Pagan Spirit Gathering 2010 Presenters
	Here is a sampling of some of those presenting workshops, talks, rituals, and other program activities at this year's Pagan Spirit Gathering. More will be added as presentation proposals are received and accepted. A complete list of program activities will be published in the PSG Program Book.

	T. Thorn Coyle
	T. Thorn Coyle is an internationally respected teacher who has been studying the magical arts for close to 30 years. Author of "Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World" (Weiser, 2009) and "Evolutionary Witchcraft" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004), is a member of Spiritual Directors International and has a spiritual direction practice by the San Francisco Bay. She is also founder and head of Solar Cross Temple and Morningstar Mystery School. Thorn works with Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and Jews on peace and social justice issues and has presented alongside Daniel Berrigan S.J., and actor Martin Sheen. She has spoken on homelessness and the death penalty in Catholic churches and led services at Sojourner Truth, the first African American Unitarian congregation in Washington DC. Thorn presented at the Parliament of the World's Religions in 2009 and the National Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans in 2001. She speaks at conferences and teaches workshops worldwide. Anthology publications include "Celebrating the Pagan Soul" (Citadel, 2005), "Circle Round" (Bantam, 2000) and "The Pagan Book of Living and Dying" (Harper, 1997). She is profiled in "Modern Pagans" (Re/Search, 2001), "Women Called to the Path of Rumi" (Hohm, 2001) and many newspapers, magazines, and on radio. She has produced four Pagan music CDs and one dance meditation DVD and hosts the popular podcast, "Elemental Castings".

	W. Lyon Martin
	W. Lyon Martin has been an Eclectic Pagan since the mid 80s. Her initial training began with a Dianic Coven in New Haven, Connecticut. After moving to northern Connecticut with the birth of her daughter, she began Solitary practice. In 2000, Lyon was hand-fasted to her wonderful husband, Thunderchilde, and moved half way across the country to Missouri where she began writing articles for Pagan publications both in print and online, among them the Witch's Voice, the Wiccan/Pagan Times and PanGaia Magazine. Lyon is the author of An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child (2005, 2008), Aidan's First Full Moon Circle (2008), and Watchers (2008). She is the illustrator of those three books as well as Rabbit's Song (2009) by S.J. Tucker and Trudy Herring and Smoky and the Feast of Mabon (2010) by Catherynne M. Valente. Lyon has a deep commitment to children. Walking her talk, she applied for and completed training to be a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children of the St. Louis Children's Division Court foster care system. She was officially sworn into this volunteer position on Sept 11, 2008. Lyon currently resides with her husband and daughter in eastern Missouri when she isn't on the road giving workshops at festivals or visiting schools. She claims the dubious title of Perpetual Project Lady and does her best to keep the house clean and the cats fed.

	Jason Pitzl-Waters
	Since launching The Wild Hunt in 2004, Jason Pitzl-Waters has become one of the leading voices for analysis and insight into how modern Pagan faiths are represented within the mainstream media. In addition to daily news analysis, "The Wild Hunt" has also conducted in-depth interviews with prominent figures within modern Paganism, academia, and religion journalism. Jason wants to raise the level of discourse and journalism on important issues within the modern Pagan and Heathen communities, while advocating a broader commitment to encouraging religious multiplicity and solidarity (where appropriate) with surviving indigenous and non-monotheistic faith groups. In addition to his work with The Wild Hunt, Jason has also written for newWitch Magazine, PanGaia Magazine, Thorn Magazine, and Llewellyn Worldwide. He also maintains a weekly podcast entitled "A Darker Shade of Pagan" that explores underground music from a Pagan perspective. Jason currently serves on the Board of Directors for Cherry Hill Seminary, and is coordinating The Pagan Newswire Collective, an open collective of Pagan journalists, newsmakers, media liaisons, and writers who are interested in sharing and promoting primary-source reporting from within our interconnected communities.

	Selena Fox
	Selena Fox is high priestess of Circle Sanctuary. She is one of America's best known Pagan elders and religious freedom activists, and is executive director of the Lady Liberty League. Founder of the Circle Craft tradition, Selena's approach to spirituality emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary Pagan folkways, Wiccan traditions, multicultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology. Selena is a clinical psychotherapist and spiritual counselor with a MS in counseling from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Selena and her work on behalf of the Craft and contemporary Pagan culture have been covered by various regional, national, and global media. She is active in efforts promoting multicultural understanding, interfaith dialogue, and global cooperation, and serves as a consultant on Pagan religious accommodation for a variety of state and federal governmental agencies and other institutions. Selena's writings and photographs have been published in a variety of periodicals, anthologies, and other publications. She is author of Goddess Communion Rituals and Meditations and other works. She also has created several music and guided meditation recordings. She is founder of the quarterly journal, CIRCLE Magazine, and sourcebook, Circle Guide to Pagan Groups. Selena has traveled internationally in connection with her work. She has presented workshops and led rituals in many types of settings. She is founder and co-director of PSG. Email: selena@circlesanctuary.org Website: http://www.circlesanctuary.org

	Patrick McCollum
	Reverend Patrick McCollum is Director of the National Correctional Chaplaincy Directors Association and serves as the Chaplaincy Liaison for all faiths, for the American Academy of Religion, the world's largest and oldest convocation of religious scholars, theologians, and clergy. He is also Director of Chaplaincy at Cherry Hill Seminary . He is an ordained Circle Sanctuary minister and his work includes coordinating the Prison Ministry Task Force for the Lady Liberty League and teaching Pagan Chaplaincy and other topics as part of the Pagan Leadership Institute at the Pagan Spirit Gathering . Rev. McCollum is also on the National Advisory Council of American's United for the Separation of Church and State. Reverend McCollum appeared before the United States Commission on Civil Rights on matters regarding religious discrimination in US prisons. His comments have been included in a report to Congress and to the President, and will be used to create policy to better serve the religious diversity of our country. As a chaplain, Reverend McCollum is a Professional Member of the American Correctional Chaplains Association, the Associated Chaplains in California State Service, and the American Correctional Association. He was a Keynote Speaker for all of the State Chaplain's in California in 2005, speaking on religious accommodation and the law, and also served as the Keynote speaker for all of the State chaplains in North Carolina in 2006. Rev. McCollum has served for over a decade as the Statewide Wiccan Chaplain in the California Department of Corrections, and serves inmates in 33 correctional facilities. He also advises numerous state and federal correctional systems across the country on religious accommodation and chaplaincy issues for all faiths, and received a commendation from the California State Senate for his work in 1999. Reverend McCollum is author of: COURTING THE LADY, A WICCAN JOURNEY, (available at courtingthelady.com) a book on Wiccan theology, and his personal spiritual journey.

	Shauna Aura
	Shauna has taught leadership, community building, and ritual arts throughout the Midwest. She's an Earth-centered spirituality community leader in Chicago, and her organization, Ringing Anvil, offers an intensive educational program in the transformative arts of community leadership, ritual, and spiritual growth. With 12 years experience as an artist, writer, designer, and marketing strategist, she has organized conferences, themed events, and created rituals, shrines, and art installations. She is a graduate of the Diana's Grove leadership and ritual arts program and the Chicago C3 leadership program in environmental sustainability. Her articles have been published in Circle Magazine, Reclaiming Quarterly, Between the Worlds, Isis Seshat, and other local publications. Shauna is inspired by mythic imagination, awakening the vision of the impossible, the pulse of ecstatic drumming, and the song of a healthy, sustainable community. ShaunaAura@ringinganvil.org

	Harry Dorman
	Rev. Harry C. Dorman aka Pathwalker is a retired business owner, a 13-year member of Circle Community and a Circle Minister whose ministry includes spiritual counseling, rites of passage work, interfaith projects, Wiccan Circle involvement, prison ministry and PSG ritual facilitation.

	Joyce & River Higginbotham
	Joyce and River Higginbotham make their home in the Midwest where they are active in teaching and networking on both the local and national level. They helped start and sustain the St. Louis Pagan Picnic, which is one of the largest free pagan events anywhere, attracting more than 2500 attendees each year. They are interviewed for television, radio, newspapers, and magazines on issues relating to Paganism, and appear as guest speakers at universities, high schools, and churches. The Unitarian church has adopted their introductory book as a text for an adult religious education course on earth religions, and several universities use their books as a text or required reading for both graduate and undergraduate religious studies classes. River and Joyce are the authors of Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions, Pagan Spirituality: A Guide to Personal Transformation, and ChristoPaganism: An Inclusive Path, all published by Llewellyn. For more information see their website: www.riverandjoyce.com. River is also on the staff of Diana's Grove Center (www.dianasgrove.com) . It offers leadership and personal growth training through its Mystery School and other events. It is located just a few miles upstream along Sinking Creek from the new PSG home at Camp Zoe.

	Kathryn Hinds
	Kathryn Hinds is the author of more than forty young-adult books on ancient, medieval, and early-modern cultures and the co-author of Magic of the Celtic Gods and Goddesses. She is also an award-winning poet, whose work has appeared in The Lyric, Mythic Passages, SageWoman, and other journals. Kathryn's interests include a range of Earth-based and mystical paths and practices, but her spiritual home lies within the realm of Celtic (particularly Welsh) mythology and tradition. Website: http://www.kathrynhinds.com

	Erin Lale
	Erin Lale has been a runovitki since 1986 and a gythia of Asatru since 1989. In college, she was one of the founders of the official UC Santa Cruz pagan club, Circle of the 13 Moons. She was the publisher and editor of Berserkrgangr Magazine in the 90s, and in the aughts she was the leader of Sunnasfolk and the manager of the MSN Asatru Group. Her book Asatru For Beginners was available only as an ebook since 2002, and in 2010 it is in its first print edition. Lale is a respected religious scholar who was recently consulted by an archeologist on the orthography of a runic inscription on a 10th century sword found in Russia. Her previous publications include the academic paper Paganism Among the Early Slavs. Her popular Rune Seminar has been made into a movie. Lale sells her writing and art from her eBay Store, Magicalrealist Gallery. She hopes to become the second (after Dan Halloran) openly heathen American to hold elective public office; she is currently running for Nevada State Assembly. Lale lives in Henderson, Nevada, with her mom, Meta, her Bengal Cat, Beni-Wan Cat-Obi, a pair of drums named Grandmother Elk and Mr. Hairy Goat, a Silverado named the Warhoop Wagon, and an invisible garden gnome who prefers not to be named. PSG 2010 will be the second time in her life she has been to Missouri, where her father, a descendant of the Northern Band of the Cherokee, was born in a log cabin.

	Michelle Boshears
	Michelle Boshears, Major, US Army (Ret.) is a high priestess with Stone Circle Coven, a Greenwitch tradition of Wicca in Bloomington, Indiana. She makes her home at Pine Circle, a small hobby farm, in Grovetown, Georgia where she raises goats, chickens, donkeys, cats, dogs, and occasionally a granddaughter. Michelle is a Circle Sanctuary sponsored Distinctive Faith Group Leader for Pagans and Wiccans at Fort Gordon, Georgia. She conducts weekly workshops and facilitates Open Circles honoring the Sabbats and the Full Moons. She is co-founder of the Sisterhood of Darkpine, a support group for Pagan women in the Augusta area. She is a member of Order of the Pentacle, Circle Sanctuary, Warriors Circle, Military Pagan Network, and a dedicate to the Eternal Harvest Tradition of Wicca. Michelle is a local co-coordinator for Augusta Pagan Pride Day and is studying in Circle Sanctuary Ministers Training Program. Michelle can be reached at mboshears@gmail.com.

	Michael York
	My initiation and introduction to the otherworld were sponsored by Langston Bowen in 1960 in the fog-covered hills of a remote area in southern San Francisco. My pathway is primarily shamanic with a grounding in Greco-Roman mythology – extending into a search for Indo-European roots and understandings of the sacred. In San Francisco I co-organized the Strawberry Hill Coven in 1969. Our cycle of celebrations in Golden Gate Park included sky-clad dancing around bonfires and the use of flying ointment beneath a magical cloak of invisibility. During the 1970s, I was principally engaged in exploring the sacred geography of Europe. These studies were extended to the Indian subcontinent in the 1980s. From ‘sacred fords’ or tirthas, I have been privileged to commune with the gods and the wonders of the otherworld on repeated occasions.

	Nora Cedarwind Young
	Nora Cedarwind Young is a Circle Minister, Certified Death Midwife, Hospice Chaplain and Green Burial Educator. A leader in the home funeral and green burial movement, Nora facilitates workshops nationwide in support of families reclaiming their rights to care for their beloved dead in the family home. She currently lives surrounded by cedars on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Website: www.thresholdsoflife.org

	Chris Moore
	Chris Moore has attended PSG for 15 years. He will talk for hours about ritual craft and the old gods to whomever he can corner. He and his wife Melanie use every Sabbat as an excuse for a party, while joyfully populating the Midwest with beautiful Pagan babies.

	Rev. Christina (Bella Mahri) Dare
	Rev. Christina (Bella Mahri) Dare instructs at an area College. She has been involved with Circle since 1993 at her first Wisconsin PSG. Since then, only one PSG has been missed! She has been the high priestess of the Lady of the Sacred Grove and Stone Circle since 1993. Her ministry has included the facilitation of the Candle Light Labyrinth (12 years) and the Bast Cat Shrine and Ritual (13 years) at past PSG's, as well as; a variety of rites of passage, rituals, spiritual counseling, classes and other Wiccan needs. She is the co-founder of the Earth Spirituality Education Center, a center for education, communion, and interfaith networking.

	Rev. Paula Johnson
	Rev. Paula Johnson is an ordained minister for Circle Sanctuary as well as a 3rd degree High Priestess from Proteus line of Gardnerian Wicca. She is the Coordinator for Circle Sanctuary's Operation Circle Care, Pentacles for Pagan Troops and the Coordinator of Interfaith Campus Ministry for Circle Sanctuary.