Philosophy

Singing Your Body's Story Amongst Sacred Sites in Ireland with Ute Arnold & Candace Freeland

Click the link below to listen to
Candace's song about Ireland
"When I Dream of Ireland"

 The Gathering

We are gathering a harmonious, colorful basket of flowering souls journeying to Ireland to play together, sing, and become enraptured with the Spirit of the Land, the Warmth of the People, and the camaraderie of a pod of adventurers.

We will be staying in cottages in Lahinch, County Clare, a delightful Irish village within walking distance of the pubs for local music, good food and pints of Guinness, if the fancy strikes you.
We will tour out into the country during the day to pay our respects to the sacred sites and monolithic stones. We will sing songs that emerge from our hearts, in attunement with Gaia's Green Presence.

 We will meditate, circle, and sound the song of Now bathed in the beauty of Ireland's gushing green fairy magic.

Travel Details

August 16- 24, 2013 
We will be leaving Philadelphia on Friday, Aug. 16th, arriving in Shannon, Ireland on the 17th, and returning on Sat. 24th to Philadelphia. Some of us may be staying for further adventures. You may want to stay in Ireland a bit longer, too.
Fee for the trip: $ 1650.-
Register soon, so you can order affordable airline tickets before summer prices are going into effect and reserve your space in the group
Registration fee to reserve your place: $ 250. 
Non refundable
(there has been a big response already, so make sure to let us know a.s.a.p)
Remaining balance of $1400 due before departure
 
It includes:
- staying in Irish cottages (single and double occupancy)overlooking the sea, within walking distance from Lahinch village, on the west coast of Ireland

(not included are our meals, which can be cooked by us in the cottage kitchens with organic produce from the markets, or in near by restaurants and pubs)

- small bus transportation driven by a friendly Irish driver, who is an expertly trained travel guide

our adventure includes:

- learning about the history of the sacred sites from our travel guide, a native of County Clare

- singing our body's story by sensing deep awareness with Ute's Unergi modality & singing sacred songs from our collective wellspring with musically-gifted Candace Freeland and our friend Denise Gallagher at the prehistoric sacred sites...castles, monasteries, lakes, glaciers, sea coast, glens, earthen mounds, stone circles, Celtic shrines...to infuse ancient energy into our modern day perception, enlivening the site with our presence and intention

- calling forth fairy energy in the glens and forests

- mindful photography: developing deeper and more intimate "seeing" of Ireland's beauty and exploring  photographic soul portraiture of each other within the Irish landscape

- music sessions in Irish pubs

- journaling, poetry, painting, and creating our own Irish story and song !

A letter to a holistic therapy client by Body-Psychotherapist, Ute Arnold

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(silk painting by Ute Arnold)

Hello...

I am very reluctant to give you some feedback on how I perceive you.

I'd much rather have you write your own testimonial about you, so that you might look through your own eyes and SEE you and not give your eyes to me.... not putting me on a pedestal believing that I could see something you can't. Though that may be true, that I see something different that might help you to see you more clearly the way you would like to, but how would you feel if my truth about you does not mesh with yours. Would you have the necessary ego strength to disagree, or would you simply try to shape yourself into someone you can not yet, or will never be able to, connect to?

The more you try to see yourself through my eyes, the more you might abandon letting yourself see you with your own beautiful eyes.

Here I go anyway.

I have never had the privilege to witness a person who is so committed and diligently looking for their truth! It has astounded me again and again how persistently you have been digging to "connect the dots", as you like to say. What you seem to run into are "secrets" that only sometimes make sense to me, and you lose me when you try to explain. But since you seem to continue to look for the dots to create your picture that makes sense to you, I can only agree with you that all this searching must be important to you and brings you relief from the pain you carry that lies at the bottom of this, and may be too scary for you to feel.

I would like to suggest that the secret you are keeping secret from yourself is that: you are utterly beautiful, perfect and more than good enough! Period.

And if this opinion I have of you can help you fall in love with yourself just a little bit, then I imagine that would make you very happy.

And I wouldn't mind you looking through my eyes for that.

All the best on your journey.... and with the love we all share,

Ute Arnold