Programme 2014 to be announced.
The programme will be weaved in a way that will facilitate your personal connection to this important annual moment in nature’s cycle…the Winter Solstice.
Here is what we did last year 🙂
Solstice 2013 Timetable
- Solstice eve 20 December Friday@ Glebe House:
- 6.30pm – arrive and have a cup of tea
- 7pm – Body Waves movement meditation
- 8.30pm – Dolores opening space
- 9.00pm – Sweat Lodge or Dowth Drumming Circle & Sound healing meditation (honouring the Darkness of solstice)
- Supper
- Large communal sleeping space
- 7am Wisdom talk on the ‘Mythology of Newgrange’
- 7:30am Sunrise procession to Newgrange
- Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine ritual at Newgrange
- 10:30am Breakfast and light refreshments
- 11:15am Shaolin Master Sifu Nicki Costello will talk about being spiritual warriors in the world today
- 12pm Closing space on the Solstice afternoon 21 December Saturday
- 1pm end
The Experience:
When you arrive have a cup of tea : ) ..Ease yourself into being present by joining in the body waves movement meditation:
[wpex Facilitated by: →] Carol McInerney is a qualified counsellor and certified movement therapist. She teaches weekly and monthly dance and movement meditation classes in Dublin and works with individuals and community groups on a regular basis. http://www.crimsoncounselling.com [/wpex%5D [wpex About Body Waves meditation: →] Body Waves is a movement meditation grounded in the map of the chakra system. The meditation will facilitate people arriving…letting go of any stress, coming into the heart and spirit of solstice energy.[/wpex]
After the body meditation Dolores will invoke sacred space and welcome you to the energies of the Solstice. [wpex About Dolores: →] Dolores Whelan is a true Elder of Ireland having spent many years guiding people on the path of wholeness and healing. Author of “Ever Ancient Ever New” she has trained for decades with Native Irish and American traditions and with leading Spiritual teachers from around the world. Well known in Ireland’s Shamanic circles she has been of healing service to this country for many years. website www.doloreswhelan.ie [/wpex] Those who are doing the Drumming Circle on Dowth & Sound Healing (with Patricia) will continue to stay with Dolores and go deeper into the process.
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olstice sound bath & Sound Healing meditation is
[wpex Facilitated by: →] Patricia Lohan who is a Sound Healer & Trainer in Tibetan Bowl, Singing Bowl Healing & Sacred Sound. She works one to one and with groups combining sacred sound, body mind balancing, Reiki & yoga. She regularly conducts healing sound baths & meditations using gongs, Tibetan bowls and other healing instruments. www.patricialohan.com [/wpex]
Those choosing to do the Sweat Lodge will join Trish, Hilary & Steve: 
[wpex About Sweat Lodge: →] Sweat Lodge ceremonies were practiced in ancient Ireland and by other indigenous peoples all over the world. The sweat lodge is a domed structure that takes up to 15-25 people at a time. Stones ceremonially heated in a fire are placed in a pit inside the structure. The sweat lodge gets quite hot like a sauna. 4 rounds of hot stones are put in the pit. Each round lasts about 15-20 minutes with a small break between each round where the door will be opened. A SWEAT LODGE CEREMONY IS TRADITIONALLY USED TO: – connect with nature, the spirit realm and ancestors – purify and balance the body, mind, spirit and emotions – send our prayers – heal both personally and collectively – transformation of the Old Self into the New Self [/wpex] [wpex Facilitated by: →] Trish Cameron and Hilary Healy are medicine women working within the indigenous ways of Ireland and of Grandfather Tom Wilson of the Dineh People. They have been working with Arwyn Dreamwalker, a shaman and Nagual, for over twenty years. Both have finished their apprenticeships and now are Journey Women bringing the teachings to the people. They are both Irish, mothers and grandmothers. They bring a warmth, simplicity and much heart to help people understand how it is to walk in this time to reclaim balance and harmony on the Earth. www.soulceremoniesinireland.com Steve Gregory is one of the founding members of the Irish re-birthing association, he has worked for 30 years in the field of breathwork, counselling , yoga therapy and has facilitated trainings and workshops including sweat lodges and shamanic journeys. [/wpex]
After both groups (Drumming-Sound Healing & Sweat Lodge) are finished supper will be served before sleeping time. (Both floors of Glebe House will be padded with duvets, so remember to bring your sleeping bag or over-blankets.) Those who wish to remain chatting will be able to do so in the cafe : )
In the morning Anthony will prepare us for the precession to Newgrange with his spiritual & mythological perspectives.
[wpex About Anthony: →] Anthony Murphy is a leading author of number of successful books on Newgrange and the Boyne Valley. “Island of the setting sun”, “Newgrange: Monument to Immortality” and a very recent novella called “Land of the Ever-Living Ones”. His website www.mythicalireland.com is a comprehensive tool for deepening our understanding of Newgrange.[/wpex]
We will then go to Newgrange for sunrise and participate in an inclusive ritual.
Returning to Glebe House for breakfast.
After breakfast Nicki will talk about being a spiritual warrior in the world today.
[wpex About Nicki: →] Nicki “Sifu” Costello has mastered the art of Kungfu for 40 years and is an initiated blood brother of the Chinese family lineage who are keepers of the ancient Shaolin LungYin Dragon Teachings. Past world record holder for bare hand tile breaking in the 80’s. Nicki will discuss and guide us on what it means to be spiritual warrior in today’s world. He has recently published a book on the ancient wisdom teachings called “the buddha, the dragon and the coalman” . http://www.kungfu.ie [/wpex]
Then there will be optional group sharing before closing space. 
€60.00 | €40.00 | €25.00
Winter Solstice Experience 2013 is more private this year – places are limited, pre-booking required.
