INSTRUCTORS MOON

Natasha Pachalove is a healing arts practitioner, ceremonialist + full spectrum doula committed to facilitating regeneration. She has studied womb wisdom, meditation + therapeutic dance since 2015. Experiencing abortion at home has enabled her to support others in grief of pregnancy release. Natasha utilizes breath, plants + prayer to alchemize our greatest pains into our valuable strengths. She is devoted to creating nurturing spaces in her circles + private sessions where people can ignite their inner healing powers. Natasha is grounded in her spiritual service as a Moon Dancer, Vision Quester + Reverend Priestess ordained through the Iseum of Quimera. She is deeply grateful to her teachers + Taíno, Haudenosaunee, European + African ancestors for guiding her in these ways. You can connect deeper with Natasha + learn...

15 January, 2025

  Paola is a mother, teacher and medicine woman in her indigenous studies and ceremonial songstress facilitating female womb empowerment through holding and healing spaces. She brings her wisdom, light and scars to all spaces she moves through as gifts to help connect with our inner child, activate our divine feminine Oshun and Yemaya energy through song and healing movement. Paola connects with the four elements of nature, our guiding ancestors and leads from these visions and messages to hold sacred space, ceremonial empowerment with prayers, plants and crystals to create space for healing. As a Labor & Delivery RN and Prenatal Educator & Singer, Paola is a daily witness to women in their most powerful and vulnerable life changing and welcoming moments to becoming a mother. A...

31 December, 2024

Phoebe Whipple is an enthusiastic and dedicated fiber artist, with advanced skills in knitting, sewing, fiber spinning, mending and crochet. She's currently a Freshman at Willamette University, focusing her studies on Environmental Science and Music. She’s completed the Summer camp counselor training program at Camp Namanu, and plays piano in a college Jazz Ensemble, and violin in her school Orchestra. Phoebe was born in Portland, Oregon and has many family members who are very gifted makers, especially her paternal grandmother Susan Whipple, who is an incredible visual and fiber artist. Laura Whipple is the Co-founder of Scout Books, a B Corp Certified manufacturer of custom notebooks made with 100% recycled papers based in Portland, Oregon. Always a creative expression enthusiast, her work is fueled by a...

02 January, 2025

Daughter of Nicaraguan immigrants, Renée Camila is dedicated to the empowerment and healing offered by ancestral medicines through a decolonial lens. Her practice La Yerba Buena Herbs draws from her Mediterranean and Indigenous (Chorotega) ancestry and includes nearly a decade of clinical energetic herbalism, traditional birthwork, and folk education. As a traditional healing arts practitioner she recognizes the birth ceremony as a radical tool for ancestral healing with a potential to cultivate resilience in the face of systemic oppression. She co-hosts the long-running radio program The Herbal Highway and co-founded the Now and Then Herb School.   Renée Camila is sharing Healing Insecurity: A Journey in Plant Spirit Medicine and Seed of Creation: Exploring the Seat of our Power....

04 January, 2025

  Raven is a second generation Filipino, and fourth generation Scandinavian. A mother of four young sons, raised by the ocean in Coast Salish lands. She has been blessed to have been taught drum craft in the traditional ways. Her highest creative calling at this moment in her life journey is lapidary stonework, drum making, and the traditional tanning of sheepskin pelts and hides. She has taught a variety of classes such as wet felting, brain-tanning sheepskins and hand drum making for many years. She has courted these crafts in her own ways and been gifted the transmissions of these crafts through the lineages and to share their wisdom and transformative experiences. Raven's matriarchal lineage comes from the healers of the Philippines Islands. She has been...

30 December, 2024

  Rhythm is a grief practitioner a doula and an alchemy life worker who does holistic based approaches to trauma transitioning on multiple levels including: energetic womb restoration practices, massage, and rebirthing. She infuses laughter, sound healing, and conscious self awareness throughout her entire practice. A passion to serve with intuition for unifying spiritual growth leading with feminine energy, has taken her all over the world. Rhythm moves to her own tune, with her personal outlook from growing up and acknowledging first hand the struggles of adversity that black women of color disproportionately face, and the obstacles that all women encounter overtime. She seeks to bridge the gap and assist in the many strides forward with the continued development through support and sisterhood. Through her business, “Divine thrive...

21 December, 2019

Sam Rosenfeld (she/her) is a queer seamstress and maker from Portland, OR who loves to create durable, hand-stitched home goods with natural dyes, embroidery, weaving, knitting, and quilting while also working as a professional seamstress. She made her first heart-shaped pillow at age five- it’s since turned into more of a kidney bean shape and is still the perfect reading pillow! She celebrates the process of experimentation and failure in one’s own creative process, and finds trust in the idea that we are all just different manifestations of the same creative energy, and nobody is “more” or “less” creative than another. She loves teaching learners new to hand-skills how satisfying and empowering a slow stitching project can be.   Sam will be sharing Intro to Intuitive Quilting with her...

31 December, 2024

  Sandy is an art educator from Western Europe who grew up in a family of traditional crafts folk. For the last two decades, she has facilitated and held art classes and workshops on the ancestral land of the Acjachemen tribe in Orange County, California. She teaches art and Indigenous gardening at an inclusive public charter school with disabled learners and in her wildly cultivated backyard studio. She also holds nature exploration art camps during summer along SoCal’s sagebrush-lined ocean bluffs. Grateful for having been mentored by Mona Lewis and many primitive skills teachers, and for graduating from the School of the Sacred Wild, Sandy offers a space where making art comes from a deeply reverential and loving place towards Earth and all her abundant beauty. Sandy Reid...

30 December, 2024

My exploration of cordage began with learning to twist wild harvested plants with Tamara Wilder. Curious, I applied the process to the abundance of materials in my studio and life. I had held onto my great grandmother’s threadbare handkerchief for decades- precious but altogether unusable. As cordage it became a strong, loving reminder of her- a necklace that I could wear and a process that I could share. For the past ten years I have been teaching folks how to turn the fabrics that they hold dear into cordage necklaces- honoring the people and experiences of our lives. Cordage has become the foundation of my artistic practice. It continually draws me back in. There are people with great skill and generosity who have kept these skills alive...

03 January, 2025

Sarah Knapp is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), grief worker, ceremonialist and singer. She took care of her Dad, dying of Alzheimer's disease, throughout her 20's and facilitated a traditional home funeral and vigil for him when he died in 2021. Sarah facilitated grief circles & yoga for grief classes in San Diego and had a private practice in earth-based grief counseling & Somatic Experiencing for the past 5 years. She is currently in the process of transitioning her work to online, group singing & somatics courses. She runs a course every few months called, "Singing From My Body, Singing From My Soul!" You can check out more of her work here: https://instagram.com/sarah___knapp   Sarah Knapp will be holding Creating an Ancestor Essence....

31 December, 2024