INSTRUCTORS SUN

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

Moorea Masa is a full-time musician and artist with an equally deep passion for food and Italian culture. Her father immigrated from Lanzada, a small alpine village in Northern Italy, where life moves slowly and everything is made with care—from scratch, by hand, and most often with local ingredients foraged or traded among neighbors. Growing up, Moorea spent her summers in Lanzada, learning to cook alongside her father and aunties in cozy kitchens tucked into the mountains. These experiences rooted her in the beauty of simple, seasonal cooking and the joy of sharing a meal made with love. Moorea brings that same spirit to her pasta-making workshops—inviting others to slow down, get their hands in the dough, and connect with the old-world rhythms of food, family, and...

10 April, 2025

Natasha Pachalove is a healing arts practitioner, ceremonialist + full spectrum doula committed to facilitating regeneration. She has studied womb wisdom, meditation + therapeutic dance since 2015. Experiencing abortion at home has enabled her to support others in grief of pregnancy release. Natasha utilizes breath, plants + prayer to alchemize our greatest pains into our valuable strengths. She is devoted to creating nurturing spaces in her circles + private sessions where people can ignite their inner healing powers. Natasha is grounded in her spiritual service as a Moon Dancer, Vision Quester + Reverend Priestess ordained through the Iseum of Quimera. She is deeply grateful to her teachers + Taíno, Haudenosaunee, European + African ancestors for guiding her in these ways. You can connect deeper with Natasha + learn...

15 January, 2025

  Paola is a mother, teacher and medicine woman in her indigenous studies and ceremonial songstress facilitating female womb empowerment through holding and healing spaces. She brings her wisdom, light and scars to all spaces she moves through as gifts to help connect with our inner child, activate our divine feminine Oshun and Yemaya energy through song and healing movement. Paola connects with the four elements of nature, our guiding ancestors and leads from these visions and messages to hold sacred space, ceremonial empowerment with prayers, plants and crystals to create space for healing. As a Labor & Delivery RN and Prenatal Educator & Singer, Paola is a daily witness to women in their most powerful and vulnerable life changing and welcoming moments to becoming a mother. A...

31 December, 2024

    A naturopathic physician, quantum researcher, and experienced yoga instructor, Dr. Rachel weaves together science and spirituality, strength and ease, and groundedness and expansion in the most magical of ways.   Dr. Rachel Stricker will be offering Empowering Vinyasa Flow....

31 December, 2024

  Raven is a second generation Filipino, and fourth generation Scandinavian. A mother of four young sons, raised by the ocean in Coast Salish lands. She has been blessed to have been taught drum craft in the traditional ways. Her highest creative calling at this moment in her life journey is lapidary stonework, drum making, and the traditional tanning of sheepskin pelts and hides. She has taught a variety of classes such as wet felting, brain-tanning sheepskins and hand drum making for many years. She has courted these crafts in her own ways and been gifted the transmissions of these crafts through the lineages and to share their wisdom and transformative experiences. Raven's matriarchal lineage comes from the healers of the Philippines Islands. She has been...

30 December, 2024

  Rhythm is a grief practitioner a doula and an alchemy life worker who does holistic based approaches to trauma transitioning on multiple levels including: energetic womb restoration practices, massage, and rebirthing. She infuses laughter, sound healing, and conscious self awareness throughout her entire practice. A passion to serve with intuition for unifying spiritual growth leading with feminine energy, has taken her all over the world. Rhythm moves to her own tune, with her personal outlook from growing up and acknowledging first hand the struggles of adversity that black women of color disproportionately face, and the obstacles that all women encounter overtime. She seeks to bridge the gap and assist in the many strides forward with the continued development through support and sisterhood. Through her business, “Divine thrive...

21 December, 2019

Rosie has always loved making things with her hands. When her love for the outdoors and crafting met during an ancestral skills class 10 years ago things took off. With a background in traditional crafts and a deep connection to nature, Rosie seamlessly intertwines her love for teaching with her appreciation for sustainable practices. She is passionate about her connection to the earth and sharing that with the students that she teaches. She currently teaches middle school in the Santa Cruz mountains during the school year. During the summers she teaches at an Earth Caretaker school in Mt. Shasta teaching ancestral crafts and primitive skills, as well as teaching a Rite of Passage class for young girls. Rosie’s classes at Spirit Weavers provide a space for...

31 December, 2023

    We will be introducing plants, herbs and clays to naturally color and enhance soaps. We will also be discussing using alternative ingredients, such as, lye to make natural soaps.   Samm Daniels will be teaching herbal soap making. Thank you...

31 December, 2024