Our Vision
Celtic Journeys is based in Ireland and offers a soul journey that is nourishing, inspiring and authentic. We are here to introduce you to the wonders of the Celtic Tradition and to awaken a connection to this ancient yet living world. We offer a place to gather and an opportunity to walk a sacred path together, where we can know the beauty of the journey, walk the path with more ease, travel with an opening to our longing and a compassion in our heart.
It is about gathering and building upon in the gentlest of ways. Time is not the concept, nor journey's end a goal. Journeying is like life -- on the road we encounter ourselves. It calls us to what is essential -- returning us to our soul being, to who we truly are.
Celtic Journeys embraces three key aspects of journeying - Pilgrimage, Retreat and Ritual. These are naturally interwoven through all of Celtic Journeys offerings:
Pilgrimage - A Sacred Journey
"Pilgrimage is often regarded as the universal quest for the self. Though the form of the path changes...one element remains the same: the renewal of the soul." –Phil Cousineau
Pilgrimage - a sacred journey - calls us to set forth into the mystery of our own sacred selves and to the place of sacredness where we are journeying to. "To go on an inward journey sometimes you have to go on an outward journey to set it off," as Rabbi Lionel Blue wisely reflects...
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Retreat -Toward The Within
"Away from the world’s ceaseless din, one hears whispers from another realm, faint but compelling." -- Zaleski
Retreat can offer the silence, simplicity, and the opportunity for contemplation that the response to that little whisper seeks. Retreat provides the opportunity to connect with our spirit so as to enable us to return to our outer world with a depth of compassion and a clarity of vision...
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Ritual - Life's Honouring
Ritual has a mystery within it; and the more we touch the mystery without dissecting it the deeper it becomes. Celtic Journeys honours ritual's sacredness. "How complex the subject of ritual is, how difficult its communication, how necessary the practice of ritual is to its understanding." -- Tom Driver.
Our longing for ritual is deep and vital to our soul. It incorporates embracing all of life, that is its gift. It fully embraces and supports the darkness as it does the light...
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