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Wintering: A Day of Warmth, Connection and Rest

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  • November 14, 2026
  • 10.00am – 5.30pm
  • Anam Kara Wellness

As the temperatures cools and autumn moves towards winter, the energy shifts and so must our practices with food, movement and self-care. The wisdom of nature and leaning in to our ‘evolutionary knowing’ arises from within, if we listen.

We will understand our patterns and recognising when to release and let go. Winter is the season of contemplation, rest, self-nurturing, patience and "hibernation" or wintering.

Join Laura, Registered Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Therapist, Nutritional Scientist & Edelle, Clinical Psychoneuroimmunologist, Compassionate Inquiry Therapist, and Nutritional Therapist for a full day retreat at Anam Kara Wellness. Together they bring more than 50 years of expertise encompassing modern clinical science combined with evolutionary medicine and ancient Ayurvedic wisdom.

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What to Expect

  • Tea & Opening Circle

    Ayurvedic tea and connection to set our intention for our time together

  • Yoga and breathwork

    Laura will lead a yoga class exploring a warming winter flow, to ignite our warmth from within

  • Compassionate Inquiry Workshop

    Trained by Gabor Maté, Edelle will guide as we explore together, our interpretation of the world, noticing perceptions, beliefs, sensations and emotions, and their somatic responses. Learning about how our mind creates our world and how we can connect deeply to nature and the seasons, reawakening within, what it truly means to be human. Exploring the work of Dr. Gabor Maté: Observing recurring patterns of behaviour. Recognising, releasing and letting go

  • Ayurvedic Organic Lunch

    A nourishing lunch inspired by Ayurvedic principles, inspired by the change in season from autumn to winter and incorporating ancient ayurvedic wisdom. Laura our Ayurvedic therapist will plan a seasonal lunch founded in the Ayurvedic principles of Winter - warm, with focus on sweet, sour and salty. Root vegetables, healthy fats and warming spices. Allowing time to connect inwards to our bodies and also with each other.

  • Ayurveda in the season of winter

    Laura will guide us through what it means in Ayurveda to live in harmony with the seasons. Learn about the foundations of ayurveda and the science about how we interact with the world around us in this winter season

  • PNI

    Psychoneuroimmunology – what does it mean.

    Exploring evolutionary biology – what does it really mean to be human.

    How modern culture is making us sick

    How we can harness the power of hormetic stressors to regain our health including the science of heat and cold and how to use heat and cold for chronic disease and for disease prevention

  • Guided Sauna and Cold-Water Experience

    Guided sauna and cold-water therapy based on your individual needs which we can discuss prior to the retreat (if you provide your information) or on the day.

    (For guests who prefer not to take part in the full bathing experience, this hour will be time for rest, reflection and relaxation)

  • Closing Circle

    Time for deep connection, reflection and sharing as desired. Time for questions.

The Experience

A transformational day where you will be guided and held, as you lean into the season of letting go and resting. Sensing into your inner ecosystem and connecting to the ecosystem of the people and environment around you.

Our aim in this day retreat is for each person to leave with a sense of warmth, a sense of connection to their community and like-minded individuals, to learn tools to manage to struggle of winter and understand the ‘WHY’ behind them. For this we combine the knowledge of science, the knowledge of ayurveda (Ayur means life and Veda means knowledge) and the knowledge of experience. When you feel and embody these practices you understand ‘WHY’ on a deep somatic level.

We want to offer you the opportunity to feel safe, warm and connected. We wish for you to leave enlightened and empowered. A day in time when we connect to something bigger than ourselves to come home to ourselves. Based in the beauty of nature, evolutionary medicine, and Ayurveda, we allow the ancient wisdom of our bodies to arise by providing it the context in which is flourishes while adding new learnings. Warming, connecting, and resting.

The Day

Morning

The morning is where we explore connection but also move within. We spend time in our inner world. Our psyche, our body, our breath, our movement. And how it all feels for us. How we find and feel our place in the world. How we show up.

Midday

We are adding the outer world to our inner exploration. We will eat together. We re-connect with each other and bring some of the outer world into our inner world with lunch and interaction with others. We will do some grounding work in nature where we slow down, notice, listen, breathe and engage all of our senses.

Afternoon

The afternoon is devoted to connecting the inner and outer world to each other and adding some understanding of the processes happening in our bodies. Also learning how to bring these practices into our daily lives. When and how to add therapies, and what therapies are most beneficial for you, specifically. 

Closing

We finish together in a reflective closing circle with time for questions, conversation and integration.

Following the retreat, you'll also receive the complete workshop notes as a keepsake.

Your Host

Edelle O'Doherty

Compassionate Inquiry, Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology, Functional Medicine, Nutritional Therapy, & BSc Chemistry

Edelle O'Doherty’s work is rooted in the understanding that many of our behaviours, symptoms, and emotional reactions are not signs of weakness or failure. They are often intelligent adaptations to earlier life experiences, stress, disconnection, or unmet needs. Our psyche, nervous system and our immune system are responding as they are supposed to, to protect us and maintain our survival. Or they have lost the ability to communicate with each other and are simply trying to help us survive.

She brings together Compassionate Inquiry, Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology, Functional Medicine, Nutritional Therapy and a degree in Chemistry with body-based awareness to support people in exploring what may be beneath their patterns.

Her desire is to offer essential additional support alongside conventional medical systems, ensuring no one feels alone on their health journey. Championing connection, community, deeper understanding, and reawakening in people what it truly means to be human. Our journey is not about forcing change. It is about creating the conditions where the body and mind can begin to feel safe enough for insight, regulation, and new choices. To enable decision making.

She possesses a deeply personal and empathetic understanding of the fear and challenges associated with serious illness having lost both her mother and husband to cancer and having grown up with a brother with a traumatic brain injury.

Laura Lynch

Registered Yoga Teacher & Ayurvedic Therapist with 200hr RYT & 300hr teacher training in Ashtanga, Hatha, Yoga Therapy and Pregnancy Yoga. Also Yin Yoga, Transformational Breathwork, and Applied Polyvagal Theory, BSc in Nutritional Science

Laura Lynch is an Ayurvedic Therapist, 500hr+ Registered Yoga Teacher, and lifelong nature lover. As a child, she was drawn to the natural world - how it grows, adapts, and shapes everything within it.

That curiosity led her to a BSc in Nutritional Science (2018), followed by certification as an Ayurvedic Therapist and 200hr RYT in North India (2019). In 2023, she completed a 300hr teacher training in Ashtanga, Hatha, Yoga Therapy and Pregnancy Yoga in Mysore. Since then, she has trained in Yin Yoga (80 hr in 2024), Transformational Breathwork (Phoenix Breathwork Method, 2025), and Applied Polyvagal Theory - alongside earlier studies in Yoga Nidra (16hr) and Vipassana, including a humbling ten-day Vipassana course in Limerick. Each of these practices has reshaped how she relates to food, sleep, movement, and rest - and helped her find a rhythm that actually fits who she is.

Laura states: “When I'm living in line with my own nature, I notice it clearly: steadier energy, clearer thinking, better digestion, deeper sleep, and a quieter, more grounded outlook on life.”

Her business Ved Karma is built on that discovery. Ved means knowledge; Karma means action. Her work is about bridging the two - taking the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and yoga and turning it into practical, daily tools for balance, alignment, and inner steadiness, whatever life brings. Lasting health isn't a quick fix - it's a process of learning what your body and mind genuinely need. That journey can feel overwhelming at first, but you don't have to navigate it alone.

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