A truly wonderful event, the annual Essential Gathering Festival will open its gates to the community from May 3rd to the 4th, 2014.Set in the stunning surroundings of Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan, North Dublin, the Essential Gathering Festival, is a family event. Featuring, classes, demonstrations, top instructors, inspirational speakers, and holistic practicioners such as Liz Svennson, Sinéad Wyse, Robbie H. Andrews, and many more.
Our mission is to encourage conscious living and well-being for individuals, communities, and the planet. The entire family is warmly welcome, and honours our youngest festival-goers with special classes, creative activities, the circus, a dragon dance by the Tai Chi Academy and much more.
At the Therapy Center, inside the castle You can purchase the latesest in pain relief, a relaxing therapy, get nutritional advice, jewlery or environmentally conscious products. In the free classes and demonstrations, experience the union of yoga and essential oils,dance away stress, use the healing art of sound to relax and distress.
The little ones will have lots to do too. Face painting, ballons and child focused activities to help them grow attain their best potentials and have fun in the process. There will be free art classes given by the Ardgillian Resident Artists, and an art Exhibition in the lovely Castle Tea rooms. If music is on your agenda then experience the diverse music in the walled garden behind the Holistic Centre, including DJ’s reggae, soul and country.
We are celebrating the synergy of community collaboration through education, nutrition, natural therapies and the arts. From yoga, art classes, healing, meditation to diverse creative expressions of music and movement, this two day event will be something to remember.
The Festival also celebrates the two-year anniversary of the Ardgillan Holistic Centre. The Centre has become extremely popular with the local community with innumerable patrons having experienced the unique setting in the former gardener’s house. The Centre is a complementary and alternative therapy centre and is nestled in the corner of the internationally renowned Ardgillan Rose Garden. It offers over many different therapies, catering for both men and women, and all age groups from new-born up.
Your Ticket is the passport to the power of You, a place to Dream, Discover and Explore. Your ticket price includes all workshops, performances, music and childrens event. You will also receive a €2 voucher redeemable in the Castle Tea Room. At the Therapy Centre there is a charge for treatments as set by each therapist. Present your ticket at the Zyto-Bio-Survey stand and receive a FREE Bio-Survey Scan. Oh, by the way Children are free.
Visit our events page to purchase your tickets.
Month: April 2014
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Joseph McGuire: Live at Essential Gathering Festival Saturday 3rd May
Live at the Essential Gathering Festival Sat 3rd May
Joseph McGuire: What your Face Reveals About You
– Time: 2.15 – 3.00pmFor All RSVP Shows
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Eugenie Heraty: Finding Harmony in Relationships
Essential Gathering Festival
Ardgillan Castle, Balbriggan
2pm to 3pm Saturday 3rd March 2014
When two people come together and form a relationship, initially, there is the “honeymoon” period when they’re getting to know each other. As familiarity settles in however many of the old behaviors and traits from their respective pasts may begin to emerge. Gradually, as a little more spontaneity dies off, the “Robot” of habit begins to emerge: daily routines, financial demands, “TV slump”, life challenges, fatigue etc. all conspire to drain colour and joy from the relationship. One person’s insecurities, fears or angers can spark off the other person’s vulnerabilities and pain. If each person is unable to remain really clear about “who owns what” and take responsibility for their own issues, the boundaries between them become very blurred and the harmony, fun and attraction in their relationship takes a hard knock.
So, building a foundation of shared trust, honesty and self awareness can not only save what could develop into a really worthwhile joyful relationship, but also help to avoid all the pain and trauma of arguments, distrusts and unnecessary drama. Here below are several very necessary steps to ensure ongoing harmony in relationships.
Becoming Conscious / Taking Responsibility
Self Honesty/ Self Reflection – when we’re willing to really look at, recognise and “own” our emotional baggage and endeavor to resolve and release it, we’re automatically removing that emotional burden from the shared space of the growing relationship. To do this we have to be very honest with ourselves.
Acknowledging our Needs – As adults, many people enter into a relationship without realising that they’re actually coming from a place of neediness that has it’s roots in their formative years. As children and adolescents, every time our need for love, compassion and attention wasn’t met – if instead we were ignored, abused and insulted – this is going to create a big hungry void of painful neediness within us as adults. It’s so important to realise that no other person can ever possibly fill this our own inner void of pain. This “need” can only be met by loving and accepting ourselves – more about this below.
Giving your partner space to feel their own emotions – learning to detach and not make your partner’s moods all about “me”. There are times when our partner simply needs space to process their own stuff and not have to explain, justify or reassure us. They may not even know why they feel a certain way and so it’s too much pressure on them to have to explain this to another.
Recognising Manipulative Behaviour
When we deny, disown and push away our own emotional pain, we may then resort to lashing out and blaming the other person. In splitting away our own pain and projecting it onto the other person, we make them responsible for our own hurts. A very typical way this manifests is to become lost in the drama of “poor me – look how much you’re hurting me”. This is one example of manipulating another in an attempt to feed one’s own emptiness. James Redfield’s book “The Celestine Prophecy” beautifully illustrates these four main ways in which we steal another’s energy: Intimidation, Interrogation, Poor Me and Aloof.
Recognising the “Pain Body” – Eckhart Tolle uses the succinct term “the Pain Body” to describe the trapped energy of our unresolved emotional pain. Various abusive life situations will trigger an individual’s pain body in different ways – we suddenly find ourselves becoming angry, fearful, defensive or aggressive (sometimes with very little provocation). Why is this? It’s because someone (usually unwittingly) has pressed an emotional bruise that was created many years ago, and we now find ourselves overreacting. Little 8 year old Johnny suddenly takes over from adult 48 year old John and can easily create havoc in his adult life.Taking back our lost “orphans” – Healing the Wounded Child Within
Reversing the trend to ignore, push away, and deny our inner pain: a process I frequently use with clients is to have them revisit their lost, traumatised inner selves from childhood. I invite them to deeply connect to that little boy/girl from their past – to take him/her into their arms and wrap them in compassion and love. In doing this, they’re able to give full expression to the sorrow, loneliness, anger or frustration that they were not allowed to express back then. Truly, we are the only ones who can fully empathise and understand just how much our younger selves have suffered. It is said that the mind/body cannot differentiate between what is actually happening and what is imagined. In this way we can use the imagination in a powerfully benevolent way to undo the neglect and abuse from the past and replace it with healing spacious love.Relationship as Spiritual Practise
Gradually incorporating all the above disciplines into our daily lives can transform any relationship from dysfunction, guilt and pain into joy, intimacy and love. Becoming more conscious, practising self honesty, taking responsibility for our own thoughts, emotions and actions, this is actually a dynamic spiritual practise. Why? Because we’re engaging in the art of becoming increasingly conscious and present to what is happening right NOW. In giving ourselves healing space to grow, we automatically become sensitive to the needs of another and facilitate their growth as well as our own. In this way not only do we avoid so much trauma and heartache, but instead we develop a relationship that is joyfully self sustaining and nourishing.Eugenie Heraty,
MCHPA (HyPsych), MCHP (UK), Dip H.P.
Hypnotherapist / Psychotherapist
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The Extraordinary Dublin Community Circus
Don’t forget the Dublin Community Circus will be on hand to entertain and enthrall the little ones.
The Dublin Community Circus was established in Spring 2013. They have been working throughout the community providing fun and innovative workshops to children and young people in a fun and encouraging environment.Through our talented tutors, Dublin Community Circus offers instruction in a variety of Circus Skills such as Poi, Hoop, Diabolo, Club and Ball Juggling, Flower Sticks, Balance, Stretching and more! These activities are known to aid concentration, physical ability, group bonding, creativity and endurance.They will also be providing lots of fun and games over the weekend, with special classes on circus skills in our Party Room including.
Flower-sticks with Ardan, Alice and Rach 12.15 – 1.15
Creative art (colouring) – 1.30 – 2.15
Diabolo with Aubrey, Odhran and Ardan 2.30 – 3.10
Hoop with Alice, Rach, and Jess 3.15 – 4.00
Storytelling 4.15-4.45Some of these classes are RSVP based.
Book in advance on Eventbrite to avoid disappointment.
We have very few places left!!Click here to book tickets
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Have you heard about ReCreate?
ReCreate is a national social enterprise that takes end of line and surplus stock from businesses and reuses them as arts materials.
Their warehouse is full to the brim with all types of fantastic arts materials such as paper, wool, plastics, fabric, tubing, foam and many other unusual and unexpected surprises. Distribution of the materials is on a membership basis which is at a nominal cost as Recreate are looking to drastically reduce the expenditure on arts materials for schools, community groups, preschools and crèches and representative organisations throughout the country. Additionally tonnes of materials will be diverted annually from landfill as well as saving businesses on their disposal costs, everybody wins!
ReCreate have also introduced an in-house art shop, in which their members can buy the products they have not been able to salvage. They also have a workshop area where members can visit the resident artist and learn how to transform regular business materials into stunning art pieces, plus they have regular themed workshops. To date, ReCreate is proving to be a great success in its Warehouse of Wonders in Ballymount Drive in Walkinstown. It continues to salvage unwanted stock from signature businesses such as Avoca, Smurfit Kappa, Bewleys Coffee, Universal Records and many more and turn them into fantastic arts materials.
For more information go to www.recreate.ie or find us on Facebook at ReCreate Ireland.
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Vivian O’Doherty – Essential Gathering Reggae Mix
Don’t miss Viv’s exclusive Dj set in the walled garden at Ardgillan Castle on Saturday May 3rd where he will be playing a specialy selected “Essential Gathering Reggae Mix”.
Viv is a passionate reggae musician who for the last 25 years has a wide experience performing, composing and playing on many stages in Ireland and abroad. From 2002 until 2012 he lived in sunny Italy and performed with Reggae bands, Mindfull, Famiglia Tarallo & Mark One/Nico Royale and the Dangerous Band (see links below)….. He has also DJ-ed in various clubs across Italy.
Before that he formed a reggae band called Yawn in his hometown Dublin. Yawn then moved to london to seek a greater audience. Throughout those years he collected many vinyl records and prides himself in having some rare beauties. He loves nothing more than playing those records in front of a crowd, getting everyone to enjoy the smooth tones of reggae, full of passion, love and peace!!
Since his return from Italy he Djs in Thomas House at Top Ranking and is soon to be seen performing on stage again.
MarkOne Niko Royale dangerous band + Toni moretto live Borgo San Lorenzo
NICO ROYALE – TALKING TO YOU | LIVE @ SASSO GULLY SIDE FESTIVAL backed by DANGEROUS BAND
mindFULL – DDR Rehearsal studio -
Vivian O'Doherty – Essential Gathering Reggae Mix
Don’t miss Viv’s exclusive Dj set in the walled garden at Ardgillan Castle on Saturday May 3rd where he will be playing a specialy selected “Essential Gathering Reggae Mix”.
Viv is a passionate reggae musician who for the last 25 years has a wide experience performing, composing and playing on many stages in Ireland and abroad. From 2002 until 2012 he lived in sunny Italy and performed with Reggae bands, Mindfull, Famiglia Tarallo & Mark One/Nico Royale and the Dangerous Band (see links below)….. He has also DJ-ed in various clubs across Italy.
Before that he formed a reggae band called Yawn in his hometown Dublin. Yawn then moved to london to seek a greater audience. Throughout those years he collected many vinyl records and prides himself in having some rare beauties. He loves nothing more than playing those records in front of a crowd, getting everyone to enjoy the smooth tones of reggae, full of passion, love and peace!!
Since his return from Italy he Djs in Thomas House at Top Ranking and is soon to be seen performing on stage again.
MarkOne Niko Royale dangerous band + Toni moretto live Borgo San Lorenzo
NICO ROYALE – TALKING TO YOU | LIVE @ SASSO GULLY SIDE FESTIVAL backed by DANGEROUS BAND
mindFULL – DDR Rehearsal studio -
doTerra and Essential Oils
In the spring of 2008, a group of health-care and business professionals who shared profound personal experiences with the life-enhancing benefits of essential oils came together with a common vision of bringing a new standard of therapeutic-grade essential oils to the world. They wanted something different that would appeal to all people — from those who knew nothing of essential oils to those who were considered experts in the field.
They asked themselves some defining questions: “What if we could provide the world with a new and powerful wellness alternative?” “What if we could provide this new level of wellness through a mainstream approach to essential oils?” “What if we could source, test, and manufacture a higher quality of essential oil — more pure and more potent than any other oil available on the market today?” “What if we, in a professional manner, could partner with major hospitals, doctors, scientists, and opinion leaders to provide the most compelling authentication of essential oils on the planet?”
They concluded that, with hard work, commitment, and the help of others with a similar passion and vision, they could and would create a new paradigm for essential oils. With that conviction, they organized a company and named it “dōTERRA,” a Latin derivative meaning “Gift of the Earth.” The first offering of dōTERRA essential oils — 25 single oils and 10 oil blends — was introduced for sale on April 25, 2008, to the acclaim of essential oil experts and product enthusiasts who immediately recognized the superior quality of dōTERRA therapeutic-grade essential oils.
In addition to the ongoing development of new essential oils and proprietary essential oil blends, future dōTERRA product offerings will include nutritional, spa, and healthy living products based on essential oil technologies and a comprehensive wellness philosophy of nutrition, exercise, rest and stress management, reduction of toxic load, informed self-care, and proactive health-care.