Ceremonial work
Explore ceremonial work with sacred sites, seasonal rituals and the Celtic Wheel of the Year. This page explains how Liz holds ceremony on Dartmoor, working with land energy, ancestral wisdom and ancient places to support connection, balance and Earth awareness.
Returning to the Old Ways
Callanesh, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
For thousands of years, the people of these islands marked the turning of the seasons with ceremony and celebration. They gathered at sacred sites, moved in procession along stone rows, lit fires on hilltops, sang, keened, danced and gave thanks. They understood that human beings are not separate from the natural world but woven into it, and that tending our relationship with the land, the ancestors, and the great cycles of the year was not essential to the health of individuals, communities, and the Earth itself.
That thread of practice was interrupted. The old ways were suppressed, forgotten, or driven underground over centuries of religious and cultural change. But the land remembers. The stones remember. And in many people today there is a deep, often wordless longing to find their way back to something that feels true, rooted, and alive.
This is the heart of my ceremonial work.
What I Bring to the Work
My ceremonies draw on nearly thirty years of deep relationship with the Dartmoor landscape and its sacred sites. Through that relationship, through ceremony, meditation, channelling and direct communion with the land and its ancestral inhabitants, I have received a great deal of knowledge about how our indigenous ancestors lived, how they marked the seasons, what their rituals looked like, and what they understood about the relationship between human beings and the earth.
I bring this knowledge into the ceremonies I hold, weaving together channelled ancestral wisdom, the energetics of the specific site we are working with, and the needs and intentions of the group gathered. No two ceremonies are the same, because no two moments in the seasonal cycle are the same, and because the land itself is always an active participant in what unfolds.
I work as a seer and channeller within the ceremonies, holding the space and reading the energy of the group and the land, bringing in guidance and wisdom as it arises. My background in Shiatsu, kinesiology, and plant and animal communication also informs the way I work, giving me a broad understanding of energy, the body, and the intelligence of the natural world.
Drizzlecombe Monolith, Dartmoor, South Devon
The Wheel of the Year
Bowersman Nose, Dartmoor, South Devon
The ceremonies I hold follow the ancient Celtic Wheel of the Year, the great cycle of eight seasonal festivals that our ancestors used to mark the rhythm of the earth through light and dark, growth and rest, expansion and return.
The four solar festivals mark the astronomical turning points of the year. The summer and winter solstices, when the sun reaches its highest and lowest points, and the spring and autumn equinoxes, when day and night stand in perfect balance. Between these sit the four Celtic cross quarter days; Imbolc at the beginning of February, welcoming the first stirrings of Spring in the land, Beltane at the start of May, welcoming in the fertility of the land and the summer. Lammas, or Lughnasadh, on the first of August, marking the beginning of the harvest and Samhain in November, marking the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. These were the great fire festivals of the Celtic world, each one marking a shift in the quality of energy moving through the land and through us.
Each festival has its own character, its own gifts and its own challenges. Working with the wheel of the year is a way of aligning ourselves with the natural rhythms of the earth, moving out of the artificial, disconnected pace of modern life and back into a cycle that our bodies and spirits recognise at a deep level.
Ceremony at Sacred Sites
The ceremonies I hold take place at sacred sites on Dartmoor, chosen for their particular energetic resonance with the work of each season. The land is an active participant, a co-creator, and the most powerful presence in the circle.
Within each gathering, we might work with meditation, voice, movement, breathwork, or simply stillness and deep listening. We might walk a stone row in procession, gather around a standing stone, or sit within the held space of a stone circle. We work with intention, with gratitude, and with a genuine desire to be in right relationship with the land and with each other.
These are living ceremonies, rooted in ancestral knowledge and responsive to the moment. People often report feeling deeply moved, profoundly connected, or unexpectedly released from something they have been carrying. The land has a way of meeting us exactly where we are.
Crocken Tor, Dartmoor, South Devon
Who This Work is For
This work is for anyone who feels a pull toward the natural world, toward their ancestral roots, or toward a more embodied and meaningful way of marking the passage of time. You do not need any previous experience of ceremony or sacred sites. You do not need to hold any particular spiritual beliefs. You only need a willingness to be present, and to be open to what the land might offer.
Whether you are drawn by curiosity, by grief, by a longing for community, or by a sense that there is something more to life than the pace and noise of the modern world, you are welcome here.
Down Tor Stone Circle, Dartmoor, South Devon
Upcoming Events
Throughout the year I hold a series of seasonal gatherings and workshops on Dartmoor, open to all. Each one is rooted in the energetics of the season and the particular qualities of the site we gather at.
26th July 2026
Explore Medicinal Mushrooms and Connect with the Land, Down Tor Stone Circle, Dartmoor
22nd August 2026
Keen with Sacred Sites and the Land on Shovel Down Ceremonial Complex, Dartmoor
20th September 2026
Autumn Equinox Gathering at Grey Wethers Double Stone Circle, Dartmoor