The Experience

John McCormack (Red John) has been following the Celtic Druids path for over 10 years after a lifetime of searching. Walking the Celtic Druid path he connects to nature, the ancestors, the Three Realms, the Three Cauldrons and to Natural Time. John is a member of the Celtic Druid Temple. He is a lightworker and has trained in Reiki, Reflexology, Holistic Massage, Indian Head Massage and Shamanic Healing. John has trained with Irelands Druidschool, Green Tara College and has worked with shamans/healers from Peru, South Africa, and America. John has held the Full Moon on the Hill of Tara since Samhain 2010. To find out more about the Celtic Druid Temple go to www.celticdruidtemple.com

We will then break for a cup of tea.

After tea we will be doing some body movement/ tribal dancing

One group will be going deeper into an experience of Darkness with Rob and Drumming Circle with Sinead Heart. Whereas the other group (who have chosen to do the Sweat Lodge) will join Hilary, Trish and Steve for the Sweat Lodges.

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.

Trish, Hilary & Steve will be holding space for those choosing to do the Sweat Lodges. 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:

• 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.

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.

After both groups (Drumming-Meditation & Sweat Lodge) are finished, we will have a festive communal supper and optional midnight sound healing meditation to send us off to sleep for the night.

(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.

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.
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.

We will then go to Newgrange for sunrise and participate in an inclusive ritual. This year we will have more still, private, sacred experience:
The sun shines in Newgrange chamber for 5 days over solstice. We will be at Newgrange on the Sunday morning 20th. As a group we will have built the energy from the day before and be able to do ceremony while very few of the public are around (as most go Newgrange on the morning of the 21st of December) This is a great opportunity for us to go very deep into the experience of Newgrange without the distraction of a busy public gathering around us

Returning to Glebe House for breakfast and after breakfast we have a guest Speaker (to be announced shortly)

After the guest speaker Enda will facilitate the closing of the this years Winter Solstice

Enda Donnellan
Enda is a conscious event producer (Conscious Concert / Earth Fest Ireland / Winter Solstice Experience, Sacred Union Stage Electric Picnic)

Celebration afterwards: Music & dance