WILD Returns for 2026
WILD is brought to you by Team DAMHSA, pronounced 'dow-sa', the Irish word for dance
Outdoor Series: WILD
April - September in outdoor locations throughout the Northwest
Indoor Series: DAMHSA Friday nights at the Oratory will return September - December 2026 in Ballisodare, Sligo
Are you dancing? Book for WILD
What is WILD?
WILD is the outdoor season of conscious dance events offered by team DAMHSA (meaning DANCE, pronounced 'dow-sa')
All DAMHSA offerings, at heart are an invitation to move freely. Conscious dance is about tuning into your body and the environment, allowing authentic movement to emerge. It's a powerful way to connect with yourself, with others, and with the world around you.
Guided, Not Choreographed: As experienced facilitators, we create a welcoming space. We guide the experience without teaching specific moves, encouraging personal exploration and connection through movement.
Sober & Inclusive: WILD & DAMHSA are sober dance events, fostering a clear-headed, embodied experience. We encourage communication through movement, which makes the events incredibly inclusive and open to everyone, regardless of background or prior dance experience.
ABOUT US
Kate, Éadaoin, and Aisling are three passionate individuals, brought together by a shared love for dance, music, nature, heritage and community. They bring diverse experiences and a deep shared commitment to creating safe, joyful and creative spaces for movement.
In the summer of 2025, they first brought WILD to the dance community. WILD is a season of conscious dance in the outdoors.
Then they offered DAMHSA for dancers moving indoors through the rhythms of Autumn and Winter.
WILD 2026 opens in April!
Kate Brown: Sligo is Kate's home by the sea. She has a love for and has worked in the Arts for many years, including more recently as a conscious dance facilitator and Dance the Medicine DJ. Her years as a conscious movement dancer, and arts educator are made possible through a joyful, creative collaboration with others, supported by the wisdom of her movement teachers, the grand works of Nature and the spirit of the dance. The teachings that her dance has gifted her, has led to the creation of DAMHSA's Summer and Winter Programmes.
Éadaoin Nà Challaráin: A native of Connemara now calls Sligo home. A lifelong love of wild landscapes, fresh air and movement has shaped both her life and her work.
Formerly a doctor in family medicine and palliative care, she has stepped away from clinical practice and now works in embodied and relational approaches to wellbeing. In 2025, she founded The Living Well: Tobar na Sláinte. She is an Open Floor Mindful Movement teacher, Buteyko Breath coach, Family Constellation practitioner, and a member of the global Dance the Medicine DJ and facilitator teaching team.
She’s delighted to collaborate with Kate and Aisling in growing DAMHSA where connection, creativity, health and the spirit of place are all part of the magic.
Aisling Dolan: Growing up in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Aisling's connection to movement started early – she barely wore shoes until she was five, dancing barefoot to "Twist and Shout". Training to become a physiotherapist and Pilates teacher solidified this passion, revealing how movement heals both body and mind. This led to conscious dance becoming the perfect fusion of her love for music and the human body. As a dance facilitator and ecstatic dance DJ trained by Dance The Medicine, Aisling is part of a vibrant community of conscious dancers both locally and globally. She is now also part of the Dance the Medicine teaching team. Aisling is living her dream by bringing mindful movement through conscious dance to others with DAMHSA.
"Thank you Éadaoin, Aisling and Kate fora. beautifully held space and intro evening last night at The Oratory - there sure was magic and giddiness in the creeks of that floor (and perhaps a lot of smiling nuns) TO THE NEW! and of course, DAMHSA gratitude!"
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"Kate, Aisling & Éadaoin - Can’t wait for the next dance. Thank you so much for your time and effort to put such a special experience together, it was magic! "
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"Thank you, Kate, Aisling and Éadaoin for the dance last night and the lovely gestures of care... And to all the dancers for shared moments of stillness and movement with each other, rock and sea. A beautiful addition to our moving/dancing tribe in Sligo. "
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" ... Just wanted to say what a wonderful evening dancing under the trees. Thank you to all 3 of you and nature for creating such a safe space. I had a great time. I can see why you’re so passionate about it."
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