Events in September:
Spirit of the Drum Shamanic Drumming Circle
with Jill Dancing Otter and Michelle Speaking Hawk
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
You are invited to join us in celebrating the spirit of the drum! Together, following the heartbeat of our drums, we will connect to the deepest part of our beings, the land, our ancestors and to each other as indigenous peoples all over the world have done for thousands of years. Shamanic drumming helps us heal, gain access to our own inner wisdom and build community.
All are welcome. Suggested £10 energy exchange.
What to bring: drums and/or rattles (we have a few drums or rattles to borrow), a bottle of water, and something to sit on – a cushion for floor sitting or (compact) lawn chair (there are no chairs available on site). You may wish to bring a notebook and pen.
All men and women over the age of 12 welcome
The Medicine Wheel 1.0 – Challenge & Growth
A Circle to Work with Our Growing Edge
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – TML and on-line
The Native American Medicine Wheel and the Celtic Wheel of the Year are both a way of life and a mirror for helping us learn and grow. By working with the energies of the chief solar events and their mid-points, we are connected with all life, shown how to have balance, how to connect with the seasons and the environment and much more. These non-linear ways of being help us see through the illusion of time and space, connecting us with the beauty and harmony of the spirit world.
This circle meets 8 Thursday evenings throughout the year and encompasses the energies of the 4 quarters and the 4 cross-quarters. As we work with our growing edges and explore together in community, we will work with the energies of the directions, the seasons, the Totems, the aspects of Self and much more.
Starting in March, in the East, we begin with our engagement with life and work through the annual cycle of the year and our lives – putting you at the centre of the circle of your life. We will use teachings and flow in connection with spirit, to work with our edges and celebrate our successes together. If you want to spread your spiritual wings or master challenges in your life this circle is for you.
All are welcome – men and women from all traditions. This is a closed circle. Registration opens in the spring.
Healing Circle
Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 September 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – TML and on-line
Healing in a shamanic sense is about bringing balance back to the physical body, emotional body, the mental body and the spirit.
This community circle is an opportunity to heal the Self, other members of the Circle and those in the wider world. This circle meets every Wednesday evening.
This is a closed Circle. If you are interested in joining this circle, please contact us.
Please feel free to send a healing request at any time.
Open Creative Afternoons
Usually every Tuesday Afternoon 1:00pm – 5:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
In community, people used to craft together. These Open Creative times are an opportunity for us to come together in community and create! When we create, we come into alignment with Spirit, our creations come straight from our Orenda and become tangible Spirit in our lives. Dolphin wants us to know that when we are fully absorbed in creation, play, or the wonder and beauty of Nature, we are receiving a healing. This Medicine is offered with Grace – we are worthy of receiving it just by being alive.
We will work in a sociable way but also in Ceremony with Sacred intent.
This little medicine bag is one of my creative projects. What’s yours? Come early, come late, or just come have a tea with us and watch the rest of us work but just show up!
Coming in October:
October Clan Mothers
Monday, 5 October 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge and on-line
and/or
Tuesday, 6 October 2026, 12:00pm-2:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge only
In October, in the Tenth Moon Cycle we welcome Weaves the Web whose cycle of truth is learning how to Work with the Truth. Weaves the Web is the Mother of the Creative and Destructive principles, teaching us when to destroy limitations so that we can start anew. If we are to co-create a world of harmony, then we must discern what to release, what limitations to destroy.
Then Weaves the Web and her Totem, Starfish, teach us how to use the creative life force of the elements – Air, Fire, Water and Earth – as well as our own unique gifts, talents and abilities to co-create a world of beauty and integrity with All That Is, a world where All and Everything is respected and honoured, a world where the resources provided by Pachamama are used wisely – with gratitude and the next seven generations in our hearts and minds. I look forward to being in Ceremony with you once again!
All women over the age of 10 welcome. Suggested energy exchange £15
Please do bring along your Sacred Braid for this month – your word, Animal Totem and Sacred Path card. If you weren’t with us at the New Year’s Day Ceremony, please pull a card or drum/rattle to discern your energy for the month. Please also bring rattles and drums.
Medicine Bag Creation
Saturday, 10 October 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
In this workshop, you will make your own Medicine Bag/Bundle. It could be a simple tobacco or mugwort bag or you may like a small bag to wear around your neck or you may be thinking about something bigger. You may design it to hold special items that celebrate your life, honour your Totem animals or representations of energies you are working with – it’s all up to you!
Timing for this workshop will depend on the size bag you make – a small, very simple bag may only take a couple hours. Larger bags will take longer to make.
Sizes: Small medicine pouch such as a tobacco bag or for wearing around the neck. Medium size pouch 3 to 4 inches for wearing over the shoulder or hanging off a belt. Large bags 8-9 inches.
Available Leather: Deer skin in tan, white or black, Cow hide or Lambskin. I also have a small amount of American Buffalo or Moose hide (first come, first serve basis). If you prefer a small bag in brighter colours, there is lamb skin in various colours.
Cost: £10-£40 depending on the leather and size. Please RSVP!
Monthly Energy Meditation
Monday, 12 October 2026, 7:00pm-8:00pm – online only
Meditation to increase connection and flow
Would you like to increase your vitality for life and connection to Spirit? In this meditation, we will use energy exercises and focussed meditation to increase our the flow and connection to Spirit, to increase our perception and awareness of energy, and to balance and ground.
We will also use energy exercises to transmute and heal challenges in our lives.
Energy exchange: gifting
Prerequisite: You must have taken the 6 week Energy Meditation Course to take part.
Spirit of the Drum Shamanic Drumming Circle
with Jill Dancing Otter and Michelle Speaking Hawk
Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
You are invited to join us in celebrating the spirit of the drum! Together, following the heartbeat of our drums, we will connect to the deepest part of our beings, the land, our ancestors and to each other as indigenous peoples all over the world have done for thousands of years. Shamanic drumming helps us heal, gain access to our own inner wisdom and build community.
All are welcome. Suggested £10 energy exchange.
What to bring: drums and/or rattles (we have a few drums or rattles to borrow), a bottle of water, and something to sit on – a cushion for floor sitting or (compact) lawn chair (there are no chairs available on site). You may wish to bring a notebook and pen.
All men and women over the age of 12 welcome
Death, Life and Going Beyond: A Sacred Rites of Passage
Exploring a Rites of Passage for the end of this life cycle
Day 1: Sunday, 25 October 2026, 10:00am–5:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
Day 2: Sunday, 22 November 2026, 9:00am-3:30pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
Death is a natural part of the cycle of life – it is part of being a nature being and we are all nature beings, we are all sons and daughters of our Earth Mother, part of this physical plane – but we are also so much more! In our culture, we often fear our own death as well as the death of loved ones. Death is not an end, but a sacred, transformative Rites of Passage. Do we want to feel courage, love, hope and happiness as we transition? Can we explore death, in order to step fully into life and celebrate every breath we take? This will be a transformative journey to explore what happens at the moment of death and beyond. None of us are getting out of here alive – so let’s prepare and celebrate our return to Source, our return to the Light!
In this workshop we will:
- Explore the physical and metaphysical aspects
- Hold Fire and Forgiveness Ceremonies
- Take Shamanic Journeys to our Helping Spirits for help and guidance
- Do Prayer Ties for gratitude
- Explore death and life so that we can be a light to others
Suggested gifting: sliding scale £110-£150
The Medicine Wheel 1.0 – Challenge & Growth
A Circle to Work with Our Growing Edge
Thursday, 29 October 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – TML and online
The Native American Medicine Wheel and the Celtic Wheel of the Year are both a way of life and a mirror for helping us learn and grow. By working with the energies of the chief solar events and their mid-points, we are connected with all life, shown how to have balance, how to connect with the seasons and the environment and much more. These non-linear ways of being help us see through the illusion of time and space, connecting us with the beauty and harmony of the spirit world.
This circle meets 8 Thursday evenings throughout the year and encompasses the energies of the 4 quarters and the 4 cross-quarters. As we work with our growing edges and explore together in community, we will work with the energies of the directions, the seasons, the Totems, the aspects of Self and much more.
Starting in March, in the East, we begin with our engagement with life and work through the annual cycle of the year and our lives – putting you at the centre of the circle of your life. We will use teachings and flow in connection with spirit, to work with our edges and celebrate our successes together. If you want to spread your spiritual wings or master challenges in your life this circle is for you.
All are welcome – men and women from all traditions. This is a closed circle. Registration opens in the spring.
Healing Circle
Wednesdays 7, 14, 21 and 28 October 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – TML and on-line
Healing in a shamanic sense is about bringing balance back to the physical body, the emotional body, the mental body and the spirit.
This circle is an opportunity to heal the Self, other members of the Circle and those in the wider world. This circle meets every Wednesday evening.
This is a closed Circle. If you are interested in joining this circle, please contact us.
Please feel free to send a healing request at any time.
Open Creative Afternoons
Usually every Tuesday Afternoon 1:00pm – 5:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
In community, people used to craft together. These Open Creative times are an opportunity for us to come together in community and create! When we create, we come into alignment with Spirit, our creations come straight from our Orenda and become tangible Spirit in our lives. Dolphin wants us to know that when we are fully absorbed in creation, play, or the wonder and beauty of Nature, we are receiving a healing. This Medicine is offered with Grace – we are worthy of receiving it just by being alive.
We will work in a sociable way but also in Ceremony with Sacred intent.
This little medicine bag is one of my creative projects. What’s yours? Come early, come late, or just come have a tea with us and watch the rest of us work but just show up!
Coming in November:
30 Days of Daily Practice
Every Morning in November 2026, 8:00am-8:30am – Online only
Join us on-line as we greet every morning together in ceremony for the month of November.
We will give our gratitudes, draw cards for a Totem and energy to work with for the day, discern an intention and finally, dream with the drum.
Energy exchange £30
RSVPs a must!
Fire Ceremony
Sunday, 1 November 2026, 2:00pm–4:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
In this ancient Ceremony, we release old patterns, beliefs, relationships or other things that we no longer need, things that no longer serve us, things keeping us from being our true, authentic selves. We will give these things to the Sacred Fire that it may burn these old thoughts, patterns, beliefs, or behaviours from us.
Giving these things to the fire allows us to make our own choices and take responsibility for the path we have chosen. We must be the change that we want to see in the world!
November Clan Mothers
Monday, 2 November 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge and on-line
and/or
Tuesday, 3 November 2026, 12:00pm-2:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge only
This month, the Seneca aspect of the truth we are working with is Sharing the Truth and we welcome Walks Tall Woman who shows us how to share the truth by embodying it. This Clan Mother and her Totem, Antelope, teach us grace, readiness and taking action. However, the teaching here is to be flexible and to explore all our options first before we take action. In today’s swift moving world with all its uncertainty, flexibility is a prize ability. Call on Antelope to be flexible in every moment and explore all options before taking action with grace and ease.
In 2024, we embarked on a 7-year odyssey of working with the unconditional love of Great Mystery. In 2026, we are Basking in the Warmth of Unconditional Love with the Allies of Manatee and Lapis Lazuli who remind us in every moment to bask in the love of creator. As we begin winding down this year, how are these energies for you? How are your braid / personal energies for the year? Are you engaging and working with these energies?
All women over the age of 10 welcome. Suggested energy exchange £15
Please do bring along your Sacred Braid for this month – your word, Animal Totem and Sacred Path card. If you weren’t with us at the New Year’s Day Ceremony, please pull a card or drum/rattle to discern your energy for the month. Please also bring rattles and drums.
Monthly Energy Meditation
Monday, 9 November 2026, 7:00pm-8:00pm – online only
Meditation to increase connection and flow
Would you like to increase your vitality for life and connection to Spirit? In this meditation, we will use energy exercises and focussed meditation to increase our the flow and connection to Spirit, to increase our perception and awareness of energy, and to balance and ground.
We will also use energy exercises to transmute and heal challenges in our lives.
Energy exchange: gifting
Prerequisite: You must have taken the 6 week Energy Meditation Course to take part.
Spirit of the Drum Shamanic Drumming Circle
with Jill Dancing Otter and Michelle Speaking Hawk
Tuesday, 17 November 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
You are invited to join us in celebrating the spirit of the drum! Together, following the heartbeat of our drums, we will connect to the deepest part of our beings, the land, our ancestors and to each other as indigenous peoples all over the world have done for thousands of years. Shamanic drumming helps us heal, gain access to our own inner wisdom and build community.
All are welcome. Suggested £10 energy exchange.
What to bring: drums and/or rattles (we have a few drums or rattles to borrow), a bottle of water, and something to sit on – a cushion for floor sitting or (compact) lawn chair (there are no chairs available on site). You may wish to bring a notebook and pen.
All men and women over the age of 12 welcome
Death, Life and Going Beyond: A Sacred Rites of Passage
Exploring a Rites of Passage for the end of this life cycle
Day 2: Sunday, 22 November 2026, 9:00am-3:30pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge
Death is a natural part of the cycle of life – it is part of being a nature being and we are all nature beings, we are all sons and daughters of our Earth Mother, part of this physical plane – but we are also so much more! In our culture, we often fear our own death as well as the death of loved ones. Death is not an end, but a sacred, transformative Rites of Passage. Do we want to feel courage, love, hope and happiness as we transition? Can we explore death, in order to step fully into life and celebrate every breath we take? This will be a transformative journey to explore what happens at the moment of death and beyond. None of us are getting out of here alive – so let’s prepare and celebrate our return to Source, our return to the Light!
In this workshop we will:
- Explore the physical and metaphysical aspects
- Hold Fire and Forgiveness Ceremonies
- Take Shamanic Journeys to our Helping Spirits for help and guidance
- Do Prayer Ties for gratitude
- Explore death and life so that we can be a light to others
Suggested gifting: sliding scale £110-£150
December Clan Mothers
Monday, 30 November 2026, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge and on-line
and/or
Tuesday, 1 December 2026, 12:00pm-2:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge only
Coming in December:
22nd Annual Setting Our Energies Ceremony 2027
Sunday, 21 December 2026, 1:00pm-5:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge or on-line
OR
Friday, 1 January 2027, 1:00pm-5:00pm – Tayanita Medicine Lodge only
If you are planning on attending on-line on the 21st, please RSVP so I can send you the link!
In this beautiful Ceremony, we will regroup 2026 to bundle the wisdom gained from our experiences. Then with intention and open hearts, we will welcome in our personal energies and the collective energy for 2027.
Finally, following the heartbeat of the Sacred Drum, we will align our hearts with the Heart of Creation and dream to welcome these new energies into our lives.
Please join us to feed your heart through Sacred Ceremony with the Divine!
Suggested donation £35. Please RSVP.
Please bring a sitting pillow and a lap cloth or blanket for sitting on the floor – although chairs are available. You may also find a pen or pencil handy for your 2027 energy notes and a notebook. And please bring your drums and rattles. If you like, please also bring Medicine Cards/Sacred Path Cards although we have some to share or you may want to bring your own for example Angel, Wolf or Druid cards.
This Ceremony is open to all – men and children over 10 are welcome to be in ceremony together.
