Dreaming the Ancestors

Tara Brading

An intimate journey of remembering and reclaiming ancestral stories, feminine wisdom, and earth magic. Throughout the series, I talk with guests from Ireland & the British Isles about ancestral dreaming and remembering as a pathway back to reverent ways of living in the modern world. Through stories, teachings, and personal sharing we’ll discover the greater possibility of who we can be in this time of planetary change.

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Dreaming the Ancestors

Episodes (20)

Dec 8, 2025 Keening, the Cailleach, and Harnessing the Medicine of Grief ~ Sionnáin (Michelle Shannon)
Oct 7, 2025 Reviving the Village, the Roundhouse, and the Ancestral Council ~ Veronica Stanwell
Jul 14, 2025 Healing Intergenerational Legacies of Female Deprivation ~ Michaela from Rooted Feminine Wellness

Dreaming the Ancestors

Dec 8, 2025
1 hour
43 MB

In this episode, Sionnáin shares wisdom about the Irish caoine (keen), which is an old grief ritual performed at funerals by rural Irish women called the Mná Chaointe. This tradition reminds us that grief is a sacred, somatic, and communal experience that belongs to everyone. Although the tradition has largely died out in Ireland, it’s being remembered and revived by women like Sionnáin to help us move through personal and collective grief, so we can harness the medicine of grief in these times. Sionnáin also shares wisdom about the Cailleach, who’s an ancient...

Dreaming the Ancestors

Keening, the Cailleach, and Harnessing the Medicine of Grief ~ Sionnáin (Michelle Shannon)

Tara Brading

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