Saturday, March 29, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ
Dancing the Spiral: Cosmology, Spirits of Place and the Mystery of the Cauldron
Glenys Livingstone, Lauren Raine, Desiree Mwalimu-Banks ,Kristinha Reva
- The Cauldron, the Womb, and the Waters: The Welsh Witch Ceridwen and the Journey of Ecological Individuation, Kristinha Reva
- Sonic Transmissions and Water Ecologies: A Voyage Into the Water Mandala, Desiree Mwalimu-Banks
- Embodying the Triple Spiral: a Relational Practice with Place, Glenys Livingstone
- Numina: Spirits of Place, Pilgrimage, and Myth, Lauren Raine
Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. (Social Ecology) is the author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion. She was born and lives in Australia, where she has facilitated Seasonal ceremony. Glenys teaches an online course celebrating the Wheel of the Year for both hemispheres. Her book A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos: Celebrating Her within PaGaian Sacred Ceremony documents the synthesis of her work over the past decades.
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks is a Zambian-born, East Coast-raised interdisciplinary artist, educator, mother, and priestess of Auset. Her work explores somatic relationships between indigenous identity, water ecologies, and apiary culture within the framework of the sacred feminine and the African diaspora. She creates sound and video installations which reimagine the frequencies and landscapes of the archetypal feminine and its relationship to self-actualization.
Lauren Raine MFA, is an artist and Community Arts facilitator as well as a poet. She is known for her “Masks of the Goddess” Collection of over 50 masks that travelled throughout the U.S. with different communities for over 25 years. In 2013 she collaborated with playwright Ann Waters to create masks for the play “Numina: The Awakening” performed in Willits, California. In 2018 after attending the Gatekeeper Conference “Dreaming the Land: Working with the Consciousness of Nature” in the U.K. she was inspired to write about her experiences.
Kristinha Maria Reva, MA, is a PhD candidate in the Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She enjoys sharing storytelling, ritual, and expressive arts processes with an ecological focus. She has told stories for the Storytellers of San Diego, San Francisco Free Folk Festival, and Visions Art Museum. Her written work has been published in Unbroken, Dark Matter and the Mythological Studies Journal. She currently lives in Encinitas, CA.
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