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Celtic & Earth Wisdom
Around the Fire
Part 1
An online gathering of songs & stories to transition us into the dark time of year
Recorded on Tuesday, 4th November, 2025.
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Our Hosts
COURSE CO-WEAVER
Lana Lanaia
Lana is a musician, and facilitator of retreats, ritual & healing spaces. She lives in the Scottish Highlands, and her lineage is woven through many lands.
Lana has been studying and working with earth wisdom traditions & sound healing for over 25 years. She has a deep love for these holy Isles of Albion, her ancient places & wisdom. She has spent many years journeying to sacred sites, living in wild places, questing and communing with the land, sea & sky.
Lana’s work, through retreats, ritual, and sound, is an invitation to return to wholeness, to reawaken the songlines of the soul, and to enter into deep communion with the Earth as a living, breathing being.
COURSE CO-HOST
Sarah Long
Sarah is a Druid, holder of ritual and ceremony, artist and poet. She has been exploring Druidry and celebrating the wheel of the year for over 30 years, and carries a deep devotion and reverence for Mother Earth.
She weaves her magic in the mundane through organic gardening and her love of plants and the divine feminine. She has spent many years pilgrimaging to sacred sites, holding space around the fire and loves to share stories, songs and chants.
Sarah creates warm and welcoming spaces, allowing people to feel at ease and encouraging their own inspiration to flow. She has a generous spirit and a great gift of offering blessings.
Our Guest Teachers
SEABHEANN 'WISE WOMEN' WISDOM
Phyllida Anam-Áire
Phyllida Anam Áire is an 82 year old Irish grandmother. She comes from an ancestral line of deep trauma. After boarding school in the 60s, Phyllida trained in Montessori, and then entered a convent. Her study in Theology and doctrine taught her a lot; not about God, but about dysfunctional patriarchal indoctrination.
Having finished her studies in humanistic psychology, Phyllida trained and worked for ten years with Elisabeth Kübler -Ross MD. After ten years working with Celtic Consciousness in Germany, she moved to Edinburgh to be with her son and grandchildren. Phyllida still shares her “Teachings from the Cauldron”, which is a combination of humanistic psychology and Spiritual wisdom.
DRUID LORE
JJ Middleway
JJ is a Druid elder in, “the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids”, which he has been actively part of for nearly a quarter of a century, frequently in a mentoring and teaching capacity. He is parent to four grown up children; six grandchildren and two step children.
JJ is an experienced celebrant, ritualist & poet weaving a unique magic into weddings, funerals and naming ceremonies. He is often asked to assist in creating a holding/ritual space at ceremonies honouring the eightfold wheel of the year.
JJ has participated, within a spiritual capacity, in various radio programmes, including Radio 4’s ‘Beyond Belief’ and Radio 2’s ‘Good Morning Sunday’. He has produced three CDs and a book of poetry.
JJ is passionate about Sacred Earth songs, singing the land alive through prayerful vibration. Within his circle, he often shares teachings and story, along with creating spacious periods of stillness.
JJ embodies a potent, deeply healing and inspirational space filled with heart resonance: For the land, ourselves and the wider community.
IRISH ANCESTRAL WISDOM
Aoife Lowden
Aoife Lowden is a guide and facilitator of courses, ceremonies & gatherings which aim to support in building relationship rooted in land-based ancestral wisdom & community.
Aoife creates spaces rooted in wild & ancient wisdom, whilst allowing the space for our emerging culture to come through & evolve. She is passionate about reviving our endangered indigenous cultural practices, such as that of the Teine Eiginn, (Neid fire) and Teach Allais (Sweat House).
Aoife’s work has for the most part been held in her homeland of Ireland, however she has recently moved to the Scottish Highlands where she lives and works as part of a land-based centre & community project (The Sheiling Project/Collective).
SCOTTISH STORYTELLING
Dougie Mackay
Dougie is a native Highland storyteller with a passion for tracking key aspects of ancestral cultures through mythology, lore and story. A professional storyteller for over 12 years, he has been mentored by some of Scotland’s finest seanachies, seeking modern applications for these timeless tales.
His recent show ‘Animate Lands’ allowed a deep dive into the Fianna cycle, gleaning aspects of the older animistic culture once thriving on these islands. It was described as ‘a fresh and joyful take on Celtic lore and Scotland’s landscape’. In his “Myth as Medicine” course, he explores a cycle of northern myths with a group of students, tracking the treasure within each tale and offering exercises to journey with each story and touch the medicine within.
