otherwise known as the Garden of Ireland.
A late-afternoon departure into the long, slow light of a Wicklow summer evening. We follow a wooded river with mindful walking, share dinner in Laragh, and close in a quiet valley with guided meditation and Qi gong as the sun drops behind the hills. Home by night.
Along the river, I'll point out plants that shaped pre-colonial Irish life - what was eaten, what was medicine, what was sacred. The thread running through the evening is Ireland's older story: the role of the living land in pre-colonial society, the ethnobotanical knowledge folded into everyday culture, and the pre-Christian spiritual systems that held it all together. Irish history told through the lens of its nature-worshipping, embodied mystical traditions.
Dylan Tierney
I'm Irish, born and raised with Wicklow in my bones. I've travelled through Nepal, Mexico, Thailand, China, and Morocco, spending time in monasteries, forests, and sacred sites along the way.
I'm deeply interested in body-based psychotherapy, ethnobotany, Celtic animism, and the natural world. I speak English and Spanish, and hold training in somatic practice, Qi Gong, and psychedelic integration.
My mother is a baker, and will be making the baked goods for these tours.