Spiritweavers

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

  Lauralina Melendez Is an indigenous multidisciplinary artist from the island of Borikke, also knows as Puerto Rico). A mother of two, she creates and channels dolls from her garden studio y the ocean in the west coast of the island. Her and her family steward a 4 acre food forest. She is a witchy mama with ancestral intuition from a lineage of radical birkeepers and medicine women. Dollmaking was passed down by her abuela and she is blessed to share it as a tool of empowerment, and remembrance. Lauralina is a queer, polyamorous, devoted wife and home-maker, in partnership with her beloved for over 13 years, they have challenged all beliefs constructed and created a life aligned with the heart, practicing self directed education and...

10 January, 2024

Lauren Godla is a dance artist, director and movement educator based out of Gasquet, CA. She graduated with a BA in Exercise Biology and a Minor in Dance from UC Davis in 2012. She spent the following decade teaching yoga, performing, choreographing, studying movement and playing on rivers across the west. She co-directed and performed for FloorPlay Dance Comedy and toured and performed nationally with BANDALOOP, a Vertical Dance Company based out of Oakland. In 2020 she moved home to Del Norte County and in 2021 she founded DiRT & Glitter, an environmental art organization that creates site-specific productions. She has directed multiple site-specific performances along the Wild and Scenic Smith River, turning canyon walls into stages and audience members into paddlers. Her vertical dance...

12 May, 2024

Growing up on the coast of Miami, Florida, Lexy was always found in nature and in the ocean. She found the natural world most inspiring, and went on to receive a degree in Biology. After receiving her degree, she decided to dig deeper into the ways of her ancestors, learning more about plant medicine and primitive skills. Her grandparents were nomadic Romanian Romani’s (Gypsies). They migrated to New York during World War II. She found that her individuality was deeply seeded from her Grandmother and the Eastern European nomadic culture. Full of artistic drive and a love for medicinal plants and natural fibers, she went on to her own journey working with textiles and leather and creating herbal medicine. Lexy has worked in many fields,...

02 January, 2023

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

Liya Garber creates a heart-filled, fun, joyful way to calm the mind and align with one's inner truth. She brings a unique and special gift of laughter and humor to every class. Her yoga journey began in the heart of New York City where she lived a fast-paced life as a business executive. As the stress of this life began to affect her health, Liya turned to yoga and began to heal. The results were undeniable, and she has been on a dedicated path of self healing and discovery ever since. In addition to yoga, she is a certified Mindfulness and Wellbeing Strategy coach and has studied deep esoteric Kabbalah, including the sacred Tree of Life and dream work, in Las Piramides Del Ka, a mystery school...

08 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