2010
Witchcamp Teachers
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April Taylor
Captain
Snowdon
Dragonlily
Hekate RockThorn
Jennifer
Byers
Keith Hennessy
Ravyn Stanfield
Riyana
Moon
Suzanne Sterling
Willow Firefly Kelly
April
Taylor
April C. Taylor has been practicing within the Reclaiming Tradition
for the past ten years. She considers her spiritual practice to be a
main source of strength in her life and work. She loves the expressive
arts, the mystery and beauty of sound, and the flow of dance and yoga.
She is a Certified Sound Healer, and Priestess, as well as trained
performing artist, teacher and Reiki healer. April has attended
California Witchcamp six times including last summer on the teaching
team. 2008 marked her 10th year at Burning Man. She is passionate about
creating ritual in daily life and cultivating community wherever she
goes.
Captain Snowdon
Captain is a poet,
sexologist, and avid sidewalk chalker hailing from Vancouver Island, BC.
Captain is committed to deep elemental magic and activism grounded in
our bodies. Finding homes in the queer, radical faerie, reclaiming,
sacred sexuality, and genderqueer communities up and down the westcoast,
Captain can often be found on or near bodies of water, dancing round
fires, covered with mud running through the arbutus trees and singing
out of tune. Currently, Captain's magic manifests in running a gay men's
wellness program for the local AIDS organization, educating folks about
sex and pleasure and writing poems that taunt and
haunt.
Dragonlily
From the day she first
looked out into this beautiful world, Dragonlily has believed in the
reality and power of the unseen. Her life's journey meandered through
the metaphysical aspects of various spiritual traditions until 10 years
ago when she answered the call of the Goddess. Dragonlily feeds her soul
with music, meditation, stones, and trees. She loves what the symbol and
reality of the grail whisper about the healing power of water. She feels
blessed and honored to have her first student teaching experience among
the redwoods at California camp.
Hekate
RockThorn
Hekate is an edge-walking, world-straddling Witch in love with the
ecstasy and beauty of embodied living. She is passionate about
authenticity and accessibility, and the gritty mundane magic we work in
our everyday lives. (She also has a particular fondness for mistakes,
cracks and broken places.) Originally from Vancouver Canada, she now
calls Seattle home, where she lives with her beloved husband and reads
Tarot for the public (check out her website, www.doubleserpent.com, for more info). Amongst her
favourite places to dwell is the triple crossroads of Love, Sex, and
Shadow, and thus it is no surprise that her other home is the kink and
sex-positive communities. Sacred sexuality, runes, Tarot and surrender
to the Divine are part of her daily practice. Hekate has been involved
with Reclaiming for over five years as a priestess, teacher, and ritual
organizer and is thrilled to have been invited back to teach at
California Witchcamp!
Jennifer Byers
Jennifer
Byers is a colorful and barefooted witch who grew up loving the wild and
finding joy amidst the clover-kissed hills of east Tennessee. This
connection to the land and her service to it are the strength and basis
of her magic. In more recent years she has lived and loved in the Windy
City where she holds the paradox of urban and green; of being a Chicago
actress and a food gardening-fae loving-chicken momma. She seeks to
bring change through love, accountability and creativity and she values
experiential, multi-sensorial learning as one glorious and ecstatic
vehicle for that change. She is an impassioned singer, guitar player,
drummer, poet, artist, cook, knitter, permaculturalist and food
activist. She is also a proud member of TUTA Theatre Chicago (www.tutato.com).
Keith Hennessy
Keith Hennessy grew up in a Northern Ontario
mining town in one of the world's largest bio regions, and played on
some of the globe's oldest exposed rock. Since 1982, he lives in San
Francisco and tours internationally. Ritual influences include: catholic
mass and community, competitive sports, street protest and direct
action, dance class, improvisation, performance, DIY anarchist rituals,
Reclaiming, Body Electric and other sex rituals, academic research,
mythopoetic men's gatherings, healing circles, initiatory rites, sacred
bathing, sweat lodge, peyote church, Shipibo ayahuasca, & other
alt-culture drugs/medicines including whatever is the local alcohol,
circus, and direct experience as a guest in the rituals of many
cultures. I am Cuz'n to the Radical Faeries. I am curiously dedicated to
performance, embodiment, initiation, creativity, sexual healing, and
play/working the energy in, around, and between bodies. I am crazed
about ideology and religion, including our own, and am developing a
critical voice in response to sloppy thinking. I am drawn to water for
solo and collective prayer, grounding, and cleansing. (more info: www.circozero.org)
Ravyn
Stanfield
Ravyn Stanfield is a healer, writer, and activist, practicing
acupuncture in Portland, OR. She is an aspiring alchemist dedicated to
erotic revolution and liberating the unique magic and music within each
of us. She uses her work in the realms of sacred sexuality, theatre,
Jungian psychology and environmental activism to coax more of the
extraordinary into the world through the ever widening cracks in Western
civilization. She is an initiate in the Reclaiming and Feri traditions
and teaches workshops internationally. www.ravynstanfield.com
Riyana Moon
Riyana Moon has been making magic with the Reclaiming Community for over ten years, when she first stepped through the spiral portal at California Camp. As your typical Gemini, she has many different interests that she enjoys weaving into her priestessing work: the magic of song and dance, herbalism, women's blood mysteries, sacred sexuality, and shamanism. She also very much enjoys incorporating the magic of other mystical traditions (with reverence and respect) into her work, and holds a Master's in Women's Spirituality from Naropa Unversity, in addition to working as a bodyworker and childbirth doula in her community. Her daily practice incorporates writing, music, yoga, and immersing herself in nature. She has taught and organized for three years with Free Activist Witchcamp, as well as working with young adults at Teen Earth Magic and Witchlets and teaching classes within the San Francisco Bay Area community. When not hanging out with witches in the woods or by the waters, she can often be found taking a nap in the sun with her cat, Emily-Moon.
Suzanne Sterling
Suzanne is an ecstatic vocalist and composer
whose devotional music has been called a "groove-loving and seductive
journey into Spirit" and whose music has been commissioned for film,
theatre and DVD. Both as a performing and recording artist, as well as a
facilitator of transformational workshops and intensives for many years,
Suzanne has received critical acclaim. She has enjoyed mainstage billing
at festivals such as Earthdance, Harmony, Burning Man, Joshua Tree Music
Festival and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai
Lama). Suzanne has also been a ritual designer and priestess for many
years and has developed curriculums, teacher trainings and
apprenticeship programs combining ritual and activism for numerous
communities nationwide. She offers a unique blend of yoga, music, sacred
ceremony and activism to conferences and festivals worldwide- most
recently as featured artist at several Yoga Journal Conferences, Omega
Institute, Esalen Institute, Institute of Noetic Sciences. The Global
Sound Conference and Earthdance where she led the worlds largest Spiral
Dance for 5000 people. Suzanne is also a co-creator, with Seane Corn and
Hala Khouri, of Off the Mat, Into the World, a project offering
nationwide training programs and humanitarian tours combining yoga and
sustainable activism. For more info visit suzannesterling.com.
Willow
"Firefly" Kelly
Willow "Firefly" Kelly is a performance artist and a
faery-lovin' experiential teacher of magic, music and mystery. She
facilitates the creation of strong containers, inviting participants
into a direct experience of their own magic and powers of
transformation. She teaches workshops and classes in the U.S. and abroad
and finds herself playing music with witches, faeries, Sufis, yogis, and
hillbillies on a regular basis. Willow is delighted to be returning to
her home camp where she fell in love with the redwoods, Reclaiming and
the California Witchcamp community. Email Willow
here
