About us
This meetup group has been set up to connect the community of people in Dublin and surrounding areas who are interested in sound and its effects on wellbeing. This includes people who simply enjoy singing together, as well as people who specifically use sound for its healing effects. If you would like to learn more about the practice of Sound Healing, look at the 'Pages' tab in the menu above.
The Sound Healing Practitioner Training course is now offered in Ireland. It is accredited by the College of Sound Healing (UK) and recognised by the CMA (Complementary Medical Association).
The course consists of five 2-day courses undertaken over an 18 month period. This training can be undertaken by people whose intention is to heal themselves as well as those who would like to become Sound Healing Practitioners and work with others.
The initial course 'An Introduction to Sound Healing with the Voice' is open to everyone. See Upcoming Meetups for more details.
Check out the pages and discussion boards for more info on Singing, Voice Work & Sound Healing.
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‘At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of waveforms and resonances which is absolutely individual and unique and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with the pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us’.
George Leonard, ‘The Silent Pulse’ Bantam Books, 1981
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Water, Voice & Wild Medicine: A Day Retreat at St Kevin's Holy Well
Glendalough Lower Car Park, Laragh, IEGlendalough, Co. Wicklow | Sat 22 Aug |12pm – 5pm
Deep in the Glendalough valley, tucked beneath the old yew and hazel, St Kevin's Holy Well has been a place of pilgrimage, healing, and quiet reverence for well over a thousand years. Long before it carried a saint's name, this was a place where people came to meet water as a living presence — to drink, to bathe, to leave an offering, to ask for healing, to listen. That older way of relating to water — as sacred, as alive, as kin — is at the heart of this retreat.
On 22 August Rachel and Sophie are coming together again to offer a day retreat at this site, allowing us to be in relation with the waters of this well by the river Glendasan as well as the rich array of plants and trees around it. Our day together will encompass grounding, awakening our senses, ritual, singing, foraging, flower essence-making, leaving you connected to yourself, the land, and the living world around you, and to Irish ancestral heritage.
We bring two threads of practice to weave together over the day:
Sophie Rieu is a community herbalist, forager, and biodynamic craniosacral therapist, whose work moves between the fluid physiology and energetics of the body and the intelligence of plants and place. Her approach is rooted in deep listening — to the body, to the land, to what wants to happen in its own time — and in reconnecting people with the living, edible, medicinal world growing all around us.Rachel Dempsey is a nature-based facilitator, researcher, and founder of Full Circle Change, working at the intersection of voice, ecology, and embodied sustainability practice. Her work uses singing, sound, and nature attunement as a way back into relationship with the more-than-human world — treating the voice not as performance, but as a form of listening, dialogue, and eco-social action.
Together, we offer a day that moves through embodied awareness, water wisdom, song, foraging, plant essences, and communal sound — always in the body, always in the senses, always in direct relationship with the magic and energetics of place.Water, the Well, and the Old Ways
Water connects everything. It moves through rock, root, and cloud, through rivers and rain, through our own blood and tears, in an unbroken cycle that has no real beginning or end. Roughly 60% of the human body is water — the same water, in continual exchange, that falls as rain on Lugnaquilla, rises as mist off the lake, and has moved through this well for centuries. To sit by a holy well is to be reminded, quite literally in the body, that we are not separate from the water cycle: we are the water cycle, temporarily wearing skin.
We will tell and hold the history of St Kevin's Well with care and respect over the day, honouring this sacred place as a site of continuous devotion across traditions, rather than treating it only as scenery.
Senses, Body, Voice
Throughout the day, our shared emphasis is on coming back into the body through the senses — the actual physical experience of being at the well.
You'll be invited to feel the temperature and texture of the water on your skin, to notice the particular quality of light filtering through the canopy, to smell damp moss and stone, to listen to water moving over rock and moving through your own voice.
Singing, in this context, isn't performance — it's a way of using the body as an instrument in direct dialogue with a living landscape, letting sound rise up in response to water, to trees, to each other.Foraging and essence-making work the same way from a different angle: slowing the pace of attention right down to what's growing at eye level and underfoot, engaging taste, smell, and touch as ways of knowing a place rather than only sight. Resonating with the vibrational field of plants through our own vibrant bodies to encapsulate their medicinal 'essence' or signature in water. When we say essence, we really mean whatever emerges between you and the plant as you converse together.
By the end of the day, we hope that your body will have had a direct, felt experience of being in relationship with water, plants, sound, and place and will feel revived and inspired.What to bring:
We will have a potluck lunch at the well so please do bring something to share if you can. Weather-appropriate clothing and footwear for being outdoors all afternoon (the well is exposed to the elements), something to sit on, a water bottle, and a dish to share for the potluck lunch. A small offering for the well, if you wish to bring one, is welcome.
Please note: This retreat takes place entirely outdoors, at and near the well — there is no indoor space to retreat to, so please dress for the Wicklow weather.
Cost is on a sliding scale depending on your means:
€60, €65, €70To book please click here.
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The Ecology of Enchantment - 4 Week Course
Carmelite Community Centre, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, IEDo you worry about the state of the world and at the same time wish you could feel more peace and happiness?
Join Rachel Dempsey and ecologist Dr. Laura Kehoe to explore how to create more space in our lives for awe and wonder even when the world is on fire.
This four week course will be a quest to re-enchant ourselves with existence. It will include interactive practices to explore our wider ecological selves (experiencing ourselves as part of nature) and deepen our gratitude for our unique place in the web of life.
It will be interwoven with songs and soundings, using the power of melody to transport us to that place where the world feels like it’s made of magic. This course will be a riotous rebellion, a collective refusal to be disenchanted and to explore how to fall back in love with life and living.
Invitations will also be offered for practices at home and in nature.
Interactive practices to explore our wider ecological selves will be offered, these include but are not limited to: embodied trips through the history of life on Earth, how to sink in to fascination, the gentle art of joy walking, Mary Olivering (yes, Laura has made a dead poet into a verb), intuitive movement, and many more.
This course is developed for those who want to nourish themselves and unravel into the gentle embrace of the living Earth.Booking is on a sliding scale, from €80-€120, according to ability to pay. Please do contact us the price is a barrier to attending, no-one will be turned away because of a lack of funds.
For Booking:
https://fullcirclechange.ie/event/the-ecology-of-enchantment-4-week-course/
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