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Take a day to slow down, reconnect, and restore.
Join us for a gentle day of mindfulness on the peaceful grounds of Kyrie Farm - a space rooted in nature, community, and healing.
Your day will begin with tea and coffee on arrival, followed by guided mindfulness practices throughout the farm. You’re invited to bring your own lunch, with the afternoon spent in mindful horticulture - connecting with the land in a simple, grounding way.
Take a day to slow down, reconnect, and restore.
Join us for a gentle day of mindfulness on the peaceful grounds of Kyrie Farm - a space rooted in nature, community, and healing.
Your day will begin with tea and coffee on arrival, followed by guided mindfulness practices throughout the farm. You’re invited to bring your own lunch, with the afternoon spent in mindful horticulture - connecting with the land in a simple, grounding way.
John McKeon has been practicing meditation, mindfulness and yoga for over 13 years. John was drawn to meditation as a tool to support navigating the challenges that life brings along. Following an international career in business, John completed the psychology conversion course in Trinity College Dublin in 2019 (Psychology H.Dip.), and went on to complete the Mindfulness Teacher Training at the Mindfulness Centre in Dublin, October 2021. John has been teaching the MBSR course to a wide variety of people for the last 3 years.
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M.A. in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Approaches, Bangor University, Wales
Josephine Lynch, M.A. Mindfulness-based Approaches (Bangor University), Lic. Ac., Dip. Herbal Medicine, has also gained the Certificate of Competence to Teach Mindfulness-Based Courses from the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. She completed a two year programme with the Bodhi College in early Buddhist Psychology and its influence on contemporary practice. She is also a qualified to offer supervision to mindfulness teachers.
Josephine was among the first people to bring the teaching of mindfulness in the tradition of Jon Kabat-Zinn to Ireland and has been teaching MBSR/MBCT since 2005. She also teaches Mindful Self-Compassion and, having undergone a period of intensive supervision, and has completed all requirements to become a fully certified teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion program as outlined by the Center for Mindful Self Compassion. Josephine was part of the team that brought the world renowned Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh to Ireland in 2012.
Josephine is one of the core team of teachers on the M.Sc. in Mindfulness-Based Interventions in UCD and had been involved in programme development and delivery since its inception in 2014.
Josephine’s background is in Mind / Body Medicine and she has worked most of her life using acupuncture, shiatsu and herbal medicine to foster mind / body wellbeing. She was involved in developing and working with Sláinte Pobal in Dublin in the 1990’s, an initiative to bring courses in health education into areas of socio economic disadvantage.
Josephine was one of the founder members of the professional body, the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI.ie) which represents mindfulness teachers in Ireland and was its first chairperson from February 2018 until October 2020. She has been organizing CPD for mindfulness teachers and teacher trainees since 2008, fostering and supporting the development of a strong community of mindfulness teachers in Ireland.
Josephine is one of the founders of The Mindfulness Centre (mindfulness.ie, 2008), and she is co-director of the 18-month Professional Mindfulness Teacher Training programme which the Centre has been running since 2015.
