BREATH OF LIFE, GIFTS OF THE EARTH.

Bringing calm, healing and equanimity into our lives using breath, movement, herbs and chrystals. The course could consist of breathing exercises with some simple movements, using herbs to expand our awareness and bring calm and using a few aids from the mineral kingdom. 

Diane Eger comes from a tradition of herbal use, Southern Illinois on her mothers side and Austria from her fathers side. She first started dealing with herbs when she had a little herbal pharmacy in her natural food cafe in the Mt. Town of Nederland, Colorado. Hiking around the mountains she still remembers the first plant she identified: Elephantshead, a small red flower. Since then she has spent 30 years wild crafting and identifying plants in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Formal training began with Michael Moore and his herb walks. As a student of Tierona Low Dog she worked in an herbal clinic in Albuquerque and received her certificate as an clinical herbalist. Happiest in the woods she believes the earth is alive and trees talk to you!

Oscar C Perez

Re-Weaving the Web of Living and Dying

One of the biggest challenges we face with mental health is the notion that it can be isolated from every other aspect of a human being’s life. The legacy of materialism in modern thinking has led to health care professionals applying a mechanistic approach to human beings and health. However, we are anything but isolated, or isolatable, beings. Instead, we are the nexus points where abundant threads of relationship come together to create a sense of self, of purpose, and of belonging to something much greater than our limited ego-identities. Ancestral wisdom of Anahuaca or Nahuatlaca (Nahuatl-speaking peoples) teach us that we are not separate from everything else, we are what emerges out of the many relationships before, after, around, and within us. When we learn to witness those relationships and honor them in wholehearted ways a sense of purpose and deep-connected arises. By honoring all of our relationships we find ourselves firmly situated in the vast web of Life, leading to a deeper sense of meaning that leads to vitality in purpose in all areas of our lives: including mental health. Through remembering to live this way we become part of the regenerative aspect of life, ensuring that our contribution contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the continuation and beauty of life living.

Oscar C. Pérez is a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor. He was born and raised in the Chihuahuan Desert, on the U.S. – Mexico border. At an early age, he was called to study the spiritual traditions of his ancestors. A calling which has guided him throughout his life. He teaches about the unifying aspects of shamanic traditions on the path of the Tolteca, the artist of life, or man or woman of knowledge. His devotion to serving Spirit and dedication to being guided by his spiritual commitment to finding personal freedom has led him to study with teachers of various traditions throughout the world. He is a life-long martial artist and a student/teacher of the Toltecayotl, the Toltec Path. He is the founder of Tending the Fires, a movement dedicated to helping individuals awaken their own medicine and bring it to the world to inspire and heal as a collective. Among other things that are more important to him but not as shiny to some folks he has a PhD from Brown University and he once won some awards for being an excellent teacher at Harvard, too.

Witnessing Fulfillment within each Layer of Our Existences

We will explore how each layer of who we are surfaces within our Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Body. Witnessing how our relationship with each layer holds a part of ourselves that exist within the past, present and future. 

Kati Inez Mesa, Founder of Love, Awareness & Purpose, Kati is a Holistic Health & Ayurvedic Practitioner, Alchemical Hypnotherapist, Counselor, Holistic Speaker, Mentor & Coach. For 10+ years she has facilitated many gatherings throughout the US, Cuba, Peru & Colombia. Providing tools of empowerment, elemental body awareness, ancestral healing, inner child healing, spiritual, emotional, mental, physical healing and life purpose embodiment. She will be bringing forth all of herself that has learned from her teachers within the Amazons, Cuba, Ancestral Roots, Tibetan Ayurveda, Buddhism, Shamanism, Holistic & Transpersonal Psychology.

Relentless Hope

Finding the means to generate hope inside of the daily uncertainty of these times. This workshop will involve some writing and sharing around our fears and hopes. We will explore inner/outer realities and how to continue to generate synergy despite it all. 

Israel Haros Lopez is a chicano native from east los angeles. His roots are mexican, mexica, tarumara and huichol. Israel is a artist, poet, mentor, muralist, gardener, community minded and inspired by the abundance that surrounds him. Currently he is the cofounding member and Artist Director of Alas De Agua Art Collective where he works in community to create opportunities for BIPOC and LGTBQIA Artists. Israel's more intimate workshops focus on creating hope, courage and looking into the mirror of self in order to better be of service to the community. 

Herbal Support and Flower Essences for Rebirth and Regeneration

Adaptogens and the body’s natural response to stress, herbs for courage and changing patterns, finding natural vitality and safety in in life.  Morgaine is a lover of medicinal plants and nature.  A medicine maker, farmer, wild crafter, herbalist, and founder of Native Roots.  Morgaine has a private practice for herbal consults, bodywork, sound healing and physical and emotional trauma release.  

Morgaine is a lover of medicinal plants and nature. She is a medicine maker, a farmer, a wild crafter, and founder of Native Roots. Morgaine has a private practice for herbal consults, bodywork, sound healing, and physical and emotional trauma release. She lived in Belize and had the opportunity to apprentice tropical medicine with one of the most revered medicine men in the country the late Don Heriberto Cocom for 8 months. She also studied at the Northwest School for Botanical Studies, The Dandelion Center, California School for Herbal Studies, The Dhyanna Center, Blue Otter School, Acutonics Institute for Integrative Medicine, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of Colorado and continues to her studies of mayan medicine in Guatemala with Don Reginaldo Chayeux. She has collaborated for 9 years with his Nonprofit Association to support the protection of the fully Mayan run rainforest Reserve Bio Itza and brings groups of students to study with him. Morgaine has recognized the importance of honoring healing modalities of all cultures and especially the ones of our own tradition even if they have been forgotten by a few generations. She grew up with Latino Immigrants as her closest friends and community and found herself easily honoring the elders that still remembered their own language, their own healing modalities and traditions from that community. It was a journey of many years before she started to look deeper into reclaiming the healing practices of the ancestral traditions that she came from and hopes to share with all people of European decent to remember to honor their own ancestors, to connect to the land and the people that are currently practicing and keeping the context of European tribal healing traditions alive today. She hopes to create a safe space to bridge the gap generational knowledge and cultural similarities and healing tools to encourage self healing and community healing.

Bird Medicine for Liberation in Transitory Times

A perspective on self and relationships throughout change, and a chance to find support with the strength of Bird Medicine with guidance from the Wisdom systems of Ifa (Ìyàmi Osoronga, Eleye Aje,) the Celtic Ancient Mothers, & traditions around Santa Muerte in Mesomerica that honor the past and can provide an anchor in times of great transit.

Bee Falcon: Bee Falcon of Desert Wind Magic is an intuitive empathic practitioner who relies on the power of the word, dreams, ancestral wisdom, and the intelligence of the energy body to invoke the stories of the soul for healing.

Bee is eighth generation to Spanish and Indigenous ancestors who settled in South Texas in the mid-1700s. She is mixed with mainly Irish ancestry, though also British and Western European ancestry on her mother’s side. Bee believes working with one’s story through dreams, ancestral guidance, and the energy body opens pathways to courage, heart, and wisdom in present times. 

She has a background in anthropology with an emphasis on linguistic anthropology. Bee practices Usui reiki, which is rooted in Buddhism, and she also offers intro to reiki sessions and attunements to this energy.  Her life has been deeply enriched by spiritual exploration of cosmologies and the healing arts of Curanderismo from Mesoamerica and the SW and the IFA spiritual system of Western Africa. 

Bee has worked with spiritual mentors throughout her life. Initially she came into this work through the inspiration of her great-aunt Ameila, who worked with the power of spoken prayer for healing in Evangelical contexts. Bee has also received deep guidance that has helped to inform her practice from Indigenous mentors of Mexica, Celtic (Ireland & Scotland,) Dineh, Ojibwe, and Yoruba traditions. 

She incorporates a vast repertoire of the Earth’s wisdom in services offered at Desert Wind Magic (gentle hands-on touch, distance healing practices, animal, plant, and mineral medicine, ancestral & akashic information, sound healing, Palmistry and Tarot. Her induction into this work she came about during the years of late adolescence. Bee’s background in behavioral health, education, and holistic healing combined spans over twenty-six years.