Cathy French is a teacher who guides Yoga Nidra practices that honour Irish Animism + the Celtic wheel of the year. Her work centers intimacy and reciprocity with the planet, our ancestors and unlocking the intuitive wisdom of our human bodies.

As a rising Irish voice within the wellness and eco-sensual community, Cathy’s personal manifesto encompasses ‘decolonising Irish animism, becoming a better ancestor and helping students to forge reconnection with the more-than-human world’. She is passionate about guiding people back to an embodied presence through the principles of pleasure, movement and deep rest.

Cathy’s approach honours a relational, earth-based spirituality. Her work draws on a deep grá for poetry, Eros and the power of spoken word. She encourages her students to live into their questions.

Her workshops and teacher trainings are conducted within a warm, supportive, womb-positive, and queer-affirming environment informed by core values of compassion, integrity, social, racial and earth justice.

 Cathy is a secondary school English teacher, advocate for migrant and refugee teenagers and Ethos lead at Marino College, Dublin. She is a member of The Irish Refugee Council and is on the teacher’s advisory panel for Schools of Sanctuary Ireland.

Her professional credentials include a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and thousands of hours of practice and training with leading teachers in modalities including Yoga Nidra, Prana Vinyasa, Restorative Yoga, Katonah Yoga and Ancestral Lineage Repair Work.

Find more of Cathy’s work on her Substack: the creature.