The Village Keepers

The Village Keepers

Katherine Allen aka ‘KaDi’

Core Weaver
Matriarch Lodge
KaDi (Katherine Allen) is a sacred weaver, space holder, heart-sister, mother, free spirit, and dancer on the path of the Wise Woman. As a leader and facilitator, she loves to co-create and collaborate with sisters and the unseen to awaken personal power, sovereignty, beauty, healing and transformation. For twenty years KaDi was a Hindu Priestess in a South Indian Goddess lineage leading and teaching elaborate ceremony and fire rituals. During this time she traveled extensively throughout India as a devotee of the Goddess. Today KaDi is rooted in central CT where she offers monthly Women’s Temple circles and Conscious Movement gatherings that engage her love of somatics and embodiment practices. KaDi is the co-guide of 13 Moons, a woman’s year long soul journey, as well as a core weaver and organizer for the annual women’s gathering Forest & Village in New Hampshire.
Learn more at www.DanceofEmbodiedWisdom.com

Jonah Ruh Roberts aka ‘Raven Windwalker’

Core Weaver
Matriarch Lodge
Raven is core visionary witch for Forest and Village and has been tending to the mycelium and roots of this vision for earth-based, soul-centric culture for many years. She is founder of 13 Moons: A Year in the Temple which she now co-leads with Katherine Allen, ‘KaDi’. Now in its 6th year, 13 Moons continues to be a crucible of learning about the women’s soul journey, the women’s archetypes and the priestess arts. Many women who have been through 13 Moons now hold leadership roles in Forest and Village as part of their continuing journey as cultural midwives, healers and priestesses apprenticing to their particular soul gifts and delivering them back into the community. In addition, over the last 12 years she has created and continues to create many offerings such as the Honey Temple and Anima Terra as well as other women’s gatherings, vision fasts, wisdom councils, on-on-one medicine ceremonies and wheel of the year feast days. Raven continually listens to guidance from Mystery and is devoted to Earth, the Web of Life and the mythic story being woven of and through us all. She is a soul guide apprentice of the Animas Valley Institute, and an herbalist and gardener. Her life’s work is in calling humans to the tender and precious sentiency of all life, raising earth-based, soul-centric culture, gathering the priestesses and resurrecting the initiatory rites. She has been devoted to the soul journey for 30 years having experienced her own many molts, soul encounters, visions and guidance, and has gathered many wisdoms and skills along the way to now serve as a guide for the youngers. She tends Ravenwind, a sanctuary in Unity NH where she holds many of her events and programs.
Learn more at jonahruhroberts.com

Heather Stickney

Core Weaver
Sanctuary of the Healing Arts, Kitchen
The founder of Joyful Choice Wellness, Heather has had a lifelong journey with her own healing and now guides others to come home to themselves and embody their truth, wisdom and unique gifts. She began cultivating her love of food and nourishment at a very young age and finds immense joy in being in direct communion with the land, and all Gaia’s beings to bring together incredible nourishing food prepared with Love and Care. Soul centered and steeped in ritual and nourishment, Heather is also an Integral Life Coach, End of Life Doula, Transitional Midwife, and Bodyworker who has been guiding women and families for decades. A ceremonialist to her bones, she loves to provide sacred witness and create ritual and ceremony for herself and others to participate in. She facilitates chakradance, fire walking, and transformational breath-work, and has led groups and individuals through various rites, including a pilgrimage through sacred sites in Peru.

Kimberly Wattendorf aka ‘Northstar’

Core Weaver
Maiden Path
Northstar radiates her unique luminescence as a Soul Guide. She is deeply committed to assisting women and young ones who are adrift in the darkness of these times of fracture and forgetting to reorient to their own True North. The early stages of her own journey were spent in a desperate search for the divine that took her down a long and winding road, replete with myriad wrong turns and dead ends. Through apprenticeships and trainings in Raja yoga, core-shamanism, and the initiatory priestess path of 13 Moons, she finally found her direction Home. Now, she serves as a co-guide of various nature based, soul-centric workshops and immersions at Spirit Hollow in Shaftsbury, VT as well as being a co-founder of The Goddess Grail, a virtual Mystery School devoted to the oracular arts. Her life’s mission is to be a navigator of spirit, dedicated to holding space and shining light so that lost girls and lost boys of all ages might chart their own course back to loving, regenerative relationship with Nature, with Community, with Mystery, and with Self. Northstar has been part of the core visioning team for Forest and Village and will be guiding the Maiden Path.Learn more at northstar-soul-navigation.com

Marsia Shuron Harris aka ‘Mother Turtle’

Elder Grove
Marsia Shuron Harris aka Mother Turtle, is a facilitator, certified Coach, artist, photographer, singer, songwriter and musician who has been performing her original compositions for over 25 years. Her voice is distinctive, and her music is rooted in personal growth, love, social consciousness, and a greater vision for the world as a whole. In 2009 she designed and began facilitating “Healing the Stories We Tell Ourselves with Mother Turtle,” where she helps women and men uncover and shift the “stories” that are limiting their life experience. As a facilitator, Marsia is funny, compassionate, intuitive, and gifted with the ability to get you out of your head and into your heart. Using her voice as a tool for healing, she can lift you to great heights through her song, as well as take you to those deep places within that are seeking illumination. Marsia’s classes are unique and take on a deeply spiritual nature as she guides participants toward self empowerment and personal transformation. “It is my goal to address the inner unrest that binds us, and offer a means by which to free ourselves.” Mother Turtle
Learn more at https://www.motherturtle.com

Tracey Forest aka ‘KeyTurner’

Matriarch Lodge, Forest Temple of Wild Mystery
Fearless and compassionate, KeyTurner has “been to the mountain” and descended into the abyss to lament for the earth, to celebrate the beauty and be with the pain. She stands in the portal, holding a lantern, singing ancient songs, dangling a key, inviting others to step through into the vast landscape of their Souls. A deep listener of Earth’s dreaming, of the “in-betweens,” and a devotee of the soul stream, KeyTurner is the founding Director of Spirit Hollow, where she has lived in reverence and communion with the sacred forest for the last 25 years as a mother, healer, guide, trainer, yoga teacher, and song catcher. She has dedicated 30 years to guiding youth, adults of all ages, and women through soulful camps, shamanic trainings, and wilderness immersions. For 8 of these years, she has been studying with Bill Plotkin of the Animas Valley Institute and is now in the final phases of the multi-year Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) that Plotkin holds, within which she is deepening her understanding of the nuances of Soul Initiation Guiding, while cultivating more tools to assist in the Wholing and Healing of this broken, beautiful world. KeyTurner will be co-holding sacred space for the Matriarchs and Wise Women.  Having raised her two children as a single mom, she is now passing through portal of the empty nest, with grief and joy, and a fiery longing to use her creative energy to help reimagine and recreate a life-enhancing, genuinely healthy culture, one in which youth are supported in eco-centric development by initiated adults and true elders, one that is in collaboration with the myriad other-than-humans, and one that is in reverential service to the ancestors and those yet to come.
Learn more at www.spirithollow.org

Tish Linstrom aka ‘MotherBone’

JaneE King aka ‘Hana Hinda Hiya’

Cammie Austin aka ‘Birdie’

Matriarch Lodge
Birdie is a mother and grandmother, a seeker on the path of love and the beauty way, she embodies the roles of peacekeeper, dancer, and whirler.  She found her way into this community through 13 Moons, a transformative journey that helped her heal past wounds and step fully into the radiant being she is today. Birdie is devoted to the sanctity of the temple—from the visible to the non-visible. She creates and holds spaces of deep reverence, generosity, and love. Through her work in intuitive home organization and life coaching, she helps others release what no longer serves them and embrace what brings them joy, aligning their homes and lives with their soul purpose. This year, Birdie will be holding space in the Matriarchal Den from a place of graciousness, order, consideration, and love. She invites all to step into a space of deep love, reverence, and mindfulness. Her medicine is deep and wide—she moves with love, care, playfulness, joy, and a prayer that all she does may be of benefit to all beings.

Suzette Peña

Amina Tezkatlahuillli

Ashley Harmony ‘River Wolf’

Queen Honey Bee
Ashley is a devoted Mother to four daughters, a home tender and a lover of plants. Her Motherhood journey started young and has provided the stepping stones for her mission and personal service to women that centers her life today. She resides at Sacred Nectar Sanctuary with her husband and children where they intentionally lead an earth centric and sustainable lifestyle that includes growing organic foods, tending the land and creating sacred community holding space. She has been serving as a Birth Attendant for 5 years, supporting Mothers at home, in their sacred space, as they journey through the portal of childbirth. To be witness to a woman’s first breath as Mother and a baby’s first breath on Earth is her deepest honor. She strongly believes in the healing potential of a culture that centers women and children and carries this thread with her as she weaves the tapestry of her life. Ashley is one of the visionaries of the Hearth and will be leading the Honey Bees as Queen Bee of Sacred Nectar. She hopes to connect with as many women and children throughout the gathering in her warmest welcome, so if you see her flowing around, please introduce yourself!

Kim Ianelli aka ‘Trust No. 1’

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Kim is a wanderer on the wild road of Life, moving between mountain peaks and ocean tides, engaging in culture and retreating into soul, gathering wisdom like seeds and harvesting moments with care. She walks with a deep reverence for all Beings—Plants, Animals, Stones, and especially the hearts of Humans. She is a weaver of gatherings, creating spaces where people feel safe, seen, and held—where laughter is welcome, and grief has room to breathe. She walks many paths: mother, friend, sister, artist, food-lover, building official, partner, one who has known both deep loss and boundless love. She is a keeper of the Earth, a seeker of truth, a student of mystery, and an encourager of souls. Most of all, she is one who strives to know herself deeply while walking in Love. Come, be nourished. Let’s share in yummy snacks, meaningful connection, and the warmth of the Hearth Temple.

Tatiana Berindei

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Tati is a Mother, Ceremonialist, Author, Coach and Spiritual Guide. As the author of “Path to Puberty: The Ultimate Resource Guide for Moms of Daughters,” she is a trusted voice in navigating the stages of womanhood with grace and wisdom. Her deep understanding of the human psyche, coupled with her profound connection to the natural world and ancestral roots, offers a unique perspective on living in harmony with the earth. With over 20 years of experience learning from First Nations elders and traditional healers around the world, she has become a beacon of ancestral wisdom and holistic healing. A mother of two daughters, Tatiana is an ordained Minister of Walking Prayer through the Center for Sacred Studies, a podcast host, birth witness, singer/songcatcher and authentic healer in her own rite. Learn more at pathtopuberty.com

Kayla Loren

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Kayla Loren is a devoted student to life and truth, inspired by our great cosmic web of interconnectedness. She is a postpartum care practitioner and founder of The Seed Space, a community place in WNY. Kayla Loren tends to the seeds of life through spaces, mommas, children, community, land, songs, stories and the present. Her work is centered around play, creation, social-emotional expression and nourishment. Bringing a playful presence for the children and resources for conflict resolution, Kayla Loren is grateful to be of service to the greater visions of Forest & Village.

Samantha Lynch

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Samantha is a mama to a daughter, hearth tender, writer, herbalist and ceremonialist. She is in deep devotion and apprenticeship to Mother and her all of her current creations are brought forth to the community through this unique lens. She spent her maiden years traveling the country, working on cannabis farms and studying various forms of herbalism and esoteric alchemy. The last decade she has created spaces for women to gather in rhythm with the seasons and cycles of the moon, while also holding mentorship groups for young maidens to discover their feminine power. 13 Moons Spiral in 2023 was the final preparation and catalyst for Samantha to cross the threshold from maiden to motherhood and she knows in her heart her daughter guided her here. On the first Imbolc weekend she had a vision of the sisters she had yet to meet placing hands of love and prayer on her belly and after conceiving during the Mothers weekend, her final ceremony ended with the circle of women blessing her belly. She is a weaver of women and girls, devout to welcoming these ones back into the circle of wise women and the wider web of the Earthen ways.  Samantha’s work, both within and outside her home, centers around bringing forth the beauty and intuition that arises from living closely with Gaia and her phases. At Forest and Village, she will support the hearth temple and serve as a touchpoint of the Mother archetype for the weekend’s ceremony.

https://substack.com/@samanthalynch
IG: honeyofthe_hearth

Nali Boa

Temple of Gaian Eros
Nali is a priestess awakening to the Spirit of embodied Love, living in devotion to the temple mysteries of animate earth and eros. She is passionate about creatively expressing reverence for the sacred through being in intimate relationship with the natural world. A lover, dancer, wildling, bodhisattva, heart gardener and singer of praise. She bows to and stands with all the human and more-than-human guides that influence her journey. Woven within the fabric of the 13 Moons sisterhood, Nali continues to channel her priestess training into facilitating spaces for the multifaceted magnificence of the goddess to be honored and celebrated. She is a practitioner and chef at The Natural Dharma Fellowship, drawing much inspiration from the female Buddha, Tara, to live in service to the liberation of all beings. Nali indulges in the nectar of presence and pure delight as often as possible, resourcing in and radiating this all-encompassing love. As a village keeper for the Temple of Gaian Eros, ‘Boa’ invites sisters into the joyous embodiment of our sensual and interconnected nature as children, lovers, and priestesses of Mother Earth.

Raylyn DiPaolo aka ‘Rahlüne’

Temple of Gaian Eros
Rahlüne is devoted to becoming a living prayer of ecstatic aliveness through authentic emotional embodiment, liberated creative expression, and the cultivation of sacred love and conscious eros. She is both deep and playful, radiating and reflective. A creator of sacred spaces for folks to deepen their embodied connection to life as lover. She is passionate about supporting the re-integration of Goddess Temple Culture into the modern world. A weaver of song and dance and a fierce shadow walker committed to becoming a radically responsible member of her village. Devoted to learning and serving at the intersection of ancient mysticism and psycho-spiritual psychology, she believes in the wholing and healing of the human self, making space for true soul remembrance. She serves individuals, couples and groups through ceremonial embodiment arts and a transformational, Tantric approach to sacred love and conscious eros. Rahlüne is honored and grateful to support the rising of the Temple of Gaian Eros here and now.
Learn more at www.rahlune.com

Kaitlyn Cronin

Forest Temple of Wild Mystery
Kaitlyn’s work lives in the intersection of spirituality, mycology, creativity, and the integration of Death in the sacred cycle of Life. Through embodied listening and deep reverence to the more-than-human kin, she embraces the unfolding path with reverence and curiosity. With the mycelial web as her greatest teacher and creation as her devotional practice, she weaves stories through visual art, immersive experience and somatic knowing; embedding us into our ecosystems and guiding others to remember their interstitial and unique place within the expansive web of life. By embodying the teachings of the mycelium, she lovingly acts as a threshold keeper for those amidst transition. In mycelium’s delicate dance of decay and renewal, they remind us of the transient nature of existence and the enduring legacy of transformation. Kaitlyn spiraled through 13 Moons in 2023 and served as priestess for the 2024 spiral. At Forest and Village, Kaitlyn will be co-creating and holding the Forest Temple of Wild Mystery. Throughout the gathering, find her divining prophecy from bones and stones, weaving mycelial riddles and shapeshifting in the forest.
Learn more at https://www.kaitlyncronin.com

Marie Echo/Murry’s (fae/they/she)

Forest Temple of Wild Mystery
Marie Echo/Murry’s (fae/they/she) primary partnership is with the meandering magic of the Muse. Living in devotion to creativity, fae shapeshifts between and beyond archetypal roles of bard, dreamer, magician, priestesx and trickster. They perform immersive theater ritual, curate expressive arts events, and teach embodied voice. In reverence & revelry- always delighted to play and pray.
IG @musemundi

Melodie Fallon

Temple of Ancient Arts
Melodie is a heart-centered student of life who draws inspiration from Gaia in her many forms while holding deep reverence for her teachers, plants, and ancestral roots. Much of her work is centered in nourishing human beings through the ever-spiraling journey back to wholeness. For 13 years, she’s been a bodyworker, drawing inspiration from a variety of modalities such as devotional yoga, embodiment work, and herbalism to bring balance to the body, mind, and spirit. She is passionate about serving women through the interweaving power of plants & hands on healing, which led to her studies in uterine massage (learned from Dr. Rosita Arvigo in Belize and midwife Homprang in Thailand) and folk herbalism (honed under Sage Maurer at the Gaia School of Healing). Melodie is passionate about re-membering into ancient wisdom practices and teachings. She spiraled through 13 Moons in 2023 and served as priestess for the 2024 spiral. She is a devotee to slow earth craft, the sensual experience of meditative, ceremonial creation. This year Melodie is in service to the ancient arts, a temple devoted to the adornment of self, creation of sacred tools and the pure enjoyment of slow craft. Learn more at www.yoursacredvessel.com

Nicole Colvin Griffin

Maiden Path
Nicole, an artist and herbalist, is currently apprenticing to the land, learning to listen. A passionate weaver of beauty, she thrives on uplifting others’ creativity through her work. As the former founder and director of Rise Up Center for the Arts (2016-2023), she fostered artistic expression for numerous beings within her community through a myriad of offerings, many of which centered around women, including Wild Women’s weekends and monthly Red Tent gatherings. Over the years, Nicole has become a certified practitioner of Transformational Breathwork, Permaculture Design, and 5 Elemental plant medicine, and she has loved supporting others through each. She spiraled through 13 Moons in 2022 and has been a core part of the coven since. Nicole has abundant experience nurturing creativity in children through her own journey as a mama of three now-adults, and through working in programs such as the Wild Rose Farm School, PMEC (Peabody Mill Environmental Center), and Waldorf Pioneer Schools.

Chantelle Castaño

Ancestor Shrine
Chantelle is a medicine woman and multimedia artist. She is a first-generation Cuban & Colombian American. Under the name Soluna Medicines – meaning sunmoon in Spanish – she hosts retreats, mentorships, ritual theatre performances, artist experiences, and kambo + plant medicine ceremonies. She considers herself a shepherd of the dawn. She is always learning how to allow change, enjoy life, open her heart, follow her dharma, and sing her part in the cosmic song. Walk through the Ancestors Forest to enjoy multiple art projects curated by Chantelle to support your connection to lineage and ancestry. Chantelle is in service at Forest and Village as a touch stone, safe haven, and inclusivity friend towards all BIWOC women present. In addition to being available for private check ins with women of color throughout the gathering, she will also create an open space for BIWOC connection everyday of our gathering.
Learn more at solunamedicines.com

Gabby Casey

Honey Bee
Gabby is a woman learning to remember the ways of the sacred feminine, of being rooted in the heartbeat of the Earth, and of living in embodied wholeness as to find and hold her unique pillar in the web of life. She has a passion for supporting others in reclaiming their sovereignty and accessing their unique soul gifts through providing loving witness and reflection. She draws from experience as a therapist, yoga teacher, and sacred sound facilitator. She holds deep reverence for the sea of sisterhood she’s been steeped in through 13 Moons and a coven of women seeking to live in right-relationship with all of life, as to inform a new and more sustaining culture. Throughout the Forest and Village gathering, Gabby will be offering her strength of presence, flowing between and tending to the needs of the various temple, lodge and gathering spaces both physically and energetically.

Alyssa (Lyssy) Holmes

Sanctuary of the Healing Arts
Alyssa (Lyssy) Holmes will be offering herbal medicine and a space for attuned presence and integration this year in the Healers Sanctuary. With 25 years on the path practicing and studying herbalism, Lyssy’s life and work are deeply woven into the roles of mother, herbalist, writer, homesteader, community builder, nutritionist, and vitalist. She holds customized retreats and immersions on her land, Harvest Hill Homestead and Retreat, nestled in the rolling hills of Southern Vermont. These gatherings or solo retreats~ in collaboration with others~integrate bodywork, herbs, workshops, sauna, baths, ritual, story telling, nourishing food, medicine ceremonies, and circles. In her practice, she offers one-on-one deep dive consultations, herbal apprenticeships, and homesteading internships. Lyssy is most passionate about nurturing the connection between plants and people, approaching her work through a Vitalist and Ayurvedic lens. This year at Forest and Village, she comes to hold space, support, and nourish~offering the presence of the plants in many forms, as you show up with bravery, courage, grief, shedding, integration needs, and all that moves through you. She has been on a soul journey through grief and is accepting the invitation of initiation into the mature wild matriarch and medicine woman, in service to the beautiful culture we are dreaming and creating together. She will have delicious teas, elixirs, tinctures, oils, balms, first aid, and remedies to enliven, elevate and support your experience. Part of the medicine she offers is a desire to uplift your medicine, whatever form it takes. Come share, cry, lay in the soft yin space, ask for what you need~and Lyssy will be there to listen, witness, and offer plant medicine with presence and love.
For more info, you can visit: www.vitalvesselherbs.love

Adriana aka ‘Sun of the Heart’

Earth Temple 
Adriana, Sun of the Heart, is a mother, stepmother, medicine woman, earth-steward, farmer and founder of Love Earth Farm: an emerging education, healing, permaculture and animal-oriented sanctuary tucked in the pristine hills of Vershire, Vermont. She lives close to nature, raising much of her own food, and is nourished by all that is sacred. She listens deeply to that which is unspoken in the cycles and seasons, to the spirits, land, plants, animals and humans. She is an artist, a visionary, a compassionate healer, a heart-centered empath, a steady leader, a sensitive embodied lover of beauty, and a fierce protector of that which is wild, free, and without strong voice. She spiraled through 13 Moons in 2020. Adriana had accumulated many skills through the years, from hardy practical ones around the farm and gardens, to healing and communicating with animals and the earth, along with many human bodywork, healing and communication modalities. Horses are a big part of her life and farm, where she facilitates bareback riding and equine counseling. She has a particular passion for empowering girls to develop strong boundaries through handling large animals. Breaking free from her New York City upbringing, she has been on quite a humbling journey to reclaim her authentic wholeness in order to offer a healing sanctuary where more people can have their hands in the earth. She welcomes questions about any of it.
More info at: LoveEarthFarm.com

Ashley Jensen

Earth Temple 
Ashley Jensen is a passionate steward of the earth. Her work has always involved deeply connecting to the relationship that humans have with the natural world. She cares deeply and strives to make this world a better place with mindful action, kind words, and the desire to co-create with other open minded beings. She has been gardening and farming for many years working to engage the youth and local community as much as possible. She has organized plant focused art camps for both adults and children, teaching the wisdom of the plant kingdom. She believes in the power of planting seeds and the generosity that comes from sharing in the abundance. This led to her creating a seed library that gave out over 1,400 packets last season. She has a farm where she hosts volunteers from all over the world to learn and connect to the earth and each other. She has an herbal company called Medicine Weaver Apothecary where she creates handmade products from the generous herbs of the land. Ashley will bring her experiences with her to Forest and Village to co-create a space in the Earth Temple for those who wish to deepen their relationship with the earth through grounded connection and hands on skills.
For more information you can check out www.medicineweaverapothecary.com

Charlotte Malin Collins ‘Althaea’

Grief Shrine
Charlotte Malin Collins/Althaea is a musician, singer/songwriter, teacher, and healer guiding people into direct, communal, and transformational encounters with music and Soul. She is passionate about using music and ritual to conjure deeper presence, emotional expression, and vulnerability.  Her offerings include grief rituals, body shame recovery mentorship, holistic concerts, sound healing journeys, song circles, and compositional sound projects for dance, film, and podcasts. She her first full album of original music, titled Welcome Home, is set for release in September 2025. Malin currently serves as the Viola Instructor at Amherst College and lives in Northampton, MA.

McKenna Hayes

Honey Bee, Registration and Voluneteer Coordination
McKenna is a deep systems thinker and organizer, serving in various aspects of the sustainable food and farming web for over 15 years. Always curious and learning, she is inspired by, and committed to, weaving and supporting the threads of our interconnected systems, tending to each other and the land. As a Village Keeper, McKenna is tending to our registration and volunteer programs, weaving support for all the temples.Drawing from her service as a yoga teacher and herbalist, she roots deeply into the land, relearning & remembering the sacred ways and living in harmony with all creatures and plants. She tends land in Putney, Vermont, where she lives with her beloved partner Cole and four-legged friend Timer.

Maria Carvalho Sandoval

Kitchen and Sanctuary of the Healing Arts
Maria Carvalho Sandoval is a green witch, ceremonialist & space-holder for transformation, initiation, healing & evolution in her clients & the circles / communities she tends & weaves with. She has a private practice in South Burlington, VT called Fire Bird Healing that is heart-centered, queer friendly & trauma informed. Maria offers dynamic, custom sessions that activate the senses, channel the elements & help make pathways for stuck energy & pain to gently release. She offers Hawaiian Lomi Shamanic Massage & Breathwork, CranioSacral Therapy, Reiki, crystal & sound healing, tuning fork activation & guided drum journeys. Maria supports people to clear generational trauma, connect in with their healed & whole ancestors, guides, animal spirits & angels. She helps clients to open their energy fields & receive more life-force energy as they grow their roots deep down into Mother Earth. Maria has been working with crystals for 16 years making unique, healing jewelry for people – this is what originally brought her into becoming a practitioner & guides her healing sessions & altar-craft. Maria also facilitates Breathwork journeys & classes exploring Earth connection & expressive arts practices including somatic movement, fiber art, clay-making, painting, singing & ecstatic dance. Maria is excited to return to Forest & Village this year, to circle around the sacred fire with you all. She is honored to join with the kitchen witches – making breakfast each day with her fierce & sweet maiden daughter, Naïma Jaguar. She will also be spending time in the Healing Sanctuary & Elder Grove offering bodywork, CranioSacral & Reiki for anyone who is in need of nervous system support or energy clearing/balancing. 
Connect with Maria on IG @ FireBird.Healing & FireBirdHealing.com

Jamie Tyler Maloof

Kid’s Camp
Jamie is the creator and teacher of the O.W.L.S (outdoor wilderness learning and survival) program as well as The Dancing Moon Girls program, a coming of age gathering for teen girls. She has been teaching around Vermont and NH for over 25 years. Jamie has led, taught, and helped to facilitate outdoor programs and primitive skills on her own land, as well as in several schools, libraries, camps, museums, organizations and more. Since her young twenties, when she began to attend The Belly and Womb Conference, The Women’s Herbal Conference, Red Tents, and Full Moon circles, Jamie has been on a mission to connect community, families and children back to themselves, the Earth and the wild mystery and magic around them. Jamie is not only a mother, an experienced herbalist and Reiki practitioner, but she also holds extensive experience and certifications in wild edibles/medicinals, The Art of Mentoring, Falconry, Place Based Education, tree medicine, CPI, archery, wilderness first aid, primitive survival skills and many more. Jamie is a visionary who has witnessed the profound transformation of people, while holding space for all ages to rediscover their innocence and curiosity when being held and nurtured by sacred Mother Earth.
For more information visit www.owlsvt.org