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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....

We are honored to have our beautiful Elder Sweet Medicine with us again for the Spirit Weavers Gathering, coming from Oregon to share her wisdom and wise ways. Sweet Medicine Nation (Chickasaw/Choctaw/French/Irish) is a gifted artist, educator, lecturer, and healer who guides and initiates personal growth in others with her eloquence, wisdom, and gift for serving others. She awakens us to the personal and social value of earth stewardship, honoring the wisdom of natural ways to benefit ourselves and Mother Earth. Sweet Medicine is involved in numerous local and International groups, federal agencies, endangered species research, and riparian studies and education. She is also a master of edible and medicinal plants of the local region in Central Oregon. Her background in Alternative Medicine, Midwifery, and Herbology, along...

  Tamara Wilder became fascinated by ancient living skills in at age 19 when she attended an Ancient Living Skills gathering. She was "hooked" and quickly began incorporating the practice of skills into her daily experience. Ever since, she has been dedicating her life to enjoying, learning, researching, experimenting with, writing about and teaching Paleo Technologies through a variety of programs, workshops & demonstrations on a range of skill topics at a plethora of locations through her company Paleotechnics. Now, over 30 years later, she runs programs in stringmaking, firemaking, rope making & hunting technology and other fiber arts for grade school students all around Northern California as well as adult workshops in the Pacific Northwest and is co-author of the book Buckskin: The Ancient Art of...

Tamu Mosley is an initiated Sacred Woman, a wholistic wellness facilitator, a teacher and a mama of 3. Tamu has intentionally nurtured a plant centered lifestyle for the past 27 years that has deeply informed her journey as a kitchen alchemist, a home herbalist & herbal maker and a budding flower essence practitioner. Tamu is founder and CEO of Wholistic Shine (established in 2014) and Uchū Botanical (established in 2018). She is deeply nourished by a consistent self care practice & plant centered lifestyle that includes preparing healthy plant based meals, natural skin care & herbal remedies in her ‘kitchen healing laboratory’, seasonal wholistic detoxes, yoga, connecting with nature, working with flower essences as well as other plant medicines. Tamu is passionate about a wholistic...

Tiffany Janay is a sought after Motivational Speaker, Sacred Sexuality Educator, Holistic retreat & organic farm owner, & the owner of YoniEggs.com. Throughout her entrepreneurial journey, Tiffany's professional work has been centered on producing quality holistic products that encourage strength, intimacy, spiritual healing and growth. Tiffany has began working with Tantra inspired teachers in 2008 and received her certification. Her life's work is dedicated to enhancing the benefits of nature to assist us in awakening to our internal powers.   Tiffany Janay & Misty Spinney will be sharing Natural birth control: Cycle Tracking and Semen Retention.    ...

  Ty Bramwell is an alchemist, plant medicine keeper, small business owner, and writer based in Reno, Nevada. For over a decade she has been deeply dedicated to the intersection of plants, spirit, healing, and beauty.   Whether it be through her brand Ebb & Flow, classes, or writing – Ty is committed to sharing plant medicine and alchemy with an approach that is laid back, modern, inclusive, nurturing, and meaningful.   Ty Bramwell will be sharing Botanical Bundle Dyeing : An Introduction to the Plant Dye Rainbow....

Victoria (she/they) is an Herbalist, Bodyworker, Nature Walker and Flower Enthusiast. She has spent the last decade deepening her knowledge of plant medicine and communing with the spirits of nature. Born of Portuguese, Peruvian and European decent she began practicing herbalism first through a Western lens, learning the plants native to the lands she has been living and tending. After many years of practicing in these ways she began traveling to Peru and learning the ways of her Ancestors. For the past eight years Victoria has deepened her herbal studies to focus on Plant Sprit Medicine and learning the practices of healing our Spiritual and Emotional bodies. She has been learning these ways from her elders both here in North America as well as in...

Yvonne Mayshark has been studying and practicing herbalism and ayurveda since 2007. Her journey with plant medicine began with a live-in herbal apprenticeship at Motherland Botanical Sanctuary in Mendocino County, CA. She tended the herbal gardens there for two years, and in that time completed the Yerba Women Herbal Apprenticeship Program with Donna d'Terra and the Advanced Herbal Medicine Making course with Tony Seifert. She went on to the California School of Herbal Studies, where she completed their full-time Roots Of Herbalism Course and their Clinical Herbalism Course. She studied Ayurveda, traditional Ayurvedic medicine-making techniques, and Hatha Yoga philosophy in Kerala, India, at the PVA School of Ayurveda and massage.   Yvonne Mayshark will be sharing Herbal Medicine Making Techniques and Advanced Tincturing Techniques....

Windsong Martin is a singer, songwriter and women’s ceremonial guide from Southern Oregon with a passion for singing with others. She has been participating in women’s ceremonial circles for 37 years and hosted the “Good Medicine Women’s Retreat” for 20 years running. She is active in Women's Ceremony in her community and wherever she travels. She has written and gathered a wealth of songs written for women. . In her workshops Windsong will guide you thru a selection of chants, songs and suggestions for rituals specific to the phases of a woman’s life. Windsong is currently working on a book and CD soon to be released, focused on this theme, which will include songs, rituals and wonderful photos collected from years of experiences with a wide...