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CONFERENCE GUIDES, TEACHERS, & FACILITATORS
We are immensely grateful to share with you our diverse community of facilitators and their gift offerings with you. Honour their time and commitment by registering for their workshops ahead of time and attending in real-time.
VICKI NOBLE
Vicki Noble is a feminist artist, writer, scholar, and wisdom teacher. Her work is a mix of profound knowledge and practices, beginning with feminism as a path to enlightenment, and then building on that foundation through Buddhism, tantra, shamanism, bodywork, and other forms of spiritual understanding and natural medicine. Informed by four decades of scholarly investigation and grounded in daily practice, she draws from a holistic underground stream of female lineage that runs from the most ancient times when women were the unquestioned spiritual leaders and teachers at the center of our human communities, and the “language of the Goddess” was a shared one. She is an active participant in the vibrant international Matriarchal Studies movement. She and Karen Vogel together created the Motherpeace Tarot Deck
WEBSITE: https://www.vickinoble.com/
DR DARCIA NARVAEZ
Dr Darcia Narvaez (pronounced DAR-sha narv-EYES) is professor emerita of psychology at the University of Notre Dame (USA), Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Educational Research Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in Minnesota, she grew up living around the world as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican-German American but calls the earth her home. In her academic career, she employs a lifespan, interdisciplinary approach to studying evolved morality, child development and human flourishing, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental, evolutionary and educational sciences. She hosts EvolvedNest.org and is president of KindredWorld.org. She has numerous publications, including books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing and more.
WEBSITE: https://darcianarvaez.com/
BHANUMATHY VASUDEVAN
BHANUMATHY VASUDEVAN
BHANUMATHY VASUDEVAN
Bhanumathy started women’s work in 1984. She has created holistic body-mind-spirit work, innovating pedagogy and leadership specific to women. In 2002, she received the book – “Psychic Moon: Teachings for women of this century” in her daily meditations. The teachings became the guide post for her work.
RAHI SANTHANAM
BHANUMATHY VASUDEVAN
BHANUMATHY VASUDEVAN
Rahi Santhanam lovingly called Rahima is a Psychologist, a practising Yoga-therapist and a Wellness-consultant by profession. Rahima travels extensively and is involved in training yoga teachers at home and abroad through talks, workshops and YTTs. She is also involved in bringing people together through being an integral part of eco- spiritual tourism.
EMILY LIFTON
POONAM ILLURI
POONAM ILLURI
Emily is a Body therapist, yoga teacher, and body wisdom teacher. She has volunteered and worked for a humanitarian spiritual organization teaching youth and adults stress relief programs for 30+ years. The SSTP journey happily led me to the Facilitators Training in Mauritius and to this conference!
POONAM ILLURI
POONAM ILLURI
POONAM ILLURI
An artist and a designer by profession,Yoga and nature have been my paths to go deeper and rediscover the magic.Natural healing, flower remedies, energy work and meditation are my helpers.
Grandmother Elder
ENOLIA FOTI
Matriarch and Grandmother Elder Enolia impart ancient wisdom in Modern times. She travels the world to study with indigenous elders. From the lessons of these elders, Grandmother ENOLIA walks the path set before her as a teacher, counsel, and healer empowering others to reach their goals.
Dr Judy GRAHN
Dr Dianne jenett
Dr Dianne jenett
Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, author, mythographer, and cultural theorist. Her works include seven books of nonfiction, two book-length poems, five poetry collections, a reader, and a novel. An early Gay activist who walked the first picket of the White House for Gay rights in 1965, she later founded Gay Women’s Liberation and the Women’s Press Collective. Her intention with writing is to replace obsolete philosophies with better ones. Her subjects range from LGBT history and mythology to feminist critiques of current crises, new origin theories of inclusion, what makes us human, taking racism personally in dismantling white supremacy, and stories of how to engage with creature-minds and spirit. She also writes about and teaches poetry of Sumerian goddess Inanna, and has written three books tying her to Helen of Troy, and bringing Inanna’s major stories up to date.
Dr Dianne jenett
Dr Dianne jenett
Dr Dianne jenett
Dianne Jenett is a transpersonal educator who treasures the transformative potential in each person and group. Her research focus and area of expertise is in transformative learning for personal growth and social justice, feminist and qualitative research methods, psycho-spiritual development, and community based rituals in South India. Her dissertation documented the largest women's festival in the world, Pongala at Attukal Temple, from the viewpoint of thirty Hindu, Moslem and Christian women. She used Organic Inquiry, the research approach she helped develop, to enable her to explicitly incorporate the sacred wisdom and practices of this tradition into her work, which has been recently published by the government of Kerala.
Colette Green
Colette Green
Colette Green
Colette Green MA. MIAHIP is an integrative psychotherapist and trainer, specialising in psychodynamic and systemic work. She has a small, private practice in north County Cork in Ireland where she works and lives with her husband and their animals. She has worked with individuals and groups for over 35 years in the
UK, New Zealand, India. Now in her 75th year she is enjoying taking her place as an elder. Co-founder of Ochre with Sebastian Green and course director of the family systems practitioner training programme in Bangalore India, She brings her love of horses toher work offering constellations with horses in nature and psychotherapy in the presence of horses.
Meet Colette Green on our Maiden Panel DIscussion.
Annie cariapa
Colette Green
Colette Green
ANNIE CARIAPA is based in Bangalore and is the founder of Spanda. She is a Supervising Transactional Analyst and a Master practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). She offers training and workshops that are healing and transformational using a biopsychospiritual and systemic approach. Currently her area of focus is in Family Constellation. She hopes to shortly revive her workshop “Healing Your Inner Child and Living in the Power of Now’ which had taken a break during the pandemic.
Meet Annie Cariapa on our Maiden Panel DIscussion.
Web: www.spanda.asia (currently being updated)
LUISA SPAGNA
Luisa Spagna, author of the round oracle deck Yogini of Hirapur Oracle and the creator of the Yogini Ritual Dance. Dancer and Dancetherapist, member of the Professional Association of Arts Therapy ARTE. She is the author of books and articles on Dance.
WEBSITE: https://sutraartiperformative.com/
CHETNA MEHROTRA
CHETNA MEHROTRA
CHETNA MEHROTRA
Chetna is an artist. Her artistic practices find roots in deeper-psycho-spiritual-embodied listening and dialoguing through narrative tools of applied arts and theatre. She invites a creative, joyous and vibrational energy of acknowledging our gifts and claiming our space.
Sari Mattila
CHETNA MEHROTRA
CHETNA MEHROTRA
Sari Mattila is a coach, a mentor and facilitator. She engages with groups to explore what life is or can be. She blends her Shaktiship knowing, mysticism, dialogue skills, psychodrama among other approaches. She has a PhD in leadership and organisational behavior.
Myriam Negre
Myriam Negre
Myriam Negre
"I have incarnated this lifetime to create space for the emergence of the sacred feminine through the medicine of art and holding space in nature and with nature".
Instagram: @myriam_negre
Website: https://mujerancestra.com/
REKHA KURUP
Myriam Negre
Myriam Negre
Rekha Kurup is a Trauma-Aware Compassionate Inquiry-informed Integrative Systemic Therapist and Keeper of the Cyclic Earth Wisdom traditions. She facilitates spaces that support you to explore, express, experience, and embody the truth of Who You Are, and Return to Wholeness.
WEBSITE: https://rekhakurup.com
Silvana Rigobon
Silvana Rigobon is a REDvolutionary dreamweaver. She is a facilitator and coach on mindfulness in movement. Her ongoing project, #REDvolutionaryWeaving, started in Italy in 2012 and uses the archetype of the red thread to intertwine, metaphorically and literally, the stories and roots, dreams and talents of women from different countries. So far it has brought her to Lithuania, France, Belarus, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey, India, Greece, England, and Malta. In each stage participants are invited to share thread and beads, to be brought to the next country, as a talking bridge between the communities. Silvana facilitated groups on embodied leadership with hundreds of women with the most varied backgrounds: from students to entrepreneurs, with ages ranging from 13 to 103 years. Meet Silvana Rigobon on our Queen Panel DIscussion.
JULIANNE REYNOLDS
Julianne Reynolds is an international, award-winning film director/producer and photo-journalist with a decade of experience working in the media industry. She began her film career in New York City while studying at the School for Visual Arts and after finishing her degree, relocated to Los Angeles where she formed Romanski Films as an independent film company with a mission for social action based films and branded content on a global level. Julianne is also a film editor, cutting the vast majority of her commercial and documentary film works.
Seeking the Mother Documentary SHowcase, 13th May 6PM IST
Documentary Filmmaker Julianne Reynolds enters into the world of the goddess, of the Great Mother traveling through India’s ancient lands and villages. Her journey is rich in mystery with hidden stories of the female earth. Julianne digs into the depths of the shakti, tantric lineage Sri Vidya, practicing the left-handed tantra to envision how women once ruled the land while sitting in the darkness of her own soul’s voice as a woman, artist and mystic.
SINU JOSEPH
Sinu Joseph is a menstrual educator, an author and one of the pioneers of the menstrual health movement in India. Her work on menstruation has been unique in its efforts of unearthing the ancient science behind native menstrual practices and bringing forth a narrative which is the Bharatiya perspective on menstruation. She is the co-founder and Managing Trustee of Mythri Speaks, and also works with The Forward Foundation.
She has studied several Hindu temples, religious restrictions owing to menstruation and their impact on women’s menstrual health. Her study on Sabarimala and the associated Sastha temples explore the way consecrated spaces can alter women’s menstrual cycles. Her book ‘Woman & Sabarimala: The science behind restrictions” is written from a woman’s perspective, explaining the nature of the temple through India’s traditional knowledge systems, such as Tantra and Agama Shastra.
Ṛtu Vidyā : Ancient Science behind Menstrual Practices
Aarti Kuber
Martina Polley
Aarti Kuber
Aarti is a tarot reader, expressive arts therapy practitioner, facilitator, artist & planeteer. She crafts herbal blends for sacred self-care and hosts workshops through her initiative, The Chandrakala Collective.
Aura Potier
Martina Polley
Aarti Kuber
Naked in Nature enthusiast & retreat guide, author of Wild Inspiration for the Sensitive Creative, facilitator, intuitive mover, visionary, crystal healer, yoni guide, creatress of Fierce Feminine Rise, infinite being.
Martina Polley
Martina Polley
Martina Polley
Martina is a wom(b)an in love with the mystery of life. She believes in the awakened women and in women making choices that support their aliveness. Martina facilitates authentic women’s circles.
Arpitha Shankar
Arpitha Shankar
Arpitha Shankar
Arpitha has a background as a Somatic family coach, Birth doula and a holistic health and wellness guide. Her work focuses on embodiment, relational healing and authentic communication with a trauma-informed approach. She believes that when we work with cultivating a relationship with the body, our innate wisdom comes alive to guide us through birth, transitions, everyday life, thus enabling us to have deeper, fulfilling relationships with ourselves and the world around us. She is also a mum to two wonderful daughters who are 9 and 11 years old who continue to inspire her and teach her about the many wonders of life.
Meet Arpitha Shankar on our Maiden Panel DIscussion.
REBA DANIEL
Arpitha Shankar
Arpitha Shankar
Reba Daniel- birthkeeper since 2008, when she had a deep inner shift happen through experiencing the freebirth of her daughter. She works as Doula, gives guidance and pre/ post partum support, birth trauma work and more. She works with the deep awareness that birth and all its allied journeys inherently have the powerful potential to shift/awaken a woman into a deeper life experience.
Meet Reba Daniel on our Mother Panel DIscussion.
Lakshmi VENUGOPAL
Lakshmi VENUGOPAL
Lakshmi VENUGOPAL
Lakshmi Venugopal is an experienced facilitator of Deep Ecology and the Work That Reconnects. She believes that the ecological and climate emergency that we face at this moment in history, is an opportunity for human beings, as a species, to transform ourselves into an ecological civilisation that honours the Earth and all living beings (including fellow humans). Her sessions help people rediscover their profound connection to themselves, each other and the Earth.
MAdhura Srinivas
Lakshmi VENUGOPAL
Lakshmi VENUGOPAL
Madhura is a trained Visual and Somatic artist and a practitioner in Integrative and Systemic Therapy. She blends her experiential wisdom gathered over many years along with a formal training received through exceptional teachers and mentors in her offerings as a facilitator.
Instagram: @madhura_srinivas
Megha Venketasamy
Megha Venketasamy
Megha Venketasamy
My body whispers that life and death cycles in the company of each other. Within this togetherness, , I support women in owning, creating, leading and living an empowered life.
PREETI GARG
Megha Venketasamy
Megha Venketasamy
Preeti Garg is an
Animal Telepathic Communicator,
Bach Therapist, and Reiki Healer.
MUDDITA GUPTA
MUDDITA GUPTA
MUDDITA GUPTA
As a Certified Therapeutic Movement & Expressive Art Facilitator, Multi-Dimensional Constellation Facilitator, and a Shamanic healer, I’m focused on bridging the gap between healing and therapy through my body-centred-healing approach.
RUCHI BHIMANI
MUDDITA GUPTA
MUDDITA GUPTA
As she transitions to her Queendom, Ruchi finds herself firmly and consciously on the path of Shakti. Through music, movement or art, she seeks to become a channel for all that she has harvested through this ongoing journey.
RASHMI BALAKRISHNAN
RASHMI BALAKRISHNAN
RASHMI BALAKRISHNAN
Rashmi Balakrishnan is a body-based expressive arts therapy practitioner and a women’s circle facilitator. She facilitates group sessions for maidens, mothers, and queens with an intention to offer safe and sacred spaces to explore and express their lived experiences in their bodies. She also co-facilitates a nine-month long journey on the book Women Who Run with the Wolves.
Sunanda PATI
RASHMI BALAKRISHNAN
RASHMI BALAKRISHNAN
Sunanda identifies as an embodied and expressive arts facilitator and a communications specialist with over 11 years of experience. She centers most of her work around the body, while borrowing her learnings from Nature and various expressive arts to inform deeper processes.
Instagram: @gaiacity
Swati Singla
Sheetal JAYRAJ
Sheetal JAYRAJ
Swati is a dreamer, moon lover, stargazer, tree-hugger, dandelion blower, rainbow-chaser, and lover of natural wonders. She curates earth and moon-based rituals, through nature mandalas and nature-based poetry/writing, as a way of intuitively connecting with and expressing the body’s and earth mother’s love and mysteries.
Sunitha Sivamani
VaishNavi VISHWANATHAN
VaishNavi VISHWANATHAN
Sunitha Sivamani is a daughter, wife and a mother. She's a Jungian Psychotherapist who works with dreams, images, myths and art to embody the wisdom of the unconscious while working with the psyche. In the mental health field, she works with adults in the area of Trauma.
She's a seeker and takes keen interest in embodied feminine wisdom,working with the lunar earth rhythms to engage with the mind-body connection. She's done research around the ritualistic practices with respect to the symbol of the Serpent's in Kerala and it's connection to myth of the land. She's a poet and a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and weaves the images with her body and senses.
FB: @aserpentscalling
VaishNavi VISHWANATHAN
VaishNavi VISHWANATHAN
VaishNavi VISHWANATHAN
Vaishnavi is a tree woman who courageously steps into unknown depths of herself. Her biggest leap of faith is that of becoming a mother to a lovely 1.5 yr old who is her strongest and most loving teacher so far.