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Elise
Collins is a yoga teacher,
writer, and spiritual counselor. Elise has written for the Yoga Journal and other alternative health magazines.
She will be making magical elixirs with fairy campers
from recipes found in her books Chakra Tonics and An A-Z Guide to Healing Foods.
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Heather Hiett is a
commercial and fine art photographer who is completing
a book of images and essays of women surfers. Heather will
be present on the myth and reality of water goddesses and
mermaids.
Visit her website at www.h2photos.com
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Sarah Schantz is a photographer in Oakland working to blur the lines between reality and the imagination. Sarah is also the lead program coordinator and teacher for the Macedo Ranch School Program; a hands on California history program for 3rd and 4th graders. As a passionate aficionado of chocolate, she couples her historical knowledge, fairy spirit and culinary passion into the creation of chocolate delights for magic, health and joy for all us fairies to be charmed by. |
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Reverend Rabia
is a blues musician, local priestess, a belly dancing teacher,
an elementary school teacher, and the mother Isis (age
11).
At Fairy Camp, Rabia teaches girls the basic
steps of middle eastern bellydancing as a sacred art.
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Jennifer Berezan is
a multi-faceted singer-songwriter, teacher, producer, and
ritualist who has been performing and recording for the past
20 years. She has nurtured a loyal international following
for her songs of profound depth that tackle contemporary
issues with insight and striking melodies.
Jennifer will lead the campers in circles of song.
Jennifer's website is Edge
of Wonder. |
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Caity Rose Phillips-Karimzadeh is
a homeopath and certified flower essence practitioner from
Los Angeles. She is the mom of Amir (age 2). Caity will be
assisting Fairy Campers in the design of their personal flower
essence potions. |
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Jill Matthers is a professional
quiltmaker and an avid beekeeper. She is also the mother
of Karen (age 21) and Hargobin (age 16). She will spin tales
and teach the girls the art of the Spider Grandmother, weaver
and sewer. |
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Jessie Wilson dwells
in the realm of sacred performing arts. She will teach the
campers' the ancient art of Poi, a traditional Maori
dance from New Zealand. While often performed as a fire dance,
this lesson will not be aflame! |
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Mary Ellen Donald is a nationally acclaimed author, instructor, and performer in Middle Eastern Percussion. She will teach the fairies many methods of drumming and music making. |
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Kalli Rose Halvorson, MA is
a spirit guide at camp -- a feminist historian and astrologer who explores traditions
from Old Europe and Asia from where planets and stars are
recieved as emanations from Goddess.
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Forest Eliya is a
well-known Bay Area mural and portrait artist. A self-taught
painter, she will be assisting the girls in the collaborative
project of painting a mural featuring the fairy realm.
Forest will also show them how to use their own creative
energy, line and color to express themselves.
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Rex! the Golden Recliner is a powerful telepathic communicator. He will teach the girls the mysteries of the domesticated animal kingdom and how to lounge with style. Rex will be available for the girls to practice interspecies dialogue. |
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Shiloh
Sophia McCloud founded the Color of Woman Gallery
featuring art and education to nurture
the soul. She is a self-published author of over five women’s
journals, an accomplished painter and teacher of creativity
as a spiritual practice. Shiloh will facilitate the campers'
personal painting projects. |
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DJ Hamouris is a Priestess
of Song, with 25 years of Pagan song & chant leading,
writing & recording experience. She is currently
singing with Moonrise (women’s folk), The Nomadics
(jazz) and Reverent Offering (eclectic spiritual improvisation). DJ
founded Gaia’s Voice and East Bay Harmony, long-term
community choirs in the Bay Area. Currently, she directs
Women & Song and teaches music everyday in her home studio. |
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Alisha Braun is
a licensed Physical Therapist Assistant and mom of Olivia
(age 3). Advanced bodywork training, interpretive dance,
and energy work has fueled her passion for health and well
being. Finding divine inspiration through the oracle of Mother
Peace Tarot since 1998, Alisha is proudly certified by Vicki
Noble. Alisha created Dancing Spiral, a spiritually-based
business combining her oracular gifts of divination with
her passion for dance. Alisha will lead the girls in world
music and dance. |
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Mara Flynn, mama
of Luna (age 7), will
share her knowledge about the power of dreams. Girls will
close their eyes and learn how to take flight in the dream
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Jamie
Isman is a priestess of music, magical mysticism,
the Hebrew Goddess, fairies and all the
wild and freely living things.
Jamie’s path as a
Jewish priestess puts her in communion with the divine
feminine spirits of her ancestors. Her dedication is to
reclaim the history and lineage of this path by living
it. To affirm a path that receives direct revelation from
nature, from deity,
and from spirit, she channels her work through songwriting,
ritual, organizing events for community, and teaching children
about her magical ways of being.
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Andrew "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, also known as the "Gentle Giant," is Fairy Camp's production manager. He will be on location setting up technologically advanced space equipment (projectors, mics, speakers, etc.) and lifting objects too heavy for fairies. |
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Luisah Teish is the author
of numerous books including Jambalaya: The Natural Women’s
Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals and Carnival
of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage.
She is known for her original renditions of African, Caribbean
and African American Folkstales. Teish is an initiated Elder
and woman chief in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of West Africa.
She has contributed to the creation and development of the
Global Women’s Spirituality Movement. |
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Kerri Walsh has
cultivated a lifelong enthusiastic exploration of the "great
unknown" - specifically the mysteries of the divine,
the mind and the cosmos. The attraction of this boundless
potential led to an undergraduate degree in Philosophy
/ Religion and Physics and later into her current pursuit
of a PhD in Philosophy. Kerri also has more that seven
years of experience facilitating the spiritual growth of
youth organizing and leading retreats. Kerri prides herself
on creative flexibilty, encouraging self-directed learning,
and honoring all truth in it's mutiplicity and paradox. |
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Carolyn Brandy is a composer,
performer, and teacher. She has worked in the Bay Area with
The Faye Carol Band, RhythMix, Jazz Camp West, The Jazzschool,
Oakland Jazz Choir, Oakland Youth choir, Redwood Cultural
Work, Berkeley and Oakland Public Schools, Skin Talk, and
many others. She was the founder of Sistah Boom, and a founding
member of the all women jazz quintet Alive! who toured nationally
for ten years. Carolyn released a self-produced CD in 1995,
entitled Skin Talk.
She has been a practioner of the Yoruba-based Cuban religion,
Ocha De Regla, also known as Santeria, since 1977.
She was initiated as a priest of the religion in Havana, Cuba
by Amelia Pedroso in 2000. Carolyn has led four tours to the
Island of Cuba to study Folkloric music and dance where the
groups have studied with masters of Afro-Cuban drumming and
dance.
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Alaura O'Dell was born
and raised in Britain. She is the owner and operator of Sacred
Journeys for Women and is currently based in Northern California.
Alaura has given presentations in Europe, North America, Canada
and Japan as a musician and lecturer on ritual and performance
art. Alaura has an intimate knowledge of the sacred sites
of Britain and has been exploring these powerful locations
for more than 20 years.
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Barbara Voinar. Beginning
as a student 30 years ago and developing as a teacher for
the past 25+ years Barbara Voinar’s experience
of yoga is extraordinary. The scope of her teaching has brought
her into the prison community, women's community, cancer community
through her development of
Healing Yoga, teaching workshops and retreats nationally
and
internationally, co-founding 4th St. Yoga in Berkeley, CA
and delightfully collaborating with other respected
and dynamic teachers. |
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Women Walking Tall
The Mission of Women Walking Tall is to Empower Girls through the Ancient Art
of Stiltwalking. In 2004 Francesca Genco helped coordinate an excursion with
WWT and the Fairy Campers at Ohlone Park. It was an excellent opportunity
for girls to build self-confidence and trust not to mention have a fabulous
time. How wonderful to be able to talk to the trees from a new perspective!
Thank you Terry Sendgraff for creating this non-profit organization. |
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Francesca
Genco, MA, NCMT, is an arts educator, yoga instructor
and performer. Her programs and classes are centered
on evoking joyful and authentic creative expression. Her
teaching and performances are influenced by her exploration
of Contact Improvisation, the Feldenkrais Method and
Zen practice. She has received several grants for
her projects and performances to create and lead GIRLS
RULE!, an arts-based empowerment group for pre-teen and
teen girls. She was also a co-founder of the Philadelphia
Contact Improvisation Dance Festival, which she co-directed
with Leah Stein for 3 years. |
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Cynthia Sue Larson is
a reality
shifter. Have you noticed that pregnant women have "a
special glow," or seen people in love "beaming"?
That's the aura radiating in a full and positive way! Have
you noticed how some things move around as if they had a
consciousness of their own -- especially when you are feeling
stressed? Socks don't come out of the drying machine, keys
aren't where you know you put them, and coats and wallets
seem to disappear, appear, or transport to completely different
locations.
Have you wondered why some days are filled with love, synchronicity, and the
manifestation of your heart's desire, while others suffer from dissonance and
conflict? If you've observed how some days feel happier, healthier and luckier
than others, you've felt the aura in action. |
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Elisabeth Sikie, MA is
a poetrix, a yoga instructor, and a practitioner of the
repressed shamanic arts of indigenous Europe. She will
be leading the campers in the bardic arts and helping them
create their own poems. |
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Kate Maembe is a professional
musician specializing in music workshops for children. She
uses African thumb harp and traditional songs from Tanzania
as a starting point for creative work, combined with classroom
instruments and movement. The workshops aim to stimulate
creativity, build musical skills and encourage teamwork through
fun, structured activities. The workshops also can explore
educational themes, for example, using African songs about
environmental responsibility, traditional life or youth education. |
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