Old Instructors

  Becca is a mother, writer, podcaster, circle and retreat facilitator, and community tender. She is descended from settler-colonizers who journeyed from the lands of Old Europe. She is a woman of known ancestry of British, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and eastern European origins, flowing further back to the Celtic, Pict, Norse, and Anglo Saxon peoples (and the nameless ones going even further than that). She also identifies with my more-than-human family that inhabits all of this animate earth, including mycelia, tree root, stone, waters, bacteria and critters big and small. She feels kinship with the moon and the sun and the dust of the stars, alongside the cells of the dead composting in the earth below. Becca is the author of Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways...

01 January, 2023

Sarah MacLean Bicknell is a healer, teacher, mentor and dreamer. She has studied healing, visionary and ceremonial work in North American indigenous traditions for 30 years.. She has incorporated her Celtic roots into her present North American practice and is sought out for her intuitive readings, dreamwork, teachings, ceremony, and her soul doctoring practice. She has a lifetime dream practice and has been a reader of Tarot since she was 14yrs old. Sarah is the keeper of Night Turtle Dance, a three night-day ceremony which occurs every summer in the Pacific Northwest 2018 saw Sarah celebrating with the tenth year of the Night Turtle Dance, held on the Olympic Penninsula, Wa. Her teaching and healing work continued in Seattle, Wa: Los Angeles; the Bay Area;...

20 December, 2019

jennette nielsen, born and raised in the pacific northwest, is a ritualist, animist, and embodied folkloric wild woman. she is a honey-drenched woodland witch, orphan wisdom school graduate scholar, community centered herbalist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in training and volunteers her time with the Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Peer Support line, as well as at her local Hospice center. jennette has applied to a graduate program in counseling psych at Bastyr University as part of the process to realize her dream of supporting women and elders in trauma resiliency and end of life care with the practice of therapeutic psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. as a mother who raised two sons, jennette has long studied earth-based ancestral skills alongside her boys and enjoys botanical dyeing cloth and paper, singing, basket...

24 December, 2019

Katina Mercadante is a film director and empowerer of empowerers. She has directed films and advertising campaigns for clients such as Apple, Facebook, and Volkswagen and won awards including a Cannes Gold Lions and Outstanding Directorial Achievement by the Directors Guild of America. Her films have been featured at the annual TED Talk Conferences (2012, 2016) and played on Oprah’s OWN network. Katina empowers leaders throughout the world. Her process includes Human Design analysis, astrocartography, Identovate! techniques, and guidance from living and non-incarnated beings. Katina hosts empowerment sessions in New York City, Western Connecticut, and Northern California, or as arranged internationally. Katina is a descendent of the Deceangli (modern day England), Alemanni (Switzerland) and Blackfoot (Amskapi Piikani of North America) tribes, a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, and...

21 December, 2019

Katrina Sky Weaver is a mother, artist, herbalist, basket weaver, dancer, and lover of life. She learned to weave baskets in 1991, and has been joy-fully weaving ever since. Her love for plants and gardening has been woven into her basket adventures. As she learned about local weaving plants, she planted them at her home and elsewhere to propagate nature's weaving wonders. Katrina has two children and has been weaving for 20+ years, and has devoted her energy to creating a home-based business. https://joyworksbest.com/ Her love for sacred plant allies and herbs has led her to medicine making. She is also a beekeeper, and is in flow with the season’s energies, as she sows seedlings, nurtures plants, harvests, weaves, and teaches, as well as spending lots of...

16 December, 2019

Luna is a truth-telling, shadow-walking, trauma-informed, nervous system exploring, woman of devotion. With a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology and certification in a multitude of multi-disciplinary healing arts, Luna works at the intersection of human and holy, offering Rites of Passage to welcome the full spectrum of life: the agony, the ecstasy, and everything in between. Luna assists today’s leading changemakers in cultivating and refining their most aligned embodiment of service through 1:1 mentorships, online programs, courses, and immersions through the cultivation of somatic awareness and relational intelligence. Luna Grace Isbell-Love will be sharing Naturebased Interventions for Healing and Empathy + Allyship....

19 December, 2019

Maria has been honored to have taught Yoga at every Spirit Weavers Gathering, as well as curating the Yoga Village for 5 years. Maria is half Peruvian. In her youth she developed a deep connection to her Andean heritage through several folkloric Art mediums through her traditional artisan father. Her journey began with the creative sacred body at a young age through figure skating, competitive diving, and 110m Hurdles and has always been drawn to challenging the physical. In 2002, she was diagnosed with Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis leading her to Yoga and sacred movement in 2003. This experience opened a doorway to various modes of holistic medicine and movement to navigate healing. Much of her strength to overcome illness was driven by her spiritual...

13 January, 2022

Mariah Makalapua is a healing liberation navigator, creative visionary, and founder of Medicine Collective, a sanctuary space for community wellness rooted in folk medicine, ancestral wisdom, utilizing creative therapies at the intersection of healing and justice. She is a medicine maker of a small apothecary line of plant allies and other supportive goods, and holds a private practice as a facilitator and oracle. Find her in the Pacific Northwest and around the world offering classes, workshops and retreats that seek to help others align with their own capacity to heal themselves, and beyond. She is a mother of two daughters and a water protector. Mariah will be sharing Decolonizing Medicine, an Indigenous Approach to Microdosing Mushrooms...

08 April, 2022

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...

21 November, 2015

Ayesha Ophelia has built her purpose and life around her patchwork creativity and deep passion for people, plants, and potential. She is amongst other things a facilitator, coach, creator, curry lover, spiritual provocateur, and complicated woman. She is also the creator of The Girlfriend Manifesto, Society of Wild Hearts, and plans to release a documentary on synchronicity and love in 2022. Ayesha Ophelia will be sharing The Way of The Heart & Dreamweaving: Tending Your Soul & Shadow through dreamwork...

01 December, 2021