The Soul-Anchor Series
Retreats/Workshops
Yoga & Conscious Breathing
One-Day Transformational Workshop
The Soul-Anchor Series is a collection of half-day retreats/workshops held seasonally at Yellow Rock Sanctuary. Each season offering three unique experiences that can be attended individually or as a connected journey series towards transformation.
Each workshop is designed and led by Marcus McKeown; writer, high-performance coach and teacher of non-duality & present-moment awareness. Every session combines grounded psychological insight, critical thinking and spiritual depth to help you live with more clarity, balance and authenticity.
How it works
Three workshops per season
Attend one, two or all three as a progressive series
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Time: 9 am – 2:30 pm (includes organic ‘farm-to-fork’ lunch from the YRS gardens)
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Cost: £100 per person / per workshop or Book all three for £75 each (£225)
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Winter Series Dates: Jan 10 · Feb 7 · Mar 14
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Spring Series Dates: Apr 18 · May 9 · Jun 6
Each series follows the natural rhythm of the season:
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Winter invites stillness and healing
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Spring calls for renewal and wise action
This immersive workshop is thoughtfully designed to integrate yoga and conscious breathwork throughout the day, providing a seamless experience that nurtures both body and spirit:
Integrated Yoga and Breathwork Sessions:
Engage in practices that harmoniously blend movement with breath, enhancing physical flexibility and mental tranquility.
Mindfulness and Meditation:
Cultivate present-moment awareness through guided meditations, fostering a deeper connection to self and surroundings.
Holistic Wellness Discussions:
Explore the significance of integrating these practices into daily life, understanding their impact on overall well-being.
Personalized Guidance:
Receive individualized attention and insights, ensuring that each participant, regardless of experience level, feels supported and enriched.
Integrated Yoga and
Breathwork Sessions:
Engage in practices that harmoniously blend movement with breath, enhancing physical flexibility and mental tranquility.
Mindfulness and Meditation:
Cultivate present-moment awareness through guided meditations, fostering a deeper connection to self and surroundings.
Holistic Wellness Discussions:
Explore the significance of integrating these practices into daily life, understanding their impact on overall well-being.
Personalized Guidance:
Receive individualized attention and insights, ensuring that each participant, regardless of experience level, feels supported and enriched.
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About Your Facilitator: Shirlí Muldoon
Shirlí Muldoon is a certified yoga instructor and breath coach with over 15 years of teaching experience. As the founder of Vitality Vibe, she integrates yoga, mindfulness, meditation, stress management, nutrition and breathing practices into her holistic approach to wellness. Shirlí's teachings are science-based and delivered in a relaxed, easy-going and fun manner, reflecting her passion for helping others navigate stressful life events and achieve optimal health. She is also a valued member of the support team at Yellow Rock Sanctuary, contributing her expertise to the sanctuary's mission of holistic healing and personal transformation.
About Yellow Rock Sanctuary
Yellow Rock Sanctuary is a haven for those seeking healing, self-discovery and spiritual growth. Our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment where individuals can recalibrate their life experiences and uncover their true selves. Our organic gardens not only serve as a source of nourishment for our guests but also embody our belief that wholesome food, meditation, present-moment living and appropriate exercise are essential for healing the mind, body and soul.
Winter ‘Soul-Anchor Series’
The Season of Stillness
A journey from healing, into silence, into peace.
Spring ‘Soul-Anchor Series’
The Season of Renewal
A movement from clarity, to strength, to wisdom.
Retreat/Workshop 1
Healing Without Drama – Wholeness Remembered
Many think of healing as something mystical or dramatic. In truth, it is simple. Healing happens when we stop trying to fix and begin to see life clearly, according to life’s way, not your idea of life’s way.
This workshop explores Christ Consciousness, the universal presence that Jesus embodied beyond religious interpretation: awareness, compassion and direct knowing. We look at healing not as an act of faith but as a natural return to what you already are. For many people, especially those seeking understanding outside formal religion, the mention of the name Jesus can trigger anxiety. However, Jesus is not what or who, you have been taught to believe – he was an awakened man who knew of the illusions of life and how to know freedom from pain & suffering. But his story is very different to anything you may have heard before…
What You Will Learn
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How to move from effort and control into acceptance and flow
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Why genuine healing requires responsibility, not ritual
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Practical ways to bring wholeness into everyday life
Date: Saturday 10th January
Time: 9am – 2.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: £100 per person
Are you ready to stop trying to heal — and instead remember that you are already whole?
Retreat/Workshop 1
The Art of Discernment – Making Wise Decisions in a Chaotic World
Discernment is the master skill of conscious living, its the ability to see clearly and act wisely amid noise, emotion and pressure. This workshop blends self-coaching principles so you can begin to ask yourself the kind of questions that show you where you are hurting yourself & how to set yourself free. You’ll learn what it means to be emotional and psychological mature. You will be introduced to critical-thinking tools that will enable you take a step back, even form emotionally charged situations and remain centered. you’ll learn to navigate life from grounded intuition rather than reaction.
With the skills and insights of this workshop there will be nothing stopping you from experiencing a significant shift in how you move through the world and your experience of life.
What You Will Learn
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How to separate intuition from impulse and emotion from truth
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How to apply critical thinking without losing compassion
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How to make high-clarity decisions that align with your values
Date: Saturday 18th April
Time: 9am – 2.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: £100 per person
If you could trust your own inner guidance completely, what would you choose next?
Please Note:
Following the workshops you are invited to remain in the sanctuary, if your schedule allows and enjoy the stillness, the peace and the tranquility of Yellow Rock. However, we would ask that you take note of the following: Solemn Silence is observed throughout the Sanctuary each day from 2:30pm–6:30pm & 9:30pm–7:30 am. Phone use is also limited to preserve the stillness of the space.
Please Note:
Following the workshops you are invited to remain in the sanctuary, if your schedule allows and enjoy the stillness, the peace and the tranquility of Yellow Rock. However, we would ask that you take note of the following: Solemn Silence is observed throughout the Sanctuary each day from 2:30pm–6:30pm & 9:30pm–7:30 am. Phone use is also limited to preserve the stillness of the space.
Retreat/Workshop 2
Silence As The Teacher – Learning to Listen Again
Silence is not empty, it is alive. In this immersive half-day retreat you’ll get to know and understand silence as an active presence that restores clarity and balance. Through guided reflection, powerful teachings and shared insight, you’ll rediscover how silence recalibrates the nervous system and opens intuitive intelligence.
This experience will help you see how, from the nothing of silence comes everything. Once you come to terms with the ‘truth’ of how this world and life really work you will redefine your perspective of life and self. It is then you will become the great student to the greatest teacher of all that is, silence.
What You Will Learn
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How to use silence to access inspiration and gut instinct
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How to recognize the difference between quietness and avoidance
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How to sustain presence amid distraction
Date: Saturday 7th February
Time: 9am – 2.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: £100 per person
When the noise of life fades, what truth begins to speak?
Retreat/Workshop 2
The Way of Inner Sovereignty – Standing Rooted in Your Own Presence
To live sovereignly is to belong fully to yourself, not in isolation but in awareness.
It’s the ability to stand as a conscious, responsible being rather than as a product of conditioning, approval or fear.
In practical terms, sovereignty looks like:
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Making choices that arise from clarity, not reaction.
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Setting boundaries without shutting others out.
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Being guided by inner truth rather than the shifting opinions of the world.
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Taking full responsibility for your emotional, financial, and energetic state.
A sovereign person is not ruled by outer authority, nor enslaved to inner chaos. They live from alignment: head, heart and action integrated.
The Spiritual Dimension – Sovereignty within Non-Duality
In non-duality, there is no separate “self” to be sovereign. There is only one awareness expressing as many forms. Yet in embodied human life, sovereignty is how that awareness matures through you. Think of it like this:
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Without sovereignty, spirituality becomes dissociation. People talk oneness but avoid responsibility.
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Without unity, sovereignty becomes ego. People claim independence but remain trapped in fear and control.
True sovereignty holds both: I am one with all life… and I am fully responsible for how that life expresses through me.
What You Will Learn
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How to create clear inner and outer boundaries
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How to transform reactivity into grounded response
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How sovereignty builds authentic relationships and leadership
Date: Saturday 9th May
Time: 9am – 2.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: £100 per person
Where in your life are you still giving your power away and what would change if you stopped?
Please Note:
Following the workshops you are invited to remain in the sanctuary, if your schedule allows and enjoy the stillness, the peace and the tranquility of Yellow Rock. However, we would ask that you take note of the following: Solemn Silence is observed throughout the Sanctuary each day from 2:30pm–6:30pm & 9:30pm–7:30 am. Phone use is also limited to preserve the stillness of the space.
Please Note:
Following the workshops you are invited to remain in the sanctuary, if your schedule allows and enjoy the stillness, the peace and the tranquility of Yellow Rock. However, we would ask that you take note of the following: Solemn Silence is observed throughout the Sanctuary each day from 2:30pm–6:30pm & 9:30pm–7:30 am. Phone use is also limited to preserve the stillness of the space.
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Retreat/Workshop 3
Living the Contradictions – Finding Peace in the Paradox
Life rarely offers straight lines. Joy and grief, strength and vulnerability, certainty and doubt coexist in every authentic life. This workshop explores how to hold paradox without breaking and how the tension of opposites becomes a doorway to freedom. Expect reflective dialogue, writing and simple presence-based exercises that help you stay steady through uncertainty.
Based on his book, ‘The Contradictions of Life’ Marcus will guide you through the kind of mindset required to understand how life really moves and what is behind all the so called ‘illusions’. This workshop will bring you to a new level of insight as to why things are as they are, why there is so much hurt when there could be so much love, why there is so much greed when sharing could be the way. This is the workshop where the magician tells how the magic is done.
What You Will Learn
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How to hold opposing truths without anxiety or judgment
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How paradox fuels creativity and maturity
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How to find calm within conflict
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
Date: Saturday 14th March
Time: 9am – 2.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: £100 per person
Can you meet life exactly as it is — even when it refuses to make sense?
Retreat/Workshop 3
The Love of Wisdom – Philosophy for the Soul
Philosophy simply means “the love of wisdom,” yet wisdom isn’t found in theory… it’s discovered in how we live. This half-day workshop opens philosophy as a living practice, not an academic subject. It’s for anyone who wants to think more clearly, act more consciously and live with grounded purpose.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
Together, we’ll explore how timeless insights from East and West, from Plato’s pursuit of truth to Lao Tzu’s effortless action & to Marcus Aurelius’s stoic clarity can illuminate modern dilemmas: stress, decision-making, leadership and relationships. Marcus translates these classical and mystical teachings into real-world tools for presence, critical thinking and inner steadiness.
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu
Through short teachings, reflective dialogue and guided practice you’ll discover how philosophy and non-dual awareness meet… where thinking becomes clear, emotion becomes steady and wisdom becomes lived experience.
What You Will Learn
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How to apply philosophical principles to daily decision-making and conflict resolution
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How to move from mental noise to reflective, grounded awareness
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How to live a purpose-led life guided by truth rather than habit
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius
Date: Saturday 6th June
Time: 9am – 2.30pm (lunch included)
Cost: £100 per person
What would your life look like if wisdom, not worry, led the way?
Please Note:
Following the workshops you are invited to remain in the sanctuary, if your schedule allows and enjoy the stillness, the peace and the tranquility of Yellow Rock. However, we would ask that you take note of the following: Solemn Silence is observed throughout the Sanctuary each day from 2:30pm–6:30pm & 9:30pm–7:30 am. Phone use is also limited to preserve the stillness of the space.
Please Note:
Following the workshops you are invited to remain in the sanctuary, if your schedule allows and enjoy the stillness, the peace and the tranquility of Yellow Rock. However, we would ask that you take note of the following: Solemn Silence is observed throughout the Sanctuary each day from 2:30pm–6:30pm & 9:30pm–7:30 am. Phone use is also limited to preserve the stillness of the space.
Additional Information:
Additional Information:
Meals:
Enjoy 100% organic meals prepared with produce from our gardens, providing nourishment and a true taste of nature.
What to Bring:
Comfortable clothing suitable for yoga and meditation, a yoga mat, a blanket and a notebook for personal reflections.
We invite you to join us for a day of rejuvenation, learning and connection. Whether you're new to yoga and breathwork or looking to deepen your practice, this workshop offers valuable insights and a transformative experience.
Additional Information:
Meals:
Enjoy 100% organic meals prepared with produce from our gardens, providing nourishment and a true taste of nature.
What to Bring:
Comfortable clothing suitable for yoga and meditation, a yoga mat, a blanket and a notebook for personal reflections.
We invite you to join us for a day of rejuvenation, learning and connection. Whether you're new to yoga and breathwork or looking to deepen your practice, this workshop offers valuable insights and a transformative experience.
Additional Information:
Meals:
Enjoy 100% organic meals prepared with produce from our gardens, providing nourishment and a true taste of nature.
What to Bring:
Comfortable clothing suitable for yoga and meditation, a yoga mat, a blanket and a notebook for personal reflections.
We invite you to join us for a day of rejuvenation, learning and connection. Whether you're new to yoga and breathwork or looking to deepen your practice, this workshop offers valuable insights and a transformative experience.
Additional Information:
Reconnect with your breath, nourish your body and cultivate inner peace.
Reconnect with your breath, nourish your body and cultivate inner peace.
Date:
Saturday, 31st May 2025
Time:
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location:
Yellow Rock Sanctuary, 6 Tapny Road, Lislea, BT35 9FB
Investment:
£125
(If financial constraints are a concern, please refer to our Donation Philosophy Page and contact us.)
To Reserve Your Place:
Call YRS on +44 7462 250904 or click the button below
Important Note:
Spaces are limited to ensure a personalized experience. Early booking is highly recommended.
Location:
Yellow Rock Sanctuary, 6 Tapny Road, Lislea, BT35 9FB
To Reserve Your Place:
Call YRS on +44 7462 250904 or click the button below each date
Important Note:
Spaces are limited to ensure a personalized experience. Early booking is highly recommended.
Date:
Saturday, 31st May 2025
Time:
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location:
Yellow Rock Sanctuary, 6 Tapny Road, Lislea, BT35 9FB
Investment:
£125
(If financial constraints are a concern, please refer to our Donation Philosophy Page and contact us.)
To Reserve Your Place:
Call YRS on +44 7462 250904 or click the button below
Important Note:
Spaces are limited to ensure a personalized experience. Early booking is highly recommended.