Midwinter Mundane Magic
Presents
THE NADIR
practitioner bios
Alyssa Allegretti
hearthcraft practitioner
Alyssa Allegretti is a domestic support specialist and mother by day, and a writer and rogue cultural anthropologist by night. Her work centers around hearth, home, and issues of human family life. She does not boast any claims of credibility, advanced training, or clout beyond having a good brain and an inexplicable talent for stream of consciousness poetry
Dore Ann
Ritual Bodyworker & Sacred Intimate.
Dore Ann is a mystic and a bodyworker who brings the wisdom of a deep study of Hatha Yoga, Vipassana meditation and Neo-Tantra to help humans come home to themselves by engaging the magic of somatically induced altered states, ritual and deep presence. She is currently directing her energy back to the lineage of her ancestors and the Goddess traditions of Southern Italy and mystic Judaism and weaving new webs of connection and creation in North America.
Laurel Armstrong
Song Witch
Laurel Armstrong has worked in the performing arts in various capacities for over 30 years. Primarily trained as a musical-theater actor and singer, her focus has shifted towards blending traditional folk music with new forms and vocal improvisations. Several years ago she started developing her own form of vocal/spiritual practice, "primal singing", through exploring the roots of vocalization and connecting those back to the self and the wider web of reality.
Nathali Arostegui
Ritual ceremonialist
Nathali is a queer Indigenous mestiza latina who comes from a lineage of medicine weavers, creatives, resilient life and death bridge builders. She is a bodyworker, space holder, mystic and ritual ceremonialist who facilitates and teaches holistic leadership skills, somatic awareness, ancestral remembrance and creative liberation through an animist, de-colonial, anti-oppressive lens.
Karina Blackheart
ELDER PRIESTESS
Author, and Founder of the BlackHeart Feri Lineage, Karina is an elder priestess, magical practitioner, and Craft teacher. In her work, she emphasizes personal, liberatory transformation and culture change. As a Master Firewalking Instructor and Ritualist, she reminds us that we are never without power as long as we have access to our imagination.
Sara downing
mama yoni
A big mama bear with a body-positive focus, Sara is a pleasure educator and intimacy mentor helping folks find joy in their authentic selves and navigate their desires with confidence. The warmth, empathy and unwavering support she brings are the gifts of her devotion to the energy of mothering, a practice she honed raising her three daughters while navigating the complexities of severe mental illness in her family. Her DBT and intimacy training allow her to create safer spaces for people to find comfort, delight, and excitement in their bodies and their sex, expand their capacity for pleasure and explore the edges of their erotic selves. Her presence offers unconditional support and loving attention for all of your tenderest parts.
Kristopher Drummond
poet
Kristopher Drummond is a fourth generation Montanan slowly growing his conifer roots into the deciduous loam of Western North Carolina amid cultural and climatic collapse. His work as a poet, wilderness guide, and ecotherapist is aimed at supporting people to find healing, meaning, and activism in and with the mystery of the natural world. In May, 2025 he will graduate from Appalachian State University with an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy, which will allow him to provide accessible, ecologically-oriented mental health care to a wider web of people.
Kate Fontana
mentor of the spiritual fringe
Kate Fontana is a recovering angry activist and peak-experience junkie. She now hustles and hopes for the best as a psychic, pagan-christian priestess, and mentor to the spiritual fringe. Kate seeks to help spiritual misfits live and lead with joy (and to do so herself) – amidst the chaos of collapse and in pursuit of restored relationship with the web of life. She is the founder of The Sanctuary Northwest, a center for resilience and culture, where she hosts local land-based rituals in the South Puget Sound of Washington State. She is also the founder of Priestess School, an apprenticeship program for reluctant leaders on the spiritual fringe.
Bree Greenberg
The Movement of Existence
Bree Greenberg is the founder of the former Vermont Center for Integrative Therapy which opened in 2010 and was one of the first mental health centers to combine ancient systems of healing interwoven with current cutting edge systems of care. Her knowledge base draws from her extensive experience in transpersonal and systems psychology, contemplative practices, yoga and eastern medicine. She teaches large organizations to alchemize change at the deepest levels while creating sustainable systems that aim practitioners and clients toward liberation. She is the founder of The Movement of Existence, an evolutionary path of maturation that lives at the intersection of biochemistry, physics, developmental psychology and spirituality.
Liz Koch
Core awareness
Liz Koch is a conceptual artist exploring the deep sensory system and the wild wisdom of core Psoas. An international somatic educator and author with 45 years of experience, she is the creator of Core Awareness™ and the author of The Psoas Book; Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise & Dance; Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence; and her upcoming book Birth Savvy. Liz focuses on kinesthetic intelligence and somatic awareness as a means for unfolding our human potential. Stalking Wild Psoas is her passion and Changing the Language of Body is her mission.
Arden Leigh
the re-patterning project
Arden Leigh is the creator and facilitator of The Re-Patterning Project, a course in understanding the human operating system and repatterning trauma imprints and social conditioning in order to achieve creative freedom. She is also the sole apprentice and spiritual lineage heir to chaos magician Grant Morrison, as well as the frontwoman and sole proprietor of music project Arden and the Wolves, through which she uses narrative magick to alter reality through her songwriting.
Daniella matutues
Alchemy by love
For nearly 40 years, I carried the weight of childhood abuse, believing it left me soiled and unworthy. Even in rooms filled with powerful leaders, I often felt like an outsider. That belief began to dissolve when I created the life-changing practices of somatic self-love and sexual abuse energy alchemization. As I created these tools, I not only transformed my pain but developed a body of work to guide others toward their own liberation. My nonprofit, Alchemy By Love, carries an audacious mission: to eradicate the energy of sexual abuse from the planet in two generations.
Mary Mclaughlin
Irish Singer, Songwriter, and Teacher
Mary Mclaughlin is a singer/songwriter/teacher who is steeped in the Ulster Gaelic song tradition of her native Ireland where she was born and raised. Mary records, performs and teaches workshops in Irish singing, technique and Gaelic song and culture. She has toured extensively throughout UK, Ireland and North America, teaching and performing at Celtic/Irish camps. She has recorded five CDs to international acclaim, written two song books and completed a PhD in Irish Otherworld Song, Her particular expertise is in the Keen, Gaelic Christmas songs and Fairy Song. Currently she teaches Gaelic song in the Ulster tradition online to students from several countries through classes and individual lessons.
Scout Rainer Wiley
RITUAL ARTIST
Scout Rainer Wiley is a ritual artist living on lands traditionally stewarded by the Cherokee. Weaving in threads of animist practice, systems theory, and religious studies, they offer poetic-prose to water the roots of an emerging regenerative culture.
ESI WILDCAT
Somatic Practitioner and Ceremonialist
Esi Wildcat is an Ordained Priestess of Isis, a Shakta initiate and yogini in the lineage of Sri Vidya, certified holistic health practitioner, and interdisciplinary healing artist with over 20 years of expertise. She envisions a world where all humans harness the power to intuit and maintain wellness and aliveness in all areas of their lives. Esi is passionate about conversations that create change, as a spaceholder for the primal emotions that often have no place in our contemporary world – grief, rage, despair, anger. As a bridge builder to the New Earth, she is making waves in the cultural somatic realm and is injecting the social justice sphere with much needed humanness and nuance. Esi seeks to highlight the extraordinary in the ordinary – and how the power of presence in our lives can transform not only how we relate to ourselves, but the world around us.
Shante' Zenith
relational field consultant
Shante’ Zenith supports visionary creative projects in piercing through dominant reality fields to potentiate primordial, ancestral dreamings. Her practice weaves together learnings from somatics, animism, theatre, and systemic constellations. Shante's experiences as a sensitive body living with chronic illness and neurodivergence invite her to deepen into relationship with rest and nourishment. She tends the Mundane Mycelium membership space to support people with energetic sensitivity in attuning to ritual consciousness and an awareness of self-as-ecosystem.