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Fati Genese is a lapidary and inlay artist who blends fine art with contemporary jewelry design. Her work, including her line Sea Pony Couture, reflects a playful yet thoughtful aesthetic shaped by a background in sculpture and metalsmithing, with studies at Academy of Art and College of the Redwoods.  She began metalsmithing in high school and has since developed an experimental, hands on approach to inlay through years of study and practice. Drawing inspiration from travel, place, and everyday observation, Fati brings curiosity, skill, and creative problem solving into her teaching, creating a relaxed and engaging environment for students to explore materials and techniques together. Fati will be sharing River Rock Necklaces....

31 December, 2025

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Northern California with nearly 30 years of experience in community mental health and private practice. I am a direct descendant of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California through my mother and grandmother. My relationship to this lineage is rooted in respect, reconnection, and responsibility, rather than identifying as a traditional culture-bearer. My work is trauma-informed and somatically oriented, with ADHD-focused training and decades of sitting alongside women and mothers across many life stages. My teachers include community mental health supervisors, trauma- and nervous-system–focused clinicians, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous elders who have taught me to listen to land, body, and story. In my practice, I specialize in working with ADHD, which I refer to as attention-different, and supporting women in moving...

01 January, 2026

It is the quiet confidence of a body that knows it can regulate, respond, and protect. That embodies: we are not prey. Grace Lee is a somatic breathwork facilitator, functional movement practitioner, jiu-jitsu athlete, and self-defense student devoted to helping women reconnect with their authority, embodied self-trust, integrated power and their FEROCITY. Women carry a divine capacity to be protective and tender, strong and graceful. When we train this, the body learns to trust itself, and confidence and peace naturally follow. Her work is rooted in a simple truth: a regulated body is a powerful one. When the body learns to hold and distribute pressure with integrity, the nervous system reorients and the spirit follows. With a background in psychology, trauma-informed care, human development and over a decade as...

18 January, 2026

  Hosanna is an earth pigment paintmaker, earthenware potter, and earth artist of Northern-European decent living on Kalapuya land in the foothills of the Cascades in Western Oregon. Hosanna has been captivated by the elemental magic of working with wild clays ever since learning about pit fire pottery at Spirit Weavers in 2016 from Caitlin Deane. The unique personalities of each clay, the language of the hands, and the depth of ceremony to the whole process has inspired her to learn all that she can from teachers in the Northwest and Southwest in hand building and traditional firing methods. Working with local materials is working with local histories. The narratives of the stones and clays tell a dynamic story of their geological origins, as well as the toll...

24 December, 2025

    Jenni Elyse also known as Ifarike Ajoke Okunsalewa is an Afro-Indigenous folk herbalist carrying seeds of wisdom from all four corners of our sacred shared Earth. Named after her Great Grandmother Jenni Lou, Jenni Elyse carries on the healing folk wit alive in her lineage.  She is an initiated Olorisha having traveled home to her ancestral lands of Osogbo, and studies deeply the intimate rites of ancestral spirit based medicine. Jenni Elyse is a certified herbalist with a bachelors of science in holistic alternative medicine and is currently studying clinical herbalism.  Today Jenni Elyse grows herbal medicine for friends and clients on 7 acres with her Persian husband in Northern California. She brings forth spirited wisdom from beyond the veil....

04 January, 2026

  Jessica is a mother, a medicine maker and a dreamer. She braids these threads together as a way to learn what it is to be in right relationship to self, each other and the Earth.  She has been steeped in the study of conscious dreaming with her teacher, Sarah Maclean Bicknell and has found dreaming to be a pathway into deeper intimacy with herself. She is passionate about supporting people to honor their own relationship with dreamtime.  Jessica is also co-owner at Taproot Medicine, where she crafts delicious herbal medicine and regularly utilizes dreamwork as a way to build her business with integrity and care. Jessica will be sharing Dreamtime & the Art of Listening....

04 January, 2026

  Iosellev “Josie” Castaneda Morales, is a modern day Curandera. At an early age she was introduced to the practice of Curanderismo, as a way of life. Today, she serves her Miami Community as a Yerbera, traditional folk herbalist. Josie is the creator of the Curandera Remedies brand and the author of “Latine Herbalism: A Beginner's Guide to Modern Curanderismo” where she shares remedios y rituales for modern times. You can connect with her at CuranderaRemedies.com and LatineHerbalism.com Josie Castaneda will be sharing Latine Herbalism: The Art of Cacao for Feminine Wellness & Cacao Ceremony....

03 January, 2026

Joy McEwen manages Diggin’ Livin’ Farm & Apiaries, an organic farm and commercial beekeeping operation in Cave Junction, Oregon, using organic and biodynamic practices. She teaches Apitherapy & Natural Beekeeping, and has maintained an Apitherapy clinic in Southern Oregon for over 10 years, offering holistic health services through honeybee products including bee venom therapy. Joy also crafts Honey Bee Brews, a line of jun beverages made with honey from her apiary. She serves on the USDA Farm Service Agency board for Josephine and Jackson Counties and is a board member of the American Apitherapy Society. Joy recently co-authored Raising Resilient Bees: Heritage Techniques to Mitigate Mites, Preserve Locally Adapted Genetics, and Grow Your Apiary. Joy will be sharing    ...

06 January, 2025

Judith is an LCSW and psychotherapist doing therapy and psychospiritual counseling with clients and working as a hospice social worker. She has facilitated workshops on many subjects and taught as an adjunct at the University of Maine. She has guided many patients and families through the process of death and grieving. It is an honor to sit with those who are dying and to be able to share her insights with as many people as possible through various gatherings. She is also an avid organic gardener, a fiber artist, and a writer.   Judith will be sharing a Death Cafe....

10 January, 2025

Katherine Dessert is a certified Chi Nei Tsang practitioner, trained by Grandmaster Mantak Chia in the Universal Healing Tao lineage. She is the founder of Mapping the Belly, weaving Taoist bodywork, somatic practices, and earth-based wisdom to help others release tension, restore vitality, and reconnect to the pleasure of being in a human body.   Katherine Dessert is teaching Slow Belly Tending....

03 January, 2026
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