Ireland

What is the Sunny healing center?

Peter and Sunny established The Sunny Healing Center on the Western coast of Ireland only three miles from the sea.  Overlooking beautiful lakes and views of mountain peaks, it is surrounded by hazelnut trees and pinewoods. The location’s healing history is deeply rooted in its rugged, unspoiled landscape, which has long been regarded as a place of spiritual renewal and resilience to the people of Ireland.  This unique landscape offers timeless sanctuary where nature’s gentle embrace fosters deep healing and renewal.  Traditional practices such as storytelling, music, and spiritual reflection have been woven into the fabric of community life here, fostering a sense of hope and perseverance.  Many visitors and locals alike have found that the quiet, powerful presence of the Healing Center’s landscape partnered with Sunny and Peter’s healing practices offers a unique kind of growth—a space where the soul can breathe, reflect, and restore its inner balance amidst the raw, natural majesty of one of Ireland’s most resilient and beautiful regions.

Sunny Healing Center guests are welcomed as part of the family. They are in a safe and calm environment, with people who understand and are educated and experienced to what they are going through. Guests are given time, space and the opportunity to relax and become comfortable with themselves and the world around them. At the Healing Center, we listen without judgement and do our best to encourage each guest find a new persona, not one based on their past.

History of the sunny healing center

In 2012, the lawyer of an exoneree who was struggling to cope reached out to Sunny and Peter, hoping they could help her client to see a better way forward and find healing. Sunny and Peter invited him to share space with them at their home in Ireland. After a month, he left with a sense of hope that maybe he, too, could have a life filled with love and happiness.

Over the years, The Sunny Healing Center has welcomed exonerees from the USA, UK, Taiwan, Belgium, Ireland and Pakistan. They provide spiritual, emotional and physical support, helping their guests overcome the trauma, isolation and disconnection resulting from wrongful incarceration.

Worldwide activism

During the past twenty years, Sunny and Peter have traveled continually between the United States and Europe, giving presentations at universities and other organizations about their experiences with the justice system as well as in support of the abolition of the death penalty. They give seminars about the benefits the spiritual aspects of healing, learning to forgive and going beyond blame.

The benefit of yoga

Sunny started teaching yoga while still in prison, and continued to teach when she was released. Eventually she wrote A Survival Yoga Manual, which was distributed at classes and seminars around the USA, as well as to and to people in prison with the help of The Human Kindness Foundation. Sunny and Peter practiced yoga and meditation together regularly and loved to share their practice with those in need.