In Between Retreat: Iona 2025
All the details and a chat with my co-host Fiona
Hi I’m Debbie, a spiritual director, writer, host and mother based in Glasgow. I offer stories, ponderings and gentle invitations to share a moment with your soul.
Hi friends,
I am delighted to be returning to Iona in May 2025 with Fiona Koefoed-Jesperson. 2024’s retreat was a gentle, beautiful and nourishing time. I wrote a letter to myself of everything I wanted to remember here. As we wrote on our website:
This is for you if…
You are rewilding your faith, leaning into the mystery of what it means to be deeply connected to yourself, to each other, to the earth and to God.
You are craving some time away to rest, reconnect and reimagine what a deeply nourishing spirituality might look like.
You value the opportunity to pause and consider the landscape of your soul, with guides who will hold gentle and hopeful space for whatever invitations Spirit has for you.
You would love to connect with other women like you, who are seeking to wander on the wild edges of faith, who are willing to stay with the wrestling and the wondering in search of a deeply rooted spirituality.
You’d love a retreat that isn’t all seriousness, but engages with playfulness, creativity and joy, and is intentional about cultivating an embodied connection with the land.
The idea of a retreat on an ancient holy island in Scotland makes your spirit skip with delight!
A thin place, a sacred space
in between ancient faith and your own sacred story,
between the sea and the land,
between the comfort and the wild,
between the past and the future,
between certainty and mystery.
In her book Living Resistance, Kaitlin Curtice speaks about liminality as resistance:
I'm learning to embrace it (liminality), to hold gratitude for the fact that even though I may not always feel I belong or may not fit into the boxes I'm placed in, I belong to those who also don't belong. I belong to myself, in all the nuance and complexity that holds.
This is the space Fiona and I offer on our In Between retreat. A place to find our own belonging in the liminality. We have four spaces remaining and you’ll find all the information here. If you’d like to hear more about the Retreat and our hopes for it, you can watch our chat below, or skim the transcript below.
The Details
When: 1st to 5th May 2025
Where: Shared Accommodation at The Green Shed on the Island of Iona, Scotland
Cost: £750
See our website for the full details.
Thanks for being here, I’ll be back with more stories and ponderings soon.
With love,
Debbie
P.S. For any mums of faith, there are a limited number of spaces available for ‘A Spacious Gift’ on November 27th 8-9:30pm GMT on Zoom. The evening will follow a pattern of coming to rest and noticing what is on your mind and heart, reflecting on and entering into the grace that precedes your giving, sharing about your experience, and blessing one another. Find out more and reserve your space here.
This looks amazing, but in the "details" section it seems to have the 2024 dates not the 2025, would it be possible to get the 2025 dates?