Hello,
My name is Katie,

I am, by lineage, a Shaman from the Island of Ireland.
In the Irish language I am an Asarlaí.

I’ve been working with people and places on the spirit level for the past decade.
I have studied across the world and across the realms and have been committed solely to this work for many years.
I am skillful in my work and a mentor to other shamans and various animist guides in Ireland and around the world.

I am from two ancestral lines of magic people; many of whom suffered with their gifts greatly in recent generations.
I am very motivated by the deep intimacy of ecology, and accepting our root roles as beings of culture, community and compassion for each other and all things.

As a white Irish indigenous woman I consider the work that comes through me to belong to all folk who have the heart to hold it. There is no purity narrative that I ascribe to in the human experience, and there is no duality I am here to perpetuate. My mentorship work is centred around right relationship, right role and right action. By incarnation I am relatively privileged and I know that life sees what we do with our blessings and whether we multply them or deny them.

I am blessed to have been born to this island, and I honour the nuance of finding home in the places where our scars are most evident.

I am taught by direct contact with nature and spirits, my first lucid encounters started in early childhood during initiatory accidents and sicknesses. My primary guidance comes directly from the spirit world. I have been fortunate enough to have encountered many different incredible human teachers at very important moments too.

My work is formed by a collective sense of homecoming. All beings on this planet with a body are indigenous in their genetic memory. We choose whether to live by that wisdom as we walk the songlines of our lives. When we do we create thriving that cannot be resisted.

As humans we are innately biodiverse and your thriving can be in your partnership, your vocation, your restfulness, or your creativity. My work does not expect us all to return to a naive ideal of some previous life, but instead a co-evolutionary impulse is within each being willing it’s spark to ignite, and that can look like anything once it’s struck by that impeccable light.

I have a BSocSci from UCC with 1st Class Honours, my dissertion focused on rave, liminal spaces and shamanism practice as instinctual occuring catharsis environments. I have studied community herbalism, permaculture, art, social care. I have sat in cermeony around the world, and held ceremony around the world. The depth of my learning has come from living a life that is marginal, resourceful and dynamic whether that be through hitching across continents or working at festivals, squatting or simply spending time with strangers you meet on the street or the journey.
Earth is the school and the lesson is always love.

I am so in love with the world and I delight in the offerings and teachings that move through me. It’s so good to be able to know, at least to some degree, my role in this wild ecology during this turn of the wheel.

In love and in kindness,

katie