Children at Hummingbird Studio
Hummingbird Studio was founded in December 2022
The Hummingbird is a symbol of joy and lightness of being and thats what the studio is all about.
Through my training in Art, Meditation, Tusla and Hse trainings, I decided to open my own Art studio in December 2022.
I've created a structured and fun environment to help children relax, learn new art skills and meditation tools that they can use to help grow self confidence and creative expression in a way that builds societal and educational norms.
I run Kids Art and Meditation courses that integrate well being strategies in a fun learning environment. I use a range of meditation tools in my courses.
I explore a curriculim of visual art, printmaking, mindfulness art in nature, meditation.
My arts practice and methodologies has led me to be very adaptable and I have shaped art and meditation programs to suit a variety of communities. The curriculum is altered to suit the needs and skill set of different ages groups.
I've created new meditation games and new methodologies of working with emotions that bring a new imagination to that add value to communities and childrens personal lives.
I'm passionate about creative climate change action through using recyclable materials and using natural materials from the landscape.
Why are classes small groups with a maximum of 8 children per class.
My class's cater to children who love to chat and are unique and who may not be fond of big groups. So if your child is shy or likes extra attention with their art and meditation skills this class is perfect.
Exploring emotions in Hummingbird Studio
When I'm working with children we always carve out parts of the class and camps to reflect and talk about our emotions. I use creative methods as a way to teach children about positive emotions and encourage the exploration of a wide spectrum of emotions.
Values of Hummingbird Studio
As a teacher I value listening, loving kindness and support kids in building their technical creative and meditation skills.
We have alot of fun while learning and on the days that its bright and dry we go to Collis Sandes woods and do our meditation practice there.
I run after school classes and camps on school breaks and summer holidays.
If you’d like to join a class or camp click the green button
Follow the moon to a life of beauty and freedom.
The moon represents the feminine,and she heals you as she waxes and wanes throughout the year, I see her as the goddess in the sky.
The lunar aspect of your life is lost until you start to track the moons,the part you lose is your connection to your intuition.
You also lose your pyschic power and emotional depth.
When you recover your soulfulness and your connection to the beauty of your own feelings, life begins to change.
As you follow the moons, abundance starts to play a bigger part in your life.
A life aligned with the moon is a life of inspiration, growth and celebration.
The moon as your teacher and healer
As your guide, she will shine her moon light onto the parts of you that desire more freedom and beauty.
Meditating with the moons is a chance to pause and ceremonialize who you are, what you embody, your achievements, and rejoice in what makes you feel alive.
The transformation that needs to happen may simply mean you are ready to release something so it can take on a different shape.
Like finishing a project, moving from a love relationship to a more committed stage like an engagement. When you release the old shape,then the alchemy can occur.
As the new and full moons pass, you'll intuitively know when to plant seeds or when you need to let go.
Periods of feeling stuck, uninspired, or creatively blocked become less frequent.
The moon as a source of feminine power.
Feminine power is your ability to shine forth your true self and allow it to be seen.
It’s different to your masculine power which directs, takes charge and moves forward. Feminine power is inwardly cultivated through meditation, reflection and learning from past experiences.
As you grow with the moons, she starts to remove the false masks and layers of protection that keep you hidden from a real connection with yourself.
First she'll teach you about self love, healthy boundaries and nourishment.
Then you’ll find out how to cleanse your emotional body and release stuck emotions such as sadness, rage or hurt.
You’ll be freed from mental loops that keep you trapped in past stories and memories.
As your power grows you’ll sense spaciousness in your thoughts and you'll recognise you've more time in your day.
The rushed ‘‘I’m behind schedule’’ feeling starts to leave your body and the natural rhythm of life takes over.
She starts to enchant you and your heart will be drawn towards wisdom and transformation.
The time you used to be spend doom scrolling is now spent in silence, listening and practicing ritual.
How does the moon free you from limitations?
Over time the masks and layers start to fall away and the wisdom keeper, magician and true self starts to step forward.
Your true self starts to reveal itself, you'll have a desire to share your souls gifts and skills more. This gives birth to the magician within and you'll have more confidence in living a life thats true to you.
A life of magic is one where you use all your gifts and skills to there optimum level.
You no longer feel the need to direct life but instead allow it to shape itself.
Now the wild feminine power of life can move through you.
If you’re interested in learning how to work with the moon cycles in my Meditation class that begins Tuesday January 9th at Hummingbird Studio, click the green button below.
x
Tricia
Sunrise Winter Solstice walk to the Paps of Anu
The steep climb to the top of the Paps of Anu began on Saturday 23rd of December at 6.45am and the intention was to get to the top of the mountain for 8.30am for sunrise. There was no sun when we got to the top but there was plenty craic
For 7,000 years people climbed the Pap mountains on the Winter Solstice to celebrate the Goddess Danu.
The goddess of fertility and mother to the Tuatha De Danann who were a magical race of gods. They held divine knowledge and were masters of their craft.
On the Winter Solstice people would celebrate with craic, ceoil, sports and blessings for farming and Danu.
I can't imagine the energy the mountain is holding after 7,000 years of celebrations and good intentions.
At the foot of the Pap Mountains is ‘’The city’’ which is where the Tuatha De Danann live and worship the Goddess Danu.
Winter Solstice Sunrise walk to the Paps of Anu
Strengthen your path of healing and success with the Mystic Masters Oracle deck
Discover how the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck guides your healing, creativity, and spiritual growth through daily cards and readings.
Every morning I pick a card from my Mystic Masters Oracle deck to work with and I paint the card in a small sketchbook.
When I start painting,the messages from a Divine Master begin to flow.
Receiving the messages from paint has been a welcome change over Christmas, and it’s steered me away from only using my mind to receive information.
After years of meditation, I know the mind can repeat old stories to keep us “safe.” Painting with the cards allows me to receive the guidance I truly need, not just what I want to hear.
This morning, I asked to work with a Divine Master for the highest benefit of all. Lumarai, the Mother Snake, emerged from the deck.
This morning,I shuffled my deck, and I asked to work with a divine master that was for the highest benefit of me and the highest benefit of all.
Lumarai the mother snake, popped out, and I got my inks and brushes and just listened.
Who is Lumarai the Mother Snake?
I am Lumarai the Mother snake and I want to tell you an aborginal creation story.
I lay asleep in the center of the earth for a very long time.
I awoke from the void and followed my creation instinct.
As I slithered across the Earth I woke the elemental, mineral and plant kingdoms.
I whispered to the animal kingdom it was time to wake up.
I let them know a new dawn has arrived
I dipped my nose in the flat plains of the desert and made mountains and valleys.
I brought colour and life to where there was once darkness
I sprinkled my yellow ochre dust along songlines. (Do all people know what you talk about)
I healed the land with my ancient songs
I nurtured the waters with reverberations from my hiss.
I brought heart and love to places that had forgotten what it was to love.
Who is Lumarai, the Mother Snake?
Lumarai shares an ancient creation story:
She awoke in the center of the earth and followed her creation instinct.
She stirred the elemental, mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, bringing color, life, and love where there was once darkness.
She healed the land with her songs and nurtured the waters with her energy.
Through Lumarai, the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck guides us toward transformation, showing how to step into peace, harmony, and the realization of our dreams.
What messages did Lumarai bring through the paint?
Messages from Lumarai Through the Paint
Working with Lumarai’s energy, I received guidance to:
Start something new through creative expression and words.
Cleanse my emotional body of negative thinking and financial blocks.
Connect with transformation and abundance, allowing creative energy and love to flow freely.
The Mystic Masters Oracle Deck helps illuminate your path of healing, encouraging you to transform emotional patterns, embrace abundance, and evolve spiritually.
Why Cleansing the Emotional Body Leads to Success
Purifying your emotional body clears old fears, victim mentality, or restrictive patterns.
When your energy is clear, your vision of success becomes brighter, and creativity flows naturally.
The emotional body is where your next level of divinity resides — raising consciousness allows you to live your highest potential.
What is the purpose of a water ritual?
A ritual for me is about getting clear on my intention, desired feelings and visions and then asking Mother Earth and the higher realms to support me in its manifestation.
Everything starts as a seed in your own mind and ritual give you a chance to plant the seed and let it grow and bloom in a way that is for the highest benefit of all beings.
This ritual is about cleansing the emotional body so I choose to ask water for its support and I gave the waters on the slieve Mish mountain a gift as a return for her help.
Water is healing, its purifying and even the sounds of water can strengthen your auric fields and energy fields.
Water Ritual on the Slieve Mish Mountain
“Mis is the original wild woman, that archetypal madwoman who lives deep within each of us. She speaks for us all: for the rage which we cannot express, for the grief which eats our heart out, for the voices we have suppressed out of fear.” Sharon Blackie
I choose to go to the Slieve Mis Mountain as Mis is a very powerful mountain with myth attached to her.
Mountains are considered a sacred place for ritual and water is a conduit to the Otherworld.
The Purpose of a Water Ritual
Rituals are a way to:
Set intentions
Connect with the higher realms and Mother Earth
Plant seeds for manifestation
For me, water is purifying and healing, strengthening auric and energy fields. I performed a water ritual on the Slieve Mish Mountain, honoring the sacred waters as a conduit to transformation and renewal.
How I Use the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck for Daily Guidance
Daily Card Pulls – Tap into intuition and guidance for the day. Buy your deck here
Creative Practice – Paint or journal with the cards to receive transformational insights
Emotional Cleansing – Work through old patterns to unlock abundance and clarity
Personal Readings – Book an oracle card reading for insights tailored to your life. Book your personal Mystic Masters Card reading here
I felt cleansed after my Water ritual as it was a reminder to keep tuning into the transformational and healing power of water as I move through 2024.
x
Tricia
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Tricia
The money goddess + the inner mother
This is a blog about the relationship between your money goddes within and the inner mother.
When you connect to the inner mother , you’ll start to tap into an overflow of abundance and money that is all around you. You see the value of your gifts, you see how they can create resources all around you.
Every time you feel abandoned or rejected grow your capacity to feel love within.
This pause in love will help grow your compassion for yourself.
As you shift your focus towards the inner wells of worthiness and love the outside will reorder itself.
The inner mother and the money goddess can rebalance your life in a grounded contained calm manner.
As you affirm to yourself ‘‘I AM loved ‘‘ I AM worthy’’ the money goddess and inner mother can hold a stronger presence within you because youre tending to their growth.
You can bring her presence into higher levels in order for new levels of abundance and love to be activated. Its always a choice , feed your darkness or feed your love.
The queen bee/ money goddess is the one creating communities and building the frequency of the goddess everywhere she goes.
She prompts all the other bees to work on building the mother frequency on the planet again.
She’s building honeycombs and communities and you have a part in this.
The queen bee has a money flow that is overflowing with the sacred waters of the inner mother because shes always tending to I AM LOVED I AM WORTHY
Heal your money wound with the Mystic Masters Oracle deck
This blog is about your relationship between your money and mother wound and how it impacts your life. If youve had troubling creating money from your work as an artist, musician, visionary or in your business this blog will help you. Irish people have a diffucult relationship with money and nourishment. I also teach a mentorship program where I help people heal their money and mother wound
Pink Money ritual for abundance and financial healing with oracle cards
Ready to transform your money mindset with powerful guidance?
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Book a Personal reading online or in Tralee, Co.Kerry
Money wounds can leave us feeling powerless, scattered, fearful, and disconnected, no matter how much money we actually have. They are patterns, often held from past trauma, generational or ancestral lack, and can affect your relationships, career, and overall sense of abundance.
A money wound isn’t about your bank balance it’s about how you experience money energy in your life. It can manifest as anxiety, scarcity thinking, or even feeling unworthy of abundance.
My Journey Healing the Money Wound
After years of healing trauma and nurturing my inner mother, I began tending to my money wound with the Divine Feminine. One day, during a meditation and free-writing session, I heard a clear message:
“It’s pink money.”
This concept transformed everything. Pink money represents money as a Divine Feminine energy an energy that wants to connect with you and flow freely through your life.
By empowering your relationship with money through loving-kindness meditation, grounding, and tending to the money wound, the pressure of scarcity begins to release. True abundance emerges naturally through:
Healthy relationships
Creative expression and art
Connection to nature
Recognition of your unique gifts
As you heal your money wound, a money goddess rises within, increasing self-respect, self-value, and your ability to magnetize opportunities. This is pink money magic.
Mystic Masters Oracle Deck healing money wounds with oracle card reading in Ireland
Divine Masters Who Support Your Money Wound Healing
When working with the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck to heal money wounds, certain Masters bring their unique guidance and energies to help you transform scarcity into abundance:
Lorenzo de Medici guides you to step into your self-worth and recognize the value of your gifts.
King Arthur helps you claim your personal power and courage in financial and life decisions.
Gaiai, the Kingfisher King brings clarity, abundance, and visionary insight into your money flow.
Takezo, the Zen Samurai teaches discipline, focus, and balance, supporting grounded financial decisions and wise stewardship of resources.
These Masters work with your energy, showing you where blockages exist, helping release limiting beliefs, and supporting you to manifest prosperity through creativity, alignment, and self-mastery.
Working with these cards and their guidance is like having a personal team of spiritual advisors for your money and abundance journey.
How the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck can help you release scarcity
The Mystic Masters Oracle Deck is a powerful tool to support your healing of money wounds:
Daily guidance: Draw a card to receive insight into your financial patterns, emotional blocks, and opportunities.
Personal readings: A one-on-one card reading helps you uncover hidden beliefs around money and develop empowered abundance strategies.
Spiritual connection: The Divine Masters guide you in connecting with your inner abundance, creativity, and self-worth.
“As you work with the cards, the energy of the Divine Masters helps you release scarcity, embrace your gifts, and step fully into your prosperity.”
Start Healing Your Money Wound Today
If you’re ready to transform your relationship with money and unlock your creative and financial potential, you can:
Learn how to see in the dark
The Winter Solstice is marked as the darkest point on the wheel of the year. It occurs when the earth’s poles reach its maximum tilt away from the Sun.
The earth is tilted away from the sun on the Winter solstice, it's the time of year to face towards the dark.
This day marks the official day of Winter until we rise again on the Spring Equinox in March.
The time between now and spring gives you the opportunity to study the opposite pole to light.
The dark is not negative or bad it’s simply an unknown.
It holds many gifts and it’s a time to conserve and nourish your body rather than rushing back towards the light.
You can look at it like the Chinese yin/ yang symbol, which teaches you the dual nature of everything.
It’s my favorite time of year as I journey inwards to find resources, inspiration and wisdom.
The Winter Solstice is marked as the darkest point on the wheel of the year. It occurs when the earth’s poles reach its maximum tilt away from the Sun.
The earth is tilted away from the sun on the Winter solstice, it's the time of year to face towards the dark.
The 21st of December marks the official day of Winter until we rise again on the Spring Equinox in March.
The time between now and spring gives you the opportunity to study the opposite pole to light.
The dark is not negative or bad it’s simply an unknown.
It holds many gifts and it’s a time to conserve and nourish your body rather than rushing back towards the light.
You can look at it like the Chinese yin/ yang symbol, which teaches you the dual nature of everything.
It’s my favorite time of year as I journey inwards to find resources, inspiration and wisdom.
How do you feel in the dark?
I’ve been working with the dark as a teacher for a long time.
As a student and teacher of the feminine mysteries, I know the mystery won't reveal itself until you step into the unknown.
In Native American teachings the bat is the opposite pole to the Hummingbird.
The light loving Hummingbird is the symbol for my art studio in Tralee Co.Kerry.
The Hummingbird is a symbol of joy and lightness of being.
Its opposite the bat, is completely self sufficient in the dark, it uses sound instead of sight.
Bats can use returning echoes to detect objects as fine as a human hair in total darkness. Bat brains map the echoes in a way that lets them home in on insects or avoid obstacles..
Do you trust your other senses to guide you?
Studying the dark at a dark cave retreat August 2023
I did not know the bat was the opposite pole to the hummingbird when I booked a dark cave retreat in Italy in August 2023.
A dark cave retreat is where you spend three days in complete silence and darkness in a room/ cave.
I entered the dark at sunset on a Sunday and came back out at sunrise on Wednesday.The room was really basic with a bed, sink, prayer mat and it had three stone steps that led up to a bathroom.
My food was collected from this hole that was built into the door but no light would get through.
Alot of fear goes through the mind at first because you have no reference points or distractions.
It's quite an overwhelming experience having no reference points, but you can't allow the experience to swallow you up.
I had to command my own sense of inner authority within it.
The warrior in me took center stage and it showed me you how to manage the intense darkness.
And with nothing to do,no book to read, no phone or people, the only thing I could was set myself some tasks.
Even though i’d no concept of time or day or night, a routine started to present itself.
I had to eat, shower, brush my teeth, use the bathroom, meditate and exercise.
These simple tasks can take quite some time as you're trying to sense your way through the room.
After a few times crawling in the dark you start to get a bit cocky and think you know your way.
But you don't, each time you begin a new journey to drink a glass of water or roll out a yoga mat.
The main sense I used was touch and I’d feel the different textures and their temperatures as I crawled instead of walked.
You could sense roughly the times of the day by when you were given food once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
I would feel the temperture of the walls cooling down which was an indication the day was over.
I also decided to do Dark paintings, on the second day when my system had adjusted.
I made the decision to create a painting everytime I returned from the bathroom. I placed a sketchbook and watercolour pens and a glass of water on the counter to the left of the three stone steps.
The first time I painted x’s, then I painted O’s , then I just made marks. I’d mark the page the corner of the page, so I’d know the next time there was a painting on that page.
Tools I used in the dark
The worst thing I could do in the dark was panic.
Fear generated by the mind can quickly get out of control and conjure up all the horror stories . Fear serves its purpose too , it shows you what needs to be looked at and then transmuted back into power.
Instead of allowing the fear to take over, I addressed the fears that I was holding in my body and rewired them through movement and mantra.
I used my tools to keep my mind and nervous system calm and steady.
I used mantras and affirmations to focus my mind.
I used non linear movement which is a type of somatic movement that works with strengthening the nervous system.
I also used meditation and body scanning.
When I got out of the dark cave retreat at sunrise on the Wednesday morning, the first thing I did was check my dark paintings. Did I paint anything in the dark? Were there any colours, what colours did I use?
Finding different ways to see
Learning how to see in the dark is also an opportunity to build your power and trust in yourself.
You learn how not to give your energy and power away, but instead embrace the darkness and see what it is trying to teach you.
I’d everything I needed and through my skills I saw that the dark was my ally and it was nothing to fear.
x
Tricia
Dark paintings
Meditation Class Tralee
It all begins with an idea.
Meditation Classes in Tralee Weekly Guided Sessions at Hummingbird Studio
If you are looking for a meditation class in Tralee that is both grounding and spiritually supportive, you are warmly invited to join our weekly guided meditation classes at Hummingbird Studio, Collis Sandes House, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
These classes offer a calm, welcoming space where meditation, Metta (loving-kindness) practice, and reflective guidance using the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck come together to support inner stillness, clarity, and self-connection. Beginners are very welcome.
What Happens in Each Meditation Class
Each 60-minute guided meditation class follows a gentle, consistent structure designed to help you settle, soften, and reconnect:
Breath awareness to calm the nervous system
Body scan meditation to release tension and ground awareness
Metta (loving-kindness) meditation, cultivating compassion towards yourself and others
A Mystic Masters Oracle card is drawn in every class, offering a theme or focus for reflection and inner inquiry
Quiet integration and closing reflection
The Mystic Masters cards are used as a supportive contemplative tool, helping to bring awareness to inner wisdom and present-moment insight. They are not used for prediction, but as a gentle guide to deepen the meditation experience.
Who These Meditation Classes Are For
These meditation classes in Tralee are suitable for:
People completely new to meditation
Those experiencing stress, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm
Anyone drawn to a heart-centred, spiritually aware meditation practice
People seeking a regular, supportive weekly group
You do not need any prior experience, and there is no pressure to share or participate beyond your comfort level.
Benefits of Regular Meditation, Metta & Reflective Practice
Participants often notice:
A greater sense of calm and emotional balance
Reduced stress and mental overload
Increased self-compassion through Metta practice
Clarity and insight through weekly reflection with the Mystic Masters cards
A deeper connection with themselves and their inner guidance
Over time, this practice can become a steady anchor in daily life.
Location, Time & Booking Information
📍 Location:
Hummingbird Studio
Collis Sandes House
Tralee, Co. Kerry
Class Time:
Weekly sessions Tuesday 7-8pm
💶 Pricing:
50 euro for 4 weeks
📲 How to Book Your Place:
Phone / WhatsApp: 085 114 4700
Email: triciaoconnor18@gmail.com
‘‘ As a 50 year old businessman with a busy and often stressful lifestyle, I was initially sceptical about meditation. Working with Tricia has been a real eye opener . Her calm, practical approach made it easy yo engage and stay consistent. I've noticed reduced stress, clearer thinking and a much netter sense of balance in both work and life. I would highly recommend Tricia to anyone looking for simple, effective tools to improve wellbeing. Also a very comfortable group environment’’
— Participant, Tralee
Many of our meditation students also enjoy the Mystic Masters Oracle Deck for intuitive guidance.
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