INSTRUCTORS SUN

DeAnna Batdorff Ayurveda Practitioner, MyBody Educator, Lymphatic Specialist DeAnna is a wholistic health detective with 38 years of experience as a Tibetan Ayurveda Practitioner, Lymphatic Massage Specialist, Nutrition Counselor, Western Herbalist, and Clinical Aromatherapist. She specializes in reading the heart song of the pulse with face and tongue mapping as primary assessment tools. DeAnna’s teachings are rooted in her three foundational pillars: listen to self through our symptoms, the right to take action by nature and that happiness equals better health. In 1995, some 30 years ago, dhyana Essentials was born! A therapeutic touch, essential products and MyBody educational hub. Her vision is built upon “for the people” health access, offering by donation community clinics and cost effective plant remedies. DeAnna also established the only Medi-Cal/Medi-Care funded Ayurvedic...

06 January, 2026

Dharmika is a botanist and musician from Eugene, Oregon. Before moving north, her Watershed Management degree led her to southern Oregon. Her love for plants, as well as her music, were shaped by years in the mountains, conducting rare plant surveys over thousands of acres of forest land. She fell in love with the complex ecosystems and diversity of southern Oregon plant life. She moved north and continued with wetland delineation and seed collection work, and then focused on raising two kids. Pivoting to ecology education, she produced an award-winning children’s music album about rainforests, “Good Green Fun!”, before her present musical endeavors, producing and performing uplifting, nature-based sing-along folk music and circle songs, and her new album, "Linger by the Water". She’s also created educational...

02 January, 2026

Elise Higley is a folk herbalist, wife, mother, grandmother and farmer. With her background in Western Herbalism at California School of Herbal Studies and her husband Jeff’s background in organic farming they blended their dreams and created a full-fledged herb farm in 2013. Together they own and operate Oshala Farm. Oshala Farm is a 290 acre Regenerative Organic Certified® family run farm in Applegate Valley, Oregon with 90 plus medicinal herbs in cultivation. In her pastime, (10pm-5am) she works on agricultural advocacy as a board member of Our Family Farms, Rogue Valley Food System Network and represents a farmer’s voice on the board of AHPA, American Herbal Products Association.  Elise has taught for over a decade at numerous herbal gatherings and events nationally along with organizing and hosting...

28 December, 2025

Emma is a dynamic facilitator and healer for the inquisitive spirit to arrive to moments of presence and vibrational resonance with the natural world expressed through body, mind, and sense of source. Her work with clients finds emphasis in Ayurvedic bodywork, digestive health, birth and postpartum support. Emma works with students and clients to help reestablish balance while promoting new expansion from previous conceived limitations. She approaches bodywork in a therapeutic way to help reformat previously held unsupportive patterns of movement, breath and thought. She shares her devotion to Ayurvedic healing arts through her private practice, Ritual Wisdom. With a collaborative nature, Emma works with clients to attune with their unique elemental expression. Understanding that our ability to experience ease and joy in the body begins...

01 January, 2026

  As a Relationship Counselor, I help clients recognize how systemic forces—patriarchy, capitalism, organized religion, white supremacy, and colonialism—have shaped our relationship patterns across generations. For those assigned female at birth, these systems often create deep conditioning to doubt or dismiss our inner truth, teaching us to prioritize others' realities over our own. The path to healing involves releasing the need to manipulate and control both ourselves and others. As we let go of these patterns, we discover that unraveling from codependency opens the door to deeper, more authentic love. This journey is about reclaiming your inner compass and cultivating genuine connections based on authenticity rather than obligation. At the heart of this work is learning how to be together in a good way—accepting ourselves and others exactly...

08 January, 2026

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Northern California with nearly 30 years of experience in community mental health and private practice. I am a direct descendant of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California through my mother and grandmother. My relationship to this lineage is rooted in respect, reconnection, and responsibility, rather than identifying as a traditional culture-bearer. My work is trauma-informed and somatically oriented, with ADHD-focused training and decades of sitting alongside women and mothers across many life stages. My teachers include community mental health supervisors, trauma- and nervous-system–focused clinicians, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous elders who have taught me to listen to land, body, and story. In my practice, I specialize in working with ADHD, which I refer to as attention-different, and supporting women in moving...

01 January, 2026

Goddess Brittney King is a Pleasure Priestess, transformational retreat facilitator, embodiment mentor, and ritualist devoted to helping women come home to their bodies, intuition, and pleasure. Her work is rooted in the knowing that pleasure is a portal to your power and that when women trust their bodies, they reclaim freedom, truth, and embodied joy. Brittney’s path into this work began in a pole dancing studio that changed her life, awakening a deep remembrance of sensuality, self expression, and confidence. Today, she creates playful, reverent spaces where women are invited to strip off the masks they’ve worn to survive and step fully into their authentic and life giving truth. At the heart of Goddess Brittney’s work is a devotion to the natural world and the wisdom...

31 December, 2025

Grace Van Bodhi is a fourth-generation acupuncturist, mother, perinatal specialist, and ceremonial guide devoted to cyclical living, embodiment, and sacred return. Rooted in Traditional East Asian Medicine, somatic healing, and ancestral wisdom, her work invites women to listen deeply to the rhythms of their bodies and the seasons that move through them. Grace is the creator of MoonMapping, a cyclical framework supporting women in attuning to hormonal, lunar, and seasonal rhythms, and MoonSONG, a communal singing and ritual practice rooted in voice, resonance, and belonging. Together, her work supports nervous system regulation, womb-centered healing, and reproductive and perinatal thresholds—returning to fertile waters and moving from force to flow with a spirit that is grounded, playful, and alive. Grace Van Bodhi will be sharing MoonMapping: Returning to Rhythm...

30 December, 2025

  Haley Nichole is a Holistic Fertility Nutritionist, Birth Doula & Mother who has been a devoted student of the female body for over a decade. She has extensive study in hormonal health, nutrition, women’s physiology, somatics & traditional birth keeping. She is the creator of Root & Womb Collective, a space where she supports women through the full reproductive continuum—preconception, fertility, pregnancy, birth & motherhood. Her approach honors both the physiology of the female body and the emotional & spiritual layers that shape a woman’s experience. Haley lives in the San Diego Mountains with her husband & daughter, where they raise sheep + chickens & tend to their organic pear orchard. Haley will be teaching Birth: Reclaiming our Feminine Rite of Passage at the Sun Session.  ...

29 December, 2025

  Harmony loves sharing her passion for indigo dying and Shibori techniques. She has taught indigo dyeing workshops at Pacifica Gardens, a nature education center, Spirit Weavers Gathering, and facilitated private group classes. I began natural dyeing in my young 20’s when I became dedicated to finding sustainable and eco-friendly options for my children’s clothing. In the last eight years, I have fallen in love with the variety of beautiful blues that indigo dye offers to us! Indigo dye has primarily been used in Asia and India, dating back many centuries. Natural dyeing is found in all cultures worldwide and is one of the oldest art forms. With utmost respect for the heritage of this plant and dyeing techniques originating in Japan, it is an honor to...

27 December, 2024
Spirit Weavers Gathering
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