INSTRUCTORS MOON

Anilee List is a vocal storyteller, facilitator, and passionate collaborator with over twenty years of performance experience. For the past five years, she has focused on holistic vocal coaching and leading community singing and circle-singing experiences rooted in connection, presence, and collective expression. She has shared her vocal improvisation and songwriting workshops across the United States, creating spaces where people can explore their voices as tools for healing, creativity, and belonging. Anilee identifies as a cisgender, queer, white, Jewish woman, shaped by the streets of Brooklyn, the mountains of Vermont, and the beaches of Los Angeles. Her lineage is German-Irish and Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian-Polish), and singing in community lives deep in her bones. From Jewish Niguns to Celtic folk songs, her people have gathered in song for...

01 January, 2026

Archana is a mover, singer, and facilitator who works at the intersection of voice, movement, and collective expression. With over two decades of training in classical Indian Carnatic music and 15 years in Kathak dance, her work is rooted in lineage, devotion, and embodied presence. Alongside this foundation, she brings extensive experience in vocal improvisation, circle singing, and free movement practices, having participated in and facilitated in many voice and movement spaces across the country. A queer brown woman, Archana is deeply committed to creating inclusive environments where all bodies and voices are welcome. She has performed for over 25 years in concerts, musicals, and shows nationwide, writes and releases original music under her own name, and has taught workshops on songwriting, performance, creative process, and...

01 January, 2026

  Areca Smit is a neuro-spicy solo mama, systems weaver, storyteller, and strategist working at the intersection of birth justice, community power, and creative vision. She first camped in fourth grade and immediately felt the magic of sleeping outside on the land. Over the last 25+ years, she’s taken many people on their first camping trips, taught camping basics, and helped friends and community members build skills and confidence outdoors. Areca views camping — and remembering her place in nature — as essential to her well-being, sovereignty, and liberation. Her camping practice is slow and accessible, grounded in ease, grace, watching, waiting, listening, playing, and learning. She believes everyone deserves tools that make it easier to go outside and feel at home there. Areca will be teaching Camp...

09 January, 2026

Dr. Ariana Greene, a ceremonial psychologist and land ceremonialist, works on behalf of the ecopsychospiritual evolution happening now on Earth. She practices at the intersection of her two loves: human heart healing and earth reconnection.   She has woven together her training as a climate psychologist and land ceremonialist to develop new healing modalities that reunify the mind and the heart, humans and land. Join Ariana at Spirit Weavers for an Earth Weave workshop, an opportunity to learn and connect with one’s own unique expression of life force, learn to communicate with the land as a conscious being, connect with an Earth Ally for a personalized Earth Message, and collaborate with the land to develop an Earth Offering of your own essence. Dr. Ariana Green invites you to join...

29 December, 2025

Arwyn Moonrise is an embroidery artist with a natural gift for teaching the craft in a fun and practical manner. She learned to embroider during her childhood watching her mother mend and adorn the families clothing on their organic blueberry farm in rural Maine, and reconnected with stitching later in life. Fueled by her passion for creating, recognizing the power of bespoke sacred garments, and wanting to help reduce fashion waste by giving vintage/used clothing new life, she started her custom embroidery business, Township 31 (named after the township in Maine she grew up in). Arwyn creates one-of-a-kind custom pieces for her clients as a way to create sacred adornment through the art of prayer and storytelling. Her work is executed with technical precision and intricacy....

16 January, 2025

Baelyn Elspeth grew up in Los Angeles studying dance from the time she was 4. This affinity with movement provided a doorway into her relationship with spirit, health and the body. She has since journeyed into deeper pathways of Self cultivation through studying various practices in the Sacred arts, is a student of Zen, the Tao, and the “Way of Tea”. Currently Baelyn resides in Santa Fe, NM and devotes her time to sharing and facilitating sacred space for communities all around the world, bringing the medicine of Tea and Ceremony wherever she goes.  She guides others in making space for the sacred in their daily lives ~ through immersive retreats, workshops, and online mentorships. Baelyn has been with Spirit Weavers since its inception and has been a crucial part of...

09 May, 2024

Brienne is an ambitious spirit with a dual passion for yoga and design. She founded and runs a sustainable interior design firm (2yokedesign.com) and a yoga storage company (heymache.com) for the at-home and studio-based yogi. For more than two decades, Brienne has been evolving her yoga practice from what started as a "Type-A"-style motivation to get a “good workout" and has since flourished into a breath-centered, alignment-focused practice aimed to cultivate personal self-connection and resonant mind/body awareness. She carries yoga certifications in Vinyasa Yoga, Aerial Yoga and Restorative Aerial Yoga, and is seeking her Heliotropic Breathwork certification in the near future. As an active woman that manages chronic joint pain and other auto-immune-related symptoms, Brienne emphasizes proper joint support, skeletal alignment and prop-assisted pose modifications. One...

12 April, 2026

I am passionate about pleasure and helping people thrive. My work as a coach combines modern neurobiology, shamanic healing, and holistic embodiment practices; blended with the ancient wisdom of Tantra, Taoism & sacred sexuality. The work is based in an understanding that all of us are sensual beings with a tremendous capacity for love and connection. Breathwork, pleasure practices, meditation, energy work, sounding, and movement are combined in a transformational process that is rooted in deep self-love and acceptance. This method recognizes and supports that human beings thrive by regularly experiencing states of ecstasy, surrender, conscious connection, and wild freedom. In addition to coaching, creativity is a central part of my life’s work. I have a deep love for the beauty that surrounds us and the...

03 January, 2026

DeAnna Batdorff Ayurveda Practitioner, MyBody Educator, Lymphatic Specialist DeAnna is a wholistic health detective with 38 years of experience as a Tibetan Ayurveda Practitioner, Lymphatic Massage Specialist, Nutrition Counselor, Western Herbalist, and Clinical Aromatherapist. She specializes in reading the heart song of the pulse with face and tongue mapping as primary assessment tools. DeAnna’s teachings are rooted in her three foundational pillars: listen to self through our symptoms, the right to take action by nature and that happiness equals better health. In 1995, some 30 years ago, dhyana Essentials was born! A therapeutic touch, essential products and MyBody educational hub. Her vision is built upon “for the people” health access, offering by donation community clinics and cost effective plant remedies. DeAnna also established the only Medi-Cal/Medi-Care funded Ayurvedic...

06 January, 2026

    Elizabeth Selig is a guide, speaker, and teacher grounded in soul work, dream study, and embodiment. She creates relational spaces where lived experience becomes healing practice.   Elizabeth will be teaching The Clearing: From Nightmare to Medicine....

31 December, 2025
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