Spiritweavers

  Akhila is a dreamer, seeker, naturalist, creative, guide, teacher, and forever student who welcomes this opportunity in being a human animal. She is a transpersonal psychologist with a clinical practice based in San Francisco, CA and takes every opportunity she can to live out of a backpack and sleep in alpine air. Akhila weaves the somatic, symbolic, and interpersonal. Professional training in dream analysis and trauma healing, paired with ongoing mentorship in indigenous ways of dreaming, make Akhila especially equipped in supporting people navigating nightmares. Her work evolves as she does, and she is currently unearthing the next iteration of offerings that integrate ecopsychology, ancestral remembering, and social justice. Akhila Kolesar will be facilitating dream groups in the Dreaming Den and sharing Shadow Work: The Portal...

20 December, 2023

  Alexa Sunshine Rose is a singer-songwriter, mother, artist and sound engineer who has dedicated herself and her life's work to being a clear channel for peace on earth. Her songs are utilized internationally in meditation, yoga, birth and healing work. Alexa will be facilitating group singing and sharing Sacred Songwriting/The Power of Intentional Sound....

27 December, 2023

Allison Bagg is a sound healer, breathwork facilitator, intuitive guide and artist based in Los Angeles. She utilizes a plethora of modalities to help clients ground into their bodies, establish strong boundaries and open portals to the magic and abundance within. Certified in gong, crystal alchemy singing bowls, planetary chimes and tuning forks, Allison aims to bring together both hemispheres of the brain in a beautiful marriage of spirit and science. Everything is vibration, after all, and by tuning ourselves like instruments, we can heal everything from the physical on a cellular level, as well as the spiritual, energetic and vibrational forces within. Allison Bagg will be offering The Science of Vibrational Healing....

26 December, 2023

Amara teaches connection and respect for the natural world in all of her pursuits. For the last 13 years she has immersed herself in earth-based wisdom traditions from North and South America, undergoing rites of passage, sitting in ceremonies, and studying with wisdom keepers. Her heart has been the guiding force in creating a life that is authentic to her unique spirit. During her journey, Amara has absorbed medicine songs from various traditions and languages, including English, Spanish, Quechua, Portuguese, Sanskrit and more. Spirit has also blessed her with the gift of receiving medicine songs during the in the dream realms and in ceremony. Her songs come out in many areas of her life including nature classes for kids, community classes, ceremonies, healing sessions, and...

19 December, 2023

Andrea Jimenez is the founder of Herb Club LA. She is a certified Naturalist and Herbalist. Her goal with Herb Club LA is to help bridge the connection between land health, community health and individual health. She focuses on land stewardship with a strong emphasis on community building. Growing up as a first-generation immigrant of Chichimeca descent, she also focuses paying homage and respect to Native American ways of living with the land. Through her own journey, she found deep healing reconnecting to more natural ways of living. She believes that caring for our inner world will be reflected in our outer world and vice-versa. By connecting with our plant kin, learning about nature and from nature, we can in turn learn to take better care...

25 December, 2023

I am first generation Filipino, and third generation Scandinavian. A Mother of four young sons, raised by the Ocean in the Coast Salish Islands. I have been blessed to have been taught drum craft in the traditional ways. My highest creative calling at this moment in my life journey is the traditional tanning of sheepskin pelts and hides, drum making, and lapidary stonework. I have courted these crafts in my own ways and been gifted the transmissions of these crafts through the lineages and to share their wisdom and transformative experiences on this Earth. My matriarchal lineage comes from the healers of the Philippines Islands. I have been bestowed the rights of passage from Mambabatok Apo Whang-Od of the Kalinga tribe, who is now 106...

02 January, 2024

Founder of Native Water Systems, Apryl is calling in a new water culture. She designs and builds scalable water conservation and reuse strategies that weave into a watershed network that builds active relationships between people and the planet. She transforms communities by daylighting water with rain gardens, graywater orchards, and living architecture, and is dedicated to transforming land owners into land stewards that live with water, a lifestyle that tends our life-giving waters with care and gratitude. Apryl has been healing the waters of the Earth’s body for over 25 years. A visionary leader, she crafted an Interdisciplinary Design Engineering degree from Purdue University, merging materials science, industrial design, and environmental protection. She continued her calling by studying with pioneers in the field of water and their inspiring work, including John Todd’s living machines, Paul...

08 January, 2023

Autumn (she/her) is a licensed veterinary technician specializing in feline health, exotics, and wildlife. She has raised backyard chickens for 10 years. She is passionate about the humane care of all animals, and is excited to share that passion with others. This is her second year as an instructor at SWG.   Autumn will be sharing The Humble Art of Backyard Chickens...

22 December, 2023

Beth grew up in the Pacific Northwest exploring and cultivating a deep connection with the land. In her childhood she found so much joy in being barefooted in the garden and exploring nearby forests. She has been fortunate to find many teachers and mentors that helped expand the ways she has been able to spend time in nature and provided her with skills to do so safely. She is passionate about empowering others with the skills that have been imparted to her. Beth has spent time sharing skills as a guide for hiking and backpacking, as well as whitewater and snow travel and camping. She works as a registered nurse in Emergency Medicine as well as previous Outdoor Emergency Care and Wilderness First Aid Certifications. Bath Capra-Smith and Alyssa Oddi...

28 December, 2023

  Carmen Reed is a ceremonialist, a seer, a designer of beautiful objects, and at her very core is a dreamer. Her journey to connect with her deceased mother through the dream space is what originally drew her into the dream practice 15+ years ago, and the subconscious world that was uncovered brought through deep medicine to herself and to also share in community. Through studying under elder dream teachers and assisting in their courses, she has honed in on her skill of dream interpretation with a beautiful focus on nightmares. With learning from working her own trauma and her own nightmares, Carmen can lovingly help guide others through this threshold to find their own medicine in the nightmare. Carmen Reed will be facilitating dream circles in...

31 December, 2023