About Ciara
A guide for women who are ready to stop performing and start remembering.
Ciara McDonnell is not a coach, a therapist, or a healer, though her work draws on all of these worlds. She works at the intersection of somatic awareness, intuitive insight, and the deep wisdom of the feminine, holding spaces where women can finally come home to themselves.
I was the Good Girl for most of my life. I was the one who showed up exactly as each person needed me to, and I was good at it. Good enough that everyone around me was thriving. Good enough that I didn't notice, for a long time, that I wasn't.
"One day I looked around and realised that everyone in my family and community was doing well. And then I looked at myself."
I was teetering on the edge of perimenopause, burned out, resentful, and entirely unable to speak my own truth, even though I spent my days working in the healing arts, holding space for others to do exactly that.
That was the moment I decided to become the detective of my own life. Using somatic work, my own intuitive gifts, and an archetypal structure I'd been quietly developing, I began to understand the pattern that had been running me, not to punish it, not to exile it, but to understand what it had been protecting me from. And to gently, firmly, place it back in its rightful place.
Everything changed after that. Not in the way that self-help promises. In the quieter, truer way, where you start trusting the voice inside you that has been waiting there all along.
That unravelling became the foundation of everything I now offer. A spiritually informed, somatically grounded path for women who are done surviving, and ready to remember.
Where the work lives
Somatic
The body knows what the mind hasn't caught up with yet.
Intuitive
Channelled insight woven naturally through every space.
Embodied
Inner child, parts work, nervous system, met through the body, not just the mind.
Spiritual
Mysticism supports the work. It is not the product.
The larger vision
Building a movement, not just a practice
Ciara is the founder of Aoibhneas Croí, a growing community and gathering space for women who are choosing to live rooted in the joy of who they actually are. Seasonal gatherings, shared practice, and a sense of belonging that runs deeper than any single programme.
Pronounced eev-ness kree · Joy of the soul, joy of the heart
It began on an ordinary morning in a garden, coffee in hand, listening to the cows in the field next door, trailing her fingers through the Hawthorn trees. What she found there became the founding essay of this whole body of work.
"It was as though I had been living in a giant mansion, but only occupying one room."
"I am sending a clarion call to all the people who are done with the constant looping back into old cycles, who want to claim their own power and use it to root a new energy of unconditional love into the earth."
Everything Ciara creates now points toward this: a world where women do not simply recover from their conditioning, but learn to live rooted in the joy that healing has cleared a path toward.
Read the full founding essay on Substack →Where to begin
Every offer is a doorway into the next stage of your remembering
This isn't a menu of services. It's one path, built to meet you wherever you are.
Start with the free workshop →