Welsh grown and Costa Rica based, Hannah Ruth Dyson is a deep feminine and earth-based cultural researcher, indigenous advocate, passionate speaker, storyteller, and initiated medicine guide. Known as a ‘Mother Shaman’, she aims to restore the Mother lineage as central to honoring the Earth, the Cosmos and Humanity with love, care and compassion. 

Founder of Soul Seed Gathering a Living Research and Future Design Institute born in 2016.

Hannah has become a record keeper on the history of earth-based spiritual traditions for the past ten years. From research mapping to documentary film work, weaving connections and knowledge-ways, across time and place.

She guides shamanic and soulful travel journeys worldwide including Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt and across the British Isles.

Hannah is honored to have worked with elders from Lillooet First Nations in Canada, K’iche’ and Tz’utujil Maya elders in Guatemala, Kogi and Wayuu women in Colombia, Shipibo and Q’ero lineages in Peru, Bri Bri and Cabecar peoples in Costa Rica, alongside incredibly humble and knowledgeable teachers across the world.

Her research focus is with the Celtic-Anglo-European shamanic lineages, and making connections across cultures to ancestral women’s role in ceremony and ritual, shamanism, weaving, dreamwork, plant medicine, and community leadership. You can subscribe to her research publications here.

She received a Bachelor of Science at the London School of Economics in 2012 and has previous experience in international documentary research and film production.

Hannah’s work acts as a bridge to understanding our collective human story by bringing greater awareness to the female, feminine and indigenous animist perspectives.

Her work also offers solutions for earth-centered change from business actions, re-imagining new financial systems, activism, healing and community building.

A loved speaker, facilitator and writer, Hannah empowers people to find, and be guided by their own internal compass.

She is initiated on the medicine path as a healer and ceremonialist, which also guides her research, documentary work and events at Soul Seed Gathering. Hannah offers Healing Sessions & holds space for several 1:1 clients at a time seeking to expand and go deeper on their shamanic path and life journey. Learn more here.

Her family resides in Puerto Viejo, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, home to the BriBri indigenous and Afro-Caribbean first settlers, along with 72 countries represented by expats. She is a mother to two wild boys, and celebrates and guides women birthing in their power.