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Residential Mindful Self-Compassion Intensive
Mindful Self-Compassion Course
Fierce Self-Compassion Course
Self-Compassion For Shame Course
2 Weekend Mindful Forgiveness Course
Non Residential Retreat
Evening Meditation
Gift Vouchers

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+353 (0)1 8437 359
+353 (0)87 2054524
Corduff, Lusk, Co. Dublin Eir Code K45 TK85

Mindfulness Meditation Journey

Anne began her personal meditation practice in 1981. Since then, she has trained in, and regularly delivers, the following programmes to the public at Ashe House, as well as in corporate and healthcare settings:

Owner/Manager of Ashe House, Centre for MindBody Integration
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, awarded by The Awareness Training Institute with the Greater Good Science Center, Berkeley, University of California.
Certified MBSR Teacher with the Institute for Mindfulness Approaches, Germany.
Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher with the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion, San Diego School of Medicine
Recognised and Endorsed Teacher by Dr Rick Hanson to teach Positive Neuroplasticity (PNT) program
Mindfulness Supervisor – Bangor University and WeMind Holland
Mindfulness Based Compassionate Living (MBCL) with Fritz Koster and Eric Van Den Brink
Mindful Self Compassion for Teens and Young Adults (MFY – ‘Making Friends with Yourself’) Teacher Training course held in Ashe House, led by Dr. Karen Bluth and Lorraine Hobbs
Advanced Compassion Focused Therapy Training, Dr Paul Gilbert, December 2021
Teacher Training in Mindful Compassionate Parenting, November 2022
Mindful Based Training in Forgiveness, Frits Koster and Joyce Cordus, Global Compassion Coalition, April 2025
Teacher Training in Self-Compassion for Shame (SCS) with the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion, San Diego School of Medicine, June 2025
Teacher Training in Fierce Self-Compassion (FSC) with the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion, San Diego School of Medicine, June 2025
Radically Embodied Compassion, Dr Neil Clapton and Dr Syd Hiskey, June 2025

Anne adheres to the Irish Good Practice Guidelines for teaching Mindfulness-Based courses developed by the Mindfulness Teachers Association Ireland (Read the guidelines here).

Anne is committed to a daily personal mindfulness practice, participates in annual residential teacher-led mindfulness meditation retreats, has regular supervision and on-going Continuous Professional Development.

About Anne

Hi! My name is Anne Kirwan

A few perspectives on who I am and what I am about:

By training and profession:

For more than 45 years I have studied and taught many kinds of embodied practice-I began with my first yoga book from the library in 1980! Truthfully, the spiritual search and seeking had begun organically in me many years before this while growing up on a farm.

I am grateful that from a young age, I was surrounded by authentic elders in the shape of grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, who shaped my being in the modelling and witnessing of the living, breathing, action, and embodiment of compassion.

Aged 17, my very first job was as a Nurses Aide in a Hospice in Dublin, which became such a formative experience through opening my eyes to the loving compassionate care offered to All.

I continued onwards by training as a General Nurse, specialising in the area of neuromedical/neurosurgical nursing, and then as a Midwife over 40 years ago.

With a concrete background and passionate interest in neuroscience, neurobiology and psychology, it was a natural progression to training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy from 2001 to present day- a body centred psychotherapy grounded in somatic psychology and neuroscientific research.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, and cognitive approaches, as well as from the Hakomi Method, all underpinned by Mindfulness.

While working as a certified sensorimotor psychotherapist for many years I began to realise an extra ingredient was needed for moving towards healing and integration-which brought me to my greatest love of all-the daily practice and teaching of self-compassion!

And so began a commitment to many years of Mindfulness Based Training, study and practice which has become central and foremost in my life.

By choice and good fortune:

I am honoured to be a mother to three kind, loving, compassionate adult children-they are my steadfast, fierce allies and critiques all rolled into one!

I am also deeply grateful to have walked this path for 15 glorious years alongside my beloved husband, Michael, who passed in April 2000.

From the moment we met we shared and discovered a passion for life, love, fun, family, Nature and animals, while deepening our commitment to our individual and joint spiritual journeys-me by training, studying and working with integrated and somatic approaches and he through his embracing living into his dying.

The eventual development of Ashe House was as much a part of Michael’s vision and a testament to his encouragement, although he never did get to see his vision through..however I like to think his free spirit lives on in the ground and land here!

I am a daughter, a sister, an auntie, and a friend, a passionate learner.

I am a nature lover and live with a variety of domestic and wild animals and birds surrounding Ashe House. I’m passionate about learning from the wisdom of animals, plants, and our living earth.

By lineage and inclination:

I have meditated as far back as I can remember-as a very young child I collected flowers on the roads and left them regularly on the altar in our local church-I would sit quietly in ”Presence” even though I hadn’t the language or understanding for my experiences back then. While raised in the Christian Catholic tradition I have also been blessed with teachers and mentors from many other traditions.

I am a meditator and spiritual practitioner, blessed by the teachings and wisdom of many, many wonderful teachers involving years of study and practice in meditation, mindfulness and compassion.

I have been fortunate and honoured to train in-person with gifted teachers – Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Rick Hanson, Chris Germer, Kristen Neff, Sharon Salzburg,Frits Koster to mention but a few.

At this stage of my life I feel I am an eclectic mix of Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Celtic, Shamanic, and a definite honouring of Ancestral traditions and lineages to name but a few!

These deep teachings and practices have been woven inextricably into my daily life and my work in the form of mindful embodiment and contemplative practices.

When teaching mindfulness courses or retreats I hold the intention of imparting the wisdom traditions in a secular, nourishing, embodied and open hearted style.

My work is about:

My work is to help people find and reconnect to their own innate capacity for a grounded, centered, aligned , breathing embodied somatic self-presence, through the teaching of spacious awareness (mindfulness) and radical self- compassion

My work is in helping people soften and befriend themselves such that they become available for deep listening for how to be in “Right Relationship” in a life-giving way with themselves, family, land and community.

I believe mindfulness and loving-kindness must be lived, embodied practices dedicated to the welfare of all, now and into the future, rather than focused solely on personal evolution in order to be of genuine benefit.

In all the courses and retreats led by myself we co-create a “Brave Space” as well as a ‘Safe Space’ and then see what happens!

Together, these mindfulness and self-compassion practices offer generous room for the safe holding of a broken and open heart while offering the choice of new responses to life with courage and skill.

My work is to be the container, witness, and steady presence while each person connects into their own innate wisdom and movement towards healing- a lot like midwife-ing from my earlier work life!!

I also consider it my work to grow brave and unconditional friendliness toward what is – and to support all who participate in our offerings to do the same. This kind of brave loving kindness is an embodied wisdom that can transform all that it touches – body, mind, soul, community, and world.

A few more things:

I love horses, dogs, poetry, sea swimming, good coffee, having fun and play time, and good Irish whiskey!

Thanks to the writer, Kathleen Dean Moore, for the framing (training and profession, lineage and inclination, choice and good fortune.) used in the above headings from her book Great Tide Rising

Thomas Ashe & Ashe House

Thomas Ashe was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB),
and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. He was Commander of the Fingal Volunteers
(5th Battalion) during the Easter Rising 1916 and won a major battle in Ashbourne, Co Meath
during Easter Week.

Ashe’s battalion surrendered on the orders of Patrick Pearse and on 8th May 1916,
Thomas Ashe was court-martialled and sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to
penal servitude for life following the reaction to the executions of the fellow leaders
of the Rising.

Thomas Ashe was imprisoned in Lewes Gaol in England and became one of the leaders alongside
Eamon De Valera. Ashe was released on 18th June 1917 as part of a general amnesty.
Ashe was elected President of the Supreme Council of the IRB.

Ashe returned to Ireland and immediately began a series of speaking engagements around
the country. He was arrested in August 1917 and charged with sedition for a speech that
he made in Ballinalee, Co Longford. He was sentenced to two years hard labour.

While in Mountjoy Prison, Thomas Ashe and other prisoners demanded prisoner of war status
instead of that of ordinary criminal. As a result of prison staff taking away their beds,
bedclothes and possessions, they went on hunger strike on 20th September 1917.
Forcible feeding began on 23rd September.

On 25th September Thomas Ashe was forcibly fed and immediately collapsed afterwards.
He was transferred to hospital where his condition continued to deteriorate. Ashe died
at 10:30pm 25th September 1917. Cause of death according to the post mortem was heart
failure and congestion of the lungs.

Thomas Ashe’s death had a significant impact on the country, increasing Republican recruitment.
Ashe’s body lay in state in Dublin City Hall until his funeral on 30th September.
He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Text reproduced by kind permission from the Ashe Family
www.thomaspatrickashe.com

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