02/03/2026
Absolute highlights… though words barely touch what was truly felt.
If you have seen the photos, you will see smiles.
If you were there, you will have felt the shift.
Please do read the guest comments on Philip Permutt 's post – because something far deeper than a “weekend away” unfolded at Barony Castle Hotel.
On Friday night, as we stepped into the corridors for the ghost hunt, it was not about fear. It was about remembrance. About empowering people to trust their intuition. To feel what cannot be seen. To stand in old stone walls and hotel rooms and sense the stories still whispering through them.
Barony Castle holds history in its bones. And as we walked together, belief became experience. Doubt softened. Sensitivity awakened. It was powerful… but gentle. Expansive… yet grounding.
The crystal grid we created at the beginning of the retreat set the frequency for everything that followed. Each person placing their stone with intention. Each breath woven into the matrix. You could feel it anchoring something sacred in the room. A web of light. A shared heartbeat.
Philip and Sue Owen held such beautiful space throughout – workshops that opened minds, meditations that softened hearts, laughter that echoed through the halls, tears that cleared lifetimes, hugs that said “you are safe here.” It was human and divine all at once.
And then Sunday came 😢
After the final Pendulum workshop, we gathered again around the grid. The same grid that had held us all weekend. One by one, we deconstructed it. Lifting stones. Releasing intentions. Closing the circle with reverence.
It felt final. Sacred. Complete.
When we closed the grid, even I felt it move through me. A current. A completion. A sealing. I had to pause. It was real. It was alive.
There were long hugs. The kind where energy exchanges without words. Where you know something has shifted forever. Where strangers are no longer strangers.
This weekend was not just connective – it was activating. A coming together of like-minded souls, old friends in new bodies. Sparkling crystals everywhere, yes… but more importantly, sparkling hearts. Angel wings, light in people’s eyes, and an undeniable sense that we were exactly where we were meant to be.
Spiritual life does this. It leads you to your soul family. It opens doors you didn’t know were there. It aligns you with people who feel like home.
Would we recommend it?
Wholeheartedly.
Not just because it was “good.”
But because it was transformational.
And when something moves your spirit, your SOUL like that… you honour it.
