Teaching Centers for Body and Spirit

www.womenswell.org ~ The Women's Well provides a space for courses in women's spirituality in West Concord, Massachusetts.  This is where Heather and I offer the Mystery School Program and other classes.

www.bluedeer.org ~The Blue Deer Center is a healing center rooted in the living traditions of the Huichol shamans of Mexico, offering courses in plant spirit medicine, healing camps, group retreats, personal healing, ceremony, and other opportunities for spiritual discovery, located in Margaretville, New York. 

www.shamanscircle.com ~ Down to Earth - The Shamans Circle is  a shamanic teaching collaborative founded by Nan Moss, David Corbin, and the late Linda Crane, located in Saint George, Maine.

www.avenabotanicals.com/classes-events.aspx ~ Avena Botanicals, wonderful herbal apothecary also offers programs that promote complementary health approaches emphasizing medicinal herbs and food, organic and biodynamic gardening, and a deeper understanding of the natural world.

Inspiring, Empowering, Earth-nurturing Activism

www.earthactivisttraining.org ~ I found my Earth Activist Training Program an amazing teaching on how to ground my own deep love of the earth in positive, tangible, creative solutions through Permaculture design principles.   Absolutely Inspiring and Fabulous!

www.starhawk.org ~ It's Starhawk, what can I say... thank you.  Also check out www.reclaiming.org

www.visionaryactivism.com ~ Caroline Casey's wonderful, visionary astrology and totally inspiring web site, wild coyote joy, lets get out there and make something happen!  Check out the radio show, it's very good medicine.

www.permaculturedesign.org ~ Charles and Julia Yelton are completely inspiring, richly resourceful, wildly eclectic permaculture teachers and absolutely wonderful human beings.  Julia's words are often ringing in my ears while taking some of the biggest and most rewarding leaps of faith in my life.  

... along with technicolored self expression...

www.cakemusic.com ~ Who can resist cake?

Elders, Loved ones, Allies, and Colleagues

www.leiohuryder.com ~ Beautiful, Inspiring, Structure-Busting Hawaiian Elder, teacher, healer, and musician Lei'ohu Ryder and her partner Maydeen Iao bring the gift of Aloha where ever they go.

www.risingmoonhealingcenter.com ~ Astrologer, shamanic practitioner, healer, and dear friend and sister on this walk, Heather Ensworth, provides an invaluable thread of connection back to our roots as humans in deep relationship with Earth.  Also see www.womensmysteryschool.com

www.gbharmonia.com ~ Gail Byrnes, my dear friend, Women's Mystery School Co-facilitator, and circle sister, beautiful healer, artist, and constellator of community, moving our hearts and minds with sacred sounds.  Also see www.womensmysteryschool.com

www.sanctuarytattoo.com/jen/index.html ~ Amazing, inspired, and completely tapped in tattoo artist, Jennifer Moore, who continues to make sacred marks on many of my sister's beautiful bodies as well as my own.

www.robinrosebennett.com ~ Robin Rose is a beautiful wisewoman, green witch, and conduit of rich earth wisdom.  I highly recommend her wonderful book: Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook

www.myaquarianwisdom.com ~ Wonderful and fabulous Astrologer and Reader of Tarot, my dear Aquarian sister Rhonda Chadwick is a deeply intuitive and full spirited incarnation of the Divine Feminine! 

www.estherfrances.com ~ Esther Frances, beautiful, spirited, Earth-celebrating woman, is working to "help awaken and sustain a sense of wonder and reverence for life as we journey through our time of immense "breakdown and breakthrough.""  Singer, teacher, Astrologer, inter-faith minister, Esther uses all to weave us back into relationship with the wonder of this Earth and our place in the Universe.

www.naturedivination.com ~ Gaiamore's divination cards, the Earth Deck, are quite profound.  I've found it an amazing tool that really resonates with me, the deck is responsive and open, very rich, yum!

www.floweringmoon.com and www.beautyspacebalance.com ~ Cultivating sacred space, in one's heart and home, Deb Swingholm serves as guide and teacher drawing from many ways of knowing.  She offers classes on Feng Shui, Space Clearing, and Sacred Space.  Her stunning photography reveals Deb's appreciation for the divine that is imminent in each moment, in much the same fashion as her coaching helps focus one's ability to hear the song their soul is singing.  

www.soultransitions.com ~ In this time of profound change and shifting, Nancy Leilah Ward offers deep insight into our own souls purpose, reminding us of our ever-present allies, and the strong currents that are moving us all.   

www.riverandmountain.net ~ Susan and Birdie were our fabulous midwives and friends on our family's journey through pregnancy and the birth of our little daughter here at home during the winter of 2008.  

Events, Celebrations, and Organizations

www.goddessconference.com ~ This is an amazing event that is held annually at Lammas time in Glastonbury, England, celebrating the Goddess in all her glory!  It's a wonderful opportunity to settle into ritual where the veils are very thin.

www.sacredfirecommunity.org ~ The Sacred Fire Community is an international community that is committed to rekindling our relationship to each other and the world through the universal and sacred spirit of fire.  Monthly gatherings around the U.S. and beyond as well as many special events throughout the year.  

www.sagemountain.com ~Women's Herbal Conference brings together leading women herbalists and healers from throughout the country to share their wisdom of the plants and natural healing methods.  It's held annually in Peterboro, New Hampshire.

Amazing Marketplaces

www.avenabotanicals.com ~ Avena Botanicals is an herbal apothecary located in mid-coast Maine, offering wonderful medicinal herbal products made from organic and ethically wild-harvested plants.

Spirited Publications

www.sacredfiremagazine.com  ~ Sacred Fire Magazine is published by the community of the same name, celebrating the divine energies present in the world around us.

www.innertapestry.org ~ Inner Tapestry is a beautiful and nurturing holistic journal out of Maine, serving New England and Connecticut.  You can pick free copies up at locations in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut.    
 

www.wemoon.ws ~ Offering the beautiful WeMoon calendar celebrating the natural rhythms of Earth and Sky, packed full of amazing artwork by women artists.

www.sagewoman.com ~ A publication devoted to celebrating the Goddess through women's experience of Her, as we are Her.

Travel Opportunities

www.sacredjourneys.com ~ Sacred Journeys for Women offers women the opportunity to travel in groups to ancient sacred sites, focusing on women's spirituality and history.  

Inspiring Artists and Art Publication

www.fiberarts.com ~ A beautiful and wildly inspiring publication about Contemporary Textile Art and Craft

And some Baby Stuff...

www.riverandmountain.net ~ (Again) Susan and Birdie were our fabulous midwives and friends on our family's journey through pregnancy and the birth of our little daughter here at home during the winter of 2008.

www.softstarshoes.com ~ Fantastic leather, soft soled shoes for kiddies.
  

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