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A Seasonal Centre for the Sacred Pathways & Mystic Traditions of Britain & Brittany. 

For the spiritual seeker who's ready to become a carrier of the mysteries, to move beyond learning into wisdom-keeping, embodiment, practice and community.

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Autumn Season Opens Monday 14th September, 5-7pm BST

A Seasonal Centre for the Sacred Pathways & Mystic Traditions of Britain.

For the spiritual seeker who's ready to become a carrier of the mysteries, to move beyond learning into wisdom-keeping, embodiment, practice and community.

JOIN RINWEN
Autumn Season Opens Monday 14th September, 5-7pm BST
Format Live Calls · Module Library · Community

Rinwen - The Holy & Illuminated Mysteries of Britain

You know that the world needs wisdom-keepers of the sacred and ancient ways.

Rinwen is for all in search of ancestral belonging, cultural grounding, and a more intimate relationship to land, soul & cosmos through the sacred traditions 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.
  • 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 through authentic, trustworthy teachings, research and embodied spiritual practices.
  • Know that you are one thread in a web of relations that are blooming into a new tapestry of belonging, honour of the planet and our ancestors.

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 ancestral belonging, cultural grounding, and a more intimate relationship to land, soul & cosmos through the sacred traditions 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.
  • 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 through authentic, trustworthy teachings, research and embodied spiritual practices.
  • Know that you are one thread in a web of relations that are blooming into a new tapestry of belonging, honour of the planet and our ancestors.
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 centre for learning, storytelling, mythic embodiment, ritual, creative practice and ecology, focused on the sacred traditions of Britain, looking specifically to Wales, England, Cornwall, & our Brythonic family across the ocean in Brittany.

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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You know that your role is to become a devoted 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 want a space with information and sources that you can fully trust, learning from people living the traditions of the land.
  • You’re eclectic and expansive, a lover of study, the arts, and creative practice, with an embodied relationship to the land wherever you are.
  • 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.
  • You want no BS, no historical or mythic misinformation, romanticisation or dogma. Only reliable sources, and a space to explore.

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

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 centre for learning, storytelling, mythic embodiment, ritual, and ecology, focused on the sacred traditions of Britain, looking specifically to Wales, England, Cornwall, & our Brythonic family across the ocean in Brittany.
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.
JOIN RINWEN

What's inside?

When you join Caer Sidi you get access to:

A Module Library Replays and recorded videos kept in one place, ready for you to return to whenever you need them.

A Community Forum A space to connect, share and ask questions with fellow members.

Both are accessible on desktop or through an app.

The Mythic Spiral

The threads woven throughout Rinwen

Rather than moving from one to the next, each strand 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

Rather than moving from one to the next, each strand 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.
JOIN RINWEN
The Seasonal Rhythm

A revolving cycle, three months at a time

Each season spans three months, with two live sessions every month, plus extra spontaneous sessions throughout.

EACH MONTH YOU EXPERIENCE

Live Call One

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.

 Between Sessions

Follow Your Own Threads

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

 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.

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.

The Seasonal Rhythm

A revolving cycle, three months at a time

Each season spans three months, with two live sessions every month, plus extra spontaneous sessions throughout.

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.
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.

 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 and workshops, held by Stella & Guest Teachers.

✦ One Monthly Bardic Fire

A monthly ritual, a live circle for all to share in story, song and poetry, 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

  • Building a Sacred Record and Deep Mapping a place for the magic and wisdom hidden within the history of the landscape and the people.
  • Treelore & Folksong.
  • An exclusive Stone Henge & Blick Mead Spring lecture with Prof. David Jacques.
  • Can o'r Coed - Ancient Welsh Language & Song of the Trees Workshop with Victoria Folkheart.
  • Discover the Myth of Britains Oldest Animals.

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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What's to come

 Autumn Season

  • Otherworld Mythology for Autumn with Olly Lavery 'Storycrow'
  • Decomposing Whiteness session with Kimberly Simpkins
  • All Hallows Eve - Samhain, Nos Calan Gaeaf, The Spirit Realm.
  • Deepen your relationship to herbs around you and the candle in the darkness.
  • The Sacred Apple in Breton Culture and your own practice. 

 Autumn Season

  • Yule & The Winter Solstice - A Bardic Music Performance & what it means to be a keeper of Folksong.
  • Folk Heritage of Kernow (Cornwall) with Daniel 
  • Deepen into the Awen Mysteries in the Dark Cauldron of Winter with Stella Marie.
  • Deepen your relationship to herbs around you and the candle in the darkness.
  • More to come!

Spring Season

Your Investment

Join for a season, or the full year!

One Season

3 Months

£300

Join now for the next 3 months
  • Replays from previous seasons.
  • Monthly calls: one lesson, one Bardic Circle, 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 & other courses
Join a Season

Full Year

12 Months (save £350)

£850

Payment plan available · all four seasons
 
Everything in season one plus:
  • A personalised onboarding call, plus seasonal 1:1 feedback sessions
  • 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
Join the Full Year
Email Stella for the Full Year Payment Plan

What's already inside

 

Clarity

The Principles of Rinwen

There is no dogmatic path to follow here. 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.

This work is not only about reconciling with the past but 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. We have an upcoming workshop on Decomposing Whiteness with Kimber Simpkins.

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.

 What People Say 

 

"So wonderful to celebrate this time - a real celebration over multiple days, more than a five-minute fancy, deep ceremony, deep reverence in community, people you're seeing every day, honouring and celebrating."

- Alys, Mystic Cave, Samhain 2025

"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, Samhain 2024

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

— Mystic Cave member, Beltane 2025

"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, Feb 2026

I’ve spent the summer traveling the land, telling tales of my ancestors and the Earth, sharing the mysteries of Awen and the Cauldron of Inspiration, rooting people into the landscape through sensory journeys and poetic quests inspired by the ancient Bards, but most importantly, people have been wonder-struck by the wisdom that lives within the roots they walk, and the waves that crash upon their shores.

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

In 2018 I was preaching 'mother earth connection' while my practices were disconnected from my own ancestry, land and culture. Today, I'm a facilitator, speaker, storyteller and podcast host, sharing the ancestral wisdom traditions of Britain through study and embodiment.

I currently live in the Welsh as an artist, storyteller, and facilitator. As a child, my family owned a vegan health-food shop, and in my late teens I ran a wholesale crystal business, cleansing with foreign herbs, inspired by spiritual traditions not of my lineage. Then I found a book on Celtic art in my university library, and everything changed.

This endeavour into my own heritage began when I tapped into my grief and longing for the rich, mythic culture buried within the depths of my ancestors' suppressed historical past. My mam and dad both passed away before I was 25 due to suffering with mental health, now, bringing deep belonging and awe to people is my north star and greatest mission, and I have found this through Earth-based, ancestral spirituality.

I am currently I'm pursuing a Master's Degree in Illustration and Animation, deep-mapping my local river, the River Taff, through animistic visual storytelling, researching similar traditions throughout time. This is building the foundation for Rinwen.

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I’ve spent the summer traveling the land, telling tales of my ancestors and the Earth, sharing the mysteries of Awen and the Cauldron of Inspiration, rooting people into the landscape through sensory journeys and poetic quests inspired by the ancient Bards, but most importantly, people have been wonder-struck by the wisdom that lives within the roots they walk, and the waves that crash upon their shores.

Rinwen was born, after hosting many seasonal offerings that left people wanting a deeper, longer, and more intimate community.
In 2018 I was preaching 'mother earth connection' while my practices were disconnected from my own ancestry, land and culture. Today, I'm a facilitator, speaker, storyteller and podcast host, sharing the ancestral wisdom traditions of Britain through study and embodiment.
I currently live in the Welsh as an artist, storyteller, and facilitator. As a child, my family owned a vegan health-food shop, and in my late teens I ran a wholesale crystal business, cleansing with foreign herbs, inspired by spiritual traditions not of my lineage. Then I found a book on Celtic art in my university library, and everything changed.
This endeavour into my own heritage began when I tapped into my grief and longing for the rich, mythic culture buried within the depths of my ancestors' suppressed historical past. My mam and dad both passed away before I was 25 due to suffering with mental health, now, bringing deep belonging and awe to people is my north star and greatest mission, and I have found this through Earth-based, ancestral spirituality.
I am currently I'm pursuing a Master's Degree in Illustration and Animation, deep-mapping my local river, the River Taff, through animistic visual storytelling, researching similar traditions throughout time. This is building the foundation for Rinwen.
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Rinwen

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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