Workshop de Imbolc: Vela e Visionboard para o Novo Ciclo
An intimate session at Story Owl to mark Imbolc, the Celtic festival that celebrates the moment when winter begins to crack open and the light grows again—still timid, but persistent. Over the course of 2 hours, participants are welcomed with a warm drink, discover the symbolism of this seasonal celebration, and create their own Imbolc candle — a ritual object linked to clarity, focus and new beginnings.
We then move into a creative visionboard collage, where each person identifies and materialises their “seeds for spring”: small intentions, projects or gestures they wish to cultivate over the coming months. The workshop closes with a simple ritual of light, lighting the Imbolc candles and sharing a word for the new cycle.
What we'll do:
🕯️Learn the symbolism of Imbolc, Brigid and the return of light in the Wheel of the Year
🕯️Create an Imbolc candle with personal intention
🕯️Make a visionboard collage focused on the “seeds” to cultivate until spring
🕯️Write down small, concrete intentions for the new cycle
🕯️Take part in a collective ritual of light
What’s included in the “Winter Rituals: Yule at Story Owl” workshop
♦ Approximately 2h30 hours of immersive experience at Story Owl
♦ Storytelling on Imbolc, Brigid and the Wheel of the Year
♦ All materials to create the Imbolc candle:
• candle
• ribbon
• dried herbs
• labels
• string
♦ Materials for the visionboard collage:
• cardstock
• magazines / printed images
• printed words
• scissors, glue and markers
♦ Guided writing exercise to map intentions and micro-steps
♦ Final ritual with candle-lighting and sharing in circle
♦ A little gift to take home
♦ And of course, your candle and your collage to take home and continue the process
If you’ve been longing for a gentler start to the year, aligned with natural cycles rather than frenetic resolutions, this is an invitation to slow down, choose a few seeds and give them a place.
Places are limited to keep the environment warm and intimate.
Meet your Imbolc guide
Catarina Alves de Sousa is a writer, creative copywriter and co-founder of Story Owl, a bookshop–café dedicated to stories, readers and slow creativity. After years helping brands and people find the right words, she’s now building a space where books, conversation and imagination naturally spill into workshops, circles and cosy gatherings.
Since childhood, Catarina has had a quiet but enduring fascination with Celtic culture. Ireland and Scotland remain her touchstones: the landscapes, mythology and winter light of those places continue to shape how she reads, writes and pays attention to the world.
Now that a bookshop–café (a lifelong dream) is part of her daily rhythm, she has a home for the seasonal practices and literary inspirations that have accompanied her for years. In this Imbolc Workshop, Catarina brings together mythology, storytelling and gentle creative work to welcome the first light of the year, help participants identify the “seeds” they want to nurture, and step into the coming months with more clarity, purpose and imagination.
