Nature Folklore

A casual interactive online session. Presentations and discussions about the food harvests from a few gardens, and tips about how we are storing, preserving, drying, and what we are looking forward to from now until next Spring when we start again..

A herb session without herb books. A quest to learn a bit from herb plants through your senses, and past uses memories. An experience of wonder, trust, discovery and confidence about some of the plants that may already surround you.

You will not need to know their names of the herbs but allow senses to discover how they can benefit you and how to harvest and store them. A lovely intimacy with nature session.

Informal poetry sharing online gathering for Heritage Week in Ireland. Poems submitted and performed about ancient sites, traditions. and folklore, from around Ireland

Applying folklore to explore deep passions that inspire our poetry, writing, music, crafts, dancing, and drama.

Folklore stories of Aislings arousing passion in men, and Green Man variations arousing passion in women. Both have been the dynamic inspiration of profound writing, art, crafts, and dramatic lives

Beyond Lughnasadh traditions and onto focus on our own first harvests, fresh local produce in the markets, farm shops, and local shops. Focus on our gratitude moments of sensory attention and celebration for the magic of growing and what this year's harvest has provided for us.

Combining Lughnasadh Traditions with a live small Country Fair market at Ballagh Farm Shop. Trading on Lunasa Holiday weekend is a major tradition of this time, Lammas Fair. This year social distancing and masks included, but still recorded interviews

featuring bilberries, bilberry bushes romance, garlands, tying the knot, chopping off golden heads, first harvest loaf, first harvest ale, first harvest spuds, dog shows, baby shows, Lammas Fair, Crom Dubh, Crom Cruach, Mag Slécht, deeds of Lugh, and people showing off their prowess through sports and chopping down more trees to make more fields, to grow that stuff of golden heads to chop off next year, and make mpre bread, more ale, and more crusts for bilberry pie.

With this session I cover the Ogham references in the ancient Book Of Ballymote and tales of Bards related to the Ogham both from the Scriptoreum of Ballymote and the Tuatha De Dannan tales of Corran, or Coarran the Bard of Dean Cecht. I also share suggestions of how these stories can assist our imagination, creativity and project outcomes today.

This session is adopted from my own Ogma's Tale Of The Trees and offers a fun and inspirational opportunity to return to nature's sensory language and arrive back to where we are now through a glimpse of how we interpret Ogham.

I love exploring the folklore of dragons and serpents. They are certainly not satanic worship but a beautiful imagery of the seasonal cycles of life.

The stories that arise from the annual life cycle and spiral fill us with wonder and a whole spectrum of emotions. There are several serpent and dragon stories around where we live.

Enjoy ideas for uncoiling serpent wisdom within ourselves.

A follow up to our March 'Us And Trees' Session.

Going into more depth with what you interpret a Tree Sanctuary is, and how to become a living part of it.

Presented also are the eco benefits and the personal Green Prescription health benefits. How it’s a way to Grow Your Own Oxygen too.