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Ancient Éire Wellness® is a space where you will find a sense of fellowship, peace, healing warmth & Ancestral wisdom, beneath the Sun, Moon & Stars, carried by the same wind, fire, water & earth that guided and protected our Ancestors.
Through different activities people can explore & access this learning space, gain insights, restorative moments, fuelled by the whisperings of those who have gone before us, many, many magical moons ago....


Photos: Traditional 3 legged St. Brigid's Cross

Oonagh Grove® is a live classroom, a Peace Grove, named after the Mythical Fairy Queen Oonagh, part of OBOD's Planting programme, using native Irish trees.
Populated with Indigenous herbs, plants & grasses.
Dedicated to Peace, Learning & Wellness.
Garrán Síochána Oonagh
(Oonagh Peace Grove)

The Eight Fold Wheel of the Year


Lunar Festivals
(Quarter Days)
Winter Solstice - Alban Arthan/The Light of Arthur - Grianstad - - 21/22 Dec.
Spring Equinox - Alban Eilir/Light of the Earth - Cónocht an Earraigh - 20th March
Summer Solstice - Alban Hefin/Light of the Shore - Grianstad an tsamhraidh - 20/21/22 June
Authumn Equinox - Alban Elfed/Light of the Water - 21/22/23/24 Sept - Mabon - Cónocht an Fhomhair (These Dates can vary slightly across the years)


Solar/Fire Festivals
(Cross Quarter Days)
Samhuinn - October 31st - Nov 2nd "The time of no time"
Imbolc/Oimelc - Eve of Feb 1st/2nd
Bealtane/Cétshamain - May 1st
Lughnasadh - August 1st


BIO:
Maria Delaney
(Máire Bridget Ní Dubhshláinne) RGN, Masters PGD Learning & Teaching Distinction/Awarded the Deans Academic Award of Excellence.
SWIFT/Maynooth University
- Banfhíli/OBOD & NOD
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Registered with Sound Healing Association of Ireland (SHAI)



Background
Maria's background in Nursing, qualifying and registering as a General Nurse in 1993. Moving on to work and continuously professionally develop as a professional within the healthcare sector. Maria is also a Mother of four, who ranks this role as one of the most significant learning experiences of her life, that she will be forever grateful!
Learning & Teaching
Maria's work is driven by her own personal experience moving through life and education. Re-engaging with education again, as an adult learner, she completed her Post Graduate QQI L9, Masters in learning & Teaching, aimed at Adult/Further education. Achieving an overall Distinction & receiving the Deans Academic Award of Excellence in 2017, changed the course of her life. This experience was one of whole person development - life changing!
Her approach is firmly focused on, helping others to have the same opportunity she had. Maria goes to great lengths to foster the facilitation of learners "whole person development" in her classes, using the learning process itself as a tool to craft an experience that enables participants to flow & develop holistically as individuals, in tandem with course & workplace learning goals.
Currently Maria is an established Health Science Department, Educator & Coordinator, Registered with the Teaching Council of Ireland, working with PLC, Adult Education Students, for City of Dublin Education Training Board.
Complimentary Medicine Practitioner
Maria's early interest in all things "Ancient", has brought her to this point, where she aims to share what she has learnt along the way with others. Maria has trained in Sound Therapy, Gong Mastery and is a Registered Practitioner with the Prestigious Complimentary Medicine Association (MCMA), also registered with the Sound Healing Association of Ireland (SHAI). Maria has merged her expertise & experience as a General Nurse, and Healthcare Educator, to include Sound healing & Gong therapy.
Old Ways, Irish Tradition, Culture & Druidry
Maria holds basic experiential knowledge base around herbs & herbal remedies, something fostered in her early years, some of which was handed down naturally from one generation to the next, Grandmother to Mother to Child, with a large portion gained as a result of personal research and pure interest. As a child, the oral tradition of sharing tall tales, ancient stories & culture, the old ways, swirled around, classrooms, conversations, story books & the landscape of her Grandmothers farm in County Kilkenny. The Farms Life force infused giant Christian Mass stone, its natural spring, and Oak lined ring fort (Ráth), hinted at ancient ways, holding a kind of living history that could captivate anyone who was open to its flow...
Maria began exploring Druidry/Customs and beliefs as a young adult, merging her childhood learnings and experiences, alongside her exploration of ancient Irish sites and myths, finding similarities between the Druidic approach to learning & personal development, through its oral tradition, and her own individual teaching practice approach as an Educator within the Irish Adult Educational system, resulting in her rengagment with this area of study. The art of this storytelling tradition naturally weaved its way into her work, as a Registered Healthcare Professional, where a part of her care provision included the space for connection through storytelling where ever possible. Maria has a a love of life long learning, & continuous personal development.
Ancient Éire Wellness®
Ancient Éire Wellness®, aims to provide a space for you to connect with information, Learning & restorative experiences, inspired by our Ancestors love & connection with nature, the sun, the moon and the stars. Ancient Éire Wellness offers space to pause & re-connect with the self & our natural world, it aims to carry forward some of this magical learning & fellowship to those interested....to live well and love life in the now.
"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imbas



