Telesummit Speakers
Here are biographies of the speakers for the telesummit.
If you’d like to find out more about the topics and the schedule, go to the schedule page.
Andrew Paradnik
Andrew talks about the powerful orgone generating tools he creates that bring together his breadth of knowledge in many disciplines including Taoism, Shamanic teachings, kinesiology, dowsing, crystal healing and sacred geometry.
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Davyd Farrell
Davyd is the co-Founder of the ground-breaking event, Plant Consciousness in London and the online TV channel WisdomHub.tv. He also co-created the annual event, The Shamanic Lands, now based in Wales with his partner and wife Emma. Together they also run workshops and retreats to take attendees into the inner realms of nature for transformation, healing and consciousness expansion.
Davyd has trained under Western herbalists and plant spirit healers – Carole Guyett for two years and Pam Montgomery for 5 years. He also trained under Kurikindi – a Kichwa elder and Amazonian shaman and medicine man in the ways of the forest and energy healing, with a core focus on working with ones own energy and keeping ourselves energetically clean.
An ongoing part of his practice is working with the Yew – tree of Eternity which has been a major part of his path. He has been guided in that ongoing work by Michael Dunning – the Yew shaman.
He has also trained and studied under several other prominent teachers; Sandra Corcoran in the dreaming practices of the Seneca people and Patrick MacManaway in Geomancy and Earth energies He also studied Tibetan Buddhism for 3 years – first in India and then more formally at a semi-monastic centre in Italy where he was fortunate enough to study the entire Lam Rim under Dagri Rinpoche – who is the reincarnation of Serlingpa and holds many lineages in his consciousness stream.
Davyd believes strongly in the need for a return to a more balanced relationship between humans and their home Mother Earth. Through working deeply with plants he feels that its possible for us all to re-establish that connection with our surroundings and in doing so heal both ourselves and the world around us. He calls this The Nature Path.
www.plantconsciousness.com
www.theshamaniclands.com
www.wisdomhub.tv
David Charles Rowan
David Charles Rowan began conducting tours of the Neolithic Landscape of Avebury and Stonehenge in 1993. He was among the first 6 people to be awarded a master of arts degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology and has been a practitioner and teacher of Astrology since 1991. He also holds a master of science degree in Psycho-Social Studies and teaches Neuro Holistic Therapy; a synthesis of Hypnotherapy, NLP Psychobiology, and Affective Neuroscience. In addition, David is a published poet, a singer-songwriter and a keen photographer.
Emma Farrell
Emma is the co-Founder of the ground-breaking event, Plant Consciousness London and the online TV channel WisdomHub.tv. She also co-created the annual event, The Shamanic Lands, now based in Wales with her partner and husband, Davyd. Together they also run workshops and retreats to take attendees into the inner realms of nature for transformation, healing and consciousness expansion.
Emma holds a Master’s Degree in the Preservation of Wisdom Culture and Art of Liberation in the Buddhist Mahayana tradition focusing on the transformation of the mind, the freedom from all forms of suffering and obscurations. She wrote her dissertation on Understanding The Nature Of The ‘Self’ Through Lucid Dreaming.
She has also trained for 5 years with Plant Spirit Healer, Pam Montgomery and Ecuadorian Shaman and Elder, Kurikindi to understand how energy works, how inter dimensional realities work and what it means to truly be a healer in co-creation with the plant kingdom and the land.
It is Emma’s understanding that the disastrous situation we find ourselves in on the planet, whether it is ecologically, sociologically, psychologically or physically, is rooted in the individual’s disconnect from nature, from spirit and from the land. Through intensive retreats and workshops, Emma guides and assists in healing these rifts and traumas within attendees so that they can live their lives happy, connected and with magic.
www.plantconsciousness.com
www.theshamaniclands.com
www.wisdomhub.tv
Fearn Lickfield
Fearn Lickfield is a web weaver who facilitates the re-connection of people with the Heart of Nature. She is Chief of the Green Mountain Druid Order, director of The Green Mountain Druid School and founder of Guardians of the Sacred Earth and Ecstatic Dance Vermont. With her late husband Ivan McBeth, she is a co-author of The Bardic Book of Becoming. She works as a certified flower essence practitioner, geomancer, dowser, ecstatic dance leader, community organizer, gardener and medicine maker. Being a lover of magic and ritual, she creates and leads community celebrations in honour of the earth and waters, the seasons and for rites of passage. Fearn is steward of Dreamland, a sanctuary and mystery school in Worcester VT.
Grahame Gardner
One of the most respected dowsers in the UK and internationally, Grahame is a professional member and registered tutor of The British Society of Dowsers and served as President of the Society from 2008-2014. He has three published books, ‘Dowsing Magic’, ‘Dowsing with Sigils’, and ‘A Basic Guide to Technopathic Stress’, produces an award-winning podcast ‘Adventures in Dowsing’; and in 2014 was awarded the prestigious BSD Award and a Life Membership for exceptional services to dowsing and the Society. He is also a member of the Canadian and American dowsing societies, a founder member of The Geomancy Group and co-founder (with Susan Collins) of InternationalDowsers.org, offering global dowsing solutions. Grahame has presented at conferences in Canada, America, Japan, Italy and Portugal. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Jeremy Rye
Jeremy Rye is a thoughtful, experienced and far-sighted landscape architect. Through his vision his studio strives to understand the living landscape: the influences, patterns and roles it has played in the past that have shaped it to the present day and how those elements will affect the role it will play in the future.
His understanding crystallises the design, preserving what has worked and reviewing what no longer serves to create a landscape that is harmonious with the needs of the client, its visitors and the environment. He believes wholeheartedly in the ethos of landscape sustainability and is passionate about how, as sentient beings, we can live more lightly on the land. This is designing naturally.
He walks the land as a way of finding the answers he seeks and takes people on their own journeys showing them how a walk or pilgrimage with intention, can be revealing to each of us and to the landscape.
www.facebook.com/dragonwalks
@dragonwalks
Joanna Southgate
Joanna Southgate is the brewery manager for Equinox Kombucha, based in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire which is the best selling Kombucha in the UK and Europe. She brings her years of experience of working with Plant Consciousness, Shamanism, Dowsing and Geomancy to help run a quickly growing business in a truly conscious and authentic way with deep respect.
Linda Shay
Linda Shay is a Dolphin Ambassador for Joyful Living, Author, Spiritual Teacher and Dolphin Energy Healer. It is Linda’s joy to bring the gifts of the Dolphins … from sea to land.
Linda is the custodian of a unique gift – a spiritual path Dolphin created for humanity in 2003. The Dolphin Attunement Journey empowers courageous awakening humans to receive, embody, and radiate high-vibrational Dolphin qualities of unconditional Love and divine Joy in their daily lives, by simply being.
A former banker, Linda was initiated to the Dolphin path in 1996, when one moment with one wild Hawaiian spinner dolphin changed her life forever. That very night, people began experiencing spontaneous healings and transformations in Linda’s presence. She had become a vehicle for the healing and transformational frequencies and consciousness of the dolphins. A wondrous, interdimensional, interspecies, spiritual adventure had begun!
Seven years later, in January 2003, Linda woke up one morning feeling brand new. More than a spiritual awakening, she had undergone a metamorphosis. Linda had become a new being on Earth – a living embodiment of a brand-new quality of consciousness – a blended human-dolphin.
“Now it is time to gather your pods and share this gift with others.” Linda heard within.
Linda’s book, Dolphin Love … From Sea to Land, tells her personal spiritual adventure story – and her love story – with the dolphins.
Linda also contributed the opening chapter to the Amazon best-seller, Dolphins & Whales Forever.
Mare Cromwell
Called the “Voice of Earth Mother” by Rainbow Thunder Heart – a gifted Shoshone Elder– Mare Cromwell is a Gaia Communicator & Priestess, Author and Healer. Some might call her a Medicine Woman. She has devoted her life to the Great Mother and midwifing the New World coming in now. Her multi-award-winning books include: “The Great Mother Bible”; “Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother”; and, “If I gave you God’s phone number…. Searching for Spirituality in America”.
Mare has studied with Native American elders for 22 years along with other gifted spiritual teachers. Another gifted elder informed her that her work with Gaia is in the prophecies, and a third one informed her that she is *The Gaia Mystic*. She sat on the World Council for Wisdom Gatherings for three years and is the visionary behind the 1000 Goddesses Gathering. She lives in western Maryland and is a former worm herder. www.marecromwell.com
Mary Reynolds
Mary Reynolds is the youngest woman to win a gold medal at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show. She is an Irish garden and landscape designer and strives to be a good listener. By listening carefully to her client and the land in question she undertakes the design of gardens that marry the needs and wishes of the land’s guardian with the needs and wishes of the land itself. With her roots in natural gardening theory, Mary seeks to create spaces that are healing, truthful and magical.
Famous for her wild garden at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in London her life has been the inspiration for the film ‘Dare to Be Wild’.
Her new approach to garden design is captured in the book ‘The Garden Awakening’ and is a step by step instruction manual drawing on ancient methods of working with the land and using them to invite the power and energy of nature back into your life and surround your house and life in its life-giving healing embrace.
Michael Dunning
During the late 1980’s Michael became extremely ill as a result of an encounter in the far north of Scotland with a powerful otherworldly being that he refers to as the Sulfur Daemon – Daemon is not meant here in the Biblical or Medieval sense but as related to the Sanskrit Deva, meaning ‘to shine’ or’ shining.’ Several years later and close to death, Michael was led to an ancient female yew tree in the south of Scotland. He spent over nine years under this yew where he was healed and where he was given the template for a shamanic practice (yew shamanism) and a mystery school based on the direct teachings of the yew tree as custodian to the vast healing and regenerative powers of the Otherworld (Annwn.) Michael refers to the teachings of the yew as the Yew Mysteries.
Michael emigrated to the USA in 2003 and currently resides in rural Western Massachusetts.
While living in Scotland Michael studied Craniosacral Therapy with Donald Howitt D.O. and offers a two -year foundation training, individual sessions and practitioner mentoring in a unique form of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Michael currently teaches the Yew Mysteries in Wales and Scotland, UK as well as in USA. He has written about his experiences with the yew in the book Soul Companions and in many other publications including Sacred Hoop and the Journal of Contemporary Shamanism. Michael is currently writing a book about his experiences with the yew.
Orion Foxwood
Orion Foxwood is a traditional witch, conjure-man and faery seer; and, the author of “The Faery Teachings” (RJ Stewart Books), “The Tree of Enchantment”, “The Candle & the Crossroads” and “The Flame in the Cauldron” (Weiser Books). Born with the veil in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia- he was exposed to faith-healing, root-doctoring, faery lore and of southern and Appalachian folk magic which he teaches in workshops and other forums. He is the founder of the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute; and Foxwood Temple to pass on the traditional witchcraft of his elders; and co-founder of the annual Conjure-Craft symposium aimed at fostering education, community, co-creative magic and the healing and helping practices of the traditions he carries. He holds a Master’s Degree in Human Services.
Website: www.orionfoxwood.com.
Pam Montgomery
Pam Montgomery is an author, teacher and practitioner who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants/trees and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. She is the author of two books one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She operates the Partner Earth Education Center in Danby, Vermont where classes, plant research and ceremonies take place. Pam also teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology and people as Nature Evolutionaries. She is a founding member of United Plant Savers and more recently the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or O.N.E. Her latest passion is to engage ceremonially in full symbiosis within the plant/human matrix where the elder common plants and trees initiate and guide us into being truly human. Visit her websites at www.plantspirithealing.com and www.natureevolutionaries.com.
Patrick MacManaway
Dr. Patrick MacManaway is a third generation practitioner of psychic and healing arts with an international practice teaching and consulting as a geomancer.
Past-President of the British Society of Dowsers, he holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh and is the author of several books and CDs.
Paul Devereux
He is the co-founding managing editor of the academic Routledge publication, Time & Mind – The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (www.tandfonline.com/rtam). Earlier, in the 1990s, he was for several years a Senior Research Scholar with the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group (www.icrl.org), then at Princeton University, an interdisciplinary team studying mind, consciousness, from many angles – anthropology, physics, biophysics, neurophysiology, etc. He is Director of the Dragon Project Trust (www.dragonprojecttrust.org) and a Research Affiliate with the Royal College of Art.
His main research interests include archaeoacoustics (the study of sound at ancient sites), the ancient mind (including shamanism), ancient sites and landscapes, geophysical anomalies, and general consciousness studies (including lucid dreaming).
A prolific book author, with 27 mainstream books published, some of them international titles. Among many others, titles have included Secrets of Ancient and Sacred Places, Re-Visioning the Earth, The Sacred Place, The Long Trip, Sacred Geography and Lucid Dreaming. His Amazon Author page link is here which includes blog articles, photos, and further reformation.
Along with academic papers, he has also published a great many articles for popular publications, including Readers Digest, Time-Life, New Scientist, Focus, Financial Times, Prediction, etc. He is a correspondent for Fortean Times with his bi-monthly popular archaeology column.
Devereux has lectured in the UK, North America, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Holland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere. He has addressed all kinds of audiences from general public to academic, and is effective in media interviews. He originated and featured in two major television documentaries for UK’s Channel 4/ National Geographic Europe, as well as appearing in numerous popular TV programmes (the latest being Ancient Aliens in 2017).
Paul Strode
Paul has been involved in Plant Spirit Healing since 1999. He produces a range of purely English Wildflower and mineral essences. His particular interest is using intuition as a guide to help reach through the vale to connect with the plant spirits.
He has studied with OBOD (Order of Bards Ovates and Druids) and has completed his Bardic training and is now at the Ovate grade of study which is a link to the old knowledge of working with plants and their healing.
Plant Spirit Healing can help us re connect back to a pre-Christian world and is so important not just for us but for Nature too, as Nature so wants to be a part of our healing process again.
Nature is always at the heart of all our healing and by using intuition as a guide with flower and mineral essence can help teach us to discover what direction is best for us to take to heal.
Paul is also a Craniosacral therapist, specialising in new born babies and horses.
Peter Dawkins
Peter is a philosopher and seer who teaches the wisdom of the Western wisdom traditions, with an especial focus on the intimate relationship between the human being, the landscape and the spiritual realms. He is a pioneer in the discovery (or rediscovery) of landscape temples and a planetary energy system that is an essential part of the etheric body of the earth. Since 1980 he has been leading wisdom tours and geomantic pilgrimages in key landscapes of many countries for the healing and enlightenment of the person and planet. He trains individuals and groups to work with landscape temples and their angels. Peter works within the Mystery tradition and takes those who are ready into the mysteries. Under the name of Zoence, he teaches a synthesis of the heart truths of the various wisdom traditions, presented in a form that is useful for us today and which shows how all aspects, including time and space, heaven and earth, nature and humanity, are inter-related.
Peter’s website: www.peterdawkins.com
Zoence website: www.zoence.co.uk
Dr Rocio Alarcon G.
PhD in Ethno-Pharmacology UCL (UK)
An Ethnopharmacologist, Ethno-botanist, shamanic practitioner and extraordinary teacher and healer, Rocίo has spent over 30 years working with ethnic groups in the tropical rainforest and Andes Mountains of Ecuador and in the Basque Country, Spain. She has contributed to various Amazonian and Andes indigenous communities and has collaborated with international organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, Care and The Nature Conservancy establishing economic opportunities for local people with products from the forest. It has been said that she ‘may know more about indigenous people than anyone else in Ecuador. Rocίo is renowned and beloved. She practices, teaches about shamanic healing ceremonies, knowledge coming from her mother and grandmother lineage, from the Andes Mountains in Ecuador.
Her interests are the practices with Master plants and the techniques of healing ceremonies in Ecuador. In-depth understanding of plants that are food and medicine and the recovery of local traditions about, closing bones, Limpia ceremonies, etc. She offers courses and workshops in Ecuador.
Next Courses: November 2018 Healing with hummingbirds
Workshops and courses 2019: Shamanic practices, closing bones
Products offered: pure cacao see information on her web page…
www.iamoecenter.org
Rory Duff
Rory Duff trained as a Geologist at London University and then spent several years working on the Oil rigs around Northern Europe. He also spent three years working as a Structural Geologist on the Gold mines in Southern Africa. It was there he learnt to dowse for water which led him to help several farmers drill and find water on their land. It was also where he came across Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy from two different sources on the same weekend. This synchronicity at that particular, critical moment in his life became a turning point.
When he returned to the UK he lived in Devon where he pursued a career in Coaching and Training. In his spare time, he learnt to dowse the Earth Energies and started improving his skills by dowsing the St Michael and St Mary lines across Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
Rory has been married for the 29 years and for the last 17 of them he and his family have been living in Wiltshire and more recently Bristol in the UK. During this time he fine-tuned his dowsing by mapping all the main earth energy lines he could find across the North of Wiltshire. This enabled him to produce a first-ever large-scale earth energy line map. During the six years it took him to complete this work and having now dowsed over 10,000 miles of Earth Energy lines, it allowed him to come to realise that there were several groupings of energy lines and that each group had its own set of widths and frequencies.
He was awarded the Billy Gawn Cup for his research into Earth Energies by the British Society of Dowsers in 2012. He was also the first person in modern times to find out about the three pairs of the largest and most powerful energy lines that run all around the World.
In addition to these things, he has also rediscovered some of the major earth energy lines that run across the UK, France and Spain.
For the last three years, he has been helping to run the Bristol Dowsers Society and researching certain aspects of the science of Geobiology. One of his achievements is a first-ever complete scientific explanation as to what these earth energy lines. He continues to help people with Geobiological problems where they live today as well as his ongoing work with his team on repairing some of the largest nodes around the World as the new grid is being embedded with the old in preparation for the awakening that is coming.
Susan Raven
Susan Raven is a long time student of Anthroposophy and has worked with the methods and exercises prescribed by Rudolf Steiner for seeing into the supersensible realms. She has also trained with Dorian Schmidt, director of the Biodynamic Research Institute. She is author of the book ‘Nature Spirits: The Remembrance: A guide to the Elemental Kingdom’, featured in the Cygnus magazine, Nexus, Star & Furrow and Caduceus.
Creation sighs for a new co-creative human. For too long Earth’s great gifts have been treated as mere resource. The laboratory table needs to become an altar once more, a place where we respectfully connect with the beings of the materials we are about to research.
Rudolf Steiner indicated that at this point in our evolution certain higher Nature Spirits would be retreating and that Human Beings would have to take on their tasks. With this great responsibility before us, it is essential that we find out what these tasks are and how we are to take them on. The ray of hope is that our mission ‘comes towards us’ if we are open, willing and prepared.
During this interview Susan will be discussing the nature and supersensible substance of the elemental kingdom and how these tie in with new discoveries in the field of theoretical physics. She will also be looking at ways in which we can explore the etheric and astral dimensions beyond our visible reality, and how important it is to connect with the Genus Loci of our area.
Susan is also a singer-songwriter and her songs have been played on BBC radio and many other local stations. She has given all telesummit attendees a preview of the mix of a special new song ‘We Are The Truth’ from her forthcoming album. Don’t miss it!!
Go to https://susanraven.com/preview/