Puna Kalama Dawson
Presentation Date: January 17, 9:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
"Opening Ceremony”
A cultural ambassador, record keeper of Hawaiian lineage, & an internationally-honored elder of the Hawaiian islands, Puna’s family roots take her far back in time. We are blessed to be welcoming her as part of our presenting team, our celebratory opening prayers, and the initiation for this convergence of women leaders and participants from around the world. Puna follows in the direct lineages of the hula masters (kahula), the lua masters (kalua) and the seers (kahuna). And she also travels in the footprints of her ancestors (amongst other destinations) to Europe to strengthen the cultural bridges and to support world peace.
To learn more about her message, click here.
Dr. Christiane Northrup
Presentation Date: January 18, 11:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“Midwifing the New Humanity: Birth During the Great Awakening”
Dr. Northrup believes that health is your body’s natural state. And she has spent decades on the front lines teaching women (and men) this truth—that each and every person has the ability to achieve health and live a vibrant, fulfilling life free from disease and inevitable decline.
To receive a FREE audio excerpt from her best-selling book, Dodging Energy Vampires titled “The Causes of Health” go to https://www.drnorthrup.com/newsletter/ and sign up for her free bi-weekly newsletter.
Debra Pascali-Bonaro
Leadership Team & Presentation — EVENT COMPLETED
”Pleasure and Peace in Life and Birth”
Debra Pascali-Bonaro is a world-renowned inspirational speaker, filmmaker, doula trainer, childbirth educator, grandmother, author, and featured expert in parenting journals and media around the globe. Debra is co-chair of the International Childbirth Initiative and the chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative. She is a birth and postpartum doula trainer with DONA International, Director of the award-winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, and the Founder & President of the revolutionary online childbirth class Pleasurable Birth Essentials and the Orgasmic Birth Podcast. Debra’s passion comes from her over 30+ years of working with women, men, midwives, doulas, physicians, and nurses in over 40 countries—bringing comfort, love, and pleasure to birth and to every aspect of life.
Debra has a free gift on how to create your own personalized pleasurable birth preferences. To view more about Debra’s work, click here.
’Layla’ Lindsey Marie
Event Host & “Interactive Closing Ceremony”
January 21, 11:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
Founder of Exquisite Motherhood
Exquisite Motherhood is an international sanctuary that nourishes women spiritually and practically for realizing their most gentle and ideal versions of motherhood. Multifaceted and contemplative offerings hearten parents and parents-to-be in their lived experiences of preconception, pregnancy, birthing, and postpartum as truly exquisite. This orientation celebrates the refreshing paradigms and self-reflective approaches that have allowed for current views of pregnancy and childbirth to be easefully transformed and almost completely redefined.
The mental and physical pacification of pregnancy and childbirthing can be seen as perhaps one of the most significantly humanitarian hallmarks of the present-day, as well as one of the greatest gifts that women and families can allow for their own wellbeing and for the children they bring into this world. Through Exquisite Motherhood's resourceful mentoring and online programs, women and couples receive the chance to uncover the loving visions, quiet wholeness, and graceful mindsets for stepping naturally, autonomously, and co-creatively into the the peacefully radiant futures they have dreamed of as possible.
Emilee Saldaya
Presentation Date: January 19th, 1:15 PM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
”The Intersection of Birth & Self Responsibility“
Emilee Saldaya is the trailblazing, visionary leader of the modern-day freebirth movement. A radical birth educator, birth witness, and women's elevation coach, Emilee is the founder of Free Birth Society and co-creator of the acclaimed Radical Birth Keeper School. Emilee has chosen to be the resolution she wished to see by reshaping birthing culture as we know it. Emilee is warm, kind, fierce — and committed to giving women the spacious witnessing that supports them to take radical responsibility and transform their lives.
To learn more about Emilee’s incredible work, click here.
Kelly Kelsey
Presentation Date: January 21, 11:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
"Opening to Womb Wisdom, Gaia Love, and the Energies of Conscious Creation"
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”Interactive Closing Ceremony”
As co-founder of Wisdom Weavers of the World, Kelly shines with heartfelt inspiration and womb-centered reverence. She has been blessed to witness and learn from indigenous Elders and communities around the globe for the perpetuation of their life affirming ways. Inspired by the pure essence of our animal kin, Kelly has also dedicated much of her life to honoring animals as gifts of diverse intelligences and boundless love. In this sacred light, she tends to the interspecies vision of Aloha Animal Relations Center (A’ARC) and is now currently co-birthing Lōkahi Gardens, a community nature and educational sanctuary on the north shore of Kaua’i.
For more on Kelly's diverse contributions, please visit wisdomweavers.world or reach her at kelly@lokahigardens.org.
Yael Zeligman-Merculieff
Presentation Date: January 17, 2:00 PM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“Wombs and Peace”
As an alternative educator and translator, Yael has spent many devoted years learning from Indigenous Elders around the world. She is a mother of two, and she works together with her husband, Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff, a traditional messenger of the Indigenous Unangan (Aleut) people in Alaska. She currently also co-creates “Wombs-of-Peace” circles in the Middle East and beyond.
To learn more about Yael’s offerings, click here.
Iya Tahirah Abubakr
Presentation Date: January 20, 11:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“What am I giving birth to right now?”
Iya Tahirah (born River Lee Adams of Pocahontas, Mississippi) is a renowned Elderess, spiritual teacher, healer, and diviner. She was initiated by Ifa Pristess Yamaja in the ancestral traditions of the Yoruba people of Western Africa and studied and trained with Malidoma Some' in shamanism. She is a medicine woman, shamanic practitioner, & co-founder for the St. Croix Council of Elders. Iya’s life purpose and dedication have been in the service of humanity as a whole and to leave the earth in a greater place than she found it.
She is available for private lessons and spiritual guidance. She offers online classes, vision quest initiatory trainings, and guidance for dealing with ancestral traumas and patterns which no longer serve us.
Contact: riverleea@gmail.com, Iyathaira@outlook.com, Stcroixcounscilofelders@gmail.com
Cynthia Lazaroff
Leadership Team — EVENT COMPLETED
"Celebrating Peace”
Cynthia Lazaroff is the founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, and US-Russia relations expert. Cynthia has been engaged in Track II citizen diplomacy efforts with Russia and has founded groundbreaking US-Russian exchange initiatives since the early 1980s. In 2021, she co-founded the American-Russian Women’s Dialogue and Peacebuilding Initiative to reduce tensions and to advance cooperation and the movement for nuclear disarmament. Cynthia is presently laying the groundwork to support the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and the participation of Ukrainian and Russian women in an inclusive peace process to help bring an end to the war in Ukraine. She is also organizing Bering Strait for Peace with indigenous peoples to gather together in the Bering Strait, where the border between the US and Russia is less than three miles apart. In 2022, Cynthia received the Women Waging Peace Award from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She is a magna cum laude graduate in Politics and Russian Studies from Princeton University.
To learn more about Cynthia, view here and for more about her very inspiring work click here.
Katharine Roske
Presentation Date: January 21, 9:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“Living a Soul-Centric Life Guided by Love — Embodying Co-Creative Practices in Family and Community”
As a visionary, ceremonialist, grandmother, and educator, Katharine is committed to cultivating whole-systems health and a culture guided by love. She is the co-author of the widely recognized, Co-Creators Handbook which serves as a guide for communities and businesses to evolve in sacred partnership with all of life. As a co-founder of Hummingbird Transformational Living Center, Katharine has decades of experience leading individuals through the "Circle of Life," honoring threshold crossings and rites of passage. She has facilitated many programs for women and youth, empowering leadership that is in harmony with soul essence and that cultivates a healthfully thriving way of life.
To view Katharine’s mission, click here.
Nancy Lucina
Presentation Date: January 18, 2:00 PM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“Bringing Peace to the Earth by Realigning with Cyclical Wisdom”
Nancy Lucina is a teacher of the feminine arts who walks women home to their innate power in all areas of the female continuum. She also serves as a women’s coach, circle leader, shamanic facilitator, sacred sound therapist, postpartum care provider, and mother of 3. She is a co-creator of The Blood Mysteries School and creator of The Sovereign Birth Meditation Series and Conscious Conception: Welcoming Your Spirit Baby Home Course. As a ceremonial leader in her community, she teaches women and coming-of-age girls about the power of their cycles. She uses her gifts of voice, sound, connection to spirit, and sensitivity to guide women from all around the world to awaken their deep feminine wisdom, embody the Wise Woman within, and live in truth and power.
Receive Nancy’s free gift: the ”Enter Your Womb Temple” Meditation. To learn more about Nancy’s other offerings, view here.
Candice Neaves
Presentation Date: January 18, 9:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“You Are Your Own Greatest Healer: Finding inner peace through intuitive trust and womb wisdom"
Candice Neaves is a Natural Fertility Specialist, RYT, and Intuitive Womb Health Coach. She helps women to navigate womb imbalances and those desiring to experience greater creativity, vitality, and joy in attuning to the wisdom of their bodies. Candice delicately guides women to heal themselves in mind, body, and spirit—activating their wombs to conceive their children, their creative/business endeavors, and the life of their dreams.
"To receive a gift from Candice for Womb Healing, Creativity, Vitality, and JOY - click here.”
Numana- Allie McFee
Presentation Date: January 19, 9:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
"Somatic Womb Healing” — An Interactive Session
Numana, aka Allie McFee, is a women’s health & nutrition coach, womb priestess, and tantric practitioner who guides transformational workshops and retreats and trains womb-healing practitioners in her online Juicy Feminine Leadership™ Academy. She has helped thousands of heart-centered women liberate challenges such as PMS and hormonal irregularity. Her Womb Clearing Workshops involve somatic embodiment rituals that support women to heal ancestral trauma, embrace their feminine energy, and unleash unshakeable power to confidently create their dreams.
Workshop Prep:
-yoga mat or soft rug
-free flowing clothing—easy to move in
-space that feels private or like a sanctuary
Connect & learn more here.
Sydney Porter
Presentation Date: January 20th, 9:30 AM PT — EVENT COMPLETED
“From Fear to Freedom: Birthing Peace Through Self Liberation”
Sydney Porter is a traditional birthkeeper, mother, steward of earth, and spiritual visionary. She currently guides women through the sacred work of traditional prenatal, birth, and postpartum care and believes that every woman has the ability to birth in their power. In her work as a model, Sydney has had the opportunity to share parts of her message in a number of journals and publications, such as Milk Magazine, H&M, Christy Dawn, Ergo Baby, and Bumpsuit. Sydney loves to share the medicine of her journey through story, and her prayer is that her unique path may serve as a catalyst for awakening within others.
To learn more about Sydney’s work, click here.
Ellie Baker
Leadership Team — EVENT COMPLETED
“A Raise in Vibration for Earth & Humanity, Through Inner Alignment and Embodiment of Oneself“
As a Spiritual Embodiment Coach, Ellie is a master manifester who leads her life by design with honor and conviction. Over the last two and a half decades she has been an entrepreneur and professional coach, offering her clients unparalleled support on their journeys of transformation. Having a pure connection to the guidance of her heart, and a massive willingness for introspection, she is deeply passionate about guiding others to a place of inner knowing, inner bliss, growth, expansion, and divine connection to one’s purpose.
To learn about Ellie’s powerful work, click here.
Sam Nordstrom
Leadership Team — EVENT COMPLETED
“Peaceful Sound Healing”
Samantha Nordstrom is an Integrative Holistic Healer focusing on sound healing, breathwork, yoga, reiki, and nutrition. Her mission and practice bring an embodied experience of inner peace through the body’s intellect. She uses the power of sound to bring people into a deeply healing, restorative, meditative state of being. She utilizes crystal sound bowls to accentuate stillness, inner peace, and harmony in our lives.
To learn more about Sam’s beautiful work, click here.
Celine Rapp
Leadership Team — EVENT COMPLETED
Celine is a teacher, mentor, and international lifestyle coach who specializes in yoga and movement modalities for all seasons of Womanhood. French-born and raised, Canadian-adopted, and citizen of the world, she is eager to challenge the status quo & offers a style of practice that sustains us far beyond the mat. Celine believes Yoga can serve the practitioner’s greatest aspirations and yield immense transformational power in our everyday lives. She has led intentional retreats and guided women and mothers around the world into deeper peace, unique connection, and relaxed fulfillment.
To learn more about Celine, click here.
Supporting these Leaders
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