Celtic

Plantlore

7-Week Journey with the Plants

An exploratory course into the realm of plants and their medicinal culture within the Celtic isles.

31st March – 12th May, 2025

7 Mondays & 3 Tuesdays @ 10:30am PDT / 6:30pm BST

+ an optional in-person weekend in Scotland…

Celtic Plantlore sets out to inspire us into deeper ways of being and listening in relation to our plant kin and the natural world.

Our Earth is alive —

a living, breathing being with a heart and a soul.

The plants nourish us, feed us, teach us

that we are part of the natural world.

This course is an invitation to gather, learn, and embark on a journey with deeply cultivated teachers, herbalists, and folklorists from Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales.

Whether you’re already immersed in herbalism or simply curious, this exploration of plants, folklore, magic, and traditional ecological wisdom of the Celtic isles is open to all.

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Over 7 weeks we will explore ways in which we see, greet & grow in relationship with the green world...

Together, we’ll attune ourselves to the plant world through intuitive and embodied practices.

We will explore Celtic herbalism, journey through magical realms, and immerse ourselves in old stories and lore.

What’s Included

We know that plants have the power to awaken ancient memory, and be a balm for our human challenges.

Our prayer is that this course will do just that.

  • 7 x 2 Hour Live Classes with Guest Teachers
  • 1 "Stories of the Plants" BONUS Session
  • 1 "Create Your Own Plant Song" BONUS Class
  • 1 Community Hearth Sharing Call
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Who is This Course For?

  • Those who desire to connect with stories, plant lore & healing traditions of the Celtic isles
  • Those who are drawn to ritual & reciprocal practices of healing with plants
  • Those who long to grow in intimacy with the living Earth
  • Those who wish to learn from expert teachers, herbalists & story carriers of Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales

Whether you are already steeped in herbalism, or are freshly green to the plant path, we welcome you.

Looking for A First Step?

Start your journey here...

Register below for a recording of our 75-minute online gathering "A Doorway into Celtic Plantlore: Grasping Nettle & Journeying with Yew," featuring 2 guest teachers from our course.

Whether you are new to the plant path or seeking to deepen your practice, this workshop will provide inspiration & practices to support your journey.

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What You’ll Learn

  • An introduction to Celtic herbalism, past & present
  • Stories, old lore & ancestral wisdom from these lands
  • Practices for deepening your intuition & connection with the plant world
  • Reciprocal ways of foraging, gathering & medicine making
  • Wisdom from the plants to carry into your life
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Honouring Traditions

Personal use

The knowledge, stories & practices shared in this course are intended for participant’s personal education, healing and enrichment. In the traditional way, may we receive them, integrate them and allow them to live through us, before we consider sharing with others.

Preserving

We honor the path that each teacher has walked to cultivate and carry the wisdom, stories and traditions that they share with us. In joining the course, please consider how you might help preserve - and not dilute - these teachings.

Respecting

We welcome the ongoing exploration and conversation around the appropriate ways to receive and honor these teachings. We see this as part of the education this course aims to provide – bringing awareness to the respectful ways to connect and learn from these traditions.

Presence

As if we were gathering together around the fire in the old way, may we come bringing our full presence. We invite you to have your video on and make a space where you can fully be with us, receiving the gifts of this wisdom.

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Meet Your Hosts

HOST & COURSE CO-WEAVER

Lana Lanaia

Greetings. My name is Lana, I was born in England, live in the Scottish Highlands, and have spent much of my life journeying within the landscapes and sacred sites of these Isles. I am a musician, facilitator of retreats, ritual & healing spaces, within which we may remember the beauty & sacredness of life.

From a young age, I carried the question of ‘where is the indigenous wisdom of our lands?’ I have travelled and learned from indigenous cultures, worked with sound & healing, grown and tended biodyanmic gardens, lived in the wild, and learned a lot from listening with the land. 

It is a blessing to now work with Weaving Remembrance, co-creating ways of gathering, learning, mending; sowing seeds of earth honouring ways into the soil again.

FOUNDERESS & CO-WEAVER

Hanna Leigh

Greetings! My name is Hanna Leigh, (IG: @hannaleighsong) originally from California (Chumash territory).  I am a Singer-Songwriter, Voice Doula, Weaver, and Devotee of this precious, living Earth. My people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands

For the past several years I have been on an inspired journey to reclaim ancestral wisdom and connect with the indigenous spirit of the “Great Sacred Motherland of Europe” – a term I first heard from activist Lyla June.

This longing for reconnection was the impetus to create a program last year called “Songs of Mother Europe”, which features song carriers from all over Europe who still carry the old songs. In the past year we have had over 700 participants in the course, which speaks to me of a collective impulse to remember and preserve ancestral wisdom.

CO-WEAVER

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.

ONLINE WEB WEAVER

Katie Corning

I was raised among creosote, ocotillo, & saguaro and now find home by the Salish Sea, where cedar, lichen, and salmon guide my journey. I am a direct descendant to volcano, sea & salt. I trace my ancestral threads back to Sicilia, Alba, Germany and England.
 
Holding a degree in Sustainability from Arizona State University, my work bridges the digital and the ancestral, as I tend online spaces as living beings.
 
I am grateful to weave the web — both digital and embodied — in my service to our collective reweaving to wholeness.
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Program Overview

Through the stories & wisdom shared by our guest teachers, may the living reality of earth and ancestral belonging be rekindled within you.

Classes are on Mondays and some Tuesdays @ 10:30am PDT / 6:30pm GMT

Week 1

31st March

A Way of Being & Seeing: The Roots & Shoots of Celtic Herbalism

w/ Keith Robertson & Nicola Dee Kelley

Week 2

7th April

The Recollection of Celtic Herbalism: How Do We Reconnect with What Has Been Lost?

w/ Danny O’Rawe

Week 3

14th April

Ember & Herb: A Journey into Saining and Ancestral Practices

w/ Scott Richardson-Read

15th April

Community Hearth Sharing Call

w/ Maya McNeill

Week 4

21st April 

Gathering from the Edges

w/ Lucy O’Hagan

22nd April

Oak, Ash & Bitter Thorn: Plant Wisdom in Myth & Story

w/ Angharad Wynne

Week 5

28th April

Plant Spirit Connection: Alchemy & Communication with Nature

w/ Charlotte Pulver

Week 6

5th May

Sacred Plant Initiations

w/ Carole Guyett

6th May

Create Your Own Plant Song

w/ Hanna Leigh

Week 7

12th May

Crafting a Tea Ritual & Journeying with Oak

w / Isla Macleod

Week 8

15th – 18th May

Optional In-Person

Plant Pilgrimage Weekend Gathering

In the Scottish Borders

Program Deep Dive

Many may have forgotten the old ways, though gratefully there are those still keeping the skills and songs alive, and others of us who are relearning them.

Week 1

A Way of Being and Seeing:

An Intro to the Roots & Shoots of Celtic Herbalism

w/ Keith Robertson & Nicola Dee Kelley

Welsh Herbalist Nicola Dee Kelley and Scottish Herbalist Keith Roberston, stewards of the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, open the course with an invitation down the green path: reorienting our approach to the plant world. Before names, before words to identify, classify, claim, how do we arrive to meet the leaf? What do we see, smell, sense, taste, hear?

Keith Robertson, MSc FNIMH, joined the UK National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1990 and served as a Council Member and on their Accreditation board for many years. His previous degree was in Psychology. He co-founded Scottish School of Herbal Medicine in 1992 and has been teaching his particular energetic approach since then.

He was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute for his services to Herbal education. The School established a world first with its MSc and the associated and highly regarded 4-year BSc Hons degree based in Glasgow which he ran for 18 years. The School stepped back out of formal academia in 2010 and moved from the city to the Isle of Arran to offer experiential learning through an Apprenticeship in listening to plants; with an associated intensive course on Celtic Herbal Medicine and an international Correspondence Course at access level.

Nicola Dee Kelly, Bsc MNIMH, is a Welsh Medical Herbalist with deep Celtic roots. She considers herself a Plant Powered Human.

Her inspiration and intuition fueled by living immersed in the elemental world of Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland. Here, she is a tutor for the distance courses and co-hosts Celtic Herbal Medicine (in person) Retreats with Keith Robertson and Danny O’Rawe, an elemental blend of Scottish, Irish and Welsh Herbal Medicine.

Nicola’s life acquired wisdom blends with her intuition and compassion, creating alchemy to guide others to reconnect with themselves, ancestral wisdom and the Natural World, with all it can offer to sustain us.

Week 2

The Recollection of Celtic Herbalism:

How Do We Reconnect with What Has Been Lost?

w/ Danny O’Rawe

How do we reconnect with what has been lost? Danny O’Rawe, Irish Clinical Herbalist and Researcher, speaks of his journey on the dreaming and weaving of the vision and practices of Celtic Herbalism and the essential help and guidance received from surviving indigenous wisdoms of the planet.

Danny O’ Rawe has been involved in herbal medicine for over 30 years. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in herbal medicine. He is an Honorary Fellow and former president of the Irish Register of Herbalists (IRH). He is also a Registered Naturopath (ND) and member of the General Naturopathic Council (GNC) and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Nutrition for the College of Naturopathic Medicine. He holds a number of diplomas including herbal medicine, iridology and clinical aromatherapy.

He has taught at a number of herbal medicine schools and at international conferences and symposia. He has given presentations to the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, The Canadian Herb Conference, the American Herbalist Guild Symposium, the Irish Register of Herbalists and the Botanica Conference among many others. He is one of the founders of the annual HerbFeast event in Ireland. He is a Royal Horticultural Society trained grower with over 25 years’ experience in organic cultivation. He is a practitioner, lecturer, researcher, activist, grower, author, and consultant clinician with a busy multidisciplinary practice in Belfast.

He is also the founder and principal of Excelsior Apprenticeships in Herbal medicine, a live in person practitioner level 4 year course with an emphasis on the Western and Celtic Traditions.

Week 3

Ember & Herb:

A Journey into Saining and Ancestral Practices

w/ Scott Richardson-Read

Join us for a welcoming and immersive online workshop where the old ways breathe new life, and tradition meets community. Step into the heart of Scottish folk magic as we explore saining, an ancient practice of blessing, and protection.

Together, we’ll uncover the roots of saining in Scottish culture, how plant smoke, sacred waters, and whispered charms have long offered solace, safety, and renewal to hearth and home. We’ll weave through the intertwined threads of Dùthchas, reciprocity, and the sacred art of offering, discovering how these traditions keep the spirit of our ancestors close and our connection to the land strong.

This workshop is more than a learning experience. Participants will have the opportunity to share stories, ask questions & connect with others who feel the call of the old ways.

Scott Richardson-Read (Cailleach’s Herbarium) is a queer working-class writer, activist, counsellor, folklorist, and alternative cultural historian with a deep connection to Scotland’s folk heritage. As the creator of Cailleach’s Herbarium, a platform dedicated to reviving and preserving Scottish
folk traditions, Scott has spent years researching and sharing the stories, practices, and beliefs that define the working-class and animistic roots of Scottish culture. His work reflects a blend of deep archival exploration, oral history, and personal experience in the landscapes of Scotland.

With a background steeped in human rights, ecology, activism, and traditions, Scott’s writing and events bridge the past and present, offering fresh insights into the enduring significance of folk belief. Throughout his decades-long journey, he has continued to advocate for the preservation of Scotland’s sacred sites and cultural heritage.

Scott is the author of two books, The Tales of the Taibhsear (2018) (and an associated album) and released this year, Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread – Exploring Scottish Folk Belief and Folk Magic (2025).

Week 4

Gathering from the Edges

w/ Lucy O'Hagan

Join Lucy from their home-hearth in An Fál Carrach, which translates as ‘The rough hedge’, as we trace the margins of land and sea and learn from the herbs and land-based medicines of diverse edge spaces. 

From ancient bog medicine, to rocks planted in the sea, Lucy will share what they have learned from local folk healing practices in the Donegal Gaeltacht, and the abundant food and medicine ways that have been preserved at the edge of the wild Atlantic. 

Throughout this class, we will tend to what it means to participate in what Robin Wall Kimmerer calls ‘Practical Reverence’, and what traditional ecological knowledge can teach us about living a life in reciprocity with those who nourish us. 

Lucy Ní hAodhagáin/O’Hagan (They/She) is the founder of Wild Awake Ireland, an organisation which seeks to rekindle cultural and ecological resilience through the restoration of ancestral lifeways in Ireland. Lucy works in the fecund liminal zones between the cultural, ecological and spiritual, weaving together ancient wisdom with the dream of decolonial futures.

Born in Béal Feirste, Lucy now makes home beneath the watchful gaze of An Mhucais mountain in the Donegal Gaeltacht, all the while deepening their love of the Gaelic language by harvesting seaweed from the rocks, following the tracks of deer, and gathering ancestral foods and medicine through the seasons.

Week 4

Oak, Ash & Bitter Thorn:

Plant Wisdom in Myth & Story

w/ Angharad Wynne

The lore held in myth and legend often refers to particular trees and plants and their magical associations and uses. From offering protection and opening portals to the Otherworld, to sources of wisdom and healing, the plants we find in the old tales tell us about age old traditional relationships between people, plants and place. In this class we’ll explore some of the plants that repeatedly arise in stories and the lore surrounding them.

Angharad Wynne has spent much of her life exploring the landscapes and lore of this land. Since childhood, she has followed her feet along pathways back through the portals of ancient myth, folklore, history, 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, ceremony, 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 published poet and writer, a storyteller, speaker, teacher and expedition leader. She is the founder of Dreaming the Land and Animate Earth Collective and leads Dadeni, a three year programme exploring the native spiritual traditions and practices of the British Isles

Week 5

Plant Spirit Connection

Alchemy & Communication with Nature

w/ Charlotte Pulver

Learn the most important technique there is in making a medicine in life. A technique which ensures that any medicine that you make is infused with the vitality and consciousness of the plant(s) that you are working with. These are foundational practices which are at the heart of the ancient practice of Alchemy. Where you will be taught how to meet and commune with the consciousness of plants and how to facilitate healing for yourself and others when making medicines with plants.

These ancient yet very simple techniques can also be applied in communicating with any aspect of nature – be it the river, trees, rocks, stars and animals too. Thereby helping facilitate a deeper embodiment and connection to the natural world and all of life.

Because we are all a part of nature, this session will help you awaken your natural birth right in communicating with the natural world whilst also accessing your own innate ancestral wisdom and knowledge.

Charlotte Pulver at the heart of things is a modern day alchemist; born into the Pulver lineage of apothecarists.

She has a background in natural healthcare, studying and practising various medical systems of healing for 20+ years specialising in women’s healthcare, immune support and mental health. Her love is rooted in making medicines for people which she sells through Pulver’s Apothecary. She has been hosting ceremonies and pilgrimages for many years around the world; and helped co-found The Fellowship of the Spring, a group championing water guardianship in the British Isles.

Week 6

Sacred Plant Initiations

w/ Carole Guyett

What are Sacred Plant Initiations? An exploration of ceremonial plant diets with the native plants of the Celtic Isles. Carole will share some of her journey and how she came to this work, as well as her experiences with sacred plant initiations, including discussion of some specific plants: St John’s Wort, Vervain and Wild Rose.

Carole Guyett is a medicine woman, herbalist, teacher and author. A practitioner of sacred plant medicine since 1986, her work incorporates herbal medicine, flower essences, plant spirit healing, sacred ceremony and shamanic practices. As priestess and visionary, she has dedicated her life to plants, healing and the awakening of consciousness.

Carole offers ceremony and transformative learning experiences intending to help people fulfill their potential and embody their soul’s dream. Her work blends the Celtic tradition with the teachings of the Beauty Way from Turtle Island. Since 2008 she has pioneered ceremonial plant diets with native Irish plants and is author of Sacred Plant Initiations.

Carole delights in bringing the gifts of the plant world to others, offering teachings and ceremonies both internationally and from her herb centre Derrynagittah in the west of Ireland. She is author of The Herbalist’s Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Beyond, and founder of the Foundation for Sacred Plant Medicine and the Temple of Plants spiritual community.

Week 6

Create Your Own Plant Song

w/ Hanna Leigh

As our relationships have grown with the plant world over the past six weeks, you may be feeling a particular affinity to a certain plant being. This is a fun and lively opportunity to explore your voice as a tool for praising the plants, as well as singing the messages that they offer you. Come and create your own plant songs, through an embodied & imaginative vocal practice (even if you have never written a song in your life, or don’t consider yourself a “singer”).

Hi! My name is Hanna Leigh, (IG: @hannaleighsong) and I am a Singer-Songwriter, Voice Doula, Weaver, and Devotee of this precious, living Earth. I was raised in California (Chumash territory) though in recent years have spent extensive time residing on ancestral lands in the Celtic isles. My people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.

This organization, Weaving Remembrance, was birthed through my own passion to to reclaim ancestral wisdom and grow in intimate reciprocity with this miraculous earth that sustains us.

 

Hanna Leigh

Week 7

Crafting a Tea Ritual & Journeying with Oak

w/ Isla Macleod

Weaving together this journey with plants, you are invited to gather a ‘Home’ brew of plant kin growing within your local landscape, and share in a tea ritual to enrich your connection with the land where you live.

Becoming intimate with the landscape that nourishes you invites a deepening of your sense of belonging and responsibility to care for who surrounds your home.

Ritual invites us to be in reciprocity with the more-than-human worlds, and restore balance where relationships have been neglected or forgotten. This class will explore crafting rituals and offerings that enrich your creative response to the living world, to commune with nature in an intuitive and playful way.

To ground your apprenticeship with our plant kin, you will be guided on a journey to meet with the spirit of Oak, to hold council with the roots and reveal the pathways of remembrance back to the living world.

Isla Macleod is a ceremonialist, ritual designer, Soul Friend and companion at the thresholds, devoted to restoring the Way of Nature and tending the Sacred. She is guardian of springs and trees; lover of moss, forest, moonlight and the Mystery; dedicated to reimagining the ceremonies, rites and songs that belong to these Celtic lands.

She acts as a bridge between worlds, mending and re-membering ancient pathways that restore our relationship with the more-than-human world and activate the soul memory of who we truly are. As was the role of the olde medicine folk, Isla acts as an intermediary between the human community & the larger ecological field to ensure these relationships are balanced & reciprocal.

Isla holds seasonal and bespoke ceremonies, rites of passage, ritual crafting workshops, healing journeys, pilgrimages, soul-making retreats and offers 1:1 Soul Friending sessions. Her book ‘Rituals for Life: A guide to creating meaningful rituals inspired by nature’ is a companion for those seeking more meaning, connection and beauty in their lives.

Week 8

Optional In-Person
Celtic Plantlore Gathering

A 4 Day Gathering In the Scottish Borders

May 15th – 18th, 2025

A weekend of practical & magical application & gathering together in the land.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Anyone who is called to this course is welcome to join! There is medicine here for all, whether you have worked with plants for many years, or are just curious to learn more about connecting with them.

This offering is happening online through Zoom, with teachers joining us from several different countries. 

There is also an optional in-person Plant Gathering weekend in Scotland, 16th – 18th May open to course participants.

Yes. They will be recorded and sent out soon after each class.

No. The nature of the content delivery is that you purchase the entire course.

You will have access to the recordings for one year from the start date of the course.

No. Due to the delivery of course content, all sales are final.