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Healing-the-Spirit 2005 Presenters
Below is the original listing for presenters who gave workshops at 2005's
Healing-the-Spirit. For more information on workshops and presenters
at this year's Healing the Spirit, browse
to the current presenters page. To find out about
being a presenter yourself, check out the
Be a Presenter page or email
Whittney with "HTS Presenters" in the subject line.
Presenters are listed alphabetically with a
brief bio and the titles of their workshops at Healing the Spirit 2005.
To learn more about a particular workshop, please browse
the 2005 workshops page, or download
a PDF of the 2005 Program. You can also read
a review of 2005's Healing-the-Spirit on WitchVox.
Thank you and Dark Blessings.
Tim Bshara |
Tim Bshara has come to the SomaEnergetics tuning
forks on his healing path, which began in 1999. He first learned
Reiki, then experienced Native American healing techniques including
drumming and journeying. Drumming led to using sound intuitively
during healing sessions, and he pursued Karuna Reiki Mastership
in addition to his Usui Reiki Mastership. Tim then stumbled upon
SomaEnergetics at a wellness fair and decided to incorporate it
because it resonated with him; He is now a certified trainer.
Tim’s passion to learn as much as possible and help as many
people as possible are visible in his friendly demeanor and hands-on,
interactive teaching style. Hobbies include Tarot & Angel Card
Readings, computers, and analyzing life situations for underlying
lessons. Tim works in a corporate environment and feels that he
has been drawn there to help bring people to a less stressful way
of living.
workshop:
Sound Healing with Tuning Forks
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Carolina |
Carolina is a professional classical singer and
full-time vocal instructor in Washington DC. She holds a Master's
degree in Vocal Performance from Indiana University's School of
Music, and has been teaching singing since 1998. Carolina worships
regularly with different Pagan circles in the DC area, and has taught
vocal techniques specifically geared towards Pagan Ritual. She lives
in Georgetown with Hunter and Cougar, her feline familiars, and
has a penchant for baking deadly cheesecakes. top
workshop:
Vocal Techniques for Ritual: Speech
and Song
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Rev. Mark Crewson |
Mark Crewson embraced Pagan philosophy in 1991. While
moving in and out of the Wiccan path since that time, he formally
became a part of the Correllian Nativist Tradition progressing on
to become a Third Degree Priest with the Tradition and to work with
the Reverend Sapphire Star to found the Shrine (later elevated to
Temple) of the Sacred Arts for the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area.
His spiritual interests include energy-work, healing, liturgical
singing and spiritualism. He is an established Reiki Master/Instructor.
He has been active with a host of pagan events supporting the greater
Washington, DC area Pagan Community including the Open Hearth Foundation,
Free Spirit Gathering, the Mid-Atlantic Pagan Leadership Conference
and the Washington / Baltimore Area Pagan Clergy Association.
You can contact him through the web site: www.correllianwiccasacredarts.com
workshop:
Working with Hospice
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Del |
Del is a writer, speaker, trickster, philosopher,
and counselor. Del is also a member of Sacred Mark Sanctuary, a
group that explores body spirituality through ritual piercings and
other ordeals. She served as pagan pastoral support to the EMS workers
in NYC during the Twin Towers operation, backed by her experience
in dealing with the terminally and mentally ill. She shares her
personal experience of growing up with two very ill parents in a
frank and honest manner.
workshop:
Easing The Transition: Pastoral Care
for the Terminally Ill and Dying
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Jackie Green |
Jackie
Green is a Reiki Master, Tarot Reader, Hypnotist, and Teacher.
She discovered her gifts when they awoke with a vengeance approximately
12 years ago. Her quest for understanding and knowledge led her to
many dead ends and much misinformation. She was finally lucky enough
to mention this to a dear friend who helped steer her to Helga's Healing
Center in Reading, PA. There, Jackie finally found the beginnings
of her Life's Path and her dreams for the future. The path took her
to The Blooming Rose School for Metaphysical Studies in Quakertown,
PA, where she learned Reiki and hypnosis. Teaching began in earnest
at Bell, Book and Candle, Baltimore, MD, where she taught all levels
of Reiki and and Intuitive Tarot class, as well as serving as BB&C's
Saturday Tarot Reader.
For the past four years she has been hosting classes out of her
home. She has added a 'Witch 101' class to the Reiki and Tarot classes.
She teaches meditation, does guided meditations, individual and
group past life regressions, as well as scrying classes. She is
available for spiritual counseling. Within the next couple of years
Jackie plans to open a full time center called The Phoenix Rising
Center for Metaphysical Studies.
Jackie can be contacted at gryffinww@yahoo.com
workshop:
Living a Multi-Dimensional Life
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Bennu Heka |
I have been a teacher and instructor within the
pagan community for over eight (8) years. I have instructed and
given classes on personal energy working, spell construction and
ritual construction. I have run a solitary pagan witchcraft class
for over three (3) years starting from 101 to 201, finishing with
301. I have held classes on past life regression and psychic tarot
reading. I have organized full moon rituals and have run them for
over seven years in a local new age book store. I am a six (6) year
member of Cedar Light Grove, ADF. I work with individuals on personal
issues and provide a different perspective on their situations.
I have organized and run a pagan discussion group for seven (7)
years, where the topics of discussion ranged from anything pagan
to mundane in nature. I have also participated in and run an ADF
style ritual at the Mother Earth Day gathering put on by The Black
Forest Clan in Pa.
I can be contacted at BennuHeka@gmail.com
workshops:
Ishta Devata
Past Life Regression
Quarter Calling: (working with the
elements to heal)
Ritual Construction
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Raven Kaldera
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Raven Kaldera is a Northern-tradition shaman, herbalist,
astrologer, homesteader, transgender activist, and the author of
many books, including "MythAstrology", "The Ethical
Psychic Vampire", and "Pagan Polyamory".
He can be found online at: http://www.cauldronfarm.com.
"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
workshops:
Carrying Forth The Spirit: God-Possession
in Public Pagan Ritual
Meeting The Needs Of Unusual People
in Pagan Groups
Northern-Tradition Herbalism
Pathwalker's Guide to the Nine
Worlds
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Amy Lawrence |
Known to some as firegoddess, Amy has been firetending
and involved with fire circle rituals for several years and several
organizations. Her focus is on healing the collective via the individual
expansion of awareness, one heart and mind at a time.
workshop:
Mandalas as Magical Tools
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Beth Lynch |
Beth Lynch is a professional animal communicator,
a nationally certified massage therapist, a certified doula, a Hospice
bereavement volunteer, a founder and volunteer in Patuxent Animal
Welfare Society (PAWS), and has a Master's degree from Georgia State
University. With a pre-med undergraduate degree and additional training
in Reiki and other forms of energy healing, she brings a wealth
of experience and knowledge into her consultations and workshops.
Beth blends her intuitive and healing skills in all her work, whether
to provide optimum results from massage or enhanced physical understanding
during communications. Her personal experiences with death and grief
in conjunction with her Hospice training provide her with both a
practical and empathetic understanding of grief and other emotional
responses that is evident in her consultations and workshops. Beth
teaches a variety of workshops on animal communication, intuitive
development, massage and growth through the grief process.
workshops:
Intuitive Development
Intuitive Touch
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Whittney Matlock
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Whittney
(with two 'T's) is a professional massage therapist based in Falls
Church VA who enjoys working with a variety of therapies to heal
his clients not just in body, but in mind and spirit as well. A
long-time presenter at Free Spirit events and founder of the Circle
of Dark Eros, he has a vibrant approach to ecstatic ritual, trance,
magick, healing and, well, living. You should not
expect to sleep through one of his workshops, though you may leave
feeling more relaxed and energized.
workshop:
The Sole of the Matter: Gourmet Foot
Massage
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Molly |
Molly is a Holistic healer with a Jungian flair.
She combines traditional therapy and holistic healing techniques
to produce healing effects that can be startling. She is an RN with
MSN in Mental Health, an Usui Reiki Master and certified Transpersonal
Hypnotherapist. She is a member of an Ogdoadic tradition and is
devoted to the Archangel Michael and is grateful for his fire. She
is a member of the Pagan Nurse's Association, National Association
of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists, the Reiki Blessings Academy and
the International Natural Healer's Association. She has a holistic
practice in Easton, Maryland.
workshop:
Collectively Conscious Healing:
I am Sacred
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Pathweaver |
Pathweaver has been hanging around the pagan community
to a greater or lesser degree for around fifteen years. She first
started teaching herself to read tarot in 1980 using a found deck
(and to this day would love to know how those cards got there!),
and is still learning as well as teaching.
workshops:
Divination With Everyday Items
Intuitive Tarot
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Nancy Smeltzer
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Nancy Smeltzer has come to the art and science of
healing in a circuitous way. A very recent newcomer to healing,
she spent most of late 2004 to mid-2005 studying Peak States of
Consciousness. As part of that Institute, she participated in research
and actively devoured what there was to be learned in that discipline.
Since the beginning of the summer of 2005, events have taken her
in her own direction and she has been actively pursuing the rapidly
developing techniques of Total Radical Healing. Blessed with gifts
from beyond, Nancy brings to her work teaching skills from 27 years
in the public school system. At the present, she is developing protocols
for healing manic depression and muscular dystrophy. Researchers
in Washington state, Colorado, Canada, and Russia are at present
using her skills in collaboration with their own work.
workshops:
Introduction to Total Radical Healing
1
Introduction to Total Radical Healing
2
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Michelle Zee
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Michelle
Zee has presented workshops at the Free Spirit Beltane and Gathering
festivals, Loving More East, Dark Odyssey, Poly Living, 'Building
Bridges' conferences, and at the Community for Spiritual Living.
Zee (zee is a pronoun that means he/she) has studied both Brad Blanton's
Radical Honesty and Susan Campbell's Getting Real. Zee runs the
Free the Artist Within group in DC www.freetheartistwithin.org.
Michelle is also known as Michael when Zee changes genders and is
active in the Washington DC area trans, pagan, poly and bi communities.
Zee is out to most friends, neighbors and just came out at work
last year. Telling people is not always easy (though the more people
I have told my "secret" to the easier it gets). Most people
either don't care or are accepting. Let's face it. If they don't
like it then it is their problem - and do I want to be with that
kind of person anyway? No!
You can contact Zee through Zee's website: http://www.geocities.com/michelle_zee/
workshops:
EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique
Honesty for Healing
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