Plant Communication & Spirit of Place
A Four-Week Online Course
with Renée Danú
A living initiation into animist plant kinship and the intelligence of the land.
Enter the green realms where language becomes root, and listening itself is prayer.
Next Course: Thursday's 7-9pm - February 5th - 26th 2026 - Booking Form below.
Course Overview
Enter the living conversation between human and green world.
In this four-week online journey, animist herbalist and ritualist Renée Danú guides you through the foundational practices of plant communication and spirit of place.
Through live teaching, guided ritual, and self-directed practice in your own bioregion, you’ll learn to listen, sense, and speak with the more-than-human world as a living field of intelligence.
Each week introduces key elements of animist herbalism: the art of reciprocity, reverence, offering, and prayer; the language of sensation and soft fascination; and the heart-based connection that allows plants to share their healing stories. You’ll also explore the Spirit of Place - the land that first breathed you into being and the land you now call home -learning how to honour both through relationship and ritual.
Participants choose one plant kin to walk beside them throughout the course, deepening through observation, journaling, and shared reflection within a small, intimate circle.
By the end of our time together, you will have cultivated a grounded method of nature communication, awakened your sensitivity to the subtle patterns of the living world, and strengthened your belonging within the web of Earth.
Plant Communication & Spirit of Place is part of the Kin of the Fiàin Danú ecosystem of earth-honouring teachings.
The Living Myth of This Work
"This course was born from the long conversation between myself and the green world. It came through years of kneeling in damp moss, listening to the slow speech of trees, watching how a single leaf mirrors the motion of the heart.
Every teaching in this offering was first shown to me by the plants themselves through scent, colour, dream, and the rhythm of breath shared in the wild places.
Plant Communication & Spirit of Place is not a method but a remembering: a rekindling of the ancient dialogue between human and land, soul and leaf. What you will learn here has been shaped by seasons of devotion, by the ancestral murmur that says, the world is alive, and it remembers you."
Course Highlights
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Experience direct communication with one specific plant kin over four weeks.
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Learn the protocols of reciprocity, reverence, offering, and prayer.
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Receive guided journeys, story-medicine practices, and animist frameworks for long-term relationship with plant kin.
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Explore the Spirit of Place - the land that grew you and the land you now call home
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Be held within a small, intimate circle that honours sacred curiosity and relational tending.
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Awaken the senses through soft fascination, felt sense, and sensory ecology.
Lineage & Facilitator
This course carries the lineage of more than six years of dedicated teaching and three decades of direct initiatory practice with the plant realm.
When Plant Communication & Spirit of Place first began, few people were offering this kind of work in the digital space.
It remains an original body of teaching born from my lived relationship with the green world and from years of tending the ancient conversation between human and plant.
I am Renée Danú, an animist herbalist, ritualist, and green witch of Kin of the Fiàin Danú.
My work is rooted in ancestral remembrance, Celtic and Norse mythic lineages, and the bioregional spirits of the Southern Hemisphere.
As a word-bearer and earth-doula, I listen for the songs and stories placed in the soil by our ancestors - both human and botanical and translate them into practices of reconnection and ceremony for modern times.
Who This Course is For?
This course welcomes those who:
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Sense that the natural world is alive, intelligent, and responsive.
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Feel called to develop authentic relationships with plant allies and local landscapes.
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Are curious about animism, plant lore, and earth-based spirituality.
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Long to remember the old ways of listening and belonging.
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It is suitable for complete beginners as well as seasoned herbalists, energy workers, and ritual practitioners who wish to re-root their practice in living relationship.
Course Outline
Living Practice
Between our weekly gatherings, you’ll spend time in direct communion with your plant ally and local land.
These moments of solitude are where the teachings deepen where the conversation with the more-than-human world becomes your own. Each week invites you to record your dreams, sensations, and observations, weaving your personal medicine story through lived experience.
Week 1 - Spirit of Place & the Practice of Reciprocity
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Understanding Spirit of Place and bioregional belonging
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The holographic nature of animism
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Protocols of reciprocity, reverence, offering, and prayer
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Rites of passage and initiation in the green world
Week 2 - Building Relationship with Your Plant Kin
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Meeting your plant kin and learning to listen
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Sensory ecology and the art of soft fascination
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Feeling sensation, ritual safety, and co-creative partnership
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What is a deita / Imrama?
Week 3 - Deepening Communication
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The importance of heart connection and felt sense
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Colour, scent, touch, and story as languages of the plant realm
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Doctrine of Signatures and symbolic medicine
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Receiving the healing gifts and story medicine of your kin
Week 4 - Story Medicine & Continuity of Relationship
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Sharing the story medicine of your kin
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Ancestral pathways, songs, and flame-keeping
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Maintaining ongoing connection and feeding the spirit of your kin
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Drum journey and guided meditation with your plant spirit
Class Details
Here's everything you need to know about logistics, investment, bookings etc.
Logistics
Dates:
February 5th - 26th 2026
Time: Thursday's - 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
7-9pm AEST.
Via Zoom link sent out the day prior to each weeks class.
Location: Your living room, bedroom, out in the forest wherever you get reception or want to listen to and enjoy the replay.
Investment & Booking
Investment: $240
Booking: Info via bookings form.
Payment non refundable or transferable
Spaces are limited to preserve the intimacy of this relational field.
All sessions are recorded for participants who may miss a live class and available for a 2 week rewatch.
May this course remind you that the world is alive, sentient, and waiting for your listening.
Each breath, each leaf, each ripple of light through the forest is a language of kinship.
When you learn to listen, the Earth remembers you.
Land & Ancestral Acknowledgement
We gather in this work upon the unceded lands of the Waddawurrung and Djaara Peoples, and I honour their deep and continuing relationship with Country.
I offer gratitude to the land spirits, the ancestors of place, and the waters and winds that hold these teachings.
Each participant is invited to honour the traditional custodians of the land they stand upon and to remember the ancestral soils that first breathed them into being.
May all our plant and human kin be held in reciprocity, respect, and remembrance.
Continuity of the Work
This course forms one thread in the wider tapestry of Kin of the Fiàin Dan a foundation for those called to deepen into the longer initiatory pathways of mentorship, devotional word-altars, and plant-spirit immersions.
Every circle, every encounter with the living world, ripples outward to the next: a continuum of relationship, ceremony, and remembrance that continues to unfold through each season of our shared work.