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Sarah Fox
Health Herbs Movement

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)

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.

COMMENT RETREAT BELOW

07/10/2025

Of the trees, Arjuna, I am the holy fig tree (Ashvatta, the peepul tree), which represents the ‘upside-down’ tree of life, with its roots above in spirit and its branches below in the earth. Among the most spiritually enlightened divinities, I am Narada, the foremost of those who teach the principle of unity amidst the world’s vast diversity.

Bhagavad Gita 10:26

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“There is an old adage that says nothing is sacred, but that means everything is.”

Sanakori

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The more we look for difference,
the more we forget our shared roots.
But when we listen, truly listen, to the Land,
we remember that we are one tree, one breath, one Spirit expressed through countless forms.

Unity!

Friar Ramón Pané, sent by Columbus to learn from the Indigenous people of Puerto Rico, recorded their traditions and ceremonies, just as the monks of Ireland preserved our pagan lore.

Across oceans and epochs, the impulse has always been the same, to understand the Sacred.

Through my work with Oak and Willow Irish Yoga Teacher Training, and now these incredible retreats that I am running with Sara Bowman in Puerto Rico, the message we are sharing is that when you listen to the Land speak, you come as a reverent seeker, with no hierarchy or sense of entitlement.

Sanakori, a ceremonial leader of the Taíno people, will teach us how to know the Land of El Yunque Sacred Rainforest more deeply, how to hear it speak through the river, the trees, and the coquí frogs, and how its story is mapped into myth.

This has been my work here in Ireland for many years, but to have the privilege of standing upon another Sacred Land, beside the gathered Sisters who will come to the retreat, and in the presence of a holder of Indigenous wisdom, is profoundly moving to me.

This is the call of the Sacred Land, in Ireland, in Borikén, in all places where Spirit speaks through nature.
Will you answer it?

🌿 Unity is the only medicine. 🌿

25/09/2025

🌿 El Yunque Retreat | November 2025 🌿

In every indigenous culture the body is recognised as sacred, not separate from the land. We are landscape. To remember this is to return to wholeness.

In the sacred rainforest of El Yunque we gather to reclaim this truth. Each drop of mist, each song of coquí, each pulse of thunder and rain reminds us that our bodies are part of a greater body. Movement becomes prayer, stillness becomes offering, and to touch the earth is to touch the soul.
We are honoured to be joined by Sanakori, ceremonial leader of the Taíno people, who will guide us into ancestral ways of remembering. Through story, ceremony, and connection with the rainforest we will awaken to the sacredness of body, spirit, and land.

This retreat is not an escape.
It is a return. A return to the body.
A return to the land. A return to the sacred.

Join us if you feel called to sit in ceremony, walk the sacred forest, and experience the living spirit of the zemís in El Yunque. 🌱🔥

Through yoga, embodiment practices, and connection with the land, we honour the wisdom of nature and the rhythms within ourselves.

Come reconnect with your body, your soul, and the vastness that resides inside us all.

Embrace the Elements Retreat:

• 6 nights at Sierra Palma in Casa Cubuy.

• Nourishing, plant-based meals.

• Daily yoga sessions focusing on somatics, therapeutic practices, nervous system regulation, and balancing energy.

• Guided rainforest hikes with fresh river pools near the head of the river.

• Tea ceremony and hibiscus plant spirit medicine vigil.

• An afternoon at a Caribbean beach

• Ample free time to rest, reflect, and explore.

Price: $1950

www.sarabowman.com/retreats

“Owning up to being an animal, a creature of earth. Tuning our animal senses to the sensible terrain: blending our skin with the rain-rippled surface of rivers, mingling our ears with the thunder and the thrumming of frogs, and our eyes with the molten sky. Feeling the polyrhymic pulse of this place - this huge windswept body of water and stone. This vexed being in whose flesh we’re entangles. Becoming earth. Becoming animal. Becoming, in this manner, fully human"
-David Abram

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