Oonagh O'Sullivan

Oonagh O'Sullivan

Oonagh is a multidisciplinary artist, ritualist, grief-tender, singer, embodiment guide & festival maker from West Kerry, Ireland. She blends her deep love for the human heart & body as part of the web of life, with song as prayer to create spaces of remembrance, connection, expression & belonging. She enjoys weaving threads of tradition, mythos, ritual and storytelling into her art making. Oonagh has been teaching yoga & somatic practices and holding group spaces through classes, workshops, training & retreats for 8 years.

She holds an MA in Ritual Chant & Song from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, where she specialised in the use of ritual song in Irish pre-Christian grief ceremonies called An Caoineadh/keening. Her interest lies on how to contemporise these ancient ways through our bodies and voices during this crisis of unprecedented individual and collective grief. Oonagh loves creating meaningful communal spaces of embodied artistic exploration for co-regulation, creative alchemy and social change.

Oonagh with Weaving Remembrance: