Annie Spencer
Annie Spencer is a ceremonialist and workshop leader with over 20 years' experience. She has studied earth-based spiritual traditions around the world, been apprenticed to a North American tradition and in recent years has been following Guatemalan teachings. Annie has co-initiated many successful ventures including Openings, Arcania, the Sacred Trust programme, Shamanka and, most recently, the Hartwell Association and library.
Brian Charles
Teacher of Priest/esses of Avalon, counsellor, tarot reader, guide to Glastonbury Tor Labrynth and sacred landscape.
Caitlín Matthews
Caitlín Matthews is the author of Psychic Protection Handbook, Singing the Soul Back Home and Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom. Internationally renowned for her research into the Celtic and ancestral traditions, she’s a co-founder of The Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies, dedicated to shamanism and the sacred arts.
Carolyn Hillyer
Fantastic Goddess artist, musician, writer and performer, lives on Dartmoor, exploring our ice-age ancestral mothers.
Catherine Blackledge
Dr Catherine Blackledge is the author of The Story of V: Opening Pandora’s Box, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2003. The Story of V is about different views of the vagina - views from science and medicine, history, anthropology, art, mythology and more. Catherine says: ‘My hope is that, because of this book, you won’t ever look at the vagina, and women, in quite the same way again.’ Catherine was born in 1968. Following a science degree and PhD, she worked asa science and medical journalist for print, TV and radio publications. Eve Ensler says of the book: ‘"The Story of V reveals the ancient and newfound powers of the vagina. It is full of mystery and secrets and truth. If we only knew what we had under our skirts! Learn the story - read this book."
Cheryl Straffon
Goddess writer, landscape guide from Cornwall, editor of Britain’s best Goddess magazine Goddess Alive.
Clare Campbell
Founder of Wild Woman and a sassy urban goddess artist and sparkly warm, wild and irreverent facilitator and women's activist. Lesbian artist and therapist committed to providing safe spaces to celebrate Lesbian womens spirituality.
Hazel Loveridge
Hazel Loveridge is a Priestess of Avalon. Her background includes bodywork, shamanism, tantra, dreamwork and transpersonal psychology. She believes that the principal challenge of being incarnate - that of fully inhabiting our bodies - happens to also lead us home to goddess. The descent into the mysteries of yoni is a reclaiming of our power as women and our sexuality as sacred.
Helen Anthony
Spiritually enriched by her menopause, now works with Individual women at mid-life – humanely blending Goddess wisdom, modern medicine, safe alternative therapies and shamanic healing/mentoring.
Jaine Raine
Jaine Raine offers "The Orgasm Talk" for adults, heads support groups and welfare and first aid teams. She home educates her daughter and sells alternatives and information about menstruation and fertility.
Jana Runnalls
Jana Runnalls is an extraordinarily talented professional singer, recording artist, voice teacher and vocal healer, well-known for her many recordings of ceremonial chanting: Sacred Home, Lady of the Lake, Speaking in Tongues, Return to the Goddess, Ancestral Dream, I Sing Her Praises. She lives and works in Glastonbury, regularly travels around the world running her Sacred Voice workshops, and is a long-standing conference favourite.
Jewls Wingfield
Jewls has over 16 years experience in Ecstatic Dance. Ranging from Gabrielle Roth’s 5 Rhythms to Shamanic and Tantric movement practices to name but a few. She is well known in the UK and Europe for her inspirational workshops and events.
Julie Felix
Famed from the 1960s as an international singer/songwriter and Goddess Pilgrimage guide.
Katka Kramolisova
Psychotherapist, tantra teacher and leader of women empowerment circles from Prague, Czech Republic. Co-organizer of the first Goddess conference in the Czech Republic in May 2004. Background in Gestalt therapy, body-oriented psychotherapy, tantra, shamanism. Organizes journeys to reconnect with Goddess of Minoan Crete.
Kathy Jones
Inspiring conference originator and co-organiser, ceremonialist, writer, healer, teacher, sacred dramatist, landscape guide and Priestess of Avalon.
Katinka Soetens
Beautiful belly dance teacher, mother, Doula and Priestess of Avalon.
Kay Allan
Kay Allan is an Artist and holistic therapist who loves sharing creativity with others. She enjoys exploring and expressing the essence of womanhood through Visual Arts. She is committed in sharing her work with others and creating spaces where women can express themselves, and sees this as an opportunity to bring consciousness into our inner rhythm that is reflected in the menstrual cycle.
Kellianna Girouard
Singer/songwriter performing Goddess inspired folk music and chant; her new CD is Lady Moon.
Klara Adalena
Klara Adalena is a Priestess in the Dianic and Goddess traditions. She is founder of Wild Wise Woman, Centre for Shamanism and Goddess Spirituality. Since February 2004 she facilitates a 3- year Priestess Training Program in the Netherlands. Klara has over 10 years of experience as a facilitator and as a body oriented psychotherapist. Over this period she has been setting the tone in women’s spirituality in the Netherlands.
Lady Olivia Durdin Robertson
Wonderful Initiator and Maiden Queen of the international Fellowship of Isis from Clonegal in Eire.
Liz Perkins
Liz Perkins, author of 'Journeys through Menopause' and 'Exploring New Paths', navigated her own menopause with energy and growing clarity, and is now helping others to do the same.
Lydia Ruyle
Amazing artist, scholar and creatrix of Goddess Icon Spirit banners flying at the Conference and all over the world.
Lynne Orchard
Lovely co-guardian of the beautiful Chalice Well and gardens in Glastonbury & marvellous masseur.
Maria Gurule
Maria Gurule, International Rainbow Shaman, works with the Medicine of the Kondor and Eagle in fulfillment of ancient prophecy.. She facilitates Goddess Group Workshops to help women to achieve a sense of wholeness, and discover their Inner Goddess and awaken to their power. Maria is facilitating the First Annual Pachamama (Mother Earth), Conference inPeru, on September of 2005. She is establishing a women’s work program in Peru to help women move into-better working environments and better pay.
Michael Orchard
Co-Guardian of Chalice Well. healer, massage therapist, gardener, has always been questing spiritually.
Mike Jones
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Rita Hraiz
Rita 41 mother of Danny 21 Sirus 15 Shiloh 8 and Shanti aged 2 draws on her experience of being in co dependant relations with addicts and how healing patterns of conditioning and graduating to being in Sacred relationships that work through conscious growth and Tantric understanding, her view on dissolved boundaries and world rainbow families where loving understanding is the only way forward. She is the founder of Seriously Scrumptious range of cakes and Opulence a range of sensual clothing for women.
Rose Flint
Conference Poet & Priestess of Avalon, recently published poetry books include Nekyia & Firesigns.
Seize the Day
Seize the Day have wowed Saturday night Gala Masque goers for several years now with their brilliant provocative words and music. They play fantastic music at venues, demonstrations and earth caring events all over the world. Their songbooks and CDs include Child of the Universe-96, Seize the day-97, It's Our World and All Hands That are Ready.
Sophie Pullinger
Sophie home educates her daughter and loves creating safe, respectful space where young people can communicate with each other and with adults.
The Goddess Dancing
Anita Cristina Calcaterra & Cathy Moore
We are two out of a group of women who have been dedicated to belly dance as a lost form of worship of the Goddess for over a decade. We also offer pre-natal belly dance classes and have done workshops about pregnancy and birth throughout the area. Our group dances are designed for groups of two to two hundred. We have also developed a series of ritual performances depicting the many aspects of the Goddess. We have been included in the dance festivals of our Northeast colleges of USA as 'master' teachers and have run classes for women of all ages in large and small groups. We have a unique curriculum that uses sacred natural symbols to communicate the movements of belly dance.
Tyna Redpath
Wonderwoman Conference co-organiser, owner of the luscious Goddess & Green Man shop in Glastonbury.
Vanessa Hedley
Vanessa Hedley comes from a background of midwifery, bodywork and Dance, all of which feed a strong committment to supporting women on their journeys to knowing, loving and expressing who they truly are more fully. This both in and around childbirth and also in the deaths, transformations and rebirths which occur in our daily lives. She is passionate about offering a space of acceptance where the wisdom and creativity of body and heart may be listened for, responded to and celebrated.
Plus Aine Carey, Annabel Allen, Eva van Nieuwburg, Georgina Sirett-Hardie, Heidi Couture, Julie McMahon, Karin Schluter, Lydia Lite, Maggie Nicholls, Oshia Drury, Pamela Gaunt, Ren Chapman, Roz Bound, Sally Pullinger, Priestesses of Avalon, helpful Melissas & lots more wonderful women and men.
