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Dream Cave Women’s Gathering
Womb Tomb of Winter: A Women’s Half-Day Retreat
A Ceremonial Descent into the Belly of the Cailleach
As the land folds into winter’s hush and the old bones of the year settle into silence, we are invited to follow the ancient rhythm of descent. This season, held by the Cailleach, the great winter hag goddess of Scotland, offers not an ending, but a sacred return. A return to the dark, the fertile, the unseen. A return to the womb-tomb of transformation.
You are warmly welcomed to gather in ceremony, story, and embodied rest as we enter this liminal threshold together.
A Portal Into the Dark Season
This half-day retreat is a guided passage into the winter cave of dreaming—an initiatory space shaped by folk tradition, earth-based ritual, and the companionship of our plant kin.
You’ll be supported by ceremonial cacao to open the heart and soften into presence, and by mugwort tincture—our ancient Scottish dreaming ally—to guide your inner visioning as we journey into the fertile dark.
Within this soft container, you’ll be invited to:
Enter a ceremonial winter descent inspired by Celtic folklore and the mythology of the Cailleach
Share in a heart-opening cacao ritual to warm, ground, and attune the body for ceremony
Receive a dose of mugwort tincture to support gentle dreaming, intuition, and inner sight
Rest deeply through guided meditation and somatic stillness practices
Meet seasonal plant allies and receive an herbal gift crafted in alignment with winter’s wisdom
Explore personal reflection and journaling in a supportive communal space
Connect with other women in a circle of tenderness, truth-telling, and shared dreaming
Why These Plant Allies
Cacao brings warmth, nourishment, and emotional opening—a supportive companion as we soften into winter’s embrace.
Mugwort, a plant woven into Scottish and European folk tradition, is known as a guide of dreams, thresholds, and vision. Together, they support both the heart and the inward gaze as we journey into the inner cave.
Why This Work Matters
Winter’s darkness is not a void—it is the soil of becoming. Through ritual, plant allies, and the sanctuary of community, we remember how to honour the wisdom of pause.
Practical Details
Date: 23rd November 2025
Time: 2pm-5pm
Location: woodland cabin with log burner, Dull Village, near Aberfeldy, Perthshire Scotland. PH15 (exact location given via WhatsApp group before event)
Facilitator: Laura Durban of mythopoetic Alchemy & Freya Broad of Sacred Roots Apothecary
Included: ceremonial cacao, (optional) mugwort tincture dose, handmade herbal gift from sacred roots apothecary, guided ritual, homemade snacks & tea.
Come rest in the fertile darkness where new becoming begins.
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat is for women seeking:
A grounded, spirit-led ceremony rooted in Celtic earth traditions
Connection with land-based wisdom and ancestral rhythms
Rest, renewal, and gentle inner journeying
A seasonal pause away from daily life
Sacred sisterhood and deep listening
No previous experience with ceremony or folk herbalism is needed—just an open heart and a willingness to slow down.
Your Guides - Freya & Laura.
Laura Durban @mythopoetic_alchemy. Cacao Ceremonialist, Inner Leadership Guide and Mentor for Sacred Space Holders. Official Keith’s Cacao Practitioner and Teacher Trainer, Laura learned from Cacao Shaman Keith himself in Guatemala and has trained Ceremonialists all around the globe with a specific focus on integrity, conflict resolution and reclamation of Western Spiritual Roots.
Laura is an initiated Priestess of Avalon in the lineage of scholar Jhenah Telyndru and has degrees in Arthurian literature, visual arts, history and education. Her passion is helping others to uncover their conditioning from society, institutions and millennia of suppression and distortion of true innate and natural power in order to re-member inner sovereignty and self-ownership. Laura offers archetypal explorations within Old European and Celtic mythology, reveals how folklore and stories have been changed over centuries yet still contain the essence of Mystery Traditions and goddess culture.
She writes a weekly-ish newsletter on substack called Sovereign with Laura Durban and holds profound immersions with ceremonial grade cacao, so called Cacao Dietas for connection with the plants teachings, shadow work and earthing one’s vision into co-created reality.
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Freya Broad of Sacred Roots Apothecary.
Freya walks the old paths ~ where plant, story, and spirit meet. Her work is an offering to the land and to the ancestral ways that still thrum beneath the modern world. Rooted in Scottish folk herbalism and the animist knowing of her Celtic lineage, she weaves together herbal craft, folklore, and ceremony to guide others back into relationship with the animate world.
Sacred Roots Apothecary is more than a practice; it is a remembering. Here, herbs are not simply remedies, but kin ~ carriers of story, archetype, and song. Each plant becomes a teacher, a companion, a threshold. Through workshops, courses, and handcrafted plant offerings, Freya invites others to experience herbalism not only as a physical medicine, but as a spiritual and ancestral one.
Her land-based ceremonies honour the turning of the seasons, the spirits of place, and the deep time threads that connect us to those who walked before. Whether tending a women’s circle, guiding a retreat, or creating intimate rituals beneath open sky, she holds space with reverence, poetic presence, and grounded professionalism. Fire, herb, stone, and story become companions in the work, elements woven with intention to bring people home to themselves and the land that nourishes them.
Drawing from Celtic lineage , Scottish folklore, and earth based traditions, Freya’s teachings offer a tapestry of myth and medicine. She works at the crossroads of tradition and intuition, blending old ways with embodied, contemporary practice. Her offerings may include plant spirit work, ritual crafting, ancestral connection, guided ceremony, and herbal wisdom passed down through lineages both remembered and reawakened.
Sacred Roots Apothecary exists to rekindle belonging, to land, to lineage, to the unseen weave of the world. Through ceremony, education, and herbal care, Freya invites each person to step back into relationship with the wild and the sacred, remembering that we are not separate, but part of an ancient, living story.
This ticket is non-refundable, if for any reason you cannot make the day we will try to pass on your ticket to another participant. please contact us via email - info@sacredroots.co.uk
Womb Tomb of Winter: A Women’s Half-Day Retreat
A Ceremonial Descent into the Belly of the Cailleach
As the land folds into winter’s hush and the old bones of the year settle into silence, we are invited to follow the ancient rhythm of descent. This season, held by the Cailleach, the great winter hag goddess of Scotland, offers not an ending, but a sacred return. A return to the dark, the fertile, the unseen. A return to the womb-tomb of transformation.
You are warmly welcomed to gather in ceremony, story, and embodied rest as we enter this liminal threshold together.
A Portal Into the Dark Season
This half-day retreat is a guided passage into the winter cave of dreaming—an initiatory space shaped by folk tradition, earth-based ritual, and the companionship of our plant kin.
You’ll be supported by ceremonial cacao to open the heart and soften into presence, and by mugwort tincture—our ancient Scottish dreaming ally—to guide your inner visioning as we journey into the fertile dark.
Within this soft container, you’ll be invited to:
Enter a ceremonial winter descent inspired by Celtic folklore and the mythology of the Cailleach
Share in a heart-opening cacao ritual to warm, ground, and attune the body for ceremony
Receive a dose of mugwort tincture to support gentle dreaming, intuition, and inner sight
Rest deeply through guided meditation and somatic stillness practices
Meet seasonal plant allies and receive an herbal gift crafted in alignment with winter’s wisdom
Explore personal reflection and journaling in a supportive communal space
Connect with other women in a circle of tenderness, truth-telling, and shared dreaming
Why These Plant Allies
Cacao brings warmth, nourishment, and emotional opening—a supportive companion as we soften into winter’s embrace.
Mugwort, a plant woven into Scottish and European folk tradition, is known as a guide of dreams, thresholds, and vision. Together, they support both the heart and the inward gaze as we journey into the inner cave.
Why This Work Matters
Winter’s darkness is not a void—it is the soil of becoming. Through ritual, plant allies, and the sanctuary of community, we remember how to honour the wisdom of pause.
Practical Details
Date: 23rd November 2025
Time: 2pm-5pm
Location: woodland cabin with log burner, Dull Village, near Aberfeldy, Perthshire Scotland. PH15 (exact location given via WhatsApp group before event)
Facilitator: Laura Durban of mythopoetic Alchemy & Freya Broad of Sacred Roots Apothecary
Included: ceremonial cacao, (optional) mugwort tincture dose, handmade herbal gift from sacred roots apothecary, guided ritual, homemade snacks & tea.
Come rest in the fertile darkness where new becoming begins.
Who This Retreat Is For
This retreat is for women seeking:
A grounded, spirit-led ceremony rooted in Celtic earth traditions
Connection with land-based wisdom and ancestral rhythms
Rest, renewal, and gentle inner journeying
A seasonal pause away from daily life
Sacred sisterhood and deep listening
No previous experience with ceremony or folk herbalism is needed—just an open heart and a willingness to slow down.
Your Guides - Freya & Laura.
Laura Durban @mythopoetic_alchemy. Cacao Ceremonialist, Inner Leadership Guide and Mentor for Sacred Space Holders. Official Keith’s Cacao Practitioner and Teacher Trainer, Laura learned from Cacao Shaman Keith himself in Guatemala and has trained Ceremonialists all around the globe with a specific focus on integrity, conflict resolution and reclamation of Western Spiritual Roots.
Laura is an initiated Priestess of Avalon in the lineage of scholar Jhenah Telyndru and has degrees in Arthurian literature, visual arts, history and education. Her passion is helping others to uncover their conditioning from society, institutions and millennia of suppression and distortion of true innate and natural power in order to re-member inner sovereignty and self-ownership. Laura offers archetypal explorations within Old European and Celtic mythology, reveals how folklore and stories have been changed over centuries yet still contain the essence of Mystery Traditions and goddess culture.
She writes a weekly-ish newsletter on substack called Sovereign with Laura Durban and holds profound immersions with ceremonial grade cacao, so called Cacao Dietas for connection with the plants teachings, shadow work and earthing one’s vision into co-created reality.
~
Freya Broad of Sacred Roots Apothecary.
Freya walks the old paths ~ where plant, story, and spirit meet. Her work is an offering to the land and to the ancestral ways that still thrum beneath the modern world. Rooted in Scottish folk herbalism and the animist knowing of her Celtic lineage, she weaves together herbal craft, folklore, and ceremony to guide others back into relationship with the animate world.
Sacred Roots Apothecary is more than a practice; it is a remembering. Here, herbs are not simply remedies, but kin ~ carriers of story, archetype, and song. Each plant becomes a teacher, a companion, a threshold. Through workshops, courses, and handcrafted plant offerings, Freya invites others to experience herbalism not only as a physical medicine, but as a spiritual and ancestral one.
Her land-based ceremonies honour the turning of the seasons, the spirits of place, and the deep time threads that connect us to those who walked before. Whether tending a women’s circle, guiding a retreat, or creating intimate rituals beneath open sky, she holds space with reverence, poetic presence, and grounded professionalism. Fire, herb, stone, and story become companions in the work, elements woven with intention to bring people home to themselves and the land that nourishes them.
Drawing from Celtic lineage , Scottish folklore, and earth based traditions, Freya’s teachings offer a tapestry of myth and medicine. She works at the crossroads of tradition and intuition, blending old ways with embodied, contemporary practice. Her offerings may include plant spirit work, ritual crafting, ancestral connection, guided ceremony, and herbal wisdom passed down through lineages both remembered and reawakened.
Sacred Roots Apothecary exists to rekindle belonging, to land, to lineage, to the unseen weave of the world. Through ceremony, education, and herbal care, Freya invites each person to step back into relationship with the wild and the sacred, remembering that we are not separate, but part of an ancient, living story.
This ticket is non-refundable, if for any reason you cannot make the day we will try to pass on your ticket to another participant. please contact us via email - info@sacredroots.co.uk