Free Online Class
Tracking the Celtic Trail
Who were – and are – the Celts?
Join us as we explore & untangle their cosmology, culture and glimmering legacy
Thursday, 9th July
10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST
90 minutes
What do we mean by "Celtic"?
In this class we will explore the history, lore & cosmology behind the word "Celtic," connecting it with a history far older than the name itself.
Join special guest Angharad Wynne for a thoughtful discussion on 9th July.
Angharad Wynne
Featured Guest
Hanna Leigh
Hostess
Maya McNeil
Hostess
Older than the Name
For centuries, the word “Celtic” has been used as a broad umbrella for cultures, languages, and traditions that were never a single, unified people. Exploring the cosmology and cultures that exist beneath this label offers a rich path of discovery for those with ancestral ties to, or a deep affinity for, the lands now commonly referred to as the Celtic nations.
Join Angharad Wynne as she guides us through the cosmology and cultures of the Celtic peoples, sharing well-researched perspectives on who they were, how the term “Celtic” came into use, and what their living legacy continues to offer us today.
Our conversation will be hosted by Hanna Leigh and Maya McNeil. It’s a dialogue we’re excited to share as we prepare for the second season of our eight-week online course, Celtic Plantlore, beginning on 30 July.
What's Included
- 90-minute live class with 1 guest teacher from the upcoming 8-week course, "Celtic Plantlore"
- Stories and insights from Angharad's research of Celtic cosmology, culture and lore
- Recording emailed to you within 24 hours
- Entry in our GIVEAWAY ($345 VALUE!) — Attend live for a chance to win free registration in Celtic Plantlore, our 8-week course starting July 30th.
Our Guest Teacher
STORYTELLER & CEREMONIALIST
Angharad Wynne
Angharad has spent much of her life exploring the landscapes and lore of the British Isles. Since childhood, she has followed her feet along pathways back through the portals of ancient myth, folklore, song and poetry of Britain, and particularly of her native Wales.
Today, she draws together the fragments of our tradition, that can help guide and sustain a living spiritual practice, connected to this land and her creatures. She shares her learning and explores understanding and contemporary practice through retreats, storytelling gatherings, ceremonies, dreaming circles, writings and pilgrimages. These are conceived as radical acts of re-membering our soulful, deep humanity and re-weaving ourselves back into fully engaged participation within the web of life.
Angharad is a member of the Wisdom Keepers: Reigniting Ancient Ways collective and creator of Dadeni, a programme that explores the native spiritual traditions of Britain. She is a founding member of ‘Animate Earth’, an international animism collective of teachers, facilitators, thinkers, scientists and writers. She regularly speaks at events and festivals across Europe on these and related matters. Her first English language book, Wise Women – Myths and Folklore in Celebration of Older Women, a collaboration with Dr Sharon Blackie was published by Virago in October 2024.
Our Hostesses
FOUNDERESS, WEAVING REMEMBRANCE
Hanna Leigh
Hanna Leigh is a Singer-Songwriter, Voice Doula, Weaver, and Devotee of this precious, living Earth. She was raised in California (Chumash territory) though in recent years has spent extensive time residing on ancestral lands in the Celtic isles. Her people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.
This organization, Weaving Remembrance, was birthed through her own passion to reclaim ancestral wisdom and grow in intimate reciprocity with this miraculous earth that sustains us.
SINGER & SONGWRITER
Maya McNeil
Hello, my name is Maya Johanna McNeil (they/her) I am a queer Scottish-American singer, songwriter, poet, healing arts practitioner, and filmmaker born in Huichin/Oakland, California.
I was raised by rose people and the children of immigrant gardeners. I have been tended by plants all of my life, and cherish their patience with me as I continually learn from them and their stewards of many nations.
I endeavor for the healing of my family of all relations, and the bridgework I believe in: Reweaving cultural connection to animate landscapes, actively grieving diasporic, colonizing/colonized traumas, and freeing the imagination, so we may repair and honor the future ahead, the ancestry behind us, and the time that is now.
Frequently Asked Questions
This offering is happening online through Zoom, with teachers joining us from different countires.
By registering, you will automatically receive lifetime access to the recording of this live workshop.
The giveaway winner will be chosen at the end of of gathering, around 11:30am PDT / 7:30pm BST.