Copper Persephone
Copper Persephone (she/her/they) lives in Vacaville, California on land that settlers forcibly removed from deep and sustainable connection with the Patwin Band of the Wintun peoples. She has been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist/social justice work with people who live with poverty for over 20 years. Walking a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms, they are called to helping others to experience immanence through many roads including western queer sacred sexuality practice and shamanic journey work. Copper has facilitated workshops internationally in sustainable community, leadership, personal growth, sacred sexuality and mask making for many years. First teaching Reclaiming classes in 2001, and then at Witchcamps starting in 2003, she is devoted to service and organizing work. Dedicated to Freya and Baba Yaga, they are initiated into Reclaiming, the Honey Bee clan, the Bear clan as well as Queer Spirit - those roots and conversations inform their daily life.
Copper Persephone (she/her/they) lives in Vacaville, California on land that settlers forcibly removed from deep and sustainable connection with the Patwin Band of the Wintun peoples. She has been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist/social justice work with people who live with poverty for over 20 years. Walking a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms, they are called to helping others to experience immanence through many roads including western queer sacred sexuality practice and shamanic journey work. Copper has facilitated workshops internationally in sustainable community, leadership, personal growth, sacred sexuality and mask making for many years. First teaching Reclaiming classes in 2001, and then at Witchcamps starting in 2003, she is devoted to service and organizing work. Dedicated to Freya and Baba Yaga, they are initiated into Reclaiming, the Honey Bee clan, the Bear clan as well as Queer Spirit - those roots and conversations inform their daily life.
Gwion
Gwion: I've been a practicing witch, teacher, and ritualist in the Reclaiming Tradition since 2003. I love being in service with this community of witches and world changers. My own magic, my own way of changing the world is through devotional practice. It's my belief that we can re-enchant our lives by re-framing the so-called "mundane" as sacred and divine. By imbuing the familiar with a sense of wonder and infusing daily life with acts of magic, I choose to make all of life devotion. I'm a Gardnerian Wiccan, Reclaiming initiate, and published author.
Irisanya
Irisanya (she/her) I’m a Witch. I'm a writer. I'm a priestess, teacher, drummer, feminist, and initiate in the Reclaiming tradition. I serve the gods, my community, and the Earth. I've called myself a Witch for nearly 20 years, and my life has been infused with magick.
I am interested in shifting stories - the ones we tell ourselves and the ones that are told about us. I'm continuously inspired to engage as the storyteller and the story, the words and the spaces between.
I am a devotee of Aphrodite, Hecate, the Norns, and Iris. I seek to find love and to inspire love by reminding us we are not alone, while also meeting myself at the crossroads, holding the threads of life, and bringing down messages from the gods.
You can see my schedule of classes, writings, rambles, and nature pictures at www.irisanya.com, and I blog mostly weekly at Patheos Pagan (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chargedbythegoddess/).
I am interested in shifting stories - the ones we tell ourselves and the ones that are told about us. I'm continuously inspired to engage as the storyteller and the story, the words and the spaces between.
I am a devotee of Aphrodite, Hecate, the Norns, and Iris. I seek to find love and to inspire love by reminding us we are not alone, while also meeting myself at the crossroads, holding the threads of life, and bringing down messages from the gods.
You can see my schedule of classes, writings, rambles, and nature pictures at www.irisanya.com, and I blog mostly weekly at Patheos Pagan (https://www.patheos.com/blogs/chargedbythegoddess/).
Justin
Justin: My spiritual wanderings began with an intense love of nature and science. This love
deepened through studies of Native American spirituality, shamanism, Buddhism, biology, psychology, and witchcraft. My current path is devoted to ecstatic states through drumming, chanting, and dancing as a way to connect with the divine, both within and without. As a teacher and therapist, I am committed to witnessing and supporting the growth of others as they step into new empowered stories of themselves. I have been involved in Reclaiming since 2009 and have spent several years organizing public rituals in the North Bay.
deepened through studies of Native American spirituality, shamanism, Buddhism, biology, psychology, and witchcraft. My current path is devoted to ecstatic states through drumming, chanting, and dancing as a way to connect with the divine, both within and without. As a teacher and therapist, I am committed to witnessing and supporting the growth of others as they step into new empowered stories of themselves. I have been involved in Reclaiming since 2009 and have spent several years organizing public rituals in the North Bay.
Phoenix LeFae
Phoenix LeFae I am a blue eyed wanderer and passionate devotee of the Goddess who currently resides on the land of my daughter's people, the Coastal Miwok. I am a restless seeker of knowledge, always yearning to learn more, dig deeper, and dive into mystery. My exploration of magick expresses itself through writing, spellcraft, ritual, teaching, and devotion. I attended my first Reclaiming ritual in 1995 and was immediately hooked. I started teaching in the tradition in 2010. I'm a teacher, ritualist, and initiate in the Reclaiming Tradition. I am also a Gardnerian Wiccan, hoodoo practitioner, professional witch, published author, and the owner of the Goddess shop Milk & Honey in Sebastopol California. I lead monthly Goddess Gatherings. You can learn more about me at my website www.phoenixlefae.com, stop by Milk & Honey in Sebastopol to meet me in person, listen to my podcast The Witch, The Priestess, and The Cauldron, or follow me at my Patheos Pagan column "The Witches Next Door".
Yule Danu
Yule: As a scientist and a witch, she uses her knowledge and intuitive understanding of matter, systems, and energy to reach higher and higher states of ecstasy, bonding with the divine in all. This alchemical formula enhances her abilities to heal, priestess and change consciousness and reality at will. Yule’s fiery passion and loving spirit are contagious; fueling one of her core spiritual commitments: Pass on what we know and let those who come after us outgrow us! For they shall inherit the earth!
Yule: As a scientist and a witch, she uses her knowledge and intuitive understanding of matter, systems, and energy to reach higher and higher states of ecstasy, bonding with the divine in all. This alchemical formula enhances her abilities to heal, priestess and change consciousness and reality at will. Yule’s fiery passion and loving spirit are contagious; fueling one of her core spiritual commitments: Pass on what we know and let those who come after us outgrow us! For they shall inherit the earth!
Student Teachers:
Honeycomb Heart
Honeycomb has been a practicing witch for 25 years and finally found her community with North Bay Reclaiming in 2011. She has been member of the North Bay Ritual Planning Cell and has helped to craft and priestess many rituals, public and private, for several years. Dedicated to Inanna, Honeycomb is both a love priestess and a keeper of the Mes. She practices working with kundalini energy, exploring the magic of sensuality and desire and the healing powers of the heart. She strives to fall in love with the multiverse.
If you live locally in the North Bay, believe you belong on this list, and would like to petition to be added, please contact Copper at CopperResnik7 (at) gmail (dot) com. Please put RECLAIMING TEACHER in the subject headline, or your email may accidentally be filtered into spam. Thanks! Copper