 Inishowen | Donegal
 Inishowen | Donegal
Welcome to Marie Doherty Wellness
Welcome to Marie Doherty Wellness
Breathwork Facilitator | Celtic Wisdom Keeper
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The land beneath our feet carries ancient medicine.
The breath in our body was never lost.
The wisdom of the Irish tradition is older than any difficulty you carry.Â
The wisdom of the Irish tradition is older than any difficulty you carry.Â
A Gentler Way HomeÂ
A Gentler Way HomeÂ
The land teaches us that rest isn't weakness. That breath can be medicine. That we belong to the earth, and she remembers us.
The land teaches us that rest isn't weakness. That breath can be medicine. That we belong to the earth, and she remembers us.
If you're tired of pushing, striving, and giving from an empty well, there's another way.
If you're tired of pushing, striving, and giving from an empty well, there's another way.
I'm Marie, and I walk with Breathwork facilitators, teachers, caregivers, and earth-tender souls who are ready to come home to themselves - through breath, season, and the quiet wisdom of the land.
I'm Marie, and I walk with Breathwork facilitators, teachers, caregivers, and earth-tender souls who are ready to come home to themselves - through breath, season, and the quiet wisdom of the land.
Join us for The Midweek ExhaleÂ
Join us for The Midweek ExhaleÂ
Every Wednesday evening, we gather online for a gentle pause in the middle of the week.
A space to slow down, reconnect with your breath, and find calm in the chaos.
🌿 Live on Zoom – open to all.
🌀 A soft place to land, reset, and remember you’re not alone.
Click below to join the next session or subscribe to our new YouTube channel here to catch the replays anytime.
Ways to Work With Me
Ways to Work With Me
🌿 The Exhale Awakening
A GPBA-affiliated breathwork and Celtic wisdom school, co-founded with Sharyn, serving facilitators, practitioners, and all who long for a deeper way of breathing and being.
🌙 Celtic Wisdom Coaching
Thirty years of teaching, a lifetime in the Irish language, and a deep apprenticeship in the bean feasa lineage, offered now in service of your own becoming.
✦ Bualadh Leighis
Celtic EFT - the power of the filÃ's word and the bean feasa's touch, woven into a tending practice for what the body holds.
🌸 Plant Medicine
Bua na Luibhe - the virtue of the herb. Two Irish flower essence ranges, chosen with care, offered in sessions and full consultations.
〰 Breathwork
From gentle functional breathing to deep aisling journeys and the only GPBA-certified facilitator training of its kind in Ireland.
📚 For Teachers
Thirty years in the classroom. I knows what it is to carry children's worlds. Special support, supervision, and rates for primary and secondary school teachers.
Who am I?
Who am I?
I am an Inishowen woman. That is not a small thing to say. It carries in it a particular relationship with land, with weather, with the long memory of a place that has been inhabited and loved and grieved over for thousands of years. I grew up belonging to this landscape before I had any language for what that belonging meant. The hills of Inishowen, the Atlantic at the edge of everything, the particular quality of light here that is unlike anywhere else I have been. These are not backdrop to my life. They are the ground of it.
The Irish language is part of that ground too. I came to it with love and with intention, drawn by the knowing that it carries ways of understanding the world that simply do not exist in English. It offers a different relationship with time, with place, with the living land. It has become a thread woven through my practice, not as performance, but as homecoming.
That sense of rootedness, of genuinely belonging to a place and a tradition, shapes everything I offer. In a world that moves very fast and borrows freely from everywhere, I have chosen to go deep in one direction: into the soil of this island, into the wisdom that has always been here, into the living knowledge of the people who tended this land long before any of us arrived.
For thirty years I stood in front of classrooms in Donegal. I watched small people learn to read and write and think and feel — and I learned alongside them, perhaps more than they ever knew. I learned that growth cannot be forced. That the right conditions matter more than any technique. That the most powerful thing you can offer another person is genuine, unhurried presence.
When I finally stepped away from teaching, it was not because I had stopped loving it. It was because something older was calling, something that had been patient underneath the whole of my working life, waiting for the right season. The bean feasa tradition. The breath. The plant allies. The wisdom of the Irish land that has been tending people long before any of us arrived in it.
I began to follow that thread seriously and I have not stopped. My apprenticeship in the bean feasa lineage is ongoing, a living path rather than a completed course. I study the Ogham trees, the ortha (sacred speech), the old healing traditions of Donegal and the wider Irish world. I work with two Irish flower essence ranges whose plants know this landscape as well as I do. I have trained deeply in breathwork - functional, conscious connected, and ceremonial - and I now train others.
Everything I offer is grown from the soil of this island. None of it is borrowed from elsewhere. That matters to me, and I believe it will matter to you.
Why Choose This PathÂ
Why Choose This PathÂ
Who this is for
Who this is for
You might be in the right place if...
You are a breathwork facilitator or wellness practitioner, perhaps in training, perhaps already in practice, and you are beginning to understand that the deepest work you can do for your clients begins with the deepest work you are willing to do on yourself.
You are a teacher - primary or secondary - and the tiredness you carry at the end of term no longer fully lifts during the holidays. You give yourself to your pupils with genuine dedication, and somewhere along the way you have quietly stopped giving very much to yourself.
You are a caregiver of some kind - for children, for ageing parents, for those in your community who need tending - and you have begun to notice a particular hollowness underneath the busyness. Not crisis. Not burnout in any dramatic sense. Simply a slow leaking of the aliveness that used to be more present.
You are someone who senses that the wisdom you need is not in another new framework from elsewhere but closer to home. Perhaps you have Irish roots, or a love of this land, or simply a feeling that something old and steady is what you are actually looking for.
You do not need to be in a particular kind of trouble to come. You do not need to have a clear problem to solve. You are welcome to arrive exactly as you are, with the week still on you, with the noise of ordinary life still in your body, with whatever uncertainty brought you to this page.
The only thing I ask is that you come gently. Everything else will find its shape from there.
A closing invitation
A closing invitation
Come gently
I know how it is to search for something and not quite be able to name what you are looking for. I know how it is to feel called toward a different way of living , a more slower, more rooted, more honest way, and to not yet know the path.
This work will not ask you to become someone else. It will not offer you a transformation or a breakthrough or a before-and-after story. What it will offer is something quieter than that, and I believe more lasting: the gradual remembering of your own wholeness. The slow return of something that was never actually lost, only buried under the weight of everything you have been carrying.
If something here speaks to you, I would be glad to hear from you. You are welcome to look around and take your time. You are welcome to reach out with a question, even if you are not sure what you want to ask. And you are welcome to simply return another day, when the moment feels right.
There is no urgency here.
Go mall agat féin.
Go gently with yourself.
The circle is open when you are ready to step in.
enquiries@mariedoherty.ie
Contact me
Contact me
Have questions or ready to start your journey to a more mindful and less stressed life? Reach out to me today to discuss how I can support you on your wellness journey
Working with clients online and in person in Carndonagh, Co. Donegal, Ireland
Email: marie@mariedohertywellness.ieÂ
Text:Â +353872987363
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