Facilitated by Jen Doran
Join us for a two-hour workshop in the beautiful labyrinth and surrounding green spaces of the Skibbereen Community Hospital Campus. This is a rare opportunity to experience a local hidden gem. Together, we will explore the unique landscape of the hospital campus, a place of quiet beauty.
Beginning with a gentle yoga and meditation practice in the labyrinth, Jen will guide us to slow down, connect with our senses and become fully present in the natural environment around us.
We will then set out on a guided foraging walk, where Jen will show us various plants that are good for foraging at this time of the year, sharing knowledge of the medicinal benefits of the plants, how to make different remedies from them and folklore surrounding them.
The afternoon will conclude with a tasting of herbal teas and remedies that Jen has prepared from some of the plants encountered on the walk, offering a chance to deepen our connection with the landscape through taste, scent and story.
Come along to explore, learn and experience this special place in a new way.
Kindly Supported By Cork County Council
This is a free event but if you are able to do so, please consider making a voluntary donation to support the festival and help cover the costs of running this event. Donations are entirely optional and are not required for attendance. Any donations received will be used to support the festival and are not paid to the HSE.
Jen Doran is based in West Cork where she has been running her herbal practice in Clonakilty and also many different foraging & yoga based events for the past five years. Forever being inspired by nature and the importance of connecting with our bodies firstly in order to connect with the environment around us, Jen became a yoga teacher before completing her herbal medicine training. Trained in Hatha, Yin and Ashtanga yoga, Jen has a dynamic practice from which she draws different elements of the cycles & rhythms in the nature around into the yoga she shares.
Jen is lucky to come from a lineage of herbalists, with her father being a herbalist too and her great grandmother also was a handy woman in Donegal, meaning she was the herbalist and midwife for her village. Jens big passion is to help people remember the importance of this ancient craft of herbal medicine and its way of treating various health conditions and also preventing ill health. Along with the amazing way in which herbal medicine brings people back into relationship and conversation with the land, thus helping protect and care for it.