Featured Presenters
The women presenting at the inaugural Plant Magick Gathering are visionary matriarchs with a wealth of experience who know there is ancient wisdom alive in all of us. The generative perspectives they bring forth and their dedication to plants, place and people are exponentially activating.
Amikaeyla Gaston
Amikaeyla's healing practice is rooted as much in the earth as in the voice. Her studies with traditional healers, herbalists, and cultural artists around the world have shaped a deep, cross-cultural fluency in plant and herbal medicine — the elemental wisdom of working with the natural spirits, the body, and the land as partners in wholeness.
In war zones and divided communities alike, Amikaeyla demonstrates a universal truth: when we anchor in the rhythm of our breath and the sound of our own voice, we build the capacity to stay present, to act from wholeness, and to transform trauma into a force for collective liberation.
Susan Leopold is the Executive Director of the United Plant Savers, an ethnobotanist and conservation biologist known for her work in the fields of plant conservation, sustainable agriculture, and ethnobotany.
She is an advocate for ethical wildcrafting practices, community-based conservation initiatives, and the preservation of traditional plant knowledge, She is a proud member of the Patowomeck Tribe of Virginia.
Susan Leopold
Cathryn the Grateful
As a sacred activist, Cathryn strongly believes in the importance of creativity, storytelling, and community as we co-create a just world for all.
Cathryn’s primary joy generator is dancing through life. She has a dance sanctuary near Charleston, SC where she hosts the global DIVINE DANCE PARTY as well as intimate group dance and individual movement healing.
Her spiritual journey has taken her across the globe, dancing with the Hindu Goddesses in India and chanting in Buddhist monasteries in Korea. She maintains her commitment with a daily altar practice and work with several sacred elders across spiritual traditions, Christianity, Creation Spirituality, Indigenous Wisdoms, and Goddess Traditions.
Magickal Teachers
We have many incredible teachers, facilitators and ceremonialists lined up.
Here is a sampling with the full lineup coming in early August!
Cindy Quay
Cindi Quay is a Native American Traditional Herbalist, storyteller, and proud descendant of the Menominee Nation. As the founder of Cindi's Sacred Garden in Black Mountain, North Carolina, she has spent over 30 years crafting organic herbal remedies, natural skincare, and earth-based wellness products while preserving traditional plant wisdom.
An Alumni instructor for the HERBalachia Native Herbalism Program, Cindi shares classes on herbal medicine making, plant identification, Native traditions, and women's healing wisdom. Her teachings inspire participants to deepen their connection with the natural world and honor the ancestral knowledge carried through generations.
www.cindissacredgarden.com
Sharon Oxendine Black Crow
My work is part of my mission at Medicine Wheel Way. Medicine Wheel Way is a nonprofit sponsored by Medicine Bowl Giving Circle. Our mission is to end racism, break systems of oppression, and restore our connection to the Earth. By holding space for Indigenous ceremony, celebration, and cultural preservation, we nurture collective healing through an ecosystem of Nature Restorative Practices including Land Restoration, Education, and Community.
‘We envision a world where community is the cornerstone of healing. As indigenous women, we care for this land, striving to create a sacred space where individuals can reconnect with their roots, each other, and the elements of nature through transformative ceremonies.”
www.medicinewheelway.org
Greya
Greya is a spiritual renegade & Appalachian wild witch living in fierce reclamation of the sacredness of feminine wisdom. Through an embodied devotional practice that is rooted in deep reverence to the mystery, radical self acceptance & awakened authenticity, Greya lives in service as a reflection of the liberation that can be actualized when the choice is made to embrace one’s true nature.
Greya is an ally, an educator, a ritualist, a sacred space holder, an herbalist & naturopathic practitioner with a passion for reconnecting women to their divine blueprint. She supports women in a reintroduction to their wombs, encouraging the curiosity & compassion that can allow for clear dialogue. Greya supports the illumination of a path towards inner knowing that only comes through reverence of our natural cycles.
@rise.root_Live.Free
April Pallette Punsalan
April Punsalan is the visionary founder of Wild Herb Academy and a lifelong devotee of the plant world.
With over 29 years of experience in herbalism and botany, her path weaves together science and spirit.
She holds a two-year degree in Horticulture, a Bachelor of Science with an emphasis in Botany, a Traditional Herbalism Certificate, and a Master of Science emphasis in Botany.
Beyond formal education, she has spent thousands of hours in direct relationship with wild plants—listening, harvesting, and preparing medicine in rhythm with the seasons.
wildherbacademy.com
Kelli Johnson
A Native American ceremonial leader of 34 years, homebirth midwife and medicine elder serving community through sweat lodges, moon circles, birth, support groups, herbal medicines, teaching circles and sacred song.
FB: Coyotes Natural Medicine iG: Mother Medicine 88
Paloma Devi
Paloma Devi is a devoted conduit of the sacred sound current. She is a soul singer, ethnic dancer and seasoned Yogini. As an Internationally recognized Teacher and Singer, her voice carries the sadhana.
She is a Certified Reiki Master Teacher and has completed various yoga teacher training programs. From these outer and inner studies and 21 years of teaching Voice she has birthed Vocal Moksha Method.She has earned a Degree In World Religions, Asian Studies & Dance as well as a Master's degree in Theta Healing with the Founder, Vianna Stibal.
Paloma is of Cuban, Spanish & Asian descent. She has provided thousands of classes over the last 21+ years in Yoga, Sacred Sounds & Dance Embodiment workshops around the world.
palomadevi.com
IG: palomadevi 
Ruth Elliot
Ruth has been studying osteopathic manual therapy and pelvic energy medicine since 2012. She began reading Akashic records in 2016, and since 2017 has been combining osteopathic manual therapy with the Akashic records.
Ruth is proud to have studied with the Barral Institute, the Herman and Wallace Institute, the APTA, Summit Education Group, the Akashic Alliance and Deborah Hellman, Tami Lynn Kent for Holistic Pelvic Care™, and the Birth Healing Institute. She has been a presenter at the South East Wise Women’s Herbal Conference, the Midsouth Women’s Herbal Conference, AB Tech, the Asheville School of Massage and Yoga, and for Asheville birth workers.
Ruth teaches and lives feminine medicine with a masculine joy, clarity, and enthusiasm.Wise Earth Botanicals
https://ashevilleholisticpt.com/IG: ashevilleholisticPT
Julie Hatch
“I am here for the Earth and the Spirits. I am here to build a bridge between the people and the plant world. I am here to heal and to help others heal. I am here to reconnect the people to the Earth & their hearts.”
I have spent the last 11 years devoted to studying the plant kingdom and the world between worlds, living for years in the Amazon jungle, apprenticing with indigenous healers as well as the plants themselves. In Peru, I also trained with curanderas and plant doctors.
I apprenticed and worked for Matthew Wood for over 5 years, working as an Herbalist, Medicine Maker, Ceremonialist and Energy Worker. I have a private practice in Barnardsville, NC.
www.wildheartmedicinals.netIG: wildheartmedicinals
Reina
Reina is a culinary director & guide. Teaching food as medicine, pleasure, and sacred nourishment for 18 years.
As a body worker practitioner in 2005, Reina’s journey took a pivotal turn when she discovered the healing power of food. Her innovative approach led her to co-found Dr. Smood in 2014 where, as head research and development chef she masterfully crafted the companies health forward recipes for five years in Miami and NYC.
www.herbmajestea.comIG: nourishedmystiC
Sharmiece Patterson
Sharmiece “Aminatá” Patterson is a Gullah Geechee herbalist, educator, and wellness guide blending ancestral wisdom with holistic healing.
‘The wisdom passed down through generations of my family inspires my journey as an herbalist, where I seek to honor and preserve the legacy of my ancestors while sharing their timeless gifts with the world”.
www.Aminataindigoroot.com IG: aminata_indigo_rooTFB Aminata Indigo root
Lee Warren
Lee Warren is a Tantra educator, somatic guide, writer, mystic, and community builder whose work invites people into a more intimate relationship with embodiment, eros, and the mystery of being alive. Her teaching is centered on the inner marriage of spirit and matter—the lived experience of bringing our deepest essence into a fully embodied life. Her work invites participants into greater intimacy with themselves, one another, and the awe-filled mystery of existence.
She is the author of the forthcoming book Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care, founder of Reclaiming Wisdom, and a writer on community, transformation, embodiment, mortality, the mystical dimensions of incarnation, and the ecstatic intelligence of existence.
https://reclaimingwisdom.substack.com/
IG: lee_warren_reclaiming_wisdom
FB: lee.warren.966137
Elicia Deva
Elisha is an interdisciplinary thinker who has been researching social inequality for almost thirty years. Her degree is in Human Biology from Stanford, a multidisciplinary combination of anthropology, psychology and biology. After working for four years in neuroscience at UCLA, the politics and sexism drove her out of academia. Since then she’s collected data across disciplines to interpret it for the public, reading every book, article, and paper she could find on the rise of dominance in the Bronze Age. She’s travelled the world, visiting matrilineal cultures and searching museums for clues to our ancient past.
https://substack.com/@eliciadhttps://beforewar.com/
Laura Bee Ferguson
Through collective envisioning and inspiration from ancient beekeeping practices, world-wide Laura Bee worked for 15 years to create an authentic and relevant spiritual beekeeping practice. Creating a Six-Fold Path of Sacred Beekeeping in the hopes of creating a new, holistic approach to beekeeping practices in order to restore balance within apiculture and bring the Sacred back into Apiculture. She draws on her studies as an Anthropologist and Leadership coach, Walking Priestess of Artemis, Mother and Environmentalist. The Six-fold Sacred Path of the Honeybee celebrates the Science, Sacred, History, Mystery, Art/Medicine, and Activism.
Mae Mims
Somatic Doula & Reiki Master. I weave somatic tools and ancestral healing practices to support womxn in claiming creative life force, and sovereignty.
Brook Sullivan
Brooke Sullivan BA, c-IAYT, e-RYT500 is an educator, dharma igniter, and rebellious paradigm shifter who rests on the shoulders of tradition. With the twilight alchemy of tantra yoga, herbalism & wise women mysticism, she empowers spirit-led changemakers, wellness professionals, and aspiring leaders to step into the most powerful version of themselves and live a life of greater joy and impact.
Brooke is the founder and director of The Wild Temple School of Yoga and Herbal Wisdom and The Wild Temple Podcast. Her most well-known running programs are the Sage Apprenticeship, Plants Drop Wisdom, Yogis Apothecary, and Wild Sage: A Dharmic Revolution. Her mission in life is to burn karma + serve dharma.
https://www.thewildtemple.com/IG: thewildtemple
Stephanie Hein
Stephanie Hein is an herbalist, educator, and founder of Wise Earth Botanicals, dedicated to preserving traditional plant wisdom and helping others reclaim their health naturally.
https://wiseearthbotanicals.com
