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Rituals & Ceremonies
In alignment with our theme this year, the Solskin Ceremony Team have put together various rituals and ceremonies that will help with our connection to Mind, Body & Spirit, to ourselves, to each other and to the land. (more on 2026 theme here)
Join us as we delve into the mind, unburden the body and connect with our spirit animals through 'ways of old'
Friday (Mind)
Today we connect deeply to richness and transformative power of the many aspects of Mind as it was seen and used within 'Ways of Old'
Opening Ceremony
(12pm)
Our Opening ceremony will establish the sacred ground where we will hold the Solskin ceremonies and will introduce the ceremonial team and establish our tribal identity within the Ways of Old. We will establish connection to the themes of the weekend and to Earth Goddess.
Ways of Mind, Ways of Old
(3pm)
We will connect to the powers of the mind, perhaps lost and forgotten. We connect to old ways of thinking. Through a swirling interplay of differing mind faculties, we consider alternative ways of seeing and thinking, and will choose one of these mind aspects to connect deeply with.
Saturday (Body)
Today we see our own body and as environment to encounter the Earth Goddess as the Body of the wold that sustains us all.
The Experience of Being
(12pm)
Using aspects of environments, we bring forward the senses and elements in order to connect deeper. We look to more animistic and indigenous 'Ways of Old' and consider ways to connect to the Body in its own explorative and unique environment. This is an experience of Being.
Handfasting
(3pm)
Once again we will hold a beautiful handfasting ceremony for a lucky couple. A precious Solskin tradition.
All are welcome to celebrate the joining of hands of Wendy and Mark
Fire Burning: Awakening The EARTH Goddess
(9pm)
A spectacular ceremony in which we will celebrate all the environments of Mother Earth. Descending deeper into the mystery, we will await what the fires of transformation bring. This is a ceremony of tribal gathering, celebration, gratitude and magic!
Sunday (Spirit)
Today participants will joyfully connect to their own spirit guide, with communal support.
Spirit Animal Guide and Transformation
(12pm)
Meet the animal spirit that guides us! Journey into transformative ritual to uncover the guide who wishes to share and guide you. Bring your spirit guide masks!
Closing Ceremony
(6pm)
We draw together the threads of all that we have done and learnt over the weekend, giving thanks for these and taking ourselves, with a renewed connection to our mind, body and spirit, into the year ahead.
You will be able to make your spirit guide mask in the Pagan Temple on Saturday and Sunday.
Prepare for this by consulting our new 2026 ʻMind/Body/Spiritʻ Oracle deck at the Temple
Meet the Rituals & Ceremonialist Team
Solskin Festival wouldn't be anything without the amazing team of Priestesses and Priest we have. They will be holding various rituals, ceremonies and workshops throughout the weekend.
All rituals and ceremonies welcome all paths and faiths in whichever deities you follow including Norse Pagan.
Priestess & Ceremonialist
Ali Harrison
Ali Harrison is a practicing Pagan, a psycho- spiritual psychotherapist, a dancer, a Wiccan priestess and a teacher and ceremonialist at the Sheffield Goddess Temple.
She has been involved in the creation of large ceremonies at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference for the past six years, and has initiated as a Priestess of Rhiannon and of Brigantia.
Ali designs and runs workshops and trainings for the empowerment of women, and conducts Handfasting, Croning, Grief and other public ceremonies and ritual theatre.
With her soul sister Ann, she holds Sacred Circles, a year long Moonlodge experience working with the Wheel of the Year and Archetypes of the Divine Feminine through the life cycle, and the Sheffield Temple Priestess Training Course.
Priest
Brian Harrison
Brian is a lifelong devotee to the Old Gods and Goddesses with over 30 years experience of transformative ritual within a pagan context.
He runs the Sheffield Goddess Temple School of Magic with the aim of demystifying pagan practices so that people of all experience levels can enjoy and benefit from the wonderful range of tools and techniques that we have for personal growth and self empowerment.
Brian is delighted to be a co-creator of the Solskin ceremonies and grateful to Robert and Emma for their vision with this festival.
Priestess
Jennifer Murphy
Jennifer Murphy is Priestess of Avalon & Goddess, Wiccan High Priestess & Sacred Dancer.
Jennifer is a qualified YTA Yoga teacher, Degree student of Classics, Published Poet, and international selling Goddess Artist.
Working with magic and Goddess for over 25 years, Jennifer is a passionate embodied writer & visionary of Goddess, Oracle and journeying.
Priestess
Anwen Fryer Burrows
Anwen is an eclectic practitioner, she began as a hedge witch and later joined a Wiccan training coven in 2003. Despite changing covens after her daughter's birth in 2011, she remains an active member, blending old and new practices.
Anwen is an essential part of the magical community, she co-founded the Sheffield Goddess Temple in 2015 and contributed to open seasonal rituals. Now in her 50s, residing in the Peak District, Anwen's practice is land-based, and she commenced her Bardic journey with OBOD in 2021. Joining Solskin feels like a magical synchronicity, and she looks forward to curating transformative, heartfelt journeys for attendees.
Priestess
Ann Staniland
Ann Staniland is a wiccan priestess and has also initiated as a priestess of Brigit and a priestess of Brigantia .
She loves to be out in nature and it was through her love of nature, and of dance that she found her spiritual path .She has been involved in the Glastonbury Goddess conference for many years, both as a circle priestess and as a ceremonialist.
Ann is one of the founders of the Sheffield Goddess Temple and together with her soul sister Ali Harrison runs workshops and trainings including the Sheffield Goddess Temple Priestess Training.
She is the Melissa mother for the Temple and loves creating ritual and ceremony.
Priestess
Hayley Knightingale
Hayley Nightingale: Hayley is a priestess of Brigantia and co facilitator of the priestess training at the Sheffield Goddess Temple.
Hayley holds monthly women’s circles, working in a deep and embodied way with the changing seasons, myth and mystery.
Hayley loves exploring the Peak District and the ancient places of archaeological and spiritual interest. She has a passion for Genius Loci, believing that Spirit of Place makes places magical, gives a location its unique energy, and possibly shapes and creates its own environment and the people around it.
Hayley has co-created and performed in many ceremonies with the Sheffield Goddess Temple and served as a Priestess in ceremony at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference for the past 4 years.