
Voices Of
Celtic Wisdom
Our deep dive 4-month program
exploring living threads of earth-based cultures
of Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales & Cornwall
With song, story, lore & hands-on crafting workshops,
including your own bundle of crafting materials from these lands
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Winter 2025 Dates To Be Announced!
See below for details of the Winter 2024 season.
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Collected teachings from the Voices of Celtic Wisdom course—woven into a beautifully crafted 160+ page book to hold, revisit, and cherish.
Featuring contributions from 16 authors, including Tara Brading, Glennie Kindred, Manda Scott, Mary McLaughlin & Dorrie Joy.
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May we re~kindle the hearths
of our belonging to the Earth…
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Many of us are drawn to
“the old ways”... but why?
What can we draw from the past in order to live a more fully connected life now?
Why is it that the Celtic culture, and other earth-based cultures of these lands, have a particular draw & allure for people during these times?
We have gathered 28 incredible teachers who will be sharing bright threads of the ancestral traditions of these isles, and we invite you to join us as we drink together from this well of wisdom that is still very much alive.
Gather with us around the virtual hearth, coming together as a community to share in this deep journey throughout 4 moons. Together we will listen to old stories, and hear whispers of ancient voices echoing through the old languages and songs. We will craft, spin, weave, and mend — celebrating the festivals of the wheel of the year as we travel.
As we journey together into the otherworld to remember the old ways, we dream the future that we wish to plant into the soil of the earth, in service to the future generations.

What’s Included
This course is intended to be an in-depth study and a gathering around the fire, where we will learn and grow together, untying the knots and reweaving the threads.
- 2 Hour Classes Twice Weekly for 4 Months
- 27 Workshops with Guest Teachers
- 4 Crafting Classes with our wonderful Craft Teachers
- 1 Live "Celtic Language Winter Concert" with Inspirational Musicians
- A beautiful bundle posted to you with specially gathered materials from Scotland, England & Ireland for making your crafts
- 3 Community Calls with Hanna Leigh & Lana Lanaia
- A moderated community sharing forum (not on FB)
Crafting Bundles SOLD OUT!
For this second season of Voices of Celtic Wisdom, we are excited to offer two crafting bundle options!
When you register, you will automatically receive a "Starter Crafting Bundle" mailed to you in early January. This will be provide the basics of what you need to join our 4 crafting classes throughout the course.
If you wish to deepen your experience, we are offering the NEW option to upgrade to an "Heirloom Deluxe Crafting Bundle" this year. This includes wild-harvested & hand-crafted keepsake items created with reverence by artisans of the Celtic isles. This is created for those of you who imagine yourselves continuing on with these crafts, and who find joy in the beauty of handmade objects, and the stories they tell. Limited stock available.
Read below to choose the best option for you.

SOLD OUT!
Starter Crafting Bundle
Included with Each Registration
- 1 Scottish beeswax candle with Celtic knotwork design
- Scottish spindle and wool
- Straw & Irish yarn for Brigid's Cross
- Yarn and loom to weave an offering cloth
- Oak weaving needle
- Embroidery hoop, needle, and yarn to create a Brat Bhride (Brigid's Cloak)
- Mailed to you in January
SOLD OUT!
Heirloom Deluxe Crafting Bundle
Optional Add-On During Checkout
- 1 Scottish beeswax candle with Celtic knotwork design
- Hand-turned Scottish dealgan and extra Orkney wool
- Straw & Irish handmade yarn for Brigid's Cross
- Handspun heritage wool and Irish flax yarn
- Naturally dyed Nettle and Woad thread
- Handcrafted, foraged Dartmoor Oak hand loom & weaving needle
- Large embroidery hoop, needle, and yarn to create a Brat Bhride (Brigid's Cloak)
- Mugwort tincture from the Celtic isles for your Winter dreaming
- Mailed to you in January


Over 4 months we will journey into a deep and rich exploration
of Celtic ways and culture; providing nutrients to feed our own sense of connection and belonging.
We will be joined by some wonderful elders, musicians, crafters and storytellers who will be sharing from the well of ancestral wisdom from these isles…awakening remembrance of ancient, yet timeless, animistic cultures and ways.
This course is intended to be an in-depth study, and a gathering around the fire, during these dreamier, darker months in the Northern Hemisphere.
We invite you to gather with us to hear and learn some of the old songs, stories, and lore; as well as to physically craft your own Brigid’s cross, deerskin pouch, and Scottish wool yarn.
May this series touch your heart and inspire your own connection to place, to your unique voice, and to your path of purpose and expression.

“If we have no stories, we have no past. If we have no past, we have no future”
-Seoras (George) MacPherson

What You'll Learn
Themes we will explore in this course include:
- A brief history of Celtic culture, lands and people
- The Celtic Wheel & Festivals of the Year
- Connecting and Dreaming with the Land
- Tír na nÓg & Journeying to the Otherworld


Crafting Classes:
- Embroidering a Brat Bhríde (Brigid's Cloak)
- Making Brigid’s Crosses
- Spinning wool into yarn
- Weaving an offering cloth
Celebrating the Celtic Festivals:
- Winter Solstice Sound & Otherworld Journey
- Imbolc Celebration of Brigid
- Spring Equinox Celebration


















Honouring Traditions

For Personal Use
The songs and stories shared in this course are intended for participant’s own 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 these songs, stories, crafts and traditions that they share with us. By joining the course you agree not to replicate, alter or dilute the content, unless given permission by the teachers themselves.


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.


How It Works


Step One
Confirm your interest by signing up on the registration page. There you will have the option to upgrade to an Heirloom Deluxe Crafting Bundle.

Step Two
Put the classes & bonus sessions on your calendar. Introduce yourself in our community space!

Step Three
Find a comfortable space to join us live for these rich workshops!


Why This Program?

The FOunder
Greetings, I'm 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 well-loved program 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.
This is our second year hosting the “Voices of Celtic Wisdom” course, which is quite a project to weave together! It was birthed for the purpose of connecting anyone deeply drawn to the Celtic culture and lands (and other cultures of pre-Roman times) with threads of ancestral wisdom & lore that are still living in the landscapes and the people.
Scroll down to see the knowledgeable song-carriers, storytellers, and culture-bearers that we will have the gift of learning from!
Course Co-Weaver
Welcome, I'm Lana Lanaia
I live in the Scottish Highlands, and have spent much of my life journeying within the landscapes and sacred places of these Islands. I am a musician, weaver of sound and simple ceremony; creating retreats and spaces within which we may come home to the magic, beauty and mystery of life.
Since I was young, I have been carrying the question of ‘where are our indigenous traditions’ and ‘who are the wisdom keepers within our lands?’.
I was fortunate to be able to travel and learn from other cultures & indigenous peoples, which helped me to connect more deeply with mother earth. Yet something always called me to return home to Albion, to listen to the land, and connect with others who are dreaming and living in earth honouring ways. And so it is a joy & blessing, to work with Weaving Remembrance, to weave and co-create these courses within which we may all gather together to listen, mend, remember, and feed something of beauty back into life.


Who Is This For?

Those who are inspired to connect with ancestral wisdom and remember “the old ways”

Those who feel drawn to explore the living threads of Celtic culture and pre-Roman traditions of the lands of modern-day Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales & Cornwall

Those who wish to learn old songs & hear old stories – to touch, feel and craft with your hands using materials sourced from these beautiful lands

Those who feel a sense of longing for “home” and desire to explore these themes through the Celtic lens


Program Overview
Through the songs, stories and crafts shared by our guest teachers, may the living reality of earth and ancient belonging be rekindled within you.
Classes are on Mondays & Thursdays @ 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm GMT
5th December 2025 – 27th March 2025
Week 1
Thurs 5th Dec
Opening Call w/ Hanna Leigh & Lana Lanaia
Week 2
Mon 9th Dec
Welcome to the Celtic Hearth
w/ Gwilym Morus-Baird
Thurs 12th Dec
The Celtic Year: A Journey into Soul
w/ Jen Murphy
Week 3
Mon 16th Dec
The Wisdom of the Celtic Year Calendar & Winter Solstice
w/ Dolores Whelan
Thurs 19th Dec
Winter Solstice ~ Liminal Space, Stone, Sound & Stillness
w/ Lana Lanaia
Week 4
Thurs 2nd Jan
Dreaming with the Grandmothers
w/ Tara Brading & Aoife Lowden
Week 5
Mon 6th Jan
The Dreaming of Britain – The Brythonic Tradition
w/ Angharad Wynne
Thurs 9th Jan
Community Hearth Gathering
Week 6
Mon 13th Jan
Becoming Good Ancestors
w/ Manda Scott
Thurs 16th Jan
The Raw Bones in Her Bundle – Singing the Bronze Age Mother Tongue
w/ Carolyn Hillyer
Week 7
Mon 20th Jan
Rewilding the Mind: A Gaelic/Irish Perspective on Reconnecting to the Spirit of the Land
w/ Manchán Magan
Thurs 23th Jan
Grandmother Remembers
w/ Phyllida Anam-Áire
Week 8
Mon 27th Jan
The Celtic Otherworld
w/ Caitlín Matthews
Thurs 30th Jan
The Path Through the Forest: Discovering the Ways of the Druid
w/Eimear Burke
Sat 1st Feb
Reviving the Goddess/Saint Brigid’s Brat Bhríde Tradition
w/ Rita O’Loughlin
Week 9
Mon 3rd Feb
Celebrating the Goddess Brigid: Crafting Brigid’s Crosses
w/ Terri Conroy
Thurs 6th Feb
Celtic Christianity, Imbolc & Iona
w/ Simon de Voil
Week 10
Mon 10th Feb
Community Hearth Gathering
Thurs 13th Feb
Celtic Languages Winter Concert with:
~ Gwilym Morus-Baird & Owen Shiers
~ Elizabeth Freeborn
~ Carolyn Hillyer & Nigel Shaw
~ & More TBA!
Week 11
Mon 17th Feb
Mo Amhrán Féin – Amhrán Gach Duine:
My Own Song – Every Body’s Song
w/ Nóirín Ní Riain
Thurs 20th Feb
Carrying the Fire: Traditional Tales & Sagas
w/ Eileen Budd
Week 12
Mon 24th Feb
A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun
w/Dougie Mackay
Thurs 27th Feb
Restoring the Caledonian Forest
w/ Alan Watson-Featherstone
Week 13
Mon 3rd March
Wool Spinning in Celtic Culture: The history and practice of one of our oldest crafts
w/ Alexandra Juliette
Thurs 6th March
Feeding the Wild Gods – Offerings for Life
w/ Isla Macleod
Week 14
Mon 10th March
Dùthchas Beò: Revitalising Reciprocity with the Gaelic Landscape through Simple Ceremony and Invocation
w/ Àdhamh Ó Broin
Thurs 13th March
Shieling Life within the Wheel of the Year
w/ Peter Ananin & Bethan Bray
Week 15
Mon 17th March
Weaving in Reverence
w/ Rosemary Riedel O’Brien
Thurs 20th March
Celebrating Spring Equinox & Planting our Future
w/ Glennie Kindred
Week 16
Mon 24th March
Celtic Druid Wisdom, Celestial Cycles & Spring Nectar
w/ Chris Park
Thurs 27th
Community Gathering & Closing Celebration
w/ Hanna Leigh & Lana Lanaia

Program Deep Dive
Many may have forgotten the old ways, though gratefully there are those still keeping the skills, stories and songs alive, and others of us who are relearning them.
May our time together help us to remember our inherent belonging to earth and ancestral wisdom.
Teachers


Gwilym Morus-Baird
Welcome to the Celtic Hearth
How can we attune to the Celtic traditions today? What does Celtic mean today and how can we engage with these rich traditions?
We’ll begin our exploration by learning a Welsh song, and using this as a gateway to understanding the emotional and cultural resonance of Celtic traditions.
As we progress, we’ll unpack the concept of Celtic identity, touching on its origins and how it has evolved over time. You’ll have the opportunity to engage in thought-provoking discussions about your personal traditions and cultural backgrounds, sharing your own experiences and insights with fellow participants. What stories do you bring to share around this Celtic hearth?
We’ll find the common threads that link our diverse cultural lives and bring them all together in a harmonious singing experience, symbolizing the unity and shared heritage we’ve explored together.
Whether you have Celtic ancestry or are simply curious about what it means to be Celtic today, this session offers a unique opportunity to connect with and reflect on your own traditions, and gain a deeper appreciation for the enduring legacy of Celtic heritage in our modern world.
Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird is a Welsh musician and author. He currently teaches courses on Celtic mythology.



Jen Murphy
The Celtic Year: A Journey into Soul
Mythology is the story of our soul. Irish myth and folklore, along with our night dreams, offer the deepest pathways into the forest of the soul, a place where we discover our enchanting inner-treasures while navigating the shadows that inevitably lurk but which often hold our greatest light. In this workshop, we will explore Irish myths and archetypes rooted in the seasonal magic of the ancient festivals of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa, and how these ancient tales—with the struggles, courage and wisdom of their protagonists—can illuminate our own soul work.
Jen Murphy is an Irish mythologist, anthropologist and creativity mentor, and founder of The Celtic Creatives (formerly the Celtic School of Embodiment).
A Dubliner born and bred, from the time she could talk, Jen’s grandmother Frances O’Sullivan filled her ears with tales from Irish myth and folklore, fuelling a now 40-year fascination with the stories of her lineage. Jen’s apprenticeship to following her soul’s breadcrumbs over the past twenty years has guided her work and formal studies in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies, Sociocultural Anthropology, Creativity and Innovation, and Jungian Psychology and Art Therapy.
She supports creatives from diverse fields to (re)connect with the mythopoetic imagination of Ireland, using ancient wisdom to inform modern creativity through myth, dreamwork, imagination and the body. She is currently writing a book on what Irish mythology can teach us about our creativity.



Dolores Whelan
The Wisdom of the Celtic Year Calendar & Winter Solstice
Dolores will share a journey through the Celtic Wheel of the Year Calendar. She will explore some of the core beliefs and ancient wisdom of the earlier peoples of these lands and other Celtic countries, and the relevance of the wisdom held within this calendar in today’s world.
Dolores Whelan is an educator, author and spiritual guide within the spiritual and mythological tradition of Ireland. She is passionate about the protection of sacred landscapes and the celebration of ancient Celtic traditions.
Dolores Whelan has facilitated workshops and retreats in Celtic Spirituality and personal empowerment for over 30 years. She has led pilgrimages to the sacred places in Ireland and Iona Scotland since 1990. She is passionate about bringing pilgrims to the sacred places in Ireland and to the protection of these places. She believes that the ancient wisdom of this country’s spiritual and mythological tradition when recovered will play a very important role in creating a more sustainable and balanced human community one that honours it relationships with the entire symphony of life
Dolores has written extensively on education, creativity and Celtic Spirituality. Her most recent book is Ever Ancient Ever New Celtic spirituality in the 21st century. She created a CD, A Journey through the Celtic Year, which explores the wisdom of the Celtic tradition though the Celtic Year calendar and co created a perpetual Celtic calendar with US artist, the late Cynthia Maya, which offers the wisdom held within the Celtic Year. She is a co-founder of both The Brigid of Faughart Festival, now in its 11th year and the Brigid’s Way Pilgrimage which is in its 6th year. Her work has been featured on RTE Radio and on RTE Television‘s Nationwide .



Lana Lanaia
Winter Solstice ~ Liminal Space, Stone, Sound & Stillness
As we approach Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year, we enter into a liminal space where the sun appears to ‘standstill’ for 3 days. Within this quiet pause, we, as Nature, are invited to be still, to rest and reflect upon our lives, as the sun dies and is born again with the lengthening days.
For thousands of years people all over the world have journeyed to sacred places to honour and welcome the rebirth of the sun at winter solstice. During this class, Lana will talk about some of the stone circles and megalithic sites of the British isles that are aligned with the winter solstice sun; inviting us to open our ancient eyes, to pause (stand~still) within this liminal space and journey into stillness.
The class will include earth wisdom, song, live soundscapes, and a guided otherworld journey, woven within a ceremonial space.
Lana was born in England, and lives in the Scottish Highlands. For over 25 years she has been immersed in a journey into earth wisdom, sound & healing practices; and weaves this into the world through her music, courses & retreats.
Lana’s inspiration flows from her love for the Earth; of wild landscapes, forests, mountains, rivers, oceans, sacred sites, and the stars. She has and continues to learn from indigenous wisdom keepers and ancestral traditions, exploring how we may reawaken and heal our relationship with self, Nature and our origins.
She is passionate about re-awakening the ancient living wisdom within our hearts and lands; weaving remembrance that we are all children of the Earth.



Dreaming with the Grandmothers
Tara Brading & Aoife Lowden
In the depths of winter, the archetypal energy of the grandmother can be felt in our blood and bones. The crone stands at the threshold of life and death, this world and the spirit realms, and offers her timeless wisdom. In Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, the queen of winter is a crone goddess known as The Cailleach. The medicine of the grandmother can also be felt in the ancient spirits of mugwort and hawthorn.
To dream with these native grandmothers is to weave your soul into land and spirit, life and death. In this workshop, Tara and Aoife will guide you into heartfelt connection and right-relationship through ancestral teachings and a guided journey.
Tara Brading is a women’s educator, storyteller and songstress, focusing on uplifting nature-based feminine wisdom & ancestral teachings from Ireland & England. She’s been on a journey of remembering and reclamation for over ten years, honoring the earth based feminine wisdom left in her blood and bones.
She’s the creator of The Roundhouse, which is an online community that lovingly guides women into nature based feminine wisdom from the Irish traditions. She’s also the creator of Grail Priestess, a deep-dive program that guides women into heartfelt connection with their English heritage. She also runs a variety of other courses, events and workshops that serve thousands of women every year.
She journeys to Ireland & England regularly for pilgrimage, and currently lives on the ancestral lands of the Ute and Arapaho people in the mountains of so-called Colorado (USA).
Aoife Lowden is a facilitator and guide, working intimately with land and ancestral relationship to co-create spaces of healing & remembrance.



Angharad Wynne
The Dreaming of Britain - The Brythonic Tradition
Following two thousand years of Christianity, few fragments remain of what was once the glimmering spiritual tradition of the British Isles – what we know as the ‘Brythonic Tradition’.
In this session, we’ll explore the rituals of the animist hunter-gatherers who repopulated these Isles at the end of the last Ice Age, the cult of ancestors that inspired the tomb builders of the Neolithic, what we know about the Druids and what lived on in the poetry and myths of their descendants, the mystical bards, who shared breath myth and poetry with the early Christian saints.
We’ll lift up some of the exquisite, fragile threads of this deep mystical and magical tradition, and undertake practices to bring central concepts into experience and ponder how the Brythonic tradition’s teaching about our kinship with all beings, within the seen and unseen worlds, can inform a contemporary spiritual practice today.
Angharad 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



Manda Scott
Becoming Good Ancestors

What is a good ancestor? What have we learned from those who have gone before and what is our responsibility to those who come after? If we’re part of a lineage, where has it been and where could it go if we bring the best of ourselves to the table.
Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda Scott was once a veterinary surgeon and is now a novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast.
Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, she’s been shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Edgar and the Saltire Award, and won the McIlvanney Prize. She’s co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass and her new Thrutopian novel, Any Human Power is a ‘visionary and seismic’ mytho-political thriller. Woven through with Boudica-style dreaming, it maps out routes across the ghost-lines of tomorrow, in the hope that everyone else will walk them into paths of possibility.
She lives with her wife in the liminal edge place between England and Wales.


Carolyn Hillyer
The Raw Bones in Her Bundle – Singing the Bronze Age Mother Tongue
An exploration of the 4,000 year-old Proto-Celtic mother tongue.
Carolyn Hillyer is a musician, artist, writer, and workshop guide who lives on a thousand-year-old farm in the ancient belly of the mist-veiled wild moors of south-west of England. She draws inspiration for her work from the raw beauty, untamed spirit and primordial memory of the ancient earth and the untamed spirit of the sacred paths that women walk upon it. Her creative offerings form a textured weave of books, women’s workshops and festivals, song albums and concerts, paintings and art installations, traditional drum making, and the tending of wild sanctuary on Dartmoor. She travels widely with her work, teaching in Japan, Canada, USA, Russia, throughout Europe and the British islands. Her books include the Weavers’ Oracle, Wild Litany, Sacred House, Book of Hag and her original exploration of the Proto-Celtic Bronze Language, Her Bone Bundle. Carolyn now teaches an online program called the Weavers’ Trail.



Manchán Magan
Rewilding the Mind: A Gaelic/Irish Perspective on Reconnecting to the Spirit of the Land
An exploration of the rising connection people are feeling with the spirit, the lore, and land of Ireland (and its resonances with Indigenous cultures around the world).
Manchán explores the rising connection people are having with the spirit and the lore of the land of Ireland. Beginning with the creation myth and origin story that our ancestors have passed down to us, he examines the mythological and archaeological clues to how our forebears identified with both the physical realm and the magical realms that surround it.
He’ll look at the raising awareness of the centrality of the goddess in all aspects of Irish culture, lore and ritual, and how it can help to steer us towards a deeper connection with nature and landscape.
Ultimately, this talk is a celebration of the extraordinary heritage our ancestors have passed down to us and how it can inspire and empower us, guiding us in how to live, how to feel and how to relate to the wider world. It also explores the wider resonances of Ireland’s heritage with Indigenous cultures and Vedic India.
Manchán Magan has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, and presents the Almanac of Ireland podcast for RTÉ. He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ, & Travel Channel.
His books include Thirty-Two Words For Field, Listen to the Land Speak, Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Words For Nature, and Wolf-Men and Water Hounds. With Antic-Ham, he’s collaborated on two art books for Redfoxpress.



Phyllida Anam Aire
Grandmother Remembers
The old Seabheann or wisdom women in Celtic times were Anam~Áire which translated means Soul Carer. They watched with the dying and traveled with the soul after death.
For this workshop, Phyllida will share wisdom gathered from her life experience, and some old rituals and blessings she has witnessed as a child, from her ancestors who were Irish Seabheann.
Together we will explore how sacred memory unites us with the whole of Creation; why we love to be in Nature, and how we literally fall into love with the feminine energy in all.
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.



Caitlín Matthews
The Celtic Otherworld

Throughout time, the Celtic nations have continually witnessed to their ongoing interaction with the ever-living Otherworld, the timeless dimension that is experienced as the source of wisdom, the dwelling place of the gods, and the mysterious locus that is visited by poets or accidentally discovered by adventurers. The Otherworldly doorways lie numinously close within the borders of our world, or it may be visited by immrama – the wonder-voyages that lead to the blessed islands of the west, or they may yet lie beneath in the mysterious regions of Annwfyn, where great quests may be accomplished. Caitlín explores the Otherworld traditions, leading us to the door where our world and the Otherworld meet, where we will make our own visitation.
Caitlín Matthews is the author of over 85 books, including The Art of Celtic Seership, The Celtic Book of the Dead and The Lost Book of the Grail. She is acknowledged internationally as an authority on the ancestral and spiritual traditions of the Sister Islands of Britain and Ireland. Her research, translation, and practical engagement with the worlds between have brought many students to a deeper understanding of the Celtic and Ancestral traditions. Caitlín is a co-founder of the Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies (FÍOS), which is dedicated to the sacred arts that shape the landscape of the soul via vision, dream and memory. FÍOS hosts masterclasses with exemplars of living, oracular, and sacred traditions that are rarely recorded in writing, or given an honourable place in modern society, but which form the bedrock of ancestral cultural heritage. She is a member of the Guild of Mythographers, and lives in Oxford, UK where she has had a shamanic healing practice for 34 years.


Eimear Burke
The Path Through the Forest: Discovering the Ways of the Druid
Eimear will share about her journey on the Druid Path. Through story, the harp and guided meditation she will explore how living in tune with the land and the seasons, and deepening one’s connection to myth, creativity and the wider community of nature, can bring a deeper and more sacred relationship with life and self.
Eimear is the Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) and lives in Kilkenny, Ireland.
Eimear has private practice as a Counselling Psychologist and her interests in Druidry and psychology have led her to act as a Celebrant, helping people to design and enact meaningful rites of passage. She is licensed to perform legal weddings in the Republic of Ireland and can also offer non legal ceremonies.
Eimear has a deep love of the ancient Irish tales and has a passion for storytelling. She brings the old tales to new audiences, and – while remaining faithful to the stories – often examines them from new perspectives, so that listeners experience them as fresh and relevant. She particularly enjoys showing people the sacred sites of Ireland and telling the ancient tales right where they happened.
Eimear is also a Priestess dedicated to Danú in the Fellowship of Isis. She is an Arch Druidess in the Druid Clan of Dana and a member of the Noble Order of Tara.



Simon de Voil
Celtic Christianity, ImBOLc & Iona

What can Celtic Christianity, a spiritual tradition that emerged some 1400 years ago, teach us about living a good life today? Rooted in the clan and place-based cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Brittany, the Celtic Christian tradition speaks to modern hearts seeking connection with the living land and with our fellow creatures, and invites us to awaken our souls through beauty, ritual, and compassionate action.
This experiential workshop will be centered around Imbolc and Brigid, Goddess and Saint who holds a special place in both Ireland and Scotland. Simon will use song, storytelling, and prayer to share his own living version of a Celtic Christianity that is inclusive and earth centered.
Reverend Simon Ruth de Voil is an ordained interfaith/interspiritual minister, trained to be a sacred presence outside the conventions of traditional religion. As a sacred musician, spiritual mentor and worship leader he incorporates chant, ritual, storytelling and mindful practice to create a space for profound connection and sacred witness. Simon provides music for worship, ceremony, and prayer in a wide variety of churches and non-religious spiritual communities. He particularly loves to create music for meditation, healing services, and rites of passage.
Simon is also an experienced workshop and retreat leader, drawing on 15 years of study, training, and practice that grew from his time living and working in Iona Abbey. Although influenced by many traditions, Simon’s spiritual path and teaching is deeply rooted in Celtic Christianity, the wisdom of the earth, and in the Scottish land where he’s spent most of his life.


Nóirín Ní Riain
Mo Amhrán Féin - Amhrán Gach Duine: My Own Song - Every Body's Song
Nóirín has traversed many diverse paths during her life-time and lives our her life in great gratitude for the good of it all, despite “the hollow lands and hilly lands” (William Butler Yeats). One constant, natural given has been as a singer of spiritual song; beginning with the Irish sean-nós amhrán cráifeach, this led her to other traditions such as Gregorian Chant, the music of Hildegard von Bingen, Joa Bolendas and Mira Bai.
She is author of several books ranging from a children’s Irish traditional song collection, the repertoire of her sean-nós singing mentor, Pilib Ó Laoghaire, an autobiography in 2008 and the publication of her doctoral thesis in 2011 and numerous articles.
In 2003, she was awarded the first ever doctorate in Theology from MIC, University of Limerick for her originality in creating a theology of Listening for which she coined the term, Theosony, meaning The Sound of God. Always longing to pursue a call to ministry, she was ordained an Inter-faith minister in London in 2017.



Eileen Budd
Carrying the Fire: Traditional Tales & Sagas

Our stories are multigenerational, cultural memory banks and we keep them alive and keep them relevant by telling the tales. Our stories are woven into our landscape and our relationship with the natural world. In our stories, mountains become fearsome giants, the rivers have protective spirits, the trees listen and the sea fights to keep her monsters at bay. Storyteller Eileen Budd will be sharing ancient sagas, folk tales and songs and revealing some of the history, beliefs, traditions and the voices of the people, voices of the landscape, hidden in plain sight within our stories.
Many of the stories Eileen tells are nature stories highlighting the history and beliefs within Scottish traditional culture. She often leads sessions in Scots language and can include Gaelic waulking songs as well.
She uses storytelling, illustration and historic object handling to help bring these stories to life for a range of audiences, including early years, primary and high school students and adults. Her illustrated book Ossian Warrior Poet is a new edition of the Poems of Ossian, reworked for a new generation.


Dougie Mackay
A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun

Respected by ancient cultures yet cast as archetypal villain in European fairy tales, wolves were hunted to extinction in Scotland and beyond.
Weaving myth from the Celtic Isles, Dougie will take a deep dive into the history of our troubled relations with our oldest ally, wolf; musing on the impact of his absence on our environment and our own psyche.
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’. On 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.


Isla Macleod
Feeding the Wild Gods - Offerings for Life
The flow of giving and receiving is at the heart of the Way of Nature. It is the way of Love. The practice of offerings is a gesture of the love we feel for the more-than-human world; a perpetual prayer to be in conversation with Spirit and attentive to the natural world.
When we give, our offering passes through the hedge or the boundary or the veil to the other world and this creates an opening, some permeability where the veil is temporarily lifted. Offerings become the bridge to repair what has been broken and reanimate our sense of the Sacred in everyday life. Restoring balance through reciprocal action ensures the continuation and renewal of Life.
In this workshop, Isla will explore the history and purpose of offerings and sacrifice in the Celtic tradition and our sacred responsibility as guardians of the earth to feed what gives us Life. With a guided journey to experience the Web of Life and invitations for ritual and elemental offerings, you will craft a gift to offer to the earth in gratitude for Winter’s dreaming.
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.



Àdhamh Ó Broin
Dùthchas Beò: Revitalising Reciprocity with the Gaelic Landscape through Simple Ceremony and Invocation

Have you ever wondered about living indigeneity in the north-west fringes of Europe, what Gaelic ceremonial practice might look like, or whether land-based ritual has a practical application in today’s world?
Through ‘Dùthchas Beò, Revitalising Reciprocity With The Gaelic Landscape’, Àdhamh will share an investigation into reciprocity and relationship with the living earth through the interface of Gaelic language and culture.
Àdhamh joins us on behalf of Dòrlach, a Scottish micro-charity which seeks to encourage intercultural solidarity across minoritised peoples worldwide and a return to indigenous practice in Gaelic Scotland. Through his work with Dòrlach, Àdhamh has visited dozens of Gaelic elders across the Highlands and Islands, recording Gaelic lore and vocabulary which would otherwise have been lost to time.
Over the last decade, Àdhamh has also had the privilege of stepping into ceremony with dozens of guests from all around the indigenous world; the Maori of New Zealand, the Mohawk of Six Nations Ontario and the Karajá of Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest to name but a few. These experiences have assisted and inspired the process of re-establishing a working, reciprocal relationship with the land whose dialect Àdhamh has diligently retrieved from extinction through long hours spent with the last of the areas’ native Gaelic-speaking elders.


Peter Ananin & Bethan Bray
Shieling Life within the Wheel of the Year
During this workshop, Peter and Bethan will weave together practical traditions and the myth/folklore of rural Scotland, and how Shieling life and the movement of livestock guides the cyclical patterns of the wheel of the year.
We will be exploring the balance of the masculine and the feminine in crop tending and animal husbandry – and how dairy culture, folk beliefs, and traditional crafts stretching far back in time would have fed into the Shieling tradition and the life ways of our ancestors on these lands.
Through uncovering and honouring the ways in which our ancestors lived, we will be exploring how the revival of these seasonal patterns within our own lives can intimately feed the land – restoring both ecological and spiritual balance and endlessly deepening our relationship to all of life.
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 croft in Aberdeenshire, where they also facilitate 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.



Glennie Kindred
Celebrating Spring Equinox & Planting our Future
A celebration for Spring Equinox. We pause at the threshold and step between the worlds; finding our connection to the underlying energy of the Equinox through stories, heart-led ceremony and planting seeds for the future generations.
Glennie is passionate about finding ways to help us to heal our relationship with the Earth and deepening our relationship to each other. She loves walking in the wild, sharing in community, gathering in circle to sing simple chants, rewilding – both ourselves and the land, communing with trees and plants, and celebrating the eight Earth Festivals. She has written and illustrated 12 books, to inspire our deeper relationship with the land, plants and trees; to inspire heartfelt creation of ceremony and celebrations, and always to strengthen our consciousness of Unity and healing.



Chris Park
Celtic Druid Wisdom, Celestial Cycles & Spring Nectar
Post equinox prayers rising with the quickening life force of spring. Marrying old lore and new. Ever deepening connections to the natural rhythms of the seasons, the sun, moon and stars.
Chris Park is a Druid and artist immersed and versed in the lore and wisdom traditions of the Isles of Britain and Europe.
He lives in a luxurious hedge with a wayward family surrounded by beehives on organic farmland in the Vale of the White Horse, U.K. There he researches and teaches old ways and new, incorporating experimental archaeology, woodland crafts and organic architecture.
A prolific beekeeper, he teaches skep making, skep-beekeeping, mead making and apitherapy, lecturing to beekeeping associations and other societies upon related subjects. Often seen extolling the virtues of honeybee medicines.
He is of Welsh, English and Scottish heritage, with over twenty five years experience of druidry, cunning-folk and craft practices, and has been an active member of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids since 1997. He hosts ceremonies and gatherings in a sacred grove at home. With different hats on he is a professional storyteller, a musician, celebrant and ceremonial piper.


Crafters:
These wonderful crafters are gathering beautiful materials for you as part of the physical welcome package

Rita O'Loughlin
The Goddess/Saint Brigid & Making your own Brat Bhride
Rita O Loughlin from Portarlington has always been passionate about art, heritage and communities. Her love for Brigid and her cloak (Brat) and her firm belief in the magical healing power Brigid represents, were borne out over many years of upcycling and embroidering preloved scarves to gift to family and friends as Brat Bhrides.
Rita has brought this award-winning initiative @mybratbhride to many festivals, schools and community centres the width and breadth of Ireland.
The aim of the project is to revive this ancient tradition of the Brat Bhride, a healing scarf left outside on a branch on the eve of Imbolc/Brigid’s day and imbued with Brigid’s energy as she passes over the land. It was then kept in a special place in the home so that it could be used for its healing power throughout the year.



Terri Conroy
Celebrating the Goddess Brigid & Weaving Brigid's Crosses
The festival of Imbolg, in early springtime, is the time when we celebrate the Goddess Brigid. She is a Tuatha de Dánaan Goddess and is associated with the elements of both fire and water. As a Fire Goddess she is inextricably linked to the hearth flame, to the smith’s flame and to the creative flame of poetry. She is also a Goddess of Healing as she is associated with the sacred element of water and is patroness of Holy Wells. Associated with fertility because of her place on the Wheel of the Year, she is also midwife to new life and to new creations.
During this workshop, Terri will guide us in crafting our own Brigid’s Cross.
She will invite a “fire in the head” to create a poem about Brigid. Terri will also teach some of the folklore traditions still practiced as well as a chant created by Sínead Whyte.
Terri Conroy is the owner of the Hawthorn Academy of Healing Herbs in Connemara, in the west of Ireland. She teaches classes, online and in her garden “Danu’s Irish Herb Garden” about the benefits and uses of herbal medicine. She also runs the Wise Woman Way training. All of Terri’s work is to encourage women to reconnect with the Divine Feminine within and to become self-empowered and self-reliant.



Alexandra Juliette
Wool Spinning in Celtic Culture: The history and practice of one of our oldest crafts
Wool has been an integral part of many cultures throughout history, and it’s only within a few generations that the knowledge of this material has started to fade. Our ancestors have spun fibre into yarn for over 10,000 years, making it one of the oldest crafts. This session will share with you how this ancient practice was done in the Celtic lands and why it’s vital to keep the tradition alive and thriving. Furthermore you will learn how to spin using basic materials and more importantly, learn how to read the wool with your hands.
After graduating from the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh with a qualification in Horticulture, she realised that her true calling was to find ways to reconnect people to the land through ancestral skills. With a specialism in wool processing and spinning, her work captures the heritage that fabric holds. Blended with her skills in foraging, natural dyeing, felting, weaving and knitting, Alexandra demonstrates that we are capable of clothing ourselves in garments that are rich in story and magic.



Rosemary Riedel O’Brien
Weaving in Reverence
Humble hand-work connects us to our ancestors, and the spiralling lineage from which we have all emerged. Using the sacred tools and materials, conjured by the elements of this wild earth, we will together alchemise simple magic into a bespoke cloth. A land prayer, offered to Life from your hands.
Locally sourced woods and wools from the Western edges, encompass the beauty and raw nature of these islands. The plants and fibres we will create with contain the essence of heritage, and our innate connection to the web of life. Crafting with hand spun, naturally dyed wool, and using hand made needles and looms, you will learn the foundational pattern of weaving in its fundamental form.
Combining intention with craft, and infusing symbolism into your making, you will manifest a woven spell that can be offered to the land, and hold the spirit of Celtic Wisdom.
Rosemary Riedel O’Brien is a multi disciplinary Artist specialising in hand spinning, weaving and natural dye techniques.
Rosemary’s work is inspired by the Earth and her elements. She works with heritage slow craft processes to combine ethical materials, spirituality and creativity- an alchemical combination that forms the foundations of her bespoke textiles and workshops that are rooted in reverence.
In 2019 Rosemary completed a 6 month Hand Spinning and Weaving apprenticeship at the Bright Moon studio with Artist Maker Imogen Bright Moon, in South-Eastern England. She has since gone on to create a number of seasonal collections and offer weaving tuition and weekend craft rituals.
She has been working consistently with commissions since completing her apprenticeship. Her unique approach emphasises the importance of the intention, symbolism and hidden meaning that each hand woven textile can represent within a persons life.
She lives near Dartmoor, England and continues to deepen her practice.


Musicians:
These exquisite musicians will be sharing music from their lands within our Celtic Languages Concert

Elizabeth Freeborn
Cornwall ~ Cornish
Elizabeth Freeborn is a singer songwriter based in Falmouth. Having grown up in Cornwall surrounded by folk music, she has now fused her musical roots with new explorations of Celtic singing alongside classical and pop influences.
Known for her wild and ethereal expressions of singing and dancing in nature, Elizabeth has now embarked on a new journey, capturing these authentic channels into recorded music and experimental songwriting whilst continuing to work closely with nature and the elements. Weaving the Cornish language into songwriting has given her music a new dimension which she feels further enhances her connection to the land.



Carolyn Hillyer & Nigel Shaw
England ~ Proto-Celtic
Caroyln and Nigel are renowned musicians & artists who live and work on a thousand-year-old farm in the ancient belly of Dartmoor, a mist-veiled landscape of wild hills, peat bogs and heather moors in the south-west of England. The inspiration for all their work is drawn from the raw beauty, untamed spirit and primordial memory of this ancestral land. Their creative output includes music albums and concerts, books and workshops, paintings and art installations, traditional flute and drum making. They have built a large Neolithic-style roundhouse at their farm, a ceremonial ancestor house created from granite, oak and grass/reed thatch, which sits at the heart of the teaching circles and gatherings they host on their land. Their recorded albums (such as Weaving the Land and Nine Prayers North) and live performances form a mystical weave of ancient instruments, wild songs and tender music, using wooden flutes, clay & tin whistles, overtone flutes, piano, small pipes, dulcimer, Jura guitar, cello, many types of hand drums and percussion.
They make many of their own instruments and regularly teach flute and drum making on Dartmoor. Nigel carves flutes that carry the songs of these islands, using woods indigenous to Britain, including oak, yew, ash, holly and thorn. Carolyn creates traditional frame drums from skins sourced from the moor and prepared by hand at their farm, primarily red deer, wild horse and salmon. They have travelled across the world with their work, including Australia, USA, Japan, Jamaica, Canada, Central & South America, Siberian Arctic, Russia, throughout Europe and Britain. Their concert tours have carried them from Dartmoor to Scotland, from mountain temple to tundra camp, from festival tent to ritual cave. On their Dartmoor farm they regularly host concert events that have included Rivenstone, a much-loved festival of sacred world music, as well as intimate evenings of music and myth shared beneath the canopy of a beautiful tent hung within a grove of trees.



Gwilym Morus Baird & Owen Shiers
Wales - Welsh
Owen Shiers is a native of Ceredigion in West Wales and grew up surrounded by the sonorous tones drifting from his fathers harp workshop as well as age old traditions such as the Eisteddfod and Hen Galan. He is an accomplished guitarist and composer and has been working for the Astar music label since 2009, absorbing and integrating the sounds and flavours of various indigenous musics into his own work. in 2019 was nominated as best solo artist at the Folk Awards.
Gwilym Morus-Baird is a singer, musician and storyteller originally from Wrecsam. He has released music as Gwilym Morus, Mwnci Nel and lead singer for Drymbago. One of the founders of Eos, the Broadcasting Rights Agency for Wales. Since 2016 he’s been touring the show ‘Gadael Tir/Leave Land‘ with musician Owen Shiers, ‘Hands of Time‘ with storyteller Angharad Wynne and more recently ‘4 Tales to Save the World’ with Adverse Camber . Gwilym also has a longstanding interest in Welsh mythology and works occasionally as an online tutor of Celtic literature (Welsh and Irish). He lives in Gwynedd with his wife and children



Hanna Leigh
As a songwriter and song carrier, Hanna Leigh [Hanalei] sources her musical inspiration from the immense beauty of this precious earth, her own dreamtime, and from that which is beyond words; weaving original and traditional songs. She is currently recording her second album.


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27 LIVE Workshops on Zoom
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3 Community Calls
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1 live Celtic Languages Concert
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Physical crafting bundle mailed to your address
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27 LIVE Workshops on Zoom
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3 Community Calls
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1 live Celtic Languages Concert
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Physical crafting bundle mailed to your address
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27 LIVE Workshops on Zoom
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3 Community Calls
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1 live Celtic Languages Concert
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Physical crafting bundle mailed to your address
Stay tuned for details of our Winter 2025 season!
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Community Gatherings

Community Hearth Gathering
w/ Hanna Leigh & Lana Lanaia
~ January 9th @ 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm GMT

Community Hearth Gathering
w/ Hanna Leigh & Lana Lanaia
~ February 10th @ 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm GMT

Community Gathering & Celebration
w/ Hanna Leigh & Lana Lanaia
~ March 27th @ 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET / 6:30pm GMT

Frequently Asked Questions

This offering is happening online through Zoom, with teachers joining us from several different countries.
Each workshop is 90-minutes in length. A few workshops will be 120-minutes
Yes. They will be recorded and sent out soon after each class.
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You will have access to the recordings for one year from the start date of the course.
No, all levels are welcome.
No. There will be a Q&A time during each call, though no one will be “put on the spot”.
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