Wild Womb Alchemy with Oonagh O'Sullivan

Wild Womb Alchemy with Oonagh O'Sullivan I help women remember their inherent wisdom so that they can unapologetically embody their Wild Power and Truth

What happens in your body when I ask the question “When did nuance leave the building?”Ever increasing polarisation & pr...
08/07/2025

What happens in your body when I ask the question “When did nuance leave the building?”

Ever increasing polarisation & projection of binaries of “good” or “bad”, “black” or “white”, “wrong” or “right”, seem to be suffocating the wisdom of nuance inherent to the human experience. These times of collective intensity and the current state of the world has us so dysregulated, that it is extremely challenging to inhabit nuance & welcome complexity into our embodied experience.

The etymology of the word “nuance” stems from the Latin word nūbēs, meaning "cloud." Nūbēs became nue in French, which became nuer, meaning “to make shades of color.” Then came nuance, which means “a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound”

As I write this, I am sitting here and looking out at the most amazing clouds that continue to shape-shift into different forms. What incredible sky-dancing teachers!

Nuance has consciously been my teacher for the past few years of embodied study. It still amazes me the renewal of life-force, heart-energy & creative spirit that comes from meeting paradox in a somatic way,by meeting many opposing truths inside this one body.

RE-NUANCE is a threshold of a new body of work that has been gestating within my body for the last 9 months, which is forming a 9-month course that I cannot wait to share with you all. 

It is a renaissance of nuance to guide a new way through subtle embodied gnosis

My intention is for this offering to be a spring-board to break through whatever cycle of suffocation, strangulation, self-sabotage, despair, overwhelm you might be experiencing as a symptom of late stage capitalism whilst witnessing multiple genocides and living through ecocide.

S**t is intense & 7 days of morning embodiment isn’t going suddenly change everything for you, but I hope that it can offer a more textured palette of colour by which you have more choice to paint whatever you wish onto the canvas of your life. With more colour, shade, depth, complexity and texture that can ripple out as a lifeline to others whose lens' have been clouded over by black & white

We begin on July 21st at 7:00am
Let's make magic together
Lincoln bye-oh 🔗

The first vocal and community delight I am sharing with you all is happening on the 11th of May for a full day Embodied ...
24/04/2025

The first vocal and community delight I am sharing with you all is happening on the 11th of May for a full day Embodied Voice Retreat in Galway.

I am super excited to share the wonder that is Collaborative Vocal Improvisation, which I have been studying in depth over the last 6 months. It is one of the most joyous experiences to improvise with sound, movement and song with other humans. To share and witness and cocreate an unfolding magic feels as ancient as time itself and awakens something old and deep. It brings us back to our humanity!

We will explore the somatic nature of our resonant bodies to welcome our full, powerful and playful sound together. Refining our inner listening skills and interoception & listening deeply to receive and share the music of the moment is truly life changing and SO MUCH FUN! Words cannot describe - only the lived experience can speak for itself!

This is for you if:
-You love moving and singing in community
-You know that there is more to your voice that you have not yet explored
-You feel stuck vocally or in your creative practice
-You are curious about the capacity of the human body in movement and sound
-You love to have FUN
-You wish to improvise and sing beyond your own limits

All welcome - no signing experience is required, just an openness to embody your unique expression with others

Breath work
Somatic Movement
Play
Deep Listening
Resonant Body
Group Singing
Collaborative Vocal Improvisation
Harmony Songs
Connection
Ritual

Lots of moving, lots of signing, lots of laughing, love of connection (with ourselves and each other)- all the best medicines!

Sliding scale €55-75 - lunch included

1x assistant discounted space available.

Knocknacarra Community Centre Sunday May 11th, 10am-4:30pm

Message me with any curiosities and to book your space 🙏🏻

Our community grief circle is happening the second Monday of this month, the 14th of April from 7-10pm.You are welcome i...
06/04/2025

Our community grief circle is happening the second Monday of this month, the 14th of April from 7-10pm.

You are welcome in your tenderness, rage, loneliness, despair and anything in between. A space to connect through and to our shared humanity in extraordinary times.

Come as you are.

Donation based.

Message me to book in x

We are finding our rhythm with our community grief circle that happens on the first Monday of every month. The next is h...
27/02/2025

We are finding our rhythm with our community grief circle that happens on the first Monday of every month.

The next is happening this Monday from 7-10pm in Gort Resource Centre.

This is a tender and welcoming space that invites us to share the burdens and heartaches we have been carrying alone.

We were never meant to grieve alone and I feel if all communities had a regular time and place to grieve together, the world would be a more loving place.

All hearts are welcome.

Donation based | DM to book

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Le cumha is cumhacht - with grief and strength X

Enter the longingLet it eat you aliveAllow yourself to be consumedBy the heartacheThat permeates your limbsThat swallows...
30/12/2024

Enter the longing
Let it eat you alive
Allow yourself to be consumed
By the heartache
That permeates your limbs
That swallows every single ounce of light
That threatens to tear your roots from the Earth

What if you allowed yourself to be uprooted?
Suspended in the liminality
With no map
No timeline
No way Out

Only in
Only down
Into the darkest recesses
of your Guts
of your Blood
of your Bones

For it takes guts to offer our bodies up to the secret Alchemist that is
Grief

For it takes courage to sacrifice what was and release our grasp of control

For it takes an unformidable trust to say Yes
to the Unknown
to the Unravelling
to the Becoming of something new
to the Metamorphosis

Yet we either wither away & decay
Into a festering version of what was
Or we choose to be composted and transformed
The Sacred Lands of our bodies
Becoming
Fertile once again
For a new cycle of birth, growth, surprises & heartbreak

All that we love we will lose

What we choose to do with that loss is ours
And ours alone.
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Dark Moon heartsore musings.

We have one space remaining for our of Water & Bones Deep Winter Grief Retreat.
Do you wish to enter the longing and alchemise the pain?



I hope this liminal period of fertile darkness has been nourishing to all. On this dark moon, may you have the space to listen deeply to the longings of your wild & wise body.

With a tender heart,
Oonagh ❤️‍🔥

photo by the wonder that is 🙏

"All that we love we will lose" - Francis WellerYou are invited to the beautifully barren landscapes of Connemara, to be...
12/12/2024

"All that we love we will lose" - Francis Weller

You are invited to the beautifully barren landscapes of Connemara, to be held by the waters of the Atlantic this January for a grief initiation of Water & Bones.

The teachings of grief bring us back into connection with life in the most cellular & alchemical way, if we let them. Meeting grief is one of the most primal and powerful ways we can awaken our creative potential & vision. It is one of the most potent meetings with Love.

Communing with grief in community connects us to those who have done so for millennia in a space of deep witnessing and co-regulation. We know the importance of these spaces in our waters & bones, yet we have been deprived of them for too long.

This 4 day retreat is an invitation to enter into the liminal crucible of grief and surrender to her teachings. It is an invitation to those who know in their guts that enough is enough, and who have the courage to meet the fullness of what life wishes for them. For life and death are two sides of the same coin.

Join myself, and for this potent portal of ritual, song, keening, ceremony, embodiment, deep rest, prayer, nature vigil, wild food, deep listening & creative reawakening.

Limited to 9 people for an intimate space of deep presence & support.

DM me for more details.

All information will be shared tomorrow.

Le Cumha (Grief) agus Cumhacht (Power),
Oonagh ❤️‍🔥

The wild in each of us yearns to be expressedThrough Sound SongScreamsSobsWailsPleasSpiralling hipsOpen jawsBurning hear...
13/11/2024

The wild in each of us yearns to be expressed
Through Sound
Song
Screams
Sobs
Wails
Pleas
Spiralling hips
Open jaws
Burning hearts
Unbridled rage
Hot tears

Deep stillness

The wild in each of us yearns to be witnessed
In community, wildings co-regulate and remember who they are and why they came here.

The wild in each of us yearns to roam free
Breathing clean air, drinking from pure streams, eating from the land and tending to the hearth with kin.

It's an honour to share this initiation into grief tending with Katie from this weekend in Mayo. We are weaving a space for the wildling in all of us to be felt, embodied, expressed, seen, heard and shared. We will tend to the grief we hold in our earthen bodies as children of this wild Earth. She who is being fracked, cracked open, extracted from by systems of greed and harm. It is us wild ones who need to crack open in order to transmute and weave a new story. We are being called to rewild our very own hearts.

We have two spaces left on the training / initiation which begins on Friday evening. We welcome anyone who already holds space and tends to their inner well through grounded practices. If you are feeling the call to tend to the collective grief that is being felt worldwide, this is the space for you. You already have the innate knowing within, we will remember this role together.

We also have one or two spaces for the actual keen for anyone who needs a space to howl, wail and transmute. We will create our individual grief shrines and move that which is lodged deep within, together. Co-regulation is a medicine of this grief stricken time. You can arrive Saturday evening or early Sunday morning. We will have a wild feast prepared by the wonderful after the keen and close with some play together Sunday evening.

Do be in touch if the wild is calling. You are most welcome as you are.

Le misneach,
Oonagh & Katie

Can you deal with how INCREDIBLE our program is for this year!? Just 5 more days until the magic commences. Bígí linn ❤...
07/10/2024

Can you deal with how INCREDIBLE our program is for this year!? Just 5 more days until the magic commences. Bígí linn ❤️‍🔥🇵🇸

I keep having to pinch myself with the potency of the weekend we are creating in Carlow on the 11-13 of October.Final ti...
09/09/2024

I keep having to pinch myself with the potency of the weekend we are creating in Carlow on the 11-13 of October.

Final tier tickets went on sale today and we would LOVE to celebrate life, death and everything in between with you there! ❤️‍🔥

hiddenhearthfestival.ie

As I lay here beneath the oak & hawthorn canopy I feel as though I'm meeting life anew. Each breath feels clear, life-gi...
04/09/2024

As I lay here beneath the oak & hawthorn canopy I feel as though I'm meeting life anew. Each breath feels clear, life-giving, generous. The berries are ripening, the leaves are beginning to change & I feel as though I'm just emerging, yet we are about to descend yet again.

I completed my MA 2 weeks ago by handing in my thesis entitled:

Announcing our Place in the Family of Things: The Role of Women and Their Voices in Pre-Christian Death Rituals in Ireland and Exploring the Contemporisation of An Caoineadh for the Transmutation of Collective Grief

Rolls off the tongue.. 🤪

Through arts-based practice, auto ethnographic research and ritual studies I explored An Caoineadh through a contemporary lens & created a ritual theatre piece called An Cumha - The Longing. It was a deep ceremony & oh so hard to synthesise into 18,000 words.

It feels like the weaving together of so many threads of curiosity, passion and purpose into a body of work. Well, it actually just feels like the tip of the iceberg of what will no doubt be a lifelong body of work. Through my body.

My awe for mná and the depth they embody, the thresholds we tend to and portals we hold within our blood and bones, grief, longing, loss, alchemy, ritual, song, community ceremony, the Otherworldly support that is always available, the deep, dark feminine, death, rebirth.

This turas has been deep yet just scratched the surface, profound yet simple, the unravelling of lifetimes yet just the beginning. It's been an honour to learn from the mná chaointe and be drawn into the depths of my body, yet be so far away from myself a lot of the whilst living in my academic, intellectual mind.

Honouring the paradox.

I journeyed to Connemara with my fave adventure buddy (Priya) this weekend to give thanks, mark this ending, close this chapter and welcome the threshold I am standing in once again. It was spacious, wild, and beautiful.

I suppose it's only fitting that we are about to descend into the darkness again so that I can let it all go to fertilise the next chapter.

For now, I'll be creating magic at and I would love to celebrate life, death and everything in between.

Only grá x

Today is the day! As the sweet smell of honeysuckle drifts through the air, I birth this album with grá and excitement 🌸...
23/05/2024

Today is the day!

As the sweet smell of honeysuckle drifts through the air, I birth this album with grá and excitement 🌸🌼

Merging the Live Kirtan Album is available in digital and double disc CD form from today. As I find my way with distibution logistics, it will hopefully be available on all other streaming platforms such as and from next Tuesday the latest.

Le meas agus grá mór- with great respect and love,
Oonagh x

Celebrating the magician musicians who brought my dream to life 🥳😍🙏In total, 8 of us came together to create Merging for...
22/05/2024

Celebrating the magician musicians who brought my dream to life 🥳😍🙏

In total, 8 of us came together to create Merging for 3 days of recording. Here are some of the amazing folks who are so incredibly talented and who I'm lucky enough to call my friends!

Mira was born in 1990 in West Cork to Dutch parents. She is an entrepreneur, business owner, fashion designer, multi-instrumentalist, yoga teacher, facilitator, and a passionate practitioner of movement & circus arts. She has solid experience in business and project management as well as diverse creative passions which help to see through artistic projects from the seed of an idea to their completion, whether it’s a performance, show, collaboration or event.

Saraswati is a Yoga teacher and Yoga therapist immersed in the devotional path of classical Ta**ra- a big part of this daily practice is chanting mantra and for Saraswati it is a practice in becoming Love with a capital L. She is so happy to be able to contribute to this beautiful offering that Oonagh has birthed into being. Jai Maa! 

Tara Mestre is a singer songwriter and yoga teacher based in beautiful West Cork. She has been singing her heart out for the last 15 years and collaborated on various folk albums both in the UK and Ireland. She is a firm believer that absolutely everyone can sing and that music is healing and deeply transformative.

These Devis rock and were anchors in this whole process! I am blessed to dance and sing with them ❤️

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Introducing Rooted Soul Yoga & Holistic Wellness

Rooted Soul Yoga and Holistic Wellness was founded by Oonagh O’Sullivan as she rooted back into her birthplace of Co. Kerry, on the Wild West Coast of Ireland after having spent more than six years studying, travelling, and experiencing the wonders this beautiful world has to offer. She holds a BSc in Psychology, a Diploma in Principles of Art Therapy and is a 500 hour Registered Yoga and Meditation Teacher. Just before her return back to Ireland, Oonagh spent 9 months living in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, studying and teaching Yoga, Meditation, Sound Healing, and many other Sacred Practices of the Vedantic and Ta***ic traditions.

Oonagh aims to combine her training in Western Psychology with Yogic Philosophy and Practice to facilitate authentic healing and empowerment.

Oonagh has shared these transformative practices with a range of populations varying from Yazidi refugees living on camps in Greece, to seasoned yoga practitioners and teachers in the Indian Himalayas, to local people enjoying their Golden Years here in Kerry.

When not on the yoga mat or meditation cushion, you may find Oonagh consciously connecting with the Divine anywhere in nature, wandering barefoot as the soles of her feet connect with the Soul of Mother Earth, praying in the form of wild, hypnotic dance, laughing from her womb uncontrollably, making art with anything she can get her hands on, as well as through words and sound, or nourishing her body with amazingly delicious plant-based delights.