Presenters 2026
Krystal Vanderstelt
Krystal Vanderstelt is a mother of three before anything else and an esthetician with nearly two decades of experience in the beauty and wellness industry. Her journey with yoga began during her first pregnancy, when she discovered the power of movement, breath, and mindfulness in supporting both her physical and emotional well-being. What started as a personal practice soon evolved into a calling. In 2023, Krystal became a certified 200-hour yoga instructor and has continued to expand her education through ongoing training and transformative experiences.
Her passion for creating meaningful connections through movement has led her to lead classes at retreats, expos, and festivals across the province, as well as at a week-long transformational retreat in the U.S., where she served as the yoga(ish) leader. She offers both in-person classes from her home studio and virtual sessions for those looking to practice from the comfort of their own space.
Krystal is the creator of Yoga(ish) — a unique blend of yoga infused with authenticity, humor, and real-life relatability. She believes yoga(ish) isn’t about perfection or performance, but about finding presence, release, and joy on and off the mat.
Outside of teaching, Krystal loves to craft and create. Depending on the season, she’s often found crocheting cozy pieces or designing projects with her vinyl cutter. Though she never considered herself a “fitness person,” she fell in love with the way yoga makes her feel
For Krystal, Yoga(ish) is more than movement — it’s an escape.
Swear Yoga(ish)
For the ones who need movement, music, and a few F-bombs to shake off stress. Laugh, sweat, release, repeat.
Whether you want to move or rest — there’s a Yoga(ish) pose for you.
Bedtime Yoga(ish)
Slow, stretchy, dreamy. Sink into your mat, soften your body, and quiet your mind for the most delicious sleep.
Shelley Cormier
Shelley Cormier is a retreat leader, self-love coach, and founder of Parati Sacred Wellness. She lives between Canada and Mexico, creating spaces rooted in rest, nervous system care, and embodied healing.
Shelley is a single mother to two medically complex children, a recent divorcee, and a stroke survivor. Her work is shaped not by theory, but by lived experience — navigating caregiving, burnout, grief, identity loss, and the ongoing practice of choosing herself while holding others.
She is the creator of The Do It For You Method™ and the facilitator behind the SHINE Retreat experiences, all guided by the SHINE Journey — Surrender • Heal • Integrate • Nurture • Emerge — a lived philosophy that informs both her personal life and the spaces she holds.
Her offerings blend restorative yoga, breathwork, meditation, sound healing, and reflective practices, alongside many other healing modalities and certifications, with a deep emphasis on rest, regulation, and self-trust. Shelley is also a public speaker and a soon-to-be published author.
She is as devoted to her own healing as she is to holding space for others, attending ceremonies and sacred gatherings just as often as she facilitates them. Her work is honest, grounded, and deeply human.
Shelley is Real. Raw. Rising.
Follow her personal journey:
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The Sacred Reset
Sacred Reset Experience is a 2 hour immersive experience; it's a gentle, deeply restorative offering designed to invite rest, regulation, and reconnection. Through restorative yoga, intentional breathwork, guided meditation, and soothing sound healing, participants are supported in softening the body and settling the nervous system. This is a space to lie back, feel held, and simply receive. The experience will close with a sharing circle and time for journaling and reflection, allowing space to integrate before returning to the festival.
Lori Bradford
Lori Bradford Art Therapy Practitioner and Creative Wanderer.
I’m so grateful to be able to share space with you at the Sacred Women Festival.
I’ve explored and taught just about every form of art you can imagine, following curiosity, intuition, and what feels healing. Creativity has been my companion, my teacher, and most often my guide back to myself.
I combine gentle art-making with mindful awareness, helping people connect with color, shape, and movement. I believe we all carry creativity within us—stories, emotions, energies —waiting to be drawn out, honored, and seen.
I’ll be guiding you through a quiet, intuitive drawing, where the process matters far more than the product. There’s no right or wrong —just your breath, your body, and whatever wants to flow from your hand.
Let’s explore and create together.
Sacred Lines: A Meditative Drawing Journey
Step into a creative space where drawing becomes a spiritual practice.
In this meditative art session, we will explore a gentle drawing method that uses lines and marks to connect with inner peace and open your creativity.
You will learn to follow the movement of your hand as it responds to your thoughts, emotions, and energy. Each line becomes a conversation — a way of listening and discovering what wants to be revealed.
No artistic skill is needed — this practice is about presence, permission, and connection rather than perfection. Come with an open heart, and allow your lines to guide you back to yourself.
Alecia Iwanchuk
Alecia Iwanchuk is the heart behind Intentions Yoga, where she guides women through healing and awakening journeys that unite mind, body, and spirit. Rooted in preventative health, yoga and intuitive wisdom, Alecia creates a safe space for women to reconnect with their truth, embody their power, and live with intention.
Shakti Reclaimed – Kundalini Yoga
Shakti sleeps within you. Your divine feminine energy of pure potential. Through movement, breath & mantra, this powerful kundalini yoga experience will help you release blocks, ignite inner radiance, and awaken the sacred power that has always been yours. Awaken and Reclaim Shakti.
Intentions – Creating Your Dream Life Through Practical Magic
Learn the art of practical magic. In this soulful session, you’ll learn magical practice and grounded rituals to align with your deepest desires. Learn to manifest your dream life, not through force, but through Intention. Includes cord cutting ritual, how to use a cauldron and how to work with lunar energy.
Aimee Sebastian
Aimee Sebastian is a Facial Reflexology innovator, author, and wellness guide known for redefining what self-healing can look like. After her own health struggles were dismissed by specialists, she turned inward, uncovered the body’s sacred map, and began healing herself from the inside out. Today, Aimee teaches women how to regulate their nervous systems, release held emotions, and awaken their inner healing intelligence through her signature method, The Face Code. Her work is warm, intuitive, and rooted in the belief that every woman carries the answers within.
The Face Code: The Art & Science of Inner Healing
Decode the signals. Shift the pattern. Change the story.
Your face holds the map to your deepest healing. In this experiential workshop, Aimee Sebastian introduces The Face Code, her signature blend of facial reflexology, nervous-system regulation, and intuitive self-connection. Participants will learn simple, powerful techniques to release emotional patterns, soften stress signatures, and activate the natural healing intelligence their bodies already carry.
Irene Lafond
Irene Lafond is a Nature-Led Voice Reclamation Guide and single mother of four who has walked through silence, pain, and abuse back into wild, embodied truth.
Her work bridges body, mind, and Earth connection through primal sound, forest medicine, and nervous-system repair. Irene’s spaces are calm, raw, and transformative - where women remember their strength, their boundaries, their no and their voice.
The Sound of the Den
Step into a raw, playful space where voice becomes instinct again. In this guided journey you’ll explore hums, growls, howls, and boundary sounds that re-awaken safety and belonging. This is not performance, it’s reclamation.
For women who’ve felt silenced or “too much,” this practice invites laughter, shivers, and release. You’ll leave feeling alive, grounded, and more connected to the wild intelligence within and around you.
Wild Presence™: Reclaiming Your Body, Mind & Earth Connection
Slow down. Sense. Remember.
Through intentional movement, sensory awareness, and Earth-based grounding, Wild Presence™ invites you out of autopilot and back into the rhythm of your own body. Expect gentle curiosity, rooted calm, and moments of awe.
You’ll leave feeling steady, awake, and deeply connected to the living world - body, mind, and Earth moving as one.
Cheryl Ring
Cheryl L. Ring is a Visual Artist living and working in Prince Albert. Cheryl follows an eclectic and independent path, teaching at and creating within HeartSpace Clay Studio in Prince Albert, SK. She is an artist, activist, facilitator, seeker of truth, and healer. As a potter, she belongs to a traditional lineage of women with the gift of transforming raw materials into fine art. HeartSpace Clay Studio provides a creative space where art and life intersect, offering a 360-degree art experience. It serves as a harbour in a chaotic world, allowing for exploration of heart and mind—a temporary refuge from daily obligations.lm, raw, and transformative - where women remember their strength, their boundaries, their no and their voice.
Greedy for Gratitude; Gratitude Ceremony
Join me for an immersive experience centered on discovering what truly matters to you. Rather
than settling for surface-level gratitude, we will explore ways to dig deeper and forge meaningful
connections with the people, events, and things in your life. This session encourages you to be
unapologetic about your needs and to fully embrace the advantages of adopting gratitude as a
daily practice.
We invite you to approach gratitude with enthusiasm—be eager, desirous, and even a little
greedy for its benefits. This is an opportunity to covet gratitude, to pursue it voraciously and
wholeheartedly. Guided by the book One Drum by Richard Wagamese, we will embrace
moments of silence, cherish gratitude, and participate in the ritual of tying tobacco ties as a form
of reflection and connection.
Linda Glorious Lee
I am Linda Glorious Lee
Energy Creatrix
Contemporary Shaman
Embodied Enchantress
Professional belly dance instructor and performer
Married for 40 years, mother of two successfully grown children and grandmother of three pretty princesses.
Throughout my 25 years of teaching the fine art of belly dance, I have held a sacred space for women to heal their distrust of and dislike of their own body parts and gain loving acceptance of 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 are doing this.
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.
As an energy healer, I can see the signature of your Energy field. There can be dark spots, mucus, or miasma in the auric field, the chakras can be bumped, bruised, or flattened. I am gifted in seeing, sensing and removing those blockages. Group work is my specialty because we are healing for the collective, like a 2 for 1 deal, only times 100.
In the Quantum Field where everything is created, there is only NOW. There is no timeline, it is more of a spiral.
We used to refer to past and future lives but all of our "lived experiences" are happening concurrently, at the same moment.
This being true (no matter how crazy it sounds) we can dip into an "experience" in our life/lives,
release the karma that no longer serves us, cut the ties that have held us back, dissolve the pain with compassion and rewrite the story with a happier outcome full of love, for everyone involved.
Inside of the Morphogenetic Field everything is possible.
This session is for everyone who consciously and/or unconsciously has sadness, regrets or questions around their conception and/or birth or that of their mother's birth or of the children they have birthed.
Laying back to receive in a deeply sacred rose coloured bubble of unconditional love, I will narrate a beautiful story of love, helping to ease the pain and replace it with peace.
Rewriting My Conception Story
Mending the Mother Daughter Wound
Linda and Tara have been friends for almost 35 years. The joy of our deep friendship comes through deep sharing and vulnerability. Showing up with our messy bits and being seen by each other. As well as holding space during periods of growth when we needed to process our life on our own seperate paths.
Through the muck of life we wanted to create a workshop based on what we noticed was a common wound in woman’s circles.
The mother/daughter wound.
After last year’s festival we dove deep for 5 days, integrating our experience and processing what came up for us. In doing this we sat with our own mother/daughter wounds. As we explored our own experience as mothers and daughters we recognized our own parts in healing this wound back to our own mothers and then forward to our daughters. We have created a space to hold all of our feelings around this wounding, moving them towards the light where we can transmute our lens and see who we can be in this important learning experience. As we hold this needle and thread in these relationships, what do we wish to create in this fabric of life.
Join us for a 2 hour dive around mending the mother/daughter wound. Beginning in sound, offering a container as we drop into liminal space drawing our awareness to what inner wisdom can rise when we allow ourselves to be held in sound. Then moving into energetic clearing, releasing past experiences that our mind wishes to hang on to, releasing ancestral patterns and rising in a new way. Allowing this age old feminine way to use the needle and thread to create new patterns of relationship.
Tara & Linda
Elizabeth Van der Wilt
HI, I'M ELISABETH, FOUNDER OF FRUITFUL WOMB DOULA SERVICES
I'm a holistic doula and women's health coach supporting women over 30+ as they learn all the elements of their body and how to better love themselves.
AKA. I teach you more about your body than the sex-ed class from grade 10 - or what your doc shares with you when you visit the OBGYN.
Who am I beyond business?
I'm a preschool teacher, and an extroverted homesteader, enjoying the simplistic things of nature in Saskatchewan Canada. I love dramatic and romantic TV shows (and I'm a huge fan of ham and cheese ciabatta rolls)
Holistic Self-Care for the Modern Woman
Take a walk into your daily harvest, a gentle space to reconnect with your body through daily ritual promoting self-care and self-love.
This workshop is designed for the modern woman who wants to take the holistic practices you've learned and finally weave them into your every-day life.
Some ways this could help you is by taking a look at how nourishment, and rest can ground you even in a busy season.
You'll learn to create daily rituals that focus on a whole-body approach through simple practices, herbal baths, teas, journaling and womb massage.
Together you'll learn to reclaim your time and energy into putting yourself first. Which we are going to take a deep dive into creating a ritual map (even if its the little things).
Leave with a full heart, and hopefully new insight to feel grounded, all year long.
The Flow Reclaimed: Herbs & Hormones
with Anna Veldhouen
This isn’t just another boring self-care talk, it's actually a journey back to yourself. In this immersive workshop, we’ll explore how your hormones and cycle shape your mood, energy, and cravings, and how to work with them instead of against them using herbs for your hormones. In this one hour session we will discuss
7 hidden truths about the uterus they don’t teach us in school, in science, or in society
the four phases of your cycle and the gifts within each
how to nourish your body through shifting hormones
how to track your cycle with technology and paper journaling
Give you ways to align your meals, herbs, and rituals with natural rhythm
Then we are going to create a cycle living calendar for the balance you need. If time allows we will even speak on specific times in our cycle like menopause, or even imbalances like Endo, PCOs, etc... Through holistic wisdom and modern insight we'll create or design daily rituals to support a whole-body approach.
Are you ready to reclaim your hormone flow through herbal wisdom?
Anna Veldhoen
Reclaiming Our Food: Meat Rabbits
Hello, I’m Anna. I am a mother, wife, herbalist, homesteader, hunter and homemaker. I have a passion for natural health and the outdoors.
I make almost all my families meals from scratch and that includes harvesting our own meat. In 2024, my husband gifted me a book about raising meat rabbits. After reading that book, a new passion was found. I instantly started setting up my own rabbitry.
Our family values having meat in our diet and ethical meat is a must for us. Consumerism in the animal industry has led to animals being confined in small spaces, prevented from acting out natural instincts, lack of appreciation, and over use of antibiotics and vaccines. I won’t settle for survival, I always want my animals to thrive.
Join me while I explain the care that goes into raising meat rabbits. The easiest meat source for beginner and busy homesteaders. I will discuss colony raising, different breeds, mating, nourishment, letting them act out natural instincts and ethical processing.
The Flow Reclaimed: Herbs & Hormones
with Elizabeth Van der Wilt
This isn’t just another boring self-care talk, it's actually a journey back to yourself. In this immersive workshop, we’ll explore how your hormones and cycle shape your mood, energy, and cravings, and how to work with them instead of against them using herbs for your hormones. In this one hour session we will discuss
7 hidden truths about the uterus they don’t teach us in school, in science, or in society
the four phases of your cycle and the gifts within each
how to nourish your body through shifting hormones
how to track your cycle with technology and paper journaling
Give you ways to align your meals, herbs, and rituals with natural rhythm
Then we are going to create a cycle living calendar for the balance you need. If time allows we will even speak on specific times in our cycle like menopause, or even imbalances like Endo, PCOs, etc... Through holistic wisdom and modern insight we'll create or design daily rituals to support a whole-body approach.
Are you ready to reclaim your hormone flow through herbal wisdom?
Tara Semple
Tara Semple is a professional musician who has awakened as an alchemist in the sound field. Spending her life immersed in sound, her trainings have informed her practice in her ever evolving Sound Bath expressions. She listens deeply in the field and creates sound that supports inner journeys. Entraining the participants to sound, and slowing down the brain waves to support relaxation, visualization, intuition and more.
Join us as we tuck into our blankets and open up to The Sound of the Stars. A deep listening experience that invites a liminal journey.
The Sound of The Stars
Cindy Hagen
Cindy is a Celtic Shamanic Practitioner and Transpersonal Crystal Healing Therapist. She lives in a cabin on the farm. living in harmony with the nature around her and enjoys every minute of it. She loves to share knowledge and teach. Every summer she looks forward to being part of Sacred Woman Festival. For her, it is the perfect time to meet new people, push herself out of her comfort zone and try new experiences, expand her knowledge and move along in her spiritual and magical journey.
This will be the third year for the Prayer Tree Ceremony. Each year builds upon the year before. Expect the unexpected. Plan for the unplanned. Be ready for magic. This special grove of trees holds a magical power that is so potent. This year we will gather and open our space with a traditional Celtic Ceremony. A powerful ceremony that connects us to our ancestors and our inner knowing. We will awaken the little spark of light within us that wants to shine brightly and spread love and kindness to all we cross paths with. We will put our intention into two prayer tree ribbons this year. One will be a wish for the world and one will be a personal wish. If you have a special charm or item you want to add to your ribbon I encourage you to bring it with you. The yarn you use to make your ribbon will be hand dyed with the intent that your wishes are fulfilled. Every year this ceremony becomes more powerful and the Prayer Tree Grove builds with the intensity our combined blessings, wisher and prayers. Such a beautiful way to feel the energy of the SWF.
The Prayer Tree Ceremony
The Antlered Goddess, Elen of the Ways.
In this offering, Cindy shares information about Elen of the Ways. Her calling is strong and she may be speaking to you right now through these words. Her power is potent, yet she is elusive.
Why is Elen of the Ways so important? It is believed that Elen of the Ways is the most ancient goddess know to Humankind. She is the heartbeat of the woods, of the wild places. Not a lot is known about her and she knows this and it pleases her. Her presence is to be experienced. She is Elen of the Ways, of the trackways and paths that cross both nature and the human soul. Follow the deer trods, they will lead you to her. If you feel your soul reaching out for something more, Elen of the Ways may be just who you are looking for.
We start off with Earth/Sun Exercise. It is very grounding and it will anchor you to the Earth and at the same time, enables you to reach out across the solar system to the Sun whose light and warmth enable life on Earth. Cindy will then guide you through a Tea Ritual for heightening your intuition. After this ceremony you will experience a guided meditation to visit Elen and hear her words that are just for you. After the meditation you have the opportunity to discuss your experiences and ask questions. Bring a blanket and a pillow for the meditation time if you wish. Are you wanting to Follow the Deer Trods? Become an Awenydd, a spirit-keeper. This is about following the ancient ways of the deer goddess as our ancestors did from Palaeolithic times. We still do the work today. We journey to bring wisdom and enable healing for the creatures, plants, people and land. We honor the spirt of the Earth, and work with the spirit of the land.
Celina Epp
As a Psychic Sensuality Specialist, I work with solo women, couples and men to liberate themselves from old habits and beliefs about sex, intimacy and relationships.
I am unfettered in my approach to sensuality and invite in a deeply personal connection that truly unlocks the power of intimacy. This is my niche and I absolutely love the opportunities I have to give both men and women a 2nd chance at love, liberation and intimacy.
Learn to get what you truly desire by tapping into the magnetism that comes from a place of pure unadulterated feminine energy.
As a magnetic woman you do not chase ANYTHING, you attract EVERYTHING. Once you have truly become that woman who leads with self assurance, self awareness, confidence and authenticity, you learn the art of attracting.
What you desire you create.
Your magnetism is developed through a solid foundation of strength, trust and self love not through manipulation or control over others.
We all have the ability to be that magnetic woman.
Join me in this powerful workshop where I walk you through the process of letting go, discerning, trusting and understanding how to BE in your feminine power to fully receive.
Magnetic Woman
