Ceremony: The Song, The Dance, The Drum 2025

Deep within humans is the need to declare ourselves connected, belonging, and in relationship. Ceremony begins with deep listening, with prayerful attentiveness, with presence.

Join us, as we listen deep to our bodies, the land, the unseen – to call forward ceremony in the new old way, in the eternal way – where we trust what comes through us, don’t need it to be perfect, and offer it all in honour of the gift of aliveness.

With Denise Rowe, Matthew Pickles, Bethan Lloyd and Mac Macartney.

The Song, the Dance, the Drum:

The drum is older than history, possibly older than language. The drum connects us to our ancient roots and to the medicine of the circle. The drum pulses with breath, with feet, with blood. The drums assert our bond with all that is past, present, and yet to be born. The drum calls us to rise again.

Our bodies, the same substance as the Earth. The impulse to move, to be still, to infer, predict, to create, always suggestible to a shift in the wind, call of fox, scream of falcon.

Our bodies seek connection, probe the invisible, and seek always to express our kinship with life. Dance invites us to experience ourselves and the flow of life more fully.

Alive or dead, our bodies create sounds. From the very beginning of time, sound emerged from the great silence.

Our voices tear fear from its hiding place, free joy, dare new life to birth. Our voices shriek, calm, cosset and threaten.

Our voice spans the rainbow bridge that arches the curvature of the earth.

ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation is at Embercombe in shared or single occupancy or camping.

FOOD: All your meals are included. Organic, plant-based food is lovingly prepared on site using produce sourced as locally as possible. Special diets are adeptly catered for. Please indicate if you require this on the  booking form.

PRICING: 
£698 Subsidised Ticket
£758 Regular Ticket
£817 Supporter Ticket

Please consider purchasing a Supporter Ticket if your finances allow it, to subsidise participants who can’t afford the full price.

Limited bursary places are available for £418 on application here.

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