Fite Fuaite means Interwoven. Interconnected. Interbound.
It is a recognition of our inseparable natures.
Fite Fuaite is an exploration of rites of passage, ecological practice and the ways we can reclaim meaningful culture for the lives we live now.
Our work brings ancient orientation into conversation with contemporary life — we work with land, body, animism, interpersonal relating and soul-centric development.
We are creating spaces to gather, learn & practise to navigate the thresholds that shape us, empowering a meaningful culture for the lives we live now.
Fite Fuaite is pronounced FIT-eh FOO-ta
Our Prayer
Idirnascaithe - Interbound. We are each other's destiny.
Restoring the wisdom of the land of Ireland, and reclaiming right relationship between humans and life.
We work with the human as an essential and necessary part of the whole.
We support people to claim the fullness of their life story as we cross thresholds both personally and collectively.
We centre something much bigger than ourselves - ancient reverence for land and life - and how this anchors, resources and guides us.
Restoring life is both inner and outer work. This is a wild reclamation and remembering of place, body, heart and each other as the medicine we need.
Our Story
Fite Fuaite was seeded in the lands of Donegal, on the shores of Lough Gartan, where we gathered over many seasons exploring connection to self, to land & place, to the wild & sacred.
Jenny and Anna have known each other for 4 years, and have been learning with and from their incomparable human teacher Lucy O’Hagan of Wild Awake for that time, as well as from many others, both human and non.
Four seasons after a year-long intensive on nature based Rites of Passage, four full seasons of reflection, digestion and integration of that last threshold, Fite Fuaite began to form.
Initiated under wide starry skies, infused with wood smoke, carried through ceremony, held by open hearts and crafted by wild minds, Fite Fuaite desires to bring this wild work to the people and places that need it.
Anna and Jenny each have their own point of passion with this work, and they share a knowing - that this work holds transformative power. That the personal and the physical are dependant on the communal and the unseen. That this work is ancient and also essential for meaningful emergence.
For where we are now.
We bring this way of being into cities, towns, inside 4 walls, so that we can remember what is essential - what it really means to be human - and to gather again in wild ways, in circle, in ceremony on behalf of all life.
Meet Jenny
Jenny is a mentor, grief tender, and nature connection guide. She supports people to find meaningful ways back to themselves, to navigate modernity's challenges, and to embrace their own thresholds.
I work with people 1 to 1 in uncovering hidden depths, navigating our challenges and finding passion, courage and truer orientation.
In my group work as a facilitator, I use a blend of modern systems theory and ancient wisdom to help us place ourselves in belonging with each other and within our worlds.
My background includes a Masters in Ecological Conservation alongside training in eco-therapy, eco-psychology, ritual, passage rites of death and dying, and grief support.
The Golden thread of my own story has always been a nature and soul centric focus - whether cultural, spiritual, wellness, conservation or otherwise. The journey has taken me along quite a few different paths!
I spent some years experiencing other cultures. I’ve lived with the Maasai Mara in Tanzania, collaborating with anti-poaching agencies. I worked in communications in New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment, and contributed to non-governmental conservation projects in the global south.
When I returned to Ireland, in 2011 we were lagging severely behind in conservation and biodiversity protection. So I embarked on a masters in Ecological Conservation, but it was already obvious to me that science and law would not meet the environmental needs of our times. Our turning is cultural, spiritual, and infinitely ecological.
Another change of country brought me an expansion of cultural horizons - I moved to Berlin and my concept of the growing edge of humanity was stretched wide. A playground of creativity meant that I could offer a deeper way of nature connection - a path I hadn’t seen before.
I studied eco-therapy, a fellowship in Spiritual ecology, foundational training in the Work that Reconnects, found an eco-psychology mentor, trained in hosting Nature Solo experiences, and dedicated myself to the human-nature connection in all the ways I could.
With the release of the IPCC report of 2016, I reclaimed a long held grief practice - an ancestral land based and somatic form that had been with me since childhood and was very much of the land of Ireland. I began to include this in my offerings. Ritual and grief for death and dying is now part of my response to loving the world.
Nature work has brought me firmly back to the human realm, and everything we need is in that relationship - that human nature interweaving.
Rites of Passage, and Nature solo experiences are the culmination of all these strands of my Golden Thread.
To sit in circle together, as humans, and to explore our inner worlds - how they can be supported by, informed, expanded and enriched by time spent in and with the living world - this is how we stay human, and how we center all of life.
This is how we cultivate our most generative loving selves to support all life to flourish.
This is how we develop into who we need to be.
Stepping back across the threshold, back to my community after 4 days and nights of solo time in Ireland was one of the most vibrant and vital days of my life.
So much is possible when we really honour ourselves in this way, and our relationship to life, and that which actually gives us life.
I invite you to join us in remembering what being alive really means.
Meet Anna
Anna is a practitioner of ancestral healing, herbal medicine and bodywork, whose work explores the relationship between our physical bodies, our ancestral histories and the living world around us.
With a background in clinical herbalism, different bodywork lineages, plant spirit healing and shamanic practice, Anna's work has gradually evolved from a focus on the physical body and plant medicine towards a deeper engagement with ancestral healing, ritual and the cultivation of relationships with the seen and unseen worlds.
Through one-to-one work, Anna supports people in exploring relationships, developing practices of daily ritual, listening and connection that can help cultivate a sense of being accompanied and held within something larger than ourselves. Rather than seeking to fix or overcome the experiences of loneliness and disconnection, her work invites a gradual remembering of relationship, reciprocity and belonging.
At the heart of her work is a question of belonging. How do we find our place in a world where so many of our connections to land, ancestry, community and the living world have been disrupted? How do we begin to recognise the resources available to us, not only through our human relationships, but through the plants, animals, elements, ancestors and other beings who we share our lives with?
These questions are deeply woven into her own life.
My blood ancestors come from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany and France. My Fathers people moved from Ireland and Germany to what is now known as the United States. My mothers people moved from France and Ireland to England and back again over generations.
My mother continued the lineage of immigration and we moved to Australia when I was 7.
I grew up mostly outdoors, on land that carries the heavy memories of genocide, dispossession and lost languages, within a society that continues to struggle to fully acknowledge the devastation of colonisation and its ongoing consequences. These experiences shaped my understanding of the world and raised questions that would follow me for much of my life. Questions about belonging, responsibility, inheritance and what it means to make a home on land where the relationships between people and place have been so profoundly disrupted.
I began encountering earth-honouring practices that helped me slowly rebuild my own energy and develop a different relationship with the world around me. These practices offered a language for something I had never had the language for. My learning began to wind its way through herbal medicine, animism, shamanic practices, permaculture, myth, storytelling, movement, massage and touch.
These were never entirely separate interests. Each offered another doorway into exploring what it means to inhabit a body that is itself an expression of the living earth. To understand my body as a living prayer of the body of earth, shaped by the same cycles of growth, decay, transformation and renewal.
As both a student and practitioner, I have been learning to bring these teachings into my everyday life. To develop a felt sense of awareness, to listen to the subtle movements of energy within my body and others, and to recognise the quieter inner voice that can be so difficult to hear, trust or understand.
Through ancestral practice, ritual, listening and the slow cultivation of relationship, I have been finding ways to reconnect with those who came before me, including those whose names and stories I may never know.This has brought me towards a different understanding of belonging. By recognising the relationships that sustain us and the responsibilities that come with being part of the living world.
These relationships ask something of us too. Attention, respect, reciprocity and a willingness to recognise that we are not at the centre of everything.This understanding continues to shape my work with others.
I remain a student of the land, the ancestors, the visible and unseen worlds, and the human and non human people I encounter along the way. My understanding continues to shift as I learn, question, make mistakes, listen and deepen these relationships.
Until I too pass into the unseen.