Meet the 2020 Team
Sasha Zeilig - SSGG Founder & Organizer
Photo by the Art of Dalini Rose
Sasha Zeilig is a is a Play Coach, Facilitator of Interactive Events, Certified Theta HealerⓇ, and Ordained Minister. She is a Facilitator of Ecstatic Dance San Diego, Journeydance, Purple Circle, other workshops, as well as an annual empowerment retreat called the Sierra Goddess Gathering. She is also creatrix and host of Come Play Honest & Brave Game. Sasha holds a BFA in theatre from Cornish College of the Arts. She has practiced yoga, movement, dance, creative writing, music and art for more than 20 years. Her desire for equality, justice and respect for all people and all life of our Mother Earth inspires Sasha daily to practice what she preaches, set an example for others, and be the change she wishes to see in the world. She is an activist for social justice and environmentalist. Sasha helps people live in alignment with their soul purpose creating a magical Orgasmic Life!
Sierra Linda Flores - Marketing Magician
Sierra Linda Flores is a facilitator of human connection and fulfillment, a leadership coach, athlete, seasoned recruiting manager, and wilderness wanderer. She has a deep commitment to people living a life full of freedom and magic, through body movement and empowering choices. Sierra has studied psychology and cognitive science at UCSD, and her lifelong passion and career has been supporting the diversification and inclusion of more women in the science and technology fields. She was a competitive swimmer for 10 years, has been practicing yoga for over 13 years, and through her Latin roots has been dancing almost everyday since she was a child. This fiery goddess continues to create and facilitate community circles to address mental health, sexism, trauma, human rights, and music healing. Returning for her 3rd year at the Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering, she is here to provide coaching and support around developing healthy self-talk, confidence, mastering communication in all relationships, and dismantling destructive belief systems.
Brittney Livingston - Logistics Manager
Brittney Livingston is a goddess who embraces living to the fullest in every moment. She is a traveler that seeks new journeys far and wide. Her soul thirsts for experiencing the worlds most beautiful landscapes, and immersing into unique cultures of her brothers and sisters on this planet. Her heart is filled with overflowing love for humanity and the desire to connect and see everyone happy. She is a safe space many beings confide in, knowing she will listen and help them rid of what may no longer serve them. Her mind races with meticulous ideas and plans for structure and organization, as she is concise in her execution. She embraces a yin-yang energy where she can bring flow and calmness to any situation, and at the same time take action and be strong when necessary. Her body is an instrument of human emotion that she plays by dancing through time and space.
Dru LeMin- Event Coordinator
A transplant from Long Island NY, Dru now resides in SoCal with her husband and 11 yr old daughter. She is a full time home-school mom, owner of Lotus Property Management, and lover of Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering! This will be her third time participating in SSGG, and this year she is on the leadership team organizing all communications. Health and well-being is a very important part of her plant-based life and she has a strong passion for holistic nutrition and healing . When shes not in the hot-yoga room she can be found soaking up the sun and grounding herself at the beach.
Kerem Brule - Beautiful Sounds
Beautiful Sounds ~ Healing Instruments help people to rediscover their musical expression as a healing practice. Owner, Kerem Brulé, is a meditation musician and healing sounds educator supporting workshops, retreats, trainings, and a growing family of sound tribe around the world. Stop for a moment and drop into presence, coming to a still point. Noticing your breath coming in and releasing naturally back out, and pulling in again. Sensing the space around you, sensing your body on the earth. Together we will go on a journey of music created with the intention for healing, nurturing, and allowing. Relaxing, drifting, beautiful sounds. Our subconscious intelligence and imagination brings us to many destinations and experiences within our own mind. Coming to stillness allows for our nervous systems to reset. Collective consciousness is linked and is available to amplify the heart math of the group, like a hive of bees. playbeautifulsounds.com
Tarnie Fulloon - Transformational Therapist
Tarnie Fulloon, PT, BAppSc (Physiotherapy), MA (Psychology), Somatic Movt Cert, Specializing in Transformational Medicine, Tarnie’s expertise as a mentor, coach, speaker (Tedx Pasadena), author and previous Sports Medicine Physiotherapist (Olympics Australia 2000) is partnering with those who have recurring pain and body symptoms. Using her signature BodyFreedom™ method she guides her clients through body centered practices to discover the root cause of their pain. With a focus on back and neck pain, she mentors clients to find the freedom from their pain, and live with joy, confidence and aliveness. www.tarniefulloon.com
Barbara Gail - Frame Drum Workshop
Barbara has been an alchemist in the arts of rhythm and movement, hand-drumming and dance since 1993, spreading these joys to people of all ages, abilities and challenges. A vibrant performer and presenter, Barbara is an accomplished hand-drummer, dancer, percussionist, SpiritSinger, and seasoned facilitator of group drum and dance experiences, from the ceremonial, to the celebratory. Barbara holds a B.A. in Education with a Minor in Dance, from Hampshire College, where she began her concentration on The Arts as Experiential Education for Personal and Social Transformation. She's 200-hour Yoga Certified, & has achieved advanced certifications in JourneyDance™. A lifelong spiritual seeker who follows the sun, moon, and stars, Barbara is a world traveler who's hungry for learning and experiences, her core influential teachers with whom she studied extensively are the late Gabrielle Roth, and the late Layne Redmond. Other major influences include Reinhard Flatischler, Ubaka Hill, Barry Bernstein, and Marianne Wells. All of these remarkable teachers are international pioneers in their work bringing forward rhythm and movement as tools for awakening consciousness. She feels honored and excited to join The Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering team for 2018!
www.barbaragail.com/
www.barbaragail.com/
Trina Peng - Oracle Card Readings & Self Marriage Ceremony
Trina Peng a.k.a. Lotusohms has been providing intuitive card readings for transformational alchemy of the spirit since 2009. As a sacred rebel, Trina is here to support and facilitate new perspectives over difficult situations with compassion, unconditional love, and wisdom. It is her mission to bring those who seek guidance, a way to connect with their brilliance, so that we may all step forward into our roles on this life plane. When we mend our spirit with a desire to remain steadfast in the face of adversity, we can overcome our greatest obstacles. Self-sustained assistance in our interdependent world means great opportunities for Enlightenment. Directed by Beings of the spiritual realm, Trina has learned how to access messages through the Tarot and Oracle cards to guide those that are ready to take an honest look at themselves and their world. She is honored to be offering Chakra readings, intuitive tarot/oracle spreads, and forecasts for guidance into the new year at SSGG5! Her work emphasizes on recognizing who you are in the Present moment so that you can adjust and transform yourself to reach your Highest and Best. Ask her about her shamanic ceremonial work and women's retreats held every once a season. www.instagram.com/lotusohms/
Marie Miller - Theta Healer
Marie Miller is a psychic medium with over 20+ years experience doing readings of various kinds. As a child she would see spirit and would just "know things''. In college she worked with a Nordic Shaman for two years where she learned to read the runes and tarot and it set a base for later studies. After moving to California she had been suffering for two years from daily migraines, Marie found relief through a combination of nutrition guidance and ThetaHealing, which set her on her next path. She is a certified a Certified ThetaHealer® and teaches the Basic DNA, Advanced DNA, Dig Deeper, and Manifesting and Abundance courses several times a year, and will be adding more classes throughout the next two years. When not healing, she does a bunch of types of art. She is former lighting designer and production manager for theatre, and had her own theatre company for a while. She still paints and writes. Areas of life that Marie can help you with: Setting Boundaries, PTSD, Breakups, Letting go of old relationships, Trauma release, understanding and expressing emotions, which direction to choose next, finding your voice, ancestral healing, clearing the path for a souls mate, aura cleanses, clearing away the beliefs and emotions that you people physically ill, helping adopted pets adjust to a new family... just to name a few.
Mikaela Valentino - Ancestral Reverence & Official SSGG Merch
Mikaela is an educator, a counselor, an artist, a community organizer and mama bear entrepreneur.
Her practice and work are based out of San Diego, California where she live with my beloved, child and two great friends in an artist home.
Part of her life’s work is to help people find their way to power and assisting them as they walk into that power. Over the years, she's encountered a number of different modalities that help to facilitate finding away to freedom. The modalities she employ include:
Tantric Intimacy and Heart-Centered Communication, Afro-Centric Spirituality, Earth-Based Faith Systems, Psychedelic Medicine, Yoni Steaming in the Ma’at Tradition, Sekhem Reiki, Trauma-Informed Intervention, Creative Writing, Art Therapy and Ritual as Therapy.
For this gathering, she'll be centering around Intersectional Feminism, and Psilocybin.
Her practice and work are based out of San Diego, California where she live with my beloved, child and two great friends in an artist home.
Part of her life’s work is to help people find their way to power and assisting them as they walk into that power. Over the years, she's encountered a number of different modalities that help to facilitate finding away to freedom. The modalities she employ include:
Tantric Intimacy and Heart-Centered Communication, Afro-Centric Spirituality, Earth-Based Faith Systems, Psychedelic Medicine, Yoni Steaming in the Ma’at Tradition, Sekhem Reiki, Trauma-Informed Intervention, Creative Writing, Art Therapy and Ritual as Therapy.
For this gathering, she'll be centering around Intersectional Feminism, and Psilocybin.
Molly Drucker- Mad Bliss Crystal Jewelry
What a time to be alive. What an ability we have to make a positive influence on the souls around us. What an opportunity we have to spread that love and support, to ask for that love and support, to be that love and support. What a time to inspire growth, learning, and positive change. Such a perfect time to raise the consciousness and vibrations of the queen bees around us. What a perfect place SSGG provides as the launching pad for a 2019 year full of love, support, and positive change. Molly is honored to be participating in the beautiful experience of Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering.
This year, Molly will be participating as a vendor, selling her wrapped crystal jewelry. She has been creating pieces of adornment since the age of 12, and in the process has gained an incredible love for crystals and their healing power. She will be selling her works as well as making custom orders for goddesses who have specific stone they love and want wrapped. Etsy.com/shop/madblissjewelry & Instagram.com/mad.bliss
This year, Molly will be participating as a vendor, selling her wrapped crystal jewelry. She has been creating pieces of adornment since the age of 12, and in the process has gained an incredible love for crystals and their healing power. She will be selling her works as well as making custom orders for goddesses who have specific stone they love and want wrapped. Etsy.com/shop/madblissjewelry & Instagram.com/mad.bliss
Marcia Canestrano- Akasha Shakti Soul Coach
Marcia has spent this lifetime, as well as many others, exploring what it means to be a woman. Currently, she is focusing her attention on what it means to be an awaked soul as a woman, to delve into the deepest layer of our consciousness as priestess to explore this realm called earth through the practices of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, Alana Fairchild’s Soul Guidance & Sacred Mentoring™ and the Akashic Records not only for herself, but sharing this profound wisdom and healing energy with others as a divine messenger.
Through her travels to sacred sites in India, Egypt and Bali as a priestess of the Rose Lineage, she has received the downloads, initiations and blessings of the Goddesses Kali, The Lady of the Lake, Mother Mary, Mary Magdalen, Sekhmet, Hathor, Isis and Freya to share with others.
She is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher who has been teaching since 2006, a certified Healing Breath Practitioner with Celtic/Shamanic elemental initiations, an Akashic Record Reader, and a licensed practitioner of Alana Fairchild’s Soul Guidance & Sacred Mentoring™ healing modality.
Through her travels to sacred sites in India, Egypt and Bali as a priestess of the Rose Lineage, she has received the downloads, initiations and blessings of the Goddesses Kali, The Lady of the Lake, Mother Mary, Mary Magdalen, Sekhmet, Hathor, Isis and Freya to share with others.
She is a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher who has been teaching since 2006, a certified Healing Breath Practitioner with Celtic/Shamanic elemental initiations, an Akashic Record Reader, and a licensed practitioner of Alana Fairchild’s Soul Guidance & Sacred Mentoring™ healing modality.
April (Axé) Charmaine-SOL VIDA™
April (Axé) Charmaine is a holistic dance and performing arts educator, choreographer, light bringer, unschooling-empty-nest-mama and author aka The Nomadic Renaissance Woman. Axé (ah-shay) has a gift for creating safe spaces and cultivating authentic expression. Beginning formal dance training at age 9, she has spent over 30 years ritualizing her life and healing through movement and expression. Her embodied wisdom comes from lineages of Ghanaian Dance, Dances of The Orixas, SomaSourceⓇ Life Cycles, Ecstatic Movement, Egyptian, Ballet, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Spoken Word, Guerilla Theatre, Performance Art, Yoga, and Modern Dance. She is the founder of SOL VIDA™, which specializes in the fusion of cross-cultural, contemporary and conscious dance forms with a mission to shift normalcy leading transformative dance and wellness experiences online and across the globe. Axé is an artivist who self-identifies as a queer, fluid, black, mixed-raced warrior woman with home bases in The Bay Area and Denver, Colorado USA.
Rhiannon Henry- Licensed Acupuncturist
Rhiannon has spent the past 10yrs studying Chinese medicine, and has been in private practice locally for the past three years. She combines her 5yr masters program in Chinese medicine, a previous degree in kinesiology, and 20 years of yoga practice, with her own experience of spiritual transformation and integration to offer unique, embodied, and effective multimodality/multilevel treatments.
Her work has been described as “extraordinarily life changing” and “ineffably next-fucking-level”. She is happy to bring a full heart and capable hands to nourish her Sisters through this portal.
“Acupuncture is an ancient practice to refine and adjust the subtle life force energy that courses through our bodies and helps define the path of our lives. Sessions include a personalized background intake and multi modality treatment: intuitive bodywork, medical
qi gong, cupping, needles and/or moxa as appropriate.”
Her work has been described as “extraordinarily life changing” and “ineffably next-fucking-level”. She is happy to bring a full heart and capable hands to nourish her Sisters through this portal.
“Acupuncture is an ancient practice to refine and adjust the subtle life force energy that courses through our bodies and helps define the path of our lives. Sessions include a personalized background intake and multi modality treatment: intuitive bodywork, medical
qi gong, cupping, needles and/or moxa as appropriate.”
Tiara Louise- Marketing Magician
Tiara Louise is an all around Creator, Lover, Empress, and Healer. Her skills involve Swedish and Deep Tissue massage therapy. She has been practicing massage for 3 years professionally, and over a decade with her mother, who has been a therapist for 23 years. Tiara’s intuition for touch and healing is customized to each individual need and is miraculously effective. In addition, she has participated in runway fashion shows, photo shoots, and music video shoots, as a professional model in Hollywood, alongside some world renowned superstars. As a creative artist, she writes and performs poetry, rap, and songs; as well as directing, filming and editing short video productions. She has curated and MC’d Spit Yo Troof Open Mic, and has hosted events for other businesses with her vibrant personality and humorous charm. With a lust for travel, and an undeniable connection to random people, there is no telling what sort of abundance awaits this young goddess! Now, she is a part of the Southern Sierra Goddess Gathering leadership, where she will provide therapeutic massages, lovely energy, a listening ear, and poetic expression. Don’t be shy, say hi! She looks forward to becoming acquainted with her tribe.
On Instagram @theetiaralouisee
On Instagram @theetiaralouisee