Sweat Lodges | Drumming Circle | Fire Ritual | Despacho Offering | Celtic Chants & Mythology | Men’s Empowerment circle | Women’s Empowerment circle | Movement Meditation | Newgrange Procession & Ritual | Music & Dance
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An annual overnight indoor & outdoor experience held by some of Ireland’s wise Elders and Healers @ Glebe House, Dowth & Newgrange. Timetable & programme below. For booking go here. 
What’s New in 2014
[icon icon=”sun-o” color=”#cc33ff”] After Newgrange live traditional Irish band Abú! [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”#cc33ff”] Now there is an option of joining the programme on Solstice morning – any time from 7am onwards. [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”#cc33ff”] This year we’ll have a Tippie : ) the communal eating area will be expanded, and we’ll have a Chai Bar [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”#cc33ff”] Rhythm Alchemy Drumming’s Sinead Heart will hold Midnight Solstice Drumming Circle on Dowth. [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”#cc33ff”] Louise O’Donnell & Declan Hammond will be holding the morning Women’s & Men’s Circles respectively to prepare us for walking the path of conscious men and women from Glebe House/ Dowth to Newgrange [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”#cc33ff”] Majella & Brent of Green Tara College of Shamanism will be holding an interactive Despacho Ceremony
Programme 2014 Timetable
- Solstice eve 20 December Saturday@ Glebe House:
- 6.00pm – arrive and have a cup of tea
- 6.30pm – 8pm – Body Waves movement meditation
- 8.00pm – Dolores opening space & Celtic chanting
- 8.30pm – Sweat Lodge OR Dowth Drumming Circle & Interactive Despacho Ceremony (honouring the Darkness of solstice)
- Supper
- Large communal sleeping space
- For those joining us in the morning please arrive at
6.30am if you’d like to join the morning Male/Female Circle - 7.00am Sacred Male and Female circle held by Declan and Louise
- 8:00am Sunrise procession to Newgrange
- Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine ritual at Newgrange
- 10:30am Breakfast and refreshments
- 11:30am Mythology of the Boyne Valley with Anthony
- 12pm -12.30pm Closing Space
- 12.30- 13.00 Celtic Trad Music with band ABU
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The Experience:
When you arrive have a cup of tea : ) ..Ease yourself into being present by joining in the Body Waves movement meditation: [accordion multiopen=”true”] [toggle title=”Read about the FACILITATOR:” state=”closed”] 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 [/toggle] [toggle title=”Read about BODY WAVES MEDITATION:”] 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 [/toggle] [/accordion]
After the body meditation Dolores will invoke sacred space and welcome you to the energies of the Solstice. [accordion multiopen=”true”] [toggle title=”Read about DOLORES” state=”closed”] 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 [/toggle] [/accordion]
Then two groups will be formed: One group will be going deeper into an experience with Dolores Whelan and Drumming Circle with Sinead Heart and then participate in Despachio Ceremony with Majella & Brent. Whereas the other group (who have chosen to do the Sweat Lodge) will join Hilary, Trish and Steve for the Sweat Lodges. [accordion] [toggle title=”Read about Rhythm Alchemy Drumming’s SINEAD” state=”closed”] Sinead shares the facilitation of the Dublin Rhythm Alchemy Drumming with Tom Quinn, her teaching style is empathy based with a focus on inviting ritual into the circle and always ending in a Harmony Song. Sinead has a history of working in addiction services/prisons as a group facilitator and counselor. She also worked as a dancer part time training in 2005 as a Dancing the Rainbow teacher, through this she developed a deep love and awareness of working with groups through Ritual: using the body, voice, and all forms of Music. She runs a seasonal Women’s Drumming circle in Dublin called Si Moon Rhythms. Last year Sinead participated in an Arthur Hull Village workshop Training in Scotland. [/toggle] [/accordion]
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The tradition of Despacho is a beautiful shamanic ceremony performed by to this day by the Qero Indians, the largest native population of Peru. In a Despacho Ceremony the shaman creates an offering of thanks to Pachamamma (Mother Earth) from flowers, herbs and sweets. These are intricately arranged on white paper while being infused with light energy. Finally the despacho is bundled up and burned. Despachos are commonly used to bring blessings and to carry prayers. Those in attendance blow their prayers into leaves or flowers which are added to the despacho as it is being made. These prayers are then sent into the spirit realm when the despacho is burned by the shaman. 4 despachos will be created simultaneously, one for each direction, by instructors and senior apprentices from Green Tara College for Shamanic Studies.
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Green Tara College for Shamanic Studies is based in Navan, Co. Meath. Focused on working with the sacred sites of Ireland, the school fuses teachings from around the world. The ethos of the training is “creative shamanism,” in which each individual is encouraged to source the ‘shaman within’. At advanced levels, the college’s shamanic teaching sources directly from the Qero Indians of the Peruvian Andes, with whom the senior instructors, Majella Fagan and Brent Owen, study.
Majella Fagan is the founder of Green Tara College. Majella is a Celtic Irish Shaman who has trained with many world traditions. Majella holds a BSc in Psychology, BA Drama and counselling qualifications and is a graduate of Alberto Villoldo’s Four Winds School of Shamanism. Majella works as a healer, teacher and writer. Majella has facilitated deep personal training in creative shamanism for over twenty years, including core, Celtic, Peruvian, sweat lodge, palliative care and soul retrieval.
Brent Owen is a Paco (shaman) in the native tradition of the Qero Indians of Peru. With over 30 year’s training, Brent is a powerful psychic and shaman. For the last 9 years, he has studied despacho under the revered Qero shaman, Don Sebastian Apaza. He has received from Don Sebastian the three lightning initiations which qualify him as a Paco amongst the Qero. Brent has been charged by Don Sebastian to bring the teachings of Qero shamanism to Ireland and to offer the lightning initiations. Brent has recently returned from Peru where he worked with Don Juan Nunez del Prado and senior Qero pacos to reawaken the guardian spirits of Machu Picchu and Cuzco, asleep since the fall of the Inka Empire. While in Peru he was initiated as an Altomesaoq, one who works with the spirits of the mountains (“Apus”), by Don Eduardo Quispe.
Brent and Majella will be assisted by senior apprentices from Green Tara College, who have all received their first lightning initiation and are already powerful shamans.
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Trish, Hilary & Steve will be holding space for those choosing to do the Sweat Lodges. [accordion] [toggle title=”Read about SWEAT LODGES” state=”closed”] 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 and 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: [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”CCCC33″] connect with nature, the spirit realm and ancestors [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”CCCC33″] purify and balance the body, mind, spirit and emotions [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”CCCC33″] send our prayers [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”CCCC33″] heal both personally and collectively [icon icon=”sun-o” color=”CCCC33″] transformation of the Old Self into the New Self [/toggle] [toggle title=”Read about Sweat Lodge FACILITATORS: Trish, Hilary & Steve”] 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. [/toggle] [/accordion]
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 adjacent cafe / chai bar area : ) On Solstice morning Declan and Louise will prepare us energetically for the procession to Newgrange. [accordion] [toggle title=”Read about LOUISE” state=”closed”] Louise O’Donnell is an experienced shamanic practitioner, having undergone extensive training and initiations across Europe and Latin America. She weaves worlds of the masculine and the feminine. Louise has facilitated transformational change in a variety of organisations, including large corporates and government bodies. She guides individuals and groups in shamanic work and ceremony in Ireland, the UK and internationally, and is a community and event organiser in the International Shamanic Community and for Brigid’s Way Celtic Pilgrimage. She has a number of published articles about shamanic work, sacred sites and transformational change. Louise is a final year student at the Open to Channel Mystery School, working with multi-dimensional spiritual groups and planetary healing.[/toggle] [toggle title=”Read about DECLAN” state=”closed”]Declan Hammond is co-founder and former director of The Irish School of Homeopathy, a homeopath, transpersonal therapist and shamanic practitioner. His life and work has been a passionate search for the most effective healing tools for himself and his patients. This journey has taken him all over the globe studying Eastern and Western approaches to healing, tantra yoga and traditional shamanic practices. Declan has developed a unique synthesis of these ancient and modern healing techniques and works with individuals and groups to empower deep personal growth and spiritual transformation. Louise and Declan are currently undergoing Tantra Essence Soul Mate Training with Mahasatvaa Ma Ananda Sarita. [/toggle] [/accordion]
We will then go to Newgrange for sunrise and participate in an inclusive ritual. 
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Returning to Glebe House for breakfast. After breakfast Anthony will enlighten us with spiritual & mythological perspectives of the Boyne Valley. [accordion multiopen=”true”] [toggle title=”Read about ANTHONY:” state=”closed”] 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. [/toggle] [/accordion]
Closing space. Celebration afterwards: Music, dance and singing with live Irish band Abú! Brénainn Mac Aodhagáin and his band Abú – a multi-instrumental musical and performance ensemble specialising in traditional word, music, song and dance . [accordion] [toggle title=”Read more about Abú:” state=”closed”] Brénainn Mac Aodhagáin and his band Abú perform musical pieces in both Irish & English, both from contemporary tradition and from our ancient past.From high octance sets to profound,soul connecting arrangements,they communicate an energy of unity and community through their music, They also create and perform original pieces for unique occasions & events,with a special interest in sacred music of all genres. [/toggle] [/accordion]
Then there will be optional group sharing before closing space.
€65.00 | €50.00 | €25.00 Places are limited, pre-booking required.
