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Nila was born and lived in Australia’s region of the Great Barrier Reef in the traditional lands of the Tjabukai peoples up until 2016. An avid traveler, her global wanderings led her through Asia, India, Europe and the Americas, and informing her pursuit of working and educating around birth, ritual, and herbal/plant medicines. Her bloodline hails from mixed European, Scandinavian and Peruvian decent. She now resides in Southern Arizona, she has her practice named Readings, Rites and Remedies in the brick and mortar of Wolf Bone Emporium, where her hand crafted Ritual Incense blends are highly sought after. Nila is renowned for her embodied wisdom and lifestyle cultivation of magical principles, in her avid pursuit of esoteric and mystical arts for over 30 years. Her capacity to...

07 January, 2025

  Native Hawaiian singer/songwriter Noelani Love blends conscious lyrics with ukulele melodies to empower her listeners through the spirit of ALOHA. Noelani’s original sounds activate a primal, earthly + feminine vibration. As a mother, jewelry designer, yogini and surfer, Noelani’s motto is “Ride the waves with ease and grace” as she finds much of her inspiration from the ocean. Noelani enjoys connecting ancient wisdom to modern-day life with humor and grace, applying her background studies of hula dance, Hawaiian chant, Kundalini and Vinyasa yoga and Sanskrit mantra in her teachings, as she supports her students to find their own connection to the divine through the power of voice. Noelani's music is an invitation to sing along and experience the power of your own voice. "We are the ones we’ve...

29 December, 2024

Olivia is a second generation 'kitchen witch' and historian of indigenous cultures and medicine. Inspired by her daughter Ophelia’s sensitive skin, Olivia jumped into the world of tallow cream making, blending it with holistic remedies to create gentle, effective solutions for everything from eczema to burns . Her passion lies in reviving ancestral traditions and sharing the wisdom of natural healing with others. Olivia’s approach emphasizes simplicity, sustainability, and the power of nature to support radiant skin and overall well-being. Join her to learn how to create skincare that nurtures both body and spirit.   Olivia Jol will be sharing you how to use Tallow as Medicine....

31 December, 2024

  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