Watch Cathy French and Jana Roemer discuss Bealtaine in this video

The Celtic Wheel keeps on turning... and the only way is UP.

Diametrically opposed to Samhain, the fire festival of Bealtaine marks the sweet synapsis between the complimentarian powers of the feminine masculine paradigm.

Imagine a spring bouquet... the frequency of fresh flowers- elegant, verdant, LOUD with a dash of holy chaos. We celebrate in the feminine frequency of languid eros while the planet is coaxing forth explorative, lusty teenage Yang momentum.

Solstice is coming and despite the pull of gravity, the only way is UP, out + through.

Who or what are you becoming?

Are you ready to make some actual decisions and be seen?

This workshop with Cathy will create a sacred container for pleasure mixed with directionality. A soft structure for sensual union with earth blended with intentional visioning to direct our nascent energy.

The workshop includes embodiment, nidra, community time + personal practices for you to celebrate your own sacred rites of Bealtaine at Dawn on May 1st. Expect to leave feeling cosmically nourished with a fresh vision for your summer.

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The threshold festival of Imbolc marks the surfacing of spring- agricultural promise, new beginnings, creativity + sexual reawakening.

Imbolc derives from the old Irish ‘i mbolg' meaning in the belly. It's the shy, reluctant stirrings of our sacral waters. The nature of the season is expressed in our music, our art, the poetry of our creature bodies.

We're guided from the Dreamsource static of deepest winter to the red-hot + holy glow of Brigid, exalted goddess of healers, Poets, childbirth + inspiration who visits every home and hangs her cloak on a sunbeam.

Imbolc is the gentle tenacity of the new, beautiful idea stirring deep down under a blanket of cold, dead leaves.

We're working with the forward flow of life force, eliminating the old and rousing up an orgasmic infusion of hormonal health, creative expression + unbearable beauty.

The rigors of deepest winter are passing and we're on our way toward the blossoming field of generosities.

Join @iamcathyfrench on a pilgrimage through the sensuous Irish landscape enmeshed with supernatural explorations of Ireland's holy wells + goddess Brigid

We're gathering for one special Samhain event under the rare Hallowe'en blue moon. 

Let's warm our hands around the virtual bonfire...

UPDATE: With a guest appearance from Jaguar Womban

Oíche Shamhna :: Samhain Blue Moon Celebration

Saturday October 31st from 5-7pm GMT (10-12am PST) €17

Oíche Shamhna (Samhain night) is the feast of the dead + the Celtic new year. Our ancestors knew that all life begins in the dark. That the only lasting truth is CHANGE. Let's celebrate the fact this too shall pass.
 

We'll be keeping things revelrous + reclaiming our joy with music, stories, yoga, nidra + ancestor ritual...

Our emphasis for the gathering will be on community. So much of what's coming up for us in 2020 is ancestral. Our practices must gravitate toward the relational + collective rather than the self-absorbed and individualist. Yes we need self care but more than that right now we need COMMUNITY CARE.
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If cost is a barrier please use the code TOGETHER for 50% off or BIGLOVE for 100% off. Your presence matters. We want to see your face, we long to know what's alive for you.

Welcoming Womb Activist + High Priestess Jaguar Womban

Jaguar Womban is one of the most powerful healers I've ever encountered and will be blessing us with a guest appearance on OÍche Shamhna.

She transmits the strongest Mother frequency I've ever experienced (besides my own Mammy) + she has important information to share with women of Irish descent this Samhain.

An evening of refuge and renewal.

Yoga, ceremony, deep rest, even deeper belly laughs + an optional sea swim.

Open to both men + women- we need mutual closeness and connection in these times.

Secret Location by the sea in South Dublin (TBC upon booking)
Tea + organic, plant based treats included
Cost is €25 with very limited spots

• We are committed to our community’s safety so we’ll be gathered by the fire outdoors at a distance (still magic)

Ritual gives us an opportunity to drop into the generosity of the present moment + direct our attention toward the sacred. Lughnasadh is a fleeting sacred juncture that marks the fullness of harvest time in the turning of the wheel of the year. The Full Moon is in nerdy, independent, humanitarian Aquarius- the zodiac sign that's always seeking out truth. We'll be using the compassionate light of the full moon to liberate ourselves of overworked, archaic dreams that have been draining us of life force and to bring in the irresistible manifestation of our truest calling that will transform the world. 
 

Movement, ceremony, wild nidra + an optional exhilarating full moon dip in the sea! (submerging to leave behind anything we’re ready to shed then stepping out into an open, fresh new phase of life)

Sunday July August 2nd 7.30- 9.00pm
Secret Location by the sea in South Dublin (TBC upon booking)
Tea + organic, plant based treats included
Cost is €25 with very limited spots

8PM GMT (12PM PST)

Movement. Ceremony. Earth. Body Love.

Our bodies are made of stories.

When we heal an ancestral pattern we heal it backwards and forwards though our lineage.

We’re at a turning point.

Women have been leading and will continue to lead us through the intensity of these times. These circles of togetherness are giving us a powerful dose of the tenacity we need to continue our good work + to use our voices to share truth.

We call in our ancestors to help us speak, listen, write, move, channel, transmit, create and build. 
Suggested donation €20, pay whatever you can afford.

This two hour workshop includes: a special playlist, creative movement, drawing, ancestral + womb wisdom, deep rest

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A 2.5 hour workshop to welcome winter in true comfort and pleasure with restorative yoga and yoga nidra.

Samhain is celebrated as the Celtic new year and a time when the doorway between this world and the spirit world is flung open. This is Scorpio season, where death leads to change, renewal and creative rebirth. In this workshop we’ll move through the threshold into the fertile dark half of the year where life begins, seeds rest and new ideas form.

Restorative yoga is transformationally comfortable. Long-held, supported poses create the conditions to surrender muscle activity and release habitual tension in both the body and the mind. Expect to find yourself propped up by blankets, bolsters and blocks as you passively receive the generous benefits of the poses.

Yoga nidra or psychic sleep helps the nervous system shift gears into the relaxation response, slowing your brain waves and guiding you beyond your five senses and into transcendental states. 

Delectable plant based treats and warming beverages included

Bring: journal and pen and your softest most comfortable layers

Wear: loose and comfortable clothing

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

- Maya Angelo

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ALL TOGETHER NOW FESTIVAL

Join me at the Breathe Area for my signature Flow + Nidra class

Festivals can be a serious catalyst for restructuring our lives through euphoric celebration and participation.

In this special class we’ll give your body and nervous system exactly what it needs to reset and absorb the magic of All Together Now Festival.

For the first half of the class we’ll flow through some gentle movement to bring you back into aligned energy (and keep your hair and makeup in place). Then for second half we’ll lie down for some deeply restorative yoga nidra, which is the equivalent to 4 hours of deep rest.

More details coming soon. See you there!

“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it”
― Michael A. Singer

The little version of you that lives in your head- you know the one that narrates your life and has an opinion on everything? That’s your thoughts.

Thoughts are catalysts for self- perpetuating cycles of choices and behavior that can bring you fully alive or keep you small and scared.

If you accept a thought, you become a channel for it. It becomes your belief and then your reality.

When we want to shake up and transform our limiting beliefs we have to acknowledge them. 

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IN THIS ONE HOUR WORKSHOP YOU'LL:

• Get access to my all-time favorite habits and practices to redefine your limiting beliefs and tap into your UNlimited potential

• Geek out on the fascinating neuroscience of thought patterns

• Walk away with a personalized 'Sankalpa' or intention specific to the belief that holds YOU back

  When you reserve your seat you'll get access to:

• Downloadable worksheet with creative writing and journal prompts

• Spotify playlists (one for yoga, one for gettin' down in your kitchen)

• Free recorded access after the webinar

We all know that summer means adventure is ahead, but with a full moon in Sagittarius, excitement coupled with meaning is practically guaranteed.

With a curious and playful Gemini sun opposing this restless Sagittarius moon we can use the spirit of inquiry to solidify our intentions. 

There are limitations to goal setting and every choice we make has an energetic consequence. In this circle we’ll get inquisitive as to how we can form habits that will slowly, over time result in happiness and prosperity.

The full moon conjunct Jupiter illuminates our path and allows us to correct course and examine the systems we have in place so we can get to where we want to go and increase our capacity for joy along the way.

Our movements will be a blend of slow and strong, aligning with playfulness and reverence. 
We'll journal about our current habits and perhaps uncover new ones that will better serve the place we are in and the place we seek to go. 

After our circle time we’ll have an optional trip to the beach to plunge in the Pacific to leave behind anything we’re ready to shed.

Saturday June 15th 2-4pm $25

Bring journal, pen and a beach towel

Tickets on the Tosha website

Join Cathy to celebrate the joys and challenges of the arrival of summer.

The Celtic year is divided into two halves. Samhain marks the beginning of the dark half and Bealtaine celebrates the beginning of the light half or the greening of the land. The sun is shining and like the rest of nature we're being tenderly invited to bloom in our wholeness. 

The word Bealtaine means 'bright' or 'brilliant fire'. On the hill of Uisneach, the ‘naval of Ireland’, a meeting place of the provinces of Ireland, the Bealtaine fire is still lit every year, high on the hill. As the central fire of Uisneach rises, the flames announce that "Summer is here!" Fires are lit in communities across the land and the celebrations spread far and wide.

Bealtaine guides us to thrive again and let light into the parts of our life that have been kept secret, small or hidden. If we simply get out of the way, the sun's energies make life force available to flow through us without any manipulative effort. In this special afternoon workshop we will make time for regeneration down to a cellular level through Celtic wisdom, movement, pranayama, yoga nidra and creative journalling.

We'll leave feeling lighter and ignited with ideas and inspiration, fueled with long summer nights and at least the promise of sunny days. Our light will expand outward to affect our families, our colleagues and our communities. 

This evening event will mark the transition into the next chapter of our lives; the new moon is upon us. Join Cathy French and Jess Bell for a rejuvenating evening of yoga, astrology and intention setting.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and the New Moon in Aries is a time of renaissance. It’s an exciting time to recommit to personal goals that express the positive energies of the sign of the Ram. It's springtime! Time to take action and stir things up. To take charge of our lives and rediscover our courage.

Expect free form movement, Kundalini Kriya and focus on the solar plexus- our inner fire and gut knowing.

Jess is fresh from an advanced teacher training in Sri Lanka and will be encouraging us to investigate the places in our lives where peace, love and joy flow with ease so that we can adjust the places where they don't.

Cathy will be helping us to channel this potent Aries energy to make important changes in our lives. We've endured winter- now we move toward enjoyment and pleasure. Aries learns through experience and action. It’s a time to revitalize ourselves through self- sufficiency and removing obstacles to the free flow of our life force.