where the light comes in*
Celebrate your Heartbeat
The Medicine work of Lorna McTavish “Black Fire Horse Woman”
Celtic Elder, Drum maker and Pipe Carrier
Following periods of apprenticeship in what is now known as Canada, Lorna was adopted by her indigenous Elder Dancing Two Eagle Spirit into the Metis nation and has been passed certain ceremonies including drum birthing and song weaving.
Following a 40 year career in Psychotherapy and Mental Health Social Work in the NHS Lorna is now working full time as an Elder combining her therapeutic and group work skills with the medicine and ceremonies passed to her.
Lorna has been born into the Celtic ways of her ancestors of Argyll. This Cailleach medicine was passed to her by her late Aunt Moira. She committed to this work in an ordination ceremony earlier in 2024 under the Refreshing Ministries Circle of Interfaith Practitioners. This ceremony was conducted overlooking the Corryvreckan Whirlpool the home of the Cailleach.
Rev Lorna now travels widely offering Ceremonies and workshops, enjoying working in association with practitioners from the Scottish Highlands to the Channel Islands.
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Therapeutic Groups and Counselling. Cultural exchange and Interfaith work.
Drumming, Retreats, Cailleach women’s Groups. Pipe ceremonies and healing.
Drum making and songweaving. Handfasting and End of Life Ceremonies.
Lorna at her family lands – land of the Cailleach and the Corryvrecan
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Lorna McTavish Coulson- Celtic Drum maker and Pipe Carrier, Adopted Metis.
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Qualifying in social work 1983 Lorna had already gained considerable experience in work with a variety of groups. With hands on work in care, running a Learning Disabilities unit in 1984 and developing new models in play schemes in late 1980s, she moved onto Dementia and Older Persons NHS work in 1991. Expanding into all areas of NHS mental health in 2003 she continued to develop inspirational therapy practice till 2023. Now she has "retired from the NHS" the world is her oyster.
Having been adopted as family and Metis by her First Nations sister Sandy, Lorna has learned to make and work with drums and is a Elder songweaver.
Sandy has taught Lorna to connect more with her own ancestral heritage. Having seen the affect Colonisation had on First Nations "Canadian" people, who have lost so much, Lorna has a deeper valuing of her own Argyll culture and legends. This has led to the work with The Cailleach and to try to learn the Gaelic.
This website is about the resultant work - a unique blending of these experiences...
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* "Where the light comes in" is a song gifted to Lorna, in ceremony, on a Vision Quest with Sandy and the Elders.
