Dearcán Yoga

11/06/2025

Hello Facebook! I am rarely here (I'm on Instagram, a bit) but just in case I miss you or your miss me - here is my next series of workshops, starting under the Solstice sun on 21st June ...

24/08/2022

I'm mostly on Instagram these days, but hopped back to Facebook because I really want to share this .... I am looking forward to sharing my love of full moon yoga practices with new (and old) faces over the coming months. Contact me to reserve a place 🙏

11/05/2022

This really resonates with our Wednesday practice today on Zoom. John O'Donohue understood ritual and threshold so beautifully.

By the way, I'm more active as Dearcán Yoga on Instagram these days, or you can always drop me an email if you have a query: sileyoga@gmail.com

'Thresholds' by John O Donohue from his book Benedictus.

03/04/2022

This was one of the most important journeys I have ever taken, and easily my most significant training in yoga. My incomporable mentor and guide, Sarah Fox, led us by hand through a forest she imagined of oak and willow trees, where we danced, grew, slept, stumbled, wept, laughed and learnt from her, from our inspiring guest teachers, from each other and most importantly from our selves. And if that does not sound like your regular yoga training, it's because it was NOT, it was something other, something liminal, something touched with magic.

29/03/2022

What a 15 month journey it has been with the magical Sarah Fox of the unique Oak and Willow Teacher Training. From tiny acorns grow great oaks, indeed. (Still growing, though, so am very much in denial about this graduation/ending business!)

02/03/2022

26/01/2022

Agus muid ag druidim i dtreo Imboilg, bíodh fuinneamh an Earraigh ionat le cleachtadh Yoga 🧘🏽‍♀️
Yoga as Gaeilge Déardaoin 6-7 ar Zoom: cuir ríomhphost chuig sileyoga@gmail.com 🙏🏼

Éirí na gréine, Baile Mhóntáin

13/01/2022

Uaireanta, cuirtear fianaise os do chomhair go bhfuil an tEarrach ag teacht ...
Tá béim ar athruithe agus séasúir agus bláthú sa sraith nua de Yoga as Gaeilge- a thosaigh anocht. Spásanna ar fáil má tá dúil agat ann 🙏🏼
Gach Deardaoin 6.00-7.00 in. ar Zoom 🧘🏽‍♀️
Cuir ríomhphost chugam sileyoga@gmail.com

08/01/2022

Loving being gently cajoled into a regular practice again with Adriene.

My own classes will start up again on Zoom this coming week ... Hatha Yoga on Wednesday evenings and Hatha Yoga as Gaeilge on Thursdays. Spaces available in both groups. Email me for details ... sileyoga@gmail.com 🙏🏼

When we take time to nurture the relationship with our subtle body and breath, we create a sense of wholeness, of feeling complete, more true.

This can then lead to us feeling more confident and more capable of loving ourselves.

And that of course can have a beautiful ripple effect, a movement beyond ourselves.

So as we begin to add more vocabulary and depth through visualization and imagination remember,

How you move matters.

Excerpt from MOVE A 30 DAY YOGA JOURNEY - which is rolling out w/ thousands of people practicing each day to improve function in brain and body.

What day are you on?



(Sign up via www.ywamove.com)

28/10/2021

This was kind of where we were going with our Yoga Nidra practice on Zoom tonight. ❤
Oak & Willow Yoga Training Sarah, ain't she beautiful?

The Mud Maid can be found at -
The Lost Gardens of Heligan (Cornish: Lowarth Helygen, meaning "willow tree garden") are located near Mevagissey in Cornwall, England.

21/10/2021

I am available to speak about the course via email, phone or video chat.

Email
sarah@oakandwillow.ie
for a prospectus,
a recording of our introductory open day
or to book a zoom meeting
to answer any questions you may have.

Don't forget that the Early Bird ends on October 31st

18/10/2021

An Old Irish Triad:

Imbas forasnai
Teinm laedo (láida)
Díchetal do chennaib

Inspiration
Interpretation
Improvisation

Imbas means ‘inspiration’, in particular the sacred inspiration believed to be possessed by a filí (visionary poet or “seer”), a professional poet in ancient Ireland whose official duties were to know and preserve the tales and genealogies of the people, especially the ruling class. Forosnai meaning ‘illuminating’ or ‘that which illuminates’. Sometimes Imbas Forasnai is seen to be called “hidden information from the mouth”.

Teinm Láida involves the repetitive singing or chanting until a meditative or trance-like state is induced. Teinm laedo or sometimes láida is translated as “cracking the marrow” or “illumination of song”. Breaking or cracking the marrow is a literal translation but refers to cracking the pith or chewing the sacred hazelnuts, a legendary source of wisdom. It is seen in our myths that when Fionn mac Cumhaill needed “something revealed to him” that he recited the teinm láida with his thumb in his mouth, then the knowledge he wished to gain was revealed to him. Sometimes referred to as the “Thumb of Knowledge”. In 'Acallam na Sénorach', the most important text of the Finn Cycle and the longest surviving work of medieval Irish literature, this ability is referred to as “The Tooth of Wisdom” or “Tooth of Knowledge” (Old Irish: dét fis). Of course, this is the thumb that he burnt on the skin of the Salmon of Knowledge.

Dichetal do chennaib means "extempore incantation" or "impromptu, spontaneous performance or speech without prior preparation". Also known as “Speaking from Heads” which is singing, prophecy, divination or “an inspired word at the right moment”, a performance of wise words without preparation.

We can be inspired by this triad when teaching yoga.

How do you feel we can embody this ancient wisdom?