Saturday & Sunday 15th & 16th October 2022

Wellness Festival 2022

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Lisnavagh Wellness Festival 2022

Saturday & Sunday 15th & 16th October 2022
11am-6pm each day

Join us for a celebration of the harvest season at the Lisnavagh Wellness Festival and enjoy the majestic grounds of Lisnavagh House.

The Lisnavagh Wellness Festival is a showcase for many teachers, musicians, facilitators, speakers, healers, thinkers and artists to share their gifts in community. The intention for the festival is to create a space for people to reconnect with themselves, each other and nature.

The Festival is an annual showcase of The Farmyard Lisnavagh - An Eco & Creative Retreat
Eat Sleep Breathe Create - Connecting people with themselves, each other and with nature.

Activities

at Lisnavagh Wellness festival 2022

Yoga & Meditation

The invitation is to let go of ‘doing’ and to allow yourself to simply ‘be’.  

Join Pam / Chris / Teresa / Lisa for their yoga classes that will help you experience the rich benefits of the yoga practice and philosophy.

Pam will also be in conversation about the practical philosophy of yoga in the library on Sunday.

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Cacao Ceremony

The Brick Barn at Lisnavagh is surrounded by nature and stillness that allows you to absorb the vibrations and ceremonial process with cacao...

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Forest Bathing

Forest bathing is something we all need in our lives and can be enjoyed by all age groups with good mobility. Forest bathing is an experience offered to people who can de stress simply by going into the woods for a period of time and with guidance it can benefit our health greatly. Recent scientific studies in Japan have proven that forest bathing reduces our blood pressure, boosts our immune system, improves our sleep patterns and lowers our cholesterol.

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Sauna at the Lake

Sauna at the Lake

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Bee Therapy

Experience lying above the bees...bees generate 35 degrees heat with a soothing vibration. This is an introduction to a new phenomenon with striking effects. It has been proven that those who sleep above bee hives have astonishing health results. John & Martine and there to assist and talk you through this beautiful experience.

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Community Market

Community Market

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Wild Forest School

Fiach Walker grew up with a deep love of nature inspired by his parent’s passion, he spent many long hours of his childhood out exploring the fields and wild places near his home. He began volunteering in social care at the age of fifteen and continued on to study this area in college, enjoying to this day working closely with people.

Fiach trained with the Irish Forest School Association in 2021 and began working with Maura Brennan from the Acorn Project in Kilkenny in the Spring of this year, helping to run in-school projects, after schools programmes, summer camps, inter-generational skills sharing workshops and a rites of passage programme with teenagers.

Fiach is tending to his growing interest in ancestral skills and traditional crafts, herbalism and wellbeing through and with nature.

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Kirtan & Sound Baths

Kirtan & Sound Baths

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Wild Hurling

Wild Hurling

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Holistic Therapies

Holistic Therapies

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Topical Talks

Join us in the Library in Lisnavagh House for a series of enlightening talks, poetry, renditions and more from our guest speakers…

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Meditation

Meditation

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Rave In The Woods

Let yourself go and dance to the meditative tunes deep in the Lisnavagh forest!

Ruairí is a DJ, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dawn chorus enthusiast.

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Breathwork

Breathwork

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Creative Workshops

With our workshops there will be much to absorb and enjoy such as Kirtan singing, shamanic & bio-magnetic healing, hurling workshop and more...

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Tree Planting

Tree Planting

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Shamanic Journey

Shamanic Healing

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Live Music Sessions

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Leisure & Relax

Also at the wellness festival: 

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Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.

Find us

Getting Here

There is a regular bus service to Rathvilly (3 miles from Lisnavagh) from Dublin Busarus in with Bus Eireann www.buseireann.ie and www.jjkavanagh.ie also run a service from Dublin to Carlow town - 20 minutes from Lisnavagh and a €30 taxi ride from opposite the bus station in Carlow.

Other bus routes please see https://www.transportforireland.ie

Accommodation

Please note this is a day event and all our accommodation is taken for facilitators however please see our recommended local accommodation here.

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