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I am a full time mother and herbalist, local to Cave Junction, Oregon. My farm is on the edge of the Siskiyou Forest, where my husband and I grow, feed, educate and nurture our four home birthed children. Their ages range from 8-2 years old and they keep our homestead rambunctious, busy and filled with learning. I have been full time on our farm for over 10 years. Together, as a family, we raise 1000 chickens for meat production annually, grow 10+ acres of medicinal herbs and supply 30+ Bulk Loose Herbs and 50+ Single Plant Extracts via our Online Storefront and Local Farmer’s Markets. We work within the rhythms of the seasons and spend many hours exploring our epic Pacific Northwest ecosystem. My educational background is...

01 January, 2023

Akhila is a dreamer, seeker, naturalist, creative, guide, teacher, and forever student who welcomes this opportunity in being a human animal. She is a transpersonal psychologist with a clinical practice based in San Francisco, CA and takes every opportunity she can to live out of a backpack and sleep in alpine air. Akhila weaves the somatic, symbolic, and interpersonal. Professional training in dream analysis and trauma healing, paired with ongoing mentorship in indigenous ways of dreaming, make Akhila especially equipped in supporting people navigating nightmares. Her work evolves as she does, and she is currently unearthing the next iteration of offerings that integrate ecopsychology, ancestral remembering, and social justice. Akhila Kolesar will be facilitating dream groups in the Dreaming Den and sharing Shadow Work: The Portal...

01 January, 2023

  Ali (they/them) is a courageous, compassionate, curious and creative being from the Pacific Northwest where they practice hypnosis, breathwork, permaculture, ancestral skills, and steep in experiential learning and reciprocity with two wildlings, Dakota (6) and River (4) with partner Noah. Ali was raised rough and growing to be a tough individual led them into the dedicated path of softening with the chosen tending of their traumas and challenges within them and beyond them to lead and receive aliveness and love. They became aware of the force and vitality of breath through great challenges from physical strength to compete and to the vital survival in a severe accident leading to a life with limbloss. Passion for rewilding and transforming old ways has led to discovering the instinctive nature...

02 January, 2023

  KAIJA is a multi-instrumental heartist, producer, vibrational medium & creator of Plant Vibrations, She marries sound, |ight & nature as medicine to create immersive experiences for our people to come home to themselves. By connecting a sanctuary of sound with breath, plants, flowers, herbs, soil, water, elementals, sacred resonance, cymatics, energy, movement meditation & intuitive knowing, KAIJA encourages us to feel soul good inside out. Along with live music, KAIJA channels & records live plant vibrations at divine times into her soundscapes. This is a first ever of its kind offering to the world. With the intention of giving medicine to our people, KAIJA has collaborated with Gold Water Alchemy to bring plant vibrations potions & elixirs. Awaken your portal, as you universe with multi-dimensional senses,...

02 January, 2023

Amber Marie Deen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, folk herbalist, and facilitator, residing in Muscogee Creek territory of Oklahoma. She is a practitioner of meditative and improvisational movement as a means to explore our inner landscapes. Amber comes from a long lineage of diaspora and honors multiple cultural traditions and bloodlines through celebrations, rituals, and long pilgrimages of offerings and movement prayers to sacred spaces of Mother Earth. Her creative work focuses on Spirit, the sacred feminine, and human processes of grief, love, and beauty of healing through surrender. Her post graduate site specific performances and films have been witnessed in art galleries, museums, and choreography festivals. Amber has specialized training in Social Emotional Learning, movement pedagogy, nature mentorship, Waldorf, and as a doula. She continues her education...

15 January, 2023

  Amy Sierra Bolton Taylor Mitchell, M.S., L.Ac., the founder and clinical director of Mitchell Family Acupuncture, a women's health clinic in Berkeley Ca. She is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Clinical Herbalist with her Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She practices medicine with joy that is rooted in her own experience of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and is informed by her over twenty five years of study and practice in the world of natural medicine. Amy was first introduced to Chinese Medicine while in University in northern Italy, while studying Tai Chi. Her discovery and study of Eastern practices and philosophy facilitated both a profound inner opening and a coming home. When she first began studying Chinese Medicine, everything made sense. Her Northern California roots...

29 December, 2022

Andrea is a successful Actress, Writer, and High-Level Mentor who specializes in teaching Women to claim their birthright as creative powerhouses. She uses her intuitive wisdom and other lovingly cultivated gifts and healing modalities to guide Women to the highest expression of their potential, resulting in deep empowerment, abundance, and expanded consciousness. Andrea is currently embodying her own current highest expression in the beautiful and magical portal of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. If you wish to view her offerings for intuitive guidance, inner child/shadow work, energy healing, soul synthesis, sensual embodiment, or high level mentorship, visit her instagram @andreabordeaux or email her at andrea@goddessvibes.com Andrea Bordeaux will be offering Sensual Embodiment, Boundaries & Resourcing...

10 January, 2023

  I am first generation Filipino, and third generation Scandinavian. Raised by the ocean in the Coast Salish lands, I have been blessed to have been taught drum craft in the traditional ways. A Mother to four young boys now living along the rivers, creeks and peaks of Southern Oregon - Takelma lands (Takubeh-Williams). My highest creative calling at this moment in my life journey is the traditional tanning of sheepskin pelts and hides, drum making, and lapidary stonework. At Spirit Weavers I feel so blessed to be in the village of womyn. I live in a family of men and though I do have a supportive circle of sisters, to live among the Womban in such a big way feels magical. Gratitude to my teachers who introduced me...

31 December, 2022

  Ang Caruso (they/them) is a white, queer, non-binary, able bodied being who lives on unceded Hohokam, Aikmel O’Odham, Yavapai Apache and O’odham Jeweḍ lands in Arizona. Originally from the Ozarks, Ang moved to AZ to attend the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. They have their AOS in Holistic Healthcare with a concentration in Mind/Body Transformational Psychology, specializing in Life Coaching and Hypnotherapy. Ang also completed the Master Massage Program, specializing in Cranial Unwinding, Polarity Therapy and Reflexology. Ang is also an ordained minister. After battling life long chronic illness, pain, inflammation, fatigue, addiction and chronic symptoms, Ang found more healing through using plant foods and now helps support others on healing journeys. Their greatest passion is to serve their 2SLGBTQIA+ community to heal, process, learn,...

27 December, 2022

    Angelica's passion is empowering mothers to listen to their intuitive voice in healing their own children. She firmly believes that mothers know their children best, better than any experts, and can be guided by her innate heart based wisdom to very specific healing modalities and remedies to heal the most complex issues in children and families. She has written a book, Healing Complex Children with Homeopathy, and teaches in depth classes in homeopathy and holistic medicine through her School of Intuitive Homeopathy (www,schoolofintuitivehomeopathy.org). Angelica is Naturopathic graduate of Bastyr University and currently lives in Ashland Oregon. Angelica will be sharing Tapping into your Mother's Intuition to heal your complex child. ...

28 December, 2022