Listening with the Land
An immersive 12 week online course
𖦹 Listening with the Land - a 3 month triple spiral journey of remembering and returning to our sacred roots.
Introduction to intuitive bio-regional herbalism, seasonal wild foraging, plant folklore & ancestral wisdom of the land. By cultivating kinship with the living landscape through myth, story, herb-craft, ancestral Celtic knowledge, tradition & ritual.
Our sense of meaning and belonging comes from our connection to the land around us. In our modern society our felt disconnection is a deep grief of what has been lost & forgotten through the extractive and exploitative history of colonial, cultural and political control. Resulting in humans disconnected from our natural selves, rhythm’s of the earth, our ancestors, ancient wisdom and our felt sense of belonging.
To Reclaim a radical relationship to the Land :
Is to remember the embodied indigenous knowledge, that the Land is living and we are an extended organism of this great web of life.
Is to re-engage with the ancient wisdom of the animate world, to gain insight and open dialogue with more than human kin, as our ancestors did.
Is to repair frayed threads of our tapestry of belonging to the wild, weaving us back home to ourselves and the whole of nature.
Commencing on Beltane May 1st 2025.
We begin walking a spiral pathway of remembrance back home to ourselves and the animate landscape. Over 12 weeks you are invited into an immersive online course that can be self paced with course material recordings or attended live with weekly online ceremony’s. (For those not based in the UK recordings of ceremony will be sent out to you to watch at your discretion.)
What you will gain from this course :
Introduction to intuitive bio-regional herbalism - learn how to craft medicine from the plants growing around you. Feel confident identifying a few plant allies and cultivating relationship with them.
Opening dialogue, communication, reconnection and listening to the land.
Remember the ancient wisdom held in our bones, flesh and blood,
How to connect to plant spirits for healing.
Learn how to dream with plants and connect to their unique energy.
How to make herbal infusions.
How to make folk herbal tinctures, elixirs & oils.
The honourable harvest - Wildcrafting, Wild tending & Reciprocity. How to forage and wildcraft ethnically, sustainably, with reverence for the plants. Practice right relationship with plants, practicing reciprocity and engaging in land based ritual and ceremony.
Reweaving our connection to the land with Folklore, Myth, Story and ancestral traditions of the Celtic isles.
Remember & reclaim ancestral ways of old, connect to the witches, medicine women of your lineage, learn folk herbal traditions and potion making from medicinal plants.
Learn to read the herbal and ecological landscape - find plant medicines wherever you are, gain familiarity with plants that thrive in both wild and anthropogenic landscapes.
Become an advocate for both humans and plants - understanding our health and that of the planets is intrinsically intertwined.
Feel a deeper sense of connection with the natural world and ourselves.
Integrating wild foods and natural remedies into your everyday.
Understanding the medicinal, energetic, spiritual and nutritional power of seasonal plants.
Understanding our ancient connection to plants, learning our ancestors innate connection to the landscape and the plants which evolved alongside us for millions of years.
This isn’t just a course, it is a journey of remembering and reweaving our wild selves, returning to the medicine of nature & reclaiming ancient wisdom that lives within our bones, flesh and blood.
For each Month we will devote our presence to a seasonal Celtic plant ally & journey with its profound medicine and message for us in our lives. We will explore in community, myth, folklore and ancestral wisdom of the turning Celtic Wheel of the year, seasonal ancient festivals and plant associations. We will learn how to re-engage in reciprocal relationship & ritual with the landscape and how to intuitively interpret meaning from this for our lives. We will learn traditional folk herb craft together, reviving ancient wisdom from the witches and medicine women of our ancestral lineages.
Remembering our innate belonging to the land and practicing right relationship with plants & foraging.
Your Course Guide :
Freya Broad, bio-regional folk herbalist, plant weaver, keeper of the old ways and creator of Sacred Roots Apothecary, brings a deep relationship and connection to her ancestral land of Scotland, knowledge of ancient Celtic traditions and folklore of the land and plants to her work.
Freya is dedicated to supporting others on the journey of reconnecting to our roots, our innate connection to the earth and our wild selves. Through her years of deep study, personal connection and initiation from nature and exploration of consciousness through plant medicines, ceremony and ritual. Freya weaves a gentle and powerful practice of inviting you to reconnect to the wild wisdom within, by cultivating relationship with the natural world through ritual, ceremony, dreaming, crafting and reclamation of the ancestral ways of old.
To Rewild ourselves, Remember & Return to our Sacred Roots.
Module 1 - May, Beltane & the ancient heart medicine of Hawthorn.
We begin our journey with the first weeks of slow intentional introduction to intuitive herbalism. Bridging our connection with sacred plant kin, learning the basics of reciprocal relationship and opening up our pathways of communication with the plants & land.
Weaving ancestral traditions of this season, celebrating Beltane together & introducing ourselves to the profound medicine that the sacred Celtic tree Hawthorn can offer us.
Module ceremony: Stewarding our Sacred grief - Hawthorn Wild Medicine of the Heart Celtic Cacao ceremony.
Module 2 - June/July, Summer Solstice/Litha & the wild remembering of Wild Rose (Rosa Canina)
Following our heart expansion of connecting to Hawthorn, we gently introduce ourselves to the wild heart medicine of Wild Rose. Ancestral plant kin for us all, an ally for the wild woman who feels she doesn’t belong in society, a plant spirit that calls us back and supports us in re-orienting ourselves back to our original wildness.
Learning deeper communication with plant allies, journeying with what it means to be stewards of our own grief and the grief of the land. Connecting to our primal pleasure and animal bodies. Learning to begin wildcrafting with sacred plants in ceremony & ritual.
Module ceremony: Remembering the Wild Within, Awakening the Animal Body - Wild Rose infused oil ritual.
Module 3 - August, Lughnasadh & ancestral dreaming with Mugwort.
An ancient master plant of the Celtic Druids, she who opens up our pathways of perception, a Witches herb, stirrer of visions and opener of portals connecting us and supporting us to dream with our ancestors.
Through folklore, myth and story we will journey to reclaim the Witch, the medicine woman and wise women held within our bone memory and ancestral lineages. Through practicing traditional folk herb craft and ancient ritual use of Mugwort.
Module ceremony : Dreaming with the Wild Ancestors - Mugwort tea & tincture ceremony & ancestral reverence ritual.
“In some Native languages the term for Plants, translates to : those who take care of us.”
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.