The winter dark has arrived, and with it comes long nights full of challenge and mystery.
Yet amid the darkness, the hearth fire beckons to us with its promise of light, warmth, companionship and shared dreaming.
Our hearth is lit and we hope you’ll come dwell, vision, and create with us.
We Invite You to The Cave of Dreams
Cave of Dreams is a series of five online workshop-gatherings with Danica Boyce and Daniel Allison, running monthly from October 2025 through February 2026. We ran our first series of events last winter and have been inspired by their success to keep the hearth lit.
In each workshop, Danica and Daniel will present a mixture of folklore, stories and songs, along with invitations to reflect on the material offered and to draw on these sources for creative and spiritual practice.
We hope for these workshops to be a source of renewal and inspiration for contemporary pagan practice. We will draw on the past while feeding the fire of living tradition with our own creativity and expressions.
These workshops are for everyone who feels called to gather and draw sustenance from song, story, community and creativity.
We come to the cave:
to embrace the inward turning that the darker months offer us
to lend our ears and our voices to the stories and songs that nourished generations of our ancestors
to feed the fire of tradition with discussion, reflection and imagination
to learn the lore of the season and weave it into our lives
to do our individual creative practises together
Merlin and Nimue by Aubrey Beardsley
Your Hosts
Danica Boyce is a paganism and folklore educator. Hailing from Western Canada and now based in Scotland, Danica is the host of the hugely popular Fair Folk podcast.
Danica’s courses focus on contemporary paganism, historical paganism and on the medieval European world. Popular offerings have included Abundance Paganism, Gathering the Gods and Pagan Ritual Song. Danica is currently training as a pagan celebrant.
Danica’s combination of rigorous scholarship with bold, contemporary ideas and a living pagan practice make her a unique and greatly exciting teacher.
Daniel Allison is an oral storyteller, USA Today bestselling author, creativity coach and Muay Thai fighter from Scotland. His work is centred on making Celtic Mythology exciting and accessible for everyone.
Daniel hosts the House of Legends podcast, directed the sellout Oak & Ash retreat in Highland Scotland and is the author of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, Scottish Myths & Legends I & II, Finn & The Fianna and The Orkney Cycle. His work has been optioned for film and television production.
Daniel’s Myth Singers Celtic Storytelling Apprenticeship provides a unique online study program which has produced professional and award-winning storytellers.
Daniel loves to dream into the gaps in Celtic mythology, exploring its vast empty spaces and discovering what creativity, devotion and ceremonial practice can create there.
At Each Gathering You’ll Experience:
teachings from Danica aligned to the calendar
a traditional story told by Daniel
‘weaving the web/feeding the story’ reflective sessions
shared creative practice time (with no obligation to show your work)
the joy of creating and sustaining a like-minded community
Fairy Procession from Thorn Rose by Errol Le Cain
Practicalities & Pricing
Dates and Times
The workshop dates are:
Saturday October 25th 2025, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT
Sunday November 16th 2025, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT
Sunday December 7th 2025, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT
Sunday January 18th 2026, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm BST
Sunday February 1st 2026 (Imbolc!), 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm BST
Please note that all sessions are on Sunday except for the first session on Saturday Oct 25th.
Each session will be held on Zoom and last for 2 hours.
Note: US clocks change after Session 1, but event time stays the same in all regions.
Recording
Everyone who purchases a ticket will be given a link to access a recording of the event. Since we want to encourage an intimate, open space, the recording will only be available for one month after the event.
Please note that you cannot sign up for an event after it has taken place, so we can preserve the open character of sharing in the space.
Whatsapp Group
We want Cave of Dreams to be a community. Everyone who purchases the All-5-Sessions bundle will gain access to a private WhatsApp group for the duration of the season. A hearth-space where we can share musings and creations and build friendships. Daniel and Danica will drop in regularly to offer creative and reflective prompts.
Cost
The price is £35 for an individual workshop, or £30 each (£150 total) if you purchase the All-5-Sessions bundle before the first session. That’s roughly $200 USD for the All-5-Sessions bundle.
While you’re very welcome to only attend one or two workshops, we’re hoping that you will join us for the whole journey.
You can book directly on this site using the link below, which will purchase you a downloadable PDF containing your Zoom link(s).
“It has been truly beautiful to journey with you both through the stories and the folklore of the seasons...
I loved attuning myself to these stories, it was part of my desire to slow down my life and make it more about the natural wider rhythms of being.
And this is exactly what I got from listening to you both, my awareness attuned to wider and slower vistas of human experience.”