MARCH:
*9th: Moon Mná-women’s circle (“Women & Power”)
*10th: Healers Super-Vision
*11th: Living In Protection
*13th: Drum Tuatha – Drum Tribe
17th-18th: Celtic Rites Of Passage – Holland
*21st: Spring Equinox Celebration
23rd-25th: Medicine Spiral “West”
*26th: Animals & Spirit with Billie Dean
*27th: Fir Le Chéile-men’s circle

APRIL:
*1st: Introduction To Shamanism
*5th: Moon Mná-women’s circle (“Death & Resurrection”)
*17th: Drum Tuatha – Drum Tribe
24th-29th: “2012: Shamans Of The World”- International Gathering
30th: 3 Day Road Trip To West (Inis Mór, Aran Islands)

* Denotes event taking place in the Slí An Chroí Centre

FIR LE CHÉILE (MEN TOGETHER). 2012 Dates:January 31st/February 28th/March 27th/April 24th/May 29th/June 26th/July 31st/August 28th/September 25th/October 30th/November 27th/December 27th (NB.Thurs.evening)
7pm - 10pm. Donation €12. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
A warm, supportive, dynamic gathering of men, for men, by men. A time for men of all ages to gather beyond any agenda except to embrace the precious experience of open, non-judgemental sharing and witnessing, ceremony and ritual dedicated to the development of the sacred masculine within us all. Our experience of boyhood and manhood will be powerfully deepened by simple sharing of our experiences, past and present. From within the group each month, will be the opportunity to choose a communal expression (e.g. drumming) of how we are in the world at that time. This can offer a powerful release of energy that lances stress and gives voice often to what we find inexpressible about ourselves on a daily basis. One of the longer term aims of the circle will be to co-create a superior myth of manhood than the ones predominant in contemporary culture. As part of that aim comes the challenge to provide Initiation and Rites Of Passage to and for ourselves. Mentorship will be also be fostered. Taking place on the last Tuesday of every month with John. For more information, click here.

IMBOLG CELEBRATION NIGHT: Wednesday 1st February 2012. 7pm – 10pm Cost €12. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
A gathering to honour the coming of new life, new enterprise and new beginnings of Spring. As our Ancestors traditionally made offerings to the Earth, danced, drummed and sang to inspire a harvest in its infancy, we gather in circle to so that our lives may share fully the energies of Springtime. There will be open sharing, quiet reflection and an energised setting for personal visioning and manifestation of deeper, fuller living. We will celebrate the passing of a snowy, icy Winter and celebrate too the prospect and promise of the brighter, warmer days that are already greeting us. Imbolg is the time of Brigid, an archetypal “caretaker of the Earth” and rituals and stories associated with her will be a natural part of the evening. No previouis formal shamanic experience/training is necessary to attend. Friends, family and particularly children welcome.

MOON MNÁ (Women’s Group) @ FULL MOON : Feb. 7th/Mar. 9th/Apr. 5th/May 8th/June 6th/July 5th/Aug. 1st/Sept. 3rd/Oct. 2nd/Nov. 29th/Dec. 21st.
7pm-10pm. Donation €13. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Join Karen and other joyous Soul Sisters to celebrate life, love and all good things. This organic time together has a theme each month which is drawn from the group itself. For more information, click here.

HEALERS SPIRAL – “SOUTH” DIRECTION TRAINING : Fri. Feb. 10th- Sun. Feb. 12th.Venue: Slí an Chroí Centre. For more information, click here.

DRUM TUATHA – DRUM TRIBE: Tues.Feb.21st & Tues.Mar.13th & Tues.Apr.17th ,
7pm – 10pm. Donation €12. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Drum Tuatha - Drum Tribe is a new monthly gathering that embraces the power of the drumbeat and rhythm to move us, soothe us, transport us and renew us. No prior technical training is required, as this is not a skill-based drumming collective. Nor do you have to have your own drum, as there are several communal ones in the centre. Many of you will be familiar with the use of the drum for immrama (journeying) and we will use our drums for this in traditional and innovative ways. We will play with rhythm to express those parts of ourselves that cannot be conveyed through words. Drum Tuatha is all about unselfconscious play, easy-entry healing states and noisy, pulsating community. Friends, partners, siblings, offspring (min. age 12) are welcome. If you have a heartbeat, you have rhythm.

SUPERVISON DAY: HEALERS SPIRAL GRADUATES; Fri. 24th February (advanced group) Sacred Site Visit Loughcrew tbc & Sat.10th March 10am – 5pm. €45. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Raise your professionalism with new technique learning, sharing with peers, mentoring and supervision. Starting in the morning with an introduction of a new Energy Medicine technique that will be an invaluable “stand-alone” or “add-on” to one learned during the Healers Spiral. Karen will lead participants through experience of this technique. She will also coach the implementation of it and ensure that you can draw upon it as soon as you next return to healing practice. The optional afternoon session will be a forum for sharing your client work in a safe, confidential space with feedback from your peers and supervisory mentoring from Karen. We recommend this one day gathering for all Healers Spiral graduates irrespective of your level of healing practice. Karen will also address key issues around practice such as, maintaining control of it, expanding it, rebooting it or launching it.

INTRODUCTION TO SHAMANISM: Sat. 25th February & Sun. 1st April, 10.30am – 5.30pm Cost €75. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
These very popular one day workshops bring the participant into gentle and deep connection with natural energies of the Earth. Gradually, through core shamanic techniques of the Irish tradition, there is a profound opportunity to achieve a calm centredness in our bodies, minds and Spirits. Not only is this day a traditional stepping stone from which many choose to bring stronger self practice and healing by taking the “Medicine Spiral” later in the year, it is also a “stand alone” day, in which participants can find respite and restoration along with new inner resources of strength and insight to address better current life issues that may be challenging. It is a day of warm, accepting community and safe and elegant leadership. Many return to this one day gathering for the uplifting charge that energises the Soul. No previous formal shamanic experience/training is necessary to attend. For more information, click here.

“SPIRIT & MONEY IN YOUR LIFE”- A TRAINING IN SACRED ABUNDANCE: (with Karen), Sun.Feb.26th., 10am – 5pm Cost €80. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7. (If you can’t afford the €80, come & learn how to call it in!)
In this one day training, Karen brings a valuable opportunity to shift positively your relationship to money and abundance from a life lived in sacredness. The juxtaposition of Spirituality and Money/Abundance, is for some difficult and even contradictory. From the highest ethical energies, abundance (including monetary) can flow in a way that is sincere and natural. Her training will include the examination and clearing of limiting core beliefs that many of us hold regarding our Spiritual life and the place of abundance/money in it. She will help you draw from within, your personal, highest vision for harvesting abundance in your life

LIVING A PROTECTED LIFE: PSYCHIC SHIELDS: Sun. 11th March 10am – 5.30pm. Cost €80. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
Protection is a much used word among those who are interested in the movement of energy and it is an early issue that is addressed on the Slí An Chroí Medicine Spiral. We receive the Rites of Protection, known as the “Bands of Power, Protection and Balance” on the first direction, the North. Today’s training offers this ceremony before receiving it by participating on the Medicine Spiral. We live in a universe of energies of mixed vibrations and informed by a vast range of intent and intentionality. We need to be “fire-proofed”, so that we can navigate our world without being depleted by doing so. The “Living In Protection” workshop takes us forward from this place to bring greater awareness of the nature of movement of energy and to offer techniques for personal, family and living/working space protection not possible on the Medicine Spiral. We will explore the field of “sorcery” and examine what actually feeds “abuse of power”. We will examine the forms energy takes when it is abused and the mechanisms of transferance, when that energy is directed onto others. The workshop will also highlight the relationship between “shadow” and “sorcery”. We all know people, communities and environments that “drain” us, often an indication that we are being psychically drained in their presence. Living In Protection brings new armour for our LEM (Light/Electro-Magnetic or Auric Field), the first plane on which toxic energy impacts our being.
No prior formal shamanic experience is required to take this training and as it brings awareness of psychic protection further than is possible on the Medicine and Healers Spirals, graduates of both programmes are also suitably placed to take this training.

CELTIC RITES OF PASSAGE: Sat. March 17th & Sun. March 18th, HOLLAND
For more information, click here.

CÓNACHT: SPRING EQUINOX CELEBRATION Wednesday, March 21st, 7pm-10pm. Cost €12. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
The first equinox of the year is a calling to align ourselves with this time of equal light and dark. As the days will become progressively lighter from this date, it also heralds the advent of Bealtaine, (May 1st, the beginning of Summer). How we align our lives to expand in tandem with the hours of greater sunlight is predicated upon our honouring of Spring Equinox. How do we wish ourselves to shine? How do we wish to embrace the rising warmth of the days? In the final half of Spring, can we reach for deeper prayer to deliver our “seeds of becoming”, planted at Samhain or Imbolc? How are we being called to prepare for Summer? This evening’s gathering will offer ceremony and ritual for us renew energies and synchronise with this important time in the turning of the seasons. We will cleanse, share and take a timely immrama (journey on the drum) to connect with the energies of Equinox. We will follow with ceremony and ritual for personal, communal and global renewal. No previous shamanic experience/training is necessary to attend. Friends & family welcome.

THE MEDICINE SPIRAL – “WEST” DIRECTION TRAINING : March Fri. 23rd- March Fri. 25th. For more information, click here.

ANIMALS & SPIRIT with BILLIE DEAN Monday, March 26th, 7pm-10pm. Cost €20. Venue: Slí An Chroí Centre, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
An extremely rare and precious visit to Ireland by reknowned Australian Animal Shaman and author Billie Dean and we are thrilled and honoured to host this extraordinary healer in her only Irish seminar. Billie’s passion, tracking and insightful curative and healing strategies are immense. She will introduce her background and current animal shamanic practice and then offer those attending the opportunity to share with her any pressing health issues with their animal pets. Her feedback to you will be pure gold, in its accuracy , wisdom and practical application by you to your animal(s). Get to know Billie and her work on www.billiedean.com. Advance booking is strongly advised for this event.

“2012: Shamans Of The World – Building A Mála For The Earth”: Tues. 24th-29th April, Venue: ICSS, Dunderry Park & Brú Na Boinne Sacred Sites.
The international shamanic practitioner event of the year 2012 in Ireland. Please click here to learn more about what will be a unique, standout international gathering and to download the Booking Form.

“3 DAY ROAD TRIP TO THE WEST”: Mon. 30th April – Wed.2nd May. Cost: TBC
Following the “2012: Shamans Of The World” gathering, many of the international group will drive to the western Connemara coast to take the ferry to the islands of Aran. Crossing the water, we will experience life on an island where the Irish language is still the first on the tongues of most living there. On the largest island, Inis Mór we will visit the unique sites of Dun Aonghasa and An Grianán for ceremony and ritual on the day of Bealtaine (May 1st). Steeped in history and tradition, visiting Inis Mór is a cherished taste of ancient and contemporary western Irish life. Our evenings there will give us a chance to kick back in small pubs where music and fires burn through the evening. Visit www.aranislands.ie to learn more. On the road back to the east, we have the opportunity to visit sacred sites centrally located on the mainland. You are welcome to participate in the “3 Day Road Trip To The West” even if you are not attending “2012: Shamans Of The World”. Prior booking for this event will be essential.

Thank you for reviewing our Spring offerings & if you would like to learn more about the events, please visit our website, www.slianchroi.ie or www.pathwayoftheheart.ie . We look forward to extending a warm welcome to you this Springtime. If you would like to book a place on any of the events, please contact us by e mail (johnandkaren@slianchroi.ie) or by telephone (01-670 4905). Booking Forms can be downloaded from the website.

Le brí na taise, (with the energy of compassion),

John and Karen.

Rental Availability Of The Centre:

We are open to approach on the subject of renting the Slí An Chroí Centre. If your proposed activity is sympathetic to healing shamanism and the holistic ethos behind the creation of the space, please contact us

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Travelling & Finding The Centre:

By Public Transport: The Slí An Chroí Centre is located beside the LUAS Smithfield Stop on the Red Line. Upon disembarking the LUAS tram, you will see a wall and railing surrounding The Smithfield Business Centre @ The Distillers Building. This building ,(not to be confused with the Jameson Distillery Museum Building), is behind the ticket machine and shelter. In the grounds of The Distillers Building are trees and car parking. It is a distinctive period building with blue painted window frames. Walk to the far side of the surrounding wall/railings and enter the grounds on New Church St. Upon entering the building, you will see a staircase immediately to your left. Descend, following the signs for “Sli An Chroí”.

By Car: Paid parking is guaranteed available in the grounds of The Distillers Building (€2/hour) and on New Church St. (€2.40/hour, €10/day). The car entrance to the grounds is only from New Church St., as it is a one way traffic flow, you must enter New Church St., from Bow St. On street parking is also available and after 7pm, it is free.

By Bicycle: There is dedicated bicycle parking to the right of the entrance doors to The Distillers Building. If you are a user of Dublin’s Public Bikes, there is a bike station at The Distillers Building on Smithfield Square, (www.dublinbikes.ie)

If travelling from outside Dublin: The Smithfield LUAS stop is extremely convenient for those arriving by tram and bus. The stop is 2 stops from Heuston Station and 4 stops from Connelly Station, which itself is close to Busaras. If your car route brings you to the Red Cow Roundabout (N7-M50 Junction), you may like to consider using the Park’n’Ride facility and taking the LUAS from the Red Cow to Smithfield. For full information go to: www.luas.ie/page.php?name=Red_Cow_Car_Park_Red_Line.

Slí An Chroí Online Google Map: Go to www.maps.google.ie and enter "Sli An Chroi''.

Interior Directions: The Sli An Chroi Centre is located in the basement of the Smithfield Business Centre @ The Distillers Building. As you enter the main doors of the building, you will see an stairway on the left. Descend this stairway and it will end in a hall with wooden double doors to your left. You will see a Slí An Chroí Sign pointing to these double doors. Go through these doors and you will find yourself in another hall. Turn right towards the Ladies and Gents restrooms and you will see a Slí An Chroí Sign pointing to the right. As you look to your right, you will see a single door leading down a red tiled corridor. Walk to the end of this corridor and the last room on the right is the Sli An Chroí Centre. If you are more than 5 minutes early for your appointment or workshop, please relax in the Waiting Area, (see below).

Waiting Area: The Waiting Area is a large dedicated, ground floor space for relaxation and refreshment. As you enter the main doors of the building, there is the security/concierge desk to your right. Straight ahead of you is a pair of large double doors. Proceed through them and you have entered the Waiting Area. On your left there will be colourful sofas and easy chairs and on your left are automatic hot and cold drink and confectionary machines. Please relax there before making your way down to the Sli an Chroi Centre, 5 minutes before the start of your appointment/workshop. We really appreciate you waiting in the Waiting Area until then as the Centre may be still in use for an individual client or community beforehand.

Outdoor Footwear: There are shoe racks outside the door to the centre and we ask you leave your shoes on these racks while in the centre. You may bring indoor foowear, (e.g. slippers), if you wish.

If you would like to download directions to the centre, please click here.