Scotland

4th Annual Autumn Equinox Pilgrimage

A 16-day journey through ancient lands of song, stone & remembrance.

12th – 27th September, 2025

Have you felt the call to...

Experience the beauty & wild places of these sacred lands?

Commune with the ancient stones and healing waters?

Walk the land and journey with story, song & traditional ways?

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On a Magical Journey

Join Lana Lanaia & special guests on our 4th annual pilgrimage through some of the sacred, wild and mystical landscapes of Scotland.

Video by Olivia Mater

Music by Lana Lanaia

At the heart of this journey is the simple call to be with the land
& each other

We invite you to join us for a wild & magical 16-day journey through ancient landscapes, sacred sites, lochs, seas and skies – including gathering with a few special, ancestral tradition-carriers of song, story and craft.

This is a truly heart warming, life inspiring voyage, where dreams are woven into being, and deep beauty feeds the heart and soul as we walk, sail, sing, weave, offer, gather and share together within the sacred land & Isles of Scotland.

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Our Path

Part I:

Coming Home to the Land Gathering

A week of story, song, traditional skills & sacred sites in Loch Tay & Glen Lyon. We will gather as a village, nestle close to the land, surrounded by mountains, waters and sky. With guest teachers Peter Ananin, Bethan Bray & Dougie Mackay.

  • ​​Ritual & Shrine Tending
  • Storytelling, Old Lore & Song
  • Ancestral Skills & Cultural Revival
  • Optional Scottish Wecht Drum Making Workshop
  • Gathering Around the Fire, in the Light of the Sun, Moon & Stars

This week will include walking journeys through Sacred Landscapes in the heart of Scotland, including:

  • Schiehallion ~ Crystal Mountain
  • Fortingall & Ancient Yew Tree
  • Stone Circles & Shrines
  • Glen Lyon
  • Loch Tay
  • & More...

Part II:

Growing Our Wings

From our warm welcome in Glen Lyon, we continue our journey to the North & West, along with with guest guides. We voyage across the sea and out onto the isles. We will step into liminal space, attune with stilness, sound and starlight at sacred sites, and walk in ancient footsteps. Listening, offering, blessing.

  • Culloden & Clava Cairns
  • Isle of Lewis
  • Stay at an Old Blackhouse Village by the Sea
  • Callanish Stone Circles
  • Autumn Equinox Ceremony
  • White Sand Beaches on the Isle of Harris
  • Fairy Glen & the Isle of Skye
  • Iona - Sacred Isle of the Druids & Celtic Christianity
  • Isle of Mull
  • & onwards from Glasgow we shall go...
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We invite you to join us for this pilgrimage journey in Scotland, visiting some of her sacred and beloved places, while creating space to listen & be with the land. Through opening our hearts and making simple offerings of gratitude, may we come closer to the wisdom and beauty of the earth.

May we offer our songs, and weave our stories & dreams...leaving only footprints and blessings behind us.

Meet Our Guide

Lana Lanaia

Lana is a musician, and facilitator of retreats, ritual & healing spaces; inspiring rememberance of beauty, and love for the Earth. She lives in the Scottish Highlands, and her lineage is woven through many lands.

Lana has been studying and working with earth wisdom, sound & healing practices for over 25 years. She has spent many years journeying to sacred sites in Scotland and England; and living in wild places, close to the land. Her music and work flows from her love of stone, mountains, forest, sea and the stars.

Lana will be the driver of our mini-bus, holding space and facilitating ritual, song weaving & listening with the land.

Guest Guides

Our companions on the path, sharing ancestral wisdom and deep connection with the land.

Bethan Bray & Peter Ananin

Crafting, Ancestral Foods, Shrine Tending, Traditional Lore & Drum Making

Bethan is an artist and craftswoman, specialising in hide and wild pigment painting. She uses with the subtle world of ochres to reconnect with the heart of the Earth, restore deep intimacy with place and translate the primordial voice of animal, soil and stone.

Peter is a traditional tanner, teacher and craftsman focusing primarily on connecting people to our human and natural heritage through working with animal hides and other ancestral materials, as well as exploring Scottish folklore and how it weaves together the practical and the spiritual.

Together they run their small bark tannery from their home in the Highlands of Scotland, where they also run Ancestral Skills Gatherings and courses in Hide Tanning throughout the summer months – reconnecting people to place, and to ancient ways of being and working with the land. Tending to wild shrines is a deep love and ongoing act of devotion for them both, as is making traditional offerings and feeding their hearts and bodies with ancestral nourishment from the land on which they live

Dougie MacKay

Storytelling, Community Connection & Culture

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.

Plus more special guests TBA...

Scottish Wecht Drum Workshop

Optional workshop to craft your own Scottish Wecht Drum with Bethan Bray & Peter Ananin.

Peter & Bethan are currently the only remaining living makers of these drums, having drawn from their research to develop their own unique yet traditional style of Wecht.

These ancient Scottish drums would have been used for a variety of purposes – alongside being a musical instrument they functioned as an agricultural tool to process oats, process wool and as a communicating device in times of rebellion and war from as early as the 14th century.

Evidence shows that the earliest Scottish drums came with open back which allowed them to be played similar to a Bodhran, which has similar origins.

Traditionally they were primarily made of sheep, along with deer and goat which would be widely available to crofters working out on the land. We will be making them in a variety of these hide types.

What’s Included

  • 15 nights shared accommodations
  • 2-3 healthy & organic meals per day
  • 7-day "Coming Home to the Land Gathering"
  • Storytelling with traditional Scottish story carriers
  • Guided journeys into ancient landscapes, sacred sites & animistic culture
  • Simple ceremony & Earth honouring rituals
  • Listening with the land practices
  • Singing, song & cèilidh
  • Wild plant foraging & local foods
  • Transportation throughout Scotland
  • Airport pick-up & drop off from Glasgow Airport

Please note: Itinerary is subject to change due to circumstances out of our control.

What’s Not Included

  • Airfare to and from the Glasgow airport
  • Extra nights in Glasgow before or after the pilgrimage
  • Personal, medical or trip cancellation insurance
  • Materials cost for Scottish Wecht Drum Making Workshop
  • A few optional restaurant meals
  • Personal gifts, snack & treats

Investment

Full 16 Day Journey – $4,700 USD / £3,300​ GBP
Early Bird Price, until 20th May

(Add-on) Scottish Wecht Drum Making Workshop – $350 USD / £250 GBP

Payment plans are available.

Please read through this webpage thoroughly and contact us below with any questions and if you are feeling the call to join us.

*Please note that the price in USD reflects currency conversion fees.

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A Note on Work-Trade:

Crafting this pilgrimage is a labor of deep devotion, requiring immense time, energy, and resources. Because of this, we are only able to offer one partial work trade position this year:

– Professional Photographer

If you feel deeply called to this pilgrimage and have experience in this area, we invite you to apply by sharing your background & links to examples of your photography, via email above.

It may not make sense to the rational mind, but when the heart says "GO!" – Say YES!

May the whispers of land and tide weave their ancient song into your heart...

May the living reality of earth and ancestral belonging be strengthened within you through communion with these sacred waters and stones.

And may your footsteps be guided by the unseen hands of those who walked before, ever held in the embrace of earth and sky.