ATTUNE
– spiraling through the seasons with ancestral plantlore
& Celtic Isles diasporic community –
Hop onto the waitlist to join the next cohort that begins Samhain 2026
Exciting news: this autumns cohort will be invited to participate in two optional in-person retreats in the northeast to anchor the work!
Let the plants guide you and community hold you as we follow the spiral of the year.
Together we will undertake a year long exploration into ancestral plantlore, relational herbalism, land devotion and seasonal attunement. We will explore the herblore of Celtic cultures from the lands today known as Eiré (Ireland), Alba (Scotland) and Cymru (Wales). Blending ancestral plant relations and seasonal practices with bioregional relationships with the lands beneath our feet, we will reweave deep reverential relationship with the holy wild. Through seasonal webinars, coworking sessions, and live Zoom calls (and two optional in person retreats!), we will gather to deepen with the plants, the seasons, and with each other. This is a circle for learning, for listening, for doing, and for attuning.
you are invited to connect with ancestral plantkin through lore, relationship and ritual as the seasons flow and change.
OVERVIEW
Join us in community as we devote ourselves to reconnecting to land and lineage this coming year.
Guided by the solstices and holy days that Celtic lineages celebrated through time (Samhain, Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltaine, Summer Solstice, Lúnasa, Autumn Equinox – they go by many names!), we will lean into the reverential folkways of our peoples.
We will spend time with specific plant kin and seasonal themes signficant from the lands today known as Eiré (Ireland), Alba (Scotland) and Cymru (Wales). Together we will open into lore and historical practice; sacred practice for connection to season, place and kin; and more. We will balance this ancestral work with exploration into the land that we live on, and the life we live alongside of. We will blend bioregonalism and ancestral pathways into a spell to support our ever deepening attunement to the holy wild.
We anchor this year of practice and remembering with two (optional) in person retreats at the start & end of our time together. Throughout the year, with recorded seasonal webinars, monthly online calls to share experiences, and bonus learning content, together we reweave deep roots with land & lineage.
Are you ready to devote yourself to plantkin and lineage connection?
lean into ancestral rhythms and relationships, and let them guide you home
Attune Community Structure
TIMELINE: This year long circle runs from Nov – Nov. We begin with the Winter Solstice season and meet on Sunday evenings 6pm – 8pm ET throughout the year. Rather than meeting on a monthly calendar system, the schedule is structured to mirror the rhythm the solar holidays and fire festivals of our lineages.
WHAT ATTUNE ENTAILS: This program includes two optional in-person retreats, webinars of seasonal plantlore & ancestral practices, a workbook for learning the land beneath your feet as we go, an online community hub, and community calls for sharing our experiences.
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- IN PERSON RETREATS: Some of us will gather together in person in the northeast of the US twice this year. This is an optional add on for folks who want to gather in person in this way. The rest of the cohort will participate as an online cohort, as it has in years past, but if you are excited to anchor practice to start and the end the year as bodies in the room together, join us!
- WEBINARS: Seasonal webinars will be sent out early in the season for each holy day. They include 30+ plant profiles, sacred practices and ancestral ritual, and invitations for attunement with the land beneath your feet. These will be recorded videos with captions.
- PRACTICE INVITATIONS: Each month, you will be invited to engage in reflective and practical prompts to deepen into the season. You are welcome to do this at your own pace, and you can direct the pace of your learning. One of the foundational invitations is to use the workbook provided over the course of the year.
- COMMUNITY CALLS: We will also have seasonal Zoom calls for community connection. We will connect over the material and our experiences over the past weeks, sharing the work we have been doing and what we have learned. These calls will have live transcription enabled and be recorded for folks who can’t make them live.
- ONLINE COMMUNITY HUB: throughout the season and over the year, we will build connection through the online community forum. This will be a place to share projects you are working on, research you are doing, resources, questions you are sitting with, and a place to build relationships with folks who care about the same things you do. This will be the heart of the program, the place where we stay connected throughout the inhale and exhale of our seasonal calls.
Attune is an invitation to work at the crossroads
where bioregionalism and ancestral plant relations meet.
Who is this community program for?
This is for:
- Folks of Irish, Scottish or Welsh descent seeking connection with their cultural lineages, or folks of similar Celtic Isles descent who live on Turtle Island/N America
- Those looking for well-researched cultural information, accessible invitations and steady consistant practice within a broader politicized lens
- Those who practice (or want to practice!) an earth-based spirituality, those who find the Sacred in the land and more-than-human kind around them
- Those excited to learn the deep web of plant kin relations of their peoples and the ways they cultivated reverential land relationships
- Those seeking to live in deeper attunement with the seasonal magic of their lineages, as well as the lands where they currently live
- Those ready to remember who their peoples were beyond whiteness and reconnect with severed lineage
- Those desire to learn and practice in community with others
This is for folks who are ready to weave another thread of ancestral connection
into the tapestry of their life.
Registration
Registration for the 2025 – 2026 cohort is closed.
Hop onto the waitlist to hear when the 2026-2027 cohort opens for registration in August.
Space is limited for intimacy and connection.
the shape and flow of our container
We will begin together on November 22, 2026. We will meet regularly on Sunday evenings 6pm ET / 3pm PT throughout the year. The exact dates for the 2026-2027 cohort will be shared upon registration. Dates will be scheduled around the seasons and the holy days. Practically speaking, you can expect to meet between 1-2 times per calendar month for the year.
come gather together with likeminded community as we deepen into ancestral plantways and connection to the Sacred
Program Cost – Whole Package
This program is offered at tiered pricing for accessibility and to accommodate a variety of financial class backgrounds. Please self-select your tier according to your access to wealth and power. This includes the online cohort as well as two in person retreats.
If paying the enrollment fee in one payment is a barrier to access, 6 month payment plans are available. Please reserve this option for the folks who need it most. **Note: When you sign up for a payment plan, you are agreeing to pay the complete amount in full. No refunds are available after signup.
Three price tiers are available:
1. $4,800
This is for you if: you have steady housing, have a steady job, OR make more than 70k a year, OR are financially supported by others, often go out to eat and on vacations, are privileged in society, OR have access to generational wealth, or experience other similar financial realities, etc.
2. $3,400
This is the median price for the program. If you meet your basic needs, have some left over for fun travel and middle class lifestyle habits, but do not have hefty savings or access to generational wealth, use this tier.
3. $2,200
This is for folks who meet their basic needs but don’t have much left over, those without much savings, and those generally lack access to generational wealth.
ECONOMIC ACCESS
There are three solidarity spots available for low income queer/trans folks to participate. These spots are $1,600 total or $160 per month for 10 months. Use the discount code: ATTUNE100 at checkout to access this rate. Please reserve these for those who truly need them to be able to participate! There are three spots available at this rate.
Program Cost – Online Cohort Only
This program is offered at tiered pricing for accessibility and to accommodate a variety of financial class backgrounds. Please self-select your tier according to your access to wealth and power. This does not include the two in person retreats.
Three price tiers are available:
1. $2,400
This is for you if: you have steady housing, have a steady job, OR make more than 70k a year, OR are financially supported by others, often go out to eat and on vacations, are privileged in society, OR have access to generational wealth, or experience other similar financial realities, etc.
2. $1,800
This is the median price for the program. If you meet your basic needs, have some left over for fun travel and middle class lifestyle habits, but do not have hefty savings or access to generational wealth, use this tier.
3. $1,200
This is for folks who meet their basic needs but don’t have much left over, those without much savings, and those generally lack access to generational wealth.
If paying the enrollment fee in one payment is a barrier to access, 6 month payment plans are available. Please reserve this option for the folks who need it most. **Note: When you sign up for a payment plan, you are agreeing to pay the complete amount in full. No refunds are available after signup.
ECONOMIC ACCESS
There are Solidarity spots available for low income queer/trans folks. These Solidarity spots are $100 per month or $600 total. Use the discount code: ATTUNE100 at checkout to access this rate. Please reserve these for those who truly need them to be able to participate! If you need this to participate, this is for you.
There are also two Scholarship spots for QTBIPOC/PGM to access the program at no cost. To request one of these places, email me at ofhawthornandyew@protonmail.com.
Root into your lineages, connect to the Sacred and reweave this thread into your life.
Registration
Registration is closed for the 2025-2026 cohort.
Registration for 2026-2027 cohort opens for waitlist folks in August.
Note: Space is limited for intimacy and connection.
bonuses:
As part of ATTUNE community membership, participants will be treated to bonus seasonal workshops throughout the year. There will be at least four – but often many more! Options include –
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queer plants & the body: an exploration into ancestral plant kin and trans herbalism
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Sacred Smoke Traditions of the Celtic Isles (Spring)
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Ramps and Ramsons: ancestral plant relations and ethical harvest (Spring)
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Famine Lore: meeting the plant kin of the Celtic Isles who kept our peoples alive during siege, famine and political violence (Summer)
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Saltwork: a seasonal ancestral devotional series (3 sessions) (Autumn)
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Exploring the Three Cauldrons: old words, new forms & embodied practice for ancestral reconnection (Autumn)
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Beating the Bounds: ancestral plantlore for protection (Summer)
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Offering Devotion: ancestral land tending practices (Summer)
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and more!
FAQs
How long will I have access to the course?
Participants will have access to the content for one year after the course completes.
What is the time commitment for this course?
This is a year long program broken up into 8 sections based around the holy days & holy seasons. You will receive a recorded webinar on seasonal plantlore that is approximately 1.5 hours in length. Our coworking calls are 90 minutes, as are our live Community Calls. You are also invited to spend time in between our sessions deepening into plant and seasonal relationship – you might spend anywhere for 15 minutes per month to an hour per week. It’s up to you how deep you want to go!
This is an invitation to devote 2-6 hours per season over the course of the next year tending your ancestral connections with care and intention.
What do I need to participate?
Participants need regular internet access for webinars and live Zoom calls. Folks need access to their email as well. Otherwise, all that is needed is whatever helps you learn and process – whether thats journaling supplies, room the dance, a quiet place to think or take calls in, a comfortable place to sit – etc. Gather what you need to really open to the experience and catch any insight that flows down through you.
What is the difference between the Foundations and Attune programs?
I facilitate two different programs for settlers in diaspora of Celtic Isles lineages: Foundations and Attune.
FOUNDATIONS is the depth, and Attune is the breadth.
Foundations is definitely more rigorous information-wise: theres a ton of content monthly in an online learning library, lots of invitations to practice, and we meet twice a month for 6 months. its for folks seeking more in-depth learning about Celtic Isles culture, historical lore, and plants, and those desiring active, engaged conversations about our place in the world today. This work happens within an explicitly politicized framework. Foundations is sort of like an intensive crash course, and includes more content in a shorter amount of time, lots of group processing convos, embodied practice together, and more.
Attune is focused on building relationships with the land we live on alongside ancestral plants in a slow, unfolding, long term way. Attune is oriented around the four fire festivals and the four solar festivals of the Celtic Isles, and we gather together over the course of an entire year. Each season, participants engage with one webinar of plantlore and sacred practices, and have 2 calls. This program is politicized, as all my work is, but the bonus here is that it also has a spiritual focus. Attune is an invitation to work at the crossroads where bioregionalism and ancestral plant relations meet.
Both programs have online community forum to deepen webs of relationship. Both are suitable for those just starting their cultural reconnection work as well as those who have been engaged in their own practice for years.
In my mind, they definitely both feed into each other, and i think both are important pieces of the work. Participants are welcome to choose to participate in both programs in whatever order that feels appropriate.
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