Contributors Contributors include:
Alisha Dancing Tree
Alisha has been studying various forms of dance since her girlhood and has come home to the artform of Middle Eastern dance over the past nine years. She has lived the past decade in ritual, performance, and women's studies ~ devoting herself to embodying and anchoring the Divine Feminine here on Mother Earth. She has been the Bellydance instructor at The Flying Lotus Movement Center in Mt. Shasta, CA for the past three years.
www.theflyinglotus.com Anique Radiant Heart
Crone Priestess of the Goddess
Singer of the Sacred Songs Of the Temple
For 20 years and more, Anique Radiant Heart has dedicated her life and her talents to assisting women and girls to awaken the great Feminine Divine within them. Gifted with a miraculous voice and the ability to open women’s hearts with her singing, she has facilitated women’s mystery workshops /events, celebrating the Goddess through ritual and song in the United States, England, France, Athens, Singapore, Taipei, Australia and New Zealand. A keen scholar, author, singer/songwriter, artist and political activist, Anique’s love for the Earth, women and the feminine principle she lovingly calls the Goddess, has been the motivating force behind her extraordinary music and the work she does in the world. “I believe that women are midwifing a different level of existence, which allows us to be in this world and yet not part of it. The struggle against patriarchy and the journey to the Goddess are synonymous in my view. When we discover the great ancient heritage of matriarchal cultures which existed for millennium after millennium before patriarchy, we find a profound woman focused body of evidence, which strengthens our inner core and provides the tool for self empowerment and self determination. We can then go out into the world and do what must be done so that as many women as possible can be free to celebrate that discovery.” Anique lives in the country in Australia with her life partner and three feline familiars and one canine. Her art and her garden complement her music and teaching and provide the serenity of a balanced and grounded heart.
www.herwill.net Ava Park
Ava is the Founder and Director of The GODDESS TEMPLE of Orange County, a non-profit church for women in Southern California, dedicated to honoring The Goddess and woman's ancient natural spiritual authority. She is a graduate of the Women's Thealogical Institute’s six-year priestess training program of the Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess, Inc., and a well-known women's spiritual leader and ritualist in the United States.
www.goddesstempleoforangecounty.com Barbara Meiklejohn-Free
Barbara is a High Priestess, Shamanic Seer, Author of "The Heart of all Knowing" and singer with the Daughters of Gaia. She travels the country and world sharing her wisdom with her gift of second sight and her transformational workshops. Cécile Keller (Switzerland)
Cecile studied medicine and works as a gynaecologist. Additionally, she trained at the Centre for Shamastic Wisdom and Knowledge "Quetzalcoatl" in Ronco, Tessin / Switzerland, and has worked since then as a shaman-healer, too. Since 1997 she has collaborated at the International Academy HAGIA and became its co-director. At the two World Congresses on Matriarchal Studies in 2003 and 2005, she presented her beginning research on Matriarchal Medicine. Minister Corry Gott
Corry is a spiritual warrior and teacher. She holds the ability to speak the deepest truth to inspire others to be the best they can be. She teaches the ways of the compassionate warrior. Her gifts include the ability to mobilize the innate wisdom of the Goddess in people’s hearts and to motivate them to reach their highest potential.
“Since I was a child, I have been following a path of discovery and exploration. Growing up with many changes and transitions in my life taught me the power of self reliance. After joining the Marine Corps, I learned the strength of teamwork. I have always loved the art of cooking and the beauty of Goddess’ bounty. It is my passion. I have been a caterer for several years and Corry’s Culinary Creations has allowed me to be a part of meaningful events, both big and small. I also have a deep affinity for stones, crystals and minerals, the body of the Goddess. Their healing properties have always amazed me and I seem to know what energy is needed for a specific situation.
My greatest joy is supporting people in discovering their unique power, their individual gifts. My goal is to create a healing Center where everyone is allowed to express their creativity and reach their highest potential. As we embody community together, we can shift the paradigm of our world’s direction.” Daughters of Gaia
The Daughters of Gaia celebrate all that is powerful and wise in women and men and these girls really know how to party, with tribal and techno dance rhythms overlaid with lush dynamic vocals. This trinity of Maiden, Mother and Crone adorn themselves with wings, staffs and tiaras, letting the magic come alive as they sing for the Goddess. Barbara Meiklejohn-Free or Raven, the Highland Seer, is the founding member of the group known for her strong vocals and effervescent presence, bringing ceremony and ritual to the performance. Karen Kay is a singer in her own right and adds harmonies and backing vocals. She is an event organiser in Cornwall and loves faeries. Cara Bamford brings youthful and dynamic energy to the trio. She is a dance teacher and choreographer.
www.daughtersofgaia.com Diane Milstein
Diane is an artist and creator of the "Miss Smith goes to....." paintings. She lives in Glastonbury and is a great comedienne. Freddie Foosiya Miller
Freddie is an inspired painter and sculptor whose artwork has graced the Goddess Conference for many years. She is the creator of the central wicker Maiden Goddess which is honoured as a representation of the Goddess during the Conference. Georgina Sirett-Hardie
Georgina is a Priestess of Avalon who conducts Handfastings, Rites of Passage, Rituals and Ceremonies. She is a Director of the Goddess Temple in charge of organising Melissas. A teacher / trainer, she has travelled all over the world and visited many different cultures. Painting, singing and writing poetry are just a few of her many passions. She is qualified in Spiritual Counselling, Esoteric Healing, Karmic Astrology and has 35 years' experience in Tarot reading.
www.sunflowerhealing.co.uk Heide Goettner-Abendroth Ph.D. (Germany)
Heide is a woman philosopher and researcher in culture and society, focused on matriarchal studies. In 1986, she founded the "International ACADEMY HAGIA. Academy for Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality" in Germany, and since then has been its director. She gives lectures to a great variety of people in the general public at home and abroad, and she has been invited to lecture at several universities. In the year 2003, she organised and guided the "First World Congress on Matriarchal Studies: SOCIETIES IN BALANCE" in Luxembourg /Europe and in the year 2005, the "Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies: SOCIETIES OF PEACE" in San Marcos, Texas/USA.
In 2005, she was elected by the Initiative "1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe" as one of these women from all over the world who were twice nominated for the Peace Nobel Prize (2005 and 2006)
www.goettner-abendroth.de Helen Anthony
Helen blends Goddess Wisdom, orthodox medicine, alternative therapies and shamanic healing. She worked in the NHS for many years and has been a Conference Melissa for several years, offering wonderful assistance to less-able-bodied Conferees. She is a Priestess of Brigid. Helen Drever
Helen is a transcendental performance artist working with visual media to express feminist mimetic theory and sublingual bodily awareness. Her BA thesis was called 'Bitches Becoming', inspired by Sarah Lucas' work 'Bitch' and distressed by its brutality, Helen is working to inspire us to Unseal the Lips of the Goddess and ROAR. Isabella Verbruggen
Isabella is a priestess, ceremonialist, frame-drummer, mother, and co-teacher of priestess-training in Holland. She initiates sacred drumming of the old priestess tradition and gives drumming workshops on several handdrums like tar, daf, bendir, egyptian riq, and tambourines. Isabelle Weber
Originally born in Australia, Isabelle trained as an artist for 6 years and held many exhibitions, completing her honours degree in Thailand. After the ending of a major relationship she travelled to India and experienced a spiritual awakening that illuminated her path. Through coming to terms with her own self healing she learned to become a channel of healing for others. She trained in India with her Reiki Master for 3 years and went on to open herself up to more and more healing. She spent a year training in Glastonbury studying Soul Healing for which she feels a calling. She has since trained in all forms of Holistic Massage, specialising in Indonesian Massage which she combines with Reiki. She is a Priestess of Avalon and Priestess of Brigid. Jacqui Woodward Smith
Jacqui is a Priestess of Avalon and facilitator of the group Tribe of Avalon, which meets in London to connect to and celebrate the ancient British Goddesses through the festivals in the Wheel of the Year and the turning of the moon. Jacqui is also a poet and writer and is passionate about connecting to the and as sacred, particularly in London. She is the associate editor of 'Goddess Pages', a journal of Goddess spirituality in the 21st Century.
www.pflondon.org/html/tribe_of__avalon.html
www.goddess-pages.co.uk Janet Childs
Janet is Director of Education at the Centre for Living with Dying, an international bereavement counselling service in San Jose, CA. Since 1970 she has been actively providing crisis intervention counselling and education focusing on the dynamics of loss, illness, crisis and grief. Combining her love of music with her personal and professional experience with loss, she creates a safe and healing environment to gently examine difficult life issues.
www.billwilsoncenter.org/thecentre/ Jocelyn Chaplin
Jocelyn Chaplin has been a Psychotherapist (Soul Healer)for over 30 years. She is a low priestess of Rhea, combining personal growth work with Goddess spirituality. Jocelyn has taught many courses on the Goddess in London and Greece. She has published widely, including 'Love in an Age of Uncertainty'(Harper Collins) which uses Goddess myths to help us in our personal relationships. Her latest book is 'DEEP EQUALITY - Living in the Flow of Natural Rhythm'. She is also a painter.
www.serpentinstitute.com/ Julie Felix
Internationally famous super singer/ songwriter, now, amazingly, in her 70th year. Each year Julie offers the Conference her wonderful songs, inspiring us to feel the presence of the Goddess in our hearts and emotions. This year she is on her 'Highway of Diamonds Tour', with a special concert in Glastonbury. She has many amazing CDs of her music.
www.knibb.org/juliefelix/ Kathy Jones
Kathy is the organiser /webster of the Glastonbury Goddess Conference, co-created in 1996 with Tyna Redpath. Kathy is a Priestess of Avalon, Priestess of Brighde. She is a writer of many Goddess books, a healer, teacher, ceremonialist and initiator. She is the cofounder of the Glastonbury Goddess Temple, the Isle of Avalon Foundation and many other spiritual organisations.
www.kathyjones.co.uk
www.goddesstemple.co.uk
www.isleofavalonfoundation.com Katinka Soetens
Katinka is a Doula or Birth companion, an Active Birth ante-natal teacher, the mother of 3 beautiful children, a home-educator and Priestess of Avalon. She is a Director of the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and teaches belly dance and women's Blood Mysteries. She also creates lovely Goddess inspired jewellery.
www.soetens.info/katinka/401.html Kay Chambers
Kay has been teaching Five Rhythms, the Dance Wave created by Gabrielle Roth, for the past 5 years and practising for 17 years. She is passionate about life's processes and developing a new hearing of ourselves as a way of working with any blocks in the body to release them, enabling us to move forward to our soul's calling. She is also a doula, a pioneer of waterbirths in the southwest with 20 years' experience. She lives in Devon and comes regularly to teach in Glastonbury in the Monday evening dance class. Kellianna
Kellianna is an accomplished musician and performer worldwide. Her CD, Lady Moon, is being recognized around the globe as a must have for any lover of Goddess inspired folk music. Her live shows are a combination of acoustic guitar songs and chants to the Goddess and God. She is a certified teacher of SpiritSong, a powerful tool for freeing your voice, for accessing the authentic sound that is you, and for entering into Spirit. Kellianna was trained by Shawna Carol in facilitating this unique approach to spiritual growth. Kellianna facilitates chant circles at festivals and shops all over the states. She is a collector of chants and takes great joy in sharing these chants in her circles. She is experienced in the art of ritual chant, and uses the song to move energy, to celebrate the ancient mysteries, and to strengthen intention.
She has performed Goddess & Mythology inspired Folk Music and Chant at previous Goddess Conferences and the Women of Wisdom Conference in Seattle, Washington, the Everyday Goddess Conference, Wisconsin, The Jack in the Green Festival, Hastings,and Samhain Processional, Athboy, Ireland.
www.kellianna.com Kriszta Veres
Kriszta is a Priestess of Avalon and Priestess of Danu, Goddess of the River Danube which flows through Europe. She lives in Budapest in Hungary and is the founder of the first Hungarian Goddess Temple in modern times and of the Hungarian Goddess Festival held each year at Litha, the Summer Solstice. She also teaches a priestess training based in the Wheel of neolithic Goddesses retrieved from ancient times and brought into the present day. http://istennotemplom.com
www.goddessbudapest.com Joanne Foucher
Jojo is a Priestess of Avalon living in Germany where she is studying archaeology and working as a community priestess, inspired by the Wheel of Avalon and exploring indigenous German Goddesses. She is a painter of Goddess artwork, a poet and ceremonialist.
www.avalonpaintings.de.vu JoAnna Welfley
Priestess JoAnna Welfley is the Creatrix and holder of Ceremonial Rites of Passage and Ritual Prayformances at The Flying Lotus Community Activation Center in Mount Shasta, California. She is a member of the AvaSha Clan and bridges ancient ritual with modern technology, JoAnna inspires personal and communal empowerment on all levels.
www.theflyinglotus.com
www.avashaclan.org Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson
Lady Olivia is a Conference favourite of many years' standing. She is Ever Young, a true Maiden and inspiration to many with her enduring love of the Goddess and abilities to invoke Her sacred Temple energies. Olivia, with her brother Lawrence and his wife Pamela, created the Fellowship of Isis on the Vernal Equinox of 1976 "in order to assist in reintroducing the religion of the Goddess to the world". The Fellowship has since gone on to become of of the premier goddess communities in the world.
www.fellowshipofisis.com/ Loes Moezelaar
Loes is a priestess, herbal medicine woman, healer, framedrummer, mother, and co-teacher of a priestess training in Holland. She prepares her products, such as herbal-oils, ointments, goddess-oils, cosmetics, bath-salts and incense on a natural base.The herbs used in her products mostly grow in her own garden. In cultivating, caring for and preparing the herbs she makes use of their medical and magical qualities. In doing so she continues the tradition of priestesses and magicians of antiquity. Her products will be sold at the conference. Lydia Lite
Lydia is a great shamanic drummer, musician and teacher. Over the years she has been recognised for her unique abilities, playing in the Conference with Julie Felix, Glastonbury’s 'Wild Women' and many other performers. Lydia Ruyle
Lydia is an artist scholar on the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where she lives. Her Goddess banners have been flown all around the world from Hawaii to Ireland, Ephesus to Poland, Tibet to Australia, spreading their divine feminine energies worldwide. They fly each year at our Conference.
www.lydiaruyle.com Lynne Orchard
Lynne is a priestess, an excellent masseuse and organiser of Coventina's day Spa at the Conference. She offers a variety of bodywork techniques including Aromatherapy massage, deep tissue massage, lymphatic face and scalp massage and head, neck and shoulder, back and full body massages for ultimate relaxation. Mike Jones
Mike has journeyed on the Goddess path for 25 years. He is an assistant instructor on the Priestess/Priest of Avalon training course in Glastonbury and is developing a new training for men who love the Goddess. He has particular experience in sacred landscape and chi energy work. Oshia Drury
Oshia is a well-known Glastonbury singer/musician, performing with Vocalana, Avalonian Free State Choir, Silver on the Tree and Wild Women. Her beautiful voice is evocative and inspiring. Ra-el Corsini
Ra-El is Creatrix of The Flying Lotus, a Community Activation Center in Mt. Shasta, California, which assists personal growth, healing, and soul actualization through a nurturing venue of classes, workshops, and performances designed to birth your authentic self. Ra-el's training includes 16 years of instruction in New York and Los Angeles, seven years of professional performance and she has taught most styles of Dance for 13 years. As Priestess of the AvaSha Clan, Mother, Author, Midwife Assistant and Director of Ritual Dance and Theatre, Ra-el's main passion is creating, educating and activating Teens.
www.theflyinglotus.com
www.avashaclan.org Ren Chapman
Ren is a Priestess of Avalon, neonatal intensive care nurse and reiki master. She is the excellent teacher of the First Two Spirals of the Priestess of Avalon training in Glastonbury, devoting her life in service to the Goddess. She is an experienced ceremonialist, and loves horses, cats and all animals. Rose Flint
Rose is a well-loved Goddess Conference poet. She is also an artist, therapist and Priestess of Avalon. Her published books of poems include ‘The Blue Horse of Morning’, ‘Nekyia’(Stride) and ‘Firesigns’ (Saltzberg Poetry). Roz Bound
Roz is a healer, writer, teacher, priestess and crone who nurtures writers in their transformational process, offering loving space in SoulSpirit, her island home in Ontario, Canada, where she celebrates the goddess in social activism in the community and beyond. Roz facilitates writing courses, healing circles, women's groups, open floor readings and labyrinth walks and has two poetry books in print, ‘Spirit of Lyme’ and ‘The Fireman's Child’.
www.soulspirit.ca Sally Pullinger
Sally is an inspired composer, musician and conductor of VocalAna and the Avalonian Free State Choir. She is a Priestess of Avalon and an excellent trance medium. Her CD 'Singing the Wheel of BrigitAna' is loved by many.
www.vocalana.co.uk Sandra Warmerdam
Sandra is a Priestess of Avalon and founder of the Dutch Goddess Temple and Dutch Goddess Conference. She teaches the art of life with the Goddess and Her wheel. Out of stone she creates statues by becoming one with the stone, the body of the Goddess.
www.avalon-mystic.nl Sheila Rose Bright
Sheila is a Priestess of Brighid and is an experienced facilitator of Goddess ritual. She is also an astrological counsellor, trained in Psychological Astrology with Liz Greene & Howard Sasportas, and she loves to sing! Sophie Pullinger
Sophie home educates her daughter and loves creating safe, respectful space where young people can communicate with each other and with adults. She lives in Glastonbury with her family. Starhawk
Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. She is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community (www.reclaiming.org). She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including 'The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess', and the now-classic ecotopian novel 'The Fifth Sacred Thing'. Her newest book is 'The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature' Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies.
She consulted on and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality series, directed by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions, (www.belili.org). Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas. Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture.
Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Together with Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she coteaches EAT, Earth Activist Trainings, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, political organizing, and earth-based spirituality (www.earthactivisttraining.org).
Starhawk travels internationally, teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time in San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes. Her website is www.starhawk.org. Susun S Weed
Susun began studying herbal medicine in 1965 when she was living in Manhattan while pregnant with her daughter, Justine Adelaide Swede. She wrote her first book -- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (now in its 29th printing)-- in 1985 and published it as the first title of Ash Tree Publishing in 1986. It was followed by Healing Wise (1989), New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way (1992 and revised in 2002), and Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (1996). In addition to her writing, Susun trains apprentices, oversees the work of more than 300 correspondence course students, coordinates the activities of the Wise Woman Center, and is a High Priestess of Dianic Wicca, a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and a Peace Elder. Susun is a contributor to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, peer-reviewed journals, and popular magazines, including a regular column in Sagewoman. Her worldwide teaching schedule encompasses herbal medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, psychology of healing, ecoherbalism, nutrition, and women's health issues and her venues include medical schools, hospital wellness centers, breast cancer centers, midwifery schools, naturopathic colleges, and shamanic training centers, as well as many conferences. She appears on many television and radio shows, including National Public Radio and NBC News. Her website is www.susunweed.com Vixen Dreamwalker
Vixen is well known in the shamanic world as an impeccable teacher and practitioner. She is founder of the shamanic school for women known as the kuramengrodrom meaning warrior way. Vixen has had formal training as well as knowledge passed down through her family but most of her training has come to her direct from spirit. Visit her website: www.kuramengrodrom.co.uk Wendy Andrew
Wendy’s paintings and writing are inspired by the ancient mysteries that are wrapped in the turning of the seasons, and the voice of The Goddess whispering through the mythical realms. Many of the paintings from this story can be seen as part of the ‘Wild Hare’ exhibition in the Miracles Room. Wendy’s many beautiful paintings have been reproduced as prints and cards as well as in various publications including ‘Wicca and Witchcraft’ magazine, ‘The Pagan Wheel’, ‘Spirit and Destiny’, ‘The Bardic handbook’ by Kevan Manwaring, ‘The Personality Profiler’ by Claire Gordon, ‘Fairies 101’ by Doreen Virtue, and ‘Pentacle’ magazine. Also in Doreen Virtue’s Goddess oracle cards and Unicorn oracle cards.
www.paintingdreams.co.uk Plus top tec mistress Alison Lally, fabulous Annabel Campbell, luscious Anna Kelly, caring Kaye Cooksey, gorgeous Gabrielle O’Connell, fantastic Miriam Wallraven, lmarvelous Rosie Elflain, glorious Sandra Román, charismatic Tegwyn Hyndman, stunning Priestesses of the Goddess, of Avalon, and other traditions, amazing helpful Melissas & lots more wonderful women and men. | 
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