Our Hedge School founder Kathy Scott (Creative Director of The Trailblazery, Ireland) will be joined by Marie Spears (Singer/songwriter, Ritualist, citizen of the Cherokee Nation), Clare Murphy (Storyteller, Teacher, Facilitator), Kerri ní Dochartaigh (Writer, Nature Lover, Grower), John Cantwell (Shamanic Teacher, Healer, Co-founder of Slí an Chroí), Dr. Karen Ward (Holistic Therapist, Author, Co-founder of Slí an Chroí) and Áine Tyrrell (Multi-instrumentalist, Songwriter, Artivist, Troubadour).

Over 5 Sunday sessions from Apr 20 - May 18 we will gather in a collective enquiry to learn and unlearn by sharing stories, experiences, practices, artistries and resources le chéile (in community) in an ecology of care and kinship.

Sundays, April 20 - May 18

7pm Ireland | 2pm ET | 11am PT

Course price: €166

Payment plan available: pay in 2 installments

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As our world descends into chaos we are inviting you to come on a journey of sensory remembrance, somatic reclamation and sacred ritual. Returning to our Senses will host voices from Ireland and other parts of the Earth, bringing alive the power of right-relationship with our wild selves and the wild world that nourishes us.

As we travel through this 5-week immersive online journey, we will have an embodied experience of rewilding and ripening in alignment with the gifts and challenges of Bealtaine. We will be led by a host of extraordinary guides, artists and medicine keepers through shared practice, communal ritual and ceremony. Our intention is to re-source true belonging with kin and kindred so that we can be fite fuaite (interwoven) and develop our capacity to navigate this turning of the Wheel together.

Currach Botanica 'Bláthanna: Irish Spaces in Flower'

Credit Yvette Monahan and Sean Breithaupt

by Appassionata Flowers and Kasia Skopinska.

What’s Involved

• Shared teachings rooted in the ancient touch points of the Wheel of the Year. In Ireland, the ancient ones measured their cosmos in wheels, spirals, in the movement of the stars, and the rising and setting of the sun and moon. Our ancestors were deeply rooted in the land and the seasons and the cycles of the natural world. They marked these gateways with ritual and ceremony and bequeathed us with a calendar map that holds wisdom for us today as ancestors-in-training.

• A screening of Deargdhúil: Anatomy of Passion – Poems of Máire Mhac an tSaoi. This riveting documentary directed by Paula Kehoe explores the life, work and sensual poetic imagination of Máire Mhac an tSaoi, one of Ireland’s greatest living poets. She helped revolutionise Irish poetry by drawing on a native tradition to express a passionate sensibility and taboo emotions, at a time when women’s voices were on the margins of Irish literature and society. The documentary also features the movement poetry of performance artist Maureen Fleming.

• A live immersive listening experience with artists Kathy Scott (cultural activist, host, writer) and Brian Crosby (composer, musician, BellX1) with Leah Song (singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, storyteller, poet, artist, activist) and Lily Henley of Rising Appalachia. Inspired by the ancient Irish tradition of the immram or wonder-voyage, this experience invokes the spirit of the land and evokes the mythos of place through symbols, sounds, scent and other soma-sensory explorations. This guided ritual infuses Irish cultural motifs with Bealtaine inspired images, words and phrases activated through the power of collective imagination.                                                                      

• Irish language workshops with teachers (múinteoirs) Joseph Jones, Siobhán Ní Chiobháin, Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáith and Paul Ferris with a focus on the season and stories of Bealtaine including the great fire of Uisneach, fairies and festival flower wreaths, traditional cake making and native place names.