Out of the branches of Stone Mad, another flowering came into being – what she named The heART of Ritual™. Its seed was simple yet profound: to bring ceremony, creativity, and kinship with nature into the fabric of daily life, so that the rhythm of the seasons might be felt even at the hearth.

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From this vision arose she launched three home subscriptions, beginning with the heART of Ritual MOONBOX™ – a monthly hearth-gift of handcrafted lunar collections. Within weeks, collections were travelling through the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, carrying the scent of herbs and the pulse of ritual into homes. Soon new expressions joined it – the Elements of Ritual™, her seasonal collections shaped by the solar cycle, and the Wild Colour Cauldron™, inviting people back into earth-based art making and sustainable craft.

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Teaching grew as a natural extension of this work. Her in-person courses became a hearth for deeper study – crystal therapeutics taught over three levels, a year-long apprenticeship in herbalism and wild medicine making, and the intimate BIOPHILIA Mentorship™, guiding people into earth-practice, eco-psychology, wildcraft, prayer, and the energetics of being.

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Then came thresholds. When the refugee crisis broke across Europe, Niamh began serving as a trauma counsellor in Red Cross camps. By 2017 she was carrying a mobile clinic into the margins of the Balkans, offering free trauma support to displaced communities – work that continues still.

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In 2018 floodwaters rose through her home and workspace, carrying away decades of labour in a single night. For months the building stood gutted, yet from her kitchen table she began again – gathering wild native herbs, crafting remedies, slowly restocking her shelves. By autumn the clinic reopened, and alongside it came new lunar creations – the MOONCARDS™ with their stories and symbols, the MOONWHEEL™ mapping the turning year, and the MOONDROPS™ distilling lunar rhythm into essence. In 2019 she unveiled the first set of her BIOPHILIA Cards™.

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The arrival of Covid in 2020 brought another pause. Retreats and gatherings fell silent, travel ceased, and her dispensary shrank to what her own garden could provide. Yet the work endured – remedies were made, teachings carried online – and by 2021 she was once again gathering people in Ireland for retreats and drum-birthing weekends. That November, coinciding with Samhain and the Celtic New Year, she opened her digital hearth, theheARTofritual.com, to carry the work into its next form.

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Writing, always a companion thread, deepened over the decades. She contributed to publications across Europe, Australia, and the US, and shaped SoulFOOD Seasons™ – her book of wild food, ritual nourishment, Irish cosmology, and the Celtic Wheel of the Year. True to her ethos, she founded heARTlands Publishing™ in 2021 so that all her books and card sets would be created and offered with integrity – printed locally by a family press using hydro and solar power, non-toxic inks, and recycled paper.

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Between 2024 and 2027, further works will emerge through this imprint – each created with the same devotion as her remedies, companions for those walking paths of remembrance and renewal.

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In the autumn of 2025 another flowering appeared. Niamh unveiled her Online Hedge School – a digital hearth carrying twenty in-depth self paced programmes, each a vast body of work in itself, many spanning more than 90,000 words. Together they form an archive rooted in Irish myth and folklore, the Celtic Wheel of the Year, archetypal psychology, elemental philosophy, ritual, and creative land-based practice.

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The Hedge School gathers them all in one place – a meeting ground where ancestral traditions and contemporary practice speak to one another. Here the long listening continues, offered as study, imagination, and remembrance for those seeking to walk once more in rhythm with earth and season.