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Join Melanie Ryan on a Scottish Highland Retreat focused on the art of living, connecting with nature, basket weaving, and spiritual growth.  

 

Melanie Ryan’s Golden Shadow Retreats bring you to places of light on Mother Earth where the land is pure and magical is in the air. This retreat is a deep immersion into the golden shadow where beauty, wisdom, love, peace, and joy reside. Melanie Ryan guides you back home, to the hearth, and to your heart. She guides a small group retreat of others who wish to share a deeply intimate, healing and joyous journey into the heart. Here every cell in our body relaxes and opens to receive the goodness of life. 

 

In the Scottish Highlands, the presence of the nature spirits is palpable. Every morning you wake up to thousands of bird songs, the gentle breeze and crisp clean air of the mountains. Together we stay on a private 60-acre farm with beautifully designed rustic cabins and expansive views of the farm. On the farm is a bid barn where we meet to do basket weaving classes. On the land, we will do sacred ceremonies and share nutritious, organic food. We will enjoy go some adventure and head into Inverness of a dinner, exploration, and good old Scottish highland music. We will do other excursions to local villages and artisan shops, visit Findhorn, the site of the Battle of Culloden, see Scottish Highland castles and more.

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This retreat includes:

• Accommodations on a private highland farm. 

• Basket weaving class with Karen Collins.

• Sacred group fire ceremonies with Melanie Ryan. 

• Day visit to Inverness, Findhorn, Battle of Culloden site, nearby castles, local villages & artisan shops.

• Homemade organic meals daily.

• Morning meditation. 

• Afternoon yoga.

 

Not Included: 

• Private healing sessions with Melanie

• Private ayurvedic massage

 

More details will be announced in summer 2026.

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Add me to the list – contact MelanieRyanLCSW@gmail.com