Bealtaine Bloom with Maggie McKeever
Bealtaine marks a threshold in the Celtic year - a crossing from the inwardness of winter and early spring into the vitality, risk and relationality of summer. Traditionally a fire festival, it calls us into movement, into contact, into the courage of becoming visible within the wider field of life.
In this seasonal gathering, Maggie invites us into a practice that is both grounded and quietly expansive - a space where body, breath and imagination meet the turning of the year.
Working through a slow, attuned yoga practice, we will explore the subtle and dynamic qualities of the solar plexus - often understood as the body’s inner sun. Here, themes of agency, direction and expression begin to organise: how we sense our own centre, how we meet the world, and how intention becomes action.
Rather than striving or performing, this will be an inquiry into emergence: - how something long held or gestating might begin to take form. What does it mean to allow our “seeds” or “fiery arrows” to move outward - not through force, but through alignment?
Held within the beauty of the natural surroundings of The hidden Huntley in Dunmurry, the practice will gently attune us to cycles of expansion and contraction, invitation and response. In this way, Bealtaine is approached not only as a symbolic moment in the calendar, but as a lived, embodied process - one that unfolds uniquely within each participant and within the collective field of the group.
This gathering is open to all who feel called to explore the movement from inner listening towards outward expression, in a way that honours both personal rhythm and shared space.
Although the event runs from 10.00-13.00, the invitation is to bring a contribution for a communal lunch for those who have time to stay.
Places are limited.
Maggie McKeever (she/her) is a Belfast based Yoga facilitator and also has a background working in the community, as well as the Arts and events sector. She is the founder of Tulca, a Community Interest Company with the mission to overcome barriers to communities accessing Trauma-Informed yoga, somatic and mindfulness practices. Maggie’s teaching is influenced by trauma-informed practice, the cyclical wisdom of the Celtic wheel, nature, social justice and rest practices. She is passionate about making yoga accessible, community-based, and finding agency and empowerment both individually and collectively.
Registration begins from 9.30am. On the mat for 9.45am.