OtherSelf - WEEKEND IMMERSION
BEALTAINE, Body of Land, Altar of Body
An experiential 2.5 day journey to deepen our connection of Body, Nature, Spirit and Sexuality.
Wicklow, May 9th - 11th 2025
Guided by Dani & Seán
‘The brightest light casts the strongest shadow.’
Bealtaine means ‘Bright Fire’ and is a celebration of peak Spring, love and fertility.
In Irish mythology it is a time of purification and a transition point into summer, heralding in the light season, preparing for ‘Litha’ (Summer Solstice) and a time for rituals with clear intentions to call in Spiritual health for an abundant harvest later in the year.
How does this look and feel from a transpersonal perspective in 2025? How can we make contact with the mythology and cultivate it for our own inner harvest. What if we could differentiate between our own own shadow, the collective shadow and the eternal mystery and see the gifts on offer in each that can serve as blessings to our own physical and meta-physical harvests.
We often have many barriers up to connection with our Selves, our Bodies, our Sprits and with other people. This is an opportunity to journey deep to meet the part of us that creates these blocks and meet ourselves and the other with more awareness.
NESTLED in the mystical Irish countryside, our retreat offers immersion into the Spirit of the Land, the Animal of the Body and the One Soul being the model of All. The perfect setting to dive deeper into our own inner landscape to meet the internal reflections, beliefs and operating systems that we have that are influencing our reality.
WEEKEND RESIDENTIAL IMMERSION
Wicklow, May 9th - 11th 2025
Residential & Catered E490
Small number of low cost places available upon application
OTHERSELF IMMERSION
Held by Seán Jackson and Danielle D’Arcy
An experiential 2.5 day journey to deepen our connection of Body, Nature, Spirit and Sex.
We often have many barriers up to connection with ourselves and with other people but it can be difficult to get a clear view of the nature of these blocks?
This immersion is for those who are curious about Temple Culture, keen to deepen self awareness as well as a capacity for more authentic connection. More time and space allows for a deeper revelation of hidden parts of ourselves and share and meet from this place of vulnerability.
Temples are ritual spaces that invite embodied awareness through authentic connection, radical honesty and working towards sexual positivity.
Many of the negative patterns and limiting beliefs we hold in today’s culture are reflected in generations and generations of ‘religious’ teachings that sex and our bodies are dirty and bad. Often when we look at these aspects of ourselves with more presence and self compassion, we create a space for healthier connection with ourselves, our world and others around us. Our insatiable appetite for MORE and MORE becomes more fulfilled as we are aware of what we need and how to give it to ourself, so we become a positive force in our environment, generating more love just because we can.
Through guided ritual we open awareness to show our courage, our vulnerability and bear witness to that of the others in our community.
Love Temple offers monthly, guided temple gatherings in Dublin and Belfast that open an invitation to all humans who are either new to this concept or are already experienced Templars.
We also offer more advanced temple gatherings and weekend immersions for those wishing to deepen their journey further.
Authenticity, vulnerability, courage and community are at the core of all of our offerings.
We will work with ritual reclaiming the deep transformative power of Self Love through devotional and awareness practices. We will explore the shamanic power of our energy field and how every connection we have is multi dimensional and Spiritual in nature. Be it with ourself, other people or our environment. We will explore healing through aware presence with others, seeing and being seen in authenticity and the power of Radical Honesty. We will explore our inner aspects of light and dark, masculine and feminine, love and shame.
Land & Body
All that I know as sustenance and shelter, comes from the land. It has provided everything to me because my ancestors learned how to listen and tended to it like an altar.
So now I know the time to rest and when to sow seeds.
When I am prepared to move in trial and error, I eventually learn what nourishes growth and what makes it weak.
When I stay adaptive through changing weather, the harvest has always found its way to me.
Where it comes from exactly, remains a mystery and how it really works behind what I can see, I can’t say. But time and time again, it proves that when I listen to the land and tend to it like an altar, something miraculous feeds me.
What I have not said yet is that I don’t own land in any significant way. My ancestors power is no longer mine exactly.
Yet their wisdom lives on. My body, too, is a landscape. It has all the elements of earth, water, air, fire and void, so it is also an altar capable of communion with the divine, just like the land. How it works is a mystery but when I listen to it and tend to my body of stone with awareness, through exploration, it softens and I become an ancestor of the future. Even if the power of my harvests are not yet clear to my materialistic human eye.
I can bring attention to my own power in this mystery. Or I can deny it. It’s my choice. Where I place my attention is what grows. I want to listen to the subtle beat of life and death in every cell. I want to embrace my full being—my matter and my void—as love. I want to help birth a new realm where the love that I am is recognised and also recognises the power of others who are tending to their non-conforming altars with the Spirit of a bear and the heart of a grandmother.
Wild Love Relating
JUNE 10TH
GATHERING AT THE WELL - IRELAND
WITH BRUCE LYON.
Friday, June 10th, 6.30 - 9.30pm.
Fumbally Stables, The Liberties, Dublin, D08 CP27, Ireland.
Mystery schools emerge at the change of civilisations and are nurseries for the culture which is to come. They draw on the perennial teachings of the past, renewing and updating them. To use Jungian language, they are where the Spirit of the Depths meets the Spirit of the Times, to bring forth the Way of What is to Come. They have the universal life principle at their centre but are clothed in the unique soul qualities of the lands and cultures in which they emerge. The soul and soil of Ireland has a rich and deep history of magic. In the trans himalayan esoteric tradition it is said to be the home of the emerging second ray temple that focuses on the mysteries of the heart and the love principle. This evening is for those that feel a deep resonance with the celtic mysteries and want to gather together to share and listen to what is bubbling up from the well. Bruce Lyon & Winter Icely are part of the core at Highden Temple - a New Zealand mystery school many decades in the making. They will share some of the core experiences that supported its emergence and want to deepen the link between those doing temple work in Ireland and other temples emerging around the world.
Organised by Sean Jackson
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JUNE 11TH
WILD LOVE RELATING - IRELAND
The Love Which is to Come with Bruce Lyon
Saturday, June 11th 2022 9-5pm
Fumbally Stables, The Liberties, Dublin, D08 CP27, Ireland.
Relationships are undergoing huge shifts as the way we experience love also changes. People are exploring different forms from monogamy to polyamory, different gender identities and different ways to express themselves. All this against a backdrop of planetary crisis, civilisational change and soul emergence. This workshop will offer you some helpful frames and practices for negotiating your inner and outer relating journey as well as some insights about the love which is on its way. We will work with erotic energies along with heart and soul but nudity or sexuality is not required. You will be at full choice for any practice and all genres/identities/relationship styles are welcome. You are welcome to come alone or with a beloved. Bruce Lyon & Winter Icely have been on a relationship journey for five years as part of a community at Highden Temple in New Zealand. It has been a crucible for experimentation by a committed global group of beings who were dedicated to the inquiry of how love was wanting to move. We learned a lot, some of it surprising and we have a harvest to share. Bruce initiated Highden, Shamballa School, Wild Love and is part of the wisdom council for ISTA. Winter facilitates the Temple Training, ISTA and initiated Magdelana - a temple for the feminine mysteries.
Book here:
Just Saturday €154