A week of Story, Song, Craft & Sacred Sites as we approach Autumn Equinox

In the heart of Scotland

12th September – 17th September, 2025

 Culture Making
 Storytelling, Old Lore & Song
 Ancestral Traditions & Crafting
 Visits to Stone Circles & Ancient Shrines
 Simple Ceremony & Earth-Honoring Rituals
 Gathering together around the fire, kindling the ways of the hearth

 Camping on site with beautiful views, river and walks
 Guided pilgrimage & visits to local sacred sites
 Hands-on crafting & fire-making session with our guides
 2-3 delicious, healthy, organic meals per day, cooked over the fire

 We will visit local sacred sites, such as:

Loch Tay
Glen Lyon
Stone Circles & Shrines
Fortingall & the Ancient Yew Tree

 Where You’ll Stay

We will gather in a beautiful site by loch Tay, Perthshire, surrounded by water, mountains and vast skies.

 There are 2 options for dreamtime spaces:

1. On-site camping (bring your own tent or campervan)
2. Arrange your own accommodation. Locals are welcome to commute.

 Schedule

We come together as a village for a week, nestled within the land, cooking over the fire, dreaming with the stars.

 Friday 12th September
Arrival between 5pm – 6pm to set up camp & pitch tents
7pm into the evening – Evening fire ceremony, welcome & dinner, orientation.

 Saturday 13th September
Greeting & meeting the land & each other
Exploring ancestral traditions
Growing our roots with stories, lore & song
Butter & cheese making
Weaving beauty & offerings of love

 Sunday 14th September
Pilgrimage through Glen Lyon

 Monday 15th September
Integration day & listening with the land
Storytelling, old lore, song & ritual
Preparing for drum making

 Tuesday 16th September
Visit to stone circles and ancient trees
Story & song
Optional Wecht Drum making workshop

 Wednesday 17th September
Closing Circle
Camp pack up (we will all work together to pack up camp!)
Visit to local sacred sites
Our gathering completes around 5pm

 Our Guides 

 Bethan Bray & Peter Ananin
Crafting, Ancestral Foods, Shrine Tending, Traditional Lore & Drum Making

Bethan is an artist and craftswoman, specialising in wild pigment painting, hide tanning and leatherwork, and working with ancient methods of land-based creativity to restore deep intimacy with place. She is devoted to Craft as ancestral remembrance, and to honouring both the practical and ritualistic aspects of making – Using hands and heart to connect in a tangible way to those who have come before us, and to the plants and animals with which we share this Earth.

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.

 Lana Lanaia
Ritual, Songweaving & Sacred Sites

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.

 Hanna Leigh
Songweaving, Ritual

Hi! My name is Hanna Leigh, (IG: @hannaleighsong) originally from California (Chumash territory). I make my home on the ancestral lands of the Kānaka Maoli in Maui, Hawaii, and in recent years I have spent extensive time residing near ancestral lands in the south of England. My people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.

My own ancestral healing path guided her to create this budding organization called “Weaving Remembrance“, which hosts the online workshop series “Songs of Mother Europe” and other unfolding offerings designed to support the remembrance of earth & ancestral wisdom. My music can be found on Spotify.

 Paul Wagner
Flint & Steel Fire Making

Paul Wagner is a Maker whose inspiration comes from eexperiencing the natural world. He has honed skills as a Blacksmith and Woodworker for decades. With a passion for history, he demonstrates historical blacksmithing at a living history museum. He practices and teaches ancestral skills for survival, self sufficiency and deepening nature connections. Paul is rooted in the Pacific Northwest, with home and studio in Olympia, Washington.

 Carolyn Wagner
Mending, Handsewing, Textile Handcrafts

Carolyn Wagner is an ancestral skills enthusiast and talented sewist. She interprets history and makes period garments for a living history museum. Years of wilderness camping along the Pacific NW coast connects her to the rhythms of tides and seasons.

Carolyn has a passion for color, fibers and textiles and loves working with fabric, yarn and thread and teaching sewing and textile handcrafts to encourage comfort and creativity in stitching. She brings decades of experience making original textile artworks and makes her home and studio in Olympia WA.

 Mhari Sinclair
Nourishing Foods & Hearth Tending

Hello, my name is Mhaire Sinclair. I am a chef, songweaver and devotee of the divine in all life. With deep gratitude to the land, I come to this gathering as a nourisher of bodies and hearts.

For over 15 years, I’ve nourished souls through cooking and tending sacred spaces of transformation with an eye for beauty and harmony. I offer food creations as both medicine and celebration of life and the senses. What I prepare carries the prayer of nourishment, made with love and a sprinkle of laughter.

My own journey has been shaped by chronic illness, neurodiversity, and deep shadow work—gifting me a heart that embraces both joy and sorrow, and the profound teachings that come from life’s polarities.

Blessed with wise teachers from many corners of the Earth, I have received the gifts of diverse traditions working with earth wisdom, song, the body and the elements, movement, wild erotic wisdom and deep meditation. Yet now, I find myself returning to Scotland and exploring the wisdom of the Celtic lands of Albion, where the land itself calls me to learn and grow in a deeper, more rooted way.

The songs I share arise from my deep communion with the mountains, rivers, flowers, and trees — living voices that continue to shape and guide me. It is my joy and honour to walk this path of sacred service, to nourish and be nourished, as we gather to create, listen, remember, and sing the Earth’s stories together.

 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.

 Gathering Investment 

£550 GBP PER PERSON

6 days, 5 nights intimate gathering
All meals, camping & parking

 Drum Making Workshop: Additional £250 (covering cost of materials & teaching)

We have a few concessions spots at £350.

Work Exchange: We ask around 15 hours of work during the gathering in exchange for a £150 ticket.

 Please email Lana at support@weavingremembrance.org to inquire about registration.

 https://weavingremembrance.org/ways-of-the-hearth/