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Earthweavers: A not for profit pagan organization committed to providing an annual festival for the pagan community where attendees can enjoy workshops, bonfires, performances, vendors, and companionship.
Past Workshop Presenters and Performers
Workshop Presenters and Workshops
Performers
Michael Thompson and Group
Fire Dancing
Sean Lamore
Living the life of a nomad for over 13 years, Sean "The Rock Guy" Lamore has been on an unending quest for Peace, Love, Knowledge and Magick! Almost 10 years ago in Salem, Massachusetts, Sean realized his purpose in life, working with stones as an Intuitive Alchemist and Teacher.
Jason Barna
Raised in Southern Maryland when it was still rural farms. Have used "folk" practices for as long as I can remember doing so. Learned Herbalism more formally as I got older out of need for something that wasn't going to kill me ! Have owned Phoenix Rising Apothecary along with my Fiancé for 5 years after merging our business together under one name. We are a fully holistic practice that specializes in natural herbal remedies and hard to find herbs, as well as crystals, salts, teas, and whatever else might catch your fancy!
Liz Sanderson
Liz Sanderson has had over a decade of experience in her personal practice serving her community in Hampton Roads Virginia as a massage therapist, Reiki and BodyTalk practitioner, yoga instructor and musician. Focusing on the much needed transformation of our human consciousness out of fear and into love, Elizabeth’s classes are geared toward discovering the Truth within, how to communicate with that truth and how to translate that into the world. Light heartedness coupled with wisdom give her a way of joyously sharing powerful insights and information. Elizabeth is truly honored to be able to share her gifts with all she meets along her path.
Adam Szyikowski
A mixed media artist who lives in Woodstock , Virginia, USA. He is an earth-loving woodworker who obtained his Bachelor's of Science from Radford University in Engineering Geology. He is the sole owner/operator of House of Wood and Stone, through which he creates and sells handmade works of art. Some of his most beautiful creations are from locally foraged wood which he carves and then inlays with precious gems and crushed crystals. His unique pieces are inspired by his materials. Each stone has a story to tell, each wood has unique patterns, and he combines it all to create unique items of all sorts. He has been taking an eclectic path to research and learning of old-world pantheons and traditions for over a decade and began vending at regional festivals since 2012. As an openly pagan scientist, Adam believes that science can explain variations in crystal frequencies that go beyond color and chemical composition. His workshop presents some simplified geologic concepts and why those principles effect the metaphysical properties of rocks and minerals.
Patty Robbins McCoy
Patty Robbins McCoy will share her passion for herbal craft with you this weekend by demonstrating how to create practical herbal preparations for everyday use. Her workshops will have a little something for everyone. Friday’s presentation will focus on making Oils and Salves and their various uses. Whenever possible she will use fresh herbs. Saturday’s presentation will cover teas, tinctures, and oxymels. So, come with your enthusiasm, curiosity, and experiences to share. Participants are invited to bring their journals and a chair. Patty is a member of the American Herbalist Guild and has studied Clinical Herbalism at Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville. She lives with her husband Scott, the Beekeeper, in their home in Tidewater, where they share a love of gardening and nature tending to their bees, vegetables, and wild medicinal plants at their home they call Dragonfly Farms.
Hunter Jordan
Although he is only 22 he has been working with leather for over 10 years. He has formed a company named hjleatherarts, and pictures are available on Instagram. He is currently working on his degree in studio arts. He is a great artist in many medias. Leather tooling seems to have come naturally to him. Combined with his sewing talents he is producing a wide variety of leather products for sale around the country. He is also accepting custom orders.
Dennis Jordan
Has been working with leather for over 30 years, with many years of making holsters, sheaths, belts, and accessories for Renn fairs. Lately he has added amazing leather face creatures for mugs and bags, which have proved to be a big hit.
Doug Bischoff
Doug has been a drummer, didgeridoo player, and multi-instrumentalist for groups ranging from Celtic Rock band "Coyote Run" to Trance/Dance band "Mystic Forest" and Celtic Folk trio “The Boys From That Band." He brings a unique style of storytelling humor to his drum and didgeridoo performances.
Linda Sager Kazalski
"I am Linda Sager Kazalski, sometimes called Bryghteyez and I was born and raised in the Catskill Mountains of rural upstate New York, I come from a long line of healers and farmers on my mother’s side. I was a First Class Girl Scout (the highest rank then available) and my dad was an Eagle Scout. I learned “Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints, if that.” and “Be Prepared” at an early age. I’ve been a tree-hugging dirt-worshipper ever since. I was a solitary practitioner for about 25 years, before joining a local eclectic coven where I attained the rank of second- degree priestess, prior to leaving to start Three Branch River Grove, ADF of Hampton Roads, Virginia in 2015. I am the Senior Druid (the head) of the grove and I am currently studying the ADF Dedicant Path. I’ve been active in the Hampton Roads pagan community for over 20 years. I’ve been studying medicinal and magical herbalism since my teens and I have taught classes in both locally as well as classes in energy work. I love research and writing and I am a contributor to the Hampton Roads Pagan Resource Directory website and Tumblr. I have a BA in English and History from the State University of New York at Geneseo, where I was a member of Arethusa (Sigma Gamma Phi) Sorority (Gamma chapter) and met my husband of 37 years and bass guitarist extraordinaire, Michael Kazalski. We have an adult son, three cats and two dogs."
Janie Carpenter
Chant Circle
Janie Carpenter
Janie is a Mama Bear, Granny, HPS, Seeker, singer/guitar player, dancey – type butterfly chaser (with big apologies). Also to pay her rent and stuff, she is a nurse, of the LPN variety. She loves to share the things she has learned or heard and hopes to learn more (hence the seeker designation).
Sir Hex Nottingham
Raised as a Shield Knight and Priest of the Loyal Arthurian Warband by Arthur Pendragon in Stonehenge, student of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, member of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and appointed as Principle Drummer of the Stonehenge Druids. Along with being a symphonic band percussionist for 6 years, he held the position of Center Snare in the Marching Hornets Drumline. A life long Witch, studying the many ways of the Craft since childhood, Hex has made 5 pilgrimages to the United Kingdom visiting some of the most sacred Druid and Celtic temples and working with many amazing people along the way, even sharing the stage with international Pagan recording artist Damh the Bard to an audience of 400 Druids over in Glastonbury and two private shows of 100 over here in Pennsylvania. In 2015, Hex conducted the Midsummer Sunset Ceremony inside Stonehenge to a crowd of about 30,000 people.
Annie Johnson
Band
Joe Weber
He has been teaching faith based magical practices for over six years. He applies his extensive study, personal experiences, and nearly two decades of practice to each of his lessons without ever losing sight of how much more there is to still learn. He would like nothing more than to share with those who would learn and learn from those who would share.
Bill Carver
Through years of study and engaging in religious practice, Bill has gained knowledge of and taught many classes on the faith, customs, lore, philosophies, magic and rituals in the Norse path, Asatru. With a passion to learn as much as teach, he invites all fellow spiritualists to join them on the path to wisdom.
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Rachael Hilton
Rachael is a singer, dancer and transcendental artist. She has studied
personal and group trance practices and techniques for the past 8 years. Her personal
practice is creation. She works for balance. She sings her prayers from her heart. She
fosters her connection to the Divine through her voice, her dance and her music. She
honors her Ancestors as her closest guides. They remind her to live for now. We are what
we create in this moment. And now is all we will ever have.
Shaman
Though born in Ohio, Shaman Fillhart is a long time resident of the Hampton Roads area in Virginia. Raised in a military family, he spent most of his youth growing, learning and playing throughout the seven cities and Eastern North Carolina. Even as a young child spirituality was part of his life; faith was the way of things and whether in the form of organized religion or personal spiritual growth, it was encouraged and nurtured. As a young teen in the mid 1980s Shaman began exploring non mainstream spiritual paths, stepping away from Christianity and toward shamanic ways. He has now been a practicing diviner, mystic and shamanic worker for thirty years. Work with spirits, elemental and crystal energies, ley lines and psycho-spiritual healing have all been a staple of his active work as well as guidance and spiritual counseling. Shaman works to help grow understanding and balance between people, spirits and worlds. He is often called on to help with unsettled spirits and energies from hauntings to land cleansings, having worked with many people through the years, including John Zaffis on his television show Haunted Collector.
Brad Runyon
He has been a fabricator of both physical and metaphysical artifacts for nearly 30 years and works with a large variety of material mediums. Brad has long been fascinated with the melding of natural materials to attune their properties to achieve maximum benefit. He enjoys teaching and helping others in all forms of creative Fabrications.
Arlechina Verdigris
Better known as Miss Spoon, is a Roman Camilla Diana, historical dance ethnologist and trance master from Virginia Beach. Known in the community for her animated ecstatic dances, frame drums and songs from many faraway lands. Verdigris serves the Hampton Roads and Richmond VA. areas as a rhythmic hypnotist and dance priestess. As a specialist in the women's ritual traditions of the ancient to the modern Mediterranean, she has catalogued and interpreted dozens of ecstatic rites and collected an extensive library of folk music and stories in their vernacular forms. She has published several books on trance and dance spirituality, bringing new lessons to the world on very old subjects. www.newancientdance.com
Denise
“Dirty Mother” Cumor
A Goddess-worshiping, sacred sexuality feminist, who defies the patriarchal paradigm by following her own intuitive path, through creative expression and her commitment to empower womyn (and men) in the arts and history of sexuality and divine feminine worship. Growing up in our culture where womyn are objectified, abused, and shamed, she found herself being pushed under and began her reclamation as a young adult. Experiences that have strengthened her commitment: Clerk at the feminist/ lesbian 31st St Book Store in Baltimore; working as a stripper for 4four years on Baltimore's infamous 'Block;' teaching OB-GYN protocol to medical students with Johns Hopkins; a decade of Costume Design in the Baltimore theater community; directing and acting in various productions of the Vagina Monologues; a brief three year purgatory in the corporate world as an Event Planner; Event Coordinator for the Spiral Dance Women's Center, where she also taught sex and reproductive health workshops; vending and educating for over six years in the mid-Atlantic Pagan community with her version of The Red Tent; facilitating the annual adult only Sexperiments at THE Beltane and The Inner Sanctum at Blue Ridge Beltane. She has been making music and writing poetry for over 20 years, her current musical project is Red Wound. Creating art, music and sacred space for womyn has been her joy and salvation.
The Red Tent - A Sacred Space and a Sacred Movement for Womyn
I first set out to create a sacred space for womyn to explore their sexuality and learn about reproductive health. After reading The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, I was compelled to learn more about empowering with your moon cycles and wanted to somehow integrate this knowledge into the sacred space, this just made sense to me. After a year of doing this work, it was amazing to discover other womyn had the same calling and Red Tents have now manifested all over the world. I am very proud to be a part of this celebration and to be a part of reclaiming the tradition of moon lodges and to facilitate sacred space for womyn. What you will find in this Red Tent is an open and comfortable environment that is lush in sensual colors and fabrics. A place of empowerment and healing. The Red Tent is open to every womyn from those that have just begun their moon times to the wise crones of the community. [The Red Tent I facilitate can be inclusive of teenage girls or adult womyn only]
Christine Harrell
Christine Harrell is a certified 500/hr RYT from National Yoga Academy and is a certified Ayurveda Wellness Lifestyle Counselor. She is a Childlight Yoga Instructor and a graduate of the Wise Earth Ayurvedic School with a certification in Ahimsa Japa Meditation. Christine is also a trained birth and postpartum doula and enjoys guiding pre-natal and post-natal mothers and babies in yoga. It brings her bliss in her life when she can serve others through yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. She is also an accomplished martial artist, holding a 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has trained in other styles of martial arts as well. The balance in the yin of yoga practice and the yang of martial arts along with meditation and Ayurveda are the elements that unites the mind, body, and spirit in her teachings. She is the founder of Virginia Community Yoga established in 2016 and co-owner of Equinox Coffee Co. established in 2018. Christine is also the Wellness Coordinator for Primeplus Norfolk Senior Center, a mentor to high school seniors, and an Ayurvedic Yoga Wellness Counselor at The Space Above yoga studio.
Cathbadh Fir Dor Cogadh Dubh
Cathbadh, has been a practitioner of some form of Celtic inspired spirituality all his life. As Retired U.S. Navy Combat Veteran with 22 years of service, he has had the unique opportunity to travel extensively throughout the world including all 7 Celtic Nations.
Cathbadh remains deeply involved in the preservation of Celtic, Scottish and Gaelic Culture as a living entity through active involvement in cultural organizations such as the Scottish Society of Tidewater, the Tidewater Irish Society, St. Andrews Society of Tidewater, the 76th MacDonald's Highlanders Historical Society and is a Hurler with the Hampton Roads Hurling Club. Additionally, Cathbadh is a 18-year Scottish Gaelic language learner and an intermediate level instructor with the Scots Gaelic Speakers Society of Tidewater.
His calling to a faith expressed through Gaelic culture culminated in the mid-1990s when Cathbadh met his lifelong friend and fellow Druid, Starrag Druiean Dubh, at a Norfolk, VA CUUPS meeting; together over the next decade they recreated and founded the Dalriadic Tradition, a Gaelic Reconstructionist Druidic Tradition based on the ancient Irish Sagas and extensive research into Irish and Scottish Highland folklore.
Cathbadh's initial Druidic instruction and study was through the Fà idh (Ovate) tradition as a Seer, Magician, Liturgist and Breitheamh (Brehon); in addition to being a pretty decent Bodhran player! Having taken the vows of the Draoidh he is a devotee to the Warrior Goddess Sgathach and currently serves as an Ard t-Sagart (High Priest) to the independent grove, Tuatha na Doir’-choillean where his spirit sings the songs of the ancient Gaidhealtachd with his brother, Starrag and sisters, Lair and Bechulle.
M. Alyssa O'Neal, CMT
Alyssa is a native of the Hampton Roads area. Most of her childhood was spent roaming the local woods of Chesapeake where her love of animals and land led her to explore magickal paths and expand on her connection with the Fae. She is a practicing shaman and Reiki Master. With her healing she has incorporated crystals/stones, sound therapy (tuning forks, metal and crystal bowls), reiki, massage therapy and shamanic practices for many years. Alyssa has volunteered at many festivals and events in the Tidewater area since 2000. Throughout these years in the community she has offered spiritual guidance to others with divination and her healing work. A graduate of the Cayce/Reilly School of Massotherapy, she is a certified massage therapist working in a Chiropractic Office and private practice since 2012.
Maggie Chub
Has been a Pagan for the past forty of her seventy-some years. She professes no particular path and calls herself a Unitarian Pagan. She is a child of North and loves her "rocks." Light on glass also entrances her. Please come by to visit at MAGPIE and meet Bree and her friend Mike.
Mary Scheidell
Mary has been following an eclectic Pagan path for over 30 years, and a Reiki practitioner since 2013. As an Empath, Mary has been growing her abilities over the years, and has found a calling in helping other newly realized Empaths on their journey, and also with helping people accept and work through Life Transitions using Holistic methods. Mary travels full-time, with a mailbox in Central Florida, and can be contacted at MaryScheidell@outlook.com
Heather Bishop
Tribal Fusion Bellydance
Dana Beaufait
Belly Dancer
Amy Ferebee
Vocals and guitar
Doug Bischoff
Didgeridoo and Percussion
Melul
Musician
Samirah
Belly Dance
Sarah Garten and Michelle Petty
The Veiled Vixens
Rachael Hilton
Vocals
Sueanne Doyer
Vocals
The Charltones
Band
Rebecca Drew
Aerial Silks
Gypsy (Sharon Nieto)
Belly Dancer
