Encircled By Grace - The Irish Encircling Prayer For Protection

I’m thrilled to share this ancient Celtic prayer of Caim with you in this short course. Over five brief lessons, we'll explore the history of this Irish Encircling Prayer, its diverse applications in spiritual practice, and how to incorporate it into your life for protection, healing, and a deeper connection with the natural life force of Source within you and nature. The course will also include a beautiful chant used with permission from Céile Dé, an esoteric Celtic path of spiritual awakening.

Leçon 1: The History Of The Irish Encircling Prayer (Caim)

In this lesson, I will introduce you to the origins, historical significance, and spiritual context of the Irish Encircling Prayer, also known as the Caim prayer. Similar to the metta or loving-kindness practice which comes to us from the Buddhist tradition and is used in secular mindfulness today, the Caim is also part of a living tradition within Celtic Spiritual practice and offers us peace in our often fragmented 21st-century lives.

Leçon 2: How Caim Might Support Us In 21st Century Living

By the end of this lesson, I hope that you will be able to identify how and when you can bring this ancient living tradition into your own life for protection, healing, and peace for yourself and others.

Leçon 3: An Embodied Practice Of Caim

The Celts were very spiritual people and we know that their belief system was not just to the Gods but also to the moon, the sun, the stars, the rivers, the animals, and the trees.

I am grateful that so many Celtic traditions from music, language, mythology, and spiritual rituals have been passed down and can provide solace and healing today. In this lesson, I invite you to a practice of Caim.

Leçon 4: Making The Caim Practice Your Own

This lesson includes some guidelines for your ongoing, deepening practice of Caim. I include the chant - Caim Agus Currach which at once connects you with the living tradition of this prayer and also invites you into deeper meditation so that your natural Caim will emerge for you. - I encourage you to evoke the Caim prayer into your life whether you have a faith tradition or not. You can connect with the ground of your being, your place in the cosmos, source or divine, or whatever is your direct experience of living this human life, not as isolated human beings but as part of the ongoing unfolding interconnectedness of this human experience. Whatever way you experience the connection you can feel the protective energy surrounding you. I would love to hear about your experience in the course classroom and whether we can celebrate the variety of ways we can continue this ancient living tradition.

Leçon 5: Caim - A Living Tradition And Perhaps An Echo Prayer For Our Time

In this final lesson, once you have grounded your particular practice of this ancient living prayer I invite you to make your own contribution to this living tradition. One way is to move beyond the focus on the individual human person and keeping danger out to expand the awareness of the living cosmos of which we are part and to invite blessing for the whole as well as the interconnected parts.

Reviews

I came upon this course today as I sit at my Irish mother’s bedside. She’s expected to pass any time now. The chanting and deep connection back to my Irish roots is profoundly comforting at this time. I’m so grateful to have found this course today - it’s simply divine. Thank you 🙏 ☘️

A beautiful experience to sit with this ancient tradition. I feel blessed by this course and deeply grateful to be able to understand more of the connection to the land around me and the ancestors who lived here. Thank you Dee for your generosity in sharing your wisdom and knowledge with us.

Thankyou for enlightening me about the practice of Caim. I cannot wait to include this way of ancient protection and encircling to my daily life ❤️

Thank you for this course. I enjoyed it and you very much. Bless you dear one.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge about this practice. Certainly I found it quite meaningful and I intend to incorporate it into my personal mystical practice. Thanks again

Loved this with its bite-size sessions and deep embodied ritual. Thanks!

This is a very simple and beautiful practice that I enjoyed at sunrise this morning. With Celtic roots in my ancestry, I physically felt the prayer in my body, the wisdom, love and beauty. I also appreciate that it is timeless and adapted to a more worldy spiritual perspective that is broad and inclusive of all, rather than purely religious. Thank you kindly for the reminder that we are always guided and protected on our journey. Sometimes we need to be guided back to this remembering. With deep gratitude. ✨️🙏🏼💗🕊✨️

Dee, I so enjoyed and embraced this beautiful, living tradition of caim. I will repeat this course to embed the practice. It is a meaningful tool in my spiritual toolkit to help me return to the truth of spiritual oneness when life becomes distracting. Sending blessings and gratitude. 🙏

Exquisite course for deepening your spirituality in a new way.

Thank you for sharing Caim, for your beautiful, soothing voice, and for the healing music in the background in this course. 🙏

Spiritual and empowering course. Beautiful practice very healing and grounding

Wow what a beautiful journey - such a special lesson and insight along with a beautiful practice that I feel really is needed in our world right now. I am most definitely going to listen to this course again, and start integrating this sacred prayer into my days

A rich and beautiful practice so generously shared!

Such a wonderful Beautiful and stress earth honoring mindful practice. Thank you for bringing it to us. A true treasure and gift for our times Tie into loving kindness, practices for ourselves, all beings, and our beloved.🙏🏼

Thank you for your sharing of this wonderful tradition. The voices in the background were very soothing and did give me the feeling of being with a group of women. Bright blessings dear one 🍀💚🌱

Loved the beautiful chanting encircling 🌀 prayer & connection with Nature

So beautiful- and useful I love this practice - thank you Dee..

This is such a settling and simple practice that resonates and echos in my Scotts-Irish bones. Thank you

Wonderful, a rich contemplative practice. Thank you for offering this on Insight Timer. Very grateful to have found it.

This course was truly phenomenal. I plan to revisit it often. The amount of peace and calm I experienced in it was incomparable. And truly allowing the words into my heart has deepened the encircling of the Caim. With the Irish lilt and the calming tone, it was the perfect moments of tranquility. I am forever grateful I found this course!