Biodynamic Cranio Sacral Therapy with Sophie

26/06/2025

25/06/2025

Greek island? Nope east coast of Ireland

04/06/2025

We had such a wonderful time last Saturday singing and resonating with the trees and other plants by the holy well in Glendalough and in Glendalough Sanctuary.

Thank you to all who attended, to the land, to the plant and human teachers for the magic, connection, curiosity and awe 🙏🏻💚✨🌿

Thank you to .dempsey.167 Rachel Dempsey for a perfect combo 🫶🏼🌿🎶

My next sensing and foraging adventure will be exploring the hedgerows of old Delgany on Saturday 14th June from 2-5 pm

Hope you can join me! Here is more info here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/sensing-and-foraging-with-sophie-tickets-1381602382919?aff=oddtdtcreator

Thank you to Sofia Arteaga for most of the pics 🫶🏼🙏🏻

24/05/2025

Integrity. A word burdened with so many meanings. It comes from the Latin word "integritas," which means "wholeness" or "completeness". We can hear ‘entire’ or ‘entirety’ in it. Our craniosacral therapeutic work applies it in its original meaning, a body’s integration points to a felt sense of wholeness and coherence within strengthened, more defined boundaries. This renewal of self hails: ‘I am home!’, ‘I safely inhabit the whole of me’ as you are more able to be with all of you, your past history and current challenges.

From being unable to cope with ‘too much’ in their lives someone will leave a session saying “I feel so much clearer and stronger now, thank you!”

I had felt it arising as I held and supported change, and can see it radiating in their whole self as they come back to sitting with their shoulders and face more open and relaxed, their eyes sparkling.

I’m left with such gratitude for this awesome work, for witnessing the transformative forces of Health at play in the body and mind.

Thank you!

20/05/2025

In a Dock jungle

18/05/2025

We are all Palestinians!

Thousands marched in Dublin today to call for a conplete stop to this genocide.

A group of us sang songs like Don’t numb to this, Free Palestine and I believe in the goodness of you…
as part of , a brilliant initiative by Rachel Dempsey

Here is the link for more info and if you’d like to join us: https://fullcirclechange.ie/singing_for_change_ireland/

01/05/2025

Bealtaine Blessings to you!

Feeling truly blessed 🌿✨💚🌿✨🌞💚

24/04/2025

I witnessed and partook in a ceremony like no other on the evening of what Christians call Good Friday in a Sussex woodland, about an hour’s train ride south of London.
A bunch of folks gathered around song collector and folk singer Sam Lee , Renaissance lute player Sara Salloum, and Shakespeare scholar and actress Debs Newbold to listen to Nightingales sing.

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Forever associated with love and longing throughout the world in poetry and prose, folklore, and songs, Sam says the complexities of their song have informed and shaped our oral and written traditions. Nightingales have interlaced with our cultural evolution and form an intrinsic part of who we are, of our inner mythology, and therefore of our ontology; how we sense ourselves, how we situate ourselves among the greater living on Earth.

(…)One of the few strongholds left where these beloved migrants can pause to sing and mate from April before heading back to Subsaharan Africa in the summer months. Did you know that Nightingales also mainly migrate at night?

We shared food and chatted, then were entertained by the exquisite sounds of the lute, which Sara told us, was mainly played by women to woo their husbands-to-be, just like unpaired Nightingales foreplaying from dark till dawn.

We walked in single file through the woodland in silence, without any light, until we heard them faintly answering each other in the distance. Walking further we heard just one bird that became louder and louder as we drew near so we carefully sat huddled together and listened, in complete abandon, spellbound by the utter beauty of this bird’s devotional creation, his song of love and longing. Hoping with him that he would find the mate he was calling forth with such brio.

Sam sang folk songs and what sounded like Bhakti chants. Sara played the lute. Debs voiced Shakespeare’s heptameters. All connected with the Nightingale’s song in the ether. Only once did the bird stop singing (and I stopped breathing), only to begin again with more gusto.

You can read the whole piece freely on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/127241372?utm_campaign=postshare_creator)

18/04/2025

Bursting out

11/04/2025

Would you like to expand and extend your sensorial and foraging experiences with medicine and flower essence making as well as singing in the gorgeous setting of the Glendalough valley?

My friend .dempsey.167 of ⁩ and I will be co-facilitating a two-day non residential Singing Nature retreat on 31st May and 1st June at the height of Bealtaine’s blooming!

Rachel is a wonderfully skilled singing facilitator and forest bathing therapist among many other things. So there will be a mix of tuning up our bodies through songs and harmonies(no previous experience required) as well as invitations to tune in and resonate with trees and the other plants in these sacred potent grounds.

We will take paths along the river, away from the usual touristy ones to allow for maximum peace and connection to emerge. We might even swim there if the weather allows 🤞🏼

The singing will partly occur in the beautiful settings of Glendalough sanctuary where you can separately book your overnight stay.

Here is the link for full details and to avail of the early bird discount (closes on 3rd May)
https://fullcirclechange.ie/events/singing_nature_retreat/

02/04/2025

Singing Nature Retreat with Biodynamic Cranio Sacral Therapy with Sophie and myself.

Singing*Foraging*Ceremony*Plant Connection*Forest Bathing*Reflection*Fun

We will immerse ourselves in harmony songs celebrating the elements and the land, we will sing our connection to nature and nature will sing her abundance and beauty back to us! A two-day non-residential retreat, with time at the gorgeous Glendalough Sanctuary and outdoors in Glendalough itself, home-grown and foraged food and optional sauna with a view!

31 May 2025 - 1 June 2025
11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Booking and info: https://fullcirclechange.ie/events/singing_nature_retreat/