One of the best live music folk festivals in ireland, a camping holistic retreat, our small alternative festival, Healing Spirit, features yoga, breathwork, sweat lodges and restorative ecstatic dance. 2nd, 3rd and 4th August 2024. Book tickets here.
A serious addiction to alcohol once left company director and organic farmer Gearoid Teevan in a dark place. Now he wants to help others live their best lives.
The Milltown man went to rehab over a decade ago and credits his love of the land and nature with helping to keep him sober. So when he inherited a farm from his beloved Uncle Jim Teevan, with lakes and woods, he set about creating the healing retreat ‘Drummany Spirit’ for others looking for hope and healing.
And now this beautiful paradise outside Milltown, is hosting the inaugural ‘Healing Bridges Festival’ – a weekend of drink and drug free merry making!
The festival, which will see the likes of Pol Brennan of Clannad, Ronan O’Snodaigh of Kila and local talent Fiona Maria Fitzpatrick perform, is a real family affair with music, food, dance, workshops for children and adults, art, yoga, organic food, walks and a host of other activities. And uniquely it will celebrate our connection to the land with ancient storytelling and plant foraging as well as talks and workshops with spiritual elders from all over the globe.
Gearoid, 52, says: “It is a restorative festival and it is totally family orientated as it is drink and drug free which will make it a very safe space. I want to show people – without preaching – that they can have a good time without drink and drugs.
“Getting back in touch with nature while enjoying good music and food, can be so enjoyable. Life has been so difficult for so many during the pandemic and it is so important that we look after our mental and spiritual health as well as our physical needs.”
The father of three adds: “I really believe that my love of the land has helped me keep sober. It has grounded me. I started building ‘Drummany Spirit’ five years ago and now it hosts regular yoga, music, sound bath and sweat lodge retreats. Hosting the festival is a dream come true. We are keeping it to a maximum of 250 weekend tickets as we want it to be about quality, not quantity. We want it to be a safe welcoming space for all the family and there will be something for all ages.”
Festival goers have the option of a day ticket or a weekend camping ticket where they can pitch tents in the most beautiful lake side location.
Gearoid explains: “We are surrounded on every side by water, the stunning Lough Oughter and Drummany Lough, the land is so beautiful as we farm organically so it is as nature intended it to be.”
The Anglo-Celt | Thursday 28 Jul 2022
Healing Spirit festival takes place at Drummany Spirit, Milltown, Cavan, Ireland on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th August 2024. Our festival is run by our small community group, Drummany Spirit, is family and child friendly and is alcohol and drug free. This boutique festival features a large lineup of live music, plus a large array of holistic events and practices including sweat lodges, yoga classes, movement meditation (ecstatic dance), pranayama/breathwork, meditation; plus alternative healing and therapies, crafts, art, drumming circles and talks by leading authorities on personal and spiritual growth, sustainability, conscious living, and healing.
We are set on beautiful sacred land overlooking Lough Oughter in Cavan. Drummany Spirit is a community group which hosts the festival each year. 2024 is our third year running the festival and it's been a major success so far with new friends from across Ireland and abroad attending. You can see the festival lineup here, you can get tickets here.
We are inclusive to everyone, and welcome those from every walk of life from Ireland, The UK and beyond