INSTRUCTORS MOON

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and my connection to textiles and clothing care runs through generations of my family. My great-grandmother came to this country and walked the streets with a cart, working as a seamstress or tailor, a story that echoes the resilience and craft of so many Jewish women. My grandmother taught fashion design, and my mother sewed our clothing and was my first teacher in both sewing and the mindful tending of garments. I don’t claim formal qualifications, I am simply inspired to share this practice. I have been making and caring for handmade clothing for over a decade, and mending is for me a sacred practice, a way to honor the earth, the labor that creates our clothing, and the generations who...

03 January, 2026

Miriam (she/they) has been studying and practicing traditional earth-based skills for over 15 years,creating beauty by working closely with earth elements that illuminate our inter-connectedness. Born and raised in a spiritual community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, spirit and nature connection were intricately woven into Miriam’s early life. She grew up climbing cedar and apple trees on the lands that held her. Days spent exploring the river, running barefoot through the woods: red dirt toes, berry stained fingers, pine tangled hair. This upbringing planted seeds of a lifelong pursuit for connection and collaboration with the plants and creatures that cultivate the world around us. Miriam finds particular joy working with her hands in all forms of alchemy: cooking, making medicine, carving, weaving. She is in...

28 December, 2025

  Natasha Pachalove is a healing arts practitioner, ceremonialist, facilitator + full spectrum doula committed to nourishing heart-centered evolution. She has studied feminine wellness, compassionate communication, meditation + therapeutic dance for over a decade. Natasha honors cyclical shedding as sacred + necessary to express the purposeful lives we were born for. She weaves together breath, sound, plants + prayer to transform pain into power. She is devoted to nurturing all beings in her circles + sessions by encouraging them to remember + ignite their ability to heal. Natasha embodies her spiritual service as a Moon Dancer, Vision Quester + Reverend Priestess ordained through the Iseum of Quimera. She is deeply grateful to her teachers + ancestors of Arawak, Haudenosaunee, European + African origin for guiding these ways. Natasha will...

16 January, 2026

Paola is a mother, teacher and medicine woman in her indigenous studies and ceremonial songstress facilitating womb & sacral 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...

13 January, 2026

  Paulina is a Crescent City-based yoga teacher and dedicated practitioner who has spent over 16 years exploring the sacred landscape of the body and breath. As a 200-hour certified instructor she facilitates offerings that honor the rhythmic connection between movement and the natural world. Rooted in the belief that yoga belongs to every body, Paulina’s Vinyasa and Yin classes are designed as inclusive sanctuaries. She prioritizes accessibility, ensuring that students of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to arrive exactly as they are. Her teaching moves beyond the physical asana, treating the postures as a gateway to deeper self-inquiry and emotional resilience. By meticulously linking breath to motion, Paulina creates a space where the "inner wilderness" can be explored with curiosity rather than judgment. She inspires her...

30 March, 2026

Phelicia Okon Magnusson is a queer, Black, Sierra Leonean, Nigerian, and Swedish American herbalist, flower essence practitioner, Abọ̀rìṣà, intuitive channel, and mother living on Vashon Island. She is the founder of Queen & Crow Healing Arts, where she has offered flower essence work, herbalism, and community-based healing since 2017, and has been seeing clients and teaching about plants and embodied healing since 2014. Phelicia’s work centers people of color and those seeking to reclaim intuition, heal generational trauma, and move through life transitions with deeper resilience and trust. Her practice is shaped by a lineage of plant wisdom rooted in her great-grandmother’s practices in Brooklyn, her mother’s teachings from the forests of northern Idaho, and her own life lived between Hawaiʻi, northern Idaho, New York City,...

31 December, 2025

Dr. Rachel Stricker is a naturopathic physician, homeopath, herbalist, and yoga teacher devoted to restoring trust in the body’s innate intelligence and the wisdom of earth-based medicine. With over a decade of clinical practice and many years of study in homeopathy, botanical medicine, nutrition, and somatic healing, her work bridges practical medical knowledge with intuitive, relational care. Dr. Rachel currently practices at the Mederi Center in Ashland, Oregon, a nonprofit clinic and educational center dedicated to optimizing health, promoting longevity, and improving the quality of life of those facing chronic diseases, especially cancer. She has worked extensively with individuals with chronic infections, digestive concerns, hormonal imbalance, and cardiovascular disease. Homeopathy has long been a cornerstone of her practice, particularly as a gentle and precise medicine for...

31 December, 2024

Rosie has always loved making things with her hands. When her love for the outdoors and crafting met during an ancestral skills class 10 years ago things took off. With a background in traditional crafts and a deep connection to nature, Rosie seamlessly intertwines her love for teaching with her appreciation for sustainable practices. She is passionate about her connection to the earth and sharing that with the students that she teaches. She currently teaches middle school in the Santa Cruz mountains during the school year. During the summers she teaches at an Earth Caretaker school in Mt. Shasta teaching ancestral crafts and primitive skills, as well as teaching a Rite of Passage class for young girls. Rosie’s classes at Spirit Weavers provide a space for...

31 December, 2023

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...

30 December, 2025

Samantha Black is a Seattle-based movement educator, mother, artist, and community leader devoted to helping women reconnect with their bodies in a way that feels honest, powerful, and self-directed. Her work is rooted in lived experience and creativity, honoring the body as an intelligent, expressive system and inviting women to move in their own rhythms and sensuality without apology. For the past decade, Samantha has immersed herself in the study of yogic philosophy, anatomy, and embodied movement. She is a 500-hour YTT–certified yoga instructor, mat pilates instructor, and a pole dancer. She has also spoken publicly on topics including Sex & Intimacy in Relation to Pain and Trauma, bringing depth, nuance, and compassion to conversations often avoided or oversimplified. Samantha specializes in Erotic Permission—the reclamation of desire,...

22 December, 2025
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