Presenters 2026
Nicole Oshia Pemberton
Nicole is a Master Alchemical Dance Ceremonialist, Certified Akashic record reader, Temple Body Artist/Mentor/Priestess, Womb Priestess, Multidimensional Goddess Channel, Certified Crystal and Reiki practitioner, Traditional African healing and core shamanic apprentice, Speaker, Certified Trauma informed facilitator, Embodiment coach, and Dance artist. Nicole holds a degree/BA in dance, choreography, and performance artistry. Her lineage comes from the islands of Antigua/Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, and the countries of England and Canada.
For over 25 years Nicole has dedicated her life to the arts, wellness, and empowerment. Nicole has studied in Health and embodiment coaching, Womb Wellness, Spirituality, Divine feminine and Goddess arts, Dance/somatic movement, energy modalities (Reiki, Crystal therapy). She has performed nationally in Canada and internationally in places such as New York and Trinidad and Tobago; continues to hold space and has currently facilitated movement experiences with over 200,000 + humans.
Through her own journey with the removal of 10 massive fibroids; began a path of developing practices and systems that support womxn in finding liberation through their wombs. Nicole stands for the disruption of the systems that try to disempower the connection to the most intimate part of our bodies that has been built on the foundation of racism and trauma! Through this deep initiation Nicole has birthed The Goddess Moves, a sacred space for womxn and womb Carriers who say YES to Embodied Multifaceted Self Mastery.
This is a revolution that brings transformation from the womb to owning one’s rooted power, ancestral healing, pleasure reclamation, and the magnetic embodiment of love.
Devoted to ushering in a new Liberation!
The Womb Temple
A full sensory experience embodies and reconnects you to your own path to power from the Womb space.
This experience will provide a Journey deep into the layers and unleash a new relationship to the womb space.
You will move through a powerful ceremony that will unlock the codes and release stagnation from your womb space.
You will be guided to descend into the depths of the womb to reclaim the innate power from your magnetic portal of healing, creation, and ecstatic bliss.
This experience includes:
- Alchemical movement
- Group work
- Voice/breath activation
- Ancestral activation
- Receive the 13th Womb Rite of the Munay Kai
- Group energy clearing
The Ancestors Are Calling
Reconnect to your lineage, ancestral traditions, and Goddesses. Through a powerful core shamanic movement ritual you will get to the root of any pattern and start to clear it. Through this powerful journey you will create space for creativity for overflow and amplify through yourself and help to mother yourself; heal your
lineage.
Rituals will include embodied group work (Movement, Breathwork, Voice activation, writing).
The rituals will be guided by the following:
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Reconnecting to The Mother line - Ancestral tribal Goddess council
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New paradigm consciousness
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Clearing root patterns
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Releasing stagnation held within the body
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Awakening creativity and fertility
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Full expression of voice and empowerment.
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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Website: www.shelleycormier.com
Explore retreats and offerings:
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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.
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?
Lisbeth Savard
My name is Lisbeth Savard and I’m a bilingual (French/English) yoga teacher, spiritual mentor, and retreat facilitator dedicated to helping women restore balance, clarity, and confidence. Through tapping into Moon energy, yoga, meditation, somatic practices, and coaching, I guide mothers and caregivers navigating transitions such as burnout, grief, or major life change. My approach integrates nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and embodiment to support women in reconnecting with themselves and cultivating sustainable well-being. Through retreats, women’s circles, and mentorship programs, I create grounded, heart-centered experiences that promote rest, resilience, and renewal. My mission is to empower women to move from survival to thriving — one mindful breath and compassionate choice at a time.
Moon Wisdom & Feminine Leadership: Dismantling the inner Patriarchy
Discover why women have always been connected to the Moon. In a world shaped by patriarchal “go-go-go” solar energy, many of us were taught to ignore our natural rhythms, especially the cyclical wisdom of menstruation. But our bodies reset every ~28 days, moving through phases that mirror the Moon and the seasons.
At the festival, we’ll return to an ancient way of being, one that honours our ebb and flow, our creativity, our rest, and our power. Each moon phase reflects a feminine archetype, and together we’ll explore the four main ones: Maiden, Mother, Wild Woman and Crone. Come reconnect with the rhythm your body already knows.
Unleash Your Inner Wild Woman: Tapping into your Intuition and Trusting your Inner Wisdom
A sacred women’s circle to reconnect with the untamed, unapologetic part of you: your inner Lilith. The one who refuses to shrink, who cannot be tamed, and who rises even when the world asks her to stay small. Together, we’ll tap into intuition, deepen trust in our inner wisdom, and reclaim the fierce, free, sovereign feminine that has always lived within you.
