A Bardic Arts Immersion
in Irish Indigenous Practice
Gathering at Samhain — the turn of summers end
There's an idea that bardic practice is a thing of the past - something done hundreds of years ago by the old Filí and Druids of Ancient Ireland.
But that's not completely true.
Like the old oral traditions of Ireland, where stories evolved and grew with the collective retelling and the changing times, so too has the work of the Bard - the makers and storytellers of today.
For a maker or visionary now, the craft is just as alive: the discipline of turning what you've lived through into something that serves the living world - people, places, and the wider web of life we're part of.
And learning to trust Imbas - the illumination of inspiration - as something that arrives through right relationship with yourself. Not something to force by doing more or pushing harder.
Most of us have read about this work. Fewer of us have been inside it.
This isn't a space for studying the practice from the outside. It's time to actually journey into it, and be witnessed doing so.
This is for you if:
This is probably not for you if: you're looking for an academic lecture, a passive workshop, or a quick technique to bolt onto what you already do.
We open in ceremony, then move through the three cauldrons of the old Cauldron of Poesy as embodied, living practice:
Your foundational ground, the cauldron of warming. What supports you, what you are rooted in, the learning, gifts, skills, boundaries, and self care that sustains your life work.
What's currently moving and turning within you. The cauldron of motion, lived experiences, of sorrow and joy, of what you're holding to authentically express.
What is ready to meet you co-creatively. The cauldron of knowledge, of wisdom, Imbas, the inspiration that arrives.
Through the day: journey work, somatic coherence, ancestral healing ceremony, and sacred sharing.
Before we gather you'll receive a working booklet and a complementary document with the Cauldron of Poesy text, to sit with in your own time ahead of the session.
The weight of the day itself is on embodying the practice - journey work and ceremonial ritual, with real time to share, witness, and integrate what surfaces. The reading happens beforehand. The day is for being inside the cauldrons.
The immersion is recorded and the recordings are yours - apart from the coaching sacred circles, which stay unrecorded so that what's shared in the circle stays in the circle.
And we close by naming what you carry back into your actual work - the seeds and the tending for the three months ahead.
Samhain marks summer’s end, when the year turns toward winter. We honour the ancestors and hold a ceremony for ancestral healing. We work with the three cauldrons through journey work, preparing to move into the season ahead.
Each gathering carries the energy of its season. This one carries summer’s end.
Katrina created a safe, welcoming space, guiding us through the work of the three cauldrons within ourselves. It's given me a deeper connection with my true self, an understanding of what nourishes my soul, and a way of maintaining that connection to inspire my work and purpose in life.
Jen, Texas · current immersive member
| When | Saturday 24 October, 2–6pm Irish time |
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| Where | Online via Zoom |
| Investment | £88 |
| Circle size | Nine places - small enough to be properly witnessed |
| Season | Samhain- the summers end |
| Included | A working booklet and a complementary document with the Cauldron of Poesy text, sent ahead of the day · Recordings of the full immersion (excluding the coaching sacred circles, which remain confidential) |
| Bring | A journal and creative materials |
| Preparation | None needed. No prior knowledge required. |
This is an ongoing turn of the wheel.
Those who join sit in a circle that continues between gatherings in a private group chat, and are offered first option to continue at the next seasonal meeting - Imbolc, February 2027.
You're not booking a workshop. You're stepping into a circle that keeps turning.
Dr. Katrina Sheena Smyth Bean Feasa and spiritual celebrant ordained within Coire SOIS, and founder of Sacred Hedge Grove, an Irish indigenous lineage bardic school in the North of Ireland.
Katrina is an International Coaching Federation credentialed coach, Ovate in training with OBOD, and a researcher working at the intersection of Irish indigenous practice, the bardic arts, and coaching methodology - with over twenty years of meditation, yoga, and arts facilitation experience.
This work isn't reconstructed from books. It's held in lineage. It is a living and embodied practice.
Nine places. Six remain.
Bookings close when spaces are filled or by Friday 23 October.
Not sure if it's right for you?
Email me at [email protected] and let's chat about what's drawing you. You can ask questions and get some clarity on if it's aligned with where you are today.
Grá agus Beannachtaí,
Katrina