The heART of Ritual
like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow
in all the places people thought you never would
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ABOUT NIAMH
Some lives grow from the inside out, shaped not by ambition but by listening – to land, to language, to the quiet pulse of memory. Niamh’s work has grown this way – slowly, generationally, and always in relationship with place.
Born and raised in the Cailleach country of West Cork, her path was never a straight one. In her late teens she turned to psychology not to diagnose or treat, but to understand – to make sense of the unspoken undercurrents in those around her. That curiosity opened into decades of learning, tending, and making – drawn from many traditions, yet always brought back to the soil of her own.
‘There are places in you
Where thousands of bright, tiny flowers
Open each morning to the sun
In meadows as vast as the sky.
An ancient alchemy courses through your bones.
It speaks in feathers and stones and
precious metals and the footprints of mandalas
left by the stories we tell with our lives.
Rewild yourself.
Until green tendrils sprout from your fingernails
And lichen swathes your eyebrows.
Rewild yourself.
Until your roots spread and uncoil and
Writhe down through soil and rock.
Rewild yourself.
Rise up into your magnificence and
Take your place among the constellations
Rewild yourself.
The Earth is her own medicine. Be yours.’
musings
