Outdoor Activities
There are plenty of outdoor activites during our week long courses at the Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre
It is an important part of all our courses, to spend time outdoors incuding activities such as
- Swimming with a dolphin
- Sailing on Galway Bay
- Walking in the hills and forests of the Burren
- Easy strolls or tough climbs
- Trips to the beach
- Horse riding
- Visits to ancient sites including dolmens and stone forts
- Visits to Burren Perfumery, Ailawee caves, Cliffs of Moher
Atlantic seafood restaurants, traditional Irish music and set dancing in the local pubs
Not just an outdoor activity centre
The central focus on the courses at the Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre is the yoga being taught and practiced at the centre.
And similar to some other outdoor activity centres such as Delphi Mountain lodge we also include time spent outdoors in the Burren.
However the Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre have a maximum of 15 people on each course, and everyone gets very good individual attention in the yoga classes.
Also the food is famous at Burren Yoga and Paddi the chef used to run Seventh Heaven restaurant in Galway for over 12 years.
Delicious Vegetarian mealsFree time in the Burren
All of the classes on a weekend or week long courses are optional, so sometimes people take time off themselves to explore the surrounding area themselves.
The outdoor activities are a great way to spend time in Nature, get away from one's usual world, and time spent in the Burren is like food for the soul.
Outdoor activities in the Burren, Ireland
And there is also free time during the courses where one may decide to visit some of the following;
- Poulnabrone dolmen
- St. Colm cille well
- Corcomroe abbey
- Kilmacdough round tower
- The valley of seven churches
- New Quay (7 miles)
- Linnane's lobster bar overlooking the sea
- Flaggy shore sea coast walk
- Burren Perfumery (7 miles)
- Black head with its climb to the ancient stone fort (18 miles)
- Hermit's cave (3 miles)
- Coole park (9 miles)
- Forrest of Yeats and Lady Gregory
- Cliffs of Moher 1 hour drive
- Aran Islands (short ferry crossing)
- Sliabh Carron to climb to the top for the view (outside front door of Burren Yoga and Meditation Centre)
- Kinvara village (5 miles drive)
- Coffee & cakes at Murphy's Gallery Cafe on the quay-side
- Pier Head restuarant serving fresh fish from the Atlantic ocean
- Winkles pub offering Irish music and set dancing
- Green's pub where travlling musicians love to just drop in
- House of Presents souvineer and gifts
- Postscript Internet Providers
- Bank ATM machine in Londis Supermarket
- Lunches and music Keoghe's pub
- Ballvaughan village (14 miles drive)
- Holywell Vegetarian Italian cafe (amazing pizza's and pasta, coffee, atmosphere)
- Tea house with cakes and secluded garden sun trap
- Ailawee caves with their stalactite and stalagmites
- Monk's seafood pub
- Galway city
- Shopping
- Restuarants
- Music at night
- Theatre
Activity weekend in the Burren
The traditional sailing boats of Galway bay; the hookers. The views of Galway Bay from the top of the hills. The astounding silence of the area, no farm machinery, little or no houses, very few cars on the roads.
Please don’t tell anyone of this secret magical area ;-)
Nature can help us go inwards
Definitely a large part of the beauty and mystery of the area is its uninhabited feeling… the silence… being alone with nature… and being in awe of the surrounding beauty.
And this helps us to become aware of the noise inside ourselves, and to then let this go and merge with the silence and peace inherent in all.
Interactive Burren Map which shows locations we visitTo see outdoor activities photos of Burren Yoga courses
Outdoors in the Burren, swimming, walking, horse riding, sailing
See another website dedicated to the Burren. More amazing photographs of the Burren
The Burren Page website
