Forage and Attune to Spring with Sophie

Join Sophie on a foraging and attunement walk to greet the land as it awakens to Spring in and around Delgany, Co Wicklow.

By Sophie Rieu

Date and time

Saturday, March 1 · 2 - 5pm GMT

Location

Delgany Heritage Trail ( right of way)

Kindlestown Heights Delgany Ireland

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Event lasts 3 hours

Join Sophie and a bunch of like-minded souls on a herbal walk to greet the land as it awakens to the buoyancy of Spring time.

It's no accident that the cleansing and vitality boosting medicine of plants like Wild Garlic, Nettles and Cleavers become so abundant at this time of year, renewing the land and helping us, and other animals feasting on them, to spring out of Winter.

We will tune into the body of the land and our bodies through fun exercises awakening our senses, grounding, deeply connecting and gently moving before communing with plants that draw our attention.

Sophie is a keen forager and community herbalist, she is also an experienced therapist doing a type of body work called biodynamic craniosacral therapy. She grew up in central France surrounded by woodlands where she would forage and retreat to find peace and connect with trees and other plants. The natural world has long been her soul medicine.

So she curated a sensuous journey with plants based on her personal and professional experience, seasoned with learnings from many teachers along the way, where we attune the instrument of our bodies to be in resonance with plants.

Spending time with plants, talking about their personalities and properties as well as foraging them with respect and tasting them in pre-prepared teas and snacks will also be part of this sensory feast.

Numbers are limited to 12 participants to allow for a more intimate experience.

An email with full instructions on what to bring and where to meet will be forwarded to you as soon as you book.

Organized by

Sophie Rieu

Sophie Rieu is a dancer, writer, community herbalist, forager, and a biodynamic craniosacral therapist. She was an environmental and social journalist, a press officer for Green MEP Patricia McKenna, and founded and designed the pioneering eco womenswear label ‘Unicorn’ in 2003.

She has attended several foraging and tracking workshops as well as took part in the year-long Wild Awakening, a series of foraging, tracking and ancestral skills weekend workshops curated by ancestral crafts teacher, ethnobotanist and tracker Lucy O’Hagan. She also took courses with forager Courtney Tyler, and with bird language, tracker, and forager Jon Young, author of What the Robin Knows and Coyote’s Guide to Connecting With Nature.

She has trained as a community herbalist with Nikki Darrell and Alex Duffy at the Plant Medicine School in Hollyfort, Co Wexford and is currently studying to become a clinical herbalist.

Sophie mixes her movement, craniosacral attuning skills and herbal/foraging knowledge to share her love of plants and her passion for immersive learning and connecting in the natural world.