This Summer on my visit home to Ireland, my husband and I hired a camper van and headed out onto the small and windy roads of the beautiful Emerald Isle, for a 10-day pilgrimage to the sacred sites. Wondering about the best way to share this amazing experience with you, it felt most powerful to align the sites we visited during our trip to my Celtic Wheel of Life, taking you on an archetypal journey of birth, death and rebirth in relationship with the ancient sacred sites of Ireland.
Being Irish and living in the United States, I get asked a lot about Ireland. It seems to be on everyone’s bucket list! I get asked about where to go, when’s the best time to visit … or even asked to come visit with me the next time I go home! So I thought I’d help this process along a little bit, and put together a few “insider” tips and suggestions for all ye American folk who’d like to visit the Emerald Isle …
This time 10 years ago I was living in a very silent world, well at least silent externally (more about that later!). It’s mid March 2009, and I’m cloistered up in a Vipassana meditation centre perched on the side of a Himalayan foothill, overlooking to city of Kathmandu, Nepal. In the land of the world’s highest mountains, emerging from 100 hours of meditation is akin to climbing Mount Everest! Here are some lessons I gleaned from those 10 days …