Path Teachers
Alex Iantaffi (they/he/lui) is a disabled, trans, gender defiant, bi queer, polyamorous, Italian author, therapist, speaker, clinical supervisor, teacher, initiate, parent and witch living on Dakota and Anishinaabe territories known as Minnesota in the so-called United States. They have been involved with Reclaiming since 2004 as a co-creator, teacher, weaver, organizer, ritual artist, initiate and initiator. Alex is also a Feri and a Queer Spirit initiate and practices some of the Mediterranean ancestral practices they were brought up with, such as the tarantella. Alex is the author of award-winning book "Gender Trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma" and co-author of "How to UnderstandYour Gender", “How to Understand Your Sexuality”, “How to Understand Your Relationships”, “Life Isn’t Binary”, and “Hell Yeah Self-Care: a Trauma-Informed Workbook”.They host the podcast Gender Stories. They try to weave magic in all that they do, striving to live as integrated a life as possible, rooted in Spirit and guided by Mystery.
Alyson (she/they) - I have been a practicing witch and diviner since the late 1990s. An initiate of Anderson Feri Tradition, I have co-taught Elements of Magic and have also been involved with Diana’s Grove Mystery School and other Reclaiming-style camps and workshops over the years. I have also organized public pagan events for 10-500 people locally, and co-organized for Thorn Coyle's mystery school (their in-person visits) for some years. Most recently, I facilitated and taught in two long-running groups which offered courses in daily practice, elemental magic, and the Iron Pentacle; and was a Tarot and oracle card reviewer for Indie Deck Review. On the flip side, I have a corporate gig and earned a MBA. I am not just a witch who has coffee with Thoth on the weekends; I am a dog mom, aunt to 2 tweens, knitter, and dabbler in multiple artistic mediums. You can connect with me on Instagram @1coin2sides.
August Wolff (it/they): August works as a trauma counsellor, educator and artist. Weaving queer, trans, disabled and neurodiverse magic, August supports healing through empowered embodiment and compassionate presence. It enjoys bringing playfulness and gentle yet fierce space-holding to its work. August's magical practice is informed by art-witchery, BDSM, seership, altered states and somatic and parts based trauma work. These combine with a deep exploration of consent and personal and interpersonal development.
Over the last decade August has served the Reclaiming community in a number of ways including community ritual, art, advocacy and a long and ever-deepening relationship with the healing power and skills of the Bower.
August currently resides on Wadawurrung country in so called Australia and speaks English and (rusty) German.
BrightFlame (she/they) writes, teaches, and makes magic for all forms of justice and a regenerative world. Part of and teaching in Reclaiming since the 1990s, she loves co-weaving the web of our evolving tradition. She has co-founded Reclaiming communities, offered core classes, taught and priestexed at many Witchcamps, and offered workshops with her own blend of magic. She’s thrilled that her novel THE WORKING, which embeds our kind of magic and activism, launched July 2024. Her growing body of solarpunk stories are featured in award-winning magazines and anthologies, most recently in Bright Green Futures. She's a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and co-founded the Center for Sustainable Futures at Columbia University that features her workshops and nonfiction. She lives on unceded Lenape land, Turtle Island. https://brightflame.com
Edan (ele/elu) é uma Bruxa queer, praticante de bruxaria há mais de 10 anos nas terras colonizadas dos povos Pataxós em Divinópolis, Minas Gerais. É Bruxa Reclaiming, professor-aluno e co-facilita rituais para a comunidade no Brasil. Entusiasta das artes manuais e das possibilidades de se tecer magia através delas é interessado em temas como voo noturno, magia onírica, sigilos mágicos e curandeirismo tradicional. Seu caminho mágico é enraizado no contato com os espíritos da terra e com as correntes de poder que dela emanam, através de práticas extáticas e ativismo mágico-político.
Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author of 10+ books, Witch, priestess, international teacher, and initiate in the Reclaiming tradition. A devotee of Aphrodite, Hecate, the Norns, and Iris, she has practiced magick for 20+ years. They are passionate about the idea that life is and humans are love spells, ever experiencing a dance of desire and connection, moving in and out of the heart, always returning to love. Her teaching/facilitation style is immersive, gracious, safe, authentic, and welcoming to inspire transformation and liberation individually and collectively. You can find out more at www.irisanyamoon.com
Fortuna Sawahata (she/her or they/them): I am a witch and intuitive divinatrix who lives in the Netherlands. I’m currently navigating the riches of liminal spaces – on our physical planet, and particularly the internal liminalities where art, writing, healing, spirit perception and magick-making reside. A Feri initiate, I teach magick 1-on-1 and in workshops, and have been teaching at Reclaiming Witch Camps since 2007. Proud to have contributed to books including ‘Elements of Magic: Reclaiming Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit’ (edited by Jane Meredith and Gede Parma, Llewelyn 2018), ‘21+1: The Fortune-Teller’s Rules’ (edited by Camelia Elias, Eyecorner Press 2018), and even of my wonky essay in ‘Earth Spirit: Honoring the Wild’(edited by Irisanya Moon, Llewelyn 2023).
Horn StarSong (Ele/Elu) é uma bruxa Reclaiming envolvido com a comunidade brasileira ativamente desde 2019. Já fez parte de grupos de estudos, células e covens. Mora no interior do Rio de Janeiro, na fria e abundante em verde região serrana, terra colonizada, antes habitada por povos Puris, Coroados e Coropós. É uma pessoa queer, bissexual e poliamorista. A base de sua Bruxaria é sua prática diária e o contato com a Terra em que vive e os muitos espíritos que nela habitam. Gosta de compor músicas rituais e fazer versões em português de cânticos já existentes. Tem forte interesse em práticas oraculares e trabalhos de possessão e aspectamento. Amante de deuses e pessoas, no plural, tenta viver suas relações humanas e não-humanas de forma não hierárquica.
Jane Meredith (she/her) is an author, ritualist, and Reclaiming teacher. She lives in Australia and loves to travel. Her books include: 'Falling through the Tree of Life: Embodied Kabbalah', 'Journey to the Dark Goddess', 'Aspecting the Goddess', and co-authored with Fio Gede Parma, 'Elements of Magic', 'Magic of the Iron Pentacle', and 'Magic of the Pearl Pentacle'. She has taught at many WitchCamps and loves the co-created magic of Reclaiming. Her passions include rivers and trees, magic and myth, white cockatoos and dark chocolate. Jane's website is: www.janemeredith.com
Karin is a queer/bi witch currently living on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Dakota people in Bdeóta Othúŋwe, also known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. She uses she/her pronouns. Karin has been involved with Reclaiming for over 16 years and is a Reclaiming initiate. Her practice is strongly rooted in ancestral connection and developing a living relationship with her Nordic and Lithuanian roots. Relationships with Freya, the Norns, Sunna, Bridget and Bear among others are a large part of her devotional practice. She is a ritualist, artist and reader of runes. Winter Witchcamp (WWC) and Upper Mississippi River Reclaiming (UMRR) are her home communities. She has served both communities in a variety of roles. A large part of her ongoing work with both Winter Witchcamp and Upper Mississippi River Reclaiming is centered around anti-racism and anti-ableism, in particular bringing awareness to ableism and advocating for better accessibility at camps and other gatherings.
Phoenix LeFae (she/her) started her journey in the world of Witchcraft in 1993 when her athame was a wooden-handled butter knife stolen from her mom’s kitchen. Her love of magick and mystery has led her down many paths, lineages, and traditions. She is an initiate in the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft, the Avalon Druid Order, and Gardnerian Wicca. Phoenix has written several books including What Is Remembered Lives, A Witch’s Guide to Creating and Performing Rituals, Witches, Heretics, and Warrior Women and more. She is a professional Witch and the owner of the esoteric Goddess shop, Milk & Honey, (www.Milk-and-Honey.com).
Raven Edgewalker (they/them) is a British Witch, teacher, artist, and collector of sticks who makes their living crafting beautiful pagan tools and jewellery, dwelling in the magical landscape of Somerset. They are a Reclaiming and Anderson Feri initiate and have worked within both traditions for 25 years. Raven sees their work in the world as building relationship within community, with deity, land, and its beings.
Raven has been lucky to teach many Reclaiming Witchcamps and other workshops across the world, face to face and online, as a founder and teacher of World Tree Lyceum. www.Greenwomancrafts.etsy.com www.worldtreelyceum.org
Shannon Rose (she/her) is a queer femme who has been involved in Reclaiming since a dream led her down the west coast of Turtle Island to her first California Witchcamp in 2015. She has been a bower priestex, organizer of Pleasures of Beltane camp, and started teaching in the tradition in 2024.
She lives in Quw'utsun, the place of the Quw'utsun Hwulmuhw (colonially known as the cowichan valley on vancouver island). Her ancestors made their way to Turtle Island in various waves of colonization, primarily as farmers, from the countries known as Ireland, Germany, England, and Poland.
She is a writer and dreamer, passionate about pleasure and magic as liberatory praxis. She works at the intersections of sex, magic, and healing as a witch, therapist, student of somatic sex education, and erotic labourer.
Hi, I’m Starsinger (she/they)! I am an elemental witch, priestess, and embodied energy worker. I delight in embodied ritual practices, singing, drumming, and dancing myself and others into ecstatic communion with each other and the natural world around us. I currently live in San Antonio, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Payaya, a tribe of the Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation.
I am an ecstatic, a teacher, a dabbling writer, an ardent traveler; undone by words, music, dance, oceans, mountains, Lapsang Souchong, mystery, and strong, vulnerable people. In my local circle, I have taught and/or priestessed numerous intensives, retreats, and classes. A lifelong teacher, I am so excited to bring my skills, desires, and enthusiasm to teaching this year at World Wide Witchcamp!
SusanneRae (they, them and sometime she) is a weird, queer witch who works with labyrinth, many deity, Goddess, Nature beings, Mystical Buddhism and Seidre. They have a lifetime’s experience working with earth-centred energies.
SusanneRae currently lives on Willyama Country (so-called Broken Hill, NSW.Australia)
They have been teaching and organising in Reclaiming for years.They are very excited to be part of this world wide witch camp experience again. Susanne Rae has been practising and teaching meditation skills for over 30 years.
Their website: https://www.themeditationspace.com.au
The Meditation Space is an online platform for their teaching and mentoring.
Tere Parsley Starnes (they/them): I was drawn to Reclaiming in the early days because I knew in my soul a Witch’s job was to change the world. I wanted to learn how. I have studied, taught, organized, and agitated in this tradition for decades. Gladly so. I don’t see that changing. I am a queer astrologer, writer, teacher, and shaper of change. I have worked with Juniper in various anti-racism projects including Undoing White Supremacy in Kink Community (initiated by Eleven Greenstones). Happy to join forces again! I live on the traditional land of the Dakota, otherwise known as Minneapolis in the U.S.
Urania (she/her): I’m proof positive that magic can happen anywhere, I met my first Reclaiming Witch in 1989 at traffic court while reading Dreaming the Dark. Walked out of there with no fine and a flyer. I took my first Reclaiming class in 1991 and was invited to student teach in the San Francisco Bay Area Community in 1993. Since then I’ve done most everything from schlepping to bookkeeping to ritual planning, teaching, founding cells and Witchlets, and general rabble rousing. Rotation has been one of my core practices. I am regularly awed and grateful to have received so many opportunities from this community. My life is richer for having walked this path.
Yuki Fae (elu/ele) é Bruxa Queer, iniciade Feri, do clã Coelhos da Lua, Praticante das artes ocultas, Tarólogue, Oraculista, Feiticeire, Alune e Professorie. Envolvide com a Tradição Reclaiming, é co-idealizadore da comunidade Reclaiming Brasil. Possui envolvimento intenso com práticas mágicas ligadas ao tarô, bem como foco no trabalho mútuo com os espíritos da terra e dedicação ao trabalho de autopossessão diário. Acredita que quando curamos a terra, o coração da humanidade é curado simultaneamente.
