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
Forest Temple and Matriarch Lodge
Raven is a 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
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

ALisa Starkweather

Marsia Shuron Harris aka ‘Mother Turtle’

Matriarch Lodge, Grandmother’s Den
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

Marie Nazon

Matriarch Lodge, Grandmother’s Den
Dr. Marie C. Nazon, PhD is a licensed social worker, spiritual guide, and community elder with more than thirty years of experience in mental health, education, and global service learning. Her work bridges clinical social work, higher education, ancestral traditions, and earth-based spirituality in service of individual, collective well-being and the planet. Marie centers her work on the body’s innate intelligence, ancestral memory, and intergenerational healing. Her spiritual journey has led her to be initiated in the Vodun tradition as a Mambo in her native land of Haiti and as a Priestess in the Yoruba tradition of Ifa in Sagamu, Nigeria. For over 30 years she has been a member of Kunsi Keya Tamakoce, a Lakota sweat lodge/Sundance community in the United States . She is a Reiki practitioner, a plant medicine advocate, graduate of Priestess Practicum of Triple Spiral of Dun na Sidhe, a Pagan spiritual community and ALisa Starkweather’s Priestess Path experience, Generation 14. She is the author of What a Woman Wants, a collective exploration of women’s desires, voice, empowerment, identity and the sacred feminine.

Sayra Pinto

For a Loving Future, Matriarch Lodge
Sayra Pinto is a Honduran immigrant, poet, practitioner, and public intellectual whose work has shaped community practice, leadership formation, and institutional strategy across the Americas for more than three decades. She is the founder of Moon Jaguar Strategies and For A Loving Future, where she develops frameworks for people and institutions working amid rupture, extraction, displacement, and political uncertainty. Her body of work includes Love Politics, Poetic Futurism, Terrenales, and a hemispheric continuity framework oriented toward the creation of coherence across the Americas. Together, these frameworks address relationship, consequence, lineage, belonging, governance, and the conditions required to build coherent futures. Across her writing and practice, Sayra works at the intersection of community organizing, philanthropy, public systems, and creative resistance.

Tanya Hernandez

For a Loving Future, Matriarch Lodge
Tanya Hernández (she/her/ella) is a daughter of Oyá, healer, storyteller, spiritual elder, mother, grandmother, and community advocate. She is a Santera, Palera, initiated in Ifá, and Espiritista, with a spiritual path deeply rooted in ancestral traditions and practices. For more than two decades, she has advocated alongside her community, and for the past 15 years has created sacred and healing spaces rooted in connection, care, and community. Tanya weaves spirituality, healing, and ancestral practices throughout her work, drawing from the traditions, teachings, and wisdom that have shaped her own spiritual path. Through storytelling, plant medicine, spiritual cleansing, ritual, somatic practices, and collective healing, she creates spaces that invite people to remember, reconnect, and tend to themselves and one another. In Western New York, Tanya is the creator of free community healing clinics that bring together healing practitioners, plants, a community apothecary, and different healing practices as an offering of community care. At the heart of her work is a deep belief in the medicine we carry, the wisdom of our ancestors, and the healing that becomes possible when we gather in community.

Tish Linstrom aka ‘MotherBone’

Tracey Forest aka ‘KeyTurner’

Forest Temple, Matriarch Lodge
Fearless and compassionate, KeyTurner stands in the portal, with outstretched owl wings, 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 27 years as a mother, healer, guide, trainer, yoga teacher, and song catcher. She has dedicated 35 years to guiding youth, adults of all ages, and women through soulful camps, shamanic trainings, vision fasts, and wilderness immersions. For a decade, she studied with Bill Plotkin of the Animas Valley Institute and is a 2025 graduate from the Soulcraft Apprenticeship and Initiation Program (SAIP) that Plotkin holds, where she deepened 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 for deep soul divers called to the Forest Temple of Wild Mystery.  You can find her singing duo’s, Keepers of the Flame, soul-centric, earth-rooted original music here and on Spotify.​
Learn more at www.spirithollow.org

Kiana Love

Matriarch Lodge
Wild Woman Healer Kiana Love, founder of Be Wild Woman, helps women and survivors of complex trauma feel safe, free, and at home in their bodies. Her wounds were the doorway. Through shame, trauma, and grief — she found her way home to her body, to Nature, to Wild Woman that is alive in each of us. That journey became her practice and her life’s work: guiding women into the aliveness, joy, and wild freedom that is their birthright. Your body is not broken. It is a whole, miraculous expression of Nature. She draws from over 25 years of practice weaving somatic healing, energy medicine, ayurveda, and earth-based wisdom. She meets each woman where she is, as she is — slowing down, feeling the ground, creating safety. Kiana holds a B.S. in Behavioral Science from the University of Houston, advanced training in Holistic Health from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and Ayurvedic studies from The Dincharya Institute. Her women’s studies lineage includes the Women’s Wisdom Program with Hemitra Crecraft & Sue King, Women in Power with Alisa Starkweather, Sacred Centers Chakra Healing & Teaching with Anodea Judith, and residencies with Dr. E — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves. Her practice draws from Holistic Health, Ayurveda, Somatic Healing, Yoga, Reiki, Integrative Energy Therapy, VortexHealing, Ifa, Family Constellations, Feng Shui. She is an Interfaith Minister, intuitive, and creative. In service to Wild Woman — the intuitive, instinctive feminine nature within us all — she guides women home into living, loving relationship with themselves, others, and Nature — within and as Nature. 

Gina Martin

JaneE King aka ‘Hana’

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

Cinthya Font

Hearth and Temple of the Mother
Cinthya is a women’s wellness educator and ceremonialist devoted to honoring the biological transitions of the female body. Her work is rooted in the natural cycles of womanhood, guiding girls and women through life’s thresholds with reverence and care. She creates somatic and ritual-based experiences that acknowledge and honor the gateways of the body, supporting women in their power through every phase: first moon, pregnancy, postpartum, and the wisdom of menopause. Drawing from her diverse trainings, Cinthya weaves together ancient and contemporary practices. Cinthya completed her studies at the National School of Anthropology and History. She is a traditional Mexican medicine practitioner, meditation writer, Reiki Master, mother & stepmother to seven daughters. She is also a devoted advocate for the right to love and live fully in our bodies.

Ashley Harmony ‘River Wolf’

Hearth and Temple of the Mother
Ashley Harmony AKA “River Wolf”, Hearth:  Ashley is a devoted Mother to four daughters, a home tender and a lover with Mother Earth.  Her Motherhood journey began at a young age and has provided the stepping stones for her mission, soul purpose and service to women that centers her life today.  She resides at Sacred Nectar Sanctuary with her husband, Nick, and their children where they intentionally lead an earth centric, regenerative lifestyle that includes growing organic foods and herbs, tending the land and creating a sacred community holding space.  She has been serving as a Birth Attendant for 6 years, supporting Mothers birthing at home.  To be witness to a woman’s first breath as Mother, and a baby’s first breath on Earth, is her deepest honor and sacred work.  She strongly believes in the healing of a culture that centers Women & Children, and she carries this thread with her as she weaves the tapestry of her life.  Ashley has been a visionary and tender of the Hearth since the first Forest & Village and can be found there, holding with an open heart.

Kim and John Ianelli 

Kitchen
Hello eARThlings — we’re Kim and John, and we’ll be stewarding the Kitchen Temple this year, serving 2900 vegan/gluten free meals over five days (no commercial kitchen—just heart, grit, and good food). For 20+ years we’ve been rooted in Vermont, raising our family and feeding gatherings with meals made from care and intention. John — the village’s first welcomed man in the kitchen — brings 30+ years of chef experience and a true devotion to nourishing people. Kim weaves together the logistics and the quiet work that lets the table breathe. We look forward to sharing soulful, thoughtfully prepared meals. Come as you are — and come hungry.

Kayla Loren

Children’s Nest
​Kayla Loren’s muse is in reverence to the full spectrum of thriving and interwoven life, with devotion towards mothers and children at the center. Kayla’s apprenticeship to Mother reveals itself as an INNATE Postpartum Care – Certified Practitioner, Newborn Care Specialist, and Nanny. She carries play, song, dance, prayer and heart-centered presence with her where she walks. Kayla is deeply inspired by our collective homecoming and honored to be a steward of the future ones.

Karen Hodgson

Children’s Nest
​Karen has fully devoted herself to the role of motherhood and the quality of presence it requires. It is the core of her being. This relationship shapes how she moves, listens, and responds to life. Through this path of play and depth, she has integrated over a decade of inner work, healing, and self-empowerment, bringing into alignment her values of authenticity over performance and presence over perfection. These are not ideals for her, but lived orientations that guide how she relates to herself and others, especially in moments of complexity, tenderness, or emotional intensity. There is a grounded steadiness in how she meets life. She is attuned to relational dynamics and atmosphere, with a capacity to notice what is unspoken and respond with clarity rather than reactivity. This creates a sense of emotional safety and coherence in the spaces she is part of. At the heart of her life, she is connected to those close to her with sincerity and depth, and she brings a consistent capacity for care, attunement, and emotional steadiness in relational space. Her approach to connection is rooted in safety, presence, and genuine engagement. She offers a felt sense of ease and grace where people, including children, can relax and simply be themselves. This is expressed through grounded playfulness, emotional regulation, and the ability to hold a space that is both calm and alive. She is in ongoing relationship with life as it is, and with what it means to stay true, present, and responsible while life continues to unfold.

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.

Melodie Fallon

Moon Lodge
Melodie is devoted to guiding women back into intimate relationship with their bodies, wombs, and the wisdom of the earth. Her work is rooted in the understanding that healing is a remembering of our cyclical nature, our innate intelligence, and our capacity to receive. Melli serves as a bodyworker, herbalist, and women’s reproductive health guide, weaving together abdominal massage, folk herbalism, and traditional practices to support menstrual health, fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care. Her approach is deeply embodied, shaped by years of hands-on practice and her own lived journey of healing and descent. She is passionate about supporting the nervous system to soften, restoring a sense of safety within the body, and creating space for women to reconnect with their womb as a center of intuition, creativity, and power. This work is an offering—rooted in devotion, guided by nature, and carried through the lineage of teachers, plants, and women who have come before her. Melodie apprenticed to the archetypes and facets of the feminine through the spiral path of 13 moons. She continued to walk this path by priestessing the following year in dedication to loving, uplifting, and seeing her kin. 

Raylyn DiPaolo aka ‘Rahlüne’

Lover’s Temple and Temple of the Muse
Rahlüne is a conduit of aliveness devoted to uplifting conscious sexuality and creative expression as pathways of empowered prayer. She creates ceremonial spaces for people to deepen their connection to body and heart, bridging the primal with the divine. A weaver of words and lover of the elementals, she brings wild passion, sharp wit, and a courageous heart to the spaces she serves. Rooted in ancient mysticism and psycho-spiritual psychology, her work supports the liberation of conditioning into embodied soul truth. She serves individuals, couples, and groups through a transformational Tantric approach to sacred love and conscious eros, cultivating intimacy that is both deeply healing and profoundly pleasurable. ​
Learn more at www.rahlune.com

Olivia McCarthy AKA Nali Boa

Lover’s Temple
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, wild yogi, bodhisattva, and singer of praise. 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 weaves her heart prayer into ritual spaces such as The Honey Temple and plant medicine ceremonies, where she offers yoga for integration. Practiced in Hatha, Tantra and Bhakti traditions, Olivia aims to support people on their own unique path of homecoming to the nature of oneness. She draws much inspiration from the female Buddha, Tara, to live in service to the liberation of all beings. Immersed in the full spectrum rainbow of existence, she offers the richness of her experience to the Divine that is everywhere. As a village keeper for the Lover’s Temple, Nali invites beloveds into the joyous embodiment of our sensual and interconnected nature with all of life.

Kiely Quinn

Temple of the Muse
Rooted in reverence for Mother Earth and the magic of collective prayer, Kiely is in service to the divine through the intentional curation of beauty. Her creatrix vortex swirls with rich offerings – living altars, womb-honoring belly dance, adorned spaces, ritual theater, song weaving and adornment. Her lovingly held ceremonies and offerings are devotional acts of deep remembering and love for this living earth. A passionate lover of the more-than-human ones, she weaves advocacy with ceremony, crafting rituals that uplift the voices of the waters, animals, trees, and wild places. Guided by the spiral, Kiely offers her voice, hands, and heart in devotion and service to the great turning.

Casey Morgan Rose (Morgan)

Temple of the Ancient Arts
Casey Morgan Rose (Morgan) is a tender of earth, hearth, and creative spirit. Rooted in a deep love for ancestral crafts, she lives in devotion to the slow art of working with her hands. Her path is one of remembering how to live in relationship with the land, with spirit, and with each other. With a heart attuned to cycles, creativity, and care, she holds space for others to reconnect with their inner rhythm and the wisdom of the earth. As a co-creator of the Temple of Ancient Arts, Morgan brings her passion for ritual, craft, and embodied presence to help cultivate a space of collective creativity, reflection, and remembrance.

Stillwater Schroeder

Temple of the Ancient Arts
Stillwater is a woman of many worlds ~ her passions include loosing self into the flow of a craft, the process of visioning and refining, creating yummy beautiful things like cake, drinking and serving old growth tea, making making making, being, writing poetry, being serenaded, witnessing, taking film photos, taking baths, tanning sheepskins, laying on sheepskins, reconnecting with ancestral craft, with land, with the season’s bounty, with hearts of kindred beings. Her work is multifaceted, but ultimately can be traced back to imbuing items or moments with presence, intention, beauty and delight. She will be helping to hold down the Temple of Ancient Arts while offering early morning tea ceremony and a window into the slow craft of sheepskin hide tanning.

Fiona Doyle

Fae Temple
Fiona is a facilitator, space holder, and cultural weaver devoted to the healing and evolution of collective and personal relationship to the Sacred Feminine through the lens of gender, spirituality, and belonging. Their work centers the sacred feminine as a living, relational force, while honoring the complexity and expansiveness of identity beyond fixed definitions. With a grounding in community-based practice as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor through Drama Therapy, Fiona creates containers that invite depth, honesty, and transformation—spaces where grief, resistance, joy, and discovery can coexist. They are particularly committed to centering gender-expansive experience as sacred and central, not peripheral, and to cultivating environments where all participants are invited into deeper self-awareness and accountability. Fiona’s approach blends facilitation, embodiment, and relational inquiry, supporting individuals and groups in navigating tension, repairing harm, and building more authentic, connected community. Their work is rooted in the belief that when we meet one another with courage and care, something more whole becomes possible.

McKenna Hayes

Honey Bee Lead, Registration and Volunteer 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.

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.

Lolly Be

Earth Temple
Lolly Be is an earth guardian, a water protector, a truth speaker and an action taker. She weaves awareness from around this planet about right relationships among cultures and concepts of mental illness and wellness. She is a teacher for Unlearning the limitations of this modern society in order to Remember the earth based wisdom of the world. She is a reconnecting indigenous person originally from Abya Yala, who melds the worldview of the West with perspective learned from the original peoples of the Americas.

Maria Carvalho Sandoval

Earth Temple
​Maria is joyfully returning to Forest & Village for the third year with her maiden daughter. Maria is a green witch, ceremonialist & space-holder for transformation, initiation, healing & evolution in her clients & the circles she tends & weaves with. Maria is the founder of Fire Bird Healing based in South Burlington, Vermont where she channels heart-centered, custom healing sessions. Her offerings include Hawaiian Lomi Massage & Breathwork, CranioSacral Therapy for adults & infants, Reiki, Pre/PostNatal Massage, conception/womb support, Chakra balancing with tuning fork, Crystal & Sound Healing. Maria helps to gently move energy & open pathways that lead to more freedom in body, mind & spirit. Fire Bird Healing has special pricing for BIPOC & Trans/GNC folks as well as a sliding scale option for anyone in need. Maria also leads workshops, song circles, guided journeys & group ceremony. She supports people to clear generational trauma, connect in with their healed & whole ancestors, guides, animal spirits & angels. Her devotional work 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 collaborating 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. She will be sharing her jewelry on Sunday during the trade circle! Connect with Maria on IG @FireBird.Healing & at FireBirdHealing.com

Moon Teitel

Earth Temple
Moon Teitel is a living vessel of deep wisdom, a medicine woman who walks between worlds—grounded in the earth, attuned to the unseen, and devoted to the art of healing. For over twenty years, she has cultivated a path of embodied transformation, weaving together ancient traditions and modern modalities to help others reclaim their wholeness. Her work is not about fixing what is broken, but about restoring what has always been whole—guiding you back to the deep well of safety, presence, and aliveness that is your birthright. She meets you at the edge of your becoming, holding space for the unraveling, the remembering, and the return to yourself.

Chaya Leia Aronson

Grief Shrine
Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN is a mother, partner, lover and ecosensensual earth worshipping clown goddess dancer. Chaya maintains a private practice offering Maya Abdominal Massage, Holistic Pelvic Care and Health, Movement and Sexuality coaching for well over fifteen years. Chaya has also facilitated a number of transformational and alchemical rituals related to grief, wombs and eros. She has great passion and skill in supporting people and relationships to have clear conversations about desires and boundaries and to unpack our wounds and traumas gently to find more capacity for love and pleasure. She connects to Divinity through Dance. Chaya maintains a private practice, where she sees clients in person and virtually, in the Northampton, MA area. 

River~Mikaela

Water Shrine
River~Mikaela Marmion is a priestess of Gaia and a creature of the deep waters. She is finely attuned to subtle energies, and fiercely holds space for sacred pauses that allow for deep listening and presence~~ River~Mikaela’s offerings invite deep personal and collective remembering during this time of Great Turning. Rooted in the wild medial, she guides others back into their inherent belonging within the great web of life, inviting awareness of where we each are on our own mythic life journeys, and invoking resilience, curiosity, empowerment, and reverence for the natural, social, and internal worlds we inhabit. A licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience, she specializes in trauma healing and integrative therapeutic modalities. River~Mikaela weaves a unique tapestry of clinical wisdom, earth-based magic, embodied awareness, and expressive arts into her creative offerings for individuals and groups. River~Mikaela has a long history of working in service of justice, and a holistic approach to liberation is foundational to all of her offerings. Her presence invites remembrance, alignment, and transformation, helping us to reweave our lives with the sacred rhythms of the living world.