Voices Of Wisdom 9th Edition Pdf Free

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Wehave gathered over 20 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.

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.

I was born in England, live in the Scottish Highlands, and have spent much of my life exploring the landscapes and sacred places of these Islands. I am a musician & sound healer, and have been facilitating classes and retreats for 20 years, as well working with the land as a biodynamic gardener.

The ancient and medieval Celts are amongst the favoured touchstones of neo-pagans, but the historical and cultural realities are more complex than they might seem. This presentation will discuss some of the problems with common assumptions about Celtic peoples and the most productive approaches for understanding their legacies and cultural expressions

Dr Michael Newton earned a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 and was an Assistant Professor in the Celtic Studies department of St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia 2008-2013. He has written a multitude of books and articles about Gaelic culture and history and is a leading authority on Scottish Gaelic heritage in North America.

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.

Fire is a gift from the land of the gods. Nowhere is that more apparent than in cold northern climates with long, dark, cold winters night. To the celts the domain of the gods was Tir Na Nog, an verdant isle far to the West, of eternal summer, youth, beauty and birdsong. In this session Dougie will share the creation story of fire from the west of Scotland as we coorie in around the digital hearth fire and welcome in the new year in fine ceilidh fashion.

Manda will explore the vast history of humanity that lies behind us, with a particular focus on the indigenous peoples of the island of Britain and the cultures that may have flourished before the occupation and colonisation by Rome. She will explore an alternative history of how the world might have looked had the final battle of the Boudican revolt ended differently and how we can use the ideas this generates to dream new ways of being that allow us to reclaim our heritage as integral threads in the web of life, while also celebrating the creativity and resilience that has brought us to the twenty-first century.

In this class Mary will cover some of the history and context of this ancient practice and note the changes that have evolved in it over time, right up to the present day as, after a century-long re-seeding underground, the Keen is once again rising in popularity.

Dr. Mary Mc Laughlin is internationally known for her knowledge of the ancestral Keening practice in Ireland. An acclaimed singer who has released five albums (one on Sony Music) and has had over a million hits on Spotify, she combines her artistry with an academic approach to the Keen, grounding it in its history and context.

Originally from Northern Ireland, and having lived, taught and studied in Ireland, England and the USA, she has collected a variety of degrees and certificates including Graduate Certificates of Education and Vocal Training, Coaching, Shamanic Studies, Sound Healing, an MA in Ritual Chant and Song and a PhD in Otherworld Irish Song.

She is an official Irish Research Scholar in the field of Irish Traditional Song Studies and specializes in the Keen and Irish Fairy Song. She has been an invited guest on many podcasts and classes including many of the Songs of Mother Europe series, where she has shared her knowledge of Irish song and culture. She teaches online classes in the Keen, Irish Traditional Singing and The Songs of Irish Faerie and is currently finishing writing a book on the Keen and looking forward to a release date in 2024.

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

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.

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.

Jen Murphy is the award-winning founder of the Celtic School of Embodiment. An anthropologist and mythologist by background, Jen is a cultural dreamer whose work is dedicated to evolving the Irish mythic feminine through scholarship, the body, and the arts, in service to these times.

In this workshop traditional Beanfeasa or Wisewoman, Danu Forest explores the realm of fairy and the fairy folk as they are known traditionally and through to the modern day, and discusses how we can explore this rich seam of Celtic spirituality authentically for our own souls wisdom and nourishment.

Phyllida Anam ire is an 80 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.

Michael has been working with ancestral Welsh material for thirty years and is still often caught off-guard by how strange, relevant and resonant it is for us today. We will explore how narrative, landscape and our place in it are woven together in community to create a joyful, soulful and resonant sense making.

Michael has told stories both as a solo performer and with other artists throughout the UK

and internationally. He performs in English, Welsh and bilingually. He draws much of his

inspiration from the stories and landscapes of Wales.

He is a familiar performer in the UK festival and club scene and draws particular inspiration

from Welsh oral heritage and landscape. He combines depth of material with lightness of

delivery which is timed and paced to perfection and minted fresh for every audience.

He has devised and toured collaborative work with the UK storytelling production company

Adverse Camber, was awarded a Major Creative Wales Award, took part in the the 3rd

Labo at La Maison du Conte in Paris and was a featured teller at the National Storytelling

Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

The Celtic belief that by recording a story the spirit of the story and its teller would die, has meant that generations worth of stories of have been lost. Though some have been kept alive and live today, carried by storytellers and keepers of oral lore.

Seoras will share with us some Celtic Sea Stories bringing together myths and legends from the past, which he has collected throughout his lifetime, to provide an enchanting vision of Scottish life by the sea.

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, simple Earth chants and heart-led ceremony.

Hanna Leigh is a Singer-Songwriter, Doula, Vocal Embodiment Guide, and devotee of this precious, living Earth. She has co-created two musical albums, leads community singing circles, and is a lover of the emotional and spiritual alchemy that happens through singing.

A sound journey & simple ceremony for honouring the Winter Solstice. Guided by soundscapes, voice, song, crystal tones & the beat of the drum, we are invited to listen, breathe, and heal with the Earth.

During this workshop, Peter & Bethan will weave together both the practical traditions and the myth/folklore of Scotland, and how Schieling life plays a part in the roots of the Wheel of the Year in these lands.

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.

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