Sacred Harvest Festival 2024

Yeshe Meryemana Matthews is Mandala Priestess of the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple and co- owner of The Sacred Well metaphysical shop in Dunsmuir, CA. Yeshe has dedicated her life to female mysteries and sacred healing practices, with a Master’s degree in Women’s History, she has studied women’s mysticism, shamanism, and matriarchal communities for over twenty years. She maintains a public shrine to Kuan Yin that is visited by thousands of people each year. She is a professional diviner for over 20 years, and has performed more than 15,000 readings. She also takes people on small group pilgrimages to holy sites of the ancient world. Learn more at mtshastagoddesstemple.com

Workshops and Rituals: When Drummers were Women, Aphrodite Euploia, Deer Gods and Goddesses of the world, Kuan Yin Devotioanl, Panel Discussion Orthopraxy, Path of the Antlered Ones Ritual

Anne Marie Greymoon self initiated as a witch at the age of 9 and in 1981 or thereabout, having studied the occult all along, she discovered the Wiccan Church of Canada in Toronto and became actively involved in all its functions. She was initiated into a Dymond line coven in 1982, and became a 1* Odyssean in 1984. At the same time, she began to participate in the leadership of Wic-Can Fest , Canada’s oldest Pagan festival and directed Harvest Fest from it’s 3rd year onward, for 40 years. Over this time she participated and was featured in numerous radio shows for CBC, TV: Parler pour parler in the early 90’s, several talk shows and some documentaries notably Oh My God: What It Means to Be a Witch Today and Life in Color: The Color Black and others she’s less proud of! She left a professional ballet career in 1984 and became a Morris dancer, learned leather work and mask making, studied underground midwifery, herbology, Palmistry and Cunning Magic and became a Pagan artisan, a postal worker, a childbirth educator and a doula.

In the early 90’s, as an Alexandrian and Gardnerian 3* high priestess, she began Silver Key, a traditional Gardnerian coven in central Ontario. She has worked hard at promoting Wicca as a wholesome religion based on the principles of living harmoniously with nature and working magic to improve the human condition.

Workshops and Rituals: Bless our New Home Ritual, Corn Dolly Making, Sex and Wicca, Ritual of Unity, Primitive Spellcasting, Panel Discussion Orthopraxy

Nick Voss has been studying and training Capoeira since 2013, which has included study in Minneapolis as well as Brazil, and has picked up a few Samba classes along the way. An avid movement junkie and percussionist, he enjoys attending events such as Sacred Fire Circle to explore freedom of movement through dance and music. He is a member of the Coven of Misfit Toys.

Workshop : Tapping into Flow: Train and Practice 

Kelden (he/him) is a witch, folklorist, and mental health practitioner. He is the author of The Crooked Path: An Introduction to Traditional Witchcraft, The Witches’ Sabbath: An Exploration of History, Folklore, and Modern Practice, and All Them Witches: Folktales & Rhymes. When not researching and writing, Kelden enjoys life in his tiny house in the woods, reading, hiking, growing poisonous herbs, and playing ukulele. More at Kelden

Workshops:  Folklore Save the Witch, Folk Magic- Spells and Charms in Traditional Witchcraft, and The Rites of Traditional Witchcraft

Albert Robles is a lifelong musician, and a professional percussionist whose credits include numerous performances in and around the Bay Area. Albert is also a tabletop gaming enthusiast since the age of 12, playing with some of the same folks for decades now. Check out his musical offerings on SoundCloud under the name Kujen. You can find him in the shop he co-owns with his wife Yeshe, The Sacred Well, at the base of Mt Shasta. Visit the shop online at sacredwell.com

Workshops and Rituals: Albert will add percussion to several events, and offers two nights of RPG gaming. Embark on an Epic Adventure in the World of Dark Sun! Discover the Desolation of Athas. Dark Sun is a unique Dungeons & Dragons setting, unlike any other, featuring a dystopian landscape filled with danger and mystery.

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Any session with Carol Dutton, owner of Being You Energetically, LLC, is powerful and will give you the unique and specific missing links to clearing the traumatic and ancestral patterns keeping you from living an extraordinary life. She is an author, expert Subtle Energy Practitioner, Reiki Master, Irigenics® Ancestral Eye Reading Consultant, Crystal Grid Healer, Sacred Rose Healing Practitioner, and creator of the Ancestral Connection Ceremony. As an ordained minister, she also offers Spiritual Oil anointing.

Workshop: Ancestral Connections – Three sessions

Dan Engebretson has been an active member of the Twin Cities hand drumming scene for 25years and his passion is studying and playing traditional West African djembe and dunun rhythms. For over twenty years he has studied with master drummers from Guinea, Mali, Ivory Coast and Senegal. He is a member of Mamady Keita’s Tam Tanm Mandingue Djembe Academy which has a detailed and comprehensive curriculum.

Dan will offer a workshop Saturday, drum Saturday night at the fire, and represent the Women’s Drum Center, where he teaches.

The Tom O’Bedlam is a conman, a trickster, a professional pedestrian-botherer. Made manifest here in the flesh-vessel of Per Andreassen – a writer and theatre-maker, a product of the mean streets of South Minneapolis come to stare down the world with a mix of surreal ballads and acoustic punk.

Tom (Per  Andreassen) will offer several workshops and informal concerts.

Wade Mueller has been a Pagan for 30 years, a Tyrsman for  24. He is founder of Deeply Rooted, a Pagan land-based intentional community in 2001. He has been a prison minister for 15 years. Beekeeper, book collector and wannabe blacksmith…

Workshop: Pagan Homeland, Living on Sacred Land, Ritual: The Sumbel

Festival Cancellation Policy: If Harmony Tribe needs to cancel SHF 2024, festivants can have their ticket put towards 2025, donate it to Harmony Tribe, or a refund for their ticket (minus a 15% administrative fee).

Member Discount: Current members can use their optional $20 member discount 1 time, per membership year (through September 2024). Contact us for your discount code before registering: steward@harmonytribe.org