Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.

The Slí An Chroí Centre is now in multiple locations in the Smithfield quarter offering community and training opportunities from suitable spaces. Ensure that you are aware of the address of the space advertised for the event(s) that appeal to you.

 

 

 

Recurring Events At The Centre:

 

"Moon Mná": The Women's Circle, meeting every Full Moon. For more information, click here.

 

"Fir Le Chéile": The Men's Circle, meeting last Tuesday of every month. For more information, click here.

 

Introduction To Shamanism 1 Day Workshop. For more information, click here.

 

"Drum Tuatha-Drum Tribe", normally a middle Tuesday evening every month. See the schedule below.

 

 

“What’s Happening At Slí An Chroí This Summer 2013”

Trainings – Seasonal Celebrations – Pilgrimmage - Drum Tribe – Men/Women Events – Conference – Peru Expedition.....and more

 

MAY:
4th & 5th: Bealtaine Celebration, Gathering At Uisneach Festival
14th: Drum Tuatha-Drum Tribe
26th: One Day Introduction To Shamanism
27th: Moon Mná- Women’s Circle (“Women & Women”)
28th: Fir Le Chéile- Men’s Circle

 

JUNE:
11th: Drum Tuatha-Drum Tribe
16th: Men Together, Hill Of Uisneach
21st: Summer Solstice Celebration (venue to be announced later)
24th: Moon Mná- Women’s Circle (“Faerie Rites”)
25th: Fir Le Chéile- Men’s Circle
30th: One Day Introduction To Shamanism

 

JULY:
7th-16th: Slí Bríde/Brigid’s Way Pilgrimmage Walk
19th-21st: Moon Mná- Awakening The Sacred Feminine Weekend
23rd-26th: Sex & Spirituality Conference
27th: One Day Introduction To Shamanism
28th: Master-Healer Training (“Destiny Retrieval”)
30th: Fir Le Chéile- Men’s Circle

August:

3rd-19th: One Spiritual Adventure Of A Lifetime, Peru Expedition

BEALTAINE CELEBRATION @ Gathering At Uisneach Festival, Co. Westmeath:
Sat.May 4th & Sun.May 5th, 4pm-11pm both days.
Join us as we once again return to the great sacred site of Uisneach, the sacred and geographical centre of Ireland and the traditional Bealtaine celebration there. Many of you will be familiar or have heard of the Festival Of The Fires, the name given to the celebration in recent years. In 2013, it has been decided to “rest” the hill and a scaled down version of the festival will take place at the rear of The Uisneach Inn. Predominantly a music festival in 2013, at 9.30pm on both days we will once again lead a communal fire ritual which perpetuates the first Bealtaine Fire tradition at Uisneach. (see, www.festivalofthefires.com)

 

DRUM TUATHA – DRUM TRIBE: Tues. May 11th & Tues. June 11th & July 16th
7pm – 10pm. Donation €12. Venue: Rhiannon Clinic, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Drum Tuatha - Drum Tribe is the monthly gathering that embraces the power of the drumbeat and rhythm to move us, soothe us, transport us and renew us. No prior technical training is required, as this is not a skill-based drumming collective. Nor do you have to have your own drum, as there are several communal ones in the centre. Many of you will be familiar with the use of the drum for immrama (journeying) and we will use our drums for this in traditional and innovative ways. We will play with rhythm to express those parts of ourselves that cannot be conveyed through words. Drum Tuatha is all about unselfconscious play, easy-entry healing states and noisy, pulsating community. Friends, partners, siblings, offspring (min. age 12) are welcome. If you have a heartbeat, you have rhythm.

 

INTRODUCTION TO SHAMANISM: Sun. May 26th & Sun. June 30th &Sat. July 27th, 2013. 10.30am – 5.30pm, Investment €75, (payment plan available, if required). Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
These very popular one day workshops bring the participant into gentle and deep connection with natural energies of the Earth. Gradually, through core shamanic techniques of the Irish tradition, there is a profound opportunity to achieve a calm centredness in our bodies, minds and Spirits. Not only is this day a traditional stepping stone from which many choose to bring stronger self practice and healing by taking the “Medicine Spiral” later in the year, it is also a “stand alone” day, in which participants can find respite and restoration along with new inner resources of strength & insight to address better current life issues that may be challenging. It is a day of warm, accepting community and safe leadership. Many return to this one day gathering for the uplifting charge that energises the Soul. No previous formal shamanic experience/training is necessary to attend. For more information, click here.

 

MOON MNÁ (Women’s Circle) @ FULL MOON :
Full Moon: Mon.May 27th & Mon.June 24th, 7-9pm
Donation €13. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Join Karen and other joyous Soul Sisters to celebrate life, love and all good things. This organic time together has a theme each month (see www.slianchroi.ie/wcircle.htm). Over the Summer we’ll be receiving the Faerie Rites outdoors, talking about the relationships with other womenfolk & swimming skyclad (yes, that IS Naked), going on Shamanic Journeys and dancing like Goddesses. We’d love you to join us in circle.
Fri-Sun.July 19th-21st, “Awakening The Sacred Feminine Weekend”, Mucklagh Lodge, Co. Wicklow.
For a very special residential weekend in July, Karen is joined by her co-director of their US women’s retreat now in its 4th year, “Awakening The Sacred Feminine”. This will be an exceptional and rare opportunity to experience the sensitive, powerful and ground breaking work Karen and co-director Ona Sachs bring to many women in the US and now they bring their magic distillation to Ireland for the first time. Earliest advance booking is recommended, this gathering will book out fast. For more information, click here. To dowload the Booking Form, click here.

 

FIR LE CHÉILE (MEN TOGETHER). Tues May 28th & Tues. June 30th & July 31st,
7pm - 10pm. Donation €12. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
.A warm, supportive, dynamic gathering of men, for men, by men. A time for men of all ages to gather beyond any agenda except to embrace the precious experience of open, non-judgemental sharing and witnessing, ceremony and ritual dedicated to the development of the sacred masculine within us all. Our experience of boyhood and manhood will be powerfully deepened by simple sharing of our experiences, past and present. From within the group each month, will be the opportunity to choose a communal expression (e.g. drumming) of how we are in the world at that time. This can offer a powerful release of energy that lances stress and gives voice often to what we find inexpressible about ourselves on a daily basis. One of the longer term aims of the circle will be to co-create a superior myth of manhood than the ones predominant in contemporary culture. As part of that aim comes the challenge to provide Initiation and Rites Of Passage to and for ourselves. Mentorship will be also be fostered. Taking place on the last Tuesday of every month with John. For more information, click here.
June 16th, 1pm: Men Together @ Hill Of Uisneach
This is a very special event for men of all 32 counties of Ireland. On the final day of National Men’s Health Week, John is organising a gathering at the sacred and geographical centre of the island, the Hill Of Uisneach. Men and boys, fathers and sons, grandfathers and grandsons, uncles and nephews are invited to walk to the summit of the hill and hold a circle there in the ethos of care, solidarity and health of all males of Ireland. As well as being a unique experience of brotherhood, this gathering will be of immense symbolic and mythic impact, particularly relevant in the face of today’s life challenges. To learn more about this event, click here.

 

LEATHBLIAIN: SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION: Fri. June 21st, 7pm-10pm. Cost €12. Venue: (Assemble at Rhiannon Clinic Car Park).

As the memory of Bealtaine, the traditional beginning of Summer in early May is still in our memory, the pinnacle of sunlight in our year occurs today. June 21st is the day of longest hours of sunlight and shortest ones of darkness. The sun reaches the highest point on its northern trajectory today and calls us to celebrate communally and similarly go within ourselves to embrace what is illuminated by this external solar event. The Solstice is also a turning point and although barely discernable, the duration of darkness begins to increase in the days following June 21st. How are we guided by this turning point in our natural world? To what extent as we celebrate in traditional style this evening, can we each in his/her own life be more present for the positive impact of this turning point? Join us for Summer Solstice Celebration, stand with our Ancestors, let the sunlight breathe into every fibre of your being, be part of a joyous circle & reach for the personal healing promised by our ceremony.

 

SLÍ BRÍDE/BRIGID’S WAY PILGRIMMAGE: Sun. July 7th – Tues. July 16th. Investment €25/day. Faughart (Louth) to Kildare.
Join Karen and Dolores Whelan as they lead the inaugural Brigid’s Way pilgrimage this July. This is an epic homage to the indigenous Irish Divine Feminine as epitomised in Brigid, whether you are called by her as pre Christian goddess or as St.Brigid. You can walk with them for part of the pilgrimage or for the entire journey. Visit their website www.brigidsway.ie to receive a beautiful introduction to the pilgrimage and to book your place.

 

SEX & SPIRITUALITY CONFERENCE: Tues. July 23rd – Fri. July 26th, 10am-5pm. Cost: to be announced. Venue: The Living Room, Clarendon St., Dublin 2.
Karen and John will be presenting at this inaugural event that has been in planning and preparation for many months. Born from the awareness of leading Spiritual facilitators in the city of the unproductive, dysfunctional and often absent link between sex, sexuality and Spirituality in the Irish psyche, a team of facilitators have collaborated to offer a diverse and stimulating series of presentations designed to broaden awareness and stimulate debate on this vital link for our holistic health. (See www.thelivingroomsilence.org)

 

MASTER – HEALERS’ TRAINING: “DESTINY RETRIEVAL”:
Sun.28th July 12pm-6pm. €65. Venue: Slí An Chroí Clinic, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Master-Healers refers to the group of Healers Spiral certified graduates who are dedicated to continuing education and professional supervision. Raise your skill set with new technique learning, sharing with peers and mentoring. This training will bring particpants into a method of Destiny Retrieval that can be brought to client’s healing journey. Deeply related to Soul Retrieval, Destiny Retrieval is an important and powerful technique where the shaman assists the client “step outside Time” to see and integrate the subtle knowing of how to live in this lifetime, informed by the truthful calling of their Soul. Healing can be confined to clearing only our past to improve our experience of the present. However, the shaman knows that there comes a sacred time in our healing journey when our present can be healed from the place of the future. This is Destiny Retrieval. The technique offered by John will be a valuable sidebar to Energy Medicine and Shamanic Counselling you already bring to bear in your healing practice.

 

PERU: ONE SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME: July 30th – August 15th,
For full information, click here

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Thank you for reviewing our Summer offerings & if you would like to learn more about the events, please visit our website, www.slianchroi.ie or www.pathwayoftheheart.ie . We look forward to extending a warm welcome to you this Summertime. If you would like to book a place on any of the events, please contact us by e mail (johnandkaren@slianchroi.ie) or by telephone (01-670 4905). Booking Forms can be downloaded from the website.

 

Le brí na taise, (with the energy of compassion),

John and Karen.

 

SEASONAL MALÁ RITUAL
If you hold a Mála Naofa or sacred bundle, you may consider decorating it with early Summer blossoms to call in the passion, enthusiasm, abundance and creativity of this beautiful fertile and fecund season into your life