IRISH OAK

COUNTY CORK, IRELAND

DIVINITY || INTEGRITY || POWER || PATERNAL LINE

NOV 29TH - DEC 7TH

FATHER OAK

"As the branches of the oak stretch toward the sky, so do the stories of our forebears reach into the present, reminding us that we are forever rooted in the wisdom of what has passed."

Throughout the Indo-European old world, Oak has a principled reputation as the king of trees. But this ancient and pervasive attribution does not stop there. Greeks, Romans, Celts, Slavs, Germanics, Luwians, Hittites, Hurrians, Jews & Vedics all considered Oak to be an altar of the Sky Father: what we in the West call God.

Indra, Thor, Zeus, Perun, Jupiter, Yahweh and Taranis were all thought to “inhabit” the oak. Even the Sioux peoples of South Dakota have legends of a Thunder God within the Oak. As a keystone species supporting over 500 other creatures, Oak is a teacher of what it means to embody power in service of community.

“…the first prophecies were the words of an oak.”

Plato, Phaedrus

The structure of our emotions, our thoughts and our will or action is the Father within us. Equally, the Father is the traditional torchbearer of leadership in service, providing consistency, predictability, shelter through storms, sacrifice when the way forward requires it, guiding from the front, living with fearlessness of the world—especially when fear is most appropriate.

Oak is an altar of the Old Way of relationship to life: To embody beauty in virtue and strength in humility above all else. These qualities can awaken us to life force moving through us and our environment, and show the way to right relationship with this primordial power lurking within all things. Oak calls forward the sovereign self, asking us to step into radical self-ownership and release our grip on the things which are taking us out of our

potential to rise as servant leaders.

DROMGARRIFF RAINFOREST

Dromgarriff is a temperate Ancient Irish Oakwood Rainforest situated on Glengarriff Bay, with stunning views of Bantry Bay and Garnish Island. Host to the epic beauty of five waterfalls on the Barony and Dromgarriff Rivers that pass through these lands, nurtured by ancient oaks and beeches that support a native woodland that includes holly, bilberry, hazel, silver birch & aspen.

The property of 96 acres of woodland and meadows has many thousands of trees and around two kilometers of coastal shoreline on Glengarriff Harbour. The lush beauty of the Dromgarriff Rainforest exists because of the benign effect of the Gulf Stream and the mild climate that allows sub-tropical tree ferns, scarlet fuchsia, magical moss, and tender lichen to flourish side by side with the ancient oaks and gigantic conifers, trees which were planted over a century ago.

The Ancient Dromgarriff Oakwood would have been part of Glengarriff National Park and in turn part of a larger area of oakwood stretching from the coast up onto the surrounding hillsides, it would have been a wonderful ecosystem in itself and a beautiful feature set in the wider landscape but also a very important resource to the local communities.

SILVER BIRCH HOUSE

Steps from Bantry Bay, the Silver Birch house hold precious opportunities to ocean swim, walk through the magical rainforest, and visit the mossy river. Silver Birch is the largest of the houses at Dromgarriff, with stunning views of Bantry Bay and the Caha mountains, and is equipped with 11 bedrooms, 7 of which are en-suite, two living rooms with open fires and a large sauna.

EXCHANGE

Private Bedroom w/bathroom: $3700

Private Bedroom w/shared bathroom: $3300

INCLUDES:

8x Night Tree Diet

8x Liters of Oak Tea

8x Tobacco Ceremonies

8x Morning Tobacco Sinus Cleanses

8x Primordial Breath Practice Circles

2x Organic & Vegan meals per day

6x Week Post-Diet Integration Container

3x Integration Calls

3x Months of Free Access to Sacred Tree Keepers Members Portal

THE SCHEDULE

DAY 1

2 - 5pm - Check-in

7pm - Orientation

8pm - Opening Tobacco Ceremony

DAYS 2 - 8

7am - Group Tobacco Prayer

10am - Breakfast

1pm - Primordial Breath

4pm - Dinner

7pm - Group Tobacco Prayer

DAY 9

8am - Closing goodness

12pm - Depart

LET'S TALK ANCIENT TREE MEDICINE


"It took 6 days for the deeper knitting of why I actually showed up to come into fruition. I came in with a deep prayer to receive the strength and protection of the Oak and I really felt the tree answer my prayer and come into my whole being with medicine. It was super powerful and such a gift." -Holly


"The Tobacco Apprenticeship has strengthened how I show up, hold structure and hold myself to a new standard of being in life, that has led me to feel the most vitality I’ve experienced to date. This Tobacco Diet is no joke. It’s extremely deep, profound and transformative. It requires a level of devotion I don’t see very often. I respect anyone who shows up to do this." -Grant