Sacred Hedge Grove
Sacred Arts
A year to tend your cauldrons and finish what matters.
A guided immersion in the living Irish bardic practice.
Is there work you're called to that keeps staying unfinished?
Sacred Arts is a year in circle, held within an Irish lineage bardic school, to bring that work to completion. Join the priority list and you'll hear first, before Sacred Arts opens to the public.
Year-long immersion
A practice tended over time
For those who know there is something deeper to the way they create.
Sacred Arts is where the three cauldrons become a living practice, held across a full year and witnessed by others walking the same path.
Through journey work, making, coaching enquiry and sacred sharing, held in ceremony, the circle builds the three cauldrons one by one, so each has time to settle before the next is drawn in.
- Opens
- Winter Solstice, 21 December 2026
- Length
- A full year, solstice to solstice
- Circle
- Up to eight members
- Rhythm
- Weekly 90-minute circle for three weeks, then a three-hour community gathering
- Where
- Online
The practice
The three cauldrons
The three cauldrons come from the Cauldron of Poesy, an early Irish bardic text attributed to Amergin, druid and poet of the Milesians. It describes three cauldrons born within every person, each sitting in its own position. Turning the cauldrons is the work of a lifetime.
Coire Goiriath
the cauldron of warming
Born upright
Support, strength and trust within. The gifts to lean into, and what you can cultivate within yourself.
Coire Érmae
the cauldron of motion
Born on its side, turned by sorrow and by joy
Authentic expression. What is ready to move through you, and how lived experience becomes the catalyst for sacred expression.
Coire Sois
the cauldron of knowledge
Born upside down
Sacred receiving. Knowledge, and Imbas arriving with ease.
Your guide
Dr Katrina Sheena Smyth
I'm Trina, founder of Sacred Hedge Grove, an Irish indigenous lineage bardic school in the North of Ireland. I'm an ordained Bean Feasa within Coire SOIS, the School of Irish Spirituality, and an ICF-credentialed coach with over 800 coaching hours.
I completed my doctorate through arts-based inquiry into meditation practice, and I've facilitated meditation, yoga and the arts for over twenty years. Sacred Arts brings these together: coaching to keep the work moving, and a living tradition that holds it.
How the year unfolds
Building the cauldrons
The year begins with the ground and gathers the others in as it turns.
- Months one to fourCoire GoiriathWarming the ground: support, strength and self-trust.
- Months five to eightCoire Goiriath and Coire ÉrmaeLetting what is ready move into expression, held by that ground.
- Months nine to twelveAll three cauldronsCoire Sois drawn in, the three tended together in right relationship.
In their words
From the founding circle
It is like knowing your grandmother is there. You can go to her and she will understand, even though you haven’t shared anything very personal.
It’s probably cut out years of my trying to extensively research and figure it all out by myself. The programme really supported me in finding my niche in a very holistic and supportive way.
If you’re on the fence, you probably should just do it. If it piques your interest, it will nourish and feed something you’re looking for.
The Winter Solstice circle
Now forming
Join the priority list to hear first when enrolment opens on 23 November, before it is shared anywhere else. Places are limited to eight.
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