Joshua Ramey is a writer, educator, and shamanic practitioner based in Philadelphia. He is the author of The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal and Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency. Since earning his Doctorate in Philosophy from Villanova University in 2006, he has held positions at Grinnell College, Haverford College, and Rowan University. He is currently devoting his time and energy to writing in and teaching for counter-institutional initiatives.

About Joshua’s Shamanic Practice:

I offer core and classical shamanic interventions to folks in my immediate community, and by recommendation to people beyond that sphere. The work involves a range of traditional cures, subject to a process of consultation and divination. These practices are some of the most time-honored and efficient modes of human healing available, and my own approach draws on a cross-cultural archive of techniques taught by traditions around the world and practiced, in some form, for thousands of years. My preparation for this work is rooted in lifelong (and ongoing) initiatory processes filled with many teachers. My work is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, with zero cost to QTPOC and other racially, socially, and economically exploited peoples.

https://www.patreon.com/joshuaramey

Elena was born in Brooklyn, NY to a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual family and has herself lived and worked in Brazil, Cuba, Colombia and California, seeking to understand stories of displacement, migration, cultural fraying, and ultimately belonging.

She holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Film from NYU’s Tisch School, is a passionate student of shamanic technologies from her own heritage and around the world, and believes that storytelling and creative expression are two essential threads to help us reweave the web of connection that can heal and hold us all.

In 2018 Elena gave up city life to begin stewarding the Vermont land that her grandparents purchased in 1963, where she spent her childhoods singing to flowers, running summer camps for frogs, and sending fairy boats down muddy streams. Since establishing roots here with her partner Tony Bednar, they have been producing gatherings for healers, artists, and folks with a creative passion for living in harmony with the natural world. They have been particularly enjoying learning from the community of elders around them and being challenged to rise to the occasion of living in deep intimacy with nature’s elements and rhythms.

https://www.thethird.house/

Molly Caro May is an author of two books, teacher and holder of space. For 12+ years, she has facilitated personal story workshops for hundreds of people (maybe more!) across the globe. She now blends her 3-year training in Somatic Experiencing (trauma-resolution and resilience building) into her palette. She focuses on voice and where language meets the human mammal body. Her mission is to democratize expression, work with story as the healing tool it wants to be and explore the alchemy between narrative and nervous system.

info@mollycaromay.com

www.mollycaromay.com

For the last twenty years, Deborah has been a committed student of shamanic work; privately with her teacher Nicholas Hurn within the lineage of Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), and since 2012 at The Sacred Trust, an educational organisation based in England, offering shamanic trainings and workshops. In 2017 she was invited to apprentice with and was then formally initiated into, a little-known European/British lineage that had, prior to 2005, been only privately taught. She now teaches the methodologies of this tradition as a senior faculty member at The Sacred Trust.

As a facilitator, Deborah is dedicated to guiding participants to a fully embodied experience of spirit and how spirit uses the body to communicate wisdom. Her approach weaves in her experience in numerous conscious movement methodologies, human biology and anatomy and twenty years of dedicated personal yoga practice.

In 2008, she studied in Southeast Asia to receive her yoga teacher qualification (RYT300) from the Pyramid Yoga School, a faculty that places heavy focus on the quantum and scientific facets of Yogic mysticism.

Deborah holds a BA Hons. degree from University College London and is also a qualified massage therapist. Based in the UK, she now facilitates online courses in embodied shamanic practice, as well as running in-person trainings at The Sacred Trust.

Underpinning all of her work is her devotion to the sacred, the genius of the human body and each individual’s birthright to direct spiritual revelation.

www.deborahwillimott.com

www.sacredtrust.org

I am a jewelry designer and maker and have been making jewelry professionally since my mid twenties and first fell in love with the art at the age of 7 when I was gifted and Native Canadian bead loom and started beading. Many of these pieces are still in the hands of my family and friends who were gifted some super fun and wacky pieces in the 80’s and 90’s!

Alongside making small made to order collections and stock pieces, one of my passions is making bespoke jewelry, especially recycling old metals and stones into future heirlooms.

I believe jewelry to be one of the sacred magics of our world and a craft that has followed humans throughout history and holds great import to our lives. It is from this understanding and space that I create my pieces. Infusing ancient with modern, alchemising metal and wisdom, working with spirit and fire I create talismans, totemic touchstones, protective amulets, rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets to adorn the modern wearer.

Having undertaken 3 years of shamanic training and currently in a 3 year shamanic practitioner apprenticeship, I use the knowledge and wisdom of dream work, mythology, shamanic journeying, power animal retrieval and ceremony and weave all of these practices into my jewelry designs.

Journeying on behalf clients, and dreaming with clients for the purpose of co-creation is incorporated into my work. Entering into the void where the piece already exists to extract any information, sacred messages, symbols that want to come forth and be birthed into the physical. Retrieving power animals to infuse the piece with the power of the significant creature that emerges for my clients. Holding ceremony for the raw materials and finished pieces, blessing, consecrating and speaking the prayers and intentions of my clients into these newly born creations so they can be imbued with power, purpose and protection for the wearer.

All pieces are designed by me and handmade in London. I use recycled metals only with an ongoing intent to make my business as ethical and sustainable as possible.

Wear your altar.

https://sararothwell.com/

Tony Bednar is a percussionist, music educator and sound healing practitioner located in southern Vermont. He is the founder of Vermont Stereo - an immersive audio experience designed to be utilized in a Vibroacoustic therapy setting. By stimulating cells with sound waves, entraining the brain and heart into coherence, and featuring harmonic chords that naturally relax the body, this audio massage album promotes balance and well being.

https://vermontstereo.bandcamp.com/releases

Emma is an avid practitioner and student of Ayurvedic medicine and Yoga therapy. With a commitment to the breadth and depth of Traditional Ayurvedic Practice, Emma supports patients in a wide breadth of health concerns specializing in digestive disorders, allergies, metabolic imbalances, skin disorders, stress, anxiety, and depression, menstrual disorders, hormone balance and menopause, and postpartum care. By invoking the time-tested methods of ayurvedic diet, lifestyle shifts, herbal formulations, detox therapies and guiding patients towards their own inner wisdom and healing capacity, patients address acute and chronic conditions alike.

Background

Emma holds a BSc from Cornell University, is a member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association and is certified AyurYoga® instructor and Core-Synchonism® practitioner. Her Ayurvedic training includes practitioner and graduate-level studies under renowned author and instructor Vasant Lad, BAMS from the Ayurvedic Institute and she is currently continues her clinical develo pment through physician-level studies at the Arogya Center. Emma also works within the Path of Pollen shamanic tradition exploring the intuitive, feminine and mystical roots of earth-based healing and self-transformation. Emma's healing journey began through her own search to resolve severe digestive disorders and chronic anxiety that developed throughout her high-stress University years. After seeking help through a wide range of modalities she arrived at Ayurveda, which proved to be the major turning point in her health, unlocking the root causes of her various imbalances. Emma's love of Ayurveda grew as she found it to be the balm to unfolding profound mental and spiritual healing and nourishment, and aided her in discovering greater wholeness, wellbeing and calm that she had ever thought possible.

http://emmalandau.com
IG: @emmajlandau

I began tattooing in the midst of some of my deepest healing (several years ago), at a time when my entire world was dissolving and re-birthing- The deeper I went, the more space opened within me and the remembrance of the art form as a transformative and shamanic practice was a clear stream, pooling into the wells of my heart.

The ceremonial tattoo process has taken many forms, as I explored the realm of possibility of this deeply mystical and at times, miraculous art form. It has been a foundation of my self-care practice, as I began to, quite literally, stitch myself together- soul to flesh, through prayer and ink and ritual.

My tattoo practice and other creative work deliciously unfolds, as my awareness of what is possible expands and spirit continues leading me through the fertile darkness.

Transformative sound, the art of magical singing, and a channeled language of ancient, universal, and multi-cultural origin are foundational aspects of the alchemical work that I offer.

https://www.malialuna.art/

Richard G. Powell (Dhyānānanda) - is a certified Āyurvedic Practitioner and is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM. He has studied extensively under Dr. Vasant Lad both in the US and in India.

He furthered his studies of Ayurveda and Vedic philosophy under Dr. Ashwin Shastry of Arogya Niketana in Karnataka, India.

Richard is currently enrolled in an advanced physician’s program at the Arogya Center in Albuquerque, NM, under Kāśyapa Fisher and Nomi Gallo.

In addition to Āyurveda, Richard has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching for 18 of those years.

He is an avid student of Sanskrit, Jyotisha (Vedic Astrology) and Vedic philosophy. He has studied Vedic Astrology in the Mantriji / Hart DeFouw lineage under Alison Bodhani and currently studies under Penny Farrow.

In addition to his studies in the Vedic sciences, Richard is a Reiki Master and is an avid practitioner of Aikido, the Japanese martial art.

He brings his multifaceted healing experience into his consultations with his clients to empower them to make healthier lifestyle choices and to expand their spiritual practice.

https://www.richardgpowell.com/

Jonathan Harris was born on August 27, 1979 in Vermont.

He attended St. Bernard’s School in New York City, then Deerfield Academy in Western Massachusetts, and then studied computer science at Princeton University and interactive art at Fabrica.

After keeping elaborate sketchbooks for many years, he was robbed at gunpoint in 2003, which prompted a shift away from paint and paper and into computer programming.

His early data visualization projects (such as Wordcount, 10x10, We Feel Fine, and I Want You To Want Me) helped to establish that burgeoning field. The projects explored the ways in which the human species was evolving into a single planetary “meta-organism,” which could be probed and represented through the troves of Internet data that it was producing. These projects resonated with the zeitgeist of their moment, leading to five Webby Awards, two TED talks, a book with Simon & Schuster, an exhibition at Le Centre Pompidou, and the acquisition of two works by The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The World Economic Forum named him a “Young Global Leader,” and AIGA named We Feel Fine one of the most influential design projects of the last century.

In 2007, Jonathan made a shift back to the physical world through a series of experimental documentary projects that helped to establish the field of “interactive storytelling.” These projects (such as The Whale Hunt, Balloons of Bhutan, and I Love Your Work) explored the ambiguous relationship between humans and technology. In these projects, Jonathan designed “algorithms” for himself to follow while “collecting data” in the physical world, in much the same way that his computer programs would collect data online. These projects were featured at Sundance, Tribeca, and other film festivals, and later led to a full retrospective at the 2017 IDFA festival in Amsterdam, where he was invited to be the guest of honor, and for which he wrote the essay, Powers of Ten.

In 2009, Jonathan began to document his own life experience more directly, through a regular practice of taking a photograph and writing a short story each day, and posting them online each night before going to sleep. He called this daily ritual Today, and continued it for 440 days. His friend, Scott Thrift, made a short film describing the project.

Today evolved into Cowbird, a free (and ad-free) storytelling platform for anyone to use, providing a more contemplative alternative to existing social media environments. Cowbird was a kind of “Wikipedia for human experience,” with nearly 100,000 stories from 15,000 authors from 185 countries. TIME Magazine named it one of the 50 best websites of 2012.

As our collective relationship with the Internet began to change from one of utopian possibility to one of attention economies, fake news, filter bubbles, and widespread screen addiction, Jonathan decided to close Cowbird after five years of operation, leaving it online as an historical archive. He further explored these dynamics in a 2012 essay called Modern Medicine, comparing software to a new kind of drug.

This dawning ambivalence around the medium that he had been using for more than a decade produced a difficult period of creative block, which he described in his 2014 illustrated essay, Navigating Stuckness.

In 2015, he created Network Effect (with Greg Hochmuth), which explored the psychological effects of widespread Internet use on humanity. Network Effect employed the aesthetics of data visualization to question the ultimate utility of data — and to gesture at what might lie beyond it. The project received the 2016 Infinity Award in New Media from the International Center of Photography. He also explored the limitations of data in 2013’s Data Will Help Us, which was commissioned by The New York Times.

In 2018, he released A Silent Place, a sparse meditation on one of the earliest art forms, based on a series of pictographic rock drawings that he created in the Utah desert.

Since 2016, he’s been working with High Acres Farm — his family’s ancestral land in the small town of Shelburne, Vermont, which has been slowly evolving into a creative center for arts, culture, and the natural world.

http://number27.org/

Elizabeth Haidle lives in Portland, Oregon and specializes in nonfiction comics.

She is the art & editorial director at Illustoria magazine. Her illustrations have appeared in graphic novels, picture books, and magazines such as the Nib and the New Yorker. Recent projects include an illustrated Tarot For All Ages deck, published by Lawrence King, and wearable art pajama sets with Rock Soup. She teaches online and in-person workshops involving experimental comics and personal art practices.

DocuComix.com
IG: @ehaidle

My psychism opened with a bang in the early ‘90’s after extensive trauma when I was a young adult. Unable to ignore the calling, I started my ongoing journey first through Reiki (Level 2 Practitioner Training), followed by training in the ancient Art of Magick through the Qabbalah and Tarot.

I began my formal training in Shamanism in the Andes of Peru and Ecuador and in Mexico. Moving back to the UK I trained with Northern Drum (3 Year Practitioner Training). I then initiated into The Path of Pollen in 2008 with The Sacred Trust.

My healing practice is now 20 years old!

As well as offering shamanic healing sessions to men and young people, I also focus on women’s issues. I have had the honour to support many women through their journeys in the following range of issues: pregnancy and difficulties related to it, navigating miscarriage, abortion, rape, sexuality and gender identity, hysterectomy and menopause.

I live and work in Bristol where I also teach conflict resolution and communication skills, work as a coach and mediator. For more on this please visit:

www.choiceconflictresolution.com

In my spare time I love going for walks, swimming, dancing and playing with friends!

https://www.shamanic-transformation.com/

I am a coach, intuitive healer, and fabric artist who serves as a catalyst for clients to see themselves clearly and embody their true purpose in the world.

Weaving inquiry, insight, humor and mindfulness practices into sessions, I create opportunities for clients to make contact with their unique gifts and the parts of themselves still waiting to be fully expressed. The work may involve being present to wounded or stuck parts as they arise, and then finding the pathway forward once those parts have been resourced. Ultimately, all of my work is devoted to helping clients bring just a little more joy and magic to their lives.

Enchanted by story and the soul’s journey from a young age, I have studied a range of traditions over the past 20+ years including Counseling, Spiritual Psychology, Coaching, Intuitive Healing, Classical and Bee Shamanism, Akashic Record Reading and Literature.

I have a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and spent the first part of my career as a beauty editor for national women’s magazines, before diving fully into my own spiritual journey and work with others.

I also design hand-made cloaks to use with clients – bringing in archetypal qualities and energies you can work with to expand your potential and ‘act as if’ until it is so. I am devoted to helping others bring courage and curiosity to the task of seeing themselves fully, through the eyes of a compassionate and accepting gaze.

https://themosthumanthreads.com/

Ma’moon is an interdisciplinary Lebanese-born Artist, based in New York City.

Equally at home in the worlds of Theater/film,Opera, Performing and visual Arts, his passion for storytelling takes shape in many mediums such as Directing, Designing, Painting and Writing.

His Work combines various disciplines, such as: Architecture, Psychoanalysis, Altered states of consciousness, as well as philosophical theories, History of human evolution, indigenous rituals, poetry, music and body movement.

In 2014 he received his Master in higher studies in Architecture from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, while pursuing his passion for Acting. He performed in many productions in Lebanon and around the Middle East, Such as Alexandria Opera House in Egypt (2015) and The Royal Cultural Center in Amman Jordan (2016).

In 2015 Ma’moon combined his work and passion and Started designing films and plays.

Kalash, a film on which he was the Art director, was internationally acclaimed and was awarded in many festivals around the world such as The Short Film Awards in NYC, the Mumbai International Film Festival. The Smart Screen Awards in London,UK. LA International Film Festival,and Hollywood MPIFF.

In 2018, “Brine'' a Film, in which he played a leading role and did the Production Design, won the 24thEuropean Film Festival.

In 2020 he graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Theatre design.

His directorial debut in NYC started with War on drugs written by Dorothea Gloria. Produced by New York theatre Salon and Rattlestick theatre as part of the Global Form Theatre Festival 2021.

Ma’moon does not define his artistic expression. His passion for storytelling takes shape in many forms such as Directing, Designing,Painting and Writing.

Expanding the boundaries of what an artist could offer today. He aims to introduce art as Medicine and Theatre as a healing space of transcendental expression.

mamoontebbo@gmail.com
ma-moon.com