Description
The 'Breathe and Bloom Easter Camp' provides children with a joyful, soothing, and empowering experience that allows them to truly breathe, bloom, and grow. Perfect for kids looking to enjoy a calm, creative, and mindful Easter break!
🌷 What’s Included?
🧘♀️ Yoga & Movement:
Fun, playful yoga sessions designed to enhance strength, flexibility, balance, and body awareness. Children will enjoy themed yoga flows inspired by nature, animals, and springtime blossoms.
🌬️ Breathwork & Relaxation:
Interactive breathing techniques that help children regulate their emotions, build resilience, and feel calm and centered. Activities include “Blossom Breaths” and “Petal Breathing” for playful relaxation.
🪷 Mindfulness & Meditation:
Guided meditations and mindfulness practices that foster inner peace, creativity, and emotional awareness. Children will learn simple tools to calm their minds, connect with their senses, and feel present in the moment.
🎨 Creative Art Expression:
Art-based activities such as painting, drawing, crafting, storytelling, and nature art. Encouraging children to explore their creativity, express their emotions, and build confidence through artistic play.
🌼 Nature Connection:
Mindful outdoor activities like nature walks, sensory-based games, and grounding exercises, helping children feel inspired and connected to the natural world.
✨ Kindness & Connection:
Group activities that promote empathy, cooperation, and positive friendships, encouraging children to support one another and build healthy social skills.
🌟 Benefits for Children:
Emotional Regulation & Resilience:
Through mindful practices and breathwork, children learn essential skills to manage stress, anxiety, and challenging emotions.Enhanced Focus & Concentration:
Mindfulness and meditation activities boost attention span, clarity, and problem-solving abilities.Creativity & Self-Expression:
Creative arts encourage children to explore their imagination, build confidence, and express their thoughts and feelings.Physical Health & Body Awareness:
Yoga supports strength, flexibility, coordination, and a healthy relationship with their bodies.Social Skills & Compassion:
Interactive activities nurture empathy, kindness, and positive communication, helping children develop meaningful friendships.Connection to Nature:
Nature-based mindfulness practices offer a sense of grounding, calm, and inspiration, fostering a lifelong love for the natural world.Increased Confidence & Self-Esteem:
Celebrating creativity, calm, and connection builds inner strength, self-assurance, and resilience.
📅 When? 📍Where?
📍Location: Dúlra Therapy Centre, Lurganboy, Dromone, Oldcastle, Co Meath, A82 D2R8
👩🏫 Facilitators: Leona McDonnell (www.leonamcdonnell.com)
📅 Date: Thursday 24th April ’25 from 10am – 1pm
💰 Price: €40 per child – Sibling Discount Available On Request!
👧 Age Group: Suitable for children aged 8-12 years
What To Bring?
- Water and mid-morning snack
- Blanket and Cushion/Pillow for Meditation/Relaxation
- Outdoor Raincoat / Footwear
- Suncream should be applied in advance of camp (weather permitting)
** If your child has any allergies or diagnosed medical conditions that Leona needs to be aware of, please email Leona when booking: leona@leonamcdonnell.com **
Meet Your Facilitator: Leona McDonnell
Welcome to a transformative journey of self-discovery and well-being with Leona McDonnell, a dedicated therapist and holistic wellness practitioner. With a profound love for nature and a passion for guiding individuals toward holistic healing, Leona combines her expertise in mindfulness, meditation, clinical hypnotherapy, clinical psychotherapy, life coaching, yoga and Tera Mai Reiki II with the healing inspiration of the natural world.
Leona is a compassionate and skilled therapist with a private clinical practice, committed to helping individuals navigate life’s challenges with grace and resilience. With a background in clinical psychotherapy, certification as an IMMA Internationally Accredited Mindfulness Rooted Ecotherapy Practitioner, an IMMA Internationally Accredited Creative Mindfulness for Children Practitioner, a 200hr Himalaya Yoga Valley Teacher (trained from the source of Yoga in India) and a Tera Mai Reiki II Practitioner, Leona brings a unique blend of Western psychology, Eastern holistic practices, and nature-based healing to her sessions.
Leona believes in a holistic approach to well-being, acknowledging the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit, and nature. Her therapeutic sessions are grounded in empathy, respect, and a commitment to empowering individuals to unlock their full potential.
Credentials and Achievements
Leona has dedicated the last 20years of her life to continually learn new skills, train, develop, up-skill and expand her qualifications and experience so that she can be the best version of herself and so that she can reach and help others to heal themselves in their own life journey’s.
Leona has successfully completed and has achieved qualification as:
- IMMA Internationally Accredited Mindfulness Rooted Ecotherapy Practitioner
- Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
- CMA Diploma in Life Coaching
- 200HR Himalaya Yoga Valley Teacher
- Blissful Breath Instructor
- Tera-Mai Reiki Level II Practitioner
- Certificate in Mindfulness for Wellbeing in Schools
- IMMA Internationally Accredited Creative Mindfulness for Children Practitioner
- Rainbow Yoga Teacher for Children (50hrs)
- 2:1 Hons Degree in Business Studies with Human Resources
- Author
- Dúlra Therapy Centre (Leona’s private wellness clinic and group services)
- LMETB Panel Member for Psychotherapy and Counselling Services and Clinical Psychologists (Secondary Schools and Education Centres in Louth and Meath, Ireland).
- Licentiate of the Association of Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (APHP)
- Licentiate of the National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors (NRPC)
