A 5 Day Nature Based Retreat to immerse with the Ancient Wisdom of
Amanita Muscaria Mushroom
Autumn Retreat 2026
30th Sep to 4th Oct
West Cottage & Stables
Glen Lyon, Scotland
🌿 Why This Retreat?
Step into the ancient wisdom of Amanita Muscaria, the “Love Medicine” that opens the heart, dissolves hidden patterns, and gently rewires the central nervous system. In a safe, nature based container you’ll be guided to:
Cultivate self‑love and heal subconscious wounds rooted in ancestry, development, or relationships.
Dissolve patterns that can be causing anxiety, physical pain or addictions including food, alcohol or substances.
Shift perception of time, space, and reality through a subtle, heart‑centered altered state rather than overwhelming “heroic” doses.
Integrate the experience with daily movement, meditation, sound, and the Scottish landscape, leaving you with a lasting practice you can carry home.
Each day includes:
Morning movement to attune body and land.
Guided meditations that deepen the Source & Nature connection.
Dream Circles for sharing insights from Amanita & waking to the “living dream.”
Integrated rest (silence periods) to let the inner journey settle.
Practical notes: Moderate walking on uneven terrain (1–2 mi/day). Activities may shift with weather—alternatives will always be provided.
📍 The Setting – West Cottage & Stables, Glen Lyon
Nestled in a quiet woodland, the retreat takes place at West Cottage & Stables, offering cosy cottage rooms or a rustic bothy. The natural surroundings become part of the ceremony:
Irish Sweathouse Rituals in the sauna – purification on body, mind, and soul.
Fire Circles in the woodland – songs, stories, and communal sharing.
Sacred site visits to Fortingall Yew, stone circles, and other ancient places.
All meals are nourishing, well sourced, and served with love, allowing you to truly enjoy and unwind.
Amanita Mushroom
Amanita Muscaria Mushroom is also known as “Fly Agaric” works very differently than other Fungi or psychoactive medicines. In general, rather than a very outward and potentially overwhelming experience, if approached with respect, she calls us more inward to awaken the heart and dissolve patterns with love. This medicine is deeply soothing & rewiring for the Central Nervous System, helping us to overcome anxiety, fear, pain, addiction or imbalances that are affecting our life, health, relationships & connection with spirit.
This medicine is often feared, and she deserves great respect and the right approach for safety as well as maximum benefit. This retreat container will provide that with a cottage woodland setting, full immersion with the elements, grounding practices for the body, cleansing with the Irish Sweathouse, tree medicine support, nourishing meals & experienced facilitation with Tara Muirghein.
A vital component to this retreat is connecting with Amanita Medicine in the right relationship, so beginning on the best footing possible in order to receive maximum support and benefit. This in turn will open you up to healthy practices, the art of dreaming and allow you to continue with this connection moving forward into daily life.
Irish Sweathouse
Rituals
Sauna goes far beyond the technology of hot and cold therapy, it brings a community spirit along with an ancient practice that can be found in many cultures and climates. Including Ireland & Scotland, where we have the ‘Tigh ‘n Alluis’ or the ‘Sweathouse.’ These were bee hive shaped stone structures with a small opening, found in uphill areas, often near to a well, stream or river. This was a place where people would come for healing, especially for respiratory ailments, rheumatism and women’s reproductive health.
Tara is passionate about the revival of the ancient practices with the Irish Sweathouse, bringing into fusion with the more modern Nordic Sauna. Sauna Ritual is fully immersive & awakens the senses, bringing the transformative power of sauna to life. We bring balance with the elements of earth, air, fire, water, combined with tree & herbal medicine.
This combination blends very well as one of the benefits of a Sauna ritual is that the more natural psychoactive effects of sauna can assist in the preparation and integration for psychoactive medicines. More importantly, it can bring a deep feeling of rest, reset and calm through the transformative heat, cleansing sweat, healing waters and the spirit connection of tree medicine.
Fortingall Yew, Trees & Sacred Sites
Yew trees are is woven into mythology across the world, and one of the oldest known in Britain and possibly Europe is the Fortingall Yew. It is estimated to be over 2,000 years old and a sacred meeting place for Druids, Saints & Scholars, with some even making the connection with Yeshua and Magdalene having visited Fortingall Yew & Glen Lyon for a time. The Tree of Immortality is steeped in magic & mystery as it connects us to one of the most ancient medicines of the land.
Trees are very much interwoven with Fungi as the Mycellium Network supports the treea and vice versa via the most highly intelligent communication & transportation system on this planet. Birch and Pine trees in particular have a direct relationship with Amanita as they provide the sweet sap, right nutrients and environment via their roots for Amanita Muscaria to grow. In addition Amanita provides the trees with nutrients in the soil via their mycellium as part of this symbiotic relationship. We will explore this communion with the Birch, Pine and Amanita on the land as well as through the Irish Sweathouse.
We will take time to connect to the trees, stones, land. mountains and river at Glen Lyon that help us to remember what is innate in us. Attuning with the higher frequencies available in this land and sacred places, we can become more open and aligned with the natural human evolution that we are called to be a part of at this time.
What you will receive
2 x Irish Sweathouse Rituals
3 x sequential nights building with the Amanita Muscaria mushroom
Dream Circles to share what has emerged from the Amanita Dreamtime
Visit to Fortingall Yew, Stone Circle & Sacred Sites
Daily movement practice to attune with body & land
Guided meditations to tune in & connect with source
Integrated Rest times to enjoy Nature or Sound & Silence Sessions
Final evening with Fire Circle, Songs & Craic
Nourishing Vegetarian Meals
Single Bed in a Shared Room (Double or Twin in Cottage, Double or Twin in Bothy)
1 x Group Preparation and 1 x Integration Session (Online)
Registration
Deposit: £650
Shared Room in Cottage: £1280
Shared Ensuite Room w/ Kitchenette in Bothy: £1480
This retreat is limited to a small group of 6 people to ensure a more intimate experience,
early booking is recommended.
Payment Plans are available or if you need to make an alternative payment arrangement e.g. different currency, or financial circumstances, email firetreealchemy@proton.me
Deposit is required to secure your place, with the remainder due one week prior to arrival or in cash on arrival.
Additional nights booking for B&B are available at £65pp per night
Additional transport to/from Aberfeldy Bus Station is available at 3pm on Arrival & Departure Day, this is £10 per person for each journey
Transport to/from Scotland & Retreat Location is not included, our location is just 30mins from Aberfeldy. 2hrs from Glasgow and 2.5hrs from Edinburgh. Bus services to Aberfeldy or Fortingall and local taxi services are available.
Deposits & Payments are non-refundable and registration is subject to the completion of the registration form.
Cottage Room (Double or Twin) Bothy (Double or Twin)
Example Day Schedule
8am Gentle Somatic Practice
8.30am Breakfast
10am Meditation & Dreaming Circle
12.30 Lunch
2pm Depart for Sacred Sites
5pm Arrive at Cottage
6pm Dinner
7.30pm Sound & Silence
8.30pm Meditation & Amanita Tea
Arrival Day (Wednesday)
3.30-4.30pm Guests arrive
5pm Welcome Circle
6.00pm Light Dinner
7.30pm Irish Sweathouse
Closing Day (Sunday)
8.30am Breakfast
10am Integration & Closing Circle
12.30pm Lunch
2-3pm Guests Depart
Facilitators
Tara, Retreat Facilitator
Tara is an Irish woman and Ban Draoi, Alchemist, Facilitator, Mystic & Poet. She weaves together consciousness and Earth wisdom, harnessing a profound connection to nature, source & the elements through meditation, sound and somatic movement.
Tara began her path with nature & source at a very young age, often finding solace in plants, animals, landscape, sea and ritual, growing up connected with the lands of Ireland and Scotland. She has travelled to Peru, Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala, weaving the connection with her deep roots in Pre-Celtic lineage with other indigenous lineages.
This particular path connects spirits, ancestors, plants and lands together in order to facilitate an accelerated approach to source connection, transformation and accessing the self healing ability. In this time of rapid change and the impact on the earth as well as its inhabitants, a new approach is needed that is infused with the great wisdom of these ancient traditions.
Tara guides individuals in reclaiming their sovereignty and supporting the evolution of the soul. With a deeply practical approach to life, she embodies the living ecology of being as nature itself, inviting others to co-create a vibrant New Earth with hearts ignited and hands in the soil.
Explore more about Tara’s Work: Illuminating Wisdom Substack
Ari, Bodywork Facilitator
Ari Liakeas has had a lifelong interest in dance and movement, taking inspiration from her mother. She has explored various cultural forms of movement, dance, and yoga, but Arabic dance particularly resonated with her soul, feeling inspired, uplifted, and empowered by the movements and the music.
She realised the deep connections of this form of dance to the feminine goddess aspect of life, and how the movements can bring profound health and healing to women on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. Through dance and yoga, Ari has found her own transformative path to healing trauma deeply embedded within the body and soul.
Since 2016, Ari has been working professionally as a bodywork therapist and has worked in various settings such as clinics, spas, athletic events, charitable organisations and corporate environments. In 2018, her work took her worldwide, and in 2020, she founded Stellar Therapies to share her bodywork healing, dance and yoga expertise, running studios in southern Albania & Scotland and retreats worldwide.
She believes in creating an inclusive space for people to share and connect, a safe environment to celebrate community, reconnect with the self, and bring joy and healing on all levels.
Find out more about Ari’s work: Stellar Therapies