Kathryn Williams

This regal creator of SpiralMuse and the monthly conversations at the SpiralMuse House called "Salon Des Conversées," and offers her expertise in communications and management. Kathryn leads women circles and the Arete Experience, a course focused on discovering individual's unique gifts in community.

Dawn Athena Grace Courage

Poet, expressionist, dancer, muser, lover, and one of the most unique humans we all have the pleasure being with. She will inspire you to dance and do yoga in the park, while singing children's songs and eating mangos.

Leanne Lempinen
Leanne is the structure behind the SpiralMuse website. Her coaching gives us the tools necessary to have the website of our dreams while keeping the creativity we all love. She is a brilliant reminder to follow your passions. Trained in yoga and following her heart, she is taking time to travel and volunteer in Panama with an organization their that makes a huge difference in the world.

PJ (Patti) Grimes

PJ (Patti) Grimes is an award-
winning infopreneur, imagineer, writer/author, editor, publisher, producer, educator, activist/social change agent - and yes - a creative artist and singer/songwriter
/musician, too. Her life adventures
have included working as a
newspaper editor/writer/
photographer and commercial radio show host/producer/writer to the field of community/clinical psychology
where she headed up, served on, and helped found award-winning health and human service agencies, training programs, counseling
centers, and crisis hotlines. PJ's company, PivotPointe, pulls together many of those same passionate threads, carrying out a mission to enlighten, inspire, and empower members of the arts & entertainment community and others, in order to bring about positive personal and planetary transformation through the illuminating medium of creativity.

Melissa Simpson
Melissa Simpson has directed online campaigns and grassroots
organizing efforts in support of progressive issues for several
years and loves to leverage the space where technology and politics intersect to give voice to ordinary citizens. She has a Masters degree
in Politics from the London School of Economics in England and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Southeast Asia, learning from different cultures. What really lights her fire is the prospect of unleashing the power of the internet to connect and engage women around the world in communal conversation.

Michelle Benoit

Michelle Benoit, MA, is "The Soul Doctor." Michelle received her BS in Human Development and has a MA in Psychology. Her experience, education, and her years of study in the realms of human potential, personal growth, healing, and male/female dynamics allow her to effectively address and transform the real issues in women's lives. She empowers women to heal, embrace their femininity, and to live their lives passionately.

MIA FERNANDES

Mia Fernandes has been a successful artist for many years, and her works are connected with memory and relationships, centering on animals and the environment. Her abundant creativity – she has constructed an exceptional amount of pieces in a variety of materials - and unique artistic style has been inspired by her many world-wide artist-in-residencies, including the U.K., British School of Brussels, the Upriver Loft, Kunming, China and Kerala, India. Her ideas have led her to travel to Portugal, East Africa and the United States, resulting in major pieces and exhibits. For more information, visit her beautiful website: http://www.miafernandes.co.uk

Cecilia W. Yu

As a 30 something,
trans-cultural Chinese woman,
educated in 3 continents
(China, Australia & Europe) in
the Media/Law/Business,
Cecilia has written topical
newspaper articles for
3.5 million readers. She has
worked in Public Relaton in
London. Cecilia works
3 months a year in human rights projects in Kathmandu Nepal and is currently completing her MBA in Surrey and a St-Martins Fashion design course in London. It is her plan to eventually finish her novel "Guanxi", her e-book and her art collection in time for her first solo show... eventually...her gallery agent in India will certainly be happier with her if she did!

Bekka Fink

Bekka Fink is a Berkeley native,
although she spent 6 years in
NYC as a performer, producer, and director in film, opera, and
all kinds of theater. She is
currently touring in The San
Francisco Mime Troupe's
summer production, Veronique
Of The Mounties. She also has
a band called FROGLAND
where she writes and sings
her mind and heart about the
spiritual, emotional, and
environmental state of Mother
Earth andher creatures. Her
music is fueled by her passions for frogs (and other slimy things), the sacred wildness and importance of feminine energy, and helping children receive and share love.Bekka is ecstatic to be playing with the luscious muses. Visit her website at www.bekkasfrogland.com

Eleanor Mason

Even after writing theater bios
for ten years, Eleanor Mason is
still uncomfortable talking about
herself in the third person. The
divine Miss Mason is an actor,
singer, occasional yogi, granola noshing backpacker, and
(former) dot-com coding chick,
one-time journaling maven
("ellipses"), East Coast
transplant, lover of
transformation, and is really a
seven-year old trapped in a
twenty-nine year old body.
She currently assists
SpiralMuse as their Queen
Paper Shuffler and Project
Managing Mistress. She is
de-liciously de-lighted to be a
part of SpiralMuse.

Jennifer Holmes (DangerAngel)

Danger Angel is a punk rock,
Vajrayana dakini with an
overactive altruism gland. She
works with the dying, the
homeless and Greenpeace,
and is a founding member of
The First Church of the Last
Laugh. She credits her parents, teachers, guides and karma for
everything she is or has, and
dedicates whatever merit that
may arise from Spiral Muse to
the enlightenment of all sentien
t beings, even the republicans. www.dangerangel.org

Kristi Langerak

Kristi Langerak received her
degree in Nutritional Sciences,
from Colorado State University. She has been involved in the
natural health field for 10 yrs.,
specializing in natural health
using nutrition and herbal
medicine. Her monthly column, Vibrant Spirit, approaches
healing from this perspective.
Currently she is writing a book
about healing depression
naturally. Spiral Muse has
become one of her great
passion because of the way
it brings women together, while
supporting the family as a
whole. For information on
private consultations, please
call (650) 327-9084

Cassandra Teurfs

Cassandra lives with her
partner and their love child in
Sebastopol, California. Steeped
in the never-ending cycles of
family life, she listens and
learns from nature, astrological
rhythms, and her instincts.
She feels called to awaken ever more into being in tune with nature's cycles and to share in this awakening with other women through as many
creative and inspiring ways as
possible! Always a student,
she shares her learnings with
others through astrology
consultations and writing.

Denize Sofia Maaloe

A Designer, Artist and Illustrator living in Paris, France, Denize created Maldrubine (who you can see next to her in her photo), as well as, many other beautiful works of art that you can see at
http://maaloe.tripod.com.
Currently Denize's goal is to get an illustration in Le Monde while continuing to wake up with a
smile each day! She will be
creating illustrations for
upcoming SpiralMuse events.
Welcome Denize!

Naomi Colb

Naomi Colb is a graduate of
New York University. Her most
recent career was in Hi Tech personnel placement. Focused
on creating harmonious
community, she has studied communications, team building
and production with many teachers,including Shamans, marketing masters, and Western Gurus. Now a
chrone in her own right,
Naomi has been facilitating transformational experiences
for community leaders for five
years.

Karen Josephs DC

Karen is a licensed
chiropractor in California. She graduated from Life Chiropractic College West in 1998 and has been doing healing work for many years prior to receiving her Doctor of Chiropractic degree. She is certified in Network Spinal Analysis, lymphatic massage, Reiki and trained in BioGeometric Integration along with other healing systems. With a degree in piano performance and cultural anthropology, she brings great diversity to her practice and understanding of the necessity of healing in our culture and for the planet. She currently does her work at the Berkeley Chiropractic Studio 510.527.5770 and offers in
house work to larger
businesses around Berkeley