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Sarah Fox
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BSc (hons) Herbal Science
Practitioners Diploma in Herbal Medicine
ITEC, FETAC, Tuina Association Ireland qualified in therapies

Clinical Herbal Medicine
Yoga - online and in person
Yoga Teacher Trainer
250hr and 500hr Yoga Alliance Professionals recognised Yoga School (www.oakandwillow.ie)
Pilates
Functional Range Conditioning
Priestess of the Sacred Land
Coire SOIS School of Irish Spirituality
Holistic Nutrition
Therapeutic Massage
Aromatherapy
Traditional Chinese Medicine (Tuina/Acupressure)

04/02/2026

I have to admit that I was shocked when the legend that is applied for
but I think it's a testament to what the course can offer every individual, no matter what their background is. Amy already was already teaching for many years but a shared community was what she craved for some inspiration and kinship.

In this episode of the Oak & Willow podcast, I have such an amazing chat with Amy Russell. It's a rich, reflective conversation that weaves together yoga, shamanic healing, Irish spirituality, and the lived reality of being human in uncertain times.

The conversation moves gently through themes of shadow work, the evolving role of the healer, and the delicate balance between effort and surrender. There is a strong emphasis on trusting the process, honouring both light and dark, and allowing spirit to guide without bypassing the very real needs of the body and nervous system.

Amy Russell is a shamanic healer, spiritual mentor, yoga teacher, and medium rooted in West Cork, Ireland. She has spent over 25 years on the healing path, blending shamanic practices with yoga, meditation, and embodied self-worth work to support deep transformation and connection to spirit and body. Amy trained in shamanic and holistic modalities, including training in San Francisco at the Hargobind Ashram and in Peruvian and Celtic shamanic traditions here in Ireland. She is also a Reiki Master and trained in Advanced Integrative Energy Therapy, and she holds extensive experience teaching yoga, meditation, breathwork, and ceremonial practice. Amy facilitates retreats, workshops, private healing sessions, and longer mentorships that weave together ancestral connection, sacred site work, and personal practice. At the heart of her work is a commitment to helping people reconnect with their inner wisdom, body awareness, and spiritual resonance.

There are TWO ADVANCED TRAINING PLACES left and we begin on FRIDAY 6TH FEBRUARY

Comment OAK below to receive the prospectus or email sarah@oakandwillow.ie

21/01/2026

The Quickening 🌱
is a 28 day journey, shared through
a WhatsApp container.

Every second day, you’ll receive a morning
and an evening invitation that takes
just a few minutes a day to explore,
and is easy to integrate into ordinary life.

The pacing is slow and intentional,
offering space rather than pressure,
so the practices don’t become
another 'thing to keep up with'.

Through short written prompts for reflection, voice notes, videos of embodiment practices,
and more, you’ll be guided to reconnect
with yourself, with nature and
with the living rhythms of the land.

Practices may include journal prompts,
nature connection skills, meditation,
somatic and movement work,
herbal medicine insights, and
simple nourishment suggestions.

There’s no right or wrong way to engage.
You’re invited to meet yourself exactly
where you are, allowing gentle daily practices to support a natural stirring,
and a sense of sprouting with the spring.

www.oakandwillow.ie/events

Or email sarah@oakandwillow.ie

As we move out of deep winter and into the first promise of lighter days, something begins to stir.
Beneath the cold ground, seeds are gathering energy.
Trees are preparing their first movements toward spring.
The land is readying itself.

The Quickening is a 28 day supported practice designed to help you reconnect with this moment of transition: the returning of the light, and the steady build of energy that comes before outward growth.

This is an ideal time to:

🌱 Nourish the seeds of new intentions, ideas, and ways of being

🌱 Prepare your body, nervous system, and inner landscape for brighter days ahead

Across the 28 days, we will be working with:

🌱 Nature connection practices rooted in seasonal awareness

🌱 Somatic and physical exercises to support energy, resilience, and grounding

🌱 Inner wilderness wanderings and guided reflections

🌱 Storytelling and wisdom drawn from the land and the turning year

🌱 We won't be forcing change, but the invitation is to listen and prepare, while aligning to what the natural world is doing now.

Join Sarah and Sam for this shared exploration.

18/12/2025

A series of upcoming collaborations with

& other nature-based practitioners, rooted in land connection, embodied practice, and a shared remembering of belonging within the living world.

On this coming Saturday & Sunday, Sam and I will give you some gentle tools for wintering with the Land. We'll gather online on Saturday to fill our toolkit and then head out on the land in our own time and place to put the skills into practice.
Then we'll gather again on Sunday evening online to integrate and share our experiences.

And I'm SO EXCITED that
in April, Sam, Steve, Vicky and I will be teaching skills to bring you into more comfort and connection while in the wild. This is a full weekend immersion into wild skills, stewardship and enjoyment, at the Riverhollow Nature Reserve in Co. Kilkenny.
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Book or see more on

www.sarahfox.ie/events

10/12/2025

🌿 The Forest Path Ireland

17 to 19 April 2026, Riverhollow Co. Kilkenny

A gentle introduction to living well outdoors.
Over three days you will learn simple, dependable outdoor skills from seasoned woodsfolk who live close to the land. This is not survivalism. It is a welcoming, hands on immersion for people who love nature and want to feel more at home under open skies.

You will explore plant identification and hedge medicine, crafting with natural materials, fire tending and outdoor cooking, shelter with confidence, knife handling and carving basics, and mindful nature connection.

Weekend Flow

Friday 17 April, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. arrival
Settle in, choose your camping spot, bring whatever setup you want to learn with. Dinner provided.

Saturday 18 April
Full day of skills, crafting, plant lore, fire, and woodland time. Breakfast and lunch self catered. Dinner provided.

Sunday 19 April
Slow morning, integration, riverside wandering, light skills refreshers. Self catered breakfast and lunch. Depart 4 p.m.

Taught by Sam Gravestock, Vicky Neill Steve McDermott, Sarah Fox, and a special guest.

Expect laughter, learning, good company, and the confidence that you can do far more than you thought.

€345 for three days on the land
Bookings at www.sarahfox.ie/events

22/11/2025

My time in Puerto Rico was exceptionally rich, steeped in wonder, enchantment and the kind of beauty that opens new doors inside you.

I travelled to the sacred Taíno 'Cave of the Indian' near Arecibo, a place that had been calling to me long before I set foot on that shore 🌀

I was guided there by the most phenomenal tour guide, a man whose passion for Puerto Rico poured through every story he shared.

His knowledge of history, philosophy, politics and the old ways was immense, but even more powerful was the sense of safety he created for me. Because of him I found enough courage to climb/boulder my way down into the cave, feeling scared yet utterly held 🤍 There were just two tricky bits where it was nerve wracking, I'm not great with heights and not knowing where to put my feet. Shmuel guided me in with patience and clarity.

Inside, the petroglyphs waited. Ancient Taíno carvings etched into stone, filled with presence, memory and spirit. Shmuel brought each one alive with his descriptions 🙏🏻

The cave felt like a necessary threshold before moving deeper toward El Yunque, or Yuqué as it is named in the Taíno language, the rainforest of cloud, mountain and myth 🌦🌿
There in the sacred rainforest our group gathered and I am always SO grateful to work with my dear and delightful friend .bowman 💞.

We listened to the forest and the spring water rock pools, where the water speaks in its own language. We vigiled in silence and let the land reveal what it wished to reveal. We moved our bodies, worked with the elements and the doshas, and everyone received exactly what they needed in their own perfect way.

The greatest blessing of all was meeting Sanakori, ceremonial leader and Behike of the Taíno. Through story, myth and deep presence he opened a doorway for us into the living spirit of the land. The ceremony he offered was one of the most extraordinary experiences I have ever been part of. I cannot speak for anyone else, but I know that I will carry it in my bones forever. I am awed by the power of rattle, chant and song.

I left Puerto Rico grateful beyond words.
Forever changed.
Forever humbled by shared experience

20/11/2025

Online donation based yoga classes on Thursdays at 5.00pm for the winter months ☃️❄️🧘🏻‍♀️🕉️

This offering is a donation-based class in my style of teaching with a little bit of community discussion and catch up.

The class will be 5.00pm to 6.30pm on Zoom.

Register at the link in my 6io on the 'gram or email sarah@oakandwillow.ie

Donation is up to you.
There's a link in my bio to throw in whatever you feel like.
Come along, pay what you can, if you can't pay please come along anyway!

New class time begins TODAY,
November 20th 2025

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24/10/2025

Is nature the missing nutrient?

I spent a few weeks doing admin tasks, lots of numbers, tax time, writing new syllabii for Oak & Willow, all the computer work and always indoors.

Somewhere in that, I went flat. I lost my sparkle.

Then on Monday I saw an old map on a café wall and I was fairy led up a mountain in search of a sacred stone with rock art. I used my new navigation skills to find the exact spot, but the stone was hidden by bracken. I will go back another time for a deeper search, but that hill was alive with monuments and mystery.
I found so much!

And just like that, re-enchantment found me again. My sparkle returned threefold. ✨✨✨

Nature is a nutrient..
Perhaps the most vital one of all, for me.

As I prepare for our retreat in Puerto Rico, surrounded by the rainforest and crystal clear fresh water pools, I am reminded that
nature restores what the modern world drains.
It is the medicine that brings us back to wonder, vitality and belonging.

We have one more place left on the Puerto Rican Retreat...

Our upcoming retreat in Puerto Rico is an immersion in the living spirit of the rainforest, held in the lush heart of El Yunque where the mists rise through the canopy and waterfalls sing the old songs of Atabey.

Across six days we will move, breathe, and listen to the land through yoga, ceremony, and sound. It is a pilgrimage of re-enchantment, a remembering that nature is not separate from us but the very pulse that restores our sparkle and calls us home.

www.sarabowman.com/el-yunque for info

with the amazing .bowman

22/10/2025

The Wild Swans at Coole 🦢🦢

By William Butler Yeats

🦢🏞️🌿✨

The trees are in their autumn beauty,

The woodland paths are dry,

Under the October twilight the water

Mirrors a still sky;

Upon the brimming water among the stones

Are nine-and-fifty swans.

The nineteenth autumn has come upon me

Since I first made my count;

I saw, before I had well finished,

All suddenly mount

And scatter wheeling in great broken rings

Upon their clamorous wings.

I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,

And now my heart is sore.

All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,

The first time on this shore,

The bell-beat of their wings above my head,

Trod with a lighter tread.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,

They paddle in the cold

Companionable streams or climb the air;

Their hearts have not grown old;

Passion or conquest, wander where they will,

Attend upon them still.

But now they drift on the still water,

Mysterious, beautiful;

Among what rushes will they build,

By what lake's edge or pool

Delight men's eyes when I awake some day

To find they have flown away?

🦢🦢

I've no reason for sharing this other than beauty.

The swan on the left was particularly photogenic, he kept changing angle as if to say
"did you get the shot?",
I feel he'd done some modelling before.

Thank you swans of the river Barrow 💚

08/10/2025

Spirit of Place ✨🌿💚

To 'walk beautifully on the Earth' is to live in a way that is mindful, gentle and deeply connected to nature. It is to allow the natural world to shape us rather than to impose our will upon it. It means recognising our relationship with all living things, fostering a spirit of non-domination and wonder toward the natural world, and moving beyond a mindset that sees the Earth only as a resource.
Part of walking beautifully is acknowledging the ancestors of the land on which you stand.

When I first reached out to Sanakori, it was because I wanted a representative of the Taíno people to give me permission to work with the land in El Yunque. His kindness, openness and invitation grounded us in El Yunque last year. Now, as we deepen this bond, I feel humbled and honoured that he accepted the invite to teach at our upcoming November retreat. I feel blessed that we will sit in ceremony, listen, and learn.
This is not something I take lightly. It feels like a sacred responsibility; to walk in humility, to hold space for Indigenous wisdom, to show up to the Land.

To cultivate wonder and presence, we must approach the world with a barefoot heart and a barefoot mind, honouring the earth by being fully present in its wild places. To recognise our universal connectedness is to remember that humans, animals, plants and stones and the unseen spirits of place are kin, and that peace comes through coexistence with both the seen and the unseen, those bigger powers.

Our El Yunque Retreat, November 3rd–9th 2025,
is shaped around Rewilding and Centering.
You are invited to rediscover yourself in the untamed beauty of El Yunque Rainforest.
To step away. To breathe.
To return to that inner stillness.

We will embrace the elements. We will immerse ourselves in rainforest, water, wind, earth and fire. We will move in ceremony, in silence, in sound.
We will allow the Land to hold us.

Sanakori’s presence is a bridge, a living link to ancestral lines and to the wisdom murmuring in river stones and bamboo trees.

To anyone feeling this call, you are welcome.

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