin to change our mindsets first, then our behaviours will follow.

We will then retreat to the garden for our afternoon yoga practice, delivered with a mindful approach. The session is designed to stretch the whole body whilst incorporating some flowing movements to energise and elevate your total well-being and focus on self-compassion and care.

Your host Aisling will then begin the live culinary demonstration, which is designed around gastronomy, social connection, pleasure, empathy, support and creativity which will inspire you to nourish your body with wholesome foods that are simple to prepare. Aisling’s modern lifestyle food is all about seasonal and local ingredients, simple culinary techniques and great flavour.

After lunch we will depart Woodhouse Estate and arrive at Clonea beach for our Greenway walk and evening Sea Dip & Sauna,if you want to dip your toe in water or run and jump all in, which ever makes your heart happy.

Ed and Dee from the Hot Pod Sauna, will guide us through breathing exercises, teach us the positive benefits and impacts that hot and cold therapy has on our overall well-being, whilst relaxing in the heated sauna taking in the stunning views of Clonea Beach.

At 5pm we bid farewell, feeling restored and rejuvenated. What a day it will have been, connected with new souls, spending time with yourself or those you came with, learning new skills to improve your self-care and wellness.