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
Marsia Shuron Harris aka ‘Mother Turtle’
Matriarch Lodge and 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
ALisa Starkweather
Matriarch Lodge and Grandmother’s Den
ALisa Starkweather is no stranger to the wild edges and the geography of our multi-faceted human psyche. Having lived a lifetime of devotion for the rise of the sacred feminine, she recognizes one’s hunger to live what feels most true in our bones. As a guide and mentor, she can be both formidable and accessible when one most needs to know for sure that our choices matter, we matter, and that we belong. In the great changes present, we need acuity where oppressive systems must be dismantled from the inside out and this requires our strength, courage and connection with one another as well as an intimate relationship with “mystery”. She gathers with others who are on this path with great love.
She is a visionary with forty years of global community work and three recordings of her original circle chants. ALisa is the founder of the Red Tent (Temple) Movement, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings, the Women’s Belly and Womb Conferences, her women’s mystery school, Priestess Path, and co-founder of the international initiation, Women in Power; Initiating Ourselves to the Predator Within. She is co-producer of the award-winning film, Things We Don’t Talk About; Women’s Stories from the Red Tent and a co-author in several anthologies including Women, Spirituality, and Transformative Leadership; Where Grace Meets Power, Voices of the Sacred Feminine and Stepping Into Ourselves. Presently she is working at home with individuals in private multi-day immersions that draw from her work with Shadow Work, archetypes, breathwork and ritual. She is deeply moved in the holy collaborations and love being generated in Forest and Village and you will find her wandering the stream by day and shadowing the firelight by night. Finally, after four decades of continuous and often arduous work, she has arrived to the time of grandmother.
alisastarkweather@me.com
Tish Linstrom aka ‘MotherBone’
Matriarch Lodge and Grandmother’s Den
Tish (MotherBone) is deeply passionate about reweaving rites of passage, the wild, mature feminine and soul-based journeys for women to access and reclaim their wholeness, vitality, true fluency, and creative force. She is devoted to Mother Earth/the Great Web and the remembrance of who we are and our sacred purpose – to embrace and act from our roots and ancient spirit as intimately connected people to each other and the animate world. Her unique body of work is a rich tapestry of 30 years of lived experience, tracking and guiding – years that have funded an understanding and fierce commitment to the fortification of our feminine fabric and wisdom (art and skill). Tish crafts and guides spaces for women to claim the deep bone-knowing wisdom they carry and are being called to act on and in service to – spaces for women to step fully into the riches in their life stages, soul gifts/medicine, their creative bodies of work, right leadership, and eldership. In service to Beauty, Possibility, and Thriving Life. We are the Ones.
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
JaneE King aka ‘Hana’
Sanctuary of Ancient Arts and Grandmother’s Den
Hana is an Animal Medicine Carrier, a spiritual steward of the four leggeds, the winged ones, the slitherers, the swimmers, the mineral kingdom and those beings of the unseen, etheric, other dimensional domains. As emissary of the circle of life, represented in the ancient hoop drum, and her Medicine Drum Building Immersions, Hana’s humble heart holds space for your caring, creative heart to flourish within the safe container of this Forest & Village portal. Hana can help you viscerally, in your bones, know that – “Your Heart Knows the Way” by gently guiding your mind and heart into coherent resonance with each other where your innate healing blissful loving kindness can be accessed and felt. She will be offering three 30 minute healing sessions at The Sanctuary of Healing Arts ( sign-up sheet at the Honey Bee Hive station). Your healing session at the Sanctuary of Healing Arts includes shamanic earth based healing gifts steeped in Hands of Light/ Brennan Healing Science hands on healing techniques, gently flowing you softly to a calm relaxed awareness of self, where you safely, securely, authentically receive an “AH HA” of clarity and walk away with a viable easy self healing tool. Hana is a certified Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, a Pachakuti Mesa Carrier apprenticed with don Oscar Miro Quesada, a Hypnotist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and has more than 30 years of deep inner transpersonal self exploration supplemented by numerous other earth honoring immersive teachings. Her grounded compassionate heart-centered presence is palpable.
Learn more at www.janeekinghearthealer.com
Gina Martin
Matriarch Lodge and Grandmother’s Den
Gina Martin is the Founding Mother and High Priestess of Triple Spiral of Dún na Sidhe, an earth-based spiritual community in the Hudson Valley for over 25 years. She is a mother, ritualist, singer of sacred songs, and author of two series of feminist speculative fiction novels (the When She Wakes series, and The Daughters of the Goddess series). Her driving passion has been to forge circles where young people can grow with the knowledge of the Goddess in their hearts and bones, and to create safe sanctuaries where all may find Her again. She has led groups of women and men into the role of living as Priestesses and Priests in this time of flux and transition. Gina has made her living as healer in Classical Chinese Medicine, a professor of eastern medicines, and as an author. She is dedicated to She of a Thousand Names and a priestess of Inanna, Brighid, and the Magdalene.
Suzette Peña
Wisdom Fire and Temazcal
Suzette are ceremonialists. They curate experiences of healing and deep connection with the Great Mysteries, Mother Earth, within, and with all our relations. Suzette is an artist of the Earth. She has been doing many ceremonies throughout her life. She was raised to be a warrior, and continues to show up in this world as a guardian and a gatekeeper. Suzette is an elementalist practicing how to be her best self as a two legged in this life.
She is able to create anything from the Earth that aligns with the spirits and landscape of the space. She is a master fire keeper, and a teacher of tending sacred fires. Suzette is here to remember and remind us of who we are and how we are all connected. She travels everywhere with her 4 legged partner, Niko.
Amina Tezkatlahuillli
Temazcal
Amina is a Mexican native with more than 13 years of experience in both service and study on the ancestral path. She is a dedicated moondancer, temazcalera, and a practitioner of El Camino Rojo, a respected lineage of Toltec healing and wisdom ways. In addition to her experience in native America, Amazonian healing, she is trained in Structural Energy Awakening, Chi Nei Tsieng (Taoist abdominal massage), and holds a Masters of Psychotherapy from the University of Salamanca, Spain. With her diverse skill set and wealth of experience, Amina works at the intersection of both shamanic and western healing ways.
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 Village
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 Village
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.
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.
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
Raylyn DiPaolo aka ‘Rahlüne’
Lover’s and Ancient Arts Temples
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 Ancient Arts
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chantelle Castaño
Temazcal
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. Chantell will be supporting Amina at the Temazcal.
Learn more at solunamedicines.com
Maria Carvalho Sandoval
Earth Temple
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
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.
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
River~Mikaela
Water Sanctuary
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.
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.
villagekeepers@forestandvillage.org
