Honoured to welcome back the wonderful @melissasoundandsoul to Heartspace. If any of you remember last year the sound bath was one of the real highlights of the weekend 💚🌳 Melissa creates calming, restorative sound journeys designed to help you slow down, soften, and reconnect. Blending crystal singing bowls, chimes, gong, and drum, each session offers a deeply immersive experience where you can simply lie back, rest, and be held by sound. These spaces are thoughtfully held to support relaxation, nervous system reset, and gentle inner exploration. Sessions close with the soft tones of guitar and voice, offering a gentle, grounding transition back from the journey. This is a space to land, to breathe, and to be nourished through sound.

We are delighted to welcome local artist Clare Kelly on board! @clarekellyartist A Community Artist, Teacher + Healer living in Irelands Midlands 25yrs. Creates Soul Portraits, Murals + paintings, drawings + Sculpture. Samples of my artwork will be on board with live painting demonstrations. Throughout the Festival I have various Imagery for you all 2 enjoy + receive inspiration from. Looking forward to taking part in HEARTSPACE ÉIRE 2026. I am an active COMMUNITY ARTIST with a keen interest and an Innate Passion to keep IRELANDS Fine Traditions, True History, Wonderful Heritage and Fabulous Culture ALIVE. I am a keen Writer, Historian and Musician. Ancient ways and Sacred places have always intrigued me along with Natural Magic, Adventure and Healing Cures. I Re-create Images from Our Past, Our Ancient Places, its People, Writers and Musicians – CLAREKELLYARTIST.COM showcases an array of my Imagery along with samples of my Portraiture. Irelands’ Diverse Cultural Heritage is also Greatly featured throughout. I AM PROUD OF MY IRISHNESS Clare is also a part of an initiative called Sheltered Arts, which she wishes to highlight 💚 Sheltered Arts is a Dublin-based non-profit organisation that uses art to raise awareness and funds for the ongoing homelessness crisis in Ireland. They operate as a social enterprise, supporting Irish artists by providing a platform to sell their work while donating a portion of the proceeds to Irish charities. There is a stigma that art is not useful. We completely disagree. In cultures all around the world, art has always gone hand in hand with the development of identity and civilization. Art is often an expression of the ineffable beauty of our earthly and spiritual existence, or can be used as a means to transmit commentaries on society, exploring the nuances and evoking reactions in those who engage with it. You can explore more about that at @shelteredartsireland #arts #irisharts #heartspaceeire #localart #community

Here are a few details 🌳💚 We are totally off grid. It’s a simple immersion in nature on a beautiful sacred site with plenty of space and quiet time. The music is almost all acoustic this year and will be a campfire sessions style setup. The main difference this year is that everything (camping,traders etc) will be in the main field beside the barn. There won’t be amplified music to interfere with the quiet wellness area so everything can be closer. If you prefer quiet camping you can camp in the top field/car park. It’s an alcohol-free gathering. Not the type where you sneak a few cans in anyway. The type where nobody wants to drink alcohol because it’s a lovely experience without it. As with previous gatherings, you’ll have to bring your own water, recommended 5l per person per day for drinking, washing, hot water bottle etc . Brigid’s well Killare is a few minutes drive and almost always has good clear abundant drinking water if you want to fill bottles. It’s a purely vegan/vegetarian gathering so we ask you not to bring or cook meat or fish on-site. You’re welcome to bring camping stoves and cooking equipment to look after yourself or others. After you buy your ticket you’ll get an email with a full list of details including the exact address We have allocated contained bonfires in tyre hubs. Please don’t light any fires on the ground anywhere and if it’s really important to have your own fire-pit (contained fire off the ground so as not to damage the land) please communicate with the organisers before lighting it and show them where it is so that organisers know where all fires are at all times. If you love the sound of this gathering but have been feeling isolated or have nobody to go with, don’t be afraid to come along on your own. We’re friendly and we will introduce you around so that you can make friends quickly. It’s a good opportunity meet like minded people and people who are interested in a slower simpler or more nature based way of life. We open Friday at noon and you can stay Sunday night and leave Monday Looking forward to seeing everyone 🙏💚🌳

Delighted to welcome back Vari from the Yawanawa tribe to sing some prayer music during Heartspace gathering. Yawanawa musical prayer is woven from theirs and their ancestoral hearts. Consisting of gratitude and love sung with passion and spirit ❤️ Early bird tickets still available 🙏 #yawanawa #medicinemusic #prayer #heartsong #heartspaceÉire

Adults and children 😊 We would love to build a fairy village together during Heartspace Gathering this year! If you come across any wind chimes, trinkets, ribbons, fairy lights or other magical crafts/objects please bring them along for the project 😊🌸🌼💕 Let’s make something we can maintain and add to as time goes on 🧶🧵🐞We will bring the wood and paint to make fairy doors and windows!! Let’s get artistic together and see what we can design💚🌳 #fairyvillage #ideas #creativity #crafts #funlearning

Loveliest vibes from @tristanrenemusic playing his own original music in the barn during Heartspace Gathering 🌳💚 There’s definitely a crackle of windy weather in the background but it only made the whole atmosphere more natural and raw. It’s moments like these that won’t be forgotten 😊 #tristanrene #gathering #heartspaceeire #backtonature #guitar

This year during Heartspace Gathering, @emilynayhreedawson would like to hold a meditation and talking circle that explores the freedom, unity and sovereignty of Ireland and all that that entails. We will make the time public so that you can join in connecting and meditating even if you are somewhere else. She will also have some of her a paintings and fashion available during the weekend. Emily is primarily an artist and fashion designer but has also been involved in things from Occupy Dame Street to Grangegorman Squat, Headspace Dublin, “Ériú ar Ais” art gallery, multiple community garden projects, almost all of Irelands major festivals in their early years … as well as travelling the world with her art and fashion, having done collections at New York and Paris Fashion week many times, showing art in places as far afield as India. Emily has been hosting alcohol free spaces for 13+ years. These days she is interested in off grid simple living and growing food. #meditation #gathering #irelandevents #heartspacegathering #westmeath

Beautiful fireside kirtan last year with Eileen Bray @celtickirtan @mysticalceltvox @moynaltyyogafestival__ #fireside #kirtan #music #soulmusic #nature

Delighted to welcome back Rú O’Shea and Grace Lambert with their beautiful music to the Heartspace on May 1st. Rú O’Shea and Grace Lambert are traditional/folk musicians that have performed together on numerous stages including at Birr Vintage Week Festival, Teach Ceoil Dun Laoghaire and Electric Picnic 2025. Together they present songs of love, death, resistance, folklore and history, creating an exciting blend of old ballads and original numbers. #folk #traditionalmusic #folkmusic #trad #westmeath

Signs of life #primrose #wildflowers #heartspace #gathering #communitygarden

Delighted to announce that Katongo aka Copper Chris will be joining us again in May. Driven by the principles of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect (PLUR), a philosophy that has shaped his mission since age sixteen. With a passion for uniting people through the universal language of music, creating unforgettable times and connections, inspiring communities to live freely and move forward as one. Drawing from an eclectic palette of house, reggae and African tribal sounds, Katongo delivers a unique, high-energy experience. His performances blend ethereal, experimental vibes with raw, unpredictable rhythms, featuring exclusive, unreleased productions curated from within the soul. Each set is a journey—vibrant, immersive, and deeply communal. Join Katongo to feel the rhythm, embrace the spirit, and dance together in unity. You can listen to the 4hour carefully curated musical journey that he made especially for Heartspace in September, the link is on our website. #music #dance #gathering #soulfood #rhythm

Join us at our upcoming gathering for some peace, serenity and a bit of craic. Connect with like-minded souls, make some new friends around a fire. Take time to remind ourselves what’s really important in life. It’s more than just a gathering, it’s a remembering… All details on the website #ireland #gathering #offgrid #simpleliving #slowliving

Dia dhuit!! 💚🌳We will be welcoming musicians, artists, craftspeople, graffiti/street artists, entertainers, traders, photographers/videographers, speakers (educational), practitioners for the Wellness Area and volunteers so please write to us at Heartspaceeire@gmail.com asap for details. We love the idea of building the village together and it really does take a village… so please come and put your valued life skills to good use amongst your soul tribe. #soultribe #gathering #Éire #event #yoga

The next unforgettable Heartspace Gathering is coming up soon on May 1-3rd 2026. Come and start the summer with us, off grid in this peaceful midlands valley. Early bird tickets and all details on the website now!! #communitygathering #communitygarden #findyourtribe #offgrid #heartspaceeire

Time to shake off the winter cobwebs and join us for a fire and a dance!! All details are on the website. We are gathering the first weekend in May to build on what we started last September 🌸🌳💚Looking forward to seeing faces old and new in the Heartspace. #community #gathering #heartspaceeire #event #ireland

These lads need no introduction 👀 Freestyles @stikyryano @lawriii3eyes #freestyle #rap #ireland #community #gathering

Dreaming The Present 💚 How Magic Can It Get? 💚 Building The World We Wanna See! 💚 Wild Self-sufficiency 💚 Artist Centred 💚 Holistic 💚 Soul Space 💚 Flower/Food Garden 💚 Heart-Centred Nature 💚 Éire Abú 💚

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Dreaming The Present 💚 How Magic Can It Get? 💚 Building The World We Wanna See! 💚 Wild Self-sufficiency 💚 Artist Centred 💚 Holistic 💚 Soul Space 💚 Flower/Food Garden 💚 Heart-Centred Nature 💚 Éire Abú 💚 💚