ORACULAR ARTS,
EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGY,
FEMININE STUDIES,
TREE OF LIFE
Born in Mesa, Arizona, Indigenous to and raised on the island of Guam, Isis Indriya dedicates her life in service to prayer, education, and community activism.
With the loss of her Mother, Deborah, at age of 4, her desire to commune with the Unseen, the Ancestors, and those on the other side has been at the forefront of her life and what led her to Ritual as a way of Life. At the age of 17 she moved to the US and began her studies in mythology & breathwork which led to the focus of Ancient Mystery studies, Sacred Sciences, and Earth Wisdom Traditions.
With cultivation of community at the heart of her offerings, she dove into event production, ritual, & education as a way to create culture. With over 20 years experience in various forms of gatherings, ranging from one on-one sessions to facilitation of rituals of over 30k people with Wisdomkeepers from around the world, Isis dedicates her life to learning and creating platforms for teaching of the sacred sciences of the Ancients, Indigenous wisdom, cultural exchange, Nature’s intelligence, and inner transformation as pathways for moving forward. Many people know her through the role she holds as one of the lead producers of The Compass at Lightning in a Bottle Festival where she has hosted hundreds of thought leaders and entertainers from around the world.
As a Minister, Culture Creator, Bridgebuilder, and fireplace keeper for the Oracle Clan, an educator of Ritual, Divination, Egyptian Cosmology, and Hermeticism, Isis shares what she has learned along the way all over the world, online, on Ritual Community, and through the school she birthed; Academy of Oracle Arts. She also leads pilgrimages to Egypt and in her Temple hosts community prayers and gatherings.
She is on the board for Water Now, Church of the Essence, Living Village Culture, the Oracle Clan and is an advocate for The Fountain.earth, Bioneers, Unify, and the Compass @ Lightning in a Bottle. Her continued study and focus is in regenerative culture as an offering to this life and future generations to come.
MARZA
MILLAR-ALAN
HERBAL STUDIES,
EARTH WISDOM,
PROPHECY,
ENERGY HEALING
Bsn, ma – Clinical herbalist, registered hypnotherapist, energy medicine, ceremonialist, medicine woman, ancient civilizations guide, archeologist, minister, life coach, geomancer and dowzer.
Marza was born into medicine ways since birth. She is of ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation and Scottish descent from the Johnston Clan. She has been formally educated in both allopathic (western medicine as a nurse) and alternative medicine and archeology.
Marza specializes as a medical intuitive and empath, herbalist, healer, and medicine woman, and her education and extensive travels as an ancient civilizations guide.
She also uses her clairvoyant skills to do life coaching, intuitive readings and medicine ways such as sweat lodge and vision quest guide. She specializes in vibrational and biodynamic medicine, biofield tuning, hypnotherapy, plant spirit medicine, vibrational somatics, and wildcrafted herbal medicines, geopathics, geomancy, somatic healing, soul retrieval, and life coaching. She uses her empathic gifts along with her somatic, alternative, and allopathic education to offer life changing educational experiences in mind, body, and spirit medicine.
Marza’s work has taken her deep into the Andes to work with the Inca elders, into the Arctic circle to work with the Siberian yupick, and to the tops of the Hopi Mesa’s, and deep into the temples of Egypt. She is known nationally and internationally for her teachings and healing skills and tours to Egypt,Llemuria, and other places on the planet into deep ancient cultures. She holds the woman’s fireplace of the sweat lodge and vision quest in the linage fire of the Star Clan Nation. She also works with as a teacher to Damanhur in italy, an eco community, as an educator on vibrational medicine, and Egyptian tour guide. She is currently the owner and Formulator of a biodynamic Vibrational medicine line – Black Lotus Alchemy. She also owns an herbal and vibrational medicine school in Nevada City and is on the faculty at the Academy of Oracle Arts. She currently has a private practice and spiritual ministry in Nevada City, Ca and in upstate New York. She is directing minister of The
Church of the Essence.
INVESTIGATIVE
MYTHOLOGY,
CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM
Nashville-based author, investigative mythologist, art historian, and TV presenter. He is an internationally recognized authority on human spiritual potential, transformation and ascension.
He has a unique ability to incorporate historical, religious, spiritual, scientific, archaeological and other forms of such knowledge into factually based theories and conclusions that provide the layperson with a more in-depth understanding of the profound shift we are actually experiencing in our lifetime.
The spiritual voice and Consulting Producer of the global hit History Channel program, Ancient Aliens, and host of the Gaia TV series The Awakened Soul: The Lost Science of Ascension, and Arcanum, along with his wife, Clare, William Henry is your guide into the transformative sacred science of human ascension. By bringing to life the ancient stories of ascension through art and gnostic texts, he teaches the secrets of soul transfiguration or metamorphosis and connects people to one another across cultures, time and space.
The Starwalker teachings shared in this course have been pivotal in William’s own spiritual journey, transforming him from an academic researcher to an experiencer of cosmic truths. These teachings have allowed him to make direct contact with the Starwalkers of numerous traditions, deepening his understanding and ability to guide others on their path to higher consciousness.
With over 30 years of research distilled into 18 books and numerous video presentations, William’s work will guide you to the next level of human consciousness and our expanding reality. Along with his wife, Clare, he leads luxury, ascension-themed tours to sacred sites including Egypt, France, Italy, Spain, and England.
EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGY
Rev. Normandi Ellis is a high priestess of Isis and is considered an expert on hieroglyphic texts of ancient Egypt. She is an award- winning author, Spiritualist minister, astrologer, and certified clairvoyant medium through the Indiana Association of Spiritualists.
Her 14 published books include the spiritual classic, Awakening Osiris, translations from the hieroglyphs found in the Book of the Dead, Imagining the World into Existence, and the Ancient Tradition of Angels, as well as many other books, articles, and poems.
She offers clairvoyant circles, metaphysical classes, and private consultations (phone or in person). She is a founding partner of Two Ladies Travel Co.
KAIHEWALU LUA,
HO’OPONOPONO,
ELEMENTAL ALOHA
Mentored and trained by respected kūpuna (elders), Ramsay is a practitioner and instructor of several Native Hawaiian practices: Hoʻoponopono (stress release and mediation), Lomi Haha (body alignment), and Kaihewalu Lua (Hawaiian combat/battle art).
Ramsay Taum is also a recognized cultural resource, sought-after keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer, and facilitator. He is especially effective working with Hawai‘i’s travel, leisure, and retail industry where he integrates Native Hawaiian cultural values and principles into contemporary business.
He is the founder and president of the Hawai’i-based Life Enhancement Institute (LEI) of the Pacific LLC, Director of the Pacific Islands Leadership Institute (PILI) at Hawaii Pacific University, and Cultural Sustainability Planner at PBR HAWAII & Associates.
Whether you are new to Kumu’s work or a long-time student, each immersion with him takes you deeper. Kumu meets you where you are and intuitively guides you to your next level of growth and understanding.
NILE VALLEY SPIRITUAL
HEALING PRACTICES,
HOLISTIC REMEDIES
New York Times best selling author, holistic health and wellness practitioner, entrepreneur, and has been affectionately coined as the “Mother of Womb Wellness” for over 40 years. As a world renowned leader and the CEO of the Queen Afua Wellness Institute, she has successfully empowered over 1,000,000 women, men, and children with her workshops, products, books and teachings, founded on the principles of utilizing food, self-care and holistic choices as a global movement towards a healthier lifestyle.
Queen Afua is not only one of the leading pioneers for the green foods movement, but also a quintessential voice and authority for Black Women in regards to their reproductive health, and their overall empowerment in holistically reclaiming, renewing and protecting their wombs from hysterectomies, chronic premenstrual syndrome and fibroid tumors.
The 7-time author has been praised for her works by The Breakfast Club, Vogue, Essence, Red Table Talk, and many others — and is the trusted advisor to notables such as Erykah Badu, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Lauren London, Common, Iyanla Vanzant, India Arie, and the list goes on.
In April of 2023, Queen Afua opened The Queens Holistic Retreat Center in Fairburn, Georgia, as a holistic retreat center and safe haven for families seeking holistic alternatives, guidance and wellness — not just for the present moment, but for generations to come.
ANCESTRAL
LINEAGE HEALING
Teacher, practitioner, and mentor trained in ancestral lineage healing under Dr. Daniel Foor for over two decades, guiding others in this empowering work that has deeply influenced her own healing journey.
Growing up in apartheid South Africa to a Zulu mother and Tamil father has given her a profound understanding of social justice and a deep respect for cultural diversity. This ethos of resilience and creativity shapes her approach to ritual, ceremony, and ancestral healing.
Gita is also a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Yoga Teacher, and Elder/Sundancer in the Lakota lineage of the Native American Church. Furthermore, she is a Moondancer of Danza de Luna Chalchiuhtekpati Meztli Mihtotia in Mexico.
TANTRA,
INTIMACY,
LINEAGE OF THE ROSE
Through many paths, traditions, and seeming lifetimes of exploring feminine embodiment, Aude found her way in an ancient, living, tantric lineage of Goddess worship, where in an instant of profound recognition, it was revealed that the Rose had always been the way.
Born Christian, the divine mother had called her outside of her own cultural context to be touched by the holy, before returning back to her original faith in the mysticism of Magdalene. Led to the cave of Sainte Baume on the feast of Mary Magdalene, Aude eventually realized she was unknowingly following in the footsteps of the legends of Magdalene’s walk through the rose ways of southern France.
Beyond the mind, beyond her own understanding, beyond comprehension, in a depth of mystery still unveiling itself today, she began to follow a longing and relentless call to live and walk the trails where Mary Magdalene is said to have come after her exile from the holy land.
Years later, on a winter solstice in Avebury — a Celtic site dedicated to the Goddess — a call was heard, a stone whispered, “It is time to bring people on the land to simply be Love.” Ever since Aude has guided intimate pilgrimages of remembrance, where each who walk offer recognition, as petals of beauty, reawakening the long forgotten lines of the Rose in southern France.
ORACULAR ARTS,
DAOISM,
MYTHIC POETRY
Educator, artist, and oracular practitioner who works at the crossroads of art, activism, medicine, and magic. Her offerings are a fierce invitation into radical aliveness, weaving together ancient wisdom teachings with truths she has found on her own journey.
In 2017, a series of life-shattering events brought Eve to her knees. It was in this crucible that she met her primary teacher, Genevieve Sophia Tao. Under Tao’s guidance, Eve immersed herself in the study of Mythosomatic practices, Daoist philosophy, sacred martial arts, and primordial yoga. For three years, she devoted herself to daily training, eventually becoming one of only two people certified to teach the full spectrum of Tao’s work.
Eve also spent a decade studying with Martin Prechtel. While she acknowledges the complexity of her relationship with him as a teacher, his work profoundly shaped Eve’s relationship to ritual, community, and the sacred.
From these rich lineages, and through her own deep practice and teaching, Eve has birthed this unique body of wisdom known as Animist Daoism.
JEWISH HISTORY,
MAGIC & MYSTICISM
Yosef Rosen is an educator, ritual designer, DJ, and recipient of a doctorate in Jewish Studies (UC Berkeley).
An expert in the history of Kabbalah and Jewish magic, Yosef works to translate the mysteries of the past into usable mythologies and practices.
His offerings solicit a merging of what modern society often keeps separate: the contemporary and the ancient, the academic and the experiential, the religious and the secular, the spiritual and the somatic. His classes blur the line between education and initiation, as they invite students to reclaim forgotten or censored lineages of Jewish creativity.
HEIROGLYPHS,
EGYPTIAN COSMOLOGY
Our Egyptologist and naturalist guide, Mahmoud Khodeir, holds degrees from Al Azher and Cairo Universities.
Born in Memphis, Egypt, he has excelled as a tour guide since 1990, and has led many American, British, and Dutch groups throughout Egypt. His knowledge of Egypt puts him in demand as a guest lecturer throughout the United States. Mahmoud’s gifted teaching style, sensitivity, sense of humor, and genuine enthusiasm for all things Egyptian promise to captivate our group.
He is married and has two daughters, one finished studying Egyptology, and the other studying communication at Cairo University.
He has participated in T.V. programs like History Channel, guest lectured for the Egyptian Study Society (ESS) in Denver, and lectured in Minneapolis, Boston, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Nassau and other places.
FEMININE STUDIES
Baelyn Elspeth grew up in Los Angeles studying dance from the time she was 4. This affinity with movement provided a doorway into her relationship with spirit, health and the body. She has since journeyed into deeper connections with Self through studying Yoga, Tea and Meditation. She is under the
lineage and instruction of the Tea Sage Hut Center in Taiwan and works with Tea as a daily practice to cultivate stillness and presence.
Over the years, her path has evolved toward deepening her relationship to Mother Earth and the Sacred Feminine. She holds space as a Priestess, Channel, and Medicine Woman; working intuitively with the elements and nature. Whether serving traditional Tea Ceremonies, or holding ritual space through sound and drum, for her, all these paths are ways of being a vessel for spirit and living a ritual way of life.
Currently Baelyn travels and devotes her time to sharing and facilitating sacred spaces for communities all around the world, bringing the medicine of Tea and Ceremony wherever she goes. She facilitates immersions, workshops, and online mentorships. As a Temple Keeper, she also curates and nurtures a permanent home for Tea Ceremony, Ritual, and the Sacred Arts at AY^AM in Playa Del Rey, CA and Santa Fe, NM.
FEMININE STUDIES
With more than a decade of experience as a holistic healing practitioner, yoga and meditation teacher and birth doula, I support women around the world in embodying their true power by connecting with their innate feminine nature.Helping women remember their deeply rooted feminine beauty is what makes me come alive. I have guided women home to themselves through private coaching, facilitating multiple online programs, as well as hosting retreats, workshops and women’s circles around the world.
Growing up with two yogi parents had a profound influence to my personal growth and transformation. I spent a good part of my childhood in ashrams with my family meditating, doing yoga, chanting and absorbing ancient wisdom from their teachers in India. I was introduced to the power of food, meditation and mindfulness as a way to heal and empower the human spirit. I also learned that we are the source of our own love, power and wisdom.
In college I majored in world religion and anthropology which illuminated the path for me to deepen my knowledge of the esoteric arts, ancient healing traditions and women’s spirituality.
My greatest teacher was found within myself, and the most profound classroom has been my own life experiences.
INTUITION
Lianda Swain is a psychic intuitive who supports women and men to amplify their intuitive nature, heal and awaken their soul embodiment, receive Spirit, and purify to their soul essence.
For over 14 years Lianda has served hundreds of people on their spiritual journey through psychic guidance, meditation, Reiki, rituals, and dance. She has an uncanny gift to see situations and issues accurately, multi dimensionally, and the pathway to greater refinement and peace. She is a certified Reiki Master and Life Coach with a background in teaching meditation and ways to enhance your awareness.She currently travels all over the world with her work, working with clients privately and teaching in – person and online.
RUNES,
MYTHOLOGY,
NORSE TRADITIONS
Andreas Kornevall is a Swedish storyteller, independent scholar of Norse Mythology, writer and ecologist. He has done live storytelling for BBC radio, worked with the archaeological society Sussex Past to revive the ancient Pagan Anglo-Saxon Creation Myth, and he regularly works with the National Trust in the UK in re- storying the landscape of the South Downs, as well as delivering lectures on Norse myth in universities across the UK and other educational centres world-wide.
He is a teacher at the Wyrd School in Ireland, the Clophill Shamanic Centre and the Centre for Psychic Studies founded in 1884 in London. He holds a regular writing column called Time and Tides with the current affairs Perspective Magazine.
Andreas is an active member of the ‘Forn Sed’ (Old Customs Association) in Sweden which works closely with ancient Norse culture, traditions and spirituality, unearthing old legends, forgotten folklore and endangered Norse languages. He also acts as a Blot-Godi and leads BLOT ceremonies (Blessings) where he lives in England, keeping an ancient practice alive.
He is also a musician and devoted to the Kokle and Kantele instruments, especially when lore telling, both are ancient baltic psaltery and have been used as storytelling aid for thousands of years.
ARCHETYPAL ASTROLOGY
I am a scholar, artist, and counseling astrologer, and I am an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. I received my PhD in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. My dissertation is titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. I now teach at both Pacifica Graduate Institute and CIIS, as well as several other online education platforms. I have published one book thus far, titled Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
My first home was in Big Sur, California, which has always been the greatest inspiration for my deep love of the natural world. I was educated at the San Francisco Waldorf School for thirteen years before pursuing Environmental Studies and Theater Arts at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. I returned to the Bay Area to get my master’s degree in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness at CIIS. I now live in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California so that I can be closer to the natural world. My research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination.
HERMETIC ASTROLOGY
My name is Matthew “Merlin” Kenney. When I began seeking out ancient teachings of astrology and magic, I spent years groping in the dark, unable to go beyond beginner-level ritual magic and astrological knowledge.
I couldn’t find astrologers discussing anything besides psychology and personality. I couldn’t find the deep, profound descriptions purpose and destiny that I KNEW were in my chart. I couldn’t learn how to predict the future.
I also found that astrology had become very impractical. Hardly anyone DOES anything with the information that comes from the chart. They don’t use the ancient methods of remediation, ritual, and prayer that once were an essential part of the practice.
So I decided to do things differently: to make astrology PRACTICAL again – a tool for profound self-knowledge and world-creation through sacred starlight.
I reintegrated astrology with the ancient practices that made is so powerful as a tool for totally transforming your life from the inside out.
I dove into ancient texts in the Greek and Sanskrit to uncover the ancient ways that the sages and mages of the past worked with the power of the stars. I read philosophy, astrological manuscripts, and magical codices and grimoires on contacting the powers of the heavens.
I went and studied with the magical traditions of the east. I began practicing internal alchemy, meditation, internal martial arts, and more. I started strengthening magical faculties like astral projection, seeing spirits, and other staple skills of the mage.
And I started practicing astrological ritual magic as the ancients practiced it, and it works! With ritual magic, I’ve been able to manifest a sustainable 6-figure income, 12.5 acres of mature oak forest & healing mineral springs, a blissful, adventure-filled marriage, and more!
I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you begin studying and practicing magic and astrology this way…
…if you integrate the teachings and wisdom of the ancients, empowering your magical energy and connecting with the deities of the heavens…
….you’ll see the same transformation in your own life too.
RITUAL DANCE
Schirin Chams-Diba is a Mystica, dancer, yogini, healer, and pilgrim at heart. From a young age, she has followed a distinct call to embark on a life-long journey of healing, adventure, and truth.
From a long line of Persian healers and wise women, she has trained intensively in sacred dance, yoga, spiritual lineages, esoteric arts, and natural medicine.
After years of exploring the world, devoting herself to in depth study, and shaping her own practice, she feels called to share her skills in service to the Greater Good. The above skills are branches of the ‘Path of Feminine Mystics’.
With her love for sacred movement, Schirin intuited the esoteric commonalities between yoga and various dance forms, their ritualized spirit-infused moving mystery and Kundalini Shakti cultivation. The heart/womb medicine, breath connection, and body/soul wisdom woven into these practices mirror the movements of the elements, the Earth and celestial tides. In dance, she witnesses the marriage between Spirit and Form. Bringing together all these riches has led her to develop her method for ‘Essence of the Feminine™’.
HERBALISM
Indigo Donaldson is a holistic healer who has studied natural healing of the human body as well as the ecology and healing of the earth.
Her primary area of study and experience is in western herbalism, along with an understanding of Chinese medicine and Asian bodywork techniques.
She is also a permaculture educator and designer, with the understanding that there is an important symbiotic relationship between a healthy human being and their environment. She holds a Fine Art and Design degree, Clinical Herbal Certificate from an intensive 2-year reputable school-The Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies, and Permaculture Certificates from Regenerative Design Institute and Permaculture Skills Center. She has completed teacher training courses in holistic education with the intent to create courses that all the different types of learners understand. She owns two herbal medicine companies at present, Indigo Herbals and Surya Care.
Her main goal is to teach and pass on all the knowledge and wisdom she has gained over the past 35 years of study. There has not been a more important time in history to assist people to feel empowered and understand that they hold the key to their own thriving well-being.
CACAO,
CEREMONY,
INDIGENOUS WISDOM
Self-empowerment artist working with heart opening therapies involving holistic nutrition, ceremonial grade cacao, yoga, sound journeys, and breath work as instruments for transformation; creating a safe vessel for self exploration.
She works with T’zutujil Mayan elders from Guatemala, has been working with rebirthing (a breathing modality) since the age of 8. She graduated from Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in 2013.
Since then she has been traveling internationally to places like Panama, Guatemala, Argentina, South Africa, and Croatia to share her passion for wellness and cacao.
Florencia has opened for Deepak Chopra, facilitates ceremonies for the corporate office at Spotify and facilitates ceremonies weekly at the Assemblage.
Co-Founder of Cacao Lab, a Ceremonial Cacao brand aiming to bridge the gap between the modern culture and the indigenous communities.
ALCHEMY
Alchemist, artist, and award- winning filmmaker. He has presented workshops and seminars around the world on various aspects of alchemical theory and practice based on his research.
A contributor to Frater Albertus’ Parachemy, he is also the author of a series of Alchemy Zines. His books include Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter, Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great Work, Alchemical Meditations, On the Quintessence of Wine, and the Emerald Tablet (his translations of and commentary on, the earliest Arabic and Latin versions of this seminal text).
His film work has been screened at Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, HBO, PBS and other international venues. Khepri Press, launched in 2014 with the publication of the Emerald Tablet, is the vehicle and portal for his
alchemical work.
VOICE ACTIVATION
Internationally acclaimed performing and recording artist,vocalist, producer, composer, creative expression coach, somatic arts coach and renowned vocal instructor. She offers sessions, workshops and concerts world wide.
Sonja Drakulich is best known as singer, producer, composer and founder of the internationally-acclaimed world music ensemble, Stellamara, and as singer and percussionist for the Northern European Medieval-Folk band, Faun. With Stellamara, she has toured throughout the US and Europe and has produced three critically- acclaimed CD releases, five star reviews from Alternative Press, Electronic Musician, New Age Voice, SF Weekly and many other notable publications, with albums in the top ten of the World Music Charts. With Faun, she completed three years of extensive touring throughout Europe and recorded on their top ten charted, platinum albums Von den Elben and Luna, from Universal Music.
As a master vocal teacher and peak performance coach, Sonja has lead international, workshops and private courses for over fifteen years and master classes and retreats for over seven years. Her clients include public figures, professional singers and dancers, actors on mainstream networks, martial artists, and elite performers, coaches, healers, as well as students and professionals from all walks of life. She has developed a unique method of vocal based Somatic Therapy, rooted in Nada Yoga, Ancestral Healing and in the synthesis of optimal techniques practices she has learned throughout the Eastern and Western world. She has been a featured workshop facilitator at prestigious learning centers such as: Institute of Noetic Sciences and CIIS in California, Labyrinth Musical Workshops in Greece, Centro Khatawat in Italy, and has been a featured performer at TedX, Bioneers and the Science and Non Duality conference, opening for Deepak Chopra. She is currently co-facilitating international retreats with Integral Dance founder, Miriam Peretz, Master Dance Artist, Colleena Shakti, and pioneer leadership facilitator and vocal artist, Suzanne Sterling.
Sonja has toured internationally with the Mevlevi Dervishes as a singer and percussionist, throughout Indonesia with the Gamelan theater group, Situbanda, performs as lead vocalist with Persian dance company Ballet Afseneh, and is the featured “Aerial Vocalist” with cirque company Lucent Dossier, performing while suspended up to twelve meters in the air. As a professional touring artist, venue highlights have included: San Fransisco Opera House, The Palace of Fine Arts and Cowell Theater (San Francisco) The Long Beach Civic Center (Los Angeles), Hawaii Convention Center (Waikiki), The Santa Maria Minerva Cathedral (Rome) Bali and Java Arts Festival (Indonesia), Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley), Marin Civic Center (San Rafael) and the most beautiful and prestigious concert halls and castles throughout Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Portugal and Italy, including: Kulturkirche, St. Stephan Cathedrial, Freiheiz Hall, Melkweg, Christuskirche and Castelo de Leiria.
Born of a Hungarian mother and Serbian father, Sonja sought out the study of Eastern European singing on her own as a young girl, and its expression quickly became a homecoming. She began performing Balkan and Medieval European music as well as her own compositions at the age of 18. At that time she also began her studies in classical Hindustani and Persian singing, and later continued to expand her voice through Turkish, Greek and Arabic singing. She was adopted as protégé by the legendary Bulgarian vocalist Tatiana Sarbinska at the age of 20, and continued her studies with Tatiana and the renowned Bulgarian vocalist Tsvetanka Varimezova.
Sonja has lived her life immersed in esoteric studies, being raised at the Church of Religious Science and the Theosophical Society in Los Angeles. Throughout her twenties, she was an instructor and workshop leader for The Gnostic Institute of Anthropological and Cultural Studies, earned a graduate certificate in Recording Engineering and studied at CIIS for undergraduate degrees in Liberal Arts and Psychology. She has studied and practiced under the mentorship of Professor of Transpersonal Psychology and Founder of Attention Dynamics, Glenn Hartelius, Author and Professor of Philosophy and Eco-Psychology, Ralph Metzner, and Founder of Labyrinth School of Music and Master of Contemporary Modal Music, Ross Daly. Sonja continues her studies of psychology, philosophy as well as music, with emphasis insomatic therapy, Vajrayana Tantra yoga, and the intersection of neuroscience, quantum physics, and personal transformation. Sonja is devoted to her work in helping others find healing and coherence through the instruments of the body and sound. Throughout her studies and her career as producer, performer and teacher, she continues to maintain her focus on the devotional aspect of song, and on intercultural unification through music, healing and consciousness.
HERBALISM,
ASTROLOGY
House of Origins Apothecary (LUX) and Origins Oracle (MAZ), a dynamic duo whose workings are inspired by the intelligence of the earth and the cosmos. In addition to handcrafted tinctures, their current focus is guiding people in their journey of internal alchemy through the weaving of herbalism, sacred mushrooms, and spirit science.
Maz is a multidisciplinary practitioner who works with divination, herbalism, ritual, and astrology to support clients in finding success through transformation.
Laura is a non-binary medical herbalist whose practice merges western medicine and traditional methods, including scientific and spiritual practices.
HERBALISM.
PSYCHEDELIC TRANSFORMATION
Benjamin is one of the Bay Area’s most respected and knowledgeable herbalists and a licensed acupuncturist. With over 20 years of experience, Bejamin has studied at Five Brances Institute in Santa Cruz, CA and the Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hangzhou, China. Additionally, he completed a four-year clinical apprenticeship with Michael Tierra. To create effective herbalism formulas and treat patients, Benjamin synthesizes his deep knowledge of Chinese and western herbal medicine with modern medical prespectives. This exceptional approach has been recignized industry-wide. He serves patients through Paeonia Integrative Medicine. An esteemed educator, Benjamin regularly lectures at institutions and symposia nation wide. He has been on the faculty of Frive Branches University, A.C.C.H.S., East/West School of Herbology, and American School of Herbalism. He has lectured at California School of Herbal Studies, UCSF, and many other instatutions as a guest lecturer and has been involved in training physicians in natural medicine internationally. In addition to his work as an herbalist, Benjamin is on the board of directors of integrative medicine fir the Underserved. He spends his free time cooking and studying music.
AFRICAN PSYCHEDELICS
Darren Le Baron is an educator specialising in mycology and psychedelic research, and is based in the UK and Jamaica.
Known around the world for his Shroomshop Master classes, he is a keen mushroom cultivator and teacher. He has been growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms for ten years and has translated his home growing experiences into a social enterprise.
Darren is a knowledgeable and dynamic speaker who is passionate about sharing his research and findings on ethnomycology, ancient African plant medicines and their various applications.
He is a member and presenter at the London Psychedelic Society, a chair and Breaking Convention committee member. He is also a regular presenter at the Detroit Psychedelic Conference, Ozora, Noisily and Lightning in a Bottle Festivals, as well as numerous gatherings around the world sharing his extensive research
on psychedelics and how they can help support humanity in the here and now.
He is also an Organic Horticulturist and Permaculture tutor who supports schools, businesses and so called hard to reach communities around the world to create holistic and
sustainable working systems.
Collectively his work aims to
inform and empower individuals
from diverse backgrounds to cope with social challenges and contribute to community development as well as self-improvement in an innovative, creative, culturally-aware style. her
METAPHYSICS,
TECHNOLOGIES,
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Jamie Janover has long been interested in the intersection of science and all things considered spiritual and metaphysical, so when he first came across Nassim Haramein lecturing at a music festival, all the dots connected. Ever since that time in the summer of 2002, he has been delving ever deeper into the world of unified physics and ancient cultures through the lens of Nassim Haramein’s theories, sharing resonant information in presentations he delivers while on tour as a musician.
Jamie Janover was taught by Nassim Haramein how to deliver presentations on his unified field theory in 2008 as one of The Resonance Project’s original 12 “emissaries”.
In 2012, he became the Resonance Project’s first “Ambassador” and took over for Nassim in teaching 3-day Delegate Programs which have since become an online intensive course with thousands of students from 77 countries all over the world. Janover has delivered more than 250 comprehensive presentations and a dozen Delegate Program weekends on Nassim’s work at private events, conferences and festivals world-wide in places as far-reaching as New Zealand, Egypt, India, Canada, Indonesia, Spain, Costa Rica, Australia, Portugal, Mexico and all-across the USA.
