INSTRUCTORS SUN

Saoirse Watters is a harpist, ritualist, and plant-lover rooted in Celtic and Nordic healing traditions. Raised on a farm in South Louisiana, she learned early how to listen—to land, animals, stories, and songs—and has been following those threads ever since. Saoirse has been weaving music, women’s ritual, and earth-based craft for over 13 years, offering spaces that are grounded, trauma-informed, and joyfully alive. Her work draws from Celtic ancestral herblore, Northern European folk ritual, and lived relationship with land and plants, while also being shaped by teachings shared in relationship by Indigenous elders and teachers of the Americas. She is committed to ethical, non-appropriative practice, teaching within her lineage and with transparency and care. Now based on a homestead in the Colorado Front Range, she tends...

30 December, 2025

I am the co-owner of Clay Sand Soul, a natural building business based in the Columbia River Gorge. My partner, Josh Burg, and I are committed to teaching others about the power and possibilities of Clay as a building material, as well as other locally abundant materials like sand, straw, stone, and wood. We work with cob, straw bale, clay and lime plasters & paints, clay sculptures, earthen floors, living roofs, and reciprocal roofs. We feel that building one’s own shelter is an innate human right that has been slowly brought into the field of specialists and created work sites devoid of community and cycles of reciprocity. Our vision and hope is to create community and foster social healing through the workshops and work sites...

03 January, 2026

(waterSHEd/her) musician, educator, and environmental advocate - Sara Tone has been fusing the worlds of song, polyrhythm, bioregion, and watershed for the past two decades. currently based out of Portland, Sara works as a music educator with kids and adults, including working with a non-profit that serves incarcerated youth - primarily utilizing drumming and songwriting, leaning deep into the transformative powers of musical expression, creating positive new experiences while strengthening mind-body connection. as a performer, Sara Tone shows up with her wild cascadian heart, singing powerful love songs for the earth throughout the west coast and Hawai’i. you may have sang ‘medicine of the mountain song’ with her as she held the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beloved festival for more than a decade. Sara Tone’s works in the...

03 January, 2026

  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

Shelen Scout Boyes is a professional fly fishing guide based in Queenstown, New Zealand. With over nine years of experience on the water, she specializes in creating inclusive, confidence-building learning environments for women who are curious about fly fishing.  Shelen’s approach to casting instruction blends clear technical foundations with patience, presence, and connection to nature, empowering participants to trust their movement and develop skills at their own pace. Shelan will be sharing the Fly Fishing on the lovely Illinois river....

03 February, 2026

Natural fiber artist and keeper of earth-based practices, Senya, belongs to the Oregon coast, born and raised within the convergence of coastal wetlands and dense coniferous forest. Believing that the regeneration and restoration of the land flows naturally from being intimately connected with place and rooted in community, she is passionate about connecting others with skills that allow for co-creation with one's local ecosystem. Through these skills, she facilitates pathways for people to develop deep, embodied connections to themselves, each other, and the living Earth, moving from extraction to reciprocity and from consumer to co-creator. Her main craft is wet feltmaking, a practice she traces back through her Armenian lineage, where the ancient tradition of working with wool and natural fibers has been passed down through...

22 December, 2025

Sienna (she/her) is a potter, cook, gardener, plant-lover, mystic, and all-around craftswoman. Raised in the Sacramento Valley on a family farm, she grew up crawling through the spring weeds, eating warm summer peaches, and working in the orchards and dehydrators during harvest time. She started her first garden around age 12, and began studying ceramics in 1999. After a stint in culinary school, she interned at a farm to learn organic gardening and sustainable living in 2003. She now has more than 30 years of experience in home gardening, and continues to sow seeds, tend kitchen gardens, and plant food forests in Northern California. Her holy trinity of gardening, cooking, and pottery are intertwined in a seasonally-based, locally-grown lifestyle which she hopes to share with those who...

28 December, 2025

Shauna Kenealey is the mother of two fledgling daughters and a homebirth midwife for the last two decades. Blending deep knowledge of physiology, nutrition and plant medicine, attunement with others, sacred ceremony and rites of passage; she provides an anchor in the liminal space of birth and the mothering journey. Naturally curious, she loves to learn, teach, and discuss the power and potential of motherhood. She has created a model of nature-centric, relationship-based midwifery, with a deep commitment to supporting each woman's choices. Studying at Birthingway College of Midwifery in Portland and graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Midwifery (2008), she lovingly refers to Birthingway as the Hogwarts of Midwifery. Additionally, a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and INNATE Postpartum Care Practitioner. She is an herbalist, forager, and lover...

31 December, 2025

Stargazer Li is in love with the Universe! For over 20 years, she has been living and conversing with the Universe, and sharing her highly unique approach to Keeping Time… through living natural rhythms, making and sharing essence elixirs, and creating starry experiences under the night sky. She also does deeply transformational sessions weaving astrology and her calendar’s themes. Check out her free monthly audio calendar podcasts, available through her website and in her Cosmic Update Emails. Li lives outside of Grass Valley, CA. Stargazer Li will be teaching Essence Making & Taking, and sharing Stargazing....

28 December, 2023
Spirit Weavers Gathering
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