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A Seasonal Centre for the Sacred Pathways of Britain.

From Seeker to Keeper

Rinwen is a seasonal journey into the living mythology, folklore, language, song, ecology and spiritual traditions of Britain.

Not to return to the past, but to reclaim the creative and visionary self, becoming more sovereign in how we imagine, create and live in relationship with ancestral traditions, each other and the Earth.

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Autumn Season Is Open!
Format Two gatherings each month · Guided research · Bardic circles · Guest teachers · A growing library

A Seasonal Centre for the Sacred Pathways of Britain.

From Seeker to Keeper

 

 Rinwen is a seasonal journey into the living mythology, folklore, language, song, ecology and spiritual traditions of Britain.
Not to return to the past, but to reclaim the creative and visionary self, becoming more sovereign in how we imagine, create and live in relationship with ancestral traditions, each other and the Earth.
JOIN RINWEN
Autumn Season Is Open!
Format Two gatherings each month · Guided research · Bardic circles · Guest teachers · A growing library

We meet twice each month:


One Teaching Session to explore a theme through guided teaching, research and seasonal practice.

One Bardic Circle to gather as a community, share what we’re discovering, ask questions and learn from one another.

Plus guest teachers, guided research, seasonal practices and a growing library of resources.

With a community of people exploring what it means to belong to these lands today.

Each season, you'll follow the threads that call to you, guided by Stella and guest teachers, building a Sacred Record, your own living body of knowledge, practice and creation.

A journey into becoming a carrier of the living mythology, folklore, language, ecology, and spiritual traditions of Britain.

We meet twice each month
One Teaching Session to explore a theme through guided teaching, research and seasonal practice.

One Bardic Circle to gather as a community, share what we’re discovering, ask questions and learn from one another.
Plus guest teachers, guided research, seasonal practices and a growing library of resources.
With a community of people exploring what it means to belong to these lands today.
Each season, you'll follow the threads that call to you, guided by Stella and guest teachers, building a Sacred Record, your own living body of knowledge, practice and creation.

Rinwen is for all in search of an awe-inspired, intimate & embodied relationship to myth & magic of Britain.

  • Wake up knowing the ancient myths of Wales, England, Cornwall & Brittany, and take them to your children, your friends & your community.
  • Live by the animist philosophies and embody the traditions born from these lands and known by the ancestors of these isles.
  • Explore what it means to recognise decolonial ways of seeing and being, gently dismantling the individualistic, materialistic and extractive patterns we have inherited.
  • Speak and sing in the ancient languages, listen to and learn folk songs of old and new.
  • Follow your own threads & weave what you discover into your personal, creative, and spiritual practices.
  • Learn from people who walk the land, speak the ancient languages and are devoted to the old wisdom traditions.
  • For all on the land, in the diaspora, or strongly called to take on this work.
STEP INTO RINWEN

Rinwen is for all in search of an awe-inspired, intimate relationship to the myth & magic of Britain.

  • Wake up knowing the ancient myths of Wales, England, Cornwall & Brittany, and take them to your children, your friends & your community.
  • Live by the animist philosophies and embody the traditions born from these lands and known by the ancestors of these isles.
  • Explore what it means to recognise decolonial ways of seeing and being, gently dismantling the individualistic, materialistic and extractive patterns we have inherited. 
  • Speak and sing in the ancient languages, listen to and learn folk songs of old and new.
  • Follow your own threads & weave what you discover into your personal, creative, and spiritual practices.
  • Learn from people who walk the land, speak the ancient languages and are devoted to the old wisdom traditions.
  •  For all on the land, in the diaspora, or strongly called to take on this work.
STEP INTO RINWEN

Perhaps you've looked around, gained guidance from far-off traditions, and know there's more to uncover within the roots beneath your feet, or through your lineage.

In Rinwen, you will move from passively consuming content about the wisdom traditions of Britain to embodiment, remembering & practice.

What is Rinwen?

Rinwen is a learning space and community dedicated to deep folklore, myth, ritual, and the wisdom traditions of Britain, looking specifically to Wales, England, Cornwall, & the broader Celtic landscape. This centre is structured as an immersive community space that works with seasonal cycles, guest teachers, musicians, folklorists, and traditional practitioners. Rinwen is a centre for learning, storytelling, mythic embodiment, ritual, creative practice and ecology, focused on returning to sacred traditions within Britain.

Here, you will build a sacred record of lore, wisdom & embodied practice to weave into your personal work or take into your community, as a torch-bearer of these ancient roots; of land, soul, and myth.

Inside Rinwen there is a pathway of live lessons for guidance while you follow your own threads, alongside a living library of resources, and lessons from guest teachers, artists and wisdom keepers devoted to exploring the animistic wisdom traditions of Britain through authentic teachings, deep research, and devoted living practice. You will build a practice and body of knowledge that you can take into the world.

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From uprooted confusion to deep grounding and belonging. From seeker to keeper.

  • You know that your role is to become a carrier of the ancestral traditions of Britain; Wales, Cornwall, England and Brittany.
  • You wish to become a keeper of myth, lore, legend, belief, ritual and practice.
  • You learn through creative practice and embodiment; drawing, song, story, timelines you can see and feel.
  • You're a practicing artist, musician, facilitator or practitioner who wants to root into these traditions into your practice.
  • You're willing to discover and research yourself, guided to the original sources.

Do you host in-person events?

Caer Sidi isn't all online.


The most important thing we can do alongside reclamation of knowledge, is gather in person. Inside of Caer Siddi, members can share and promote in-person events, where a list of gatherings, ceremonies, and circles around the sacred pathways of Britain are promoted, both inside of Caer Siddi and in Stella's monthly newsletter, that will soon turn into a webpage.

What's Rinwen?

Rinwen is a learning space and community dedicated to deep folklore, myth, ritual, and the wisdom traditions of Britain, looking specifically to Wales, England, Cornwall, & the broader Celtic landscape. This centre is structured as an immersive community space that works with seasonal cycles, guest teachers, musicians, folklorists, and traditional practitioners. Rinwen is a centre for learning, storytelling, mythic embodiment, ritual, creative practice and ecology, focused on returning to sacred traditions within Britain.

Here, you will build a sacred record of lore, wisdom & embodied practice to weave into your personal work or take into your community, as a torch-bearer of these ancient roots; of land, soul, and myth.

Inside Rinwen there is a pathway of live lessons for guidance while you follow your own threads, alongside a living library of resources, and lessons from guest teachers, artists and wisdom keepers devoted to exploring the animistic wisdom traditions of Britain through authentic teachings, deep research, and devoted living practice. You will build a practice and body of knowledge that you can take into the world.

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The Mythic Spiral

The threads woven throughout Rinwen

Each strand of the mythic spiral is woven throughout your journey in Rinwen, allowing your understanding to deepen through the changing seasons, the land, your embodied practices and what you discover. The strands are distinct, yet deeply interwoven. As we explore the sacred pathways of Britain, they naturally overlap, informing and enriching one another.

I

Enchanted Ecology

Build a relationship with to the land around you and the more-than-human world through embodied relational connections. Find out how the people of Britain have related to the land, animals and plants throughout history through the lens of Animism. Beyond ecology: Discover the beliefs and lore around the otherworld, Annwfn, the faeryrealms & cosmology. Begin a relationship to the living world of herbs and plants through the lens of Britain & Brittany's cultural traditions.

II

Oral Cultures

Become a part of this living culture. Understand the role of the Bards, song-keepers and storytellers as wisdom keepers and tradition bearers throughout history in Britain and why these roles are needed today.

Introduce the ancient languages of Britain into your practices, sing and speak the sounds from a world before the written word. Join in a monthly Bardic Circle where we share in these traditions.

III

The Mythic Self 

Exploring personal beliefs & ways of moving through the world for confidence, belonging and connection. Empowering the self through song, voice, story & ecological belonging. Exploring the imagination as a sacred space in need of conservation.

Exploring and dismantling personal and collective narratives and stories through decolonial ways of thinking and learning.

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The Mythic Spiral

The threads woven throughout Rinwen

Each strand of the mythic spiral is woven throughout your journey in Rinwen, allowing your understanding to deepen through the changing seasons, the land, your embodied practices and what you discover.

✦ Animism & Enchanted Ecology 

✦ Oral Tradition - Song, Story & Poetry

✦ Mythic Embodiment

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The Mythic Spiral

The threads woven throughout Rinwen

Each strand of the mythic spiral is woven throughout your journey in Rinwen, allowing your understanding to deepen through the changing seasons, the land, your embodied practices and what you discover.

✦ Animism & Enchanted Ecology 

✦ Oral Cultures 

✦ Mythic Embodiment

I

Enchanted Ecology

Build a relationship with to the land around you and the more-than-human world through embodied relational connections. Find out how the people of Britain have related to the land, animals and plants throughout history through the lens of Animism.
Beyond ecology: Discover the beliefs and lore around the otherworld, Annwfn, the faeryrealms & cosmology. Begin a relationship to the living world of herbs and plants through the lens of Britain & Brittany's cultural traditions.
II

Oral Cultures

Become a part of this living culture. Understand the role of the Bards, song-keepers and storytellers as wisdom keepers and tradition bearers throughout history in Britain and why these roles are needed today.
Introduce the ancient languages of Britain into your practices, sing and speak the sounds from a world before the written word. Join in a monthly Bardic Circle where we share in these traditions.
III

The Mythic Self 

Exploring personal beliefs & ways of moving through the world for confidence, belonging and connection. Empowering the self through song, voice, story & ecological belonging. Exploring the imagination as a sacred space in need of conservation.
Exploring and dismantling personal and collective narratives and stories through decolonial ways of thinking and learning.
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The Seasonal Rhythm

Each season spans three months, with two+ live sessions with replays every month.

EACH MONTH YOU RECEIVE

Live Call One | recording available

Teaching Session

The month's theme is illuminated, sometimes alongside a guest teacher, leaving you with teachings, guided research pathways and embodied practices to carry into the month.

 Live Call Two | recording available
 

The Bardic Circle

A ritual for honouring and sharing in the oral tradition, story, song, poetry, philosophy and conversation. As knowledge is spoken, it is remembered, embodied and carried forward. Here we also dive into discussion and philosophy.

Between Sessions

Follow Your Own Threads

You follow your own path embodiment, creativity, study, research, & practice, guided by the prompts from the sessions.

Autumn Live Schedule · The Thinning of the Veil

REPLAYS AVAILABLE
September

  • Mon 14th - Autumn Apple Lore & Breton Tradition
  • Mon 28th - Bardic Circle

October 

  • Thu 8th - Otherworld Mythology with Storycrow
  • Mon 26th - Bardic Circle for All Hallows Eve/Nos Calan Gaeaf/Samhain

November 

  • Thu 5th - The Autumn Flame - Candles, Herbs & the Wisdom of Samhain
  • Thu 26th - Bardic Circle

Each season also carries a Lore of the Season teaching, a recording on the coming solstice, equinox or celestial midpoint, sharing the history and the misconceptions behind each festival, prompting you to discover the folklore and customs of an area in Britain. 

DISCOVER WHAT'S TO COME IN DEPTH

The Seasonal Rhythm

Each season spans three months, with two+ live sessions with replays every month.

Monthly

First Session

Teaching Session

The month's theme is illuminated, sometimes alongside a guest teacher, leaving you with teachings, guided research pathways and embodied practices to carry into the month.

Second Session

The Bardic Circle

A ritual for honouring and sharing in the oral tradition, story, song, poetry, philosophy and conversation. As knowledge is spoken, it is remembered, embodied and carried forward. Here we also dive into discussion and philosophy.

Between Sessions

Follow Your Own Threads

You follow your own path embodiment, creativity, study, research, & practice, guided by the prompts from the sessions.

Autumn Live Schedule · The Thinning of the Veil

September

  • Mon 14th - Autumn Apple Lore & Breton Tradition
  • Mon 28th - Bardic Circle

October 

  • Thu 8th - Otherworld Mythology with Storycrow
  • Mon 26th - Bardic Circle for All Hallows Eve/Nos Calan Gaeaf/Samhain

November 

  • Thu 5th - The Autumn Flame - Candles, Herbs & the Wisdom of Samhain
  • Thu 26th - Bardic Circle
Each season also carries a Lore of the Season teaching, a recording on the coming solstice, equinox or celestial midpoint, sharing the history and the misconceptions behind each festival, prompting you to discover the folklore and customs of an area in Britain.
DISCOVER THE TEACHERS & SESSIONS

Everything inside of Rinwen 

Rinwen is hosted on a dedicated platform. Once you join, you'll get your own account with access to the community feed and the full module library.

✦ Monthly Learning & Embodiment Sessions

Live teachings & workshops with 12+ hours of teachings and workshops already available!

✦ Monthly Bardic Circle

A monthly ritual, a live circle for you to practice and share knowledge, story, song, poetry and more, with discussions and philosophy.

✦ Guest Teachers

Storytellers, teachers of language, herbalists, song-keepers, ritualists, mythologists and crafters.

✦ Community Space

A space to meet each other, ask questions, and share.

✦ The Living Library & Guided Research Paths 

Evidence, sources and information, how to find authentic resources for myth, lore, language, history, ancient sites and herbalism. Follow your own threads.

✦ Replays Already Inside

12+ hours of teachings and workshops already available!

Click to see what's already inside, and what's to come.

Sacred Celebrations

Weave the wheel of the year into your personal or community practices, discovering the truth behind the ancient seasonal festivals. Celebrate the Solstice, Equinox or Celestial Mid-Point, on the astronomical date so that you don't miss your in-person celebrations!

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Choose your path

Join for a season, or the full year!

One Season

An Autumn immersion into the current seasonal thread.

3 Months 

£295 

(£320 from 14th Sep)

Join now for the next 3 months
  • 12+hours of replays from previous seasons
  • Monthly calls: Lessons & one Bardic Circle w Guest Teachers
  • Begin your Sacred Record
  • The Living Library & Guided Research Paths
  • Community space for prompts, questions & sharing
  • Bonus sessions throughout
  • Discounts on Stella's in-person events & free entry to all other sessions & courses
Join Autumn Season

Full Year

For those who are committed, in service to becoming carriers of this work.

12 Months (save £355)

£850

(£895 from 14th Sep)

Payment plan available · all four seasons
 
Everything in season one plus:
  • A personalised onboarding call, with seasonal 1:1 feedback sessions with Stella
  • Your sacred record grows with time
  • The Living Library grows with you
  • Ongoing community, all year round
  • All four seasonal arcs & celebrations
  • Discounts on Stella's in-person events & other courses
Pay in Full - Join For £850
10 Month Plan - £85/Month
2 Month Plan - £425/Month

Discover the teachers, musicians, storytellers, folklorists, ceremonialists & more in Rinwen!

Including Gwilym Morus-Baird, Charlotte Pulver, Victoria Folkheart, Stella Marie, Anton Toem, Oliver Lavery from Storycrow, Ra De Sol, Nastee Chapel, Daniel Woodfield from Hireth, Emmeline Hardisty, Ken Shapley, Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio & more!

Some of these guest speakers are to come in Winter and Spring.

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What's already inside

 

Click here to see what's inside Rinwen & what's coming next!
Clarity

The Principles of Rinwen

You follow your own threads, guided by original sources, research pathways and guest teachers.

 

This Is

A centre for study and embodied practice, rooted in Ecological, Ancestral, & Mythic belonging, for the modern world. Knowledge found through original historical sources, creative interpretation, lived experience, and your own personal callings. Learn from teachers who walk the land and are devoted to these living cultures without misrepresentation.

We're not returning to the past, this work is about changing how we think and behave today. Decolonial work is another thread woven through everything in Rinwen, dismantling and acknowledging colonial ways of thinking and behaving within ourselves and our communities, knowing that colonialism is not history, it is still here. In Rinwen, we aim to dismantle individualistic and materialistic ways of seeing each other, community and the Earth, returning to a baseline of openness.

This Is Not

A claim to fully know the beliefs of the past, or an ancient tradition to be initiated into. Rinwen does not offer a prescribed spiritual path, you are guided to find your own callings. We aim to avoid romanticisation, appropriation or misinformation, and to build new stories, songs and practices where old ones aren't found. Rinwen is open to all.

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 What People Say 

 

"Being part of Rinwen is incredible because of the way Stella curates it, sharing the old stories, remembering and reclaiming Celtic myths and working with their wisdom. People share their poems and stories and songs... it's about connecting with the divine flow of inspiration, the Awen."

- Nina, Rinwen Member

"I stumbled upon you at a time when I have been getting a powerful urge to connect with my British roots. I spent many years looking into different paths, but always as an observer. Always felt something was incomplete."

- Violetmoon751, YouTube

"Tonight's call was deeply moving and enlivening in ways still integrating but clearly impactful."

— Abigail, Taliesin's Awakening

"I am absolutely enraptured and this feels like home. Thank you so much for bringing this course to us!"

— Mystic Cave Member

"Coming home to our ancestral lands can indeed simultaneously happen inside of us and wherever we are situated on Mother Earth."

— Mystic Cave Member

"I joined to connect with my ancestral heritage, so much seems lost and hidden. I wanted to know who I was and to deepen into this through knowledge and embodiment." 

- Helen, Awen Awakens

Meet the founder of Rinwen

Stella is a storyteller and artist with Welsh and English heritage, who has spent the summer traveling the land, telling stories around sacred fires, hosting ceremonies, discovering folklore and song, while sharing the myth and mystery, rooting people into the landscape through sensory journeys and poetic quests.

Rinwen was born, after hosting many seasonal offerings that left people wanting a deeper, longer, and more intimate community.

Stella weaves story and embodiment to guide people into deeper relationship with landscape, imagination, voice and creative potential. As a Welsh artist, storyteller and ritualist, Stella draws from the wisdom traditions of Wales and Britain and is currently completing a Master’s in Illustration, deep-mapping my local river through animistic visual storytelling.

Meet the founder of Rinwen

Stella is a storyteller and artist with Welsh and English heritage, who has spent the summer traveling the land, telling stories around sacred fires, hosting ceremonies, discovering folklore and song, while sharing the myth and mystery, rooting people into the landscape through sensory journeys and poetic quests.

Rinwen was born, after hosting many seasonal offerings that left people wanting a deeper, longer, and more intimate community.

Stella weaves story and embodiment to guide people into deeper relationship with landscape, imagination, voice and creative potential. As a Welsh artist, storyteller and ritualist, Stella draws from the wisdom traditions of Wales and Britain and is currently completing a Master’s in Illustration, deep-mapping my local river through animistic visual storytelling.

When you take the torch forward, what will become illuminated, which threads will you follow? 

Who will you become, once you've journeyed through the realm of otherworldly and earthly wisdom?

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