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About Kin of the Fiàin Danú​

Kin of the Fiàin Danú was born from devotion: a remembering of our wild kinship with the living world and the old ways that once shaped human life.
“Fiàin” speaks to the sacred wildness that lives beneath civilisation - the untamed, relational, animist heart.

This work is a living prayer to land, lineage, and the more-than-human world.
It honours seasonal rhythms, rites of passage, plant-spirit alliances, and the weaving of the sacred into everyday life.
At its core is a simple truth: we are not separate from the world that dreamed us into being.

Here, we walk back into relationship - with plant kin, ancestors, place, spirit, and the wisdom carried in bone, breath, and listening.

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About Renée

Renée Danú is a plant-spirit mystic, animist herbalist, teacher, ritualist, and devotional storyteller. A green witch, forest-tender, and ceremonial practitioner, she lives in the misted highlands of Western Victoria, tending both land and lineage.

Her work follows the pathways of the Wortcunners - the Wert-Galstra / Bean Feasa lineage - the chant-bearing herbalist tradition that bridges plant, human, and spirit.
Her practice braids together historical scholarship, animist remembering, and lived bioregional relationship.

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Through decades of listening to the spirits of leaf, root, wind, and dream, Renée has developed a body of work centred on:

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• Plant Spirit Communication & Botanical Consciousness

Learning directly from plant kin through presence, imagination, sensation, dream, and ritual.

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• Ritual Craft & Ceremonial Space-Holding

Working with the Mala Naofa (her sacred ritual cloth), chant, word-magic, and plant-led initiatory pathways.

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• Lineage-Rooted Animism

Honouring Gaelic and Norse traditions, folk herbalism, wortcunning, and the ancestral healing arts of the chant-bearers.

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• Animist Pedagogy & Teaching

Guiding students through initiatory and land-rooted frameworks such as:
— The Three Cauldrons
— Altar Mapping
— Animist Taxonomy
— The Relational Tending Compass
— Word Altars & Story Weaves
— Seasonal Ritual Practices
— Plant-Led Imrama & Rites of Passage

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Renée’s capacity to hold deep ritual space is also shaped by her diverse background in plant-based culinary arts, a teacher of speech and drama plus yoga, Shiatsu therapy and oriental medicine, remedial and embodiment practices, and national accreditation in adult education.
These threads give her a grounded, embodied, relational way of holding space - one shaped by deep listening, interconnection, and the understanding that body, land, and spirit are always in conversation.

She is first and foremost an apprentice to the plants themselves.
Every teaching arises from lived relationship - from the forest she tends, the land she belongs to, and the spirits who speak through the green world.

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What Guides My Work

My work is rooted in the old ways and guided by a constellation of principles that shape how I teach, hold space, and walk in relationship:

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• Devotion

A wholehearted tending to the seen and unseen.
Devotion is the spine of my practice - a daily returning, a willingness to be shaped by relationship, and a commitment to honouring land, lineage, plant kin, and spirit with integrity, presence, and care.

• Relationality

Everything is alive, ensouled, and in ongoing relationship.
All practice begins with how we meet the world.

• Listening

Slowing down to hear the subtle languages of land, plant, spirit, body, and dream.

• Reciprocity

Tending relationship as a two-way exchange - giving back to the beings and places that give so much.

• Embodiment

Wisdom lives in the body. Sensation, intuition, and somatic knowing are sacred teachers.

• Context & Lineage

Honouring the ancestral, cultural, and ecological threads that shape this work.
Understanding where practices come from, who carried them, and how they continue.

• Sovereignty & Integrity

Each person’s path is their own. My role is to support, not direct; to open doors, not define outcomes.

• Myth & Meaning

Story is medicine. Mythopoetic language is a bridge between seen and unseen, helping us remember who we are.

These principles form the spine of Kin of the Fiàin Danú and the foundation of every offering.

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Offerings

Renée’s body of work includes:

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Walking the Sacred Map - 6-Month Mentorship

A deep pathway in animism, altar mapping, plant-spirit relationship, ritual craft, the Three Cauldrons, and lineage-rooted practice.

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The Mugwort Imrama - Plant Initiation Retreat

A multi-day plant-kin initiation weaving story, ritual, chant, folk charms, dreamwork, and the Four Gates of plant-led journeying.

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Sacred Space & Relational Tending Through the Lens of Animism - 4-Day Course

Training in ceremonial space-holding, ritual craft, relational tending, and animist facilitation.

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Online Courses

• Plant Communication & Spirit of Place
• Plant Attunement
• Mythopoetic Word Altars & Story Weaves

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1:1 Work

• Wild Kin Botanical Counsel
• Plant Spirit Ritual Sessions
• Divinatory and ceremonial work at the Mala Naofa

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Each offering is an invitation into deeper relationship with land, plant kin, and the wider unseen world.

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Land & Lineage Acknowledgement

Renée honours the ancestors of her Celtic and Nordic heritage - the children of Danú, the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Sídhe and Aos Sí, and the healing lineages of Airmid, Eir, and the folk herbalists and chant-bearers who came before her.

She gives thanks to the land of her first breath:
Queenstown, Tāhuna, Whakatipu Waimāori, Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and honours Papatūānuku - Earth Mother - in the tongue of te reo Māori.

She now lives and works on the unceded lands of the Waddawurrung and Djaara Peoples of the Kulin Nation - custodians of Djandak. She offers deep respect to their Elders past and present, and to the dreaming that continues to speak through this landscape.
May her work here move with humility, responsibility, and right relationship.

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