Wednesday 3 February 2010
Wanderlust is preparing for walking season 2010
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Nordic Walking Weekend Break in August 2009
Friday 8 May 2009
Nordic Walking Weekend Break in Glengarriff
Two sweatlodges in May
Next Sweatlodges in Glengarriff, West Cork, take place
Thursday 14 th May, 3 pm
Tuesday 26th May, 4.30 pm
Where the mountains meet the sea.
Open for everybody. Would you like to attend?
Tel. 027 63609 info@wanderlust.ie
Monday 11th May: Nordic Walking is on
Friday 17 April 2009
Take your poles – Nordic Walking is starting again
Sweat Lodge Experience 2009

Next Sweatlodge in Glengarriff, West Cork, takes place
Saturday 25th April 2009, 2pm
Where the mountains meet the sea.
Open for everybody. Would you like to attend?
The Sweat lodge | Coming home
For thousands of years all people and cultures have known initiation and purification ceremonies. Sweat Lodges – in the Lakota language named Inipis – are an ancient way of healing, purification and spiritual practice. Innipi means “we are going to pray”. The ritual of the sweat lodge has been transmitted over generations. Sweat lodges are ceremonies based on work with the elements which represent energy, aspects of life. The creator elements fire, earth, air and water are representations of energies that influence our lives. We will cross these energetic fields – archetypes of life itself - during our whole life, year after year, day after day.
Away from the exterior world, in complete darkness in the proximity of the glooming stones we are projected into our inner fortresses, we inspire the heat and the steam and we may then expire our prayers, at least we may touch them, we may be aware of them. Sitting on the ground of mother earth, facing our ancestors, the stones, the limited space of the lodge in the obscure – this may open doors to our interior space. In some traditions the sweat lodge symbolises the matrix of the female: we go there to purify and to be reborn; we are coming home.
The Location | Wood_Mountains_Sea
Situated on the banks of a small river in a holly and birch woodland close to the sea – allowing vistas of the Caha mountains and of Bantry Bay – the sweat lodge location is a well sheltered place on private lands. Access on foot only.
The durable frame of the sweat lodge – built of hazel rods from the Borlin Valley – will be covered with a few dozen woolen blankets. The pebble stones from the beaches of Bantry Bay are heated in a fire from local wood. The sweat lodge can accommodate 15 people.
The stream has a nice natural pool to sit in and cool the body. Participants have as well access to the beach on small footpaths – at their own risk.
Leading the Sweat lodge | Uwe
Uwe Backhaus from Paris will be leading the four sweat lodges. Uwe is 49 years of age, father of two children, German. Woodworker, Teacher for Secondary Schools in Music and Sports, Light Designer, are some corner stones of his professional career. For 25 years Uwe has been following several masters and healers. In 2001 he joined the Red Indian Way and started training as fireman. In 2003 Uwe did his vision quest, in 2005 he danced the sun dance as one of the first in Europe. Uwe is guiding sweat lodges in France, Germany and Ireland. He is involved in the Prayer Dance Group around Markus Wider and „The Hand”.
Contact Uwe: mobile 0033 660804168
Leading the Sweat lodge | Donal
Donal O´Sullivan is a native from Cork, Ireland. He has a rich knowledge of the ancient sweat lodge ceremony. Donal has built a dozen sweat lodges himself as he constructed the new sweat hut in Glengarriff. Donal has been educated in prayer dances and other spiritual practices for many years and has been acting as a fireman in numerous sweat lodge ceremonies.
Contact Donal: 085 1741336
Some information | Costs etc
To bring: Towels (2 each sweat); men may wear shorts, women light dress, or skirt/shirt.
Costs: Ceremony is free of charge: to cover costs for firewood, cleaning of blankets, Uwe´s or Donal´s travel expenses and a homely meal we ask for the contribution of 45 Euro per person.
Directions: will be given after booking.
Max. number of participants: 15
Languages spoken: english, german, french
Would you like to attend?
Please send us your booking:
E-Mail: markus@wanderlust.ie
Post: Glengarriff Experience
Markus Baeuchle · Ardaturrish Beg
Glengarriff, Co Cork · IRELAND
Fax: 00353 27 63976
Any questions?
Talk to Markus
Tel. 00353 27 63609
If you like to do a sweatlodge with your group at any other time, please contact us.
Next dates: There will be a sweatlodge during the week 9th - 16th May 2009, another during the week 24th - 30th May 2009 and at least one sweatlodge in the month of June (exact date to be confirmed).
Saturday 21 March 2009
Nordic Walking Weekend Break in Glengarriff, West Cork

Friday 20 March 2009
Wenn wir noch ein Jahr zu leben hätten
Was ist ein Tag, was ein Monat, was ein Jahr. 
Tuesday 17 March 2009
In Irland ist eigentlich nie "Tag des Herrn" – außer vielleicht für ein paar ausgelaugte Engländer
