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A wonderful birthday! Arriving at Mountshannon and

A wonderful birthday!
Arriving at Mountshannon and greeted by an unexpected friend who took our pic and sang a happy birthday!
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Kayak on Lough Derg and circumnavigate Holy Island, exploring this sacred island, picnic, rest and back to shore for some music at @mountshannonarts festival, dinner watching sun go down at the Piper's Inn..
What a magical day with my lovely @mjpguerin
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I'm delighted to be hosting a Breathwork Journey i

I'm delighted to be hosting a Breathwork Journey in @angeltimes on Sunday 18th June - 7.30pm - 9.30pm.

This breathwork journey introduces you to the power of conscious connected breathing. A natural, powerful and a deep dive into the longing of the soul to reveal, remember and connect us to true nature. A time to dive into what is holding us back from living life more wholeheartedly.

In this safe and nurturing environment, I will hold a space with you held with sacred intention as we journey through movement, music and breath. This journey invites your breath and soul to be your own guides and lead you to where ever you need to go to remember the truth of your perfect nature, which is love at it’s core.

If you have not done breathwork with me before, you will need to get in touch with me before you book, see more information below on breathwork.

Would you like to join us?

What will happen in the session?
❤️ We'll connect the group and drop into our body and breath
❤️ You’ll be introduced to the simple conscious breathwork technique
❤️ You will be supported on your inner journey with the breath through movmeent, spoken guidance and evocative music. Most people lie down for the session.
❤️ There will be time at the end to journal and share experiences.

You don't need any previous experience to join us, however you will need to get in touch with me before booking.

Would you like to join us and open to the powerful potential of a courageous deepened breath?
Dm me

The healing power of flowing water, dappled sunlig

The healing power of flowing water, dappled sunlight and vibrant green trees.
Clare Glens at its best today ❤️🎶

Fabulous day learning the craft of labyrinth makin

Fabulous day learning the craft of labyrinth making at White Strand in Co Clare.⚛️✡️☸️🔯
A meditation in the making and a release in the 🚶‍♀️
And a bonus of my first swim of the year.
Such a beautiful day ❤️⚘️🙏

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Poetry Dive (ONLINE TONIGHT!) You don’t have to

Poetry Dive (ONLINE TONIGHT!)

You don’t have to be a lover of poetry, or a writer of poetry to be touched by the power of the spoken word.

A poetry dive invites you to drop into the body, into the alchemy of music and insightful poetry and discover joy, sadness, peace, connection, disconnection, memories - whatever is ready to emerge from your meeting with yourself in this alchemy… It is a truly magical journey.

Date: 22nd May 2023
Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Location: Zoom
Cost: 30 euro
DM me to book or online at www.lucia.ie/yoga

#poetrydive #spokenword #poetryalchemy #rumi #maryoliver #poetrymedicine

Thanks for a wonderful series of yoga that complet

Thanks for a wonderful series of yoga that completes this week with a gentle restorative practice and sound bath - you are all welcome!
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🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️New 6 week series starting next Thursday at 7pm. The focus on this series will be a welcome to the sunlight and turning more outward with the Sun Salutation series. This is a beautiful practice, a flow that will incorporate all that we have learned with our energy body and breath. The flow will introduce the concepts of sthira-sukham, which is the balance of stability & strength and ease & comfort.
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Would you like to join us? whether you've been practising with us or not, you are very welcome.
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🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️7-week series on the same theme on Tuesday mornings at 7am
All classes cam be streamed online
hari om 🙏🙏

Join @hummingbirdmentoring and me for a Bealtaine

Join @hummingbirdmentoring and me for a Bealtaine Celebration in the sacred site of Grange Stone Circle and Boher. It will be a day to connect with the lands, the stone, the circle and an invitation to blossom into the season of Bealtaine.

There will be ritual, shamanic and poetic journeying, community, talking stick, sound and movment.

Are you called??
pm me for more info, click on bio to book.

Date: Sunday 14th May 2024
Time:10:00am - 4:30 pm
Location: Grange Stone Circle and Boher Community Centre
Sustenance: Tea/Coffee breaks and Light Lunch included.

Cost: 85 euro

Join me this Sunday for a one day BREATHWORK retre

Join me this Sunday for a one day BREATHWORK retreat.
➡️A day to dive into what is deeply calling you
➡️A day to turn toward your essence, release what's holding you back from living wholeheartedly
➡️A day to turn towards freedom...
➡️dm me for more info

#consciousconnectedbreath #breathwork #luciayogaandwellness

Great welcome from Davy and @joannefaulknershiatsu

Great welcome from Davy and @joannefaulknershiatsu. Davy took us on a seaweed walk near Castletownbere, and Joanne showed us many culinary uses of it. A weekend full of foraging, cooking, friendship, games, chanting and loads of laughs!
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Here's a selection we picked and dried.. abundance of nutrition available on our sea shores!
#seafood #seaweed #castletownbere

We have moved through the first 6 chakras and this

We have moved through the first 6 chakras and this week will explore the qualities of the 7th, Crown Chakra or sahasrara,the thousand petal lotus. 🪷
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What I'm called to remember, is that this journey through the chakras isn't a destination, to experience the gifts and insights of the crown chakra, it is essential to to be rooted in the earth, just like the lotus flower. It is through this human body, we sense, feel, experience the connection to the infinite.
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💜 Location: located at the top of the head, or slightly above – like a crown, radiating upward.
Linked to the brain and the nervous system. Associated with the pituitary gland, secondarily with the pineal and the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus and pituitary gland work together to regulate the endocrine system (all of the body’s biological processes). Energetically, the seventh chakra has a connection with the first chakra – one with the earth, one with the heavens, siva & shakti.
💜 Element: connection to thought, wisdom, divine, choosing our thoughts. We’ve been cultivating that awareness that we’re not our thoughts in each class, as we pause to watch our thoughts, notice our sensations, feel our feelings.. sinking our breath with our movement.
💜 Colour: white or violet
💜 Mantra: om
💜 Questions: When working with the Crown chakra, our attention turns from ourselves to the world around us.
🌟 How am I connected to the world?
🌟 How can I gain clarity about my place in the world?
🌟 How can I better serve the world?
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#crownchakra #yogawithlucia #yoga #meditation #energy #spirituality #chakras #amethyst #thirdeye #chakra #energyhealing #spiritualjourney #soundhealinglimerick #bijamantra #omshanti

This one day workshop introduces you to the sacred

This one day workshop introduces you to the sacred yogic sounds of sanskrit.
We will introduce the origins of the sounds, and travel from there to the most famous of mantras oṁ and bīja mantras discover the deeper truths and power of these mantras.
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This course is for you if you have ever been touched by the power of sound. Whether you are a yoga teacher, sound healer or simply curious how the utterance of human sound can relax us, heal us and ultimately liberate us.
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These sounds invite us into greater depths of knowing of ourselves through understanding, practice and attention.
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Date: Saturday, 4th March, 2023
Time: 10:30am - 4:30pm
Cost and Duration: €80.00
Qualification Gained: 6 hrs CPD and a College of Sound Healing certificate of attendance on completion of the workshop

Technical Requirements: Internet access, computer/tablet/phone, speaker/headset, zoom

#joyofsanskrit #luciayogawellness #mantra #ommantra #bijamantra #sacredsounds #vocalsounds

This week we are working with the 6th major energy

This week we are working with the 6th major energy centre in the body. It is located at the center of your forehead between your eyebrows.
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We have taken the journey from the lower, 'me' centered chakras, to the mid, 'we' centered chakras and now move to the more subtle chakras where there is a sense of 'something more' beyond ourselves, perhaps a presence/knowing/intuition beyond what we can touch or see. The Sanskrit name for the Third Eye Chakra is Ajna, which means “to perceive.”

It is the space of Chidākāsha - the space (ākāsha) of knowing or consciousness (chit), it is the link between the conscious, subconscious and super-conscious. It is is the seat of our intuition, our deepest wisdom, it teaches us about vision, insight, and spiritual growth.
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It invites us to imagine, to dream, to imagine, which allows us to open to new possibilities, beyond what we can see and touch. It is connected to our pineal gland which affects our sleep cycles and circadian rhythms.
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When your Third Eye Chakra is not in balance, you may find it hard to make decisions or on the flip side, be close-minded and so detail-oriented that you lose sight of the big picture.
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Location: space between the eyebrows
Name: ajna (to perceive)
Element: light
Colour: violet
Sound: om
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Affirmation for the third eye chakra: “I can see clearly and know what I need to thrive"
#yogawithlucia #chakrayoga #sound healing #soundhealinglimerick

This week in our yoga practice we are moving to th

This week in our yoga practice we are moving to the fifth chakra – Vishuddha (pure or purification), our throat chakra.
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It is our centre of communication and expression. With ourselves, our inner dialog, with others and also as it sits between the lower chakras and the head, it also governs our internal communication with our true Self.
When this chakra is balanced, we are able to listen to the guidance of pure energy, our soul, our deepest wisdom and truth.
This chakra not only governs voice/sound/thought, it also opens up our listening.
Through the throat, sound is propagated into the air and its vibration can be felt not only in the ears, but through the whole body. Make a soynd and follow it into silence...
💙Element: Ether. It’s all about space – the essence of emptiness. Have you space in your body, in your heart, your head? or is it cluttered?
💙Colour: blue - expansive and open to the blue sky
💙Mantra: ham
The throat chakra is related to the expression of yourself through truth, purpose, creativity and individuality. It is related to the sacral chakra, another centre of emotions and creativity. The throat chakra’s focus is on expressing ideas clearly, gracefully and honestly, and projecting one’s authentic creativity into the world.
💙Do you communicate clearly?
💙can you ask for what you need?
💙If you listen to your inner voice, what does it say?

💙Affirmation: I speak my truth freely, openly, honestly.

💙Meditation: Visualize the colour blue as a bright light💎 in the centre of your throat, emanating to the back and front and glowing all around.
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#throatchakra #chakrahealing #chakrayoga #soundhealing #mudra #

Today is International Sound Healing Day and Valen

Today is International Sound Healing Day and Valentine's Day, and we have the best and most natural instruments of love with us all the time, our voice!

🎶 💕💖💘💓💌💋♪♪ ♪

Singing releases endorphins which make us feel great - either singing alone or with a group.

Give it a try, send yourself a love song!

💋Put on your favorite song and sing along, give it welly!!

💋Or for the more courageous, simply drop your awareness into your heart, follow that to your throat and let your intuitive sound flow, no thinking, no planning and NO judging - there's a sound inside you that's longing to be heard...

Then pause and listen, how do you feel?? have the endorphins kicked in??

Love to know in the comments below

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#internationalsoundhealingday #soundhealing #soundhealingwithvoice #cosh #soundhealingtraining #soundhealingpractitioner #soundhealinglimerick #toning #intuitivevoice #singingforjoy #heartsong #soundhealingwithlucia #luciayogawellbeing

This one day Conscious connected breathwork worksh

This one day Conscious connected breathwork workshop is a deep dive into the a deeper wisdom of the soul, to listen, reveal, remember who we are. This breathwork bypasses the mind to reveal a deeper wisdom held in the energy system.The mind will not know how we need to get where we long to, but the energy system does.

A group breathwork session is really amazing and can help to deepen or intensify our soul's journey, gain the courage to go where we need to go while being safely and sacredly held by the group.

If you have not done breathwork with me before, you will need to get in touch with me before you book, see more information below on breathwork.

There are two individual dates available, with numbers limited to 8 on each day.

Sunday 12th February
Sunday 14th April
Location: Murroe, County Limerick
Time: 10.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: €90 euro - including tea/coffee/snacks and a light lunch

This week in our yoga practice we are working with

This week in our yoga practice we are working with the Heart Chakra 💚 or anahata (which means infinite/unhurt/boundless). It is situated in the centre of the chest at the height of the thymus gland (behind the sternum).
The heart is the bridge between the lower triangle (the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras) and the upper triangle (throat, third eye and crown chakras). It’s the door to our inner temple, our soul, the infinite part of ourselves.
Responsible for relationship with ourself and others, creates balance and establishes healthy boundaries.

💚 Bija: Yam
💚 Element: Air - space, feeling the infinite, like the sky.
💚 Colour: Green associated with nature, freshness, and tenderness. It is a healing and restful.
💚 Mudra: hridaya, roll 1st finger into thumb, finger 2+3 on thumb, finger 4 stretched
💚 Physical Body: Heart, lungs, arms and hands, thymus.
💚 Energetic: connecting lower self with higher self, head brain/heart brain, ‘we’ centred, spirituality
💚 Emotional: relationships, self and others. Self love, boundaries, saying yes and no. compassion and understanding. Being able to give and receive (love) with equal ease. Feeling kindness and compassion for yourself and others. Having a sense of ‘we’ instead of only ‘I’. Feeling a sense of belonging and trusting in your heart as an inner compass.
💚 Mental: I can give and share, without expecting anything in return. I am blessed with abundance and I know when to say ‘no’ and nurture myself. I can accept things as they are and I live in balance, within myself and with the world around me.
💚Affirmation: I deeply and completely love and accept myself.
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Checklist for the fourth chakra
💚 Can you really give and receive with equal ease and grace?
💚 Do you have a sense of space in the heart centre?
💚 Do you feel a sense of gratitude?
💚 Can you sense a deeper connection between all living beings and the earth?
💚 Are you able to express your boundaries in a loving way?
💚 Are you in touch with your inner child?
💚 Can you recognise the other person as you; feel kindness and compassion even if you disagree?
▶️You are welcome to join us, dm me for details 🙏🌾💚

This week we are welcoming the energy of the solar

This week we are welcoming the energy of the solar plexus, just above the navel and below the heart. Connecting the heart and pelvis, creating flow and transformation, between desire and service.
It is called manipura, mani = jewel pura = city. So we are located in the jewel in the city (our body).
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Together with the first chakra (Root /Muladhara) and second (Sacral / Swadhisthana), these 3 energy centres make up the lower triangle and reflects our personal power.
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💛Location: solar plexus
💛Colour: yellow
💛Element: fire
💛bija mantra: ram
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💛Self esteem, will power, confidence,
💛Stand up for yourself, make things happy, feeling good in who you are.
💛Finding balance
💛Underactive, low self esteem, low self worth, unable to finish tasks
💛Inflated sense of ego, bully nature, overactive drive
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1. Do you feel you can do anything you set your mind to?
2. Do you digest your food easily? Or do you suffer from indigestion and an upset stomach?
3. Is your energy stable and do you wake up in the morning eager to start the new day?
4. Is there enough spice in your life? Things that make you feel excited and want to do things.
5. Do you feel your life has too many toxic elements in it?
6. Do you always feel tired?
7. Do you get snappy easily?
8. Do you feel like a victim of the world?
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This chakra connects to the sun and the fire in our belly, here's a poem for this chakra.
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A Letter to Agnes DeMille : Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening
that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,
this expression is unique.
If you block it,
it will never exist through any other medium
and be lost.
The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is;
nor how valuable it is;
nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and
directly,
to keep the channel open.
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#yogawithlucia
#chakrahealing
#chakrayoga #soundhealing
#mudra #gentleyoga #poetrymedicine #rumi #letthebeautywelovebewhatwedo

Myself and Martin are delighted to be back offerin

Myself and Martin are delighted to be back offering this sacred space of chant, songs and meditation. We will be here each month and you are so very welcome.
Booking is essential
You don't need to be a singer, you are welcome to come and join in invoice, in presence, in breath.
This will be held in our home at 8pm or you can join us online if you wish.
om santi, santi, santi
#bhaktiyoga #bhaktiyogalimerick #sacredsongs #mantrameditation #yogawithlucia #soundhealing #omchanting #omsanti

This week in our yoga practice we are exploring svadhisthana, the second major chakra. The first chakra is about grounding down and creating structure, the second is all about letting go and creating and being in the flow.
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Located in the lower abdomen and genitals, this chakra is all about desire and creativity, sexuality and creation and the seat of our personal power.
🧡colour - orange
🧡bija mantra – vam
🧡element – water
This week's practice will be a gently somatic practice focused on the sacral area and in the hips, building structure and inviting flow.
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This reminds me of one of my most favourite poems...
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Today, like every other day,
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

From Rumi: The Book of Love, by Jalal al-Din Rumi, tr by Coleman Barks.
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#yogawithlucia
#chakrahealing
#chakrayoga #soundhealing
#mudra #gentleyoga #poetrymedicine #rumi #letthebeautywelovebewhatwedo

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