INSTRUCTORS SUN

Growing up on the coast of Miami, Florida, Lexy was always found in nature and in the ocean. She found the natural world most inspiring, and went on to receive a degree in Biology. After receiving her degree, she decided to dig deeper into the ways of her ancestors, learning more about plant medicine and primitive skills. Her grandparents were nomadic Romanian Romani’s (Gypsies). They migrated to New York during World War II. She found that her individuality was deeply seeded from her Grandmother and the Eastern European nomadic culture. Full of artistic drive and a love for medicinal plants and natural fibers, she went on to her own journey working with textiles and leather and creating herbal medicine. Lexy has worked in many fields,...

02 January, 2023

Lily Chau was born and raised in the green mountain state of Vermont. Surrounded by many folks who worked with and studied plants; she naturally became interested in exploring this world, the plant kingdom/queendom at an early age. She transplanted to California in 2014 to study Jewelry Fabrication, Textiles and Herbalism. Which later led her to the California School of Herbal Studies in 2018 where she since decided to stay. She lives in a tiny cabin on the land of the Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo in Sonoma County, CA. Lily enjoys sharing her passion for exploration and has been traveling 6 month out of the year via her converted shuttle bus to ancestral skills + womens gatherings to learn, share, create and teach. She is...

31 December, 2023

Liv is a writer, bonus mom, and a thousand other things. She lives and loves in Sonoma County, California. She will be sharing a Stepmother Support Circle. with Arwyn Moonrise and Maya Lowe. ...

07 April, 2024

Lorka believes music to be an embodied practice of personal and cultural healing. Drawing from her own post-war experience as the daughter of Soviet refugees, she explores themes of belonging, displacement and ancestral healing in her work. Her music carries the complexity of paradox alongside the potency of prayer— blending death into life, silence into sound and winter into spring. As a multi-instrumental loop artist, Lorka weaves harp, breath, cello and vocals into soundscapes of echos, loops and layers. Her music has been described as haunting, intimate and medicinal. Lorka joins the Spirit Weavers community for a second year, with the intention of supporting women in the journey towards inner wholeness. Lorka combines training from her own ancestral tradition with a background in somatic psychology, neuroscience and...

02 January, 2024

      Maggie is an outsider artist & animism revivalist on the long path toward elderhood. Her roles in the world take several shifting forms and include painter, poet, sculptor, jewelry designer, art director, photographer, folk herbalist and psychedelic guide. Maggie will be in the Artist's Village as well as sharing Jewelry Making Basics...

04 January, 2024

Mary inhabits the liminal hinterlands of sensuality and paradox. Though her body of work spans form and genre—she mostly creates through the lens of a poet. Weaving, knitting, spinning and wool have been potent teachers on her path of devotional remembrance. The dynamic tension inherent in fiber arts lives in her heart and hands not just as metaphor, but as deep creational truth that feeds and inspires her research, play, and praxis. As woman, mother, artist and devotee to the mystery— Mary’s work is dedicated to exploring the erotic backwaters of our wild aliveness. Opening to the penetrative pulse of life surging through the terrestrial realm, the sensual unfurling waiting to spring forth when women embody their God-given *permission*, and the integrated spiritual embodiment that this...

31 December, 2023

Mary Sheila Gonnella, BCHN has dedicated her life to helping people reclaim their health. As a Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Ayurvedic educator, she provides the information, insight, empowerment, and support you need to take charge of your health and live the life you were meant to live. Mary Sheila taught at Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts for 7 years where one of her students said “Mary Sheila is one of the best teachers I've encountered in all of my studies. She is not only passionate about the subject matter, but lives what she teaches from the depth of her being.” As a lead up to her deep dive into all things nutrition, Mary Sheila developed a deep passion for basketry, wildcrafting, seaweed harvesting, farming,...

31 December, 2023

Mikhel Neshat hails from the Motherland of Austin, Texas, though California has been her home for 16 years. She’s in the midst of building her grassroots company, Wayfinder Archery, a Traditional Archery and education company which provides basic and fundamental knowledge in instinctive shooting, development of a relationship with the bow & arrow, and a platform to transform your relationship to yourself & nature. Wayfinder Archery brings people together to remember who they are through the power of presence, embodiment, breath, nature, yielding weapons well, good ole’ fashion humor, authenticity, and high-quality company. Mikhel brings a special twist to the Archery Range via her tracking skills and insights of the human psyche & body language, and subconscious symbology, paired with some damn fine instinctive and intuitive abilities....

02 January, 2024

Miriam (she/they) has been studying and practicing traditional earth-based skills for 15 years, learning to listen to the land and find magic and beauty where’er she goes. These ancient ways of working closely with the elements illuminate our inter-connectedness with the ecosystems we are directly woven into. Born and raised in a spiritual community on Nisenan land in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, spirit and nature connection were intricately woven into Miriam’s early life. She grew up climbing cedar and apple trees on the lands that held her. Days spent exploring the river, running barefoot through the woods: red dirt toes, berry stained fingers, pine tangled hair. This upbringing planted seeds of a lifelong pursuit for connection and collaboration with the plants and creatures...

12 January, 2024

  Molly is a self-taught woodworker, painter, and Earth artist. Her path to becoming an artist became a journey of remembering and reconnecting to the place within that lives beyond the stories, experiences, and identities of her personal life. Learning to create from this place opened a new realm of understanding how to co-create with the Earth and be a clear vessel for Life to create through. This led her to begin communing with trees and using mineral pigments to bring her visions into form. Her and the trees now work together to share energetic imprints of the elemental and spiritual world in each piece, blurring the lines between seen and unseen. Molly lives off-grid in Northern Washington where she spends her time playing and creating in...

01 January, 2024