This all-women retreat creates a safe space for sharing and healing. We cover all areas of women’s sexual health from fertility, menstrual cycle to menopause, breast health and slowing the aging process using the food we eat, gentle exercise, breathwork and potent acupressure points.
Join us for the weekend at the beautiful Bobbio Centre, Magheramore, Co Wicklow, surrounded by mountains and the sea. The grounds are full of mature trees and paths that lead to a secluded beach perfect for a heart-expanding retreat to heal your female body, calm your mind and nourish your soul.
What’s included?
Conscious Cooking classes to understand the relationship between food, radiant sexual health and vitality
Delicious vegetarian meals
Guided Chi Gong and meditation practices to nourish your elixir energy and maintain breast health
Learn Self Shiatsu and potent acupressure points to flow energy and develop “Yin”
In a simple nurturing weekend you can understand the clear connection between our emotions, the food we choose and how it directly affects our energy and health.
Feel Well, Feel Wise – in control of your life
There are only maximum 15 participants and the single rooms are offered on a first come, first served basis. (5 left as of 03/03/2020)
Cost €395, includes all meals, cooking classes, tuition and accommodation
Amazing €50 discount each if you come with a friend, mother, daughter or another family member.
Contact joannefaulkner@live.ie or 00 353 +86 607 0432
visit https://joannefaulkner.ie/contact/ and request a full schedule including menu’s
What a wonderful mothers day gift !
Your host Joanne, author of Good Food: Better Sex, is Chairperson of the Shiatsu Society and a registered Shiatsu Practitioner who has a wealth of experience guiding retreats supporting women in developing self-care practices by understanding the connection between how you feel and the food you choose. For over 25 years she has worked by caring and supporting people making empowered choices to bring happiness, health and wellness into their lives.
My French friend’s mother commented that shiatsu was like acupuncture, but she found it a more nurturing and enjoyable experience like the sensation you would have after the deepest, warmest, longest, heartfelt hug you could ever imagine. She also commented that it felt like a very soulful form of therapy and that for her it was a deep, holistic experience that made her feel whole, strong and reconnected
As my talented and generous teacher, Josephine Lynch, explained the energetic properties of this salty paste in Chinese Medicine, I felt my kidneys relax. My spine softened and the muscles across my chest eased. My whole nervous system was calmer than it had been for weeks. It was at that moment I understood that food was more than just fuel, it was medicine. Using the five element system of Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine (see graphic below) I began to deepen my knowledge of the energetics of food.
Sumi-e is the Japanese word for Black Ink Painting. It is a unique art form in which the fewest possible brushstrokes are used to capture the essence of the subject matter being painted. Sumi-e uses only black ink, handmade paper and a special brush. The use of the brush in innovative ways can convey a wide range of expression. Sumi-e is a calming, relaxing and enjoyable activity.
In this five-day workshop for beginners, students will be introduced to Sumi-e materials and will learn basic brush strokes and techniques for painting grasses, flowers, distant trees, mountains, and Zen Cirlces. Calligraphy will also be introduced with the writing of the formal Japanese character for ‘Eternity’ using basic brush strokes. No prior experience in art is necessary. Students will take these new skills away with them which will allow them to enjoy their own new painting practice and the further development of self-awareness that Sumi-e teaches.
Emer will offer hour long morning relaxation sessions, incorporating Yoga or Qi Gong before each Japanese Black Ink Painting class. The more relaxed one is, the easier it is for creativity and inspiration to flow and come with ease. Emer will also offer hour long shiatsu massage sessions in the evening to each participant (like acupuncture but nurturing touch is used instead of needles) on a thick, comfortable shiatsu futon mat on the ground or on a massage table, depending on the client’s needs (one session per participant overall). These practices give a real sense of wellbeing and contentment and you will come away from sessions feeling refreshed, recharged and more relaxed in body and mind.
Yoga
Yoga is a very transformative process. Connecting with yourself completely through breath and yoga movement cultivates mindfulness in the present moment and gives balance, focus and awareness. Yoga helps our development at a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level.
Qi Gong
Qi Gong, a Chinese health practice is a series of gentle standing movements, meditation and breathing. It is based on theoretical principles that are inherent to traditional Chinese medicine. It has wide-ranging benefits, including improving your balance, lowering your blood pressure, relieving muscle pain, improving mood and easing stress. Qi Gong has an effect on the cultivation of balance, positively influencing a person’s energy and impacting what the Chinese would refer to as qi channels or meridian energy pathways in the body.
Shiatsu
Shiatsu is akin to supportive acupuncture using touch instead of needles. A practitioner uses nurturing and mindful presence, pressure, stretching, cupping, moxa herbs, supportive rotations etc. to really connect with and meet the client’s needs and get their energy flowing in an optimal way. Shiatsu is fully clothed and takes place on a comfortable mat on the ground or on a massage table, depending on needs of the client. The effects of shiatsu are far reaching. These therapies can all support:
Relaxation and wellbeing in the body
Those who have been through a traumatic experience
Anxiety and depression
Frozen shoulder
Unresolved grief and anger
Digestive issues
Neck, shoulder and back problems
Stress
Joint and muscle pain
Headaches and migraines
Menstrual and menopausal issues
Support through an illness
Karen Colbert
Born in Chicago, visual artist and teacher Karen Colbert has been based in Ireland since 1993. She received an MFA in Painting, MA in Studio Art and BFA in Illustration, later studying Sumi-e: Japanese Black Ink Painting with Professor Emeritus Shozo Sato. She is a professional member of VAI (Representative Body for Visual Artists in Ireland).
Karen has taught Japanese Black Ink Painting classes and workshops for beginners in both the USA and Ireland for many years and has been painting and exhibiting her own work for over 30 years. Her abstract watercolour paintings are committed to the use of shape, pattern and full colour. They are set in either geometric or organic patterns and are highly structured and expressive compositions. She has exhibited her work in various solo, group, invited, and juried national and international exhibitions in Ireland, Austria, Italy and the USA and has placed her work in public and private collections in Ireland and abroad.
“The impressions and perceptions gained through the direct experience of nature play a large role in my work – I am interested in conveying a sense of freedom, life, spontaneity, fluidity of movement, playfulness, and an expansiveness of space, as well as a sense of the present moment.” (http://www.karentcolbert.com/art-workshops.html)
Emer Mullarkey(Shiatsu Society Ireland, BA Trinity, MA Sorbonne, H.DIP Hibernia)
Emer is a fully qualified practitioner of shiatsu and a member of the Shiatsu Society of Ireland. She is also fully qualified in Yoga, beginners Qi Gong and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
She started yoga when she was sixteen years old and completed her yoga teacher training almost a decade ago when she returned from living in France for almost five years. She is passionate about shiatsu, qigong and yoga. She is a dedicated practitioner of mindfulness meditation.
She completed a three-year training with the Shiatsu College Dublin and went on to successfully qualify in Clifford Andrews Course in Advanced Energy Therapy. She continues to train in England with Clifford Andrews and Dinah John. They are both highly respected leading international experts in shiatsu. They were students of the renowned Pauline Sasaki who worked directly with both Masunaga and Kishi-the founding Masters of shiatsu. Emer is passionate about providing great health care for you. All of the practices she teaches offer great support in helping you feel well.
Workshop Fee Includes:
All-inclusive accommodation (accommodation, all meals, use of all the Anam Cara amenities and facilities including workshop space)
Sumi-e Workshop (five days including use of materials during scheduled workshop class times)
Yoga/Qi Gong (five morning classes)
A Shiatsu treatment (one treatment per participant)
the mini-bus tour of Beara Peninsula
An evening with an Irish Storyteller (‘Seanchai’).
TOTAL COST: €1375
How To Book a Place:
To book your place, please contact Karen at cashelblackinkpainting@gmail.com; she will pencil you in and send along information about travelling and retreating to Anam Cara for the workshop retreat. You can then confirm your booking by sending a 50% deposit by PayPal. The five rooms at Anam Cara are booked on a first-deposit-in basis; after those are booked, participants will be staying in individual en suite rooms at lovely nearby B&Bs (the cost of which is covered by the workshop fee). Because of the increasing demand on B&B rooms in Beara, we recommend that you book your place as soon as possible. The rest of the workshop fee is due upon your arrival. If you have to cancel your booking before two months from the start of the workshop, all but €50 (for handling) of your deposit will be returned; from two months before the workshop to the workshop, the deposit is nonrefundable.
Transportation and Insurance:
Each participant is fully responsible for her or his own travel to and from the venue for the Retreat at Anam Cara. Each participant is fully responsible for their own insurance, including travel insurance. If we have to cancel the workshop for any reason, we will return your deposit in full. Although no one wants to have to cancel travel plans, it is always wise to take out travel insurance to cover the possibilities.
Additional Information:
Participants may bring yoga mats if they wish. Alteratively, yoga mats will be available for use.
As the ink can stain, please bring and wear appropriate clothing.
Please bring comfortable clothing for the classes, workshops and Shiatsu treatment.
If you would like to practice outside Sumi-e class hours, please bring a beginner’s Sumi-e brush. The recommended brush may be purchased at the link below.* (Please choose the brush specified (large size Orchid Bamboo brush – code H2D.)
As my talented and generous teacher, Josephine Lynch, explained the energetic properties of this salty paste in Chinese Medicine, I felt my kidneys relax. My spine softened and the muscles across my chest eased. My whole nervous system was calmer than it had been for weeks. It was at that moment I understood that food was more than just fuel, it was medicine. Using the five element system of Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine (see graphic below) I began to deepen my knowledge of the energetics of food.
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To Julien, an important aspect of Zen Shiatsu is about making contact with another,
a way to communicate non-verbally and through a touch that says I see you with my
heart and with my hara (intuition centre) with empathy and without judgment.
As my talented and generous teacher, Josephine Lynch, explained the energetic properties of this salty paste in Chinese Medicine, I felt my kidneys relax. My spine softened and the muscles across my chest eased. My whole nervous system was calmer than it had been for weeks. It was at that moment I understood that food was more than just fuel, it was medicine. Using the five element system of Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine (see graphic below) I began to deepen my knowledge of the energetics of food.
Home Become a member Training & Courses Shiatsu Treatments About Us News and Events Find a Practitioner Belfast Practitioners Cork Practitioners Dublin Practitioners Galway
To Julien, an important aspect of Zen Shiatsu is about making contact with another,
a way to communicate non-verbally and through a touch that says I see you with my
heart and with my hara (intuition centre) with empathy and without judgment.
In 2014 she published the book Shiatsu & the Art of Conscious Cooking, a spiritual cookbook filled with recipes, meditations and acupressure points.
The following piece is taken from her upcoming book; Good Food, Better Sex, due for publication in 2020.
Sitting in the kitchen of Lois Dana Retreat Centre, during our annual weeklong Shiatsu training residentials, I first tasted Miso and Kudzu soup. As my talented and generous teacher, Josephine Lynch, explained the energetic properties of this salty paste in Chinese Medicine, I felt my kidneys relax. My spine softened and the muscles across my chest eased. My whole nervous system was calmer than it had been for weeks. It was at that moment I understood that food was more than just fuel, it was medicine. Using the five element system of Shiatsu and Traditional Chinese Medicine (see graphic below) I began to deepen my knowledge of the energetics of food.
My previous culinary experiences had been during travels in my early twenties, preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner for eight hundred people on an Israeli Kibbutz plus making egg and chips for British tourists at a beach bar in Greece. In these instances, food had been the function for the day ahead or to soothe the head from the night before. However now I was having a relationship with food. I knew it’s season, it’s colour, it’s flavour. I knew which body part, which emotion and sensory organ it affected. At this epiphanal moment, I experienced food in a whole new way. It made perfect sense to me that the Liver would need sour food to cut through fatty sluggish congestion that slowed energy flow and metabolism. I found it obvious that the immune system, housed in the large intestine, would be improved with pungent food such as ginger and garlic. When I thought of the colour orange I could taste sweet on my tongue, my saliva increased and therefore I knew that the Spleen was responsible for the regulation of blood sugars.For me, the connections seem easy and with many hundreds of clients in my practice over the years, the solutions that the five element system offers works for them too. Memorably a client who wished to get pregnant I diagnosed as having suffered shock in early childhood and had become cold in the lower abdomen and Small Intestine. She also suffered anxiousness, insomnia and cold feet. This all pointed to the Heart & Small intestine lacking in Chi to move and warm the body and blood. I prescribed warming and red foods such as tomato and coconut soup, roasted peppers with fresh coriander, calming Chamomile, Valerian tea plus a bedtime practice that included self shiatsu points and breathing practices; within two months she was pregnant.
My postgraduate studies in Chinese Medicine, Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra and Taoism have deepened my experience, my courage, my understanding and my relationship with food. In 2013 I began teaching regular, drop in, Conscious Cooking Classes in Dublin City Centre. Over six years, a community developed and I taught a wide range of people, not trained in Chinese Medicine, to use the five element system for maintaining health, balance and wellness. In my books and blogs, I share recipes, insights, health practices and personal experiences that have helped transform pain and trauma for myself and my clients. Asking simple questions such as “How am I feeling?” and “What do I need?” as the first step into connection with the power we all have to affect our wellbeing. Food and the Five Elements can guide us to answers. We are energy made manifest and as such we are constantly changing. To maintain balance and understand the body’s ever-changing symptoms, cravings, feelings and emotions we can use the Five Element system and let food be our guide.
“The Five Elemental energies of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water encompass all the myriad phenomena of nature. It is a paradigm that applies equally to humans.” – The Yellow Emporer’s Classic of Internal Medicine 2BC
Facebook Google+ Twitter LinkedIn Skype Joanne Faulkner with Shiatsu & Conscious Cooking uses Modern Food, Ancient Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu Bodywork to heal your physical condition and soothe your mind. #ShiatsuConsciousCooking #LoveYourFood #LoveYourself Joanne uses the Hara, in the abdomen, to diagnose and treat both physical and emotional conditions. Offering dietary advice according to the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine, It is a fantastic holistic treatment which addresses the root of the problem as well as alleviating manifesting symptoms. Hara Shiatsu I had the privilege of having a Shiatsu treatment with Joanne recently. She is both deeply caring and professional. She combines an intuitive, powerful, shiatsu treatment with supportive nutritional advice in a safe nurturing space. In one session I felt more alert and energised than I had for many months. I come with a complicated and serious medical history that she received in a professional and sensitive way. Mim Testimonal
Delve into the world of Shiatsu, energy awareness, mindfulness and meditation.
The workshop is focused on sensing energy, through our own hands and then applying this to others.
You will be guided through a wonderful Shiatsu stress release routine
and introduced to the various qualities of touch that Shiatsu offers as a therapy.
This weekend will leave you feeling revitalised and give you wonderful
insight into the world of Shiatsu which may be helpful for those who are
thinking of joining the Japanese Acupressure course in September.
Date: Sat & Sun 22nd & 23rd June 2019
Time: 10am – 5 pm
Cost: €160
Venue: The Healthy Way, Ralph Square, Leixlip
Book online: www.shiatsu.ie or Email: helena@shiatsu.ie
To Julien, an important aspect of Zen Shiatsu is about making contact with another,
a way to communicate non-verbally and through a touch that says I see you with my
heart and with my hara (intuition centre) with empathy and without judgment.
I aim to offer presence to my clients, a space of acceptance and ease so that they feel free to trust, deepen and release and emerge free to express their individual and authentic selves!
In this five-day workshop for beginners, students will be introduced to Sumi-e materials and will learn basic brush strokes and techniques for painting grasses, flowers, distant trees, mountains, and Zen Cirlces. Calligraphy will also be introduced with the writing of the formal Japanese character for ‘Eternity’ using basic brush strokes. No prior experience in art is necessary. Students will take these new skills away with them which will allow them to enjoy their own new painting practice and the further development of self-awareness that Sumi-e teaches.
Emer will offer hour long morning relaxation sessions, incorporating Yoga or Qi Gong before each Japanese Black Ink Painting class. The more relaxed one is, the easier it is for creativity and inspiration to flow and come with ease. Emer will also offer hour long shiatsu massage sessions in the evening to each participant (like acupuncture but nurturing touch is used instead of needles) on a thick, comfortable shiatsu futon mat on the ground or on a massage table, depending on the client’s needs (one session per participant overall). These practices give a real sense of wellbeing and contentment and you will come away from sessions feeling refreshed, recharged and more relaxed in body and mind.
Born in Chicago, visual artist and teacher Karen Colbert has been based in Ireland since 1993. She received an MFA in Painting, MA in Studio Art and BFA in Illustration, later studying Sumi-e: Japanese Black Ink Painting with Professor Emeritus Shozo Sato. She is a professional member of VAI (Representative Body for Visual Artists in Ireland).
Emer is a fully qualified practitioner of shiatsu and a member of the Shiatsu Society of Ireland. She is also fully qualified in Yoga, beginners Qi Gong and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
