Classes and workshops

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Celtic Pronunciation Workshop

This workshop will cover the phonetic systems of both Irish and Welsh, and give you lots of opportunities to practice things like names of deities (with your mic off). You will leave with useful references and resources to take you forward.


Approximately 3 hours, with a break.


Saturday, 7th August at 12 noon Pacific/3 pm Eastern/8 pm UK time.

$
5.00    
 
Please check back soon for announcements about upcoming classes.

Celtic Beginnings
An introduction

Are you interested in Celtic Paganism, but don’t know where to turn for good information? Maybe it feels like the topic is impossibly big, or like every time you ask a question you get sent in a different direction.

This course is designed with you in mind!
This class in running now
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Celtic Beginnings is a space where there are no stupid questions and no judgement.
We will cover the basics of different Celtic cultures, myths, gods and goddesses.
A firm foundation for you to build on.

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Hedge teacher?

I sometimes call myself a hedge teacher. That has nothing to do with hedge witches, or anything like that. Instead, it refers to the spirit of the hedge schools of 18th and 19th century Ireland. Schools for ordinary people who cared deeply about learning, but who either couldn’t access education through official channels, or preferred to avoid them. The standard of scholarship was often high, but the regulation was informal, and teachers were supported by the community.  
Recreation of an Irish hedge school
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Other classes

The Celtic Horse Goddesses
This six week online class will explore the goddesses Epona, Macha, and Rhiannon in detail, as well as looking at the changing relationship between humans and horses. Like other classes I have taught, this series will feature a largely objective “academic” component, including some reading, and a talk from me each week, with time for questions.

In a departure from my usual approach, I will lead a short devotional to the horse goddesses and horse spirits at the end of each class session. I will do my best to create these in a way that should be comfortable for most anyone, but if students would like to excuse themselves from this part of the session, that is perfectly fine.
This six-week course ran in early 2021. It was well liked and I'm sure it will be repeated in the future. The cost is $75 US.

Feel free to email me to register your interest now.
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The Trouble with Kings
This course is focused on kingship, leadership, and sovereignty in Celtic myth. The format will be that I tell a story, and then we will discuss it.

This series was held recently, and may be offered again in the future.
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Celtic Myths and Deities

What will you learn?
  • During the course we will take an overview of the main myths of Ireland and Wales, and their deities.
  • We will also study a few myths and deities in more detail.
  • My main goal is to give you the tools to study independently, with confidence, once the course has ended.
  • This is an enormous subject, so a ten-week course can’t cover everything!

I taught this ambitious ten week series several times in 2019 and 2020. It is a full-on "bootcamp" of a course, and I might need some convincing that it is really the best way forward, before I offer it again.  Cost is $120 US.
Shapeshifters and Magical Animals
Shapeshifters and Magical Animals is a three-week series of classes in which we will look at stories and texts from Ireland and Wales concerning the themes of transformation, wisdom, immortality, and time.

This class had a successful first run in April, 2021, and I would expect to offer it again -- sometime!

If you are especially interested in this class, you can contact me to register your interest.|

More information here.

Women and goddesses in the Mabinogi

Blodeuedd ... Branwen ... Aranrhod ... Rhiannon.
This is a deep dive into their stories.
A series exploring the treatment of women, the male/female balance of power, mythological background, symbolism, and the possible intent of the compilers of the medieval text.

Participants need to be familiar with the text of The Four Branches, however it is less than 100 pages, total, when printed in standard paperback form, so this should not be a huge burden of reading. Advice will be given ahead of time about good online and printed sources for reading the material. (Or you can check that out now, at this link.)
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