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....
Kate is mother to 4 humans, songweaver, writer, ritualist, holistic health guide, postpartum doula + educator. Kate has guided and educated women in holistic health for over 20 years and created sacred spaces for women in circles since 2010. Kate integrates song, nourishment practices and ritual into weekly circles and 1:1 in her local Austin community and shares these as essential medicines of belonging and remembering in this time of Great Turning. Kate supports mothers to open their intuition, deepen trust with their inner knowing, nourish their bodies in all levels, deepen their relationship with their emotions and feelings as oracles, and offer themselves permission to relax into motherhood, and see it as a doorway to knowing themselves and becoming deeply, intricately connected with all life. Kate will...
Kayla is a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner, creative, and educator rooted in the high desert of Northern Nevada. She lives where the mountains meet the sagebrush, growing food and medicine, tending earth and people, helping reweave our collective relationship to Earth, Body, Spirit, and One Another. Her work centers the intersection of female health, earth connection, and ancestral ways of living, supporting women to cultivate lives rooted in body wisdom, spiritual authenticity, and liberating joy. Through women’s health, creative living, land-based skills, and community cultivation, she offers her work in service to women, the earth, and our relationships to one another. She is devoted to becoming something life-giving in these uncertain times~ planting beauty, healing, and hope for our children’s children. Kayla is honored to be sharing Reed Basket...
Kelsey McEuen is a mother, birth doula, ordained celebrant, community librarian, and lifelong resident of the traditional lands of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe. She embraces motherhood as the highest and holiest calling on Earth. Her three children are her greatest teachers, continually guiding her to live with intention, reverence, and purpose. In 2017, Kelsey was called to facilitate women’s circles through the Wild Woman Project, a doorway that led her into birth work and eventually to holding space for life’s most meaningful thresholds. It is a deep honor for her to support individuals through coming of age, marriage, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and loss. As a community librarian in her small hometown, Kelsey loves bringing people together, sharing skills and stories, and encouraging children to dream...
Kelly Tully is a Northern California-based metalsmith known for her expertly crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry. With over a decade of experience, Kelly transforms raw metal into wearable art, blending traditional techniques with a modern, minimalist aesthetic. She works primarily with silver, gold, and brass, often incorporating gemstones and found materials to add depth and meaning to each piece. Her work is inspired by nature, architecture, and the raw beauty of the materials themselves. Whether creating bold statement pieces or delicate designs, Clara’s attention to detail and craftsmanship shine through in every creation. She believes in the transformative power of metal, using her craft to celebrate both beauty and strength. In addition to her custom designs, Kelly offers metalsmithing workshops to share her passion and knowledge with others. She...
I’m Kk, a queer, cis, Polish Jewish and Romanian Jewish woman. I’m a land tender, a forest dweller, a sister, friend and daughter. I’m a ceremonial tattoo artist, a huntress, a facilitator of connection, I’m a dream seeker and a dream weaver. Every day I endeavour to better understand my ancestry and lineage while showing up to foster connection and relationships to the lands I live on and the Hul’q’umín’um’ and SENĆOŦEN speaking people they were stolen from. My Polish ancestors, for 10 generations were butchers and hide tanners, and I can feel it in my bones and in my hands whenever I wield a knife or watch flesh turn to food and fabric. I do my best to live a life in ritual and reciprocity and...
Kriss (they/them) an aquatic dancer and vertical dancer, and interdisciplinary maker. Their love for disorientation has inspired them to dance suspended off bridges, free fall into the depths of the sea, and plummet into hundreds of bodies over the many years of practicing contact improvisation. Through their various movement muses, they are constantly asking, “ How can I be in the most available state to receive and respond to a constantly changing environment?” Kriss received their B.S. from UC Davis in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and studied Expressive Arts Therapy At the Tamalpa Institute. They studied contemporary dance in Berlin and Tanzfabrik Schule and is an Axis Syllabus Teacher Candidate. Their aquatic dance is shaped by their practice in free diving as well as aquatic therapy...
Kumu Hula Anna Liza Kalauokekupukupu Abuan McKeon is a cultural practitioner and teacher with over twenty years of experience in hula and earth-based healing traditions. She was trained under Frank Kawaikapuokalani Hewett, a master of ancient traditional hula, who granted her his blessing to teach the sacred songs and dances of this lineage. Alongside hula, Kumu has studied sacred plant medicine and ancestral herbalism under Sage L. Maurer of The Gaia School of Healing, and Marysia Miernowska of The School of the Sacred Wild, both rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition. Grounded in these lineages, Kumu weaves cultural artistry, ancestral knowledge, and plant wisdom into her teaching with reverence and responsibility. Kumu Anna Liza will be sharing Ancient Hula. ...
Laura Lopez will be sharing Traditional Loom Weaving from her Guatemalan hertitage. Laura began weaving and working with fiber when she was six years old, and has continued practicing her traditional ways since then. Laura uses gorgeous multicolored thread, and will help you learn how to use a traditional hand weaving loom. This is a hands on class with an opportunity to weave your very own piece of fabric to adorn yourself or another with. Laura weaves in her studio and bodega on Whidbey Island with her husband Carlos, daughter Estrella, and 2 dogs . Laura Lopez will be teaching Guatemalan Hand Loom Weaving....
Lauralina (aka Ro Güey) is a multidisciplinary skillstress from the island of Boriké. She is a radical matriarch, living intuitively and following the whispers of her ancestry back to the rhythms of the Mother. Along with her familia, she tends land in the mountains of lush San Germán and creates beauty from her home studio. Ro will be sharing Medicine Dollmaking, an ancestral skill that has been passed down for generations thru her maternal lineage....