The Village Keepers

The Village Keepers

Jonah Ruh Roberts aka ‘Raven Windwalker’

Vision Keeper, Fox Woman, Magician.
Wisdom Fire
Raven is head visionary witch for Forest and and Village and has been tending to the mycelium and roots of this project for many years. She runs 13 Moons: A Year in the Temple. Now in its 5th year, this flagship program of the emergent Temple is a yearlong journey for women in molt to heal and whole through the archetypes of the women’s soul journey, steep in the arts of ceremony in sisterhood, and build the courage, wisdom and clarity to emerge into the medicine, confidence and resilience of her next life stage. She is co-guide for Anima Terra, a second initiatory year-long program for women with Tracey Forest, and has guided many vision quests, wisdom councils, re-earthing programs and women’s gatherings and circles over the last 10 years. 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

Katherine Allen aka ‘KaDi’

Wisdom Fire
KaDi is a Temple Priestess, Mother, Conscious Movement Facilitator, and International Business Woman. She comes from a lineage of strong women who know their self-worth.

After immersing herself in ancient goddess worship for decades, KaDi shed dogmatic beliefs to follow the feminine wisdom streams into somatic practices. Reclaiming the innate capacity for inner healing and transformation, she centers the practice of deep listening through the body. She feels most aligned when in service to the current of mystical joy, beauty and reverence to Gaia. KaDi dances the spiral path of love and surrender to mystery.

As a heart sister, she is a catalyst whose calling is in facilitating transformational and empowering women’s circles, ceremonies and conscious movement gatherings. KaDi has trained with Awakening Women Institute, Priestess Path, and Azul Conscious Movement. She is the co-leader of 13 Moons with Jonah Ruh Roberts aka “Raven Windwalker”, and leads women’s temple circles and weekly Conscious Movement gatherings in central CT.

KaDi has been essential in the core visioning and organizing of Forest and Village. She will be co-holding sacred space at the gathering for the Matriarchs and Wise Women.
Learn more at https://ctconsciousmovement.com

Marsia Shuron Harris aka ‘Mother Turtle’

Wisdom Fire
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’

Soul Initation Guide and Threshold Midwife
Wisdom Fire 
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.

A part of the core visioning for Forest and Village, 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’

Suzette Peña

Amina Tezkatlahuillli

Chantelle Castaño

Healer’s Sanctuary, Biwoc inclusivity and connection coordinator
Chantelle is a songstress, kali devotee, medicine woman, and multimedia artist. She is a first-generation American and her lineage comes from Cuba + Colombia. Under the name Soluna Medicines – meaning sunmoon in Spanish – she hosts retreats, mentorships, celebrations, artists experiences, kambo and plant medicine ceremonies, and a podcast. 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. 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 during dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday.
Learn more at solunamedicines.com

Kimberly Wattendorf aka ‘Northstar’

Moon Lodge, 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, 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 for Forest and Village. She will be guiding the Maiden Track while also co-creating and co-tending the Moon Lodge.
Learn more at goddessshaman.com

Melodie Fallon

Moon Lodge
Melodie, a heart-centered student of life, 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 11 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 of the power of plants with 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, and she wishes to utilize these teachings to empower young maidens, mothers-to-be, and those navigating postpartum journeys, bridging the visible gap in our culture regarding moon mysteries, menarche, empowered fertility, conscious living, and nature’s rhythms. Melodie is grateful to share her experience in the Village as a visionary and core tender of the Moon Lodge.
Learn more at www.yoursacredvessel.com

Joy Massicotte

Registration and Volunteer Coordinator, Sauna, Honey Bee
Joy is passionate about organizing transformational events and spaces. She believes that we need these gatherings and magical spaces to connect and inspire us to create the world our hearts know is possible. She has helped organize Unifier, Sacred Nectar Sanctuary Gatherings, Permatours Events, and several of her own workshops and retreats. She is a certified Yoga Teacher, Sound Practitioner, and loves to lead Singing Circles and offer Sound Meditations. She also has a Master’s of Science in Natural Resource Management and Permaculture Design Certification and is motivated to create opportunities for communal earth conscious living. She is excited to be coordinating volunteers at the Forest & Village as she feels that this is a way to become truly integrated into the experience. ​

Heather Stickney

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.

Ashley Harmony aka ‘Riverwolf’

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Ashley is a devoted Mother to four daughters, a home tender, a lover of plants and a practitioner of the ancient ways in which women have created with their hands. Her Motherhood journey started young and has provided the stepping stones for the purpose and service to women that centers her life today. Spending years practicing the art of bodywork and energy work, she is able to hold others in their pain, grief, joy and repair. She resides at Sacred Nectar Sanctuary, at the foot of the White Mountains, where she intentionally leads an earth centric lifestyle that includes tending the land and creating a sustainable and minimal home environment. Over the past 5 years she has been serving as a Birth Worker, holding and supporting Mothers at home, in sacred space, as they journey through the portal of childbirth. She claims this to be her deepest honor: To be witness to a woman’s first breath as Mother and a baby’s first breath on Earth. She strongly believes in the healing potential of a culture with women and children at the center and carries this thread with her as she weaves the tapestry of her community and her life. Ashley is one of the visionaries and tenders of the Hearth and Mother’s Den at Forest & Village, and will be holding a circle for Mothers to share their experience of initiation and any part of their journey that feels alive and desiring to be witnessed.

Cammie Austin aka ‘Birdie’

Hearth and Mother’s Den, Head Honey Bee
Hearth tender, mama of four grown men and Gramie to two sweet grandchildren, Cammie centers her life around home and family. She entered the last 13 moons cycle in the narrative of ‘broken woman’ and walked through the closing threshold a born again healer, in reclamation of her power as her birthright. Cammie loves tending to the home and helping women develop generative habits of self care through decluttering and learning the art of intentionally organizing and cultivating ones abode. She will be supporting the Village by abundantly expressing her gifts in service to the Hearth, tending with joy and love.

Samantha Lynch

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Samantha is a mama to a daughter, a hearth tender, and an herbalist. She is also 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. For the past 8 years, 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. Samantha’s work, both within and outside her home, centers around bringing forth the beauty, fluidity, and intuition that arises from living closely with Gaia and her phases. At Forest and Village, she will support the hearth temple/mother’s den and serve as a touchpoint of the Mother archetype for the weekend’s ceremony.

Kayla Loren

Hearth and Kids Camp

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.

Sky Being

Hearth and Mother’s Den
Sky is a devotional woman, seer, and space holder in service to her people through deep listening, web weaving, song catching and her open-hearted willingness to surrender fully to the ever-changing hums of Mystery. A dedicated learner, she draws upon a decade of experience in the healing arts, with women at the center of her life through her work supporting mothers as they cross the sacred threshold of childbirth. She is now in her own Great initiation into mother as she crosses this threshold herself, welcoming her first child earth-side this spring!
Sky has been a part of the core visioning for Forest and Village.

Olivia Grace ‘Nali Boa’

Temple of Gaian Eros
Nali is devoted to the temple of Gaia as an ever-tuning instrument of soul, endeavoring to experience the spirit of love fully embodied. She is passionate about dancing and singing her praise of the sacred with earthen wildness. Her personal journey of liberating her body and voice from the confines of an oppressed culture has been illuminated through 13 Moons, a year long soul pilgrimage traversing the feminine archetypes within a temple of women, where she has also served as a support priestess. Her soul stream flows into the facilitation of sacred spaces for the multifaceted magnificence of the goddess to be experienced and expressed. As a priestess for the Temple of Gaian Eros, Nali lovingly invites human kin into the embodied exploration of their wild, sensuous, interconnective nature. Her prayer is for all beings to embrace their primal divinity in a symbiotic spiral dance with the web of life.

Raylyn DiPaolo aka ‘Rahlüne’

Temple of Gaian Eros
Rahlune is a creator of sacred spaces for women apprenticing with Shakti – divine lovers and embodiment artists alike. The core modalities that brought her to truth have been dance, song, elemental energetics, conscious relating and sacred sexuality. For the last decade, Rahlune has been studying the intersection of feminine mysticism, psychology and most recently, modern neuroscience, to understand the art of embodied soul remembrance. Today, she serves a range of women from maiden to crone through ceremonial circles, a tantric approach to love and sex coaching and Global Caravan Tribal Bellydance. She is ecstatic to co-Priestess the Temple of Gaian Eros at Forest and Village, bringing the ancient arts of bellydance and tantric rituals.
Learn more at https://www.rahlune.com

Kaitlyn Cronin

Forest Whisperer
Shapeshifter Lodge
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. At Forest and Village, Kaitlyn will be co-creating and holding the Shapeshifter Lodge. 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

Nicole Colvin Griffin

Beauty Weaver
Sanctuary of the Ancient Arts
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 also 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. At Forest and Village, Nicole will be wielding her tapestry of gifts as the main tender of Camp Creatrix.

Gabby Casey

Honey Bee and Sound Healer
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.

Nyeela Jasmine

Herbal First Aid Tent
Nyeela is a devoted herbalist, visionary, community weaver and farmer. She is passionate about the connection between people and plants and all the ways they connect us to all that is. Her work with plants began as a medicinal cannabis caregiver in Maine. During these years of working one on one with folks in her community she was shown the depths of chronic illness and simultaneously invigorated and inspired by the power of plants, people’s own intelligence and the beautiful interconnectedness we share. At Forest and Village, Nyeela will be holding space and healing care within the Herbal First Aid Tent with the assistance of the woodland fairies and fellow herbalists.