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Earthdreaming offers a variety of courses to awaken you to your truest inner nature.

Village Hearth Gathering 17/06/2025

Hello everyone :)

How would it be to live as part of a supportive community that deeply cares about nature?

After 3 years I'm excited to be offering another nature-centred village experience, based on the 8 Shields model of indigenous cultural practices.

This will be a powerful weekend where we will be collectively exploring what emerges when we centre nature connection in our human culture.

Village Hearth will be a nature centred, family-friendly, gathering exploring regenerative culture, Sept 5th-7th, at my home place in Galway.

Join us for late summer abundance, beautiful & deep nature connection practices, a supportive and deepening village experience, and songs & stories around the fire.
Visit https://bringingithome.life/village-nature-gathering/ for more information. Early bird ends June 30th : )
Sky 🌿

Village Hearth Gathering September 5th-7th, 2025 Gort na nDarach, West of Ireland A nature centred, family-friendly, gathering exploring regenerative culture….come experience what emerges when we centre connection to…

25/02/2025

AN INTRODUCTION TO RITES OF PASSAGE & RECLAIMING YOUR MENARCHE

Are you looking to access a greater self love?
Do you long for a deeper connection with your body?
Do you what to support the young women in your life?

We all have an inner maiden, she lives within us through memories & behavioural patterns. Our menarche time, when we first started our menstrual cycles, is a crucial moment when we look to the world for support, care & validation as we begin our journey as a woman. When we are supported and held with love, it creates a foundation for self love for the whole of a woman’s life, and a deep anchor into her own wisdom. Unfortunately most women did not receive the support they longed for at this time, which can set us up for a lifetime of disconnection from our bodies & our inner wisdom.
It is never too late to do a Rites of Passage for a life stage transition we went through in the past, any unmet parts of ourselves still live within us and we can go to meet her and give her what we didn’t receive in the past.

Together we will:
- explore the life-cycle wheel of a women and the rites of passages that happen along the way, what a rites of passage is and why its important.
- share practices for you to connect with your menarche time and tell your story

💗

18/01/2025

Really looking forward to a Google later with my dear friend in support of .fest.galway 💖

M.fest is a really wonderful not-for-profit homegrown, Galway-based, menstruality festival.

09/12/2024

The Celtic Wheel of the Year
An offering for women 🌓

Women's Embodiment Collective, Yoga Moves, Gort.
Thursday 12th & 19th, 6-7:30pm.
Cost: donation €12-15

I'm feeling all warm at the thought of returning to the wonderful , after guiding The Menarche Journey there last year in November.

I'll be offering two sessions on the Celtic Wheel of the Year. We will be exploring the archetypal energy of each of the 8 directions on the compass, both from a pan cultural perspective and an Irish indigenous perspective. I will be offering invitations and resources for the week between the two sessions, to support you to align with the specific opportunities & gifts of the Mid-Winter time.

The cycles of nature are core to every life form on Earth, including us. Each of the stages in the wheel of the year carries a particular energy essential for life to regenerate, and when we consciously move through these stages we can find our wholeness. The 8 directions are a compass home.

I will be offering some teachings at the beginning and then there will be time for sharing, personal reflection time, and an imaginal meditative journey.

You are welcome to come to either or both but ofcourse you will get the most out of it if you come to both.

With gratitude for the crystal clear blue sky today, and the brightness of the Winter sun,

Maria 💛

09/12/2024

An offering for women 🌓 , Yoga Moves, Gort.
Thursday 12th & 19th of December, 6-7:30pm
Cost: donation €12-15

I'm feeling all warm at the thought of returning to the Womens Embodiment Collective this Thursday and the following, after offering the Menarche Journey in the Early Winter last year.

This time I'll be offering two sessions on the Celtic Wheel of the Year. We will be exploring the archetypal energy of each of the 8 directions on the compass, both from a pan cultural perspective and an Irish indigenous perspective. I will be offering invitations and resources for the week between the two sessions, to support you to align with the specific opportunities & gifts of the Mid-Winter time.

The cycles of nature are core to every life form on Earth, including us. Each of the stages in the wheel of the year carries a particular energy essential for life to regenerate, and when we consciously move through these stages we can find our wholeness. The 8 directions offer a compass to finding home and belonging.

I will be offering some teachings at the beginning and then there will be time for sharing, personal reflection time, and an imaginal meditative journey.

You are welcome to come to either or both but ofcourse you will get the most out of it if you come to both.

With gratitude for the crystal clear blue sky today, and the brightness of the Winter sun,

Maria (also known as Sky!)

01/10/2024

Have you heard about ? It’s an intimate festival focused on community, creativity, connection, and empowerment. Over three days, this event is sure to nourish everyone who attends.

The festival offers a unique journey into how our personal wellbeing and the health of our planet are interconnected. It’s a celebration of creativity at a time when it’s needed more than ever.

Imagine Yoga, Dance, Wild Hurling, Tree Planting, Bodhrán Workshops, Bilingual Meditation, Cacao Ceremonies, Sound Baths, Mantra Singing, Bee Therapy, Shamanic Journeys, Poetry, Theatre, Saunas, Ice Baths, Hot Tubs, Sweatlodges, Raves in the Woods, Topical Discussions, and some of Ireland’s finest musicians.

I’m honoured to be a part of this, sharing a deeply connective & restorative session exploring animism, in the beautiful woods there 💚

Kids are welcome too, with a Wild Child Kids area brimming with fun activities to spark creativity.

I hope you'll join me 😊

Find out more and purchase your tickets by visiting and clicking the link in their bio.

18/09/2024

Looking forward to being part of this inspirational crafting village again soon!

10/09/2024

Who is your inner wise woman and what is she holding for you?

Here is s photo of me with my inner wise women which we recently created with the mothers and daughters during Menarche Moon last weekend.

For me she is holding the reminder to make space for self connection, through which I can access the infinite wisdom of life. She is holding the gifts of seasonality in her hands, specifically the Summer and Autumn at this transitional time. She is also holding the sacred hoop of life...reminding me that everything is connected through energy, and I as everyone have access to this oneness.

May we all return to inner knowing, even when our world conditions us to look outside of ourselves to 'authority' ♥️

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The Dreaming up of EarthDreaming

EarthDreaming is a culmination of the discoveries and experiences I’ve had along my path so far. When I was a child I always wanted to either be an artist or an environmental activist. Now I see if we broaden those terms to be truely holistic roles, in a way I have woven both together. After a brief exploration of Art College, and realizing that I didn’t need to be ‘educated’ into creating art, I did a degree in Environmental Biology. Although I very much enjoyed learning and getting into the finer details of life by the end of this time I was deeply disillusioned by how science is funded by industry and the application of the majority of scientific findings for further resource extraction. While I could imagine myself very much enjoying delving deep into the study of some aspect of life I also realized that we know enough to be caring stewards of the Earth, it is connection and the inspiration and motivation that naturally arises from this that we lack. And so I decided to explore practical solutions by doing a 2 year permaculture class. Here I had my first experience of finding my ‘tribe’, that is feeling part of a group of people that had the same concerns as me and were equally passionate about contirbuting to positive change in the world. During this time I explored different ways of being part of the ‘solution’......natural building, organic growing, sustainable energy systems, energetic healing, community facilitation and conflict resolution, different spiritual practices, ancestral skills and more. But I was still left with the question ‘How do all of these weave together to create real and lasting cultural change?’ and a calling to guide people into deeper connection with the Earth, beyond just the mind or the practical. It was time to peel back the next layer of understanding for myself. I wanted to understand how to create systemic change, and my place within this. After training to become a Work-That-ReConnects facilitator I came across Jon Young and the 8-Shields, a body of teachings emerging out of an 8 directional pan-cultural medicine wheel. The 8 Shields offers a big picture framework for how to create whole system change through re-learning indigenous cultural practices emerging out of a foundational personal and community scale deep nature connection. The 8 Shields showed me how all the different pieces I’d been learning fit together, aswell as their relationship to the deep need I was seeing for returning to a sense of belonging to the natural world around us. This was the depth of understanding I felt I needed in order to be able to see my place within the positive change movement. After two years of 8 Shields experiential courses in California it was time to integrate all I had been learning. I spent 3 years co-founding and establishing the forest therapy guide training through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, while still in California. Forest therapy drew on many of the most powerful lineges of training I had recieved... deep nature connection guiding, the Way of Council and cultural repair. I see this practice as a way of facilitating the return to the feminine principles of life....of connection, relationship and deep listening....that have been de-valued in modern Western Culture. I returned to Europe two years ago, and choose to re-root in Ireland last Autumn. All through my learning and travels I have dreamt of starting a school focused on deep nature connection practices and cultural emergence. While I am still involved with forest therapy on an international scale, I also want to focus locally to share what I have learned, host some of the amazing teachers that I have met along the way and also to build community. It is my deep passion to help people return to feeling embodied belonging to the rest of the natural world and then to emerge through this connection in full vitality. I am so happy working with my hands with wild harvested materials, in community.

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