We Are Nature

06/08/2025

😍 🪈 🪘 🎶 Can’t wait to hear my friends and teachers NIGEL SHAW & CAROLYN HILLYER at the Community Hall IN LAIRG on Saturday 25th October 2025.
🎶 Expect wooden flutes, whistles, and maybe bone flute, overtone koncovka, fujara and more from Nigel, and Carolyn’s amazing and important women’s spiritual songs, drumming, chants and stories. Hopefully a chance to dance as well as to drift away on the music.
📚 They will have a stall selling their music and Carolyn’s books, pictures, Weaver’s Oracle cards etc. What a treat!
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 They are also playing at Anam Cara, Inverness on Sunday 2nd November, and The Salisbury Centre, Edinburgh on Friday 24th October on this Scottish Tour.
Tickets (and albums etc) available here:

Seventh Wave Music - Nigel Shaw & Carolyn Hillyer; musicians & artists based on Dartmoor. Music, concerts, paintings & prints, workshops etc.

06/08/2025

Wonderful to hear ‘Heart of Sutherland’ playing Native American style flute in their Sound Bath and Sound Healing events across Sutherland - give yourself a treat and book for the next one! 🎶 🪈😍
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• Sound healing sessions (sound bath)
• Studying EFT & Energy Psychology - trauma therapy, root cause therapy, inner child work, art therapy, matrix re-imprinting, shamanic work

19/09/2024

Great talk online tonight from Kenneth McElroy of the
It would be AMAZING to have a NEW Broch in Caithness - what a wonderful bit of experimental archaeology, and a fantastic future tourist attraction. They may even dig/build a Souterrain after the Broch.
Worth finding out about and supporting- the more followers & members, the more funding they can get. A parcel of land near Latheron has already been earmarked.
In the meantime, you can follow the Caithness Broch Trail 😊

24/04/2024

Book your free space now 😍

25/11/2023

The gods are dancing again tonight…

19/11/2023

🪨 Taking time to pause and feel into a place.
🧎🏽‍♀️Finding one’s own place within this history.
🦌🐂 Appreciating the longevity of this human-landscape reciprocal relationship.
🙏Giving thanks for the beauty of this, my adopted land.

Sallachy Broch- it’s quite something to make a dusk solo visit to an out-of-the-way Broch like this.
An immense structure, built in the Iron Age (between 800BC to 400AD) and inhabited for many centuries after that.
Feeling into how it sits within the landscape- ignoring the modern hydro-electric dam and subsequent water level changes in Loch Shin, loss of salmon runs etc, and feeling instead to how it’s located in relation to the concomitant Broch further south along the water. Standing in the door-tunnel facing south, looking across to The Ord with it’s Neolithic chambered cairns (4000-2500BC), Bronze Age burial cairns and hut circles (2500-800BC), Iron Age hut circles and field system- a total of 35 hut circles (spread over time and reused for centuries), a burnt sauna-mound, then the medieval field walls and evidence of ridge & furrow ploughing system.

05/11/2023

🍂 Tones of autumn reflecting my moods…

I really appreciate how the play of light or tone of colour catches my attention. In the words of David Abrahm- the world is calling for our attention:
“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.”

31/10/2023

Something I’ve thought about and talked about many times- if you are prepared to eat meat, are you also prepared to look it in the eye and slaughter it, get bloody whilst butchering it, give thanks for its life and death, appreciate the gift and the sacrifice, and honour it by using every part of the animal?

I cannot begin to describe the difference between shrink wrapped sanitised meat from the supermarket and the flesh of an animal whose body you have come to know in the most intimate and wondrous detail.

Hating waste is one thing, but dishonouring the life you’ve taken by then using only the meat or pelt is on another whole scale. Again, if you’ve truly connected with the animal and the life you’ve taken you do not want to waste ANYTHING- it feels criminal to discard anything.

To quote the late great Terry Pratchett ‘Evil starts when you treat people as things’. How about expanding that to ‘Evil starts when you treat anything as things’?!

1st image, one of the two ‘teaching’ fallow deer we worked with. 2nd image- a scapula I stripped for food, then cleaned, polished and scrimshawed an honouring song, and finally attached dew claws and antler discs with tanned deer hide thong to create a ceremonial rattle.

Good where you’ve been, good where you’re going to.

🦌 🦌 With such gratitude for your sacrifice, and in honour of your gifts. 🙏

I’ve expanded my heart, connection, friendship circle and skills on this highly recommended course from Lucy & Jessie - Honouring the Deer. Currently held on Dartmoor and in Ireland (look up www.OakandSmokeTannery.co.uk)

15/10/2023

Eco-distress, climate-anxiety, a chronic fear of environmental doom. Call it what you like, so many of us feel angst or despair watching/reading the news that we have learnt to avoid it for our mental well-being.
Many of us are aware of the dissonance between how we live our individual lives and the lack of the needed change at a world level.
Some of us consciously realise that we have shoved all that ‘too big for me to deal with’ in a locked cupboard in our minds. It still eats away at us however, eroding our ability to live our lives to the full.
Is this you?
Would you like to feel differently?
If you feel moved to explore this for yourself, in a safe and supported way with a lovely local group, get in contact with me. We meet monthly on a Sunday afternoon (Bonar Bridge area). If you’re really interested, I even have a copy of the book to gift to someone!
I will be travelling down from Lairg to our next meeting, and am happy to offer lifts.

13/10/2023

🪈 Such gratitude to those who came out on such a blustery night. I always appreciate playing my flutes, and to share the sound with others is an absolute delight. Special thanks to Stacey Sutherland for joining me with her wonderful crystal bowls- bowl and flute is a powerful combination we will continue exploring together.

Like the grass in the photo, I hope you feel washed through and cleansed by the music.🪈

06/10/2023

An evening of TRANQUILITY…

06/10/2023

All invited to this wonderful evening of Tranquility,
join Larissa Fry & Stacey Sutherland:
- to spend some precious time on yourself
- to set healing intentions,
- to reconnect with your body,
- and to deeply relax with healing vibrations