Spiritweavers

Janeva is a playful youngest sister, aunt, daughter, partner, friend, and cat mom. She feels most at home in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. Some of her favorite delights are a good day's work, wander, or adventure outside, meeting and connecting with people, and developing skills for greater self-sufficiency. For her, the natural world has always been a place of refuge, work, and play. This love and time in the outdoors has allowed her to cultivate her skills in outdoor livin’ and knots. Janeva has camped and back-packed all her life, taught teens outdoor adventure & survival in Utah and completed a 28-day wilderness survival course. Spring through Fall she’s outside climbing trees as a seed & cone collector and plays, ahem, works...

11 January, 2024

Unearthed her indigenous name, Gat Kawan Pastol (Shepard of the Flock) in 2023 Naming Ceremony led by Apu Adman, Jen V. Benitez has been called forth as first generation ancestral & sound healer under Diwata Sa Kagubatan. She comes from a lineage of midwives, albularyo’s (herbalists) & manghihilot’s (high priestess / shaman) on her paternal side from Alaminos, Pangasinan, Philippines. Her work is at the intersection of sacred art / adornment & ancestral remembering. She began her healing journey over 10 years ago through sound & meditation, which then inspired her to share with her community. She began her own practice in 2019, UMAKYAT Sound & Energy Healing, facilitating women’s circles & offering 1:1 sound healing sessions. Jen is also Founder / Executive Director of...

04 January, 2024

Join Jocelyn for a session in Shiatsu, Biofield Tuning Sound therapy or for a Mini Medical Astrology Reading. Sessions will be using a combination of Shiatsu, Biofield Tuning and Subtle Body Energy Therapy unless a request for a session in one Modality only is expressed. Mini Medical Astrology readings are 33 mins in length and you will leave with 3 herbs suited specifically for you according to your Birthchart (please know your time of birth if possible)   Jocelyn will be sharing at Sun Session of the Healing Village ...

12 May, 2024

  Karin is a fiber artist based in Orangevale California. She has worked in quilting, knitting, crochet, garment sewing and design, embroidery, and both synthetic and natural dyes. Her current project, spent flora, is an inclusive clothing line comprised of handdyed silk pieces. Mending is a natural extension of her reverence for the fiber arts that clothe our bodies. Karin Gillingham will be sharing Visible Mending....

31 December, 2023

Anna Liza McKeon has been a teacher for over twenty years. Always willing to pass on what what she has learned and experienced, the majority of those years have been spent teaching the art of Hula dancing and as of late herbalism and plant medicine. Anna Liza found inspiration for dance early in life. As a dancer, she began her journey with ‘Hula Halau he inoa no Ipu Lei Manu’, a dance troupe headed by Denise Bigelow. Driven by a need to expand her knowledge of the Polynesian arts, Anna Liza also sought teachers from different veins of dance and culture. Under the direction of Mapuhi Tuku Tekurio with “Tekurio Nui” she learned Tahitian drumming. With instruction from Mel Liufau of “Nonosina”, she learned the...

18 January, 2024

I am a Hawaiian Culturalist and have graduated in three different ancient lineages from Hawaiʻi. Kumu Hula Farrah Māhealani Linder carries the Tom Kaulaheaonamoku Hiona lineage from her Kumu, Auntie Noelani Mahana ʻO Kala McIntosh of Kaneʻohe Oʻahu. She continues her studies in ancient hula traditions on the Island of Molokai with Loea Hula Dj Pelekai of Pelekunu Valley, Molokai. In addition to her Hula lineage, she also holds the prestigious title of Alakaʻi Hulu of beloved Kumu Hulu Lokelani Reichert of Lei Hulu of California (Auntie Mary Kovich/Auntie Mary Kekuewa lineage) and is currently the Alakaʻi Hulu of Kumu Pilialoha Johnson and Kumu Robert Beebe of Lei Hulu O Hilo (Auntie Doreen Henderson’s lineage) in Hilo, Hawaii. In conjunction with these masteries of Hula and Lei Hulu,...

07 January, 2023

Phoebe Whipple is currently a senior at the Milwaukie Academy of the Arts. She’s a gifted fiber artist, with advanced skills in knitting, sewing, fiber spinning, mending and crochet. She’s completed the Summer camp counselor training program at Camp Namanu, and plays piano in her School Jazz Band, and viola and violin in her school Orchestra. A nature enthusiast, she hopes to study Environmental Science and Forestry in college next year. Phoebe was born in Portland, Oregon and has many family members who are very gifted makers, especially her paternal grandmother Susan Whipple, who is an incredible visual and fiber artist. Laura Whipple is the CEO and Co-founder of Scout Books, a B Corp Certified manufacturer of custom notebooks based in Portland, Oregon. Always the print...

04 January, 2024

I am a painter and illustrator, creating medicine beings in imagined landscapes. I often find these works to contain oracular elements woven with the archetypes. It is my joy to bring forth imagery that has a peaceful and magical essence. My work is intuitive and a timeless process. I allow the spaciousness to reveal the direction a piece wants to go. I paint in oils, acrylics, and watercolor. I am deeply inspired by the natural world, which I experience daily living by a wild and free river in Southern Oregon. more of my work can be found at www.lindykehoe.com   Lindy will be leading and sharing her work in the Artist Village at both sessions...

13 May, 2024

Lorka believes music to be an embodied practice of personal and cultural healing. Drawing from her own post-war experience as the daughter of Soviet refugees, she explores themes of belonging, displacement and ancestral healing in her work. Her music carries the complexity of paradox alongside the potency of prayer— blending death into life, silence into sound and winter into spring. As a multi-instrumental loop artist, Lorka weaves harp, breath, cello and vocals into soundscapes of echos, loops and layers. Her music has been described as haunting, intimate and medicinal. Lorka joins the Spirit Weavers community for a second year, with the intention of supporting women in the journey towards inner wholeness. Lorka combines training from her own ancestral tradition with a background in somatic psychology, neuroscience and...

02 January, 2024

  Lunita Velasquez is a first generation American healing arts practitioner, mother, and writer raised biculturally on Kumeyaay land in Southern California near the Mexican border. Poetry and short story writing started at an early age, as an intrinsic medium to make sense of the world and the complexities of navigating humanness as a highly sensitive being. Most recently, Lunita's work has been deeply influenced by the exploration of healing arts access for all as social justice, ancestral reclamation, elemental magick, and intentional dissent from the structures that confine our collective creative sovereignty. Lunita Velasquez will be sharing Body Prisms: Embracing the multidimensional nature of our body and spirit through the practice of decolonization & radical embodiment....

31 December, 2023
Spirit Weavers Gathering
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