Wheel of the Year - Lúnasa -Eco-therapy, foraging and tending to the inner flame

Join forager, yoga teacher and wild food tutor Olwyn Williams, along with Deep ecologist and eco-therapist Jenny O’Hare for a special weekend honouring the seasons and cycles that hold us.

A restorative weekend of deep nature connection.

Are you looking for more ways to connect, to yourself, to the living world and to the nature of life? Are you keen to explore your relationship with the seasons, creating a wilder, more aligned and intuitive self?

Join us on this special weekend, as we deeply nourish ourselves through our bodies, our landscape, and our sense of community. In these times of constant activity, in a world of output and endless high summer, what does it look like to truly align to the seasons and their energies?

This weekend offers practices to reconnect our inner and our outer worlds, and to re-establish that fundamental relationship with the living world that is so necessary in these times.

Lúnasa - the beginning of the harvest time. A time of plenty. A time for celebration and giving thanks for the fruits of summer, for the sustenance of the land, and the gifts of life.

How does this harvest time connect us to land, place and to the living cycles of life?

Join us as we practice sustainable harvesting, allowing the life within and the life without to guide us in our actions. At this golden time, we will explore our role in the human and more than human ecosystems. Come along to play with the Summer archetypes, revel in the long days and sing by the campfire to honour the sun.

Over two days together we will:

~learn and practice foraging techniques, get to know some wild plants and create our own wild food preparations to take home.

~learn to connect to the landscape through our bodies and our senses, cultivating our ecological selves, and deepening our relationship with place.

~honour and tend to our inner selves, exploring the truth of our relationship to life

~learn about the traditional Wheel of the Year and symbolic, archetypal and real life applications that can assist us all year round

~practice our own harvesting - in our lives, in our world, and create our own ‘right relationship’ to abundance and gratitude.

~rest, restore and re-enliven our senses, mind and body, through mindful movement and meditation practices and spending time outdoors, coming back to our own True Nature.

This is a weekend for anyone who is curious about humanity’s healthy role in our world’s ecosystems, and the magic that can happen when we return to a deeper relationship with the living world.

We will explore wild gratitude and celebration as radical acts for difficult times, always grounding in the Here and Now. Throughout the weekend, we will journey with the harvest, the plants, and with the ecological boundaries of this time, to cultivate our own personal sense of the honourable harvest.

Join us on this human ecological homecoming!

We will connect to the element of fire, to the plants of this time, and to our own gifts and connection with life.
Optional campfire on Saturday night in a natural woodland area - an elemental evening of community. Bring a song or a poem if you’d like to share.

Bí in éannacht linn!

We are embarking on a deep ecological journey, travelling through the cross quarter markers, honouring the fullness of a year of seasons. Weekends may be taken individually, or you can journey the full cycle with us.

A full year long immersion roots us firmly back in the seasons, with the plants, and within ourselves.
We follow the four cross quarter points of the Celtic Wheel of the Year;

Bealtaine - April 29th & 30th - Welcoming Summer emergence

Lúnasa - July 22nd & 23rd - Honourable Harvest and Celebration

Samhain - November 4th & 5th - Preparing to Journey into the Dark, nourish and rest

Imbolc - February 3rd & 4th - Sowing the Seeds of what is to come

Contribution:

€240 for one weekend.

This includes 2 full days of teaching and experiential practice.

Lunch provided on both days, including wild food and foraged dishes where possible.

Tea / coffee / snacks included.

Bring a friend and get a €40 discount each.

All four sessions - €800

Book all four sessions with friend for a 10% discount each, plus a special gift to choose from us as practitioners.

We have one bursary place to offer for each weekend, please fill out the following form here to share some details with us. Assessment will be made per application. 

If you would like to pay by PayPal, please use this payment link to do so, and choose the option to pay a friend or family member - this allows us as a self-employed, small business owners to avoid sometimes quite large fees, eliminates the need to pass on large booking fees to you guys, and keeps the money flowing between us, as people, and not giant corporations. We hope you understand and that this isn't an inconvenience for you. You can use this option even if you don't have PayPal.

Our Location

Our location for this immersion is the eco-friendly organic Slieve Aughty Centre, Co. Galway.

H62 DX77

Nestled in the hills of what was once a great seat of Ireland's native woodland, with some precious remnants remaining, we will have ample space for land exploration and elemental connection.

We will conduct our indoor sessions in the cosy learning centre, which also offers permaculture, horse riding, archery and more!

Option to gather on Saturday night around the fire to share story, poetry and song.

Accommodation is available within the centre for anyone wishing to overnight and avail of a full weekend. Email info@slieveaughtycentre.com and mention “Wheel of the Year “ for enquiries.

*Camping is also an option for our Bealtaine and Lughnasa weekends, and is a great means to access a more elemental experience!

Meet your facilitators and see more about their work here

https://linktr.ee/olwynwilliamsforagingandyoga

@olwyn_williams_foraging_yoga

https://linktr.ee/JennyOHare

@a.tree.called.life

We so look forward to gathering with you for these nourishing weekends, reclaiming our deep relationship to life. Join us!

Cancellation policy: We understand that circumstances can change!

If you need to cancel, we are happy to offer a refund, but will need to apply a processing fee. We hope you understand.

If cancelled more than 1 week/7days in advance of the event, we will offer a 75% refund. If you need to cancel within one week/7 days of the event, we will offer a 65% refund. Two days before the event, we will apply a 50% processing fee.