Spiritweavers

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

Maia Kiley is a licensed psychotherapist and certified ecotherapist. As a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, she provides climate-aware therapy. Maia is based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to individual sessions, she offers community events that merge psychology and ecology. Maiakiley.com @the_ecotherapist Ariana Greene is a psychologist, healer, environmental activist, educator, ceremonialist, plant medicine integrationist, and dreamer. Ariana specializes in psychotherapy for the queer and gender diverse community as well as for those experiencing climate distress. Ariana is also a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance. elementalpsych.com/ Maia Kiley & Ariana Greene will be sharing Climate Distress & Resilience Workshop...

16 February, 2024

      Maggie is an outsider artist & animism revivalist on the long path toward elderhood. Her roles in the world take several shifting forms and include painter, poet, sculptor, jewelry designer, art director, photographer, folk herbalist and psychedelic guide. Maggie will be in the Artist's Village as well as sharing Jewelry Making Basics...

04 January, 2024

Trained in classical piano at the age of five, Maité has since developed an impressive repertoire of original, multi-instrumental, heart-centered music. She draws inspiration from the natural elements, world music, ceremony, and her own personal journey of healing. With her hypnotic voice and powerful lyrics, she captures a growing international audience of devoted listeners. Maité is celebrated for her ability to merge genres, seamlessly weaving etheric melodies and words together for listeners to resonate deeply with. Maité has participated in many concerts and festivals around the world. She has shared the stage with the likes of Rising Appalachia, Mike Love, and Snow Raven, and has been the opener for Curawaka, FIA, and Carrie Tree. As a writer and composer, Maité draws on her multi-ethnic background to write songs using...

10 January, 2024

Hey there! My name is Maria and I come from a Southern town in Chile, moved to the states a few years ago and been living in Oregon for the last 3 years. I began my Pilates journey 8 years ago and then decided to do my teacher training through Balanced Body for my Mat and Reformer certification. Recently open a cozy private studio in Grants Pass, Oregon were I teach Reformer classes. I'm beyond exited to be able to share some movement and good times. See you soon!   Maria will be sharing Mat Pilates...

01 May, 2024