INSTRUCTORS SUN

  I am Sarah Maclean Bicknell, born of Mari, born of Alice Maclean born out of the west highlands of Scotland, of Gaelic language and Queen Victoria’s empire. I am a Brit who washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest amidst seaweed, ravens and cedar bough in what is now known as Seattle, WA. Also known as Grandmother Sarah, I am a healer, teacher, dreamer, and mentor and have studied healing and ceremonial work in North American Indigenous traditions for over 30 years. I incorporate my Celtic roots into my present North American practice which includes, intuitive readings, workshops, family and dream constellation, ceremony, and soul doctoring. I stand in deep gratitude to my elders and teachers that have gone before and stand firmly in my...

15 December, 2023

  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

Haiku Rebel is a certified wizard, independent scholar, and regenerative creatrix who has traversed realms and lifetimes in service of liberating the feminine and evolving consciousness. She embarks on a galactic mission to awaken Earth’s sacred codes—the meta-language of the goddess—holding the wisdom to restore harmony and balance across all realms. Her life is a constellation of adventures and pilgrimages, each a galaxy in the ever-expanding cosmology of Quantum Feminism: the vibrational art of rearranging reality through feminine wisdom. Haiku has shaped worlds both literal and mystical. She conjured the magic of some of the world’s most iconic artists, guiding high-profile tours for Alanis Morissette, Phoebe Bridgers, and more. She has led women’s circles and classes, channeling the mysteries of the feminine into the sacred geometry...

31 December, 2024

Hannah's journey has been one of deep inquiry, meaningful connection, and ever-unfolding wonder. Guided by a blend of contemporary studies and non-traditional experiences, she has woven a dynamic path rich in healing, purpose, and enchantment. With a bachelor’s degree in human development and graduate studies in eco-psychology, Hannah integrates her academic foundation with diverse explorations in birth and postpartum care, family life, folk herbalism, nature-based soul connection, social and environmental activism, grief work, rites of passage, ritual, ancestry, and storytelling. Utterly captivated by the human experience, Hannah believes every being is born with a unique genius—a gift continually called forth by the unfolding moments of life. Her work is dedicated to awakening this essence in others, drawing from the vibrant tapestry of her life’s studies to...

08 January, 2025

Hélène Bisnaire grew up in an agriculturally rich area in southern Ontario, Canada where the art of preserving food was passed down for generations. Her mother taught her to can and preserve the diverse produce available in their area. As a certified Health Coach who turned to holistic health at an early age, one of Hélène’s first jobs was at a health food restaurant, where she had the opportunity to deepen her practice in the art of fermentation and herbal medicine. Ever since, she has incorporated different fermented foods into her own kitchen. She now lives on a small farm in Southern Oregon, where her abundant garden gives her the opportunity to share the traditions she learned as a child with her own children.   Hélène will be sharing...

29 December, 2023

Hosanna is a pigment forager, earthenware potter, and earth artist of Northern European-American descent living on Kalapuya land in the foothills of the Cascades in Western Oregon. Through working closely with the clays and stones of the landscape where she is a guest, she has been drawn into their geological narratives. These ancient and recent history reflected in the rocky landscape, roadsides, and deposits of the valley connect her to the enoughness and beauty of nature’s limits. Facing compulsive consumption, feeling the grief for the land, and challenging complacency have become the inner foundations of her work and purpose, among relationship building and magic making with her materials. Hosanna has been dedicated to working with wild clays for eight years, since first learning about pit fire pottery...

03 January, 2025

  Born in Mesa, Arizona, Indigenous to and raised on the island of Guam, Isis Indriya dedicates her life in service to prayer, education, and community activism. She is an educator and founder of The Academy of Oracle Arts and Imaginal Community where she teaches many classes alongside other luminaries. She offers classes in Ritual, The Art of Offering, Divination, Egyptian Cosmology, and Hermeticism, as well as a 9-month Apprenticeship program in Oracular Arts. With the loss of her Mother, Deborah, at age of 4, her desire to commune with the Unseen, the Ancestors, and those on the other side has been at the forefront of her life and what led her to Ritual as a way of Life. At the age of 17 she moved to the...

09 January, 2025

Jaguar Womban (La Vonne Natasha Caesar) is a multidimensional healing artist, Medicine Womban and Visionary Mother of The WOMBNation. She is an intuitive herbalist, ancestral channel, poet and teacher who shares ways to connect to Mother Earth using Plant Medicine and Ceremony. In both her private TEAsessions and monthly virtual New Moon WombSteam, Jaguar teaches how to use the unique self-care practice of WombSteaming as a Ritual of Prayer and a Sacred Tool to awaken our innate Womb Wisdom and Divine Internal Guidance System. Jaguar's journey into the mystical began when she was struck by a car while on foot and had a Near Death Experience (NDE) that left her in a coma with a diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury. This began her healing path of...

23 January, 2025

  Jessica is a mother, a medicine maker and a dreamer. She braids these threads together as a way to learn what it is to be in right relationship to self, each other and the Earth. She has been steeped in the study of conscious dreaming with her teacher, Sarah Maclean Bicknell, and has found dreaming to be a pathway into deeper intimacy with herself. Jessica is passionate about supporting people to honor their own relationship with dreamtime. She is also co-owner at Taproot Medicine, where she crafts delicious herbal medicine and regularly utilizes dreamwork as a way to build her business with integrity and care.   Jessica Kleiderman will be sharing Dream Practice and Plant Allies....

31 December, 2024

  Iosellev “Josie” Castaneda Morales, is a modern day Curandera. At an early age she was introduced to the practice of Curanderismo, as a way of life. Today, Josie serves her Miami Community as a Yerbera, one who works with herbs. She shares her knowledge with depth, joy, and clarity. Her new book “Latine Herbalism: A Beginner's Guide to Modern Curanderismo, Healing Plants, and Folk Traditions of the Americas” shares Remedios y Rituales for personal self-care and healing. It is with great enthusiasm she brings to life this book with her Hermanas at the gathering in 2025   Josie Castañeda will be sharing Ceremonia de IxCacao - IxCacao Ceremony and LatineHerbalism & Modern Curanderismo....

31 December, 2024