What is DAMHSA?
DAMHSA (meaning DANCE, pronounced 'dow-sa') is a conscious dance collaborative who love to create unique conscious dance spaces for community. At heart both DAMHSA (our Winter indoor conscious dance series) and WILD (our Summer season of conscious dance in the outdoors) are invitations to move and grow. 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.
WILD 2026 was our second season of outdoor dance and it opened in April with WILD 1 at a beautiful mountain and mill site, WILD 2 was in an ancient forest, WILD 3 was a morning dance by the sea, WILD 4 was a coastal walk and dance with the island, WILD 5 was an amble to the lighthouse and WILD 6 was a sunny evening movement under a native woodland canopy.
Although we are moving back indoors now for the Winter months we will continue to draw inspiration from these wonderful locations we have danced in throughout the Northwest.
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 Summer season of outdoor conscious dance. Then they offered DAMHSA for dancers moving indoors through the rhythms of Autumn and Winter.
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.
Éadaoin Ní Challaráin: A native of Connemara now living in Sligo. Formerly a doctor in family medicine and palliative care, she now works in embodied and relational approaches to wellbeing. She founded The Living Well: Tobar na Sláinte in 2024. Éadaoin is an Open Floor Mindful Movement teacher, Buteyko Breath coach, Family Constellation practitioner, and member of the global Dance the Medicine DJ and facilitator teaching team.
Aisling Dolan: Growing up in Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Aisling's connection to movement started early. She became a physiotherapist and Pilates teacher and her study and work with the moving body solidified this passion, revealing how movement heals both body and mind. Aisling is a member of the International Conscious Movement Teacher Association, and she is currently continuing her study of conscious dance by training with Dance The Medicine to become a certified teacher. As a dance facilitator and ecstatic dance DJ, Aisling is living her dream by bringing mindful movement through conscious dance to her community with team DAMHSA.
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