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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.

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Meet your Teacher

Dee Hennessy

Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

With a background in Philosophy and a primary degree in Theology, Dee is a specialist in Mindful Leadership (knowing how to regulate ourselves as we support others). Dee helps over busy, humans to deepen their capacity to pause, to rest, and to prevent or recover from burnout, and so to blossom - to come home to calm and equanimity. Many years ago Dee herself experienced burnout as a committed, passionate professional, who understood little about real resilience and self-care. Further exploration in Philosophy, Eastern and Western Wisdom Traditions, including Celtic Spirituality and New Cosmology, has informed Dee's evidence-based perspective on the universe that offers a way to integrate scientific, spiritual, personal, and cultural viewpoints into a meaningful whole. In more recent years Dee completed an MSc in Mindfulness Interventions, & further specialist post-graduate training in Spiritual Companioning, Wisdom Supervision & Trauma Informed Online Facilitation. Dee is the founder of two unique gold standard programs, Compassionate Leadership for organizations, and Blossom, for women who want to develop exquisite self-care and resilient leadership skills. It is Dee's delight to share here simple practices from nature, neuroscience, and mindfulness, reminding us that we are human beings, not just human doings and that we are made for ease, peace, joy, and connection. Dee loves that IT allows us to experience the reality that 'we are all just walking each other home.'

5 Days

2.6k students

4.9 stars

7 min / day

Grounded

English

Lesson 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.

Lesson 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.

Lesson 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.

Lesson 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.

Lesson 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.

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Recent Reviews

Nancy

February 7, 2026

Wonderful experience of a practice new to me.

Ellen

February 5, 2026

Beautiful

Beth

February 3, 2026

A beautiful practice! Thank you! ❤️

Deb

January 5, 2026

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 🙏 ☘️

Jojo

December 14, 2025

Listening to wise words spoken beautifully

Glenn

December 8, 2025

Thank you thank you 🙏🙏

Star

October 31, 2025

Soul-touching ideas. I especially was impressed that the practice shared is not rigid and she actively encourages the learner to make it customized and attuned to their own choices. I hope others find their way to Caim prayer and that it serves them on their life’s path.

Beverley

October 30, 2025

So moving, yet easy to use daily

Stella

October 29, 2025

Stunning!!! Thank you 🙏

Mary

October 9, 2025

Beautiful tradition, and much needed in today's world. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Nancy

October 7, 2025

This showed up when I asked for help, healing and protection during this difficult time. Bless you ♥️

Elaine

October 6, 2025

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.

Michelle

September 26, 2025

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 ❤️

Suzannah

September 2, 2025

Wonderful

Jen

August 24, 2025

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

Judi

July 27, 2025

Excellent

Sharon

July 24, 2025

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

jan

July 18, 2025

So nurturing and peaceful, and such a wonderful gift at this very time. Thankyou Dee. All blessings to you. Jan

Holly

July 17, 2025

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