INSTRUCTORS SUN

  Maran is a licensed art therapist and specializes in working with people of all ages using intentional, creative and somatically rich modalities as conduits for deep work to help give feeling form.   Maran favors a trauma-informed approach with neurodevelopmentally targeted interventions that encourage autonomy in the individual. She is passionate about following guidance from the natural world and wild psyche to access tools for expression, creativity, and exploration that rewire us into a rhythmic symbiosis within ourselves as extensions of our environments.   Maran Bloomingdale will be sharing Felted Talisman and Vessels....

31 December, 2024

Mary Sheila Gonnella is devoted to helping people take control of their health and live their fullest lives. As a Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Wahls Certified Practitioner, and Ayurvedic educator, she provides personalized guidance, empowering her clients and students to make lasting changes that support vitality and balance. For seven years, Mary Sheila taught at Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts, earning a reputation as an inspiring and impactful instructor. One student reflected, “Mary Sheila is one of the best teachers I’ve encountered in all of my studies. She not only teaches with passion but embodies the principles she shares from the depth of her being.” Her dedication to health education stems from her own journey of discovery and healing. Over the years, she has developed expertise...

30 December, 2024

  My name is Maya Johanna McNeil, CMT (they/she), I am a Scottish-American folk medicine artist and healing arts practitioner. I am a CMT of ten years practice, a continual student of the integrated lineages carried and taught by DeAnna Batdorff, a devoted daughter of the land of the Cailleach, and singer for bridge building, through story and song. I maintain a ritual bodywork practice for all bodies at Manzanita Wellness in Berkeley, California. I am gratefully returning to Spirit Weavers for both Sun and Moon to provide breast massage and educational empowerment sessions in the Areola. www.mayamcneil.com/bodywork instagram: @maya_mcneil_music   Maya McNeil will be teaching The Hearth of Our Matter~ A Path of Fire and Water at Sun Session.  ...

02 January, 2025

Mikhel Neshat hails from the motherland of Austin, Texas, though California has been her home for 17 years. She’s been slowly building her grassroots company, Wayfinder Archery. Wayfinder is a Traditional Archery company teaching fundamental knowledge in instinctive shooting, the development of a relationship with the bow & arrow, and a platform to transform your relationship to yourself & nature. Mikhel brings people together to remember who they are through the power of presence, self reflection, authenticity, embodiment, nature, high-quality company, yielding weapons well, and good ole’ fashion humor. Mikhel brings a special twist to the Archery Range via her tracking skills and insights of the human psyche, body language, and subconscious symbology. She’s known to shoot straight from the heart paired with some damn fine...

02 January, 2025

Miriam Grace (she/they) has been studying and sharing wilderness survival and earth living skills for over fifteen years. Her work strives to merge sustainability, beauty making, craft, and resilience through ancestral arts and a deepening connection to the natural world. Born and raised in an intentional community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, Miriam’s lifelong closeness to nature and spirituality has intimately informed her experiences and offerings. Miriam received extensive education at the Tracker School in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey as a young adult, and has since studied traditional crafts and earth skills on her own and with mentors from many walks of life. She has led workshops and run programs independently and in collaboration with other schools, events, and skills gatherings for people...

03 January, 2025

Misty Dawn is a mama, a midwife and an herbalist. Descending from east Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Misty is a generational women’s healing arts keeper who has had a calling to serve women since she was young. Her ancestors lived close to the land as farmers and herbalist and much of her wisdom has been passed down from her aunties and grandmothers. . Misty graduated from a traditional midwifery school in 2003 and has continued to study with midwives around the globe. Misty believes that birth is a sacred right of passage, a 10 moon journey from maiden to motherhood. She honors pregnancy as a liminal phase in life, a phase of becoming. The best way to support this phase is to empower women...

05 January, 2024

Misty is a mother, beauty expert, and ritualist with over 16 years of experience helping women embody their essence through intentional beauty and self-adornment. As the founder of a high-end beauty brand, she integrates ancient traditions with modern practices to guide women toward inner radiance and vitality. Grounded in her studies of intuitive practices, ceremonial arts, and women’s wisdom, Misty creates practical rituals that align women with their natural rhythms. Her work offers a blueprint to access reclamation of the innate inner wisdom within to harness energy, creativity, and strength to cultivate greater balance and vitality in life—enhancing the ability to weave meaningfully with the world around us.   Misty Spinney & Tiffany Janay will be teaching Natural birth control: Cycle Tracking and Semen Retention....

10 January, 2025

Natasha Pachalove is an energyworker, full spectrum doula + ritual dancer committed to illuminating the Heart Centered Truth in all Beings. She has facilitated Red Tents + studied embodiment through meditation, ceremony + movement since 2015. Her lived experience of ceremonial abortion at home enables her to support others in their grief of pregnancy loss. Natasha utilizes Rhythm, Plant Medicine, Breathwork + Prayer to alchemize our greatest pains into the light that guides us Home to our greatest strengths. Through her ceremonies, workshops + private sessions, she is devoted to creating nurturing spaces where people can activate their inner resources to heal. She honors the shedding of the Womb as the most sacred process that aligns us with the natural rhythms needed to create a purposeful life. Natasha...

07 January, 2024

Nila was born and lived in Australia’s region of the Great Barrier Reef in the traditional lands of the Tjabukai peoples up until 2016. An avid traveler, her global wanderings led her through Asia, India, Europe and the Americas, and informing her pursuit of working and educating around birth, ritual, and herbal/plant medicines. Her bloodline hails from mixed European, Scandinavian and Peruvian decent. She now resides in Southern Arizona, she has her practice named Readings, Rites and Remedies in the brick and mortar of Wolf Bone Emporium, where her hand crafted Ritual Incense blends are highly sought after. Nila is renowned for her embodied wisdom and lifestyle cultivation of magical principles, in her avid pursuit of esoteric and mystical arts for over 30 years. Her capacity to...

07 January, 2025

  Native Hawaiian singer/songwriter Noelani Love blends conscious lyrics with ukulele melodies to empower her listeners through the spirit of ALOHA. Noelani’s original sounds activate a primal, earthly + feminine vibration. As a mother, jewelry designer, yogini and surfer, Noelani’s motto is “Ride the waves with ease and grace” as she finds much of her inspiration from the ocean. Noelani enjoys connecting ancient wisdom to modern-day life with humor and grace, applying her background studies of hula dance, Hawaiian chant, Kundalini and Vinyasa yoga and Sanskrit mantra in her teachings, as she supports her students to find their own connection to the divine through the power of voice. Noelani's music is an invitation to sing along and experience the power of your own voice. "We are the ones we’ve...

29 December, 2024