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Wai'ala is an mother, maker, artist, nature based art educator specializing in botanical dyeing, storyteller, a 3rd generation small scale flower farmer, homesteader, and keiki o ka 'āina (child of the land) and lineal descendant of Hawai’i - born and raised on moku o Keawe (Hawai’i island) with a history rooted in conservation, culture and living close to the land with reverence and aloha.  As a land steward, and a nature based artist working in fiber arts, floral artistry and traditional lei making; she weaves her passion of sustainability, preservation, perpetuation and reciprocity for the natural world into all she shares through storytelling, folklore, hands on experience and honoring the interconnectedness of land, linage, people and practice. Waiʻala resides on the misty mountain slopes of Mauna Loa,...

  Yeshe Meryemana Matthews is Mandala Priestess of the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple and owner of The Sacred Well metaphysical shop in Dunsmuir, CA. Yeshe has dedicated her life to female mysteries and sacred healing practices, with ongoing study and practice in Tibetan Buddhism, Siberian/Mongolian Shamanism, Ifa, Mayan Cosmology, herbal healing, and Dianic Goddess Spirituality. With a Master's degree in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, she has studied women's mysticism, shamanism, and matriarchal communities for over twenty years. She maintains a public shrine to Kuan Yin that thousands of people visit each year. She has been a professional diviner for over 20 years and has performed more than 15,000 readings. She also takes people on small-group pilgrimages to holy sites of the...

    This workshop will be about seeing ourselves truly in the light and colors we want to see ourselves. We will dive into word of affirmations, colors and feelings, and aspirations. We then, will dive into light sketching ourselves with a mirror and meditation, while painting ourselves. Healing through Self Portrait Painting Workshop is taught by Willorna Mendiola-Lara.  ...