Unforgettable Samhain Fire Festival Retreat Criccieth 2025
📅 24–26 October 2025
📍 Cwm Pennant Hostel & Mountain Centre, Criccieth, Wales
💷 £399 shared | £449 solo
🎟️ Includes all meals, workshops, coach travel from Liverpool
🧙♀️ A Retreat Carved into the Bones of Autumn
As the wheel of the year turns and the veil between worlds grows thin, the Samhain Fire Festival Retreat returns to the wild valleys of Snowdonia. Held at the Cwm Pennant Hostel — tucked among 200 acres of moss-laced woodland near Criccieth — this three-day spiritual gathering invites you to rest, release, and rekindle connection.
This is a descent. Not into darkness — but into memory, into myth, into marrow.
🌲 The Wild Sanctuary: Where Land Meets Lore
Forget sage-white linens and rose quartz platitudes. This one has moss under its fingernails.
At the Samhain Fire Festival Retreat, you’ll sleep in shared dormitories, eat meals prepared by a private chef, and wake to mists curling over the peaks. Some guests begin the day with wild swimming or forest bathing. Others gather around the hearth, reading cards or simply being.
The Samhain Fire Festival doesn’t unfold on a strict timetable — it follows the curve of the land.
There are no signposts here. Only invitations.
🕯️ What Happens When the Veil Thins?
Sometimes we don’t need to learn anything. We need to remember.
This is the promise of Samhain in Wales: that in the quiet between fires, something ancient steps forward. The inner child. A great-grandmother you never met. The self you shed five Octobers ago.
Evening rituals include intuitive healing, yoga nidra, and a firepit ceremony with respectful ghost hunting, live poetry, and ancestral invocation under open sky.
The veil thins. Not as metaphor — as sensation.
🔥 Samhain, the Witch’s New Year
Known today as Halloween, Samhain (pronounced “SOW-in”) is the ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest and the start of winter. To the ancestors, this wasn’t a time of fear. It was a time of listening.
Throughout the weekend, participants will be guided through shadow healing, sound therapy, and reflective inner journeys. No costumes. No plastic pumpkins. Just flickering candlelight and voices calling back the old stories.
This Samhain Fire Festival speaks the older tongue — not showy, not sanitized. Just real.
🌌 The Path Through the Weekend
Arrival is quiet. A coach leaves Liverpool just after lunch on Friday. By the time the hills begin to rise around you, the signal drops. You arrive at the Samhain Fire Festival Retreat to dusk and woodsmoke and something else — something old and unspoken.
Friday evening moves gently. A welcome circle, warm food, a walk through trees that seem to lean in.
Saturday stretches wide. Sound healing in the morning. Shadow work after lunch. Some take to the river, shivering and laughing, while others nap under wool blankets or write dreams in old journals. That night, the firepit ceremony begins. No announcements. No performance. Just presence.
The mulchy smell of soaked bracken clung to everyone’s boots. Someone sang in Welsh. Low. Unfamiliar. No one interrupted.
And then Sunday. A meditation in the stillness. Tea and farewells. The coach pulls away at 2pm, but part of you stays behind, somewhere in that valley, watching.
🌿 A Note on Pricing and Access
This Snowdonia pagan retreat in October is priced at £399 per person, which includes dormitory accommodation, all meals, workshops, and return coach transport from Liverpool. A limited number of solo occupancy rooms are available at £449.
Flexible payment options are available, including Clearpay. A £100 non-refundable deposit secures your place, with the remaining balance due six weeks before departure. All bookings come with a sense of ease — no last-minute costs, no surprises. Just arrival.
🧭 Why Criccieth? Why Now?
Criccieth wasn’t chosen at random. This coastline has long been a threshold — a place where story bleeds into stone. Local legends speak of ghost ships in the bay, fairy paths through the trees, and mountains that hum after dark.
Hosting a Criccieth autumn spiritual festival in this liminal time means stepping inside those stories — not as a spectator, but as a character.
The landscape remembers what we forget.
🪔 Sidebar: Samhain in Welsh Folklore
In Wales, Samhain was once called Calan Gaeaf — the first day of winter. It was said to be the night Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta, the tail-less black sow, roamed the landscape accompanied by a headless man. Anyone out after dark risked being taken.
Children were warned to return home before dusk. Adults carved turnips, built fires, and set places at the table for the dead. Ancestors were not mourned — they were honoured, invited, fed.
It is this lineage the Samhain Fire Festival Retreat follows. No dramatics. Just ritual rooted in myth and memory.
✉️ Final Notes
To book your place at the Samhain Fire Festival Retreat, visit dropsofjupiter.org/retreats. All food, drink, workshops, rituals, resources, and return transport are included in the price. No extras. No upgrade tiers. Just presence, community, and a little firelight.
There are retreats that teach. There are retreats that cleanse.
And then there are the ones that change the shape of your bones.
For more fire festival retreats, witchcraft events and pagan markets, visit GlobalMBS.com/events