INSTRUCTORS MOON

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

Sea thrives as a MexicaKanaka Maoli2Spirit//Mahu movement & gardening educator, interdisciplinary visual artist, community organizer, medicine maker, body worker, fire flow dancer and haumana. They are honored to mostly spend their days under the sun-connecting youth to the power of their potential through spatially dynamic play and deep connection with our aloha ‘aina. Inspired by movement as a catalyst for catharsis and refinement of the will, Sea is illuminated by guiding others into fuller embodiment of their physical being. They strive towards strengthening students' connection to their confidence, personal dynamic, attuned skill, and body geography. While participating in ‘Rod, Stave and Spear' folks will begin working with copper rods and staves through movements that connect them to their finger dexterity, limb & shoulder mobility, strength of posture...

31 December, 2024

Shekinah Blu Sophia is a practicing Mystic, holistic practitioner, and energy worker devoted to guiding souls to become their own healers. Having cultivated wisdom through sacred medicine ceremonies and a deep connection to the mysteries of ascension, Blu weaves ancient wisdom and modern practices to facilitate profound transformation and healing. Carrying the ethos of "No risk, no magic" and "Know Thyself," Blu lives with a deep reverence for nature, fostering creative flow and creating sacred spaces for connection, healing, and empowerment. Currently training to become a breathwork practitioner, Blu incorporates conscious breathing, sacred rituals, and energy alignment to support beings in awakening their highest potential. Rooted in the principles of connection, growth, and healing, Blu is honored to walk this path alongside others in service to the...

31 December, 2024

My name is Shele Jeanne Jessee. My first name is a place by the river in Welsh and both my middle and last names mean a gift. One a gift you receive and the other a gift you give. I am honored and excited to share intuitive leather bags this year at Spirit Weavers. I have taught this class for several years and it is almost always transformational. I ride horses full time, and run my online business www.hollowboneonline.com I am a California girl through and through but live in Texas full time chasing my wildest dreams as a horsewoman. Horses are a gift and I am in service to them, the cowboy spirit and the land. I have always been involved in ranching in one way or...

06 January, 2025

  Shelyrose Wright is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in herbalism, yoga, somatics and ancestral energetic healing practices. She grew up among the red mountains in Las Vegas, Nevada where she learned that the land breathes, feels, remembers and understands. Born from parents who’s ancestors were descendants from Nigeria, Benin, Togo and other central West African regions she has learned and is still learning to connect the threads from traditions lost by weaving together ancestry, ancestry of land and the knowledge and ancient wisdom of the plants. In a state of disconnection from land and self, due to past years of taught and learnt ways of adapting to her surroundings. She found herself living on the more recent ancestral lands of North Carolina, where the plants,...

04 January, 2025

  Sienna (she/her) is a potter, cook, gardener, plant-lover, mystic, and all-around craftswoman. Raised in the Sacramento Valley on a family farm, she grew up crawling through the spring weeds, eating warm summer peaches, and working in the orchards and dehydrators during harvest time. She started her first garden around age 12, and began studying ceramics in 1999. After a stint in culinary school, she interned at a farm to learn organic gardening and sustainable living in 2003. She now has more than 30 years of experience in home gardening, and tends a perfectly-sized kitchen garden and maturing food forest at her home in Northern California. Her holy trinity of gardening, cooking, and pottery are intertwined in a seasonally-based, locally-grown lifestyle which she hopes to share with...

27 December, 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