The 2023-24 Apprenticeship includes all recorded talks from the experts below.
Guest Experts for the 2023-2024 Apprenticeship to the Sacred Wild
Fall
September: Benki
Benki is a spiritual leader from the Amazon from an Antaviari lineage in the Ashaninka culture. A recipient of the UN Equator Prize, Benki has replanted over 2.5 million trees and is an environmental and indigenous rights activist, working to help indigenous groups recover their culture. Founder of the Yorenka Ãtame agroforestry center, he has worked to rehabilitate drug and alcohol-addicted youth by teaching them to work with nature, thus bringing people and endangered animal/plant species together again. He also established the world's first eco-market, which exchanges plastic for food in Amazonia. Benki is a part of @aniwa.co a global platform where indigenous elders from around the world share ancestral wisdom through an online portal and in-person events.
October: Celeste Larsen
Celeste Larsen is a pagan witch, ritualist, retreat facilitator, and author of the book Heal the Witch Wound: Reclaim Your Magic and Step Into Your Power. Her work covers a range of esoteric topics including folk magic, paganism, polytheism, animism, ancestor veneration, ritual practice, magical self-healing, and more. Celeste’s personal practice weaves together threads of various ancestral traditions, focusing on Nordic and Celtic spirituality and magic. Originally from the United States, she currently resides in beautiful County Cork, Ireland.
November: Miranda Rondeau
Miranda Rondeau is an internationally recognized singer, musician, and frame drum artist. She teaches original frame drum "circle songs" as a way of sacred remembrance and has been teaching since 1999 — as encouraged by her teacher, Layne Redmond, author of When the Drummers Were Women. She created and maintains an online presence for Women Frame Drumming and is dedicated to the reclamation of the drum and voice as sacred tools of remembrance.
Winter
December: Grandmother Lánésaán
LánéSaán Moonwalker has been an oracle, healer, spiritual teacher, and environmental guardian for more than 45 years. Holder of the Moonwalker lineage, she comes from a lineage of curanderas, and has dedicated her life to creative expression as a weaver, painter, dancer, singer, and teacher. A licensed minister and founder of the Philosophy of Universal Beingness within the Whole, LaneSaan shares how to work with nature in a sacred way and how creative expression is a doorway to spirit. LaneSaan is a part of @aniwa.co a global platform where indigenous elders from around the world share ancestral wisdom through an online portal and in person events.
January: Becca Deysach
In this gathering, Becca will guide you through a process to connect with the deep wisdom of your selected plant ally through guided meditation, freewriting, sketching, and somatic exercises. Using the creative medium of your choice, you will create an oracle card representing the insights gained from our process. Finally, we will share our bouquet of wisdom with one another. You will leave this workshop with the tools necessary to independently create as many oracle cards as you want!
February: Sophie Strand
Why has interest in the Magdalene surged at a time of extinction and climate collapse? What wisdom might she have to offer us about cycles of decay and rebirth? Drawing on Strand's research into the anti-imperial ecologically radical teachings of early Christianity, microbiology, and Magdalene folklore, we resurrect death as a womb and the tomb as the soil matrix that germinates more-than-human miracles. Sophie Strand is the author of The Flowering Wand, The Madonna Secret, and a forthcoming memoir, The Body is a Doorway: Healing Beyond Hope, Healing beyond the Human.
February: Alyssa Cox
Learn how to make deliciously luscious chocolate truffles. We’ll infuse them with aphrodisiac herbs, and decorate them with rose petals, for a titillating treat! Alyssa Cox is a professional chef based in San Francisco, CA. In her 20-year career, she’s done everything from cooking and traveling with rock and roll bands to teaching online cooking classes in natural egg dyeing. Her passion is creating delicious food with beautiful, natural ingredients. When she’s not cooking, you can find Alyssa walking among the wild oats near the Pacific coast, and singing on the weekends with a local San Francisco band.
Spring
March: Vaidya Jay
Vaidya Jay is a world-renowned speaker, professor of Ayurvedic medicine, and a NAMA registered practitioner with 21 years of experience in Ayurvedic practice and teaching. He is a professor of Ayurvedic medicine and a faculty member at the Southern California University of Health Sciences, and the Japan School of Ayurveda. He is the Founder and Director of the Athreya Ayurvedic Integrative Health Center, in Long Beach, California, and the founder of Athreya Herbs.
April: Lily Mazzarella
Lily Mazzarella, MS, CNS, is a clinical herbalist, nutritionist, certified Forest Therapy guide, and owner of Farmacopia, a walk-in apothecary and integrative clinic in Santa Rosa, California. She is the formulator and creator of Farmacopia’s line of herbal tinctures and botanical skincare, and co-founder and formulator of Reishi Roast, one of the first functional coffee substitutes on the market. In 2019, Lily helped co-found The Botanical Bus (501c3), a bilingual mobile herb clinic that empowers holistic health by-and-for Latine and Indigenous people.
April: Isabel Barreto
Isabel Barreto has been applying the technology of Kundalini yoga and meditation through practice in her life for over 20 years. When she gave birth to her first child in 2013, she began to utilize the powerful techniques of breathwork, movement, mantra and meditation as tools for energy management, to curb anxiety, and to stay connected to herself — to develop an inner anchor. Isabel teaches workshops, works one-on-one with clients as an intuitive empowerment coach, and leads a 40-day meditation experience container through which students learn the breath of fire practice. Breath of fire is an incredibly energizing breath work practice that strengthens the entire nervous system, aids in the removal of toxins, tones the vagus nerve, purifies the blood, clears the brain, moves stuck energy, and makes space for prosperity and new experiences.
May: Hamsa Nguyen
Hamsa Nguyen (she/they) is a trans woman from a long lineage of mystics, healers, and farmers. She is the founder of the Elderflower Mystery School, a QT+POC celebrated collective and apprenticeship for reviving the ecological mind through trauma-informed healing arts and decolonization work. Her work roots in San Diego, California, where she also offers plant spirit ceremonies and Yoga is a Butterfly, a karma yoga community garden for queer and trans* individuals.
May: Stephanie Burg
For the past decade, Stephanie Burg has provided women with the spaces and tools to liberate themselves from trauma, past conditioning, old storylines, and everything the world tells them they “should” or “shouldn’t” be. She was a professional ballerina for over a decade and is now a trauma-informed, Certified Integrative Health & Transformational Life Coach, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Somatic Healing & Embodiment Guide, international retreat facilitator, and steward to plant medicines. Stephanie believes that we are here to be the way-showers of a brave, new paradigm - a legacy in which our fullest expression of ourselves impacts the change we wish to see in our lineage and the world.
Summer
JUNE: Susan Ilka
Susan Ilka will guide you in learning about significant plants that are tied to the Summer Solstice, demonstrate how to make your own magickal Midsummer Sun Tea, and give ideas and suggestions for building your own personal solstice altar to honor nature and celebrate your life force. Susan Ilka Tuttle is a green witch, herbalist, spirit medium, author, and photo artist living in rural Maine. Enjoy her book Green Witch Magick, where she explores 13 essential herbs for the witch's cupboard through herbalism and magick-based projects. Visit her botanicals shop, learn about her spirit mediumistic readings, and follow her on Instagram.
The 2022-23 Apprenticeship includes all recorded talks from the experts below.
Guest Experts for the the 2022-2023 Apprenticeship to the Sacred Wild
Fall
September: Cheryl Angel
Cheryl Angel is an Indigenous leader, venerable Lakota woman (Sioux), water protector, the mother of five children, originally from the Sicangu tribe in South Dakota. With the slogan “water is life”, she has been a fundamental activist and water protector at standing rock and continues the nonviolent struggle together with the Lakota people while being a beacon for nonviolent activism, education and healing.
October: Kimberly Ann Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johnson is an author, teacher, Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner, Structural Integration practitioner, birth doula, and single mom. Kimberly is the author of “The Fourth Trimester,” “Call of the Wild,” and “Reckoning,” co-authored with Stephen Jenkinson. She is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast as well as the creator of Activate Your Inner Jaguar.
Ginny Villarraga, Mamo Rodrigo,
Mamo Cencio
The Mamos are spiritual leaders of Columbia, from tribes that fled to the high sierras, avoiding colonization. Since the beginning of time, they make “pagamentos” (offerings/ payments) On behalf of all humans, for all that we receive from nature. In the 70s they began to come down from the high mountains to tell their “little brother” (us) that theyll no longer be able to maintain balance in the heart of the earth if we dont join forces & work with them to restore balance. Mamos are identified while still in the womb & spend the first 9 years of their lives surrounded by love & in training in a cave, without ever seeing the earth. After 9 years, they emerge from the cave & it is said that they never recover from the immense beauty. They then spend 12 years apprenticing to the plants & learning directly from the land, before serving as a Mamo.
Winter
December: Lina Lyte Plioplyte
Lina Lyte Plioplyte is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and camera person. She’s currently working on films about menstruation, and about ancient civilizations where god perhaps was a woman. Lina has been working on a film about a revolutionary female archeologist, Marija Gimbutas, who began to question & prove archeological theories wrong about the female figurines found all over ancient Europe.
February: Tara Lanich-LaBrie
Tara Lanich-LaBrie is an herbalist chef, forager, artist, and small farmer, pairing her love of plants with her love of creating and sharing food. She started The Medicine Circle over a decade ago to celebrate creating beauty, medicinal food, seasonal recipes, and building community around the love of plants. Tara incorporates seasonal and medicinal plants into her colorful, gluten, dairy, and refined-sugar free recipes, teaches courses on culinary herbalism and foraging, and is currently writing a cookbook.
January: Mary Reynolds
Mary Reynolds is an internationally acclaimed — reformed — landscape designer who launched her career by achieving a gold medal for garden design at the Chelsea flower show in 2002, the story of which was made into the 2016 movie, “Dare to be Wild.” Mary authored the bestselling book, “The Garden Awakening,” is an occasional television presenter, a motivational speaker, and founder of the global movement, “We are the ARK.” She likes to campaign against evil multinational efforts to cull us all off with pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, and fossil fuels.
Spring
March: Jeff Tkach
As Rodale Institute’s Chief Impact Officer, Jeff Tkach is on a mission to reconnect humans with the earth. He is responsible for growing the Institute’s global influence in healing people and the planet through regenerative organic agriculture. He works like our future depends on it—because it does. Jeff’s highest purpose is to help people to restore a right relationship with our food system in an effort to heal our society.
March: Jo Little
Jo Little has been investigating cleansing practices for nearly 20 years and facilitating Intuitive cleanses since 2013. Creative Cleansing is a new paradigm of cleansing, a holistic process that helps us connect with our body and our emotions and invites us to nourish ourselves on a deeper level. The art of letting go and being present with ourselves is a practice that feeds us far beyond food.
April: Kiauitl Ketzalli
Kiauitl Ketzalli is a ritual artist, traditional Mexican dancer, landscape architect, permaculturist, photographer, and yoga practitioner. Since her adolescence, she has practiced the ancestral traditions of Mexico, training that she received from her spiritual grandmother. She has dedicated much of her life to traveling the world, sharing these traditions through art and practice. Her passion for design and the environment led her to graduate as a Landscape Architect. In her travels she found other of her passions, permaculture, the reproduction of organic seeds and the encounter with new ancestral traditions from other continents. She belongs to the group "Mouvement des Femmes Semencières," in France. In 2016, she created the project "Ka'alán Neék, Seed Guardians," in Tulum, Mexico, where she currently lives and at the moment she is creating the "Ancestral Seed Foundation."
May: Stephanie Burg
For the past decade, Stephanie Burg has provided women with the spaces and tools to liberate themselves from trauma, past conditioning, old storylines, and everything the world tells them they “should” or “shouldn’t” be. She was a professional ballerina for over a decade and is now a trauma-informed, Certified Integrative Health & Transformational Life Coach, Certified Breathwork Facilitator, Somatic Healing & Embodiment Guide, international retreat facilitator, and steward to plant medicines. Stephanie believes that we are here to be the way-showers of a brave, new paradigm - a legacy in which our fullest expression of ourselves impacts the change we wish to see in our lineage and the world.
April: Isabel Barreto
Isabel Barreto has been applying the technology of Kundalini yoga and meditation through practice in her life for over 20 years. When she gave birth to her first child in 2013, she began to utilize the powerful techniques of breathwork, movement, mantra and meditation as tools for energy management, to curb anxiety, and to stay connected to herself — to develop an inner anchor. Isabel teaches workshops, works one-on-one with clients as an intuitive empowerment coach, and leads a 40-day meditation experience container through which students learn the breath of fire practice. Breath of fire is an incredibly energizing breath work practice that strengthens the entire nervous system, aids in the removal of toxins, tones the vagus nerve, purifies the blood, clears the brain, moves stuck energy, and makes space for prosperity and new experiences.
May: Nadine Artemis
Nadine Artemis, creator of Living Libations, is a beauty philosopher, aromacologist, and botanical muse, shaping plant-intelligence into palpable consecrations to blush senses and muse imaginations. She is also is the author of Renegade Beauty and Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums. Nadine’s official biography begins when she first combined flasks of essential oils to recreate Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps for a school science fair. Nadine opened North America’s first full concept aromatherapy store, Osmosis, in 1994. Since that day, Nadine has received glowing reviews for her formulations in the Hollywood Reporter, Flare, the New York Times, Vogue, and The National Post.
Summer
June: Santiago Roa Duque
Santiago Roa Duque is a creative director working in various types of art, including film, photography, and music. Santiago is the founder and director of the Jaguar Siembra Project, through which he creates forests with art, and works on environmental, social, and cultural issues. He is also currently directing a transmedia film, called “Corazón Del Mundo,” his first documentary, alongside a re-forestation project with the indigenous people in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
Registration for the 2022-23 Apprenticeship includes all recorded talks from the experts below.
Guest Experts for the the 2021-2022 Apprenticeship to the Sacred Wild
Fall
October: Dani Solorio
Dani Solorio is a renowned herbalist and the founder of Compton Heath Bar, an holistic wellness space in Compton, CA. Driven by her mission to bring health to the hood, Dani helps people reconnect to ancestral healing practices through herbal remedies. Since 2012, she has been at the forefront of the wellness movement locally, as well as for Latinx and LGBTQ+ communities across the country.
October: Samantha Zipporah
For over 20 years, educator, author, and activist, Samantha Zipporah, has woven scientific data and spiritual presence to offer embodied wisdom for claiming inner authority in fertility, sex, and cycles. She is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in sexual health through collective healing, liberation, and education. A former birth doula, Sam provides radical love for navigating the womb continuum and reclaiming ancestral wisdom.
November: Nephi Craig
Chef Nephi Craig has 22 years of culinary experience in America and internationally, and is the founder of the Native American Culinary Association (NACA). Chef Craig is an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and is half Navajo. Craig provides training, workshops and lectures on Native American Cuisine to tribal entities, schools, restaurants, other groups, across America and abroad. Craig is the Nutritional Recovery Program Coordinator & Executive Chef at the Rainbow Treatment Center and Café Gozhóó on the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona.
Winter
December: Ruperto Chaparro Villafaña
Ruperto Chaparro Villafaña is an Iku (Arhuaco) leader born and raised in Sogrome, high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia. Ruperto is working with biologists and different environmental groups, including Jaguar Siembre, to preserve and regenerate the biodiversity of the Sierra Nevada. He studied Economics at the National University of Colombia., and worked with Microsoft on an ancient wisdom map. His work and collaborations have been published in National Geographic, Arte TV, and different independent outlets.
February: Grace Yoon
Grace Yoon is an herbalist and the founder of Qi Alchemy, a Korean herbal company providing ancient Eastern remedies that are efficacious and time-tested. As a Korean-American pioneering the concept of K-Wellness (Korean Wellness), Grace is carrying on her grandmother’s legacy of holistic healing by bringing high-quality herbal Eastern remedies to the modern world while raising the quality standard of herbal remedies.
January: Marcia Lopez
The daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, Marcia Lopez used the trials and trauma of the immigrant colonized experience to find healing and purpose. This journey forged her path as an adept Holistic Female Reproductive Wellness practitioner. For nearly 20 years, Marcia has helped women recover from reproductive health dysfunction, infertility, and sexual trauma using various lineage initiations.
Spring
March: Jo Little
Jo Little has been investigating cleansing practices for nearly 20 years and facilitating cleanses since 2013. Intuitive Cleansing is designed to connect us to our greater wisdom that becomes available when we enter into a state of deep listening. In this way, you use your own sovereignty to choose what to cleanse from, what to let go of for a day.
April: Dani Kusner
Dani Kusner, an agronomist and soil geek, integrates soil health and human health in her work with farmers and consumers. Born in and currently residing in the Midwest, she has experience working with urban agriculture and community gardens, Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs), and currently serves organic producers and livestock pasture systems in rural-based agriculture.
May: Christy & Aras
Christy and Aras are the founders of Christy Dawn, a clothing company dedicated to honoring Mother Earth through reciprocal relationships and regenerative principles. The founders are also wife and husband and the parents of two young children. They view Christy Dawn as a vehicle for transformation dressed up as a dress company. Christy Dawn currently stewards 65 acres of farmland in Erode, India where they are growing cotton regeneratively.
Summer
June: Ashe Brown
Ashe Brown co-founded Pura Luna Apothecary with her wife, Cristin, with the goal of providing alternative methods for humans to heal themselves and empower them to do so with the help of their community. Most of Pura Luna’s herbal medicinals, products, and gifts are made in house or by other women-owned/minority-owned ventures.
Registration for the 2021-22 Apprenticeship includes all recorded talks from the experts below.
Guest Experts for the the 2020-2021 Apprenticeship to the Sacred Wild
Fall
October: Jessica Viola
Jessica Viola is the founder of Viola Gardens Design, Viola Living Jewels and author of A Hundred Bells: Understanding Patterns in Nature on the Path to Empowerment. Jessica is one of Southern California’s most sought after landscape designers. She received certification in Earth Architecture from the world-renowned Cal-Earth Institute, and her teacher-training certificate in Permaculture and Environmental Design from Earthflow and the Permaculture Institute in New Mexico. Throughout the years she has cultivated a diverse portfolio of regenerative hardscape solutions, creative drought-tolerant and native plant palettes, hillside erosion control techniques, artistic botanic creations, edible garden designs, and a deep knowledge base in organic garden care & maintenance-all within her unique modern aesthetic. Using an integrative approach to design she seeks to foster a balance between people and the landscapes in which they live, inspiring deeper relationships and connections between both mother nature and human nature.
October: Andrey Lemon & Xochitl Ashe
Andrey Lemon is a recent graduate of The Gaia School of Healing who has worked consciously in the healing arts and magic since 2005. Since 2006, she has had the honor of supporting hundreds of families through their birth and postpartum experience. In addition to being a Doula she is an Nganga and Rootworker, initiated in the African Tradition Religion, Palo Briyumba. Andrey is initiated to Centella Ndoki; known as the Witch’s Witch. Centella Ndoki is the owner of the cemetery, gatekeeper of the portal between life and death, and Queen of the World. Through herhonor and right, she carries on her family’s tradition of Rootwork. Each of Andrey's spiritual roles incorporates the use of water for cleansing and healing.
For the past 20 years, Xochitl (So-chil) Ashe has been a teacher and guide in one-and-one sessions, workshops, and ceremonies both in the U.S and internationally. She was 16 years old when she became the first female of five generations of men to be initiated into the healing traditions of her Peruvian shamanic lineage. She is a Medicine Woman in the Peruvian Andean tradition and has worked with sacred plant medicines since the time of her initiation. She is a professionally trained herbalist and specializes in the ceremonial use of Cacao and Cannabis. In her practice, Xochitl focuses on the healing of generational trauma and the ways in which that trauma impairs our ability to thrive, create wealth, and have a positive impact on the world. Xochitl’s life journey led her into the world of entrepreneurship and she powerfully integrates the identities of both Medicine Woman and Entrepreneur. With her indigenous roots and modern-day business mastery, she mixes old-world wisdom with new world strategy to help leaders create successful businesses and projects that are both conscious and in alignment with the Earth. She continues to mentor individuals who seek to transform their relationship with themselves, with wealth, and cultivate a renewed connection to the wisdom of Pachamama, our Earth Mother.
November: Sarah Britton
Sarah Britton, the creator of My New Roots, is a Holistic Nutritionist and whole-food chef who has been inspiring eaters since October 2007. Sarah writes a successful blog, has published two cookbooks, is the host of Food Network Canada’s The Substitute Baker, and is excited to launch a new project all her own, coming late fall 2020. Sarah has been sharing her health-supportive edible creations for well over a decade and her deep love for nature’s bounty shines through in all she creates! Her recipes and ideas revolve around the seasons and work to bring balance, support, and simplicity to everyday life, encouraging everyone to discover a whole new world of flavour and nourishment from their own kitchens.
November: Samuel Bautista Lazo
Benizaa, Zapotec (Cloud People) Weaver, PhD-Sustainable Manufacturing
Samuel Bautista Lazo grew up in the traditional way of life; herding livestock and cultivating the Milpa System (corn, beans, squash and about 12 edible wild plants). As a young teen he learned to make rugs from his parents in his community Xiguie’a (Teotitlan del Valle), a well-known village of weavers that keep this tradition alive. After getting his PhD Samuel went back to his community to work in the family business. He travels to promote his village’s rugs, to teach weaving, the ancestral wisdom encrypted in the patterns and symbols of their rugs and to tell the decolonialized version of his people’s history.
Winter
December: Dominique Sire
Dominique Sire leads people to discover and master the landscape of their inner lives. For almost 30 years, Dominique has created acclaimed workshops and private sessions for thousands of clients around the world, guiding them to places within themselves that need to be transformed so that they discover the greatness of who they are and the gift of what it is to be human. Dominique has conducted seminars and talks for groups from 4 to 400 people. She has developed over 50 distinct workshops, working with men and women from a diversity of backgrounds and vocations - artists, scientists, doctors, teachers, therapists, and executives.
Watch Dominique's TEDx Talk: The Passion of Living in a Fearless Body
January: Tracee Stanley
Tracee Stanley is a noted and lineaged teacher of yoga nidra, meditation, and self-inquiry. Her practices are inspired by the tradition of Himalayan Masters and Sri Vidya Tantra, into which she was initiated in 2001. She is co-founder of the Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra School and created the Empowered Life Self-Inquiry Oracle Deck. Tracee travels internationally leading retreats, teacher training, and presenting at festivals and conferences including Oprah and Gayle’s Girls Get Away.
February: Adriana Ayales
Adriana Ayales is an herbalist, medicine maker, educator and founder of Anima Mundi. Anima Mundi offers a wide spectrum of remedies and plants from around the world, integrating from several traditions such as rainforest tribal styles, Ayurveda, Chinese-Daoist Medicine, and European style alchemy.
February: Divine Harmony
Divine Harmony is a mother, mystic, astrologer, writer and teacher. With her background in Depth Psychology & Spirituality she works to weave the Dark and the Light, the mundane and the sacred, the depths and the heights in order to support personal awakening, healing and wholeness. She sees astrology as an amazing alchemical tool for self-understanding and living a more conscious, integrated life. Her work includes teaching at yoga and consciousness festivals, teaching astrology classes online, writing extensively and consulting with clients. She has a special interest in the Divine Feminine, the Dark Feminine, Shadow Work, Conscious Relationship and learning how to raise the new children incarnating on the planet today.
Spring
March: Jo Little
Jo Little has been investigating cleansing practices for nearly 20 years and facilitating cleanses since 2013. She will be sharing how the deeply delicate journey of fasting without deprivation or domination can bring a true sense of liberation and devotion to our bodies and the earth, teaching us deeper to surrender and trust. Her body-mind curiosity encouraged her to study Cranial Unwinding + Bodywork (Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing, Life Energy Institute), MABT and Qi Gong (IIQTC, Universal Healing Tao, Mantak Chia and the Institute of Medical Qi Gong), and Kundalini (The Aquarian Teacher). Jo’s studies in interoceptive awareness keep her constantly researching this ever-expanding field. Integrating breathwork, meditation and sound therapy into her work, she hopes that we will all become more embodied and aware to gain a deeper connection to ourselves and the world we inhabit.
April: Heng Ou
Heng Ou is author of The First Forty Days and Awakening Fertility and founder of MotherBees, a food and lifestyle company dedicated to nourishing a woman through conception, pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. Heng is a graduate from The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Currently, Heng lives with her 3 children in Los Angeles working on her third book.
May: Ariella Daly
Ariella Daly is a beekeeper, writer, teacher and musician living in Northern California. Her work with the bee came through a lifelong interest in human connection with the non-human world. She is a graduate of the Lyceum, an ancient European shamanic tradition with the bee and the serpent as its central motifs. Within this tradition, she is trained in the healing and seership modality known as the Pollen Method. Her work is a fusion of her love for the natural world and embodied, womb-centric practices.
May: Victoria Keen
Victoria Keen is a fabric alchemist, a sound sorceress, a plant witch and Mother of two. Her passion and affinity for flowers, textiles, and gardening is deeply rooted in her mothers lineage with many generations of women before her working with fiber, tending animals, and farming food. Orienting her life towards the plants and refining her process over the years, Victoria weaves her passion for fibers, flowers, plant medicine, and the healing arts into creating botanically alchemized textiles, sharing her knowledge of sustainable fashion, and the absolute magic of medicinal and plant dyes.
Summer
June: Sarah Durham Wilson
Sarah Durham Wilson is the mother of the Maiden to Mother movement: she rebirths women from the wounded patriarchalized feminine to the archetypal mother, or mature feminine. Her work began with a witch awakening in 2011, to priestess work in 2015, to building the bridge from the immature to mature feminine. She’s an Avalonian Wisdom Keeper, solo mother to a little girl, and currently working on a Maiden to Mother book for Sounds True. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard.