INSTRUCTORS MOON

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

  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

I am the co-owner of Clay Sand Soul, a natural building business based in the Columbia River Gorge. My partner, Josh Burg, and I are committed to teaching others about the power and possibilities of Clay as a building material, as well as other locally abundant materials like sand, straw, stone, and wood. We work with cob, straw bale, clay and lime plasters & paints, clay sculptures, earthen floors, living roofs, and reciprocal roofs. We feel that building one’s own shelter is an innate human right that has been slowly brought into the field of specialists and created work sites devoid of community and cycles of reciprocity. Our vision and hope is to create community and foster social healing through the workshops and work sites...

03 January, 2026
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