Deirdre Mc Grath

Sat nam!

I’m Deirdre, founder of Deva Healing Arts, Kundalini Yoga and energy medicine practitioner, artist and mother to two pampered cats. Devas ('day-vas') are beings of radiant light said to watch over every tiny plant, herb, tree and waterway, working to restore the earth's radiant blueprint.  My desire is to help reconnect you to your own deva, your own inner teacher and wild and luminous nature for greater health, happiness and vitality. 

My work encompasses several healing arts practices centred around priestessing the Divine Feminine, healing and restoring the balance of yin and yang energies within myself and others. With a passionate interest in women's wellbeing and fertility support, I’ve been a therapist since 2001 and am a certified practitioner of Eden Energy Medicine, having trained in the work of renowned healer, Donna Eden (author of the classic 'Energy Medicine'), for many years now since first meeting Donna herself in my twenties.

As Kundalini Yoga practitioners we are gifted with a spiritual name to help align us with our destiny and act as a wonderful tool to help us elevate ourself and others. I have been blessed to live as Dev Shakti Kaur, the Princess/Lioness with the soul of an angel who flows with the creative energy of the Infinite.
 
Dev means angel and divine.  Shakti is the power of the feminine, the creative energy of the Universe.  Kaur is a name that all women receive - the Princess/Lioness of God who walks with grace and strength throughout her life.  Yogi Bhajan taught that every woman has the potential to attain this divine state and encouraged all to manifest it.
 
The gift of my name is to tune into the angelic nature we all have and allow the female power of the Universe to freely flow through.  Dev is one who serves with grace and honor - a pure soul without attachment to her ego (still working on that part!) and Shakti is a highly creative being who lets the energy of true self flow.  Well that is a lot to live up to and like all of us, I am a work in progress! :)

My practice is always changing and growing and I work with several forms of pelvic bodywork including the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy, Fertility Massage Therapy and Abdominal-Sacral Massage in addition to Reproductive Reflexology, Holistic Pulsing (‘the tai chi of massage’!), Pregnancy and Post Natal Massage, Rebozo Massage, Reiki, Australian Bush Flower Remedies for Women’s Wellbeing, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping), Facial Reflexology and Auricular Acupuncture.

My first introduction to Kundalini Yoga was on a recommendation from a client I began working with as an early case study, who had been trying to conceive for several years without success. After a course of treatment supported by her Kundalini Yoga practice between sessions she and her husband went on to have two gorgeous little girls completely naturally, with easy natural births. She gave me Maya Fiennes first DVD and book in thanks and I got hooked myself! I have studied music since childhood and dearly love the mantras and music this practice brings, the beautiful integration of movement, sound, mudra, meditation and breath and the calm, joyful centred feeling you get from this practice. Kundalini Yoga will push you to your own limits and expand your sense of yourself and what you are capable of. It develops grit and focus which I have found very helpful, having grown up with a lively monkey mind that resisted all previous attempts to meditate!

Empowering my clients with self care tools and exercises so you can help yourself and restore your connection to your own inner guru has been my guiding light and was my reason for training in Energy Medicine and I found this same quality in the sacred therapy that is Kundalini Yoga. My clients homework now might include self care acupressure, a breathing exercise (pranayam), a healing mantra or a Kundalini yoga kriya chosen to support our work together. Yogi Bhajan, the master of our lineage, has passed down to us thousands of kriyas and meditations for every imaginable human need, whether you want to strengthen your adrenals, so essential to many of us in our busy lives, balance your hormones, create prosperity and abundance, increase your beauty and radiance ... well there are kriyas for all of those and more! In addition to Kundalini Yoga, my previous yoga background included training with two wonderful embodiments of the Divine Feminine who both teach beautiful, creative and restorative practices: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli (Womb Yoga) and Francoise Freedman (Birthlight Fertility Yoga).

I love my work and see clients presenting with all kinds of conditions from anxiety to chronic pain, from supporting cancer patients to those wishing to boost their heart health naturally, or people just wishing to optimise and maintain their health. My particular specialism is women's wellbeing: creating menstrual health, supporting healthy fertility, perimenopause and menopause and improving digestive health and I have completed extensive additional training in these areas. However despite all the pieces of paper and as interesting as all that information can be, my only role really is to help you balance your own energies naturally, regardless of what medical label you have been given or what story you arrive with - once this happens, with the help of your own inner teacher you will find your own way to health, joy and vitality. You can find lots more information on my website www.devahealingarts.com

I work from the beautiful Georgian surroundings of Dublin Holistic Centre in Dublin, Ireland and also run practices in Luxembourg and the UK serving an international clientele. I offer classes, workshops and retreats on women's wellbeing, stress management and energy medicine for practitioners, the general public and corporate clients. If you would like to organise a workshop local to you, please do get in touch - I love to travel and experience different places and cultures and find sharing my work in this way very enriching. Skype consultations are also available worldwide.

Warmest wishes,
Deirdre / Dev Shakti x

Deirdre McGrath / Dev Shakti Kaur
BA(Hons) Psychology, Dip ITEC, EEM-CP, Cert. Arvigo, MCThA