OUR TEACHERS
Abby Jane Palmer
I am a 4th-generation bodyworker who has been practicing massage, shiatsu, and energy work since graduating from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy in 2001. I hold a BA in Psychology and am a certified life coach. My bodywork offerings include prenatal massage, integrative techniques, and shiatsu, with certifications in modalities such as Swedish, Neuromuscular, Zen Shiatsu, Craniosacral, Maya Abdominal Massage, and Quantum Shiatsu. In 2022, I completed additional abdominal massage training to support clients with menstruation, digestive, urinary, and reproductive concerns.
My energy work and readings focus on self-care, embodiment, and connection to your highest self, incorporating runes, tarot and oracle cards. I apprenticed with Johannes Björn Gårdbäck in Nordic Folk Magic and offer combination sessions blending bodywork, energy healing, and readings.
My practice, Green Room Healing Arts, is located on South Broadway in Denver, and I also provide virtual offerings. I love creating sacred spaces at events and festivals, with past work including SXSW and Bonnaroo. Let’s amplify your light and connect you with your healing journey!
Akemi Tsutsui-Kunitake
Akemi Tsutsui-Kunitake is a visual artist, karate-ka and creator of Live Deliciously. Based in Denver, her work is informed by her identity as a third and fourth-generation (sansei-han and yonsei), mixed-race Japanese American. Her artwork blends themes of Japanese folklore with Western mysticism. She is inspired by the intersectionality of cultural tradition, ancestral wisdom and modern identity. She is a lifelong student of Shotokan karate-do under the instruction of her father, Isao Gary Tsutsui, at Colorado Budokan.
Akemi has also been fortunate to train with masters of other karate styles in California, Hawaii and Japan. As karate embodies so many elements that are integral to the Japanese American experience, she describes karate as her ethnic and spiritual identity in motion. With a formal education in Ethnic Studies, Akemi has worked in the fields of culturally specific education, advocacy and holistic health. She has continued her studies through courses on Japanese energetic healing, Shinto, deep ancestral work and radical community care. Akemi is a frequent collaborator with the Japanese Arts Network as a Cultural Consultant and artistic partner.
Andrea Carla
Andrea’s fascination with reading cards began from a young age after being introduced to the Smith-Waite Tarot. From then on, she began to explore different methods of divination and fell in love with Lenormand, a system of cartomancy originating in late 18th century Europe. Andrea’s style of reading cards could be described as pragmatic and deeply rooted in tradition, influenced by a true reverence for the sibyls of the past.
As a teacher, Andrea has both an academic and scholarly approach to the way that she presents her classes as well as sharing from her experiences and gnosis as a professional reader. She considers the Tarot to be a book of esoteric mysteries and has spent years of her life in studying and peeling back its many layers to share the knowledge and wisdom embedded in every card.
Carla Torres
Carla is a Witch, End of Life Coach & Death Doula, she has been practicing magick since she was 18 years old and is an initiate of COTW Coven here in Colorado. Carla received both her End of Life Coaching & Death Doula certifications through her course work with the Conscious Dying Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Carla is passionate about the Death Positive movement and is an advocate of normalizing death and mortality in everyday life. She hopes to bring death back to its sacred place in the community through her death work services and discussions. Carla’s strengths in the death work field are being able to approach this part of life with a radical presence of non-judgment, love and a bold vulnerability. Carla is a end of life care volunteer for Hospice and is currently working towards a Home Funeral Guide certification. When Carla is not hosting death related discussions, helping families plan for a good death or sitting vigil, she can be found talking to her house plants or rolling around in laughter with her two daughters.
Jess Ellis
Jess is a Denver-based artist who creates small sculptures and jewelry using elements of nature.
Jess creates imaginative miniature worlds honoring elements of nature and science. These sculptures contain magic in the form of preserved insects, bones, stones, moss, and plants. Inspired by the natural curiosity assemblages of the Victorian Naturalists and the Wildlife Halls of modern science museums, Jess hopes to inspire wonder, curiosity, and understanding for our natural world. Each piece she creates is a reminder of the beauty that lies in death and its importance in the cycle of life.
Jess teaches classes that stitch together magic, art, and science with an aim to inspire her students to to approach the world, and their practice, with endless curiosity.
Justin Taylor
Justin Taylor is an experienced tarot reader and professional astrologer who has devoted his life to exploring the unseen forces that unite all things. With a deep passion for mysticism and magic, Justin blends timeless wisdom with an uplifting approach, guiding others to discover their true potential and navigate life’s challenges with clarity and confidence. His warm, intuitive insights inspire personal growth and self-discovery, helping clients embrace their unique paths. Whether interpreting the stars or uncovering the messages within the cards, Justin’s mission is to illuminate possibilities, foster hope, and empower individuals to align with their highest purpose.
Kaedrich Olsen
Kaedrich Olsen has been an ardent student of Old Norse literature and spirituality, concentrating upon the runes and various esoteric paradigms from an early age.
Kaedrich Olsen author of Runes for Transformation and founder of GaldraKraft, has been an ardent student of Old Norse literature, runes and mysticism for 30 years. Building upon the wisdom from the Viking rune masters, he has developed practical techniques for transforming one’s life. The people he helps learn to connect with and become the embodiment of their own higher being. In doing so, they surmount the blocks which have prevented them from achieving their ideal lives and become the creators of their own greatest reality.
Dr. Lisa Martinez
Lisa Martinez is a board-certified Doctor of Natural Medicine who walks the traditional healing and spiritual path of Curanderismo. This path can be described as a multifaceted blend of healing practices from the past and present that include indigenous folk medicine modalities from Mesoamerica to Africa and it strongly influenced by Spanish Spiritualism and Judaism. Her family roots are from Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado where curanderismo was and still is an enriching and common way of life. Lisa’s grandmothers were her biggest influences providing her a lifelong apprenticeship. These teachings lead to the development of sacred connections with plants, stones and spiritual practices that are used to help others in their journey to emotional, mental, physical and spiritual healing.
Private sessions with Lisa are holistic and intuitive in nature and are personalized to include the body-mind-spirit connection in conjunction with the cosmic energies, ancestors, santos, angels, and guides. Her therapies and modalities utilize a variety of traditional techniques such as platica (heart to heart conversation), body work, sacred plants, aromatherapy, dream analysis and use of obsidian to encourage and engage the body’s innate healing response. Her practice also includes limpias (spiritual cleansings) and end of life transitions.
Lisa is a registered Psychotherapist with the State of Colorado. She is a student of La Maestra Clarissa Pinkola Estés and has attended many years of her trainings via the Archetypal and Cross Cultural Studies Institute. She is also a participant of The International Collaboration of Indigenous Healers, Curanderos, Sanadores y Shamans which originated in the sacred mountains of the Tepoztlan Valley in Mexico.
When able, Lisa supports clinical sites and community outreach operations in collaboration with others in the Denver Metro area providing culturally based services and education.
Mclean Confer
Mclean has had a lifelong passion for helping others embrace and utilize their own magic, even on the most mundane days. As a certified master herbalist, crystal healer, spiritual coach, birth and postpartum doula, reiki master, and practiced tarot and oracle reader, she offers support for all aspects of being human. Bringing that witch in the woods who gives you a magic potion vibes, Mclean is here to help you with spells, tinctures, trinkets and tools to help you build your own thriving, magical life. She has been working with the mystical and magical for over 20 years and continually implements metaphysical and spiritual practices into as many places as possible within everyday life. Mclean loves to support humans in an all inclusive, whole being way.
Along with many certifications, she loves to continue to expand on her spiritual knowledge. Her studies have included energy work, crystals, spell work, herbal astrology, working with the phases of the moon, LOA, and so much more.
Michelle VanderHouwen
Michelle VanderHouwen is the owner of Oak and Hawthorn and provides the plant babies for Ritualcravt’s annual plant sale.
Throughout all her years, she has studied art as a window into Spirit and the psyche, and Nature has been her church. Michelle believes that our hands are magnificent communicators. When we let them dig, sculpt, draw, scrape, tie and sew, we are sending messages to and from Heart Center. Our hands, full of sensation but devoid of reasoning, can create pure, honest prayer. In Michelle’s classes she teaches, with a variety of tools, different ways of accessing Spirit using our hands and hearts. Her goal is to help us all access the knowing we had at birth. Michelle is deeply knowledgeable about the spiritual wisdom of nature, studied Shamanic Herbalism with Darcey Blue, and walks with the soul of a Witch.
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Naomi Sangreal
Naomi Sangreal is an avid dreamer, teacher, artist and magical psychotherapist. She has been channeling prophetic dreams and making artwork as long as she can remember. Whether you need consistent guidance, a simple card reading, a dream diving session or a combination of all three, you can work with Naomi to choose the approach that best fits your needs. She is guided by her keen intuition, a lifetime of research and experience with dream work, as well as her extensive academic studies of the deep psyche. Naomi graduated with her BA in Contemplative Psychology from Naropa University with an emphasis in Transpersonal Counseling, Art Therapy and Visual Art. Naomi has been teaching dream and nightmare classes at Ritualcravt in Denver, CO since 2017 and holds her Masters in Counseling and Depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. With one foot in each world, she brings together the healing power of psychology and the transformative wisdom of spirit to artfully guide you through life’s challenges. Naomi’s authentic presence and down to earth approach creates a genuine connection and safe space for compassionate healing.
Reese Quinn
Reese Quinn (she/they) is a tarot and astrology reader and what they lovingly call a practical witch. They have a strong awareness of the crossroads between astrology, cartomancy, and elemental practices. You’ll note that Reese embraces their queer, intersectional identities when both teaching and reading.
Reese has been a reader at Ritualcravt for over two years and has studied with well-known witches like Lindsay Mack and Pam Grossman and well-respected teachers locally in Denver. In 2021-2022, they completed an apprenticeship with best-selling author and reader of 20+ years, Stefanie Caponi. Their writing is available via the Moon Void Tarot website and they have additional works forthcoming.
Renna Shesso
Renna Shesso is a shamanic healing practitioner and teacher, professional tarot reader, priestess of the Craft, and writer.
She began exploring magical knowledge-paths as a young adult, learning astrology from her grandmother, and has expended her interests exponentially in the decades since then. In addition to her own self-published zines on magical workings, Renna is the author of Planets for Pagans and Math for Mystics (both published by Weiser Books). While privileged to study with many fine teachers, she turns to Nature Herself as the ultimate teacher and healer.
Dr. Samuel Nez
Dr. Samuel Nez is Diné (of the Navajo Nation) and Mexica, born and raised near Shiprock, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation and incorporates the healing traditions from both sides of his family.
Dr. Samuel Nez is Diné (of the Navajo Nation) and Mexica, born and raised near Shiprock, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation and incorporates the healing traditions from both sides of his family. Over the years, Samuel has traveled and studied with traditional healers, curanderos/curanderas, shamans and medicine men and women in the Southwestern United States and Mexico. He developed a relationship with the sacred fire at a young age and has been a firekeeper for the temezcal and inipi sweat lodges for many years.
As a board-certified Doctor of Natural Medicine and a practitioner of Curanderismo he utilizes a variety of therapies and modalities in his private practice. Samuel is also a Registered Psychotherapist with the State of Colorado and a certified NADA Acu-Detox Specialist. He is a student of La Maestra Clarissa Pinkola Estés and has attended many years of her trainings via the Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies Institute. Samuel is also a participant of the International Collaboration of Indigenous Healers Curanderos, Sanadores and Shamans which originated in the Sacred Mountains of Tepoztlan Valley in Mexico.
Sterling Moon
Sterling is passionate about helping others find inspiration and guidance through tarot, communication with spirits, and old-timey folk magic.
Sterling has been reading tarot since 1995 and began offering readings and teaching professionally in 2013. She doesn’t shy away from the trope of fortune teller. Sterling specializes in future-based readings. She’s had the ability to connect with spirits of the dead and the natural world since childhood and has been practicing folk magic since 2014. She is particularly influenced by her practice of and studies in the Scandinavian tradition of Trolldom. Sterling’s spirit communication style is a unique blend of classic mediumship techniques, folk magic, and paranormal investigation strategies.
Sterling also had a 20-year career as a professional advocate for survivors of crime prior to and holds a Master’s Degree in Advocacy and Political Leadership. Her work as an advocate is a lifelong calling.
Welburn Hiram Kemp
Welburn Hiram Kemp is a proud Appalachian, steeped and studied in the time honored traditions of folklore, conjure, and faith healing passed down through generations in the hollers of Eastern Kentucky. His practice blends elements of ceremonial magick with old time conjure and folk magick, as well as mystical and lodge traditions informed further by his studies in the Deep South, particularly New Orleans. Welburn is a passionate teacher, caregiver, urban planner, and preservationist, dedicated to preserving both spiritual and physical spaces for future generations. Welburn is also an active Freemason, minister, and Kentucky Colonel. Find him on Instagram @mountain_conjure and @thealtarofsaintexpedite
Guest Teachers
Crane, The Water Bearer, has grown to learn many of the best ways to soothe the soul and open the heart! He uses his platform to shine a light on societal structures and inequalities…as a reflective dialogue for our time! Allowing a space to foster new possibilities for society & ourselves!
Starting “The Water Bearer’s Tea” in the Fall of 2016, Crane currently shares insight on several platforms! He delivers exclusive guidance to his members at ‘THE BREW: Membership & Community’, and offers Personal Astrology readings, on a daily basis! His Astrology readings are always discounted for Queer and/or POC clients.
Gabriel Varzalyi is a biracial Virginia-born folk practitioner, a devotee to his ancestors, spirits of nature, and the God and Goddess of his mother and father. He is a seer, diviner, spiritual medium, and conjurer trained in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. His practice has always been dedicated to the community, working in local spiritual shops in New Orleans Louisiana, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and Denver Colorado. Dedicated to his spiritual work for over a decade, while also assisting the community in his legal profession through his daily life, Gabriel sees the balance that both the spiritual world and material world have in the progression of someone’s life. May it be through a limpieza espiritual or the making of protection spikes for one’s home, money gris-gris for the gambler or investment broker, or for a love and domination spell for young women wanting to attract their lovers of choice, Gabriel would lend a hand for the ones true to their heart, and honesty in Spirit’s eyes. Being born from a lineage of witches and orthodox priests, he understands the differences and similarities of the messages that come to pass with each person, allowing for a different type of magical work to occur. Gabriel is also a writer for Witches Magazine under his mundane alias, an independent magazine based in the United Kingdom. An adventurous spirit, Gabriel feels and hears the call of spirit through the wind, through winding southern brooks, and on high mountain peaks, observing the simple magics that each of us cherishes in our everyday lives.
Marcella Kroll is a renowned artist, intuitive, and spiritual teacher with over 25 years of experience. Her mystical artwork has been exhibited nationwide, and some of her works are held in the permanent collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, as well as in Beth DeWoody’s Collection in The Bunker Artspace. Marcella has taught Tarot for Teens at the Los Angeles Public Library, read for celebrity clients, consulted in the television/media industry, and now leads workshops and healing circles worldwide. She’s the author of Healing the Liminal, the creator of several celebrated tarot and oracle decks, and the coauthor of Tarot in the Library Esoterica series by Taschen. Marcella’s work blends art, divination, and spirituality, inspiring people to transform their lives and reclaim their multidimensional identities.
Susan Redington Bobby, the founder of Professor of Words, LLC, is an online teacher, a freelance editor, a writing mentor, and a tutor. Her specialty is being able to read people on a deeper level through their writing, and she has recently completed a certificate course on integrative somatic trauma therapy. She is a retired professor of English with expertise in fairy tales, adolescent literature, goddess archetypes, magical realism, creative writing, and film studies. She is the author of Beyond His Dark Materials, the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined, and co-editor of The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture. The Series Editor of Tales from Fiddler’s Green, she also occasionally publishes creative fiction. She is currently studying the Bardic Course in Druidry from OBOD. She maintains Mellie’s Grove, a certified NWF backyard wildlife habitat that is home to a rescued and small stabilized cat family and all manner of wildlife.
Urania Harp is a professional astrologer and intuitive guide. She has over 15 years experience in adapting esoteric teachings and practices to modern ways of existence. Her areas of expertise are astrology, tarot, dreams, ritual practices, and energetic healing.
As a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.A. in astronomy, Urania has an instinctual drive to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. She is passionate about uncovering the core connection between the spiritual and physical realms
Urania has oriented her studies and practices towards dream analysis for healing and self-transformation. She is a co-host of Journey Through the Innerverse, a podcast discussing various topics pertaining to dreams, astral travel and mysticism.
Visit www.uraniauniverse.com to explore her work and offerings.