Check out our 2025 Lineup
See you in August under the cedars..
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2025 Facilitators
Yvonne Pérez Emerson
Cacao Ceremony from an Indigenous Lens
A ceremony honoring cacaocita la medicina, the medicine of cacao. A journey to open our hearts and welcome in inspiration, love and harmony through the relationship with cacao, song, and breath.
BIO:
I am an Earth sister, energy weaver, ceremonial designer, maker, dreamer, mother and grandmother. Practicing herbalism, energy weaving and intuitive readings through traditional indigenous folk ways.
I draw inspiration from my ancestral lineage of Mexican/Indian and Scottish decent, each rooted in Earth-based practices and cosmic connections. My intuitive sense is lead by my heart, channeling consciously through the relationship I have with the energy of Spirit, ancestral wisdom, Father Sky, Madre Tierra, the elements, the plants and my guides.
I have spent many moons connecting to the land through medicinal plants and creative practices. Weaving in various modalities that nurture the soul — from ceremony and rituals, sacred plant offerings, and energy healing. Throughout my life I have been drawn to the cycles of the seasons-the moon-and the divine feminine. These practices have cultivated in me a strong connection to the natural world, they are my embodied experiences. These connections and energies have guided my spirit and the work I practice daily.
Natalya Imboden
Women's Temple
In Temple, you are welcomed with ALL that you are. You can roar and cry, shake and giggle. I can be sensual. You can be needy, tired, and brave. Unmasked, affirmed, challenged, tickled, loved, no one is trying to fix you or label you; your sisters know that grief here one moment may very well be bliss the next. Temple is a devotional place for you to be seen, held, and witnessed.
BIO:
Hello, I am a Presence Alchemist. The skillful means I apply are rituals, bodywork, movement therapy, relationship inquiry, biological resilience, sound harmonics, plant medicine, and subtle energy mapping. I have strong antenae into the creative field, and love attuning to what is the living possibility and field resonance existing in each person I meet. My newest birth is Sky Mother Temple in Hood River a gathering place that cultivates interconnectedness, somatic intelligence, authentic relating, co-emergent healing, inquiry, and shadow work.
Sweet Medicine Nation:
THE RIGHT TO PASS
with Grandmother Sweet Medicine Nation Chickasaw & Choctaw Wisdomkeeper
Within the Indigenous Circles, there were and are Rites of Passage that would be automatically celebrated and honored within a Maiden - Woman - Elders; without these Community witnesses, we have lost the knowledge of who we indeed are. Sweet Medicine will offer ways to recognize your place and purpose here and, through ritual, cutting away, pipe ceremony, and empowering ways, bring us back to our gifts and purpose here on Mother Earth today.
BIO:
As a Medicine Person/Teacher she awakens within us the original & sacred values as earth guardians, honoring the natural ways for benefiting all Beings on Mother Earth.
With her wise-woman guidance she offers powerful and useful tools for our contemporary lives. These tools and accompanying ceremonies are for revising, repurposing, and reclaiming our lives in this New Era of the Divine Feminine.
Over 35 years she’s assisting thousands of people through Rites of Passage ceremonies on 5 Continents, Rekindling the Holy on Mother Earth, our birth rite.
Sweet Medicine is involved over 20 years in numerous local and International organizations and agencies protecting endangered species, water issues and education worldwide. Water is Sacred. Without it there is no Life.
Her passion for plants, both edible and medicinal, continues her love for communing with nature and these healers/feelers on our Mother. She applies her background in Natural Medicine, Midwifery, and Herbs, along with her written articles and books based on medicinal and edible native plants, compliments her heritage and love of sharing natural knowledge.
She is the founder and President of the Four Winds Community Foundation in Oregon for over 17 years. Four Winds Foundation is dedicated to the spiritual evolution of humanity, offering indigenous wisdom through sacred rites ceremonies and education.
Wyld Lee
Invoking Pussy
In this co creative experience, we will move through the Map of Pussy above and below - offering each woman a new lens of liberation within her own body.
By reconnecting with the Essence of Pussy, we are able to put the past in a good place in the psyche while opening to the possibility of more pleasure, power and promise as we step more fully into these glorious animal bodies!
This Map of Pussy moves through three gateways of reconnection:
The Gateway of Reckoning : reconnecting Vulva to Lips
The Gateway of Reconciliation : reconnecting Cervix to Throat
The Gateway of Reclamation : reconnecting Womb to Heart
BIO:
Wyld Lee is a sensitive & awkward animal whose native tongue is dance. She lives by instinct & intuition & enJOYs helping others remember how to access this birthright through movement medicine and the magnetic arts.
Cass Estes
Sensual Embodiment Class
Awaken your sensual energy and nurture your entire system through this guided embodiment practice. Intuitively move and gently connect with your body while resting in the presence of your inner landscape. There is a well of energy within you, cultivate and draw upon this beautiful resource. This class is nourishment for your mind, body and soul. This class will include self-massage, breathwork and movement.
BIO:
Moon Child. Outdoor Lover. Fierce Mother. Space Holder. Shadow Seeker. Spiritual Explorer. River Runner. Intuitive Dreamer. Creative Force. I am passionate about pleasure and helping people thrive. My work as a coach combines modern neurobiology, shamanic healing, and holistic embodiment practices; blended with the ancient wisdom of Tantra, Taoism & sacred sensuality.
Claire Magdalena Sierra
Magdalene Rose Temple
Connect with Mary Magdalene as an iconic guide of the Divine Feminine Path of the Rose. Through story, history, herstory, and meditation and journalling you’ll meet the Magdalene with Author/Arts Therapist Claire Sierra. Explore Anointing and the hidden mysticism of the sisterhood of the Rose--an ancient/modern re-imagining of everyday priestessing in your life.
BIO:
Claire Sierra, MA is an arts therapist, spiritual counselor and author/founder of The Magdalene Path book/program. She guides women to remember their embodied Feminine Soul, through Divine connection with Mary Magdalene. An initiated anointing Priestess also trained as an Expressive Arts Therapist, certified True Purpose™ Coach, and Reiki Master, Claire uses cutting edge practices that fit her grounded, expansive, soulful approach. She has maintained a private practice for almost 30 years, currently at Spa Sanctuary, a boutique wellness studio at the Balch Hotel, a destination retreat in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.
Emily Sampson
Arrow Breaking Ritual
Arrow breaking is a powerful yet simple ritual to activate our primal warrior within, break through limiting beliefs, and embrace the strength of vulnerability. Together we will raise our energy through a sequence of vulnerability bonding activities, followed by intention setting and an exhilarating, non-conventional and cathartic practice of physically breaking an arrow.
BIO:
Emily "Isha Ember" Sampson is a multifaceted priestess / healer with a range of offerings. Isha is a body worker, Reiki Master Teacher and Certified Firewalking Instructor. Isha considers herself a vulnerability and self empowerment enthusiast.
Maitreya Wolf
Song of the Soul Activation
We are each endowed with a voice that is unique in all of creation, a voice that carries our precious beauty into the body of the world. For so many of us, our voice is stifled, repressed, and constricted, and this class is an opportunity to shift that in a powerful and immediately actionable way. Weaving classical vocal technique, embodied vocal explorations, and group singing together, Song of the Soul will help you make contact with and begin to free your one-and-only-ever voice so that you can feel more powerful, alive, and fully expressed in your daily life, relations, and soul expression.
BIO:
​Maitreya Wolf emerges as a soul awakening catalyst, wisdom keeper, and deep mentor for the profound ride through these times of collective metamorphosis. Sharing her medicine through the mediums of gorgeous original music, 1-1 and group soul mentoring work, entheogenic ceremony, community engagement, and more, she is here to support the awakening, liberation, and healing of not only individuals, but also the collective, so that we can enjoy our birthright as participants in the deep wonder of the creation as we steward this gorgeous planet in the most beautiful way possible.
Antha Reynolds and Alyssa Zander:
Back to Inner Nature | Attuning to your Cycle in Business and Life
In a world that operates on a 24-hour masculine cycle, we're being called to return to our unique cycles and structure our lives based on our inner landscape. By attuning to our bodies as our guides, we can deeply honor our periods of rest and productivity in line with our individual moon cycles.
BIO:
​Antha is a sound healer, yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner. She supports clients healing from and experiencing burnout through an integrative approach to self-care.
Rosemary Brensen
Sales In Your Own Power
Sales in Your Power is a mindset shift and a framework that brings your dream customer out of the woodwork and into your expert arms. We will cover potent content that helps you unlock your ideal customer’s mind, practice shifting mindset, learn to OWN your expertise and on your specific superpower, and SELL your magic and make bank!
BIO:
​Rosemary is a creative business coach & intuitive magic maker! Hailing from her experience co-owning the Portland Garment Factory, she has seen it all and is here to help her clients through the messy and lonely gauntlet of building profitable, easeful, and thriving businesses!
Melissa Robin
Illuminate Your Essence Ceremony
Illuminate Your Essence Ceremony is a sacred ritual experience designed to help you reconnect with your inner radiance and be seen in your fullest expression. Through guided meditation, movement, and ritual photography, you’ll step into a space of deep self-acceptance and empowerment. This immersive journey invites you to embody your magic, release self-doubt, and celebrate your essence in a supportive, intentional container.
BIO:
Melissa Robin is a photographer, ritual artist, and embodiment guide dedicated to creating safe, sacred spaces for deep self-expression and transformation. Blending meditation, somatic movement, and photography, she helps individuals reclaim their power and be seen in their fullest essence. At the Temple of Belonging, Melissa offers rituals + immersive embodiment photo sessions that weave ritual, presence, and artistry to honor the magic of each participant. Her work is an invitation to step into self-love, visibility, and belonging.
Reishi
Mycelial Mapping: Creating Networks of Belonging
The first part of this workshop will be a deep dive into the network consciousness of fungi – an exploration of how mycelial networks organize themselves, distribute nutrients, form mutually symbiotic relationships, resolve conflict, and share information.
The second part of this workshop will be an experiential, participatory exercise to organize our community resources in a strategy inspired by mycelial networks, something I call "Mycelial Mapping Community Resources". Each participant will be invited to share a resource or skill that they have to share, as well as a resource or skill that they’re seeking to find in community
BIO:
​Reishi Strauss is an herbalist, mycologist, and medicine maker born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains, now residing in Portland. Reishi has studied herbalism, ecological stewardship, botany, medical science, and breast massage through various teachers at Bastyr University, the Columbine’s School of Botanical Studies, and more. She owns and operates her Earth & Spirit Botanicals, which is an artisanal women-run business devoted to sharing the medicine of nature with human communities, from delicious herbal elixirs to bottled tinctures and syrups. Reishi seeks to be in symbiotic interspecies relationships with the plants, fungi, insects, bacteria, animals, humans, minerals, and more to promote healing, embodiment, pleasure, and interconnection between all of Life.
Sara Luna
Rebozo Techniques for Comfort and Connection
Demonstrate the use of the rebozo, a traditional Mexican shawl, for comfort measures during labor and as a tool for partner connection. Including intro to belly binding and hopefully leaving time for a sacred birth story circle.
BIO:
Sara Luna she/her is a multifaceted professional with expertise in doula work, herbalism, and culinary arts. Passionate about community building and holistic care, she is dedicated to fostering connection through education, advocacy, and creative engagement, including facilitating continuing education for doulas across Oregon.
Emma Prescher
Custom Smoke Blend Workshop
This is a time to gather and explore the medicinal qualities of herbal smoke blends outside of tobacco and cannabis. Smoke blends can be a beautifully effective way to clear spaces, repair and restore the lungs, and connect with plants as medicine.
BIO:
I was raised in a home deeply rooted in eastern and western medicine, and trained as a critical care nurse. I returned to my roots, studying intuitive medical astrology and relationship with plants as medicine shortly before experiencing an accident that resulted in living in a differently abled body. It was a deep invitation in, into the body, and into co-creative healing. I have been offered beautiful wisdom and teachings from indigenous women, the sky, and the earth, and it is a privilege to share these teachings with women and invite them back into sovereignty in their own healing.
Shay Sanborn
Embodying the 4 Feminine Archetypes of the Menstrual Cycle
A journey through the light & shadow sides of the Maiden, Mother, Wild Woman & Crone archetypes & how to work with them throughout the month with your menstrual cycle, or in the phase of life you are in, or with the phases of the moon, season of the year (for those who are not currently menstruating).
BIO:
I am a lover all beings, beauty amplifier & forever curious student of Mama Earth. I honor the Womb of each woman I meet, with deep reverence to the uniqueness of her story & body before me. I lead with an open heart & mind, while remaining anchored to the unconditional truth of divinity & Love that surrounds us in every moment.
Yvonne Pérez Emerson
Amulet Making: A Sigil Workshop to Release & Receive
Bring your intentions to receive and release. We will learn the art of sigil making and have a releasing ceremony upon completion. What is a Sigil? Sigils are personal glyphs that represent your desires, your intentions, and carry your personal magick. The can be used for healing and growth, or to empower your divine being.
I am an Earth sister, energy weaver, ceremonial designer, maker, dreamer, mother and grandmother. Practicing herbalism, energy weaving and intuitive readings through traditional indigenous folk ways.
I draw inspiration from my ancestral lineage of Mexican/Indian and Scottish decent, each rooted in Earth-based practices and cosmic connections. My intuitive sense is lead by my heart, channeling consciously through the relationship I have with the energy of Spirit, ancestral wisdom, Father Sky, Madre Tierra, the elements, the plants and my guides.
I have spent many moons connecting to the land through medicinal plants and creative practices. Weaving in various modalities that nurture the soul — from ceremony and rituals, sacred plant offerings, and energy healing. Throughout my life I have been drawn to the cycles of the seasons-the moon-and the divine feminine. These practices have cultivated in me a strong connection to the natural world, they are my embodied experiences. These connections and energies have guided my spirit and the work I practice daily.
Savannah Clancy:
​Honoring Ma
Ma holds the frequency of our total belonging. She is Galactica and Earth, she is your mother, and she is your daughter. She is the great womb of the universe, pulse of the planet and all of life.
This ceremony begins as a somatic journey of story, music, and movement that will culminate into a collaborative group art project. We will be using clay, paint, dirt, salt, charcoal, and other mediums to paint the body of Ma. This creative and somatic journey offers a container to grieve, remember, heal, honor, give thanks, and support ourselves, our own matrilineage, and the Great Mother. We will end this ritual with a closing integrative share and gift the piece to the altar of Temple of Belonging.
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BIO:
I am a creative, multimedia artist, musician, and birthkeeper in devotion to the creation mysteries. I am interested in the evolution of our planet through quantum healing and leaps of consciousness as well as supporting others in accessing and sharing their creative and intuitive voice in the world.
Dr. Linh Le
Returning To Yin with Goddess Kuan Yin
No mud, no lotus. Often, the joy is hidden in plain insight behind layers of personal, collective, and ancestral grief. Through a somatic mindfulness journey, self-touch work, and Traditional Chinese Medicine principles, we'll embrace the shadow self and transmute grief to reclaim joy in the now, and for our ancestry.
Return To Yin is an inner call to nourish the yin within. Through a guided journey to reconnect to divine Yin through our ancestral lineage, earth connection, and womb space, we'll use the principles of mindfulness, womb ritual, and Traditional Chinese Medicine to return to a felt sense of safety, forgiveness, and compassion for ourselves.
BIO:
Linh Le is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, herbalist, intuitive, somatic practitioner, and ancestral healing guide. With a passion for helping others, Linh is on a mission to guide people towards remembering their authentic self through Chinese Medicine, holistic mental wellness, herbalism, and mind-body spirit practices.
Abigaëlle-Marie Mulliagn
Drop-In Breathwork Circle
Journey inward through the sacred rhythm of breath, awakening your inner presence and divine connection. Rooted in intention and guided by spirit, this practice invites transformation, alignment, and a deeper sense of wholeness. Using a three-part breath pattern, not dissimilar to conscious connected breath or rebirthing, this practice is encouraged to be in flow with music allowing individuals to empower an active breathing. The practice will allow for moments of pause, reflection, somatic release, and inner landscape tending.
BIO:
Believing that each person’s healing journey is unique, Abbie supports those seeking to uncover a deeper path to self-discovery. Bridging humxns to immersive experiences designed to provide both individuals and groups with practical tools for navigating change and embracing inner growth. Whether she is guiding breathwork, leading ceremonial meditations, or facilitating inner world explorations, each offering serves as an invitation to deepen your connection to self, spirit, and the sacred transitions that shape your life. They weave personal stories of resilience, spiritual wisdom, and ancestral healing to inspire finding our own paths toward healing and alignment.
Nancy Linnon
Living and Dying: A Writing Circle
In this writing circle, we will write in response to prompts intended to help us explore our relationship with death and dying and how an awareness of death can help us live more consciously. The process of writing (as opposed to conversation) gives us the opportunity to go inward first, to discover what lies beyond what we know, and then to share with others if we choose. No writing experience is necessary—only an open heart and willingness to engage with the moving pen and the subjects of living and dying.
BIO:
​Nancy has created space for women to gather and explore their stories for thirty years. Her passion is exploring ways of accessing and honoring the creative self through the powerful act of writing. She has more recently become an end-of-life doula and uses writing to create community and discovery around ways a conscious awareness of death can enrich our lives.
Alyx Somas
Restoring Our Relations: Ceremony for Reindigenization and Collective Liberation
This culture tending ceremony is a lived prayer to restore our relations with our spirit, our people, and our earth. First rooting in ritual for ancestral reclamation, we will integrate pan-indigenous lineage teachings to help us re-member our most true human nature – deep beauty, belonging, and interdependence. This space is for healing the primal wound of our severed belonging from village without shame or blame, directly dismantling supremacy and isolation culture, and enlivening our ancestral practices in real time together. This experience is meant to catalyze our shared grief into purposeful action, empowering us with practical tools for restoration.
BIO:
Alyx Somas is a Native Northern American whose work is in Cultural Reindigenization and Collective Liberation. They offer space for ancestral reclamation, developing practical decolonial frameworks, and communal grief and prayer. Their work holds heart in the belief that we all come from peoples who gathered around fires storytelling, dancing, and grieving together. Their labor is for the unfolding of a multicultural people living out restored relations in devotion to interdependence and to the ancestral ways of reverence for all that lives.
Amron Bevels
SEX • MONEY • MAJESTY
Using your spiritual technology to hold + flow your money.
A master session for women who are here to lead.
BIO:
A former medical doctor, Amron is a spiritual coach and psychic activator, here to walk with women at the leading edge of this awakening. Amron is on a mission, returning women to their natural guardianship of the masses.
Courtney Noel
Blessed Breasts: Guided Self Breast Massage
In this guided ceremony, you’ll learn practical self-care tools to support breast and lymphatic health while being guided through a full self-breast massage practice. We’ll explore the different layers of breast tissue through an Ayurvedic lens and how to lovingly tend to them with curiosity and care. Together, we’ll open space to reflect on the emotional stories and ancestral imprints held in the breasts ~ inviting healing, deeper embodiment, and a renewed sense of connection with your body and heart.
BIO:
Courtney Noel is a Breast Massage Practitioner, Embodiment Coach, and Women’s Circle Facilitator with 2.5 years of experience supporting women on their journey back to the wisdom of their bodies through breast massage. Rooted in Ayurvedic teachings and somatic exploration, her work gently invites women to honor the sacred stories held in their breasts and uncover new layers of self-love. Having studied under Abigail Hinds of @blessourbreasts and co-taught at two breast massage trainings, Courtney has guided over 200 women in reconnecting with themselves through this powerful practice. With over six years of experience holding transformational women’s spaces, she weaves self-devotion, vulnerability, and play into every container, inviting women to meet themselves more deeply than ever before.
Andrea Thompson
Plant Medicine for Reproductive Health and Sovereignty
We live in a time where our reproductive health is lacking, our rights are being diminished, and it still feels like a radical act to openly discuss menses and menstrual cycle symptoms. How can we use plant allies to take back our own health and find ways around a broken medical system that undervalues our words and ignores our bodies’ inherent wisdom? In this workshop you'll learn about the basic ways in which we can clean up our menstrual cycles and balance our hormonal health with pelvic steams and castor oil packs.
BIO:
Andrea is a native to Oregon, lover of magic, tinkering herbalist and dancer at heart. She has cultivated her practice of holding space for others through her 25+ years of Massage Therapy experience in which she deeply listens to what the individual’s body is asking for and what old stories are ready to be released in that precise moment versus going with a specific protocol. She offers group classes for Menstrual Charting, Understanding Your Moon Cycle for Teens/Tweens, Pelvic Steaming and Sacred Rage.
Jenny Lee
The Bravery to Belong
There intention here is to invite people deeper into this living field of belonging, and collaborate on ways to tend that with more cleverness and deeper care. We will collectively share and practice new pathways to live and create belonging as a state instead of a concept, as a ecology instead of an idea. We will practice how to belong without othering, how to write new somatic myths, and how to give the gift of belonging that we so deeply seek to get from the world. This is space to pick up our individual and collective responsibility to create and imagine more beautiful futures for personal and planetary healing.
BIO:
Jenny Lee is a visionary musician, healing artist, event producer, and confidence coach dedicated to transformative work that empowers others to live in authentic connection. A social and spiritual philosopher, she delves into the roots of belonging, bravery, and truth as the bedrock of our humanity. With extensive expertise in breathwork facilitation, bodywork, ceremony and a journey through many spiritual initiations, Jenny shares her lived wisdom with humility, integrity and joy.
She is the founder of The Temple of Belonging* a Bio-Regional Women’s Gathering now approaching its fourth year of gathering women in genuine community and sisterhood. A gifted musician and champion of authentic expression, Jenny lives on a homestead in Hood River, Oregon, where she offers her prayers to the river, the coyotes, and the songs of each moment.
Lee Ellen Reed
Shift Happens Presents: Transformative Play
This workshop invites participants to experience how play isn’t just fun—it’s a powerful way to rewire the brain, shift perspectives, and spark real change. Through movement, visualization, and hands-on activities like finger painting, an obstacle course, and dress-up, they’ll tap into joy and childlike wonder in a shared, supportive space. Along the way, they’ll learn how play enhances neuroplasticity and discover simple, practical ways to bring that openness into daily life. This workshop is a chance to reconnect with curiosity, engage with others, and leave with fresh insights that can create lasting change.
BIO:
Lee Ellen is a coach and facilitator who helps people build self-trust and lasting habits—without the overwhelm. Through her program, Shift Happens, she blends science-backed structure with self-reflection and play, guiding people to create meaningful change that actually sticks. (For this workshop, she brings her signature approach to the theme of childlike wonder, helping participants tap into joy, curiosity, and experimentation while staying grounded in practical tools. With her down-to-earth, engaging style, she creates spaces where growth feels energizing, doable, and—most importantly—fun.)
Kriyanna Elumen
Ecstatic Awakening Meditation
Ecstatic Meditation is an opportunity to surrender into bliss. We do this through using techniques such as tapping, shaking, vocal expression, stillness and quiet, and deeply listening to what we need. In this way, stagnant energies can move through us as we surrender to our sensual nature in a safe and accepting environment.
BIO:
Kriyanna Elumen is the mother of 3 and the Founder/Director of Toren Collective and Wellness ReSource Network. She is initiated in Western Hermetic Mysticism, Left Hand Path Tantra, a Reiki Master Teacher, and currently studying to teach Radiance Sutras Instinctive Meditation. She combines these techniques and creates a unique experience to assist each of us to look within, ground deeply, open our hearts and accept ourselves as we are as we journey to become our best self.
Abigaëlle-Marie Mulliagn
Before the Movement: Resourcing Ourselves for Activism & Change
Stepping into activism is both a calling and a becoming—a path that asks us to show up with heart, clarity, and endurance.For those just beginning their journey in movement work, the question is not only how we fight for change, but how we sustain ourselves in the process.
In this gathering, we center care as a foundational practice of activism, exploring what it means to build resilience while stepping into movements for justice and liberation. Through breathwork, somatic practices, and collective witnessing we will tend to the roots of our engagement: our capacity to hold the spectrums of joy and grief, to honor our strengths, explore the landscapes of our own boundaries, blind spots, and callings, and to cultivate relationships that nourish rather than deplete.
BIO:
Believing that each person’s healing journey is unique, Abbie supports those seeking to uncover a deeper path to self-discovery. Bridging humxns to immersive experiences designed to provide both individuals and groups with practical tools for navigating change and embracing inner growth. Whether she is guiding breathwork, leading ceremonial meditations, or facilitating inner world explorations, each offering serves as an invitation to deepen your connection to self, spirit, and the sacred transitions that shape your life. They weave personal stories of resilience, spiritual wisdom, and ancestral healing to inspire finding our own paths toward healing and alignment.
Sarah MacLean Bicknell
The importance of Dreaming as a resource in chaotic times
With original thinking there is original dreaming. Before anything can exists there is an idea, there is a dream, there is a vision. And that dwells not literally in the brain, it comes from something far larger than ourselves. . Our ancestors dreamt the same way we do today and I ask you who is dreaming you into your experience of life? In this great shaking times, and in all the previous turnings of the worlds, it is the dreamers that lead the way sowing the seeds of restoration, reparation, inspiration, breakthrough and new perceptions. The art of conscious dreaming is an essential ingredient of helpful change in ourselves and the world around us. Our ancestors dreamt and were shown the way through many world collapses. Without them we would not be alive today to give thanks and to dream our mother home to herself. I invite you into the conversation around dreaming, for we are the starlight sent out from our ancestors' original dreaming to become and dream in this next great age.
BIO:
Sarah Maclean Bicknell is a healer, teacher, and mentor. She has studied healing and ceremonial work in North American indigenous traditions for 30 years. She has incorporated her Celtic roots into her present North American practice and is sought out for her intuitive readings, workshops, ceremony, and her soul doctoring practice. She stands in deep gratitude to her elders and teachers that have gone before and stands firmly in her own vision, a vision that is related and crafted for these times of the 21st century. Her work is about connection, community, ceremony and respect. Also raised in the Western world, she has lived the loss of disconnection and is profoundly thankful to her indigenous elders who taught her how to re-arrive more fully into her life.
Xanna Seto
The Jewel in the Heart: Protection and Peace
Awaken into presence as we attune to the breath and the sacred vessel of the body. With the harmonium’s gentle resonance as our guide, we will journey through the luminous pathways of the chakras—cleansing, balancing, and restoring each energy center with vivid imagery and the potent vibrations of their bija (seed) mantras.
As the meditation unfolds, a deep sense of clarity and harmony will settle within. We will close with the grounding embrace of the Shanti Mantra, anchoring us fully in the present, aligned and radiant.
A perfect way to step into the day with purity, balance, and inner light.
BIO:
​For Xanna, creating that which we call magic has always been a matter of course. Every moment of every day is an offering and a prayer and we are all perfect expressions of the Divinity inherent within us. As a yoga teacher and yoga therapist she offers this awareness to her students and clients. As a musician and student of Indian classical music she transmits this to those she shares her music with. As a student of the holographic language of Sanskrit and initiate of the Sri Vidya Tantra kaulacharya she dives ever more deeply into the essence of this growing experience. As a Temple builder and steward she is honored to welcome, hold space for and witness the unfoldment of presence and knowing within anyone who chooses to open to it.
Laura Riley & Mana Handsell
Grief Ceremony
Our grief calls us inward to listen and tend with reverence to the intimacy of our losses and sorrow with others and in the community. Through being with our grief with one another, we grow our ability to truly feel interconnected to our shared humanness. The capacity to feel our grief opens our capacity to feel greater gratitude, joy and what is true. We will gather to remember the sacred communal way of grieving for our ancestors, the ones we love and have lost, the parts of ourselves that need grieving and holding, the earth and one another.
BIO:
Laura is a somatic - psychedelic therapist, healer, group facilitator, community organizer, grief ceremony tender and deep lover of our sacred interconnectedness. She communes and dances with the ancestors, soul, Earth and the Great Mystery within it all. Her purpose is to support intergenerational and communal healing and she honors the sacredness of embodied empowered expression of the heart and soul. She believes welcoming all of our humanness with fierce compassion and kindness opens us to love, forgiveness, vitality and integrity of truth and purpose in how we choose to live while we are still alive.
Sunny Love Healing
Bliss Body
bliss body is a spiritual dance ceremony where we’ll explore the freedom and power waiting to be remembered within us. this is an invitation to move, express, and reconnect with the divine wisdom of your body in a sacred, supportive space.
BIO:
Sunny, aka Rebecca Sunshine, has over 30 years of multi-disciplinary movement education and experience. She’s a dancer, licensed massage therapist, experienced trauma-informed yoga teacher, movement coach, and biomechanics nerd currently residing in Portland, Oregon.
Some have described her as a “professional, original, and knowledgeable teacher wrapped up in a burrito cloak of a post-psychedelic enlightenment.”
K.Maitri
Water Blessing Ecstatic Dance
A feminine flow ritual dance to culminate our time together, to dance our prayers and passions alive within our bodies. This dance weaves the wildness of women into the beauty of freedom, enchantment and evoking of the sacred.
BIO: Long time dancer and more recently delighted curatrix of ecstatic dance containers in the PNW, K. Maitri leans into rich sounds from around the globe backed by luscious big bass to weave compelling dance journeys that draw the body into motion and buoy the soul into flight.
Miracle Rose
Red Tent
The Red Tent is a Sacred Space to tend to the practical and spiritual needs of your menstrual flow. It will be quiet, low lit, and red to mimic the safety and comfort of a womb space. There will be spaces set for free bleeding with comfort cloths to cushion your body. Menstrual products will be on hand, and there will be water, and compostable wipes for clean up. This is a space to be still, to connect with your sacred cycles, and to be in connection with the Earth. All bleeding bodies are welcome. Songs and sounds of the body are encouraged.
BIO:
Miracle Rose Aurora is a practicing Red Tent facilitator, Songstress, Sound Healer, Oracle and Yogini. She has graduated from two Red Tent facilitator trainings, the first with the Goddess Temple of Ashland geared towards reclaiming the feminine arts, the second asserting an emphasis on decolonizing such sacred spaces. She has been facilitating her own Red Tent off and on since 2020, and more recently has been co-creating moon circles with her sister priestesses. She is a Daughter of the Wind, a Spirit Singer, and Wild Witch of Celtic lineage. Her mission in this life is to liberate those who bear wombs from the shame and disempowerment we have been enduring for centuries. She intends to guide women to connect with our wombs, our voices, and our sisters to create an egalitarian world for all.
2025 Skill Shares
Lydia Skahan
Woven in Strength: Plateau Basket Weaving
Join us for a hands-on Plateau basket weaving workshop, where we’ll connect through tradition, storytelling, and creativity. Guided by artist and cultural educator Lydia Skahan, you’ll learn the techniques of traditional basketry while exploring the deep cultural significance of this art form. This workshop is a space for reflection, connection, and empowerment, honoring the resilience and beauty woven into every stitch.
BIO:
​Lydia Skahan is a Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) and Yakama artist, cultural educator, and enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Specializing in Plateau tribal arts, she creates quillwork, cornhusk basketry, and traditional clothing, blending ancestral techniques with modern designs. Through her business, Wiyeépi’im, she shares traditional knowledge, teaches workshops, and helps preserve Indigenous artistry for future generations.
Janessa Bautista
Plant dyeing with Native plants to the Pacific Northwest
Working with native plants, we will learn how to make dye baths to dye silk and cotton. We will cover the mordanting process and also experiments with modifiers.
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Janessa is a designer and plant dye gardener living in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon with her son and white wolf dog. She nurtures a sense of belonging within her community by sharing daily practices, creating beautiful meals, pouring tea, and tending to her gardens. Janessa has been cultivating a way of relating to her plants over the years. Surrounded by a vibrant circle of healers, plant medicine teachers, artists, farmers, musicians, fire tenders, and kindred spirits, she finds inspiration in their collective wisdom and creativity.
As a first-generation Filipina American, Janessa is deeply committed to reconnecting with her ancestral traditions. Her work with plant dyes and plant medicine serves as a vital thread. Just steps away from her outdoor dye studio, she grows her dye plants, overlooking a serene forest of cedar and alder trees.
Guided by values of wisdom, compassion, and integrity, Janessa strives to align her life and creative practices with her aspirations to contribute positively to the world, for the benefit of all beings.
Sara Grace Crippen
Remembering Her Body: Clay Sculpture as Ceremony
Come learn how to work with clay soil as a natural building material by sculpting a larger than life clay Goddess Womb with your fellow sisters. Together we will mix our sculpting clay and allow Her image to emerge as it needs to in that moment. Once finished, the clay womb will be an offering to all Belonging participants as a safe and sacred place for one woman at a time to enter into, rest, process, and re-emerge when she is ready, just as the day she was born.
BIO:
​I am a natural builder based in the Columbia River Gorge focusing on bringing forth the more beautiful world we all know is possible through educational and experiential workshops where humans can remember our ancient relationship to clay, sand, straw, wood, and stone - the most essential building materials of our species. With a solid foundation of conventional building, I encountered natural building in 2012 and never looked back. Through my work I have seen that reconnecting with our ancestral way of building shelter collectively is a key piece to creating a sustainable and ethical culture that honors all beings and the generations to come. When we work with the sensuous clay body of the Mother, we remember.
Tessa & Madrone
Herbal First Aid and Folk Magic Remedies
Wild spaces and our own tended gardens are full of medicines that can help us in a pinch, prevent maladies, and even save lives. In this class, we will learn about 4 common first aid plants - their history and folklore and how to use them, and make a salve together. We will also craft a rustic charm for protection - as it has been believed by many of our ancestors across the world that many accidents are caused by maladies from the other world. Everyone will leave class with an herbal first aid kit to get them started!
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BIO:
Teresa, known by friends as Tessa, is a practicing folk herbalist, botanical distiller, writer, folklorist, and end-of-life-doula. She has completed several online herbal courses, apprenticed with Washington based herbalist Corinne Boyer, and has wild-harvested and crafted her own botanical remedies since 2015. Teresa came up in an Alaskan forests completely overtaken by Devil’s Club, a spined, stinging plant native to the Pacific Northwest. Her first remedy was an aromatic skin healing salve crafted from the root’s bark.
Madison Hayashi
Leather-Crafting
We will explore a brief overview and acknowledgment of the origin of leather & its ancestral relationship, an introduction to various leather tools & crafting techniques, and the process of hand-creating a personalized leather item from conceptualization to finished craft. Leather creations will include your choice of: stamping, stitching, carving and designing patterns for jewelry adornments, bookmarks or deerskin pouches. All leather and materials will be provided, although you are encouraged to bring special beads, gemstones or personal embellishments to incorporate into your leatherwork.
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Madison is a small business owner, mother, multi-talented artist and 3rd generation Japanese-American woman creating a variation of original artwork: sumi-ink paintings, poetry, leathercraft, wood-burning and jewelry. Her connection with nature and animals has led to her most creative passion by working with and teaching the humble tradition of leather craft. Her son is her greatest teacher and her family is the most beautiful joy in life alongside growing their businesses in White Salmon, WA.
Ami Opal
Drum Weaving
In our small group, we'll bring the love of weaving and ceremony into the temple. Work with the sacred heart medicine of deer, maple, your hands, and your ancestors wisdom. In this skillshare you will create a personal and sacred drum to work with as you like in your life. The maple round is fourteen inches in diameter, the weave is sacred and most makers find it easier than they had expected.
BIO:
I am a licensed naturopathic physician with training in multiple forms of bodywork and spiritual healing work. Through my heart, spirit centered intention and potent modalities, I help guide you to your creative and fertile center. I am honored to bring my work forward through my hands and heart, using the gifts I have been given. My offerings come from a lifetime of study and connection with the sacred threads that weave through all living things.​
Cass Estes
Rawhide Rattle Making
Rattles are ancient instruments revered for their gentle and soothing sounds. These sacred tools can be used to shift consciousness and enter a trance like state. Rattles are used in spiritual healing and purification of the mind, body and soul. The cleansing sound can unblock stagnant energy and restore vitality. They carry elemental energy, use your rattle to invoke spirits and connect with ancestors. Rattles are traditional instruments in ritual & ceremony, meditation & journeying, song & dance, storytelling & celebration.
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Moon Child. Outdoor Lover. Fierce Mother. Space Holder. Shadow Seeker. Spiritual Explorer. River Runner. Intuitive Dreamer. Creative Force. I am passionate about pleasure and helping people thrive. My work as a coach combines modern neurobiology, shamanic healing, and holistic embodiment practices; blended with the ancient wisdom of Tantra, Taoism & sacred sensuality.
2025 Movement Medicine
Anna Mae
Mythic Qigong
A heart centered + nurturing container to explore the space where spirit (consciousness) + matter (the animal body) meet. Weaving together the medicine of embodied presence + conscious breath, mythic & elemental storytelling, acupressure self massage, conscious breath, and healing sound.
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Anna Mae is a Performance Artist, ((Sound Alchemist)) & Trauma Informed 500hr Yoga + Embodied Presence Guide, with an additional 100hrs of advanced study in Yin (Taoist) Yoga & Chinese Meridians. She also holds certifications in Sound Healing//Sonic Massage, 5-Element Qigong, and Empowered Heart Intuitive Counsel & Group Facilitation. Originally trained in Classical Voice, Theatre & Dance, Anna Mae continues to share her passion for music & the embodied arts through Transformative Sound Bath Immersions, Ritual Theatre Performance, Alchemical Songwriting, and her work as a Vocal Embodiment Coach.
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Annie Adamson
Primal Vinyasa
Primal Vinyasa is a method of re-patterning movement uniquely designed to inspire you to attend to the beautiful wisdom of your own body.
BIO:
Annie has been studying the systems of natural medicine for nearly three decades. She has mentored with world-renowned teachers like Doug Keller, Pixie Lighthorse, and Tami Kent, and has certified a thriving community of yoga practitioners, healers, and healthcare providers in her own clinical body of work through The PRIMAL MEDICINE Academy. What originally began as a career in yoga therapy developed into her Holistic Practitioner model, where she integrates tools and practices from different systems of holistic medicine to help clients awaken to greater health, healing and self-empowerment.
Brandy King
Dance with the Divine
A sacred ritual where movement becomes prayer and your body a vessel for Divine communion. Here, you’ll be invited to surrender—into breath, rhythm, and the wisdom that lives within your body. Blending elements of Devotional Dance + Meditation + Ceremonial Tea
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Brandy King, founder of the Temple of the Awakening Heart, is a Medicine Woman who weaves sanctuaries for the heart’s awakening. As a gentle guide in somatic practice and spiritual embodiment, she invites women to remember their wholeness by dissolving the veils of illusion. Her offerings serve as luminous bridges—drawing us into a deep communion with ourselves, one another, and the Divine, and inviting us to dance with the fullness of life.
Erin Solveig
Somatic Yoga Flow
A fluid and strong vinyasa yoga practice that incorporates an intentional warmup, somatic mindfulness practices, and creative movements. While this practice is often taught with a strength focus in mind, poses are offered in a building sequence with various modifications and space to honor your own energy.
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Erin is a connoisseur of the arts of embodiment. Professionally she is a somatic bodyworker, yoga instructor, and music to movement enthusiast. She loves all things that connect states of being to the body, push the limits of physical-mental-spiritual perception and possibility, and invite a more curious, creative, and authentic expression of self.
Alyssa Reyes
Journey to the Heart: A Candlelight Yoga Concert
Nourish your heart and spirit with an immersive yoga experience devoted to self-love, compassion, and relaxation. Guided by the calming vibrations of live violin, this class combines gentle yin yoga, soothing aromatherapy, and heart-centered meditation to create a deeply restorative, multi-sensory healing practice. Join us for a special evening designed to leave you feeling balanced and glowing with a renewed sense of belonging and connection! Journey to the Heart is open to all levels of experience and mobility, offering a nurturing space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself and others.
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Alyssa (she/her/ella) is a mixed-heritage integration coach, yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, wilderness guide, musician, and teaist dedicated to weaving community through embodied connection and collective care. She believes in the magic of spirited adventure and is passionate about crafting expansive journeys for conscious explorers. Her offerings are rooted in eco-somatic well-being, blending movement, self-study, and a reciprocal relationship with nature. Alyssa brings a compassionate and playful energy to her heart-forward work, supporting others in connecting with their inner landscape, embracing their most authentic selves, and unlocking their innate capacity to heal.
Gabriela Alvarado
Heart Opening Yoga
Vinyasa flow class designed to open and balance the heart chakra. This is a class for all ages and stages that will root in the wisdom of the feminine heart and open us to the love that here to flow through us all.
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Yoga teacher/ group fitness instructor who loves to help all feel stronger in their body and in the process energetically release the things that are weighing us down.
Bonnie Weeks
Flow Like a River: A Body Celebration
This yoga dance and body experience is a combination of flow and community that's focused on curiosity, permission, and option for nudity. We're here to work with our bodies, not against them. We will begin with a simple partner yoga practice, transition to a solo flow-focused yoga mat practice, drop into a community conversation about the stories we tell and want to tell about our bodies, including why and how we can celebrate them, have a clothing-optional yoga spiral led experience, and end with group sharing.
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BIO:
As a mom to three teenagers, an entrepreneur, and a yoga teacher’s teacher, play has become central to the experiment of figuring out what I want and how I want make an impact on the world. I’ve found that it all begins with me. I’ve worked with hundreds of teachers to help them own the hell out of their voice and continue to build a business where helping others own who they are (and find freedom to move in the process) is central to living a life they’re proud AF about. You can also find me making fried eggs, shooting a basketball, getting naked, and walking in the woods.