2026 Presenters
Tickets On Sale December 21st at The Poisoner’s Apothecary
Botanica Obscura Conference is a gathering of herbalists, plant medicine practitioners, green witches, alchemists, botanists and other plant-passionate people from around the world. We seek to connect with people and plants and facilitate community and resource sharing between plant practitioners of all kinds.
All presentations are live and recorded!
Promotional graphic design by Steven Thomas Pearson-Walsh
Eimi OstaraMoon
Eimi OstaraMoon, the witch and bee steward behind Poison and Bee, started her journey on the Poison Path with a handful of Datura inoxia seeds, and a dream of having her own Poison Garden on her farm in rural Texas. With the help of her honey bees, the garden has since grown to include baneful allies such as different datura varieties, henbane, deadly nightshade and mandrake, as well as various magical, medicinal and culinary herbs. As a practitioner of alchemical herbalism, plant spirit medicine and natural beekeeping, Eimi focuses her work with poisonous plants and honey bees by understanding their nature and needs, and developing a harmonious symbiotic relationship between plants, insects and humans. “Poison as medicine”, both physically and spiritually, is the guiding principle that Eimi follows on the Poison Path.
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Coby Michael, owner of The Poisoner’s Apothecary
Coby Michael
Coby Michael is an occult herbalist and magical practitioner specializing in the ritual use of poisonous and psychoactive plants. He studied religion at Arizona State University and has been a folk herbalist since a young age. He owns and operates The Poisoner’s Apothecary, an online shop and educational resource for The Poison Path. Coby has been blogging since 2016 and is a prolific writer including articles for This Witch Magazine, The Witches' Almanac, and Alraune: The Poisoner’s Guild. Coby is author of The Poison Path Herbal, The Poison Path Grimoire and the forthcoming titles The Poison Path Oracle and Herbal Magic for Dummies. He is also co-author of Leo Witch. Coby is the founder of Botanica Obscura Conference, an annual gathering of magical plant practitioners from around the world sharing their plant spirit knowledge. He currently resides in St. Petersburg, Fl and travels the country teaching people about plant magic, the Poison Path, occult herbalism and plant medicine.
The Poisoner's Apothecary (thepoisonersapothecary.com)
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Instagram: @poisonersapothecary
Rhonda PallasDowney received a certificate of Herbal Medicine and the Wisdom of Nature with Matthew Wood/Sunnyfield Herb Farm in 1999.
She has a diploma in Homeopathy from the British Institute of Homeopathy in London, England, and she is a flower essence practitioner. Rhonda has an M.A. in Education from Ohio State University with more than twenty-five years of experience in education and social services, with a dedication to the field of developmental disabilities and mental health.
Coupled with her work in social services, Rhonda founded Living Flower Essences and the Center for Plant Studies & Healing Arts, both of which were a driving force for her in the natural health and products industry as a product formulator and manager.
Rhonda’s understanding of whole plant medicine and whole person healing as associated with the human energy system known as the chakras continues to drive her passion for plants and flowers, nature, health, and wellness. Her fascination with the doctrine of signatures of plants and their folklore ignited her delving deeper into plant communication, plant’s sensory system, and the psychology of plants as shown in the language of flowers.
Rhonda – as a plant whisperer, intuitive teacher, and plant and spiritual medicine guide – is an instrument for illuminating whole person healing with whole plant medicine. She inspires those who are on a spiritual path of personal transformation and growth to open new portals of awareness within themselves. Her desire is to share all that she’s learned about the gifts of plants, how they communicate, and how they live as energetic beings, and to combine and share these gifts through teaching others.
In addition to being the founder and owner of the Center for Plant Studies & Healing Arts in Cottonwood, Arizona, Rhonda is a co-author of Plant Energy Medicine (Inner Traditions), author of The Healing Power of Flowers: Bridging Herbalism, Homeopathy, Flower Essences, and the Human Energy System and Voices of Flowers: Learning to Use the Essence of Flowers to Heal Ourselves. She also has a CD MP3 called Voices of Flowers: 7 Flowers & Chakra Meditation Sound Bath, and a DVD called A Journey Into Plants & Flowers which was featured in 2014 Sedona Film Festival.
Rhonda is a mother and grandmother and resides in Cottonwood, Arizona with her husband, Curt.
Elie Barnes is a professional psychic and medium, working in the French Quarter of New Orleans LA. Elie also is a third-degree Alexandrian Witchcraft High Priestess, and she is trained in the Western Esoteric Tradition with Servants of the Light occult school. She has a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Comparative religion. She is a biodynamic herb farmer, following the Rosicrucian philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, using her large property to grow 120 traditional magical herbs. She makes magical products from these plants including pocket fetishes, dream pillows and planetary blends. The world of the occult and the esoteric are her heart's true home. As Elie studied philosophy and comparative religion in college, and devoted her life, now 60 years old, to studying all types of occult material, she heard the call to serve others and the planet. She specializes in the general knowledge of Western Mystery Tradition, hermetic studies, Qabalistic studies, witchcraft as a religion, herbalism, magical praxis and traditional astrology. It’s a big world out there, in the occult, because so much more information is available, books have been translated properly, academic research is invigorated and sanctioned, and we have the freedom to claim this as our livelihood. Living in New Orleans is a wonderful place to be, if you’re interested in magic. Elie completely supports herself through her psychic reading work, her healing work, and teaching in these traditions. Her website is eliebarnespsychic.com
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Katherine Bonnabel, MH
Kathi Bonnabel is an Elder of a Western initiatory spiritual path in which she served as clergy and Director of Public Education, and also as Priestess to their coven for many years. Her herbal training and education spans decades, with studies in ethnobotany and folk medicine as well as plant sciences including horticultural practices, greenhouse management, and botany.
Native to South Louisiana and a descendant of the Acadian people, she is deeply tied to the traditions and culture that are still very alive in the region. She co-authored the book Upriver Families: Acadian Roots and Creole Heritage, a tribute to her family’s rich heritage. She spent 14 years managing organic garden centers in California and Washington, graduated the Hermit’s Grove Master Herbalist Program under Rev. Paul Beyerl in 2014 and currently serves as their program director. She is the resident herbalist at a prominent natural foods co-op in the Puget Sound area and is the steward of a lovely acre of herbs, berries, flowers, and wild spaces there.
Amanda Voinier is a renowned Psychic Medium, Crystal Witch, Tarot Reader and Animal Communicator. Amanda integrates plant medicine and oils into her witchcraft practices including from her Italian and Turkish lineages . She is the owner of Aries Moon Crystals located in New Jersey. Amanda continued to educate communities on ritual based magic, intuitive practices, and honing in on ones magic from within.
Instagram: @ariesmooncrystals
Facebook Group: Aries Moon Crystals
Isaac Hill is a gardener, astrologer, magician, and co-host of the Plant Cunning Podcast, where he has interviewed some of the most important herbalists, magicians, astrologers, permaculturists and spiritual practitioners in the world. He is a practicing Vedic astrologer in the Achyutananda Das lineage, as a student of Freedom Cole and Pandit Sanjay Rath. He is also an astrological magician, having completed studies with Christopher Warnock and having made many astrological talismans over several years. He is the author of The Heathen Golden Dawn (2024) and The Zodiac Garden Guide (2025). Isaac is also a musician, the lead singer and songwriter for the folk ensemble The Hills and the Rivers, and lives on a small permaculture herb farm in Central NY with his wife, AC Hill.
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Petra Sovcov, CHT, DNMed
Petra Sovcov is a Clinical Herbal Therapist who holds a Doctorate of Natural Medicine specializing in natural approaches to inflammatory illness, her passion being autoimmune disease and cancer. Originally from the United States and now based in British Columbia, Petra is the founder of Healing House Natural Wellness, where she maintains a thriving apothecary and clinical practice. A survivor of inflammatory illness herself, she brings a unique perspective that blends lived experience with rigorous training, research, and compassionate care. Petra is also an educator, author of the forthcoming Clinician’s Materia Medica (A Clinical Guide for Allopathic Practitioners), and an international speaker dedicated to bridging traditional herbal knowledge with evidence-based clinical practice.
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Sian Sibley has been a practicing witch for over thirty years and has led a coven in South Wales called DragonOak for approximately twenty-five years. In DragonOak they teach traditional witchcraft, using toolmaking, astrology, herbalism, working with the PGM, Kabbalah, animism and working with the spirits of plants, genus loci and the dead. Sian has trained many people in the magical arts and runs workshops in the South Wales area to allow people who do not want to be in a coven situation to gain access to good quality courses.
Todd Elliott is a farmer, earth worker, Reiki master, Druid, and was certified as an Astrological Magician by Renaissance Astrology. A lifelong student of mythology, religion, spirituality, folklore, and esoterica, he lives, works, writes, and studies on a small ridgetop farm in north central Kentucky, where he and his family ethically raise vegetables, fruits, and livestock.
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Neis Yolopahtli Seshen On the path of the mystery school since 10 years by diving into the sacred art of ancient herbalism through different lineages, Neïs is integrating plants wisdom from different experiences, practices and territories. Like a mycelium network she study different lineages and sciences of the tradition with plant's art to connect them and have a deeper understanding of his purpose and use. She spoke and felt the language of territory as if this is a part of the vehicle of the plant essence; inspired by the voice of natives communities like Muiscas, Koguis, Wiwas, Huitotos...this approach of the reader of plants is a global vision.
From Alchemia spagyric to ayurvedic practice, the elemental magic is also a big part of her voice and vision. The art of poisons came to her path through the experience with snake, scorpion, frog venom and her personal journey with poisons plants powerful spirits and potent remedies.
Plant devotee for almost 10 years the dieta path is a pillar and a passion as a portal to weave with plant spirit like blue lotus, mandrake, artemisia... she comes to share her experience and story and to propose a journey into the technology that opened when a soul enters into the temple of plants spirit.
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Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she) is a writer, educator, performer, and fortune-teller whose work is rooted in their mixed Sinti Romani traditions. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have been featured in Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review Online, Narrative Magazine, and other publications. Based in the New Hampshire Seacoast area, Jezmina leads transformative rituals and workshops on divination, spiritual wellness, and the creative arts; provides private tarot, palm, and tea leaf readings; and offers spiritual and creative coaching, online and in person. Jezmina performs with The Poetry Brothel, Boston’s premier immersive literary event, where they read poetry and fortunes, and they often make professional appearances at galas, festivals, and more. Jezmina is the co-host of Romanistan, a podcast dedicated to celebrating Romani culture, and the co-author of Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling with Paulina Stevens. Jezmina is also cohost of the podcasts Immaterial World with Jess Richards and A Most Interesting Monster with Emani Jerome.
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Emma Fitchett MSc
Emma is a plant spirit healer, shamanic teacher, author and the founder of the School of Natural Esoterics in the British Isles. Her life long pursuit of self-mastery and inner transformation is fuelled by a fascination with the nature of reality and consciousness and has led her to studying a Master's Degree in 'The Preservation & Development Of Wisdom Culture & The Art Of Liberation' in the Tibetan Buddhist Mahayana Tradition, writing her thesis on 'Understanding The Nature Of The Self Through Lucid Dreaming'. She has been initiated into and trained in indigenous healing and magical lineages of the British Isles and the Ecuadorian Amazon, is a Yew Mysteries initiate and holds the lineage of the White Serpent. She is a Geomancer, Pranic Healer, Psychic Surgeon and entity removal specialist. Emma has been undertaking plant initiations for 13 years. She also runs the Plant Consciousness Apothecary, a Remote Healing Practice and is the author of Journeys with Plant Spirits (under previous name Farrell) published by Bear & Co.
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SchoolofNaturalEsoterics
Facebook: www.facebook.com/plantconsciousness
Ness Bosch, La Huesera, is an Iberian Shamaness and Priestess. Author
and independent researcher, mother of 3, Ness lives in Scotland, where
she is a founding member of the Goddess Community Scotland. Founder of
The Path of the Bones and the Clan of the Bone Woman (La Huesera). She
is the Head of the Covenant of the Waters and the Temple of Astarte.
Before moving to Scotland, Ness was a Regional Coordinator for the
Pagan Federation International in Spain. Ness is a Hierophant
Priestess, Dame Commander, and Archdruidess of the Fellowship of Isis
and is a regular speaker at International Conferences and holds
teachings and retreats when time and children allow it.
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Laurie Bianciotto
Laurie is a French artist, spirit worker and writer with a strong focus on poisonous plants . She's the author of "La Voie du Poison" (editions Danaé 2021), the first book in french language about the Poison Path, and of numerous papers and articles in plant-related anthologies and magazines, like "Alraune II: The Poisoner's Guild" 2023, "Botanical Anthology" all along 2024, "A ,Bunch Of : fabaceae" 2024.. and scientific journals "Société Linnéenne de Provence n75" 2024, and to-be-published "Hommes et Plantes". Her health conditions made her feeling extremely close to poison: suffering from 12+ years of chronic pains, she experimented a lot with herbal preparations, particularly infused oils with poisonous plants -mainly nightshades.
Ultimately it led her to explore and experiment the concept of mithridatization; making poisonous flora a part of herself.
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Wouter Bijdendijk
Wouter Bijdendijk is an anthropologist specializing in ethnobotany and pharmacognosy with a degree from Amsterdam University. In more than 20 years of touring the world as renowned mentalist and magician Ramana, Wouter has studied herbal medicine in different traditions from around the globe. An author, lecturer, and TEDx speaker, he lives in the Netherlands.
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Devana Gomez Pourroy holds a degree in Zoology and a master’s in Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Conservation. She has travelled across five continents to enrich her knowledge of the natural world, its processes, and its medicines. She has contributed to and led academic projects, scientific research, and social movements focused on the restoration of tropical ecosystems, the identification of high-value conservation habitats and sustainable development. She complements her academic background with studies and empirical learning in Mesoamerican and Amazonian traditional medicine, Vipassana meditation, ancestral medicines, and psychedelic science. She is a ritual specialist, phytotherapist, Moon Dancer, singer-songwriter of medicine music, and co-author of the books Onirógenos (by Fundación Mindsurf) and A la luz plateada de Artemisia (by the Estrella Esmeralda school). Devana is co-founder of the project Santé Bienestar Holístico, through which she dedicates her life to study and teaching via ceremonies, workshops, bilingual courses, and retreats focused on re-signifying our relationship with Nature, plant medicine, and healing. Likewise, she is director of the educational project Diálogos con Plantas Sagradas; interdisciplinary talks aimed at raising awareness about topics related to consciousness development, psychoactivism, deep ecology, and healing. She is currently a faculty member at the Universidad de la Nueva Era, where she leads the course “Integral Herbalism” for the Master’s programme in Holistic Sciences. She recently acquired a specialization in Entheogens and Sacred Plants at the aforementioned institution. Her teachings weave together science and spirit, the material and the intangible, to obtain a holistic understanding of the universe of plants, adapting this knowledge to the modern social and spiritual context, while always honouring the principle of reciprocity with nature.
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Stephanie Hardie, MS is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, and multi-modality animist practitioner rooted in the rhythms of the earth and the stories of the plants. Her work blends traditional herbal knowledge, somatic presence, esoteric principles, and spiritual connection, offering clients and students a way to walk in deeper relationship with self & the green world. With a deep adoration and reverence for the natural world, she weaves a rich tapestry of folklore, poetic plant spirit gnosis, and the wisdom of the hedgewitch path into teachings that honor both the seen and unseen.
When not speaking, teaching, or crafting devotional offerings for her business Gate & Garden, Stephanie finds solace in stewarding & tending her vibrant suburban homestead in coastal Massachusetts.
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Irene Glasse is a Heathen witch based in Western Maryland. She is a longtime teacher of witchcraft, meditation, and magic in the mid-Atlantic. She is the co-author of "Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training" (Dragon Alchemy, 2022), a contributing writer of "Gemini Witch: Unlock the Magic of Your Sun Sign" and "Llewellyn's 2024 - 2026 Sabbats Almanac" (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023 - 2025), and a blogger and columnist. She is a Commissioned Lay Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick and is the lead organizer of the Frederick Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (Frederick CUUPS), offering events, rituals, classes and workshops to a large, vibrant community.
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Cyndi Brannen is an author and spiritual teacher, founder and High Priestess of Covina: The Coven of Hekate. Her many books of Hekate have been bestsellers, including Keeping Her Keys, Entering Hekate's Garden, Entering Hekate's Cave, and her newest release, Entering Hekate's Cauldron.
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Christen Bennett has over four years' experience teaching botanical witchcraft and co-hosting the Keeping Her Keys Podcast. She is High Priestess in Covina with Cyndi, as well as being her wife.
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P.D. Newman is a writer and lecturer specializing in the role of entheogenic plants in magical, alchemical, religious, and initiatory settings. His most recent book, Tripping the Trail of Ghosts: Psychedelics and the Afterlife Journey in Native American Mound Cultures, explores the sophisticated use of entheogenic plants and animals in the Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere for the purpose of ceremonially inducing and ritually orchestrating out-of-body and near-death experiences.
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Emily Íviðja is a practicing seiðkona and artist. Growing up on a farm in New Hampshire, Emily has spent their entire life interacting with the spirit realm. They have been studying and practicing seiðr for three years through lived experience and rigorous academic study. They are a devotee of Angrboða, the Wolf Mother of the Norse tradition. Day-to-day, Emily can be found in their studio creating ritually-crafted artwork from ethically sourced animal remains for their business ULVWITCH.
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Josh Williams is a traditionally-trained clinical herbalist in practice in Salt Lake City, Utah. He works an ancient elemental approach to herbal medicine and is in deep relationship with the green realm. Josh is the author of two books, Spiritual Herbalism and The Green Arte, both published in London by Aeon Books. In addition to his private practice, Josh offers free weekly classes, advanced monthly classes, courses, guided plant spirit journeys, and more at www.TheGreenArte.com
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Dr. Finch is a traditionally trained rootworker, card reader, and artist. Originally brought to earth after a series of baleful magical experiments, she currently resides in Denton, Texas as the live-in apprentice of Professor Charles Porterfield. A lifelong herbalist, her work with plants is the loamy heart of her craft, anchoring the arcane in the physical.
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Hi I’m Natalia Lopez an educator and cannabis consultant working actively within the budding health & wellness industry. I emphasize the power of setting intention, the power of breath & mind connection. Throughout my own healing journey, plant allies supported me to re-regulate my nervous system and essentially creating transmute & dissolve ptsd and general stress. I found treating my pain, stress and overall trauma to be the key to embodying my bliss! This is a mission to help support those willing to do the work!!!!
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Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic, whose magical specialties include: geomancy, folk necromancy, and the grimoires of early modern Europe. His published works include Nazarth: Pillars of Gladness (Hadean Press, 2022), An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke (Scarlet Imprint, 2020) with Phil Legard, A Book of the Magi (Revelore Press, 2018), and diverse articles on various aspects of cunning-craft for both academic and occult publishers. His works, writings, classes, and services can be found at www.alexandercummins.com
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Amber Haase's personal study of many modalities of witchcraft spans several decades. She is the creator of Element Botanicals, a niche beauty brand of 20 years as well as the owner of Wild Craft Mercantile, a brick and mortar occult apothecary, celebrating 5 years. Amber teaches classes on many topics and her passions are plant magick, folk herbalism and alchemy as well as natural perfumery. She lives in rural British Columbia, Canada.
You can find her at @elementbotanicals (elementbotanicals.ca) and @wild_craft_shop (wildcraftshop.ca)
Kamden Cornell is a witch living in Albuquerque, NM. They are the author of The Tameless Path: Unleashing the Power of Invasive Herbs in Witchcraft and On Needles and Pins: A Witch's Book of Poppetry and Figure Magic (to be released in 2025 by Crossed Crow Books)
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Vex Blòðstjarna is a self-taught occultist and hermit for over twenty years, focusing his work on living and dead animal spirits, as well as the Northern mysteries. His practice ties animism from his surroundings and from familial roots of Scandinavian hunting rituals. Vex is a Mead Brewer, distiller, wild crafter and the primitive theurge and skin carver of Fera Aruspex. Vex is an artist of the bones, skins, roots and flowers of the animal and plant spirits that he venerates, as well as a crafter of Neolithic stone tools. Vex likes fire, exploring the forests and enjoying the company of his four-legged companions.
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Starting her journey in astrology 10 years ago, Magi found herself connecting the stars and the earth. On the quest of purpose and passion, Magi became an herbalist and astrologer. In embracing the eclectic nature of her Puerto Rican ancestry, she found herself exploring a multitude of cultures from all over the world. Thus, inspiring her new path of working toward expanding her career into the world of anthropology and archaeology. This has led her to taking a unique approach to spiritual work. She strongly believes in the experience that spirit is always speaking to us and through everything. Naturally, the poison path became illuminated on the path of medicine making. As Paracelsus once said, “Sola dosis facit venenum”, “the dosage makes the poison”. Integrative healing is a huge part of her herbalism and personal practice. Thus, inspiring an anthropological approach to spirituality and medicine. Now Magi uses her online platforms Priestess of Moonlight and Moon Priestess Apothecary to share the eclectic nature of healing and the medicine path.
Visit www.priestessofmoonlight.com
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Debora Greer was born and raised in a family of Makumbeiros, a Brazilian spiritual tradition born of the forced interaction between enslaved Africans and Native Brazilians, and in some cases, also influenced by European witchcraft. She had the privilege of being initiated by her Godmother Felicia, who was the matriarch of her family for many years and her title within her family is of Cambone or Ekedi.
After moving to the United States, Debora, alongside the Spirit Pombagira Gypsy of the Road started the Moon Garden: a virtual place of spiritual studies, oracle readings and community rituals. She believes that shared magic is multiplied magic and loves supporting fellow magical practitioners. Debora loves studying and is constantly looking to deepen her knowledge about the things she loves. She has herbalism, incense making and phytotherapy certifications and is also a gifted tarot and cowrie shells reader. Even though Debora still activally practices Makumba, she also made other Spiritual friends along the way who have enriched her life greatly and is happy to share her knowledge about Them through her classes and private lessons. Debora is totally in love with mushroom foraging and enjoys long nature walks with her life partner. She is a cat person and a dandelion lover.
Ig: @moon7garden
Micah Abraxas Nilsson started studying herbs in her teenage years, and is the co-creator of Al-Kemi, a company making Spagyric and Alchemical extracts of herbs and minerals for healing, meditation, spiritual and magickal practice.
She has lectured at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland and Bastyr University in Seattle, as well as at many conferences on entheogens, herbalism, and magic. With her partner Paul, she is the co-founder of the School of Spagyric and Alchemical Arts, which she taught at for 10 years.
In her 34 years in this work, her focus has been in connecting directly and deeply with the plant beings, communing with them as both a healing and spiritual path. Weaving together the scientific and initiatic in her teachings, she helps others connect with the green spirit of nature, which surrounds and flows through us all.
Micah's work with Al-Kemi can be found at:
www.al-kemi.com
www.instagram.com/alkemispagyrics
www.facebook.com/alkemispagyrics
email: alkemi@al-kemi.com
Aerik Arkadian is a 3rd Degree Gardnerian High Priest, aborisha, musician, writer, and witch. He runs a coven and an active prison ministry with his wife, Selene. Aerik is passionate about the power of music, occult teachings, and spirituality. You can find him online at www.AerikArkadian.com, where he writes witchy articles, or on YouTube at his 'Music, Myth, and Magick' channel.
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Brenna Lilly is a community herbalist based in the New Hampshire Seacoast, and owner of Brisingamen Botanicals, specializing in organic herbal tea blends. She is a trained Sacred Gaian herbalist and pelvic steam practitioner.
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Ben Stimpson, BA (Hons), MBACP (He/They/Them) is an integrative therapist, spiritual director, award winning author, podcaster, and independant scholar of folklore and history. A member of the modern NeoPagan and queer communities, Ben’s personal life helps to inform his professional and research work. Ben holds a BA (Honours) in Medieval, Classical and Religious Studies from the University of Waterloo; a post-graduate Diploma in Spiritual Psychotherapy; and a Diploma in Social Service Work. As a therapist, he excels in working with members of the queer community and other marginalized populations, and ascribes to transpersonal, systemic and narrative approaches to therapy. He is the host of Essence podcast, a weekly show interviewing fellow authors and practitioners in the field of alternative spirituality and therapy. His debut title, Ancestral Whispers: A Guide to Developing Ancestral Veneration Practices was released by Llewellyn Worldwide and won the 2024 Gold Medal at the COVR Awards.
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