Lineup 2025
Elisabeth van der Wilt is a certified holistic women's coach and doula based in Englefeld, SK. She specializes in supporting women over 30 during their reproductive years. Fruitful Womb Doula Services is a one stop shop for supportive help through pregnancy, fertility, loss, breastfeeding, postpartum, and menopause. With a focus on holistic herbs and nourishing food. She is also a Yoni Steaming Facilitator and is excited to be sharing her knowledge and skills with everyone. When she isn't working as a doula and coach, she is a preschool teacher and lives on a farm with her family.
The Basics of Yoni Steaming -
The workshop details: Education is always the key component and here in the west we are lacking a lot of the knowledge that other parts of the world still hold onto in this day and age. Yoni Steaming has been around for centuries and is still practiced in parts of Africa, and Asian countries. Together, we'll learn the basics of Yoni Steaming, a practice you can do by yourself or have a facilitator support with. You will learn what item's you will need, and some of the herbs and properties they can support with.
Elisabeth van der Wilt
Krystal Vanderstelt
Krystal is a mom of soon-to-be three who first discovered yoga during her first pregnancy. She instantly fell in love with the movement but never quite felt at home in traditional yoga classes. Her approach is anything but conventional—she moves how her body needs, laughs, chats, and even brings a whoopie cushion to lighten the mood (and break the wind first!).
Living in a small community, Krystal offers yoga classes close to home, along with corporate yoga sessions in Saskatoon. Her passion lies in sharing yoga in an approachable, authentic way. Her favorite student is one who “hates” yoga.
Swear Yoga(ish): Release Your Fks**
This class is all about movement, laughter, and letting go—stress, frustration, and all your f**ks. Surrounded by supportive women, you’ll flow, breathe, and release in a safe, respectful space.
With an exceptional playlist, hilarious pose names, and zero pressure to “do it right,” this class is lighthearted, freeing, and just a little rebellious. If cursing isn’t your thing, this isn’t your vibe—but if it is, you’ll leave feeling lighter, freer, and ready for whatever comes next.
Tara Semple
Tara is a professional musician who performs on the flute and piccolo in the Regina Symphony Orchestra. She has found her way into the sound field, as she follows her intuitive voice and listens deeply as she improvises on Sound Bath Instruments. Being a Sound Alchemist is a way of creating Sound Experiences that support the participants while they move into liminal space. These Sounds are specific, created to entrain the listener so they can experience a slowing down of their brain waves as they are able to drop into a meditative, more creative and intuitive space.
Tara will be offering a Workshop/Sound Bath - The Silence After the Sound
This workshop will be an introduction to how to listen in the sound field. Leaning in on how to listen deeply. Learning about consonant and dissonant sounds. Experiencing how to follow the envelope of sound and how to move the energies that rise up as we experience some of the sounds in the field. This will be followed by an intuitive Sound Bath Experience.
Breann Sutton
Breann is a shaman through ancestral lineage and healer who weaves ancient wisdom and spiritual connection into her transformative workshops. Guided by her innate sensitivity to energy and Splenic Authority, Breann channels powerful healing vibrations that balance the auric field and promote emotional and physical well-being.
Join us for a transformative “Who Were You Before They Told You Who to Be” meditation, designed to deepen your self-awareness and cultivate inner peace. Through acknowledging your inner child and giving them a voice, a safe space to connect, you will reconnect with the pure essence of who you are beneath conditioning and expectations.
This guided journey will help you uncover subconscious patterns, release limiting beliefs, and embrace the parts of yourself that have long been seeking love and understanding. By nurturing your inner child with compassion, you will create space for healing, self-acceptance, and a renewed sense of wholeness.
Whether you’re beginning your inner child healing journey or deepening an existing practice, this meditation will provide a safe and supportive space to explore, integrate, and reclaim your true self.
Joanne Fisher
Joanne Fisher is a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, Birthkeeper, and Conscious Parenting coach with over a decade of experience guiding individuals and families toward profound healing and transformation. With a deep focus on generational trauma healing and attachment, Joanne helps clients release limiting beliefs, heal past wounds, and create secure, nurturing environments for themselves and their families. Her unique approach blends energy healing, yoga, trauma-informed practices, and conscious parenting strategies to address emotional, mental, and physical imbalances. Joanne is passionate about empowering her clients to reconnect with themselves, develop deeper self-awareness, and uncover the root causes of the challenges they face.
Joanne’s work is rooted in the belief that our earliest experiences shape who we are and that healing these foundations can unlock our full potential. Whether she’s supporting a mother in birth preparation, helping parents navigate challenges, or addressing physical dis-ease, Joanne helps individuals access profound healing and transformative growth.
Based in Saskatoon, Canada, Joanne works with clients worldwide. She is the author of Easy Pregnancy, Easy Birth, Easy Baby: Your Guide to Pain-Free Pregnancy, Blissful Birth, and an Exceptional Child.
Through grounding exercises, energetic activities, reflective dyad work, and a powerful group BodyTalk session, we will explore and release deeply held attachment wounds, scarcity fears, and limiting subconscious beliefs.
The Root Chakra is the foundation of your emotional stability and resilience. By addressing these core wounds and unblocking the root chakra, we open the path to deeper connection, grounded confidence, and lasting inner peace. This is a healing journey you will not want to miss.
Jamie LaMont Fontaine
I’m Jamie, a mom, educator, and somatic experience coach. After years of living in a constant state of stress and overwhelm, my body was definitely feeling the effects. Being surrounded by a community of growth-centered women helped me to find safety and the confidence to intuitively listen to what my body was telling me. My passion lies in helping women and children challenge the belief systems and patterns that are holding them back from embracing their most authentic and aligned selves. I feel blessed to be part of an expanding community of women, awakening to their inner power and radiance.
Fierce and Free: Releasing Emotions, Reclaiming Power
We live in a culture where women are often afraid of their anger, ashamed of their sadness, or hesitant to embrace their sensuality. This workshop creates a safe, supportive environment where these suppressed emotions can be acknowledged, honored, and alchemized into a source of strength and empowerment.
Through intuitive practices, movement, and music, participants will learn to connect with their bodies and listen to the messages their emotions are communicating. By cultivating this deep awareness, we create space to release what no longer serves us and tap into the magic that lies within our so-called “darkness.” This is a space where every feeling is valid, and every emotion becomes a tool for transformation. Step into your authenticity with fierceness and grace.
Jennelle Dodd
I am Jennelle Dodd, a mother and a great granddaughter of white settlers on these prairie lands, Treaty 4 and 6. Within me is a soul and lineage that called in initiatory change without my permission or my blessing. This rough initiation was both a profound and empowering birth experience and a dismantling of my sense of self. I now look back with both grief and gratitude on this experience that feels like ancestors and my soul calling for healing change.
After this dismantling and once I found a shaky foothold, I began a journey of exploration and of healing. I set down my title of engineer and instead stepped into motherhood, yoga, and eventually shamanism and grief tending. I am a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT. Yoga means many things to many people, to me it means embodiment, kindness, curiosity, and respect. These are foundational elements I bring to all that I offer.
Grief Tending-
In the Grief Tending workshop, you will learn and explore healthy and communal grieving. You will learn about the different sources of grief, many of which are not usually unacknowledged. You will be welcomed to move into touch with your grief as much or little as you choose and are able to. Sometimes we aren’t with grief, we are with numbness and anger, and that too needs tending. You will have an opportunity to express and release some grief. You will be held by song, by resource, by water, ceremony, and by community.
I hope to support you in connecting more deeply with your powerful wombs and with the grief that connects you to what you love. I hope to support you to connect with each other and the land under your very feet.
Hope to see you at the festival, to together turn toward the magic we each hold within us.
Kari Assoignon
Unlocking the Heart: Breathwork for Deeper Connection and Self-Love
I’m Kari, a Sex, Love & Relationship coach and breathwork facilitator passionate about guiding women to release old wounds and rediscover their inner strength. Through my work, I’ve seen the profound shifts that happen when women reconnect with themselves and step into their power.
Unlocking the Heart is a 90-minute guided holotropic breathwork session designed to help you reconnect with yourself and open your heart. Whether you’re seeking more self-compassion, releasing emotional blocks, or simply ready to release something that is no longer serving you, this workshop is for you. We’ll start with grounding exercises and intention-setting, move into a heart-opening breathwork journey, and end with a restorative pause and sharing circle.
This is an opportunity to let go, breathe deeply, and feel supported in a welcoming community of women. Perfect for all levels of experience—just bring your open heart and curiosity.
Alecia Iwanchuk
Goddess, you are love, you came from love to feel love, to know love & be so deeply moved by love that it became your life’s never ending work to come back to love. To AWAKEN to LOVE!
My name is Alecia, and not so long ago, I woke up.
Join me at Sacred Woman Festival for an empowering embodiment practice that merges the fiery core of Mama Gaia with your own Kundalini energy. Together, we will release what no longer serves you, guiding you through movement, mantra, and breathwork to awaken to the divine power of love within you.
I am a trauma-informed Kundalini yoga teacher, somatic coach, and healer. My journey has shown me that life on this planet is about remembering who we are as souls and awakening to our pure potential. I believe each of us carries a unique spark, a glorious thread in the divine cosmic tapestry of creation.
Through Intentions Yoga, I help women reconnect with their bodies, reclaim their power, and ignite their divine nature. Together, we tap into the limitless potential of self-love, expanding that energy into the cosmos.
My personal healing journey took me through deep darkness. I faced death and despair at a young age, followed by addiction and failed relationships. For years, shame, regret, and self-loathing defined my existence, even as I outwardly lived a “normal” life.
But my soul spoke loudly enough for me to listen.
I’ve experienced two Kundalini Awakenings: one in 2004, which brought my soul to the forefront of my reality leading me out of meth addiction, and another in 2023, which allowed me to shed the self limiting beliefs that held me back from embracing my life’s purpose as a teacher and guide of the New Earth frequency of LOVE.
Now, I stand honored to hold this sacred space for you at this absolutely amazing festival. Together, we will release all that is no longer serving you and AWAKEN your unique spark of DIVINITY of LIGHT of LOVE!!!!
Let’s do this!
Danika Wright
Join Danika Wright for an insightful workshop on the Enneagram, a powerful personality typing method designed to foster compassion and understanding for yourself and others. In this session, you’ll learn the basics of identifying your Enneagram type and those of others, gaining tools to cultivate greater empathy and connection. Understanding the Enneagram helps us see the unique patterns in how we think, feel, and behave, allowing for deeper self-awareness and improved relationships. By exploring these dynamics, we create a pathway to compassion for both ourselves and those around us.
Danika Wright is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher specializing in Kundalini Yoga, as well as an expert in the Enneagram, Ayurveda, and archetypal energy. She develops personalized programs for her clients by integrating these modalities. By identifying Enneagram numbers, Ayurvedic Dosha, and Moon Archetypes, Danika tailors Kundalini Yoga practices to meet each individual’s unique needs and support their growth.
Beyond her professional expertise, Danika is the owner of a large farm along side of her supportive husband and the mother of three beautiful children. She has embraced her role as a teacher, holding space for others on their healing journeys. As a spiritual seeker, Danika continues to walk the path of a student, always striving to uncover the joy that lies within. This workshop reflects her dedication to guiding others toward self-discovery, healing, and compassion.
Celina Epp
My name is Celina and I am a Psychic Sensuality Specialist. I teach men and women the energetics around sexuality, how to hold space for self intimacy, take the taboo out of sex and bring back its sacred status as divine life force energy.
My upbringing was anything but open and liberal! Quite the opposite! As a Métis child with a stern Mennonite dad and French Métis mom (one of 13 kids) sex was not only not discussed, it was hushed and shamed leaving me growing up with more questions than answers.
Hence, after 2 marriages and 2 divorces from age of 16 to 41, I really only began to understand my true power as a divine, sexual being and its purpose as such in my early 40’s.
Now I teach women and men how to step into feminine and masculine energetics with passion and purpose. Surrendering to Shakti/Shiva women and men learn to release shame and judgment around their natural God given sexual desires while creating so much juicy personal power!
Celina Epp
Intuitive Intimacy Expert
Psychic and Coach
The SACRED SLXT workshop you always hoped existed but were too afraid
to ask about. Too shamed by other women, men and society’s expectation on what
a good woman looks like, how she walks, talks, fxxks, takes a lover, speaks her
truth and how she commands her inner slut.
Here we open up our sacred portal to divine feminine in TRUTH!
Angie Howlett
I’m Angie -The Conflict Counsellor!
“As a member of a dysfunctional family of origin, I have interacted with conflict, stemming from intergenerational abuse and addiction, from a very early age. Once I began taking conflict resolution training and identifying unhealthy communication patterns within my own relationships, I have found fulfillment in supporting others others through conflict and communication challenges that often arise out of maladaptive coping strategies. I offer strengths-based, solution focused counselling and conflict resolution services to individuals, couples, families and groups. Effective conflict resolution facilitates empowerment through self-determination, capacity building and increased communication for healthier relationships.
I began private practice in 2022 as “Angie Howlett - The Conflict Counselor”. However, this name quickly evolved in 2024 when I began volunteering for an international indigenous child and family organization. To maintain confidentiality and privacy of volunteers and service users, each member of the organization is given a spirit name. After a naming ceremony with an elder, a chief and the member who brought me to the organization, the name I was given means peace parity and hope for the future and loosely translates to white dove. And so, White Dove Counselling and Mediation was born!
I invite you to join me on your journey towards peace, parity and hope for the future through a special and exciting workshop: ‘Transforming your Relationships through communication and self-determination’. In this workshop you will learn to build capacity in conflict resolution and empowerment through communicating your needs and desires. You will learn conflict management tips and communication styles for any situation. I look forward to helping you tap into your inner healing power by restoring your balance, transforming your relationships and bringing you peace, parity and hope for the future.”
Natalie Dinsdale
Natalie is an evolutionary biologist by trade, an astrologer by passion, and a dancer by soul. Currently, most of her time is devoted to family as she is a wife and Mother of three.
Her diverse interests and offerings centre around the truth of being human rooted in animal bodies, and the mystery of being physically and spiritually enmeshed in natural cycles of creation and change.
Natalie’s astrological practice began when she was a young girl, and it is currently blossoming into offering sky knowledge at trade shows, parties, and festivals, and through regular webinars, forecasts, and consultations with clients. Her clients appreciate being deeply seen for who they uniquely are through Natalie’s grasp of astrological symbolism, myth, and knowledge of planetary cycles.
Her scientific research investigates connections among sex and birth, as well as women’s hormones, personality, cognition, and health. Natalie is committed to sharing knowledge on Substack (https://natalield.substack.com/) concerning the erasure of women’s rights, and the importance of understanding female biology, in the context of the sex & gender culture wars and growing technological intrusion into our reproductive processes.
In Forever Becoming: The Sky is Alive!, Natalie will help connect astrological lingo and 2-dimensional natal charts to the actual living breathing sky. We will learn about lunar and planetary cycles, considering how the planets of the sky contextualize the changes of our personal and collective lives. There will be lots of time for questions, and women will be invited into a participatory relationship with our Cosmos.
Karlita Weinberger
My name is Karlita and I am honoured to be sharing this divine transmission with you. I have been a certified life coach since 2011, level two Jikiden Reiki• energy practitioner, leading guided group meditations for 8 years, sacred sound ceremony holder.. I’ve facilitated over 50 cacao ceremonies and as of 2024 become an ordained minister with the Universal Life church of Canada. I am spiritually being guided to deliver this timely teaching so we can ALL take our frequency to the next level, truly holding this evolutionarily rising together collectively in these feminine bodies. All my love and service Sistars as we amplify humanity together with our committed wholeness.
~Marry Yourself Whole: Cacao Ceremony
Sacred Woman… In a world of “better half” verbiage, come and remember your WHOLE self forever and ever in this potent consecrated ceremony. Whether you are currently single or in a relationship with another person…
This ceremony is for humans wishing to solidify or maybe establish for the very first time, a foundation of soul commitment, heart commitment to self. Together we shall activate our multi dimensional dynamic bodies in conscious wholeness, with the aid of a healing, heart opening, hOMeade cacao elixer. Re~weaving in everlasting expansive consciousness, the most innate WHOLEness can be called into the light of our BEing.
Reclaim your energy - Recall your human and soul purpose - Reignite your whole self - Revere your commitment to yourself.
So many years I spent recovering from the aftermaths of the wrong relationships.. believing fairytale charming ending things and living on emotional roller coasters… There is a way to get off and create the solid foundation within for ALL relationships to come.
Erin Barnes
My name is Erin and I’m the founder of Sound Haven Wellness, based in Saskatoon. I’m thrilled to be joining this powerful gathering to guide a Sisterhood Sound Journey: Awakening the Sacred Woman Within.
This experience is all about creating a space where we can pause, breathe, and reconnect with the essence of who we are as women—individually and collectively.
Using sound therapy techniques, I’ll guide us through a journey of intentional vibrations and frequencies designed to ground, awaken, and empower. Sound has an incredible way of peeling back the layers—those invisible barriers we put up to protect ourselves—and inviting us to open up, both to ourselves and to each other.
In this workshop, the sound is the bridge, and sisterhood is the foundation. Together, we’ll explore the gentle yet profound ways sound can help us release, connect, and tap into the sacred energy that exists within all of us.
Whether you’ve experienced sound therapy before or you’re simply curious to try something new, I invite you to come with an open mind and a willing heart. Let’s discover what resonates together and awaken the sacred woman within.
Grandmother Cindy Hagen
Hi, I am Cindy, Celtic Wisewoman and Shamanic Healer. All my life I have been drawn to anything Celtic, starting with the art, then the music and finally the magic. I believe my life experiences have been in preparation for me to be able to be a healer. I encourage people to live in harmony with the land around them. Connect with the land spirits. Connect with their ancestors. Embrace magic. Find balance and harmony in their everyday lives. I journey with my Power Animal to find answers for my questions or questions for others. I connect with the power of Land, Sea and Sky. I recognize the power of the directions and elements. I carry all this in my soul and teaching it to others is my honour.
Prayer Tree Grove Ceremony
At Forest’s Edge Farm we have a Prayer Tree Grove! This is a magical place we can come to year after year to send up our prayers, wishes and blessings to the universe. It is a place to give thanks. It is a place to connect with the land spirits, the goddesses and our ancestors. This will be a traditional Celtic Shamanistic Ceremony. It is a time to look deep into your heart and send your deepest, heartfelt desires into “Awen”, the place of Celtic Continuum where everything is connected. Cindy will lead you through a ceremony that draws in the life enhancing energy from everyone present. You take time to meditate and reflect of the wishes you want to put out into the universe. Youwill receive some hand dyed yarn that has been made especially for this ceremony. You will then will make a special tie to use to tie your wish onto a special tree that you fined in the Prayer Tree Grove. If you wish to bring a special charm or bead to add to your tie, please to so. A personal addition will amplify the magic and your intention. The Prayer Tree Grove is available all weekend for you to come sit and meditate. A place to experience the magical power of the land.
Lori Bradford
Lori Bradford is a Certified Art Therapy Practitioner, Artist, and Art Teacher with over 4 decades of experience helping people find their creative selves. Her calm and relaxed approach, her belief that every person has the ability to be creative, and her years of experience teaching and leading workshops have helped thousands of people discover the healing benefits of making art. Lori teaches at her beautiful home studio and gallery on the banks of the Saskatchewan River near Nipawin, Sask and at her Texas studio on the Rio Grande.
Meditative Drawing Workshop
With the art materials that she supplies and the creative process of combining Neurographic and Zentangle Art in her Meditative Drawing workshop, Lori will guide you to explore your creativity in a safe and supportive environment. Lori will encourage you to use lines, colours, and symbolism to promote individual artist freedom, ultimately guiding you towards a new way of exploring your creative energy.
Linda Glorious Lee
I am Linda Glorious Lee; Energy Creatrix, Sensuous Sensei, Contemporary Shaman, Embodied Enchantress, Professional Belly Dance instructor and performer, married for 40 years, mother of 2 successful grown children and grandmother of three pretty princesses.
Throughout my 25 years of teaching the fine art of belly dance I have always held a sacred space for women to heal their distrust, dislike of their body parts AND gain loving acceptance with their fellow classmates and performers.
Healthy supportive inspiring sisterhood
As women with a womb space, a Goddess spot and a sacred portal, we magnetically attract and hold energy from and for others.
Like Sponges. We are not even aware that we’re doing it. This happens unconsciously while empathetically supporting a grieving friend or walking past a stranger on the street. When our body is FULL of other people’s energy, we can become exhausted, feel stuck, heavy or emotional for no logical reason.This can also block our creative flow.
Time for an Energetic Yoni Steam!
In our first session together we will focus on an Energetic Womb Clearing by creating a sacred space of unconditional love for these energies to be transmuted. I set up a Morphogenic Field with the help of the elements, the directions and our benevolent ancestors.
It’s every woman’s right to have a clear spacious yoni for her unique creations to flow through.
I am excited to serve as your Energetic Creatrix!
Tara Semple
Tara is a professional musician who performs on the flute and piccolo in the Regina Symphony Orchestra. She has found her way into the sound field, as she follows her intuitive voice and listens deeply as she improvises on Sound Bath Instruments. Being a Sound Alchemist is a way of creating Sound Experiences that support the participants while they move into liminal space. These Sounds are specific, created to entrain the listener so they can experience a slowing down of their brain waves as they are able to drop into a meditative, more creative and intuitive space.
Exploring our Own Sound
This workshop will be an exploration of our own vocal sound. Many of us in our culture have taken in messages that support a narrative that claims that-vocal sounds are reserved for performers on a stage. I challenge this narrative with we are all gifted with our own unique vocal sound. The voice has the most potential in terms of self-healing, so let us reclaim our voices and use our own intuitive voice to resonate in the sound field. This workshop will support anyone who wishes to heal their vocal wounding. We will be using humming and toning with the support of resonant Sound Bath instruments. All voices are invited to connect in the Sound Field.
Cindy Hagen
Hi, I am Cindy, Celtic Wisewoman and Shamanic Healer. All my life I have been drawn to anything Celtic, starting with the art, then the music and finally the magic. I believe my life experiences have been in preparation for me to be able to be a healer. I encourage people to live in harmony with the land around them. Connect with the land spirits. Connect with their ancestors. Embrace magic. Find balance and harmony in their everyday lives. I journey with my Power Animal to find answers for my questions or questions for others. I connect with the power of Land, Sea and Sky. I recognize the power of the directions and elements. I carry all this in my soul and teaching it to others is my honour.
Making Your Altar Space Magical
Creating an Altar space and making or finding your own special magical tools can enhance your magical practice. You are creating a Sacred Space! When at your Altar Space it becomes so exciting to understand that magic is preformed with the use of movement, words and objects. Thes signal the subconscious mind that something is extraordinary needs to be done. The tools and objects used in making magic are essential and even thought they are just tools, they help focus and refine the power within you. They are visual and manual aids or symbols to help in contacting the subconscious mind and persuading it to work the magic you desire. We will talk about how to make the tools you need to make your Altar space personal and special for you. An Altar a sacred space to work with goddesses and ancestors.
The Altar is also an important space where you preform your spiritual and magical practices. We will discuss how to personalize your altar with a censor, candles, herbs, crystals, incense burner, tarot and oracle cards, color and symbols. Each participant will go home with a small clay token for them to personalize for their Altar.
Celina Epp
Hi, I am Cindy, Celtic Wisewoman and Shamanic Healer. All my life I have been drawn to anything Celtic, starting with the art, then the music and finally the magic. I believe my life experiences have been in preparation for me to be able to be a healer. I encourage people to live in harmony with the land around them. Connect with the land spirits. Connect with their ancestors. Embrace magic. Find balance and harmony in their everyday lives. I journey with my Power Animal to find answers for my questions or questions for others. I connect with the power of Land, Sea and Sky. I recognize the power of the directions and elements. I carry all this in my soul and teaching it to others is my honour.
Making Your Altar Space Magical
Creating an Altar space and making or finding your own special magical tools can enhance your magical practice. You are creating a Sacred Space! When at your Altar Space it becomes so exciting to understand that magic is preformed with the use of movement, words and objects. Thes signal the subconscious mind that something is extraordinary needs to be done. The tools and objects used in making magic are essential and even thought they are just tools, they help focus and refine the power within you. They are visual and manual aids or symbols to help in contacting the subconscious mind and persuading it to work the magic you desire. We will talk about how to make the tools you need to make your Altar space personal and special for you. An Altar a sacred space to work with goddesses and ancestors.
The Altar is also an important space where you preform your spiritual and magical practices. We will discuss how to personalize your altar with a censor, candles, herbs, crystals, incense burner, tarot and oracle cards, color and symbols. Each participant will go home with a small clay token for them to personalize for their Altar.
Jennelle Dodd
I am Jennelle Dodd, a mother and a great granddaughter of white settlers on these prairie lands, Treaty 4 and 6. Within me is a soul and lineage that called in initiatory change without my permission or my blessing. This rough initiation was both a profound and empowering birth experience and a dismantling of my sense of self. I now look back with both grief and gratitude on this experience that feels like ancestors and my soul calling for healing change.
After this dismantling and once I found a shaky foothold, I began a journey of exploration and of healing. I set down my title of engineer and instead stepped into motherhood, yoga, and eventually shamanism and grief tending. I am a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT. Yoga means many things to many people, to me it means embodiment, kindness, curiosity, and respect. These are foundational elements I bring to all that I offer.
I feel honoured and excited to be bringing two workshops to this festival, Womb Healing and Grief Tending.
We as womb-yn have access to a powerhouse of energy, perspective, and capacity to dream, nurture, and release. In the Womb Healing workshop, you will learn about the potential you hold when you connect with your womb space. This workshop is both for those with a physical womb and those who have had hysterectomies.
DJ Michelle C
Connecting us through Sound, Vibration, Energy and Movement
Born in North York, Toronto, Michelle developed a passion for music at an early age. This passion deepened when she discovered underground dance music, captivated by the vibrant culture, and the art of mixing records. What started as a simple love for music soon became an all-consuming obsession. Michelle began collecting crates of house records before teaching herself to mix on a pair of mismatched turntables back in 2004. After years of perseverance, she had become a prominent figure in the music community, establishing herself as one of the first women to break new ground and pave the way for female talent locally.
Whether producing original tracks or crafting mixes, her goal remains the same: to channel raw emotion into rhythm and sound, creating an energetic force that connects with the mind, body, and soul. Michelle C has a diverse and undisputed talent for melding between every type and style of music, showing unparalleled versatility. Although categorized as a House DJ, (deep; jazzy; funky; tribal; progressive; techno) she has been known to shake dance floors with anything from big room trance to driving drum & bass. Michelle’s unique ear for sound, along with diverse track selection, and energetic build, has elevated Michelle as a DJ, transforming tranquil dance floors.
With an undeniable presence and an ever-evolving sound, Michelle C continues to push boundaries, using music as a powerful medium. Her music is more than just a collection of beats—it’s a sonic journey that moves people.
jANiCKA
Live Looping Performance
Soulful, worldly, playful, and lucious soundscapes.
Laying down the vibes in real time with voice, drum, didge and a 505 looper.
Silly, honest truths via stream of consciousness + mantra-esque tales with a touch of wildness.
jANiCKA is a genre blending artist/producer/dancer & Ecstatics Dance DJ, who speaks to the soul for personal power and embodiment. Her music lives in the ears and hearts of people yearning for something unique, healing, creatively stimulating and mentally sustainable.
jANiCKA is known for creating atmospheres where the soul can emerge, the inner child can play, and the everyday humanness of our experience can be expressed freely, and courageously!
She serves as a facilitator, hosting experiences for others to connect with their voices, their primal nature, embody their uniqueness, and be witnessed for who they truly are.
Linda Glorious Lee
I am Linda Glorious Lee; Energy Creatrix, Sensuous Sensei, Contemporary Shaman, Embodied Enchantress, Professional Belly Dance instructor and performer, married for 40 years, mother of 2 successful grown children and grandmother of three pretty princesses. Throughout my 25 years of teaching the fine art of belly dance I have always held a sacred space for women to heal their distrust, dislike of their body parts AND gain loving acceptance with their fellow classmates and performers
Healthy Supportive Inspiring Sisterhood.
As women with a womb space, a Goddess spot and a sacred portal, we magnetically attract and hold energy from and for others. Like Sponges. We are not even aware that we’re doing it. This happens unconsciously while empathetically supporting a grieving friend or walking past a stranger on the street. When our body is FULL of other people’s energy, we can become exhausted, feel stuck, heavy or emotional for no logical reason.This can also block our creative flow.
Time for an Energetic Yoni Steam!
In the second session we will experience a Bloodline Clearing which allows any karma that is up for cleaning through our ancestral lineage to be released. Each session is a powerful stand alone, and when you layer the healing sessions by attending both, the results are EXPONENTIAL!
I am excited to serve as your Energetic Creatrix.
Tanya Lemieux
Feeling into Grief with Yarrow.
There I was, my vessel was ridden with grief, trying to make sense of the deep pain that I felt deep in my bones. The only thing that seemed to make sense was to be held by Mother Earth herself. As I laid on her soil, tears fell down my face like the ever-flowing waterfalls. It felt as if for the first time in many moons, I was safe. Safe to just feel all of it. As my tears softened, my gaze fell on this white plant. It was a plant I had crossed with in passing but I never took a moment more to observe her beauty until this moment. I shifted my body a little closer to her, feeling her hairy like stems that rooted down into the ground.
It was here where this internal fire of my ancestral wisdom began to become remembered.
"Feeling into grief with Yarrow" is a ceremony offering that carries ancient ancestral wisdom and messages that show us "we are never truly alone". Our connection with the land spirits run through us on a cellular level. As we gather, we will welcome the medicine of the yarrow into our bodies in both tincture and oil form as a way of fostering our reconnection. Here we will fall into a guided meditative journey to unveil the wisdom of medicines, holding you where you are at and moving with any stagnant grief stored in your vessel. I feel honored to be a piece of this portal, guiding all the woman who feel called to work deeper with the medicines of the land within their vessel.
Joanne Fisher & Elizabeth Van Der Wilt
With this beautiful offering they co-created together especially for SWF: Thriving in Parenthood
Thriving in Parenthood a collaborative experience to share the joys and hardships that come with parenting. Learn from an experienced BodyTalk professional and postpartum doula who have joined forces to provide a shared exploration with other parents going through the same challenges.
Joanne Fisher is a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, Birthkeeper, and Conscious Parenting coach with over a decade of experience guiding individuals and families toward profound healing and transformation. With a deep focus on generational trauma healing and attachment, Joanne helps clients release limiting beliefs, heal past wounds, and create secure, nurturing environments for themselves and their families.
Her unique approach blends energy healing, yoga, trauma-informed practices, and conscious parenting strategies to address emotional, mental, and physical imbalances. Joanne is passionate about empowering her clients to reconnect with themselves, develop deeper self-awareness, and uncover the root causes of the challenges they face.
Elisabeth van der Wilt is a certified holistic women’s coach and doula based in Englefeld, SK. She specializes in supporting women over 30 during their reproductive years. Fruitful Womb Doula Services is a one stop shop for supportive help through pregnancy, fertility, loss, breastfeeding, postpartum, and menopause. With a focus on holistic herbs and nourishing food. She is also a Yoni Steaming Facilitator and is excited to be sharing her knowledge and skills with everyone. When she isn’t working as a doula and coach, she is a preschool teacher and lives on a farm with her family.
Danika Wright & Shannon McKinney
Honouring the Spirit of the Land: The Earth Altar At Sacred Woman Festival taking place July 11th to 13th 2025, in the beautiful Porcupine Plain forest invites you to connect deeply with the spirit of the land by witnessing a collaborative creation: the Earth Altar. Designed by Danika Wright and Shannon McKinney, this living art piece will take shape as a mandala, crafted from the natural treasures of the earth. The Earth Altar is not just art; it's a connection to the environment and the sacred energy of the surroundings. Throughout the festival, Danika and Shannon will gather, build, and weave this offering together, making it a true collective expression of harmony with nature.
Danika and Shannon have the honour of crafting this Earth Altar at the festival.
This will be their third festival creating this magical portal together. Danika is a 500-hour registered yoga teacher specializing in Kundalini Yoga, co-creating this altar with Shannon is a 200-hour Kundalini Yoga teacher, as well as an Arts Educator in the school systems and an Expressive Arts Therapy Facilitator. Join us as we honour the land and celebrate the beauty of connection.
Breann Sutton
Breann holds a Degree in Environmental Sciences with a focus in Botany, specializing in the study of plants and their ecological relationships. Having worked across Central, Northern, and Western Canada, she has developed a deep connection to native plant species, combining ecological knowledge with their traditional medicinal uses. As a medicine woman by lineage, Breann honors the wisdom of her ancestors while integrating scientific understanding, offering a balanced and holistic approach to plant medicine.“Wild Brews & Sacred Sips”
What to expect:
Meet the Plants : Get to know local native herbs and their incredible healing properties.
Mix & Match : Learn how to blend herbs for relaxation, immunity, digestion, and more.
Brew Like a Pro : Master the art of making infusions, decoctions, and sun/moon teas.
Dry & Preserve : Discover simple, natural methods to keep your herbs fresh and potent.
Sip & Savour : Enjoy a mindful tea ritual, connecting with the energy of the plants.
Whether you’re a tea lover, a nature enthusiast, or just curious about herbal medicine, this workshop will leave you feeling inspired, refreshed, and ready to bring plant magic into your daily routine!
Come sip, savor, and heal, one cup at a time!