Singing, Voice work & Sound Healing

This is a half-day nature-based retreat at The Old Farmhouse Retreat, Greenan, Co. Wicklow. This retreat is facilitated by song leader, ethnomusicologist and forest bathing guide Rachel Dempsey (Full Circle Change) and singer, soundbath & breathwork facilitator Kat Green (Old Farmhouse Retreat). The venue is a countryside haven in beautiful Greenan, Wicklow, cradled by the forest and with a rich cultural heritage.

· Learn heart-centred Harmony Songs led by Rachel Dempsey
· Harmonising with the trees in the forest
· Kirtan (call and response singing) & learn more about how cultures use the voice to connect and activate joy.
· Let go of what no longer serves you with a Breathwork & Soundbath journey.
· Downtime to connect with likeminded new friends or just relax creekside in a swing.
· Sing & Sweat with an optional Sauna & creek cold plunge.
· Tea, Drink, and Snacks Provided.

Open to anyone who would like to experience the healing powers of singing, breathwork, sound and nature to restore and reconnect. Open to all regardless of whether you consider yourself an angel or a crow!

Tickets: €90, https://www.theoldfarmhouseretreat.com/event-details/sounding-nature-half-day-circle-songs-retreat-5-september-2026

This is a series of 10 weekly group harmony singing and vocal exploration sessions for anyone who is longing to connect to themselves and others through the voice in service to a more loving world. We will meet every Thursday night from 7-9pm in Dublin 2, from 8 Oct to 10 Dec.

Over the course of these sessions, we will explore together what it is like to cultivate a sense of being enough (with less effort). This is a radical rejection of the ideology of self-improvement, productivity, speed, talent, growth and individualism which we are surrounded by. When we sing, we work intimately with worries around what we sound like, whether the sounds we are making are acceptable, whether we are ‘doing it right’ and ultimately whether we are enough. As we notice these thoughts and feelings, we can invite the ease with which we were born to return. We also work intimately with liberation of our breath and body.

In these sessions you will be invited to become more aware of opportunities to try less, let go more and you will learn about how to support your voice through diaphragmatic breathing and somatic connection.

Humans have gathered to use their voices as tools for healing, prayer, divination, plant communication, echoes of topography, expressions of identity, creators of harmony and much more but music and singing have been reduced largely to entertainment and big business in modern capitalist culture. In these sessions we reclaim our voices as technologies of connection and enchantment. Singing is not for the few, it is our birthright and a means to better health and wellbeing. We will experience beauty not only in the aesthetics of our voices but in their authenticity and capacity to connect us. We do not have to sound or look beautiful to be beautiful as we are all miraculous beings simply by existing. Singing is one of the most powerful tools to connect and bond human beings so as we sing together, you will experience a sense of being held in a container of human sound, a balm for the soul. You may even experience a sense of ‘interbeing’, a deep sense of interconnectedness and non-duality. Contrary to what we are told, us humans are not on this Earth to compete with and dominate each other.

TESTIMONIAL:

“I heard about a study once that said when you sing as a group it releases natural cannibinoids in the brain, I’d sang before but thanks to Rachel’s group I know that study wasnt telling lies! Of all the classes I’ve joined, this is the only one I’d go outside in a storm to get to, I absolutely love it. Rachel is a fantastic facilitator and teacher, extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic, she puts everyone at ease. If there’s still a free spot, jump on it!!”

Laura, Rooted Together in Harmony Participant

This course will also be rooted in what we can learn from Indigenous and traditional cultures and from living systems (nature). We will sing songs which connect us to our ancestral lineages and to the Earth. We will musically explore and celebrate concepts from the Global South such as Ubuntu (a set of related African value systems emphasising interconnectedness) and Buen Vivir (a Latin American concept describing living well as sustainably living in harmony within a community including humans and nature) as well as those from closer to home such as ‘Dinnseanchas’, meaning lore and knowledge of place and ‘dúchas’ (heritage and wildness, a sense of where you come from, to whom and to where you belong).

Essentially, this course is an exploration of inner decolonisation through the cauldron of our collective voices rising up to call for a wilder, kinder and more loving world.

##### Booking & Pricing:

This is a paid event, prices start from €180

https://fullcirclechange.ie/event/rooted-together-in-harmony-oct-dec-2026/