WEST OF IRELAND TOUR
June 21-28, 2008

POETRY, MYTH & MUSIC FOR THE SOUL

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David's tour to the west of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's Celtic culture, both traditional and emerging, set on Galway Bay in County Clare. It is a unique and intimate experience of Ireland from the inside out. Our days are spent in walking pilgrimages into the mountains of Connemara and the Burren, poetry sessions with David, and an opportunity to spend time with local Irish poet-philosophers, musicians and storytellers. Wind and tide permitting, we visit the Aran Islands and bicycle to Dun Aengus at the very edge of the ancient Irish world.

It is important to David that you have both a strong celebrative experience with other participants and an opportunity to spend time alone and meet the locals. The setting on the edge of the village allows for a cohesive community to form as well as a possibility for disappearing into one of the many pubs, cafes or shops on your own.

To download an application and brochure, please click on the pdf files below. If the links are not active, it means that we are not accepting applications at this time because the tour is full for this year. We begin accepting applications for the following year as soon as we confirm the dates in October.

Cost: $3300.

Application

A Health & Fitness form must accompany your application.

Brochure

 

THE SEVEN STREAMS

with the cold rain so far into your bones

that nothing will warm you

except your own walking

and let the sun come out at the day's end

by Slievenaglasha with the rainbows doubling

over Mulloch Mor and see your clothes

steaming in the bright air. Be a provenance

of something gathered, a summation of

previous intuitions, let your vulnerabilities

walking on the cracked sliding limestone

be this time, not a weakness, but a faculty

for understanding what's about

to happen. Stand above the Seven Streams

letting the deep down current surface

around you, then branch and branch

as they do, back into the mountain

and as if you were able for that flow,

say the few necessary words

and walk on, broader and cleansed

for having imagined.

  -- from "River Flow"