Affinity Group Leaders
This will be Shelley's third year participating in Phoenix Fire with her son, Hank. Shelley says, "Phoenix Fire has been inspirational in sharing and building community with us. The values that have been impressed upon my son have made me want to share this with other families. Creating sacred space for families is essential as our children grow up to be our future leaders." In addition to being a mother, Shelley is a Reiki Master & En ...more
Gina has attended fires at this site since the very beginnings in the 1990's Her passion for life fuels her song and movement. Her love for children and family has inspired her to want to bring more families to the community to share this experience with the next generation. Living, loving, breathing, weaving the rhythm and rhyme into every day to hopefully inspire others to do the same. Gina is a Licensed massage therapist, Certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, singer/song writer, and a D ...more
DidgMan Chris and Gaiella have been active in the Sacred Fire Circle community for the past 10 years and have organized several small annual gatherings (GaiaFire and TipiFire) that focus primarily on building community. Over the past few years they have explored many ways to take the lessons learned at the Fire and apply them to the mundane world to affect positive change in individual lives and in the community at large. They are the co-creators of ...more
Amelia Hogan has been an active artist since before she could walk and has always brought color, texture, and fun to whatever endeavors strike her fancy. She graduated top of her Class from Mills college in 2009 with her BA in Studio/fine Arts with an emphasis on mixed media. She has taught Grad and Undergrad students in book arts, and been in numerous juried Art exhibitions which push buttons and awaken things inside and out a ...more
When he first encountered the fire circle in 2003, Terence fell in love with its mix of motion, emotion, spontaneity, connection, and song. It felt like sacred, earth-based theater games – and he knew he was home. Since then, he's served in various volunteer roles with the Fire Family and the Spark Collective. (Lately, his favorite form of magic is blues dancing.) Drawing on sweet memories of his first circle seven years ago, ...more
In this circle we move together! Some call it dance, others, walking the fire. Whatever you call it, it's movement! Kimba comes to Phoenix fire as an engaged mover, using her body to stir the cauldron and raise and lower energies within and without. Whatever we are feeling or seemingly not feeling we can let that inform our physicality and perhaps get a glimpse, ...more
Dakini Uma Amitabha has been a performing artist and dancer for 30 + years. Her dedication to dance and seasoned passion for performance art gives her a unique and intimate understanding of the world of Dance Theater and the arts. Dakini is a graduate of Helene Eriksen’s “Women’s Dances of the Orient” project, a former sponsor of the DAME Fest world music a ...more
Song leader DJ Hamouris brings four decades of vocal experience and training to her teaching. Leading the vocal group Women & Song since 2004, she mines old and new musical sources to find material that is fun and memorable both for singers and their audiences. DJ's recordings include "Welcome to Annwfn" with brother Rick Hamouris; "The Chorus of Life" with Gaia's Vo ...more
Oliver is fascinated by the use of co-created spontaneous ritual as a tool for mapping internal experience and connecting us with unknown personal sources. He is a student of the way of the heart, and a believer that empowered communities can heal the wounds that divide us. Oliver was introduced to the fire circle in 2006 and has been enthusiastically attending fire family events since. He is a member of the Spark Collective core. He is also a professional software developer and computer boff ...more
Tymn is an adept, holistic, community Priest and Ritualist with over 10 years experience in planning and organizing sacred events. He is also a visual artist, singer and songwriter with a deep love for writing chants for use in sacred space. He has facilitated numerous workshops and song circle ceremonies in Santa Cruz, the South Bay Area as well as Seattle. He currently h ...more
The Pigeon Hawk is a rare bird of the Mystery with a keen sense of Vision and ability to catch his Pray through a startling array spiralacious flight. Often seen around water, especially water that has been enlivened, he is often considered an indicator species for recovering ecosystems, and can sometimes be found teaching Permaculture workshops and tinkering with Flowforms. Some of the wonderful things that Pigeon Hawks do can be seen at ...more
Sylvia Brallier is director of The Tantric Shamanism Insitute, The School for The Intuitive Healing Arts and a recording artist. She has been teaching healing, tantra, metaphysics, shamanism and Earth spirituality workshops internationally since 1984. Sylvia's work is based on her own experiences with both ancient and new techniques for the evolution of consciousness.
Morwen is a drummer, musician, teacher, writer, and facilitator who has been exploring the connections between rhythm, consciousness, and healing for many years. She is co-founder of Earth Drum Council, and has been teaching rhythm since the early nineties throughout the Northeast. She works as director of program development at a community art center in her hometown in
Jimi Two Feathers, co-founder of Earth Drum Council, is a teacher, facilitator, and community organizer who has been building drum and dance community for over thirty years. In addition to EDC, Jimi is an original member of Dance Free and co-founder of Dance New England. Jimi builds and repairs computers and serves on the Board of Community Change Inc, an anti-racism non-profit in Boston.