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In 1669 the Bunbury family bought the land at Lisnavagh in County Carlow.

Ten generations later, the gothic revival family home hosts wellness retreats, private weddings, a well being and arts festival, bespoke events, a market garden and cottage rentals Today, Lisnavagh House & Gardens hosts private weddings, parties or celebrations, short term private hire, yoga retreats and bespoke events. The Victorian farmyard is home to a growing number of small businesses including the Lisnavagh Timber Project and the Bunbury Boards.

13/02/2026

In the middle of busy lives, it’s difficult to find uninterrupted time to simply be together. Our Pause & Reconnect Mother & Daughter retreat is an invitation to step out of the everyday and share a day shaped around presence, care, and connection 💫

Through gentle movement, creative ritual, and time spent in nature, this retreat creates space for meaningful conversations and quiet understanding. It’s open to mothers and daughters of all ages — a gathering that honours every stage of womanhood and the unique bond that runs between generations.

📌 When & where?

Sunday 22 February at Lisnavagh. €110 per person for the day retreat.

Our Pause & Reconnect Mother & Daughter retreat is a gentle day to pause, reconnect, and return to one another with fresh perspective, follow the link in our bio to book your place. An optional overnight stay with light dinner and breakfast is available - contact us for details: T. 059 9161473 | E. events@lisnavagh.com.

✨ The day retreat includes

Welcome drink • Full retreat programme • Hearty lunch • Take-home goodie bag • Time to explore private woodlands • Access to the woodland lake (sauna optional €18) • A calm, comfortable space to slow down together.

🧘🏽‍♀️ About Laura Lochab

Laura Earth & Aura is a yoga teacher with Indian and Irish roots, based in Carlow. She facilitates sound baths, cacao ceremonies, and women’s workshops that support connection to body, creativity, and the natural world. Grounded in traditional Indian yoga practices and guided by a playful, feminine approach, Laura creates nurturing spaces for reflection, healing, and shared experience.

10/02/2026

Located among the open grounds of Lisnavagh, our Courtyard Stables offer you a quiet place to settle in and slow down 💆🏽‍♀️💆🏼 Inside, you’ll find rustic and cozy interiors designed to help you unwind: soft lighting, inviting living spaces, and thoughtful details that make it easy to feel at home.

Step outside and the landscape opens up around you 😍 woodland walks, peaceful gardens, and wide scenic views that change with the seasons. Whether you’re here for a weekend escape or a longer stay, it’s a place to rest, reconnect, and enjoy the simple pleasure of being surrounded by nature ✨

Nature Woodlands Lisnavagh

06/02/2026

Winter mornings by the lake at Lisnavagh have a quiet kind of clarity 💆🏽‍♀️ As you might see in the photo, a thin skin of ice settles across the water, catching the low light as it filters through the trees 😍 and the woods stand still around it (branches bare and air sharp and clean!).

The lake is part of our everyday rhythm. We love these kinds of mornings as they invite us to slow our pace and to notice small details. A pause on a woodland walk, a moment of stillness before returning indoors, or a gentle place to practise forest bathing - letting the senses take over and the mind settle naturally. In winter especially, it reminds us how restorative quiet can be, and how deeply nature supports rest when we allow ourselves to meet it where it is ✨

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04/02/2026

When was the last time you and your mother/daughter had a moment to truly breathe together? Join us in our Pause & Reconnect mother and daughter retreat 🫂 Women are powerful when we gather, and even more powerful when we gather together.

This retreat invites you to pause the world and reconnect, through movement, ritual, creativity and nature. Let time slow, let conversations deepen, and let your hearts soften back into one another.

All ages welcome. A celebration of the wisdom held in every stage of the feminine cycle — from maiden to mother to matriarch. A space to nourish, share, expand, and honour the lineage of women who came before and those yet to come.

📌 When and where?

Sunday 22, February in our beautiful grounds. €110 per person for day retreat, optional overnight stay available with light dinner and breakfast - contact us for further details T. 0599161473 E. events@lisnavagh.com.

Follow the link in our bio to book your place! This retreat is for mothers & daughters who want to slow down, reconnect, and truly meet again.

✨ Includes

Welcome juice/tea -Day Retreat programme - Hearty lunch - Take home goodie bag - Freedom to walk through acres of private woodlands - Access to woodland lake (sauna extra €18 per person) - Space & comfort

🧘🏽‍♀️ About Laura Lochab

Laura Earth & Aura is a passionate and dedicated Yoga Teacher with rich cultural roots, being half Indian and half Irish. Residing in Carlow, she has had the honor of facilitating numerous Sound Baths, Cacao Ceremonies and Yoga Workshops, specifically designed to help women connect with their authentic selves, nature, their wombs, and their innate creativity.

Her journey in yoga is deeply rooted in the traditional practices of India, and she strives to honor these ancient teachings in all her offerings. At the same time, she infused her workshops with a sense of playfulness and femininity, creating a unique and nurturing space for exploration and growth. At the heart of these gatherings is healing through connection to our bodies & nature, then opening to healing through community & connection.

27/01/2026

St. Brigid's Day is coming and we are happy to invite you to our Yoga & Nature Retreat with

At this retreat we will honour the national holiday, ‘St Brigid's Day’ during the weekend. A day to celebrate women, sisterhood and the blessings of water and light. This retreat will gently guide you to connect mind, matter and breath. Brigid’s wisdom and powers of healing will guide our awakening to the rhythms and patterns of Spring, the season of renewal and emergent life ✨

Brigid ‘The High One’ a member of the Tuatha De Danann, the supernatural race of Kings, Queens, Druids, Bards, Heroes and Healers of pre–Christian Gaelic Ireland.

The Triple essence of the Goddess Brigid denotes the Maid, the Mother and the Wise One. The stories in Ireland of the Saint and the Goddess are so inextricably interwoven that it is hard to disconnect them; in the same way that Irish history and mythology are interwoven to create a rich tapestry that we can draw upon in ritual and prayer offering us practices of devotion to call upon as we walk Our Beautiful Land.
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📌 When and where?

From 10am to 5pm Monday Bank Holiday, 2nd February in our beautiful grounds. €100 per person, optional overnight stay available - contact us for further details T. 0599161473 E. events@lisnavagh.com

Delicious home prepared vegan and vegetarian food is served in the dining room in Lisnavagh House. .

Follow the link in our bio to book your place!

💆🏽‍♀️ About this day retreat

🍊 Welcome juice or tea
🧘🏽‍♀️ Full day programme & tuition
🥗 Lunch & refreshments
🛍️ Small Lisnavagh goodie bag

🏯 About Lisnavagh House

Lisnavagh House is located only a few miles from Tullow where on 1 February 1807 – the Brigidine sisters, the order originally founded by St Brigid came back into existence after being suppressed during the 16th century Reformation and dissolution of the monasteries.

On that morning, a small group of women assembled in silence in their new convent and Bishop Delany planted a tiny oak sapling brought from the Eternal Flame at Brigid's healing well in Kildare; a symbol that would represent the continuity of St Brigid and the flourishing of her work everywhere.

23/01/2026

“Silence is not the absence of something, rather the presence of everything” ❤️ During a period of solitude in the mountains of Nepal, spent eight days in complete silence and isolation. Without distraction, the noise of the world faded, and in that stillness, life began to speak in a new language.

What she discovered was profound: layers of gratitude rising to the surface, clarity unfolding where confusion once lived, and a deeper sense of peace that felt both ancient and alive.
In the quiet, she began to understand that silence isn’t empty, it’s full of answers. It holds the whisper of truth, of connection to nature, to the wisdom of the heart 🫂

“Silence has been one of my greatest teachers. When you can bear your own silence, then you are free.”

This retreat at Lisnavagh is an invitation to explore that same freedom. We’ll begin and end our time together with gentle connection and community, but the heart of the retreat will be a journey inward: a space to rest in silence, to listen deeply, and to return to your own ānanda — your inner joy and peace.

📌 When & Where?

From Friday 30th January to Sunday, 1st February. The programme includes 2 night weekend stay (Lisnavagh Stables Courtyard or House) + Full programme & tuition + All meals and refreshments.

Follow the link in our bio to book your place!

🤸🏼‍♀️ This retreat is for someone who:

💆🏽‍♀️ Needs a break and some time away to reset
🧘🏽‍♀️ Seeks to go a little deeper into a meditation practice
🚶🏽‍♀️ Needs to reduce stimulation/ dopamine detox
✨⁠ Seeks creative inspiration
🤗 Open to trying a new experience
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🧘🏽‍♀️About Laura Lochab

Laura Earth & Aura, is a passionate and dedicated 585RYT Yoga Teacher with rich cultural roots, being half Indian and half Irish. Her journey in yoga is deeply rooted in the traditional practices of India, and she strives to honor these ancient teachings in all my offerings. At the same time, she infused her workshops with a sense of playfulness and femininity, creating a unique and nurturing space for exploration and growth.

20/01/2026

Make work feel inspired at Lisnavagh ✨

Looking for a setting to inspire your team? At Lisnavagh, we offer a unique combination of calm and focus - perfect for team gatherings, strategy sessions, creative retreats or leadership workshops.

Our beautiful venues are perfect to encourage connection, creativity and clarity. Far from the distractions of city life, Lisnavagh provides a peaceful environment and breakout spaces that spark fresh thinking and helps teams reset, recharge and reimagine, reducing stress and helping teams to focus.

Surrounded by nature, our facilities are ideal for strategic meetings, creative workshops and off-site retreats. And with delicious, nourishing food served throughout the day, everyone stays energised, focused, and ready to make the most of their time together.

Get in touch at events@lisnavagh.com to plan your corporate event.

13/01/2026

Winter evenings at Lisnavagh have a quiet presence of their own as the atmosphere invites us to a slower rhythm: Walks through frost-touched grounds, early nights by the fire, shared meals, and the simple comfort of being held by the house and its surroundings ❤️

09/01/2026

Yoga retreats at Lisnavagh offer you the chance to reconnect with your own time and movement 💆🏽‍♀️ Here, the day isn’t rushed. Practices are gentle, considered and adaptable, allowing you to reconnect with your body without pressure or expectation. You’re invited to move, pause, rest, and breathe at your own pace, guided rather than driven.

Our yoga classes invite you to tune back in finding your own rhythm, listening to your body and remembering the feeling of moving through time without pressures or schedules. And outside our Garden Wing, there’s space to wander the gardens, walk through the woods, or simply sit by the fire and slow down.

Meals are thoughtfully prepared to nourish and restore yourself, using fresh and seasonal ingredients from our Walled Garden. Evenings unfold quietly, with space to rest, soak in a bath, curl up with a book, or share conversations by the fire. At the end, the rhythms from the night allows you a sense of balance and ease to return on its own 🧘🏽‍♀️

If you feel like slowing down and disconnecting from your routine, follow the link in our bio and book your space at our upcoming retreats during winter ✨

05/01/2026

Every season at Lisnavagh brings its own quiet magic ✨ But there's something different about winter as it’s a time to slow down and savour the season to reflect and renew ourselves.

One of the things we enjoy the most is people coming to Lisnavagh to experience forest bathing in order to reconnect with nature and themselves — simply by being present among the trees, the birdsong and the earthy scent of spring. Morning mist drifts over the woodlands and sunlight filters through beautiful trees, inviting you to slow down, to listen, to notice. To breathe deeply, and let the stillness of the forest steady the mind.

That’s why we like to think of Lisnavagh as a sanctuary shaped by nature, where each moment outdoors feels like a quiet reminder of balance and belonging, of breathing and reconnecting 💫

27/12/2025

Slow down and reconnect at Lisnavagh 🧘🏽‍♀️✨ We’re delighted to welcome you once again to our January 2026 Retreats - an opportunity for you to set good intentions for the year ahead and designed to help you slow down, restore balance and take a deep dive into your soul being.

📌 When & Who?

Yoga & Sleep Retreat with Pam Butler - from Friday, 23rd to Sunday, 25th January. The programme includes 2 night weekend stay (Lisnavagh Stables Courtyard or House) + Full programme & tuition + All meals and refreshments.

The Gift of Silence Retreat with Laura Lochab - from Friday 30th January to Sunday, 1st February. The programme includes 2 night weekend stay (Lisnavagh Stables Courtyard or House) + Full programme & tuition + All meals and refreshments.

Follow the link in our bio to book your place!

Delicious home prepared vegan and vegetarian food is served for breakfast, lunch and dinner with colour and style and made with fresh, seasonal ingredients from the Lisnavagh walled garden

Comfortable bedrooms and deep baths (and showers!) complete the experience, encouraging the kind of rest that lingers long after you leave 🧖🏻‍♀️

Address

Lisnavagh, Rathvilly
Carlow

Telephone

+353599161473

Website

https://linktr.ee/lisnavagh

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