9th Annual Fairy & Human Relations Congress
June 26 - 28, 2009
Skalitude Retreat Center ~ Twisp ~ Methow Valley ~ North Cascades ~ WA

Congress Presenters; Past and Present : Other Fairy Events
Fairy Art :  Fairy Studies : Fairy Traditions

Fairy Congress Presenters, Past and Present

Shoshana Avree has been practicing Shamanic healing and teaching Shamanism for over 20 years. Helping people find their true nature through experiencing the Spirits is her passion.
www.shaman-inspirit.com

Eileen Kilgren Bergman is a very familiar character in Seattle’s Irish scene and has run the Galway Traders store for many years. Every few years she comes out with a new booklet about her fairy communications and experiences.

Peter Berry was enchanted by the sound of the Celtic harp when he was a teenager, and longed to get his hands on one. That didn't happen until he was 30 and moved from North Carolina to Seattle. Since then his passion for the harp and its music has led him on a journey of discovery. This has included an exploration of the lore and spiritual insight associated with the Celtic harp, its place in ancient Gaelic society and its relevance for our times. He has traveled to Ireland numerous times to commune with the muse and to research tunes, as well as to perform and to hear the Irish harp played in its native land by Irish musicians. A long-time student of RJ Stewart, he is devoted to the vitality of the Threefold Alliance between humanity, the Faerie Realm, and the living beings of the Earth with whom we share the planet.

Paul Beyerl is the author of The Master Book of Herbalism, A Compendium of Herbal Magick and The Holy Books of the Devas. Beyerl teaches botanical medicine and herbal gardening at The Hermit's Grove near Seattle.
www.thehermitsgrove.org

Camilla Blossom is a GeoRomancer living and loving in the Columbia River Gorge. She has created the Columbia River Gorge Flower Essences as well as many intentional potions and lotions using flower essences and essential oils.
www.3flowershealing.com

Dr. Morgan Brent interest in medicinal and sacramental plants and fungi led to a doctoral program in ethnopharmacology and medical anthropology, but increasingly moved in the direction of ecological studies. His research eventually focused on the great herbalist traditions of the world, their role in spiritual revitalization movements, and their common prescriptive message to humanity. He now leads groups of prepared individuals to Peru for the Amazonian plantas maestras (teacher-plant) tradition of spiritual healing.
www.tribesofcreation.com

Ginger Cloud is the founder of Peace Puppets, organization that offers community interactive Ceremonial Puppet Theater.

Lady Cyn DeFay, D.D. High Priestess of the Faery Faith, an Irish earth-based religion practicing in SW Washington. She is a metaphysician, flower essence producer and therapist and the founder and educator of the Cluan-Feart, a Celtic women's mystery school. Lady Cyn faciltates new moon mysteries for women monthly in the Vancouver/Portland area.
For more information email her at priestess_pan@yahoo.com

Orion Foxwood is founder of the Foxwood Temple and co-director of Moonridge, a land-based sanctuary and educational center for Faery and magical studies in Maryland, U.S.A. This area is located in the fringes of Appalachia, an area rife with simple but powerful magical and spiritual approaches comprised of European, African and Native American elements. For the last 20 years, Orion has studied and practiced Faery Seership and other folk magic and healing practices.
http://www.smart.net/~ftor/

Mary J. Getten is a telepathic animal communicator, flower essence practitioner, naturalist and author of Communicating with Orcas: The Whales Perspective.
www.MaryGetten.com

Anne Gordon is a certified practitioner of Dolphin Energy Healing. A graduate of Linda Shay's Dolphin Heart World School in Oct. 2005. Although Anne is fairly new at Dolphin energy healing she has been feeling the call of the Dolphins since 2000 and has a deep connection to the animal world having worked as a zookeeper and film & TV animal trainer since 1983.
www.bottles-of-hope.com

Ellen Evert Hopman is a Druid, a professional herbalist of the American Herbalists Guild, and the author of Tree Medicine, Tree Magic, and A Druid Herbal for the Sacred Year.
www.geocities.com/gaias_song/willow.html

John Lawrence and Sharon Raven Hill  have studied with Sharon Ingerman and teach similar shamanic material. www.medicinefortheearth.com

Amy Leigh is of direct fairy lineage via Danu. The Fairy Realm has been part of Amy’s vast reality since childhood and she communicates messages directly from its many benevolent forces and beings. Amy is a Water Element Therapy™ and Element Therapy™ healer and creator, medical intuitive, channel, author, psychic and shaman. Amy has established an international, eclectic and varied clientele of recipients for her various forms of healing work and her shamanism and elemental workshops. She also authored and created The Element Healing Cards: Sparkling Vibrations from Angels, Goddesses, Elohim and Ascended Masters which will be released in 2008. Amy is an artist and painter who creates Rx ART™ and personal Activation Cards for vibrational and profound healing.
Amymdh@yahoo.com.
www.continuumnetwork.com

Neil Leonard does shamanic journeywork to find guidance in land healing and landscape design as well as receiving direct information from trees and elementals.

David Lertzman Ph.D. is an environmental educator, cross-cultural facilitator and multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter who has studied and practiced Fairy Magic for 20 years. He has performed, led activities and spoken at festivals, conferences, institutions, communities and private venues in Canada, the United States, South America and Britain. His songs are particularly well known in Rediscovery, a cross-cultural wilderness education program run from First Nations communities in Canada. His two decades of research, professional and personal involvement with Indigenous peoples have inspired the renewal of European nature traditions within North American ecosystems. David is a professor of Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at the University of Calgary. He lives in a cabin on the Ghost River in the forests of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains.

Dorothy Maclean is one of the original founders of the Findhorn Community in Scotland and known worldwide for her pioneering contact with the inner voice of the sacred and for her work with the Angels of nature and nations. Dorothy's book, To Hear the Angels Sing, contains many of her communications with not only the essences of plants, but with minerals, animals and groups of humans too. Dorothy has probably done more than any other single person in the 20th century to popularize the idea that humans can communicate with devas.
www.lorian.org

Méla MacVittie teaches Feng Shui principles of earth, fire, wood, metal and water and how to balance these in your home and workplace.

Caitlin Matthews is the author of over fifty books, including Psychic Shield, Celtic Love, Singing the Soul Back Home and Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom. She is internationally renowned for her research into the Celtic and ancestral traditions. She is a co-founder of The Foundation for Inspirational and Oracular Studies, which is dedicated to shamanism and the sacred arts. Caitlín has a shamanic practice in Oxford, dealing with soul-sickness and ancestral fragmentation. She works primarily through sound, singing the soul’s essential nature and finding its track in each person’s story.
www.hallowquest.org.uk

Cindy McGonagle teaches co-creative gardening classes in Portland, Oregon. Cindy is also an artist with her company "Botanic Reproductions". She is working on her 3rd book about fairies. McGonagle has been working closely with Queen Dee, the Fairy Queen of the Columbia Gorge; as well as with the Landscape Angel of Mt. Hood.
www.cindymcgonagle.com

Mark S. McNutt and Marygold McNutt co-direct the YewWood Forest Retreat Center, a magical fairy filled place in the lush Oregon Coast Range where they live close to the earth with seen and unseen creatures.
www.aerious.org

Hope and Randy Mead Randy is a musician, producer, and film maker who is deeply involved with the healing properties of vibration. He wrote his master's thesis on Tuning and Psycho-Acoustics which launched him on this lifetime quest to understand the connection between vibration and consciousness. Randy has worked with Reiki, Shamanism, and quantum healing machines as synergistic compliments to sound healing. His newest CD, Ascending Spiral, incorporates scalar waves with the audio program for a multi- dimensional healing experience.

Hope Mead is an artist who expresses herself in many forms. She is a professional photographer, film-maker, songwriter, healing arts practitioner and mother.

They are delighted to share these other dimensions through their photography and the Orb experience.
www.ToolsForTranscendence.com

Catherine Morgan has started the Tasaris Center for Elemental Healing and Ascension in Littleton, Colorado. Her work with the Faerie Realm centers on providing healing and ascension information for elementals from many different areas: tree spirits, faerie guardians, mountain masters, the dwarven realm, water sprites, rock spirits, lost elementals, and others. She will be presenting in 2010.

Britt Nesheim is a clairvoyant spiritual teacher who works with angels and spiritual guides to give people spiritual understanding and direction. Britt teaches in-person and correspondence classes for sensitive healers and healing with the angel, fairy and goddess realms. She offers Angel Readings, intuitive spiritual counseling inspired by angels. Since 1995, Britt has helped hundreds of people across the world connect with their angels and spiritual guides. Britt is certified by Dr. Doreen Virtue as an Angel Therapy Practitioner ™.
www.angelfairygoddess.com

Madi Nolan is seen as a Tulku, a reincarnated Buddhist teacher and spiritual leader through lifetimes of study and effort. At age 14, she was ordained a Lama, given her spiritual name, and then at 18, became a citizen of the world, teaching and working as a doctor of Tibetan medicine and spiritual teacher.

Julie Charette Nunn, Crow's Daughter, joyously teaches wise woman ways through shamanic herbal apprenticeships, classes and one to one teachings. She and her beloved consort, Taddeusz, steward a beautiful farm on Whidbey Island where Julie has been humbly listening, connecting and doing the bidding of the fairies for the last three years.
www.crowsdaughter.com

Don Ollison has an established herbal school, Herbal Healing Journey, which is based in Victoria and Vancouver, B.C.
www.herbalhealingpathway.com

Diana Gay Pepper has been communicating with plants, devas and fairies for years, produces flower essences from plants on her land, and has a practice in Nature Spirit Healing.
www.treefrogfarm.com

Chuck Pettis has designed and built sacred spaces for the last 30 years, including energetically and astronomically aligned stone circles. He dowsed and created the Seattle Ley-Line Map and is the author of Secrets of Sacred Space.
www.geo.org

J. Joshua Phillips is a therapist with a private practice in the Olympia area. He combines his training in body-centered psychotherapy with an interest in facilitating community ritual and healing. He has led workshops spanning the Cascadian bioregion aimed at reconnecting humans with the earth, themselves and each other.

Anahata Pomeroy returns to the Fairy Congress and will be offering SOUNDS throughout the weekend. She's known for her magical toning with tar drum. Her prayers and calls use words from many sacred traditions as well as working with sound, color and movement.

Linda Quintana is the proprietor of Wonderland Teas & Spice in Bellingham, Washington and Alpine Herb Farm. She teaches which plants attract Fairies into your garden; and Welcoming fairies to your yard by building homes for them.

Sal Rachele is a teacher, healer, mystic, priest , psychic, intuitive, clairvoyant reader, author, musician and recording artist. Rachele is a pioneer in the human potential field. He graduated from Silva Mind Control in 1976 and was the founder and director of Alpha-Theta Seminars in the late 1970s. He studied rebirthing (conscious breathing), meditation, the healing arts and sacred theatre during the 80's and 90's. He began creating cassettes of original piano music in the early 80's including "Heavenly Creations", "Nature's Paradise", "Soul's Dream", and "Infinite Peace." His latest CD is "Angel Dance". Sal creates music that assists you to be in touch with your Divine Essence. He is the author of "Life On the Cutting Edge", a self-help manual that explores the human condition in depth. He resides in Northern Arizona where he has a private counseling, reading and healing practice. Sal channels messages from Leah the Venusian, the Arcturians, Lord Sananda, the archangels, the Founders, Isis and others. Some messages are on his website:
www.salrachele.com

Raven is a channel for Spirit; including Fairies, Angels and Divine Mother. She offers monthly classes to connect with the Spirit Realm, private healings, and channeled sessions with your sprit guides.
www.ravenmedium.com

Ouapiti Robintree of Hummingbird Remedies in Nevada City, California offers over 500 vibrational remedies (flower essences, gem elixirs, and angelic essences). She offers workshops in Shamanic Communication with Nature for Environmental Restoration.
www.hummingbirdremedies.com

Shemmaho J. Sioux has been living in the forest for the last 36 years. A certified leader of the Dances of Universal Peace, she has been leading Circle Dances throughout the region for 20 years. As a sacred singer, her function is to awaken spirit. Her large repertoire of traditional and original chants are predominantly songs of healing. 

SeaHeart is a multi-dimensional healer who claims Ojibwe heritage. She has recently relocated from the Pacific Northwest to the front range of the Rockies in Colorado and carries with her Whale Medicine and the "four precepts of whale-being": Breath, Community, Intention, and Attention. It is her greatest pleasure to share the teachings she treasures.

Seda is a friend and an ally of the faeries who has been communing with nature spirits since infancy. As a self proclaimed earth healer, Seda has dedicated this existence to co-creating a world of peace, love, harmony, and intimacy with nature.

Shebear is a long-time resident of Okanogan County who lives close to nature. She creates beautiful fiber art. Shebear has been trained in and practices dowsing.

Gail Smedley teaches a storytelling workshop that balances storytelling technique with motivators for writing stories of transformation and magic.  Stories are a fabulous tool for healing and transformation if we can connect with the faery within!

David Spangler is a philosopher, writer and educator in incarnational spirituality; the integration of spiritual values, energy and presence into everyday life. He is executive director of the Lorian Association and past co-director of the Findhorn Community. Since a child, he has had conscious awareness of and communication with supersensory worlds of spirit. 
www.lorian.org

Paul Stamets is the founder and owner of Fungi Perfecti. Stamets is one of the world's most knowledgeable mycologists, particularly in regard to medicinal mushrooms and using fungi in environmental restoration. His company, based near Olympia Washington, grows a wide range of medicinal and edible mushrooms. .
www.fungiperfecti.com

R. J. Stewart is a Scottish author and composer of international acclaim. He has worked, researched and written extensively on the Underworld and Faery realms with 37 books in publication including: The Living World of Faery, and Earth Light: Rediscovering the Wisdom of Celtic and Faery Lore. RJ's workshop is The Well of Light, a group ceremony to open the way for Earth Healing through a mutual communion between Humans, Faery Races, Spiritual Go-Betweens, and the Shining Ones in the Heart of the Earth. RJ performs in our concerts.
www.dreampower.com

Shannon Marie Svensson is an artist, Reiki Master, Ordained Priestess, and has a strong affinity for crystal bowls. It was at the Fairy & Human Relations Congress that she saw fairies for the first time!
www.circlegreen.org

Lisa Thiel is a visionary artist and ceremonial singer whose healing songs – prayers & chants are being sung in circles around the world. David MacVittie is a Canadian born multi-instrumentalist who feels sound is a form of audible light.
www.sacreddream.com

Peter Tompkins is the author of many influential books on the intelligences within nature. His 1973 book "The Secret Life of Plants" was a New York Times number one bestseller. This was followed by "Secrets of the Soil", 1989, and "The Secret Life of Nature", 1997. Peter was at the 2005 Congress. He passed away in 2007.

Adrienne Roan Bear Whitman is a Native American raised in the old ways by her grandmother at Mt. Shasta. Now living in Snohomish, Washington, she teaches herbal healing and shamanic pathways.