Galia Alena: I am a visual poet, earth mystic and mist walker. I walk in beauty dreaming with the divine to create sacred art and to partner with intuitive healing practices. I create in dialogue with the sacred feminine and my practice involves listening to the magic as it appears in dreams, journey, tarot, nature and other daily blessings. I’m a beauty unveiler, light huntress, moment caresser, mythologist, archetype weaver and visionary poetess. Ultimately, all of my work is about helping people peel back the layers to experience the intense beauty of each moment allowing them access to both their intuitive wisdom and a deeper connection to spirit and self, helping them find their own truths in connected stillness. In this way I am a guidess helping others find their own mystery school of wisdom and sacred being. (Because the beauty of this life cracks our hearts open and it is through the cracks that light can flow both in and out and connect us back to our divine selves). Oh... and I believe in the magic of this life.
We are honoured and blessed to have these beautiful women as guest light-bearers and shadow guides, offering the support of their wisdom and magical ways.
Nissa Howard wants to live in a world where humans don't need to agree with each other to support each other. A world where we don't have to like each other to love each other. A world in which there is less blaming and more empowering. A world where we acknowledge the fact that we too are animals on this Earth and have an entire resource of wild mystery that connects us to all things. As an energy mechanic, she utilizes core Shamanic skills and fierce sacred space to re-wild herself and those who seek her out. Dosed with trickster humor and common sense, she is known to be an authentic and inspiring personal guide. When she’s not working on her business, you can find her being a human doing all the things she shares about in her business. Hunting. Gathering. Writing. Sacred sound making. Bone Reading. Listening. Story telling. Soul crafting. Trailblazing wholeness.
Toi Lynn Wyle, MS, LMFT, E-RYT – Earth mama, spiritual guide, yogini, poet, writer, photographer. Toi Lynn is a licensed Psychotherapist and Life Coach, certified as a Transformational Hypnotherapist, Clarity Breathwork Therapist and Yoga Teacher. She’s a seasoned guide in the sacred arts of Embodiment Practices, Somatic Meditation, Shamanic Journeywork, Dreamwork and Earth Medicine. She’s led others on their path to healing and awakening for over 31 years, facilitated women’s circles for the past 25 years, and taught yoga and meditation for 15 years. She cofounded and directed World Yoga, one of the premier Vinyasa Yoga studios in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is co-founder and director of Wild Sacred Awakening, an online community, school and resource for sacred living.
Rebecca Cavender is a best-selling author, poet, professional writer, and völva living in one of the beautiful desert valleys in Washington State, USA. In a uniquely catalyzing and lyrical voice, Rebecca intuitively scribes words that serve as medicine so that you may feel deeply seen and heard; she is called to live an ecstatic path, writing new myths, with new story lines—written on the body—that show us how to fully express ourselves. She provides a variety of intuitive writing services: copywriting and editing for soulful entrepreneurs; book coaching and editing; sacred writing circles/workshops; written soul transmissions; and blessings (personal poems). As a catalyst and visionary healing practitioner, Rebecca intuitively provides transformative activations, gifting you with an embodied experience and imprint of your Ecstatic Essence, all while revealing personal tools and symbols that you can use in your daily life to ignite your creative fire and live your fierce truth. Integrating intuitive storytelling and healing modalities from her Sámi heritage, Rebecca accesses her noaidi and völva (seeress) roots to help you feel enraptured, knowing that you’re a walking love poem—a living declaration of ecstatic wisdom. As a certified "Scent Priestess," she also offers anointing sessions (either in-person or virtual). When she's not writing or practicing her arts, you can find Rebecca walking her personal path of the wild, being with her amazing daughter, or hanging out in one of the many Pacific Northwest coffee joints.
Francine Bonjour-Carter I am an embodiment guide, and a woman dedicated to become who she is meant to be. I moved from my native France to San Francisco in 2006, and live now near Philadelphia, PA. I am a mother of two spirited daughters, an Earth Medicine practitioner, and I am trained and certified in the Feldenkrais Method®, a movement & awareness education system. My way is very feminine. By guiding others with my voice through slow and gentle movements, I offer a space to explore our body in a unique way, access our inner safety and feel grounded in our physicality. In this process, questions matter more than answers, and awareness is a precious gift - and tool - that helps us explore and engage in a truthful conversation with ourselves. I believe that Sacred Listening starts within, and at all time we can expand who we are by intentionally exploring more of our inner landscape, and let our physical sense of self support and inform our art, emotions, experiences and our fullness.
Stephanie Anderson Ladd is a writer, artist, psychotherapist, teacher and goddess devotee living in Durham, North Carolina. In addition to her private practice and live workshops, she teaches online courses that explore archetypes, currently including the Tarot and Fairy Tales, using the art of SoulCollage®.
Catherine Beerda-Basso is the creator of Shaenalach Healing and Retreats, a writer, a photographer and a spiritual activist….among other things. 19 years ago the death of her father initiated Catherine into an intensive and intention filled healing path. This path took her deep into the depressions of her woundings; as well as igniting an unraveling of the religious chains that were placed upon her within her upbringing and childhood conditioning. This journey of healing brought her to the unexpected place of Healer and Earth Medicine Practitioner. Within the Sacred container of Shaenalach Healing, Catherine offers women a place to re-learn how to sit in sacred sisterhood and re-member the wisdom of their people. She offers a place of healing, renewal and restoration. Recently her vision of healing has broadened into offering a circle in which both men and women sit together with the intention of healing self and community. Catherine is passionate about spiritual awakening and healing….healing the Past, the Present and the Future; Healing Self and The World. She is a midwife of deep soul awareness and healing; her gifts allowing her to take a woman on a journey to herself, held by the land, by sacred tools, and by her fiercely true presence. Catherine believes that by giving women a safe container to connect to themselves in a spiritual, sacred way, allows them the opportunity to find the pieces that have been scattered, and to re-struct the beauty that is already there.
Kristina Wingeier- I am a moon loving, sun worshiping, skywatching astrologer keeping time with the tides in Pismo Beach, CA. My body of work is anchored in the divine feminine, the exploration of cosmic time and the natural rhythms of lunar & seasonal living. Multi-perceptual listening allows me to give voice to unseen realms, offering guidance and support in navigating the ebbs & flows of life. Things that bring me joy: the ocean, birdsong, the moon, plants, travel, books, music, silence, kundalini yoga, embodiment practices, dancing, walking in nature, photography & getting creative in the kitchen.
Jennette Nielsen is a Pacific Northwest-based Maker, Mama, and Medicine Woman. She is feral, ambrosial and strange, according to popular belief and her own divinely guided intuition. She is also a wild seeker, sacred gatherer and magic forager. She’s the visionary behind Make-to-Mend, Smashing Rubbish and Cauldron and Hive - three creative expressions of her passion for healing, transformation, beauty and the divine feminine. Fueled by the belief that the practice and act of Making is a catalyst for Mending and unfurling personal growth, Jennette hopes every woman will thread their needle with soul sinew and stitch their own wild and free nature into their mending, marveling at their own beauty all the while.
“In hidden caves and beside trees, near bodies of water and at the heart of villages, people will find the goddess enshrined in the soil and rock itself. Her body is the sacrifice that infuses the divine feminine into the earth. Sally Kempton
