ABOUT ME
MARGOT BOERMA TOUR GUIDE
I am Margot Boerma. I am a Shamanic Sound Medicine woman, a Journey Practitioner and member of the Journey community with ‘The Journey’ creator Brandon Bays, I have Psychology BSC. and am currently on an MA in Art, Psyche and Creative Imagination set in Jungian Psychology at the TUS Technical University Shannon, based in Limerick.
I work as Tour Designer of Sacred Journeys around the Island of Ireland for a number of years now. I am qualified as a Regional and National Tourist guide for the Island of Ireland. I hold an SPSV licence as well as an up-to date- full-D licence. My special interest is in Irish Culture – Heritage, Ancients Pre-Celtic sites -Early Christian sites and Atlantic Scenery. My Love for Irish Trees comes through all my work as is The Ogham Script which is based on these trees.
I have been guiding tours, since 2015 in this intense capacity and in former years I was a driver of Sacred Journeys occasionally, which inspired me to continue this work.
It is in this last capacity that I come to you, bringing over 30 years of Spiritual Practice with me in order to design Bespoke tours for you. If this speaks to you in any way then please do contact me by clicking on the contact button below this paragraph.
My Prayer
My Prayer is to be of service, to hear my soul’s calling and to live in this Sacred dance with my Sacred Feminine, so that I may flow in my own creativity and bring forward this creative joy in all that I am in be in resonance with, who I truly am, in flow.
I feel inspired to do this work as it is the most creative of all, to bring all of that I have to offer in service, as we Journey together as women or as couples. Being, consciously co-creative together in flow.
My Dutch Roots
Daughter of Addeke and Elizabeth H. My own roots are in the ‘Hondsrug’ (the Dogs-back) near the city of Groningen in the North- east of the Netherlands. My ancestry can be traced back there for many generations into the 17th century. One could say that I was indigenous to this region. They had their own dialect and way of life. They were mostly quite simple lifestyle living from their own land and kitchen-gardens and since the reformation, lived according to Lutheran informed Dutch Reformed religion. They lived quite strict dutiful lives, mostly from the earth. One branch started transporting peat from the peat fields over hand–dug trenches off waterways to the ports were it was unloaded for the people living in the city to burn their furnaces. The family branch split into two and later one ancestral branch went to sea.
Through my Shamanic work over the many years here in Ireland I was called to do my own ancestral and personal research in this region where I was born. I am grateful for my father for his extended knowledge and support in my ancestral journey, my Paternal grandmother Aaltje Dost; great –grandmother, Margje van der Land, as my Ancestral teachers. My mother and Maternal grandfather, Hendrik Jan Timmer, as my protector/Angel throughout my childhood, healing guide throughout my whole life. In my shamanic Practice Ancestral healing is ‘my forte’ as well as ‘Cutting the ties that Bind’ / ‘Soul Retrieval’.
My Ireland
My own story in Ireland begins with that of my grandfather Jan Roelof Boerma, who was a shipping owner.
Jan Roelof Boerma ship arrived in Dundalk in 1957. My father and mother were on board. They rented a car in Dundalk and drove down to Dublin to find the tourist-office then called ‘Bord Failte’, in Baggott street, Dublin. They got a lot of information there especially about Kerry, Killarney and the Gap of Dunloe. They had such a great time that they mixed up kilometres for miles and nearly missed the boat for their return journey.
Fast forward to now; my parents returned to this part of South -West Ireland and have been coming to Ireland since 1966. I was not even 5 years old. I heard my Soul’s calling when I was a teenager and eventually, I came to live here in 1978 and have been here since then. Living with my mother, my summers near CastletownBere on the Beara Peninsula. My mother before me, had fallen in love with Beara. Later, I moved to Kenmare, and Killarney and now Faha. I have loved living in Kerry, Kerry is home. I became more and more enmeshed with energies of the Land of Ireland and the coastline of West-Cork and Kerry. I am a mother of an adult daughter and a grandmother of two beautiful boys, who I love dearly.
During this time in my life, I had three really great beloved teachers over the years to who, I will continue to remain deeply grateful for sharing their gifts with me. My life is dedicated to the Sacred Feminine and has been since my awakening during the early 1990’s. Since then I qualified as a Shiatsu Practitioner with the Irish School of Shiatsu and Natural Healing. I continued my spiritual studies with the Naked Voice, with International Voice teacher and author Chloe Goodchild and her core Team in the Naked Voice Foundation. International Seabhean teacher of Womyn’s mysteries and Author Amantha Murphy, in ‘The Way of the Seabhean’; Women’s Mysteries and Ritual, accredited by The Women’s Academy of Shamanism and Spirituality and more recently with Brandon Bays and her team in ‘The Journey’.
– MARGOT BOERMA TOUR GUIDE
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