Ravyn Stanfield is a healer, writer and educator, dedicated to liberating the unique super powers within each of us. She is an aspiring alchemist, seeking to transform the heartbreak of living in our culture, and reveal the gold in all that seems worthless.

She practices acupuncture in Portland, OR (www.forestspringacupuncture.com) with a focus on helping people survive cancer, restore all parts of the soul after traumatic experiences and fulfill their commitments to being embodied during these interesting times. Ravyn teaches workshops and retreats internationally. Her writing has been included in many publications, including the local anthology, Voicecatcher, and she is hard at work on her first book.

Ravyn uses her background in the realms of social justice, traditional medicines, Jungian psychology, environmental activism and theatre arts to coax more of the extraordinary into the world through the cracks in Western civilization. She is an initiate in the Reclaiming and Feri traditions of witchcraft.   www.ravynstanfield.com

Dawn Isidora first became involved with the Reclaiming Tradition in her hometown of San Francisco,California back in the early '80s before moving to points North.  She has taught Reclaiming classes and witchcamps, as well as other Earth-Centered-Spirituality classes locally, nationally and internationally since the early 90's.  Besides the Reclaiming core classes, Dawn has created curricula in areas of leadership, sacred sexuality, trance leading and spiritual practice. With certifications in mediation, hypnotherapy and NLP and both Reclaiming and Feri initiated, Dawn works  as a spiritual mentor and counselor.

She connects with the Sacred Elements of Earth (health, home & livelihood), Air (reason, awareness & communication), Fire (creativity, integrity & will), Water (emotion, temperance & dreams), and Spirit (mystery, connection & and that which is eternal) to discern strengths and imbalances.

Trance (also called hypnosis), NLP, (shifting thought and behavior patterns) and good old fashioned talking it out, round out that tool bag.

Like her small grey familiar, Dawn has had many lives: feminist activist, single mother of two wonderful and now grown sons, tribal belly dancer and instructor, Kundalini yogi and several more.  Embracing the paradox of passionately loving her home while equally delighting in travel, Dawn has lived happily alongside a dormant volcano in Portland Oregon for twenty-odd years (some of them odder than others...).  She spends her spare time gardening, making soup and idling on her porch swing -- perhaps dreaming of foreign lands.  DawnIsidora.com

Rose May Dance has taught with Reclaiming since 1981, and took the core classes in 1980.  She helped invent Witch Camps, and has taught extensively in the US and internationally.

Rose listens to her dreams, and is attracted by the dream language in this year's intention.  She likes to create ritual, write poetry, and trance in Nature.

Rose is 64, mother of a 15 year old and a 40 year old, lives with her family collectively in San Francisco with anarchist witches, a giant poodle, and a chihuahua.

Evenstar

As an astrologer, counsellor and explorer of mythology, Evenstar engages with both the personal and the transpersonal. As a teacher of permaculture and environmental studies she grounds her spiritual practice in the Earth. As a witch she seeks the patterns that make us who we are and transform us to who we can be.

Her eclectic spiritual path has guided her to explore many traditions and experience shamanic practices of various indigenous cultures, pagan rites and observances. Song, dance, drama, ecstatic ritual and relating with nature are tools she uses to strengthen her connection with the Divine.

A priestess of the Reclaiming tradition and an Earth activist for many years, she believes that spirituality and ritual are deeply rooted within the place we practice and how we honour the Earth in our daily lives.

Ash

Ash is an initiated WildWood Priestess, a Reiki-attuned Registered Nurse and tree-hugging dirt worshipper and all-round magickal enthusiast. Kate delights in sharing her skills as a ritualist, healer and teacher, and relishes any opportunity to get intimate with Nature and the Gods.

She facilitates public ritual for the Gold Coast Pagan community at Full Moons and Sabbats, working closely with the Spirits of Place and the unfolding Cosmic Consciousness to craft ritual that is ecstatic, trancey and profoundly grounded in the cycles of the Earth.

Ash is humbled and delighted to be stepping into the role of first-year student teacher for EarthSong, and is looking forward to seeing what crazy and delicious magick we can create.

Aria Weaver

Spiritual philosophy and magic have been part of Aria’s life since childhood. This evolved into an active practice of paganism and witchcraft – a path she has been walking for over 15 years.

Aria’s spiritual work and personal interests are deeply embedded in all forms of justice, community building and empowerment. She believes that Reclaiming offers everyone the chance to learn skills that help awaken aspects of the human condition often supressed by the dominant culture. As such, Reclaiming appeals to her desire to link the worlds of spirituality, magic and activism. It also complements Aria’s experiential teaching style.

Aria connects with the sacred through ritual, music, writing, watching the ocean and lying on the grass in the sun. She dreams of a sustainable and peaceful future and explores ways that we can empower ourselves and each other so that we may create positive change in the world.

Catherine Melissa

Catherine Melissa has been practicing some form of magic for 15 years and came to Reclaiming 6 years ago, embarking on an Underworld process. She has found the Reclaiming path to suit her ideals of creating a supportive environment for witches of all levels of experience to learn, transform and heal. With a background in visualisations and a keen interest in shamanism, she has since gone on to develop her own processes of transformation using meditation, visualisations, tarot, astrology, dreamwork, and creating ritual objects as a means of healing.

In her spare time she likes gazing at and swimming in the ocean, cloud watching and trying to read the sky to determine the weather and gardening.

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