Creativity, Mental Health, and Well Being: A Case for the Bardic Arts — The Druid’s Garden

Creativity is the birthright of all people. When humans are young, play and creativity are central to our own development. Children don’t worry about it being ‘good’; they just make things, play with crayons, laugh, dance, and sing. They play. As children get older, school and society often discourage individual creativity and play, particularly in […]Creativity, … Continue reading Creativity, Mental Health, and Well Being: A Case for the Bardic Arts — The Druid’s Garden

Finding Balance at the Spring Equinox: A Sun Ritual Using the Three Druid Elements — The Druid’s Garden

The Spring Equinox, Alban Eiler, is the time when the light and the dark in the world are in balance. The timing of the Equinox is fortuitous–this time of balance–after such turmoil in the world. Here in the last two weeks here in the US, we’ve been on a whirlwind of change where nearly every […] … Continue reading Finding Balance at the Spring Equinox: A Sun Ritual Using the Three Druid Elements — The Druid’s Garden

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A Bardic Storytelling Ritual For Empowerment

Everyone has a story to tell, and some stories are worth their weight in gold. How we retell past events, through the bardic art of storytelling, can help shape our present understanding. Thinking about stories as acts of empowerment in this way is particularly important in an age where so many of us feel disempowered. […] … Continue reading A Bardic Storytelling Ritual For Empowerment

Cultivating the Flow of Awen in our Lives — The Druid’s Garden

I shall sing of the awen, which I shall obtain from the abyss Through the awen, though it were mute I know of its great impulses I know when it minishes; I know when it wells up; I know when it flows; I know when it overflows. –Taliesin, “The Festival” from the Book of Taliesin, […] … Continue reading Cultivating the Flow of Awen in our Lives — The Druid’s Garden