Sean nos
Each year with our pilgrimages to Connemara we create community. During our time together in May and in October, we share the incredible experience of a diverse group of people living together, sharing personal experiences and adventure. After our Feminine Warrior group recently left us in May I took time to reflect on all the highlights and challenges of our time together. It was an extraordinary time. From varied backgrounds and life experience, these 10 beautiful women of all different ages each left a deep and marvelous impression on me. I am indebted to them all for their willingness to be spontaneous, to flow with the moment and to be open to the imagination.
Dreaming Back
Ancient peoples of the Earth realised that all illness begins in spirit. This is when we stop following our dreams, when we ignore the signs or omens, when we hold ourselves back from being the best that we can be. How do you react when something happens that stops you in your tracks? It could be circumstances that seem like a random event, bad luck, or a trauma or challenge where you can see a karmic thread, or perhaps where you experience a sense of destiny. Do you see this as an opportunity for change and transformation or as something that you have to push through no matter what, even if it feels as though you are getting nowhere? Do you embrace the challenge or become a victim, or do you carry on in the same old way. Do you ever wonder what you are doing here and what this life is all about?
Our planet’s waterworks
It is vital that we work conscientiously with our water and water resources. Water is a reflector and will reflect back the state of people and the environment around it!! One of the basic principles of the Celtic spiritual pathway is ‘as within so without, as above so below.’
Where pilgrims walk
A pilgrimage can be a powerful rite of passage that signals you are ready to cross a threshold. It is the urge to follow the calling, the deep inner yearning, that draws us out to the “unknown” to seek our connections to the wildness - both inner and outer.