Spiritweavers

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

Mary inhabits the liminal hinterlands of sensuality and paradox. Though her body of work spans form and genre—she mostly creates through the lens of a poet. Weaving, knitting, spinning and wool have been potent teachers on her path of devotional remembrance. The dynamic tension inherent in fiber arts lives in her heart and hands not just as metaphor, but as deep creational truth that feeds and inspires her research, play, and praxis. As woman, mother, artist and devotee to the mystery— Mary’s work is dedicated to exploring the erotic backwaters of our wild aliveness. Opening to the penetrative pulse of life surging through the terrestrial realm, the sensual unfurling waiting to spring forth when women embody their God-given *permission*, and the integrated spiritual embodiment that this...

31 December, 2023

Mary Sheila Gonnella, BCHN has dedicated her life to helping people reclaim their health. As a Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Ayurvedic educator, she provides the information, insight, empowerment, and support you need to take charge of your health and live the life you were meant to live. Mary Sheila taught at Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts for 7 years where one of her students said “Mary Sheila is one of the best teachers I've encountered in all of my studies. She is not only passionate about the subject matter, but lives what she teaches from the depth of her being.” As a lead up to her deep dive into all things nutrition, Mary Sheila developed a deep passion for basketry, wildcrafting, seaweed harvesting, farming,...

31 December, 2023

Meghan Walla-Murphy has been able to combine her passions for wildlife tracking, writing and people into vocations of habitat conservation and public awareness. As an educator, wildlife ecologist and author of books, essays and articles, Meghan strives to help people connect to their external and internal landscapes. She has been tracking animals avidly for more than two decades, which adds a depth and breadth to her work in habitat connectivity and outreach. She is a lead of the North Bay Bear Collaborative (www.beingwitbears.org). She has also co-authored a book on tracking with carnivore biologist Dr. James Halfpenny as well as a book on the historical ecology of salmonids in the Russian River. Meghan has traveled extensively in the US, Brasil, the Congo, and Southern Africa to...

01 January, 2024