Leading on from reminiscences about my early adventures in Ireland and how I came to settle near Westport, I now have the opportunity to return to Clare Island from 29th June-3rd July for a 4-day Introduction to Permaculture Course which I will be giving at the Clare Island Yoga Retreat Centre
The Yoga Centre is run by Ciara Cullen and Christophe Mouze and had not yet been established when I last visited – I guess 8 years ago or more? So I’m really looking forward to the trip not least because I planted about a thousand trees for Ciara over 10 years ago and have scarcely been back to see them since. This was on the edge of a nearly unique-for an offshore island- woodland remnant of birch, holly and a couple of oaks.
This course will be unusual in that it will therefore include a yoga class each morning to balance our energies and put us in a suitable frame of mind for observations in nature and looking at aspects of sustainable design and living.
The setting could hardly be more spectacular. Clare Island is a very special place, unusual amongst Ireland’s’ western islands in that it has a mountain- two in fact, from the top of which there is a panoramic view of Croagh Patrick and Clew Bay.
