Spring Equinox Awaken your Senses through Foraging

Newtownmountkennedy Woods Car Park

Newtownmountkennedy, Newtownmountkennedy, Wicklow, Ireland

Sophie Rieu

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Sophie Rieu is a dancer, writer, community herbalist, forager, and a biodynamic craniosacral therapist. She was an environmental and social journalist, a press officer for Irish Green MEP Patricia McKenna, and founded the pioneering eco womenswear label ‘Unicorn’ in 2003.She has attended several foraging and tracking workshops as well as the year-long Wild Awakening, a series of foraging, tracking and ancestral skills weekend workshops curated by ancestral crafts teacher, ethnobotanist and tracker Lucy O’Hagan.She also took courses with forager Courtney Tyler, and with bird language, tracker, and forager Jon Young, author of What the Robin Knows and Coyote’s Guide to Connecting With Nature.As an eco performance artist Sophie took part in solo and group performances at IMMA’s inaugural Earth Rising festival in 2022 and her ‘waking up your senses with foraging’ will be offered as part of two workshops at this year’s edition.She co-created and presented an Earth ritual and ceremony around plants with poet Siobhan de Paor as part of the inaugural John Moriarty festival in Moyvane, Co Kerry, for Summer Solstice 2024.She has trained as a community herbalist with Nikki Darrell and Alex Duffy at the Plant Medicine School in Hollyfort, Co Wexford and is currently studying to become a clinical herbalist.Sophie mixes her movement, craniosacral attuning skills and herbal/foraging knowledge to share her love of plants and the natural world.