INSTRUCTORS MOON

  I’ve been on a self-reflective path and healing my ancestral lineage for the last 28 years. I began my studies within the yoga path and started teaching 25 years ago. I added coaching as a part of my work and moved into ceremonial studies thereafter. I have been teaching and guiding other humans on their self-reflective path for 25 years, and have specialized in areas that empower women during significant life transitions for the past 10. I’ve taught several retreats for mostly women diving into life transitions and how to navigate them successfully and truthfully. My most beloved course, Sacred Communication was created to teach women how to communicate in a way that helps them be seen and heard and therefore honored in all of their...

15 December, 2023

I am a maker, and a doer, a horsewoman, a rancher, a sister and a daughter. I live my life with as much intention as I can, and follow my heart as much as possible. The only things that get in the way of that sometimes are my head, and society. ​ I have studied horsemanship, yoga, nature connection work, primitive skills, equus/life coaching, permaculture and probably more. I am a studier of life, I like to know how to do things and why we are the way we are. And try to live my own life artfully. ​ I believe we all have very limiting beliefs, and stories of hardship that get in our way of who we truly want to be and that these things limit how...

28 April, 2024

Stargazer Li is in love with the Universe! For over 20 years, she has been living and conversing with the Universe, and sharing her highly unique approach to Keeping Time… through living natural rhythms, making and sharing essence elixirs, and creating starry experiences under the night sky. She also does deeply transformational sessions weaving astrology and her calendar’s themes. Check out her free monthly audio calendar podcasts, available through her website and in her Cosmic Update Emails. Li lives outside of Grass Valley, CA. Stargazer Li will be teaching Essence Making & Taking, and sharing Stargazing....

28 December, 2023

  Stephanie Ben-Ishai is an internationally sought-after financial law teacher and keynote speaker, and an innovator of democratizing financial principles, concepts, and practices. She is a Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, a practising lawyer, and an in-demand legal expert. Her past teachers and mentors include her graduate school supervisor Senator Elizabeth Warren. Stephanie is happiest in motion, exploring the world by bike, foot, or ski, often with her son in tow. She is a solo mama to the joy of her life, Larry. Together they are learning to play the fiddle. Stephanie loves to learn new things and make deep personal connections. She also dreams about starting a business in a mini house she's built in her backyard but the details are...

21 December, 2023

  Stevie is a musician, singer, teacher, constellator, dreamer, and ceremonialist. She is devoted to compassionate liberation through vibration, sound, and song. We all have the divine right to a voice which can be a tool of reflection and expression to help us learn who we are and what we want to express to the world. Stevie is co-artistic director of Wildchoir as well as other community and ceremonial offerings in the Bay Area and beyond. Through her endeavors, Stevie invites others to join her on a journey of self-exploration and collective resonance, forging a path toward a more harmonious and connected existence. She will be part of the Dreaming Den and will be offering Connecting to Song through the Dreamtime....

31 December, 2023

    Sofia is constantly curious with a background in Biology (MSc), art and nature connection (2 year program with Wisdom of the Earth). She loves to make all manner of useful beautiful things with material harvested directly from the earth. She brings with her a wonder for all things alive and a depth to her teaching. Sofia will be offering Pine Needle Basket weaving and Bird Language....

03 January, 2024

We are honored to have our beautiful Elder Sweet Medicine with us again for the Spirit Weavers Gathering, coming from Oregon to share her wisdom and wise ways. Sweet Medicine Nation (Chickasaw/Choctaw/French/Irish) is a gifted artist, educator, lecturer, and healer who guides and initiates personal growth in others with her eloquence, wisdom, and gift for serving others. She awakens us to the personal and social value of earth stewardship, honoring the wisdom of natural ways to benefit ourselves and Mother Earth. Sweet Medicine is involved in numerous local and International groups, federal agencies, endangered species research, and riparian studies and education. She is also a master of edible and medicinal plants of the local region in Central Oregon. Her background in Alternative Medicine, Midwifery, and Herbology, along...

21 November, 2015

  Tamara Wilder became fascinated by ancient living skills in at age 19 when she attended an Ancient Living Skills gathering. She was "hooked" and quickly began incorporating the practice of skills into her daily experience. Ever since, she has been dedicating her life to enjoying, learning, researching, experimenting with, writing about and teaching Paleo Technologies through a variety of programs, workshops & demonstrations on a range of skill topics at a plethora of locations through her company Paleotechnics. Now, over 30 years later, she runs programs in stringmaking, firemaking, rope making & hunting technology and other fiber arts for grade school students all around Northern California as well as adult workshops in the Pacific Northwest and is co-author of the book Buckskin: The Ancient Art of...

04 January, 2023

Tamu Mosley is an Oakland CA (traditional Lisjan Ohlone land) born, a mama of 3, a teacher, a wholistic wellness facilitator, a kitchen alchemist, a home herbalist & herbal maker, a ceremonialist and a flower essence practitioner. Tamu is the creator of Wholistic Shine (established in 2014) and Uchū Botanical (established in 2018). Tamu is passionate about a wholistic approach to eating and living by bringing more mindfulness and intention to daily choices along with cultivating wellness practices that support mind, body and spirit. She is honored and humbled to support others on their wellness journey by inspiring, educating and empowering them through her Wholistic Shine and Uchū Botanical offerings. For the past three years Tamu has been on an intentional, mindful menopause journey, tending to her...

29 December, 2023

Victoria (she/they) is an Herbalist, Bodyworker, Nature Walker and Flower Enthusiast. She has spent the last decade deepening her knowledge of plant medicine and communing with the spirits of nature. Born of Portuguese, Peruvian and European decent she began practicing herbalism first through a Western lens, learning the plants native to the lands she has been living and tending. After many years of practicing in these ways she began traveling to Peru and learning the ways of her Ancestors. For the past eight years Victoria has deepened her herbal studies to focus on Plant Sprit Medicine and learning the practices of healing our Spiritual and Emotional bodies. She has been learning these ways from her elders both here in North America as well as in...

31 December, 2023