Spring Summit Presenters

Akeyla Wild Wood is a pan, polyam, disabled Canadian Witch who began her Pagan path at the young age of 13. During her journey, she has been most drawn to animism, deeply feeling the spirits within everything. After her hand disability forced her to pivot away from the photography she loves so much in 2020, she opened her own online metaphysical shop, Wild Wood Witchery. It has since grown to include high end and ethically sourced crystals, as well as an assortment of handmade altar items (her most beloved being the Sacred wands she creates for others). Akeyla's greatest joy comes from being mama to four amazing children, and seeing the world through their eyes as they grow.

Madonna Simons is a female empowerment coach, plus size model and photographer. She works with women of all ages to reclaim their sovereign strength and step into their power. Madonna runs retreats all over the world to connect women in sisterhood and help them get back in touch with their wild roots. She believes that the greatest expansion happens in travel, and uses it as a valuable tool to help women grow. Madonna loves travel, music and dances hip hop. Using dance, she teaches women to move their energy and activate their divine feminine power. Madonna wants other women to know that they have absolute control and can change the circumstances of their lives using only their intention and personal vibration.

Yuri Leitch lives in Glastonbury, Somerset, where he works as an author and artist. He also spends many of his hours with his head stuck in dusty old books and has made a passionate study of British History, Celtic Folklore and a broad spectrum of the world's ancient mythologies for over twenty years. The Ogham Grove is a modern way of working with the Ogham, as both a year wheel and as a sacred circle, or grove; for both solitary rituals and group work within a sacred landscape - and as an internal, astral sanctuary, within one's own mind - one's inner grove.

Sue Rose Moon is a Witch of Westwood & full moon child who dances naked under the stars. Sue is a wild nature witch in a modern world, an artist, discovering & creating beauty. She is a lifelong student of yoga & curiosity, and a teacher of yoga, forest school & magic crafting. As an intuitive tarot reader & shadow worker, she is always searching for a labyrinth.

Lugh (or Luke) is a Clinical Herbalist, foraging instructor and ethnobotanist based in Ireland. He is registered with the Irish Register of Herbalists, the largest Professional Association for Clinical Herbalists in Ireland and is a member of the Association of Foragers. Lugh has gathered an eclectic mix of knowledge, from the traditional plant lore of his home country Ireland, the Irish language and the ancient Brehon law to translating scientific texts from early 20th Century French Herbalist Doctors. Aside from taking on patients and doing workshops, he formulates teas, makes creams, ointments, tinctures and spends much of his time in nature. Lugh continues to dive into his connection with the land of Eriú upon which thousands of ancient megalithic structures lay.

Nikiah Seeds is a fourth generation settler currently living on the ceded lands of the Lenape, Munsee and Mohican first peoples. Her ancestors came to Canada via Romania, Scotland, Ireland and England.

Nikiah has spent over two decades creating ceremonies for the birth, death, re-birth cycles that we as humans go through and this work is embedded deeply in her soul. She is passionate about ancestral work and sees it as some of the most crucial work we can do in our lifetimes, especially if we ourselves want to become good ancestors. At her core, Nikiah is a traditional animist Spirit worker/Healer. She was originally initiated into northern European animist tradition, and her work is informed by the many teachings and teachers she has been fortunate to guide me over the past two decades.

Niema Lightseed (she/her) belongs to poetry, painting, tall trees, and still-wild rivers. A practitioner since 2004, her work as a multi-disciplinary artist, teacher, and healer explores the relationship between creativity, embodiment, and liberation. She is in an ever-deepening process of learning how to heal autoimmunity, transform internalized oppression, dismantle capitalism, and serve our collective evolution towards an interconnected and regenerative world built through radical imagination.
TheBodyPoetic.com | Niema.Substack.com

Christine Marie is practitioner of Color Healing, Destiny Cards, and Dark Moon Magic. She has studied many different modes of magic for over two decades and these three practicess are her everyday modalities for shifting the shit. Color work is the language of the soul and can provide deep insights into our inner workings. In addition to color work, Christine also incorporates destiny cards and dark moon magic regularly. Destiny cards are a unique system of divination that can provide insight into our strengths, weaknesses, and destined life path. Dark moon magic, on the other hand, is a darker challenge that involves shadow work in conjunction with the energies of the dark moon.

Labyrinth Priestess, Spiritual Life & Creativity Guide, Author & Creator of Embodied Play Experiences

Sonya Lyn is a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon and a student with the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids. She has worked with the ancient wisdom of the enigmatic labyrinth for nearly 20 years, offering workshops & retreats. It is her passion to guide you towards a creative life in which you feel nourished by your choices, surroundings, a life that draws in the sacred everyday, & a life that embraces joy. Sonya Lyn draws her own spiritual path from Ancient Druidry, the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Jesus & Mary Magdalene & through this has created a belief system that guides her own sacred life.

Natasha Pachalove is an energyworker, wellness mentor, full spectrum doula + ritual dancer committed to illuminating the heart centered Truth in all Beings. Having experienced two ceremonial abortions at home has opened a path for her to support others in healing from pregnancy loss. She utilizes Rhythm, Plant Medicine, Breathwork + Prayer to alchemize our greatest pains into the light that guides us Home to our greatest strengths. Through her ceremonies, workshops + private sessions, she is dedicated to creating nurturing spaces where people can rediscover their inner resources to grow.

You can connect deeper with Natasha + learn about her offerings at thesacredremembrance.com.

Mother, Doula, Creatix, Hearth Witch, Healer.

Amanda is the the owner of Live More Magick where she offers services based around preconception to Motherhood. Live More Magick was created to help mothers cultivate a life of love, trust, faith, abundance and touch of magick. She believes that true healing starts within own four walls, and so much of her magick that she spins is rooted in around the home and family. Amanda lives in MA with her husband and their 3 children. If you like to learn more about her work you can find her at:

WWW.LIVEMOREMAGICK.COM

Erica is a modern folk medicine woman — weaving traditional animism, ritual, energy balancing, and ancestral tending into The Four Medicines™, a personal path for healing. She is an initiate of Ancestral Medicine, a traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher, and an intuitive folk herbalist. Erica curates Illuminate, a six month personal healing journey for those who identify as women. She developed and curates The Art of Zen Business and is the author of The Seven Practices: how to live passionately, profitably, and on purpose. Erica shares her lessons learned nationally and internationally, online and in-person to help her clients redefine what it means for them to truly be well in life and work.

Cynthia Snyder was raised by the forest. She is a seasoned outdoors woman living in Southwestern Ontario, who enjoys communing with nature year round, in all the elements. Through dream traveling, Cynthia has harnessed the power of her dreams throughout her life to explore and glean wisdom and creativity. Cynthia is a multi-talented creator, who also practices cartology and creates in depth water colour paintings with her talents.