Inishowen • Donegal • Online
Inishowen • Donegal • Online
The Breath Within Us. The Life Around Us.
The Breath Within Us. The Life Around Us.
Marie Doherty
Marie Doherty
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Breathwork & Celtic Essence Apothecary
Two ways of exploring our relationship with ourselves and the living world.
Through breath, science and gentle awareness. Through plants, essences, Irish folklore and the wisdom of the land.
Both begin with curiosity, rather than the assumption that something needs fixing.
Breathwork - The Living Breath
Breathwork - The Living Breath
From understanding your everyday breathing to exploring deeper breathwork, discover a gentler approach grounded in science, mystery, awareness and choice.
The Celtic Essence Apothecary
The Celtic Essence Apothecary
Meet the plants through essence, story, folklore, science and Shared Breath, exploring our relationship with the land and the wisdom it carries.
Who this is for
Who this is for
You might be in the right place if...
You're curious about your breath, and what might change when you begin to pay attention to it.
You're carrying a little too much, perhaps through teaching, caring for others or simply navigating everyday life, and would welcome some space for yourself.
You feel drawn to plants, folklore, older Irish ways of knowing or a deeper relationship with the living world.
You're a practitioner or facilitator wanting to explore your own experience, deepen your practice or find thoughtful support.
You're at a point of change, or simply wondering what else might be possible when you begin to listen more closely.
You don't need to be struggling, searching for transformation or even know quite what you're looking for.
Come as you are. Everything else finds its shape from there.
Other Ways to Work Together
Other Ways to Work Together
Breathwork and the Celtic Essence Apothecary are at the heart of my work, but there are other ways we might spend time together.
Coaching & Conversation - Space to explore questions, patterns, possibilities and the things that matter to you.
Celtic-Rooted Tending - A more personal exploration drawing on story, symbolism, old Irish wisdom and reflective practices.
🌿 The Exhale Awakening - Group breathwork, retreats business and tending support and professional training through the school I co-founded with Sharyn.
🌸 Training & Supervision - certification, apprenticeship, and ongoing support for practitioners and teachers.
Come and Breathe With Us
Come and Breathe With Us
Every Wednesday evening, we gather online for the Midweek Exhale — a free, gentle breathing session with The Exhale Awakening.
A little space in the middle of the week to pause, breathe and simply be.
You're very welcome to join us live, or explore our recordings on YouTube.
A Little About Me
A Little About Me
I'm an Inishowen woman, a retired primary teacher, a breathworker and a gatherer of stories, practices and questions.
For more than thirty years, I stood in classrooms in Donegal. Teaching taught me something I still carry into everything I do: growth cannot be forced. We can create conditions, offer support and pay attention, but we cannot hurry another person's unfolding.
These days my work moves between breath physiology and the nervous system, plants and their traditional uses, Irish folklore, language and older ways of knowing.
I'm particularly interested in the bean feasa, the women of knowledge, and what we can genuinely learn from their place in Irish history and tradition.
I don't need the scientific and the mysterious to prove one another.
Breath and story. Body and land. Evidence and wonder.
It's the conversation between them that keeps drawing me back.
An invitation to Begin
An invitation to Begin
This work won't ask you to become someone else or offer you a before-and-after story.
What it offers is space for curiosity, attention, connection and the possibility of change in your own time.
There's no urgency here. Look around, reach out with a question, or simply return when the moment feels right.
Go mall agat féin. Take your time.
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