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  • Accommodation
    • Off-Grid Wooden Cabins
    • Furnished Bell Tents
    • Camping
    • Campers’ Kitchen
    • Pizza Oven
    • Sauna
    • Booking/Cancellation Policy
  • Yoga and Meditation
    • Yoga Classes
    • Meditation to ‘Mind Your Mind’
    • Day Retreats
    • Loop Head Wellness Weekends
    • Women and Girl’s ‘Bealtaine’ Yoga weekend
    • Venue Hire
    • Yoga Resources
  • Events
  • Our space
    • About Us
    • Gallery
    • Venue Hire
    • Environmental Corner
      • Ecotourism policy
      • Flora and Fauna at Purecamping
      • What Can We Do?
      • Eco-tech at Purecamping
    • Loop Head Labyrinth
    • Loop Head Peninsula
    • Loop Head Tourism
    • Wild Atlantic Way
  • Plan
    • How’s the Weather at Purecamping?
    • Maps and things
    • Videos and more…
    • Directions
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Yoga

    Victorian Seaside resort, continues to promote Health and Wellbeing

    By Trea / 10th April, 2018 / Yoga / Off

    The towns and townlands of Kilkee, Querrin and Ross have come together to offer activities to promote Health and Wellbeing to those in need of some time-out, during their Spring Loop Head Wellness weekend running from the 27th to the 29th of April.

    In Victorian times, Kilkee was often mentioned as ‘The fashionable bathing place to immerse oneself in the healing waters of the Atlantic’. Indeed the entire Loop Head area was, and still is renowned for its clean air. Both the sea and the sea air have regenerative, restorative effects on the mind and body. 

    Purecamping Yoga Centre in Querrin will be offering Yoga, Meditation, Relaxation and Qigong classes throughout this weekend in April with experienced teachers, Trea Heapes and Kevin Copeland. While our modern day seaweed bath house, Kilkee Thalassotherapy centre, will have seaweed baths and massage on offer. Nutritional therapist, Hilary Gleeson will enlighten us on the benefits of eating local ‘in-season’ food with demonstrations and tastings, and Carmel T. Madigan of the Loop Head Summer Hedge School will lead an exploration of Ross shore, identifying and tasting seaweeds on the way.

    The provision of vegetarian lunches and dinners carefully planned and prepared by the Haugh sisters of Stella Maris Hotel will lighten the load further for those needing a complete break from the challenges of everyday life. 

    When: 27-29th April

    Tickets ON SALE HERE

    Celtic Spirituality on the Loop Head Peninsula

    By Trea / 15th August, 2017 / Instagram, Yoga / Off

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    Lughnasa celebrations at the Loop Head Labyrinth

    By Trea / 11th August, 2017 / Instagram, Yoga / Off

    Lughnasa celebrations at the Loop Head Labyrinth, August.

    Lughnasa celebrations from Aug 1st at the Loop Head Labyrinth

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    Equinox gathering 2017

    By Trea / 21st March, 2017 / Instagram, Yoga / Off

    Equinox at Purecamping. Labyrinth walk with hailstones … that’s a first  but lovely company … lovely fire … another spoke on the Celtic wheel marked in West Clare.  The Spring Equinox is one of the eight spokes of the Celtic Wheel of the Year. We have been celebrating these at the Labyrinth since Mid-Summer in 2015.

    There are two equinoxes every year – in March and September – when the Sun shines directly on the equator and the length of night and day are nearly equal. The Spring Equinox marks the moment the sun crosses the equator from south to north. This happens on March 19th, 20th or 21st each year. The exact timing this year is 20th March, 10.29am.

    Santosa Yoga Festival 2017 (1st, 2nd, 3rd July)

    By Trea / 21st June, 2014 / Camping, Yoga / No Comments

    Weather is as usual our typical changeable Irish weather.  So dress accordingly. Bring your camp blankets, crocks or wellies.

    Johanna from the Eco-village in Cloughjordan will be here from Saturday serving soup each day and savoury and sweet pancakes. So that will save us some cooking over the few days. There will be chai available after lunch and some cake until it all runs out !

    Bring easy bits to cook. Nice fresh bread, salad, pasta, noodles, crackers, fruit that type of thing.

    If you have your own stove, bring it, so you can cook your noodles and make your tea at your tent 🙂

    Please bring a drinking bottle and use our water here. We are trying to cut out plastic bottles from the site. No need for them. Our water is really nice and comes from a group scheme.

    Your Santosa ticket includes your camping if you have your own tent. If you have booked one of ours, there is a fee.

    If you have a food storage box, bring it and some freezer blocks. We have two fridge for perishables but all the other bits should be packed away to protect them from animals.

    If anyone is interested in car pooling, please send an email to info@purecamping with your mobile number and location where you are travelling from. I can distribute this to the participants if you are happy with that. If you have no car and are looking for a lift, same deal, send an email and I will distribute and hopefully you will all be sorted.

    I’ll add more as I think of it.  Safe journey !!

    Trip to India

    By Trea / 15th October, 2013 / Yoga / No Comments

    15th Oct 2013

    This Friday I am flying out to Calcutta with the main purpose of heading north to Munger, Bihar to the Bihar school of yoga, home of Satyananda Yoga.
    I will be attending the World Yoga Convention and the celebration of 50 years of Satyananda Yoga. Thankfully, I am not alone ! I will be travelling with fellow yogis and much loved friends on this .. now daunting journey (leaving the little ones (and the big one) behind for 2 weeks).
    Before these little ones arrived, myself and Kevin travelled for 3 years. Part of this journey brought us to India. That is where the yogic journey was reignited for me after a lapse of some years since my first class with Chetan in the Galway School of Yoga .. sometime way back … in 1992-ish 🙂
    Here are some of the images from our trip in 1998.

    Indian Ghat on the Ganges Indian Saddju

    16th Oct 2013

    Ok, so a Cyclone has hit the east coast of India mainly across the state of Orissa, south of West Bengal and Bihar. Apparently they have had the tail end of it at Munger and there has been plenty of rain. But things looking up, and drying off, so fingers crossed we will be lucky with the weather. Just received some bits to bring over to Hope for the wound clinic there that Mary Nolan from Kilrush has given me. Hoping to meet with Ann-Marie Murray who is out there volunteering with Hope.
    Here are some more images of our 1998 visit. The elegant sculptures of Khajaraho were incredible … check out those curves. And there is Kevin with his luggage locked to the bed, having a sleep on one of the overnight trains.

    Khajaraho India

    Temple in Khajaraho

    Sculptures of Khajaraho

    Sculptures of Khajaraho

    sleeping on a train

    overnight trains in India

    Tarbert – Thu, Oct 17th

    Travelled to Tarbert, courtesy of my sister. Standing on deck, alone with my backpack, feeling like the real traveller already.. Goodbye to Kevin and kids this morning, Trying not to think about being away from them, too much. Lovely journey with Dani to Dublin where another sister collected me and minded me for the evening.

    backpack India

    Backpack ready

    Dublin – Fri, Oct 18th

    Awake @ 6am. Nervous and sick with anxiety. Pack and unpack with OCD style fervour. After being dropped off at airport, meet up with some of the other yogis, my travelling companions for the next couple of weeks.

    37 mins to touch down in Dubai. Great flight with Emirates. What luxury. In flight entertainment and food all the way. All the yogi crew getting giddy, some wondering what we are doing travelling all this way, other so excited about the atmosphere of India that awaits us.

    Dubai to Kolkata on a less fancy plane. Bollywood entertainment all the way. Restless and hot. Airport was a pleasant surprise. Well organised. Pre-paid taxis making it very easy to get to our hotels.

    Kolkata – Sat, Oct 19th

    As soon as we leave the airport and for the next 2 weeks the resounding sound of BEEEEP fills the air. An assault on the the senses; colours, heat, dust , taxis, buses, rickshaws. Bursting with food for all the senses!!! Chaos on the roads. Buildings interesting but look like they may tumble down. People everywhere. Life is lived on the streets here.

    Checked into hotel. Emptied our bags and after freshening up we exlpored Sudder st. Found the Fairlawn hotel and chilled. Fairlawn was an old English style hotel from Colonial times, a little rundown now.
    Met at Sunflower hotel with rest of yogi group to practice our kirtan. Ate in backpacker place called the Blue Sky Cafe.
    Dhal, Jalfrezi, Pakoras, Pilau rice, naan and lemon soda. Delicious

    Kolkata – Sun, Oct 20th

    4am Mosque calling and Kolkata dogs howling. First beep at 4:30am. Intersting hotel. “3 bed” means a double bed and a mattress on the floor.
    Fine for us, cleanish, central and staff couldn’t be more helpful.
    Annmarie from Kilkee and working with Hope Foundation here in Kolkata, meets us in the lobby and is to bring us on a tour of the city taking in the Hope projects. 9 of us head out for the day.
    Visit young girls home, greeted with “auntie, auntie”, colourful happy little girls cared for by attentive staff “mothers”. They proudly showed us around their home explaining their various projects. After a luxurious coffee in a comfortable ‘ac’ cafe, we continue on to the older girls home where some very confident young teenage girls are having an afternoon off and are allowed watch some ‘Tollywood’ movies. Beautiful and smart and not unlike our own teenagers in their conversation and demeanour. This place works on building self esteem, confidence and off course education. The private Hope hospital was funded by Weightwatchers Cork and is an impressive clean, human focused hospital. Real lives, even more vulnerable because they have nothing. Hard to imagine where they would be if Hope hadn’t taken them in.
    First torrential downpour as we made our way back to find a taxi. Had to shelter under the eaves of a little shop … All 9 for us. Owner wouldn’t accept payment for helping us, so ended up with bags of very sweet biscuits 🙂

    Streets of Kolkata
    Beautiful architecture but crumbling
    Anyone know what these are?
    Trees growing up through gorgeous buildings
    Rickshaw
    Machete cuts through cocunut
    Refreshing coconut juice
    Mother Teresa’s shrine
    Mother Teresa’s house
    Lakshmi Puja
    Hope Foundation – girls home
    We are the “aunties”
    Annmarie
    Henna design
    Front seat of auto (rickshaw)
    Hope Hospital funded by Weightwatchers Cork
    Giving girls a chance

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    Kolkata – Mon Oct 21st

    Set out for the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger this evening. Make our way to Howrah train station. Pretty overwhelming as we walked onto the platform with 2 packed trains arriving at the same time and spilling out onto the platform. A bit intimidated by some guys who were pretty intrusive in their attempts to video our every move. They ended up fighting amongst themselves for a finish as we slipped out of sight to a more public area while we waited for our overnight train,

    Santosa Yoga Festival 2016 (25th, 26th, 27th June)

    By Trea / 16th May, 2013 / Yoga / No Comments

    Santosa Yoga festival 2016 – new brochure for this year still in progress.

    Teachers

    Lots of wonderful teachers again including

    Mahatma, Anamata, Shraddha,  Susi Matika our “white witch” 🙂

    Uma Dinsmore-Tuli founder of Santosa camps in England

    ‘Celtic Yoga to Nourish the deep heart’s core’

    With rooted and enraptured, subtle rhythmic movement, nurturing breath meditations, poetry, chant, sound and total Yoga Nidra.

    Yoga for women

    discovering our inner power and freedom

    Jack Harrison of “The Enchanted Island” and “Wind Across the Sea” will be with us for Santosa again this year. This is a surprise visit for us and I think anyone who was here last year will agree it is a magical experience. Jack will be here on the Friday evening.

    Children’s nature and craft based activities facilitated by Joe Quilty, Susi and Frances
    Camp Cafe with Johanna serving soups and crepes.

    Therapies

    As usual there will be therapists onsite including deep tissue massage and bio-energy healing.

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