Shakti in the Mountains

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December's topic will be on the astrological houses of the birth chart. Did you know every placement in your chart isn't all about YOU? Yes, the chart describes our personality and temperament, but additionally contains keys to understanding our parents, local neighborhood, workplace, health, and more. We'll overview the terrestrial houses of the chart for insight into the full landscape of our lives. For ease of discussion, I'll be showing charts formatted with the Whole Sign house system. If you'd like me to provide a printed version of your chart in Whole Sign format, feel free to reach out to me ([email protected]) with the date, time, and location of your birth.

Open to all levels of interest and experience—whether a newcomer or a longtime student, participants are welcome to join and explore this timeless subject together. ✨

This circle is open to all genders.

📍Wednesday, December 3 from 5:30 to 7 pm.

$15

REGISTER HERE (or link in bio to calendar): https://sitm-rj-astrology-circle.eventbrite.com

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Rachel Johnson

Hi, I’m Rachel! I came to Astrology as a skeptic, but eventually fell in love with the techniques and philosophical underpinnings of this ancient practice. I’ve studied traditional Hellenistic methods since 2020 and use astrology as tool to shape my understanding of myself and human nature. I’m passionate about teaching others how to explore their birth chart and transits to find their place in the cosmic order.

🌿Join us for Makerspace Open Hours, Monday and Wednesday this week from 2 - 5 pm. Free. Everyone welcome. No need to register.

📢 No Makerspace: 11/28/25

In addition to our regular Makerspace Open Hours, sometimes we have special projects which occur during Makerspace. These creative opportunities are always optional.

We invite you to join us for a time of community and creativity in a space where you can participate in a wide array of art, craft and writing activities. The Shakti Makerspace is designed to be an evolving creative environment for community members.

In the Makerspace you will find equipment and supplies for a variety of expressive activities and craft projects. We will have examples and kits for seasonal projects to make from start to finish or you can use the available supplies to create something from your own imagination and interests.

We hope in this way to offer something for everyone. Use the Makerspace Open Hours as a time and space to mindfully focus in a peaceful, cooperative setting. You can make something or write something or just enjoy being in the creative energy and see what emerges for you.

Learn more at https://shaktiinthemountains.com/events

Celebrate Jolabokaflod with books, chocolate, crafts, and cozy community—Shakti’s own take on Iceland’s beloved holiday tradition.

Jolabokaflod, loosely translated as “Christmas book flood,” is an Icelandic tradition that originated in 1944: the year Iceland gained its independence from Denmark. In the aftermath of World War II, Iceland, as well as most European nations, experienced supply shortages, and consequently, found it necessary to ration commodities. There was one exception - paper, and thus started an Icelandic tradition of exchanging books and chocolate on Christmas Eve. (Did someone say heaven?) ✨

Ellen and Kim thought it would be fun to have a similar tradition at Shakti in the Mountains, and therefore, invite the community to participate in our own version of Jolabokaflod. In addition to books and chocolate, there will be a crafting station where folks are invited to make their own bookmarks, room spray, and bath salts. Shakti also will provide homemade bread and soup.

Each participant is asked to bring a wrapped book (gently used or new) affixed with a label that describes the genre but does not give the title. Wrapped books will be exchanged with an opportunity to trade if you pick up a book title that you have already read. Participants, who are able, are encouraged to bring a nonperishable food donation for the Little Free Pantry too.

Registration covers the cost of the food as well as craft supplies. Please email us if you have any food allergies.

📍Sunday, December 7 · 3 - 5pm
Limited to 30 people
$15

REGISTER HERE: https://sitm-2025-jolabokaflod.eventbrite.com/

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Kim Bushore-Maki and Ellen Harbin Dabbs

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Ellen Harbin-Dabbs is a Tennessee native. Growing up in the Tennessee State Park system, she learned many traditional skills that still need to be remembered. These skills include, but not limited to emergency preparedness, cooking indoors and out, ham radio, etc. Her mother and grandmother taught her the ways of the hearth, and her father, an outdoor instructor and park ranger, taught her the ways of the wild. Her stories and insights will keep you entertained as she teaches us the “old ways.” Ellen has been an Emergency Medical Technician for 25 years and a Ham Radio operator for around 20 years.

Mountain Witch Wisdom on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mountain.witch.wisdom/

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Kim Bushore-Maki is a soul-driven entrepreneur who understands the undeniable urge to create a business and a life filled with meaning and purpose. Her vision of opening a center where people could heal and grow led her to open Shakti in the Mountains in Johnson City, Tennessee: a place where the creative, feminine energy is nurtured and valued.

Kim is a licensed professional counselor and a yoga teacher. She completed the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy program as well as the Shake Your Soul Yoga Dance program. Kim is very interested in somatic expressive therapy, archetypal psychology, gardening, herbalism, astrology, wisdom traditions, and regenerative economics.

Kim continues to build and to support inclusive, vibrant communities. She spends most of her time mentoring leaders, guiding healing programs, and providing mental health counseling.

Learn more: https://shaktiinthemountains.com/

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Grief is not a problem to be solved or a wound to be hidden away—it is a living part of us that asks to be tended, much like a garden that needs regular care. When we neglect it, grief hardens in the body and spirit, cutting us off from vitality and connection. In many cultures, grief has always been a communal act, shared through ritual, song, movement, and witness. Yet in our modern world, we are often left to carry it alone, in silence. These monthly gatherings return grief to the village—creating a space where we can honor it together, in rhythm and in relationship, so that it can transform rather than stagnate. In this tending, we open the soil of our hearts, making room for what’s next to take root and grow.

Each month we will gather in a circle to tend grief through ritual, guided by the medicine of trauma-informed expressive arts, drama/trauma therapy, and the ancient practice of keening. While the container remains constant—safe, grounded, and rooted in care—the focus may shift each month, drawing on seasonal themes, archetypes, or shared collective experiences. In this uncertain time, when so much is ending and reshaping, we will practice acknowledging and honoring our personal and collective losses so that we can imagine, together, the next best thing. Through voice, movement, and shared presence, we create a living altar of remembrance and renewal—making space for what still longs to live in us and what is yet to be born.

📍Saturday, December 20 · 4 - 6 pm

$10. Limited space.

REGISTER HERE: https://sitm-new-moon-grief-tending.eventbrite.com

» December
As the final new moon of the year arrives, December offers us a sacred pause—a time to look back at all we have carried, lost, and learned. In this grief-tending circle, we will lay the year to rest with intention, honoring both its gifts and its hardships. Guided by trauma-informed expressive arts, drama therapy, keening, and ritual, we will create space to acknowledge what has shaped us, release what no longer needs to come forward, and plant quiet seeds for the year ahead. Together, we will close this chapter in community, offering our grief to the dark stillness of winter, trusting that in this fertile ground, new life is already stirring. We will also make space for any grief or trauma—personal or collective—that may not fit this month’s theme, honoring the losses that arise in our lives and in the wider world.

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Janna Browning

Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned Trauma-Informed Drama Therapist, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Director, and Facilitator with Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes groundbreaking projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue and healing around the historical traumas of Palestinians and Israelis, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the deep racial wounds of the United States.

Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, a company specializing in community building across lines of difference, using the stories of a community in large-scale theatre performances. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and created programming for schools. In 2011, she co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN, which continues to this day.

As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy expertise into the realm of community grief-tending—facilitating monthly grief rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to help individuals and communities honor loss, release what can no longer be carried, and make space for renewal. Her grief work draws from ancestral Celtic traditions, trauma-informed expressive arts, and ritual-based collective healing practices.

She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to heal individual and collective wounds, as well as StoryWander Travel, which offers escorted, story-based small group travel experiences.

People with chronic pain and chronic illness can easily become isolated and this group seeks to be a remedy for that. It will allow people who are suffering to come together and support each other in our body grief and the grief of lost futures/expectations while also focusing on the way forward. The goal is for people to feel less alone in their struggle as well as learn about how to manage their daily lives with the limitations that being in pain brings.

My plan is to include a few prepared topics for discussion but to also allow the conversation to flow naturally and to be flexible in how we approach things. I'd like to include opportunities for journaling as well as a guided meditation (assuming the group would be into that/it feels appropriate.)

I'd like it to be a place where everyone feels heard and they can communicate their true feelings about how things are going for them without the sugar coating that often happens with healthy friends and relatives.

Ultimately, I envision that this space will be a sanctuary where healing and encouragement happen.

📍Friday, December 5, 11 am to 12 pm

Free. Registration required. Donations accepted at the door. Limited space. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.

REGISTER HERE (or link in bio to calendar): https://sitm-chronic-pain-support-group.eventbrite.com/

If you are not able to attend an event for which you have registered please contact us so that we may offer that space to someone on the wait list. Thank you.

✨ Led by Kit Blackwell

Kit Blackwell is a nonbinary, AuDHD person who enjoys making art and poetry, and loves making new friends. Through nearly twenty years of lived experience with chronic illness, Kit has learned to look for the beauty and joy that is all around us and to let the glimmers carry them forward. Kit recently returned to their Appalachian roots after many long years away and is loving every minute. Ask them about haints, witches, and cryptids and you'll have them talking for hours!

As we move into the winter holiday season, I want to remind everyone, including myself, of the importance of rest. I don’t know about you but this year has required more boundary-setting than previous years. I attribute this additional work to several reasons.

One reason is my decision to become more involved in the community at-large. Not only have I joined more civic groups, I also have participated in more community-wide events. While this increased engagement has been extremely rewarding, even my little extraverted self needs some down time.

Another contributing factor for clearer boundaries is the desire to find the balance between being informed and feeling overwhelmed by news. Conceivably, I could spend every waking moment consuming information. Since constant consumption is not healthy for me, I had to consciously make a decision about how much information, in particular digital information, I wanted to consume daily. I also had to make peace with any FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) that I was experiencing.

Perhaps the most important reason that I chose to work on boundaries this year is I did not want to respond from a place of disempowerment. In my experience, the shift from well-resourced to depletion is quick and often unconscious. If my goal is to respond in a way that is value-aligned and respectful, then I have to prioritize boundaries which help me stay well-resourced and avoid depletion.

The question then becomes: How does a body (and a mind and a heart) get more rest?

You already know the answer... 🌿Link in bio to read more of this week's blog or: https://mailchi.mp/shaktiinthemountains.com/sitm_newsletter-3019280

In every cloth lies a story, a spell, and a lineage. This workshop invites participants to explore textiles not only as carriers of memory, but as vessels of magic, ritual, and sustainability. We will trace the threads that connect our work to those who spun, wove, and mended before us---family, community, and the more-than-human world.

Through guided making, storytelling, and shared reflection we will:

✨ Invoke textile lineages--honoring the makers, traditions, and materials that shape our practice

✨ Explore ritual in fiber work-- stitches as incantations, cloth as protective cloth, making as a form of devotion

✨ Weave sustainability into action--using reclaimed fabrics, natural fibers, and mindful processes that hone the land and reduce waste

✨ Uncover the magic of mending and making--as acts of healing, grieving, remembrance, and resistance.

Participants will leave with a small, self-made textile talisman and a deeper sense of connection to the unseen thread linking craft, ancestors, and the earth. No prior textile experience is needed--only curiosity and a willingness to listen to the stories cloth embodies.

📍Tuesday, December 9 · 6 - 8 pm

Limited to 7 participants
$27

REGISTER HERE: https://sitm-material-lineages.eventbrite.com/

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Rebecca Tolley

Rebecca Tolley earned her BS in Studio Art from ETSU in 1994 where she studied weaving, ceramics, painting, sculpture, and jewelry & metalsmithing. In her day job she supports learning and research as a professor and academic librarian at ETSU and has taught introduction to women’s gender, and sexuality studies since 2011. She was in the SouthArts Emerging Traditional Artists Program’s 2024 cohort for her quiltmaking; their funding let her advance her understanding of quiltmaking with Mary Ann and China Pettaway of Gee’s Bend Quilts (AL). As the 2025 E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association, her current research explores the overlooked history of mid-century embroidery correspondence courses, with special attention to their cultural, educational, and economic significance in postwar America.

Learn more about Rebecca here: http://relytolley.com/

December's topic will be on the astrological houses of the birth chart. Did you know every placement in your chart isn't all about YOU? Yes, the chart describes our personality and temperament, but additionally contains keys to understanding our parents, local neighborhood, workplace, health, and more. We'll overview the terrestrial houses of the chart for insight into the full landscape of our lives. For ease of discussion, I'll be showing charts formatted with the Whole Sign house system. If you'd like me to provide a printed version of your chart in Whole Sign format, feel free to reach out to me ([email protected]) with the date, time, and location of your birth.

Open to all levels of interest and experience—whether a newcomer or a longtime student, participants are welcome to join and explore this timeless subject together. ✨

This circle is open to all genders.

📍Wednesday, December 3 from 5:30 to 7 pm.

$15

REGISTER HERE (or link in bio to calendar): https://sitm-rj-astrology-circle.eventbrite.com

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Rachel Johnson

Hi, I’m Rachel! I came to Astrology as a skeptic, but eventually fell in love with the techniques and philosophical underpinnings of this ancient practice. I’ve studied traditional Hellenistic methods since 2020 and use astrology as tool to shape my understanding of myself and human nature. I’m passionate about teaching others how to explore their birth chart and transits to find their place in the cosmic order.

Are you ready to step beyond wishing and into creating? Join us for a 90-minute circle designed to help you align with your deepest intentions and magnify the energy behind your dreams. Together, through techniques based in somatics and the expressive arts, we’ll move from simply thinking about what we want to truly embodying it. ✨

Through guided practice we will harness the power of collective energy and each participant will have dedicated time for the group to hold and magnify their intentions. As we focus together, your vision gains momentum, strength, and clarity—carried not only by your own belief, but by the supportive field we create as a community.

📍Tuesday, December 2 from 5 to 6:30 pm

Limited to 12 participants. Join us for one or both.

$33 per circle

REGISTER HERE: https://sitm-manifest-circles.eventbrite.com/

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.
The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Janna Browning

Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned Trauma-Informed Drama Therapist, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Director, and Facilitator with Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes groundbreaking projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue and healing around the historical traumas of Palestinians and Israelis, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the deep racial wounds of the United States.

Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, a company specializing in community building across lines of difference, using the stories of a community in large-scale theatre performances. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and created programming for schools. In 2011, she co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN, which continues to this day.

As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy expertise into the realm of community grief-tending—facilitating monthly grief rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to help individuals and communities honor loss, release what can no longer be carried, and make space for renewal. Her grief work draws from ancestral Celtic traditions, trauma-informed expressive arts, and ritual-based collective healing practices.

She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to heal individual and collective wounds, as well as StoryWander Travel, which offers escorted, story-based small group travel experiences.

Saturday!

Grief is not a problem to be solved or a wound to be hidden away—it is a living part of us that asks to be tended, much like a garden that needs regular care. When we neglect it, grief hardens in the body and spirit, cutting us off from vitality and connection. In many cultures, grief has always been a communal act, shared through ritual, song, movement, and witness. Yet in our modern world, we are often left to carry it alone, in silence. These monthly gatherings return grief to the village—creating a space where we can honor it together, in rhythm and in relationship, so that it can transform rather than stagnate. In this tending, we open the soil of our hearts, making room for what’s next to take root and grow.

Each month we will gather in a circle to tend grief through ritual, guided by the medicine of trauma-informed expressive arts, drama/trauma therapy, and the ancient practice of keening. While the container remains constant—safe, grounded, and rooted in care—the focus may shift each month, drawing on seasonal themes, archetypes, or shared collective experiences. In this uncertain time, when so much is ending and reshaping, we will practice acknowledging and honoring our personal and collective losses so that we can imagine, together, the next best thing. Through voice, movement, and shared presence, we create a living altar of remembrance and renewal—making space for what still longs to live in us and what is yet to be born.

📍Event Details

Join us for one or all.

Saturdays, 4 to 6 pm
November 22
December 20

$10 per circle. Limited space.

REGISTER HERE: https://sitm-new-moon-grief-tending.eventbrite.com

» November
As winter approaches and the nights grow long, November’s new moon offers a time to gather in the company of our ancestors—those we have known and loved, and those whose names we may never know but whose lives shaped our own. In this grief-tending circle, we will honor the gifts and burdens of our lineages, acknowledging the griefs we have inherited as well as the resilience passed down through the generations. Guided by trauma-informed expressive arts, drama therapy, keening, and ritual, we will create a space for remembrance, release, and gratitude. Together, we will offer our voices, our movement, and our presence to the great river of ancestry—tending both personal and collective wounds, and inviting our ancestors to walk beside us as we step into what is yet to come. We will also make space for any grief or trauma—personal or collective—that may not fit this month’s theme, honoring the losses that arise in our lives and in the wider world.

» December
As the final new moon of the year arrives, December offers us a sacred pause—a time to look back at all we have carried, lost, and learned. In this grief-tending circle, we will lay the year to rest with intention, honoring both its gifts and its hardships. Guided by trauma-informed expressive arts, drama therapy, keening, and ritual, we will create space to acknowledge what has shaped us, release what no longer needs to come forward, and plant quiet seeds for the year ahead. Together, we will close this chapter in community, offering our grief to the dark stillness of winter, trusting that in this fertile ground, new life is already stirring. We will also make space for any grief or trauma—personal or collective—that may not fit this month’s theme, honoring the losses that arise in our lives and in the wider world.

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Janna Browning

Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned Trauma-Informed Drama Therapist, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Director, and Facilitator with Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes groundbreaking projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue and healing around the historical traumas of Palestinians and Israelis, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the deep racial wounds of the United States.

Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, a company specializing in community building across lines of difference, using the stories of a community in large-scale theatre performances. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and created programming for schools. In 2011, she co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN, which continues to this day.

As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy expertise into the realm of community grief-tending—facilitating monthly grief rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to help individuals and communities honor loss, release what can no longer be carried, and make space for renewal. Her grief work draws from ancestral Celtic traditions, trauma-informed expressive arts, and ritual-based collective healing practices.

She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to heal individual and collective wounds, as well as StoryWander Travel, which offers escorted, story-based small group travel experiences.

🌿Join us for Makerspace Open Hours, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 2 - 5 pm. Free. Everyone welcome. No need to register.

In addition to our regular Makerspace Open Hours, sometimes we have special projects which occur during Makerspace. These creative opportunities are always optional.

✨Every Week

We invite you to join us for a time of community and creativity in a space where you can participate in a wide array of art, craft and writing activities. The Shakti Makerspace is designed to be an evolving creative environment for community members.

In the Makerspace you will find equipment and supplies for a variety of expressive activities and craft projects. We will have examples and kits for seasonal projects to make from start to finish or you can use the available supplies to create something from your own imagination and interests.

We hope in this way to offer something for everyone. Use the Makerspace Open Hours as a time and space to mindfully focus in a peaceful, cooperative setting. You can make something or write something or just enjoy being in the creative energy and see what emerges for you.

Learn more at https://shaktiinthemountains.com/events

Celebrate Jolabokaflod with books, chocolate, crafts, and cozy community—Shakti’s own take on Iceland’s beloved holiday tradition.

Jolabokaflod, loosely translated as “Christmas book flood,” is an Icelandic tradition that originated in 1944: the year Iceland gained its independence from Denmark. In the aftermath of World War II, Iceland, as well as most European nations, experienced supply shortages, and consequently, found it necessary to ration commodities. There was one exception - paper, and thus started an Icelandic tradition of exchanging books and chocolate on Christmas Eve. (Did someone say heaven?) ✨

Ellen and Kim thought it would be fun to have a similar tradition at Shakti in the Mountains, and therefore, invite the community to participate in our own version of Jolabokaflod. In addition to books and chocolate, there will be a crafting station where folks are invited to make their own bookmarks, room spray, and bath salts. Shakti also will provide homemade bread and soup.

Each participant is asked to bring a wrapped book (gently used or new) affixed with a label that describes the genre but does not give the title. Wrapped books will be exchanged with an opportunity to trade if you pick up a book title that you have already read. Participants, who are able, are encouraged to bring a nonperishable food donation for the Little Free Pantry too.

Registration covers the cost of the food as well as craft supplies. Please email us if you have any food allergies.

📍Sunday, December 7 · 3 - 5pm
Limited to 30 people
$15

REGISTER HERE: https://sitm-2025-jolabokaflod.eventbrite.com/

Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event. The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.

✨ Led by Kim Bushore-Maki and Ellen Harbin Dabbs

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Ellen Harbin-Dabbs is a Tennessee native. Growing up in the Tennessee State Park system, she learned many traditional skills that still need to be remembered. These skills include, but not limited to emergency preparedness, cooking indoors and out, ham radio, etc. Her mother and grandmother taught her the ways of the hearth, and her father, an outdoor instructor and park ranger, taught her the ways of the wild. Her stories and insights will keep you entertained as she teaches us the “old ways.” Ellen has been an Emergency Medical Technician for 25 years and a Ham Radio operator for around 20 years.

Mountain Witch Wisdom on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mountain.witch.wisdom/

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Kim Bushore-Maki is a soul-driven entrepreneur who understands the undeniable urge to create a business and a life filled with meaning and purpose. Her vision of opening a center where people could heal and grow led her to open Shakti in the Mountains in Johnson City, Tennessee: a place where the creative, feminine energy is nurtured and valued.

Kim is a licensed professional counselor and a yoga teacher. She completed the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy program as well as the Shake Your Soul Yoga Dance program. Kim is very interested in somatic expressive therapy, archetypal psychology, gardening, herbalism, astrology, wisdom traditions, and regenerative economics.

Kim continues to build and to support inclusive, vibrant communities. She spends most of her time mentoring leaders, guiding healing programs, and providing mental health counseling.

Learn more: https://shaktiinthemountains.com/

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