Scholarships

Our scholarship program provides partial and full scholarships to attend the Gathering. Every year we work hard to increase the number of full scholarships we’re able to offer our greater Spirit Weavers Community.

 

Spirit Weavers recognizes the importance of Solidarity and Allyship work. Having a variety of scholarships available is just one of the many ways we continue to open this container for all walks of life. Thank you for believing in these small but potent offerings as we strive to create a diverse, empowering, and unique gathering.

 

This year we are happy to announce we have 18 scholarships & several partial scholarships available for the 2025 gathering.

These scholarships are made possible by you and our web of community support!

Every year, Spirit Weavers hosts a raffle with a huge variety of exciting prizes,  all generously donated by our marketplace vendors, sponsorship partners and community members. The raffle takes place throughout the gathering weekend and everyone can participate!  100% of the raffle funds go towards scholarship tickets for the following year.  In addition, we have an official Spirit Weavers Merchandise booth and online store where all proceeds also go towards the following year’s Scholarship tickets.

Here are our 2025 scholarships:

 

  • Indigenious/First Nations:  Scholarships available to First Nations/Indigenious women
  • disABLED Beings:  Scholarships available to beings with visual impairment, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, Deaf/HOH, and/or chronic illnesses
  • Beings of Color:  Scholarships available for BIPOC, including multi-racial women
  • LGBTQ2IA+: Scholarship available to those identifying as LGBTQ2IA+
  • Elder and Sage Age: Scholarship available to women over 60+
  • Earth Tenders: Scholarship available to tenders & caretakers of the Earth
  • Guardian Gratitude: Scholarships available to mothers/caretakers/guardians

Scholarships include a full ticket (+ breakfast & dinner) for one session of the Gathering. This does not include travel or accommodations.

You are welcome to apply for more than one scholarship, but please be mindful that we receive a large number of applications and consider applying for one or two that are best suited for you. Please direct any scholarship questions to scholarships@spiritweaversgathering.com

 

Scholarships for the 2025 Gathering are now closed. Thank you to all who applied to join us!  All applicants will receive a response from our scholarship coordinator by April 6th.

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Meet our Scholarship Coordinator

Alyx Somas is a Native Northern American Reindigenization Practicioner, collaborating for Cultural and Collective Liberation. They are devoted to ancestral reclamation, pan-indigenous lineage teachings, decolonial power and relational structures, and the power of communal grief and prayer. They believe deeply in all people’s wise ancestry, innate ability to heal, and inherent worth. They especially find joy in ceremonial song, dance, and council.

Trained in group facilitation and somatic healing, they hold community spaces and ceremonies, consultations for organizations and groups, workshop series, and one-on-one sessions. Their work is anchored in Belonging and Restorative Action, knowing that we all come from people who gathered around fires storytelling, dancing, and grieving together. Their labor is for the unfolding of a multicultural people practicing restored relations, in devotion to interdependence and the ancestral ways of reverence for all that lives.

They are on a journey of Initiation training to be a Good Elder. They are tending multiple chronic illnesses while gently composting generations-held colonial wounding; resourcing in prayers that dismantle internalized supremacy and offering prayers to the world coming, where we gather together over the open flames that birth remembrance from the ashes of collapse, united in our Praise and Grief towards the expression of our true nature — Reciprocity and Deep Beauty. Check out their work here and on IG @CollectivityProject. 

They are very happy to be collaborating with the intentions of Spirit Weavers, as a connection for folks into this multifaceted community of skill-share.