Crones, Hags and Elder Wise Women of Power
Wise Woman Carolyn Hillyer
Songs of Before and Beyond - Travelling the Hag Road with Salmon Drum & River Rattle
Carolyn Hillyer lives on a thousand-year old farm in the ancient belly of Dartmoor, England. She draws the inspiration for all her work from the raw beauty and primordial memory of the ancient earth, and the untamed spirit of the sacred paths that women walk upon it. Her creative offerings form a textured weave of books, women’s workshops and festivals, song albums and concerts, paintings and art installations, traditional drum making, and the tending of this place of wild sanctuary on Dartmoor.
For over thirty years she have been teaching a spiralling series of workshop journeys for women that braid together ritual song, intuitive ceremony, ancient initiation and direct interaction with the wild land.
Her books include the Weavers’ Oracle (which is now in several translations), archive song collection Wild Litany, original interpretation of the Proto-Celtic language Her Bone Bundle, the series of volumes Book of Hag and Sacred House. She recorded twelve solo albums of songs and chants, each born from hearth mysteries, feral trails, the weave of magic and the power of sister circles. Her paintings of archetypal spirit women form the core around which her work turns. Carolyn's beautiful painting of ANTLER Shaman Weaver of Forests is on the front page of this summit.
Free Gift:
1. Explore the entrance to the Weavers’ Trail – visit the trail gallery with images of the sacred land and wild shrines – watch the introduction film to my online teaching programme.
Click here to access.
2. Youtube film of Women’s Pack Pony Pilgrimage across Dartmoor a few years ago, planting prayers & songs into the ancestral landscape.
Click here to access.
Item to purchase:
Weavers’ Oracle.
Hag paintings, sacred mythologies of untamed land, an intuitive exploration of our unfurling journeys.
The Weavers’ Oracle book and 52 cards are created from thirty years of Carolyn’s paintings, mythic tales and work with women’s archetypal mysteries. It forms a wild alchemy of images and words that lay down original and inspiring trails into oracle lands. Beautifully printed, presented and packaged with wire bound book, cloth bag containing the cards and a fine-quality lidded storage box.
Item to purchase:
Her Bone Bundle.
Being a lyrical exploration into the mythic spirit of the Proto-Celtic ancestral mother tongue and her imaginative re-awakening for song, ceremony & celebration of the wild earth.
With accompanying CD album of songs & chants collated from previous original recordings in the ancient mother tongue. There is also a downloadable version of the album included with the bundle.
Includes limited edition illustration from the book for use as book mark or postcard.
For more information:
www.thebraidedriver.co.uk
This session is available for FREE for 48 hours. After that time it will ONLY be available if you've purchased the upgrade package.
