Council
Bright Hawk is an inspired and inspiring story teller, djembe drummer, performer, teacher and playful spirit. Bright Hawk truly shows up for the participants and organizers of any festival she attends. She shares her expansive and playful spirit with the all night Fire Circle and drumming communities she is a part of.
In 1994 Bright Hawk began performing with Mz. imani and Rhythm Alive! She has performed with Circle Skin and Bone, Sister Adsum, Jeff McBride, Abbi Spinner, and Billy Woo ...more
James L. Bianchi, Esq. is among the first graduating students from the oldest public interest law school in the country, New College of California, School of Law and is best described as a community activist. Over the years he has been on Boards and Commissions, or founded non-profit corporations, that operate homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, sexual assault programs, drug treatment programs, legal aid offices, and after school programs for elementary school children. Jim practic ...more
Jason Cohen first began exploring his relationship to energy or chi at the age of 13. Now at 40, he helps develop community, and builds and holds sacred space for healing and expressive arts rituals. Jason began facilitating full moon sweat lodges in Jamaica Plain in December of 2001. He is the executive producer of "Forestdance", which began in Georgia in 2003, visited five states, and is currently a week long and occurs annually over Labor Day in Massachusetts, and during mid Feb. ...more
Jasper finds inspiration from cooking, knitting, tending fires, building things with her hands and spending time with inspiring people. Currently, she resides in Berkeley, CA with her husband Tao, and son Milo, and is self-employed as a FileMaker database developer.
Jasper is honored to have been part of the birth of Phoenix Fire in 2006 and to have served as Treasurer for several years.
Jimi Two Feathers, co-founder of Earth Drum Council, is a teacher, facilitator, and community organizer who has been building drum and dance community for over thirty years. In addition to EDC, Jimi is an original member of Dance Free and co-founder of Dance New England. Jimi builds and repairs computers and serves on the Board of Community Change Inc, an anti-racism non-profit in Boston.
Missy is a Vibrational and Shamanic healer, Awareness-Oriented Massage Therapist, Reiki Master/Teacher, Personal Growth Instructor, Theatrical Lighting Designer and Business Consultant. Her healing work draws from many different practices including movement, sound, breathwork, meditation, visualization, Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga and Transpersonal Psychology. Missy comes to her teaching and healing work from a focused center of compassion, presence and deep listening to create a sacredness of s ...more
Morwen is a drummer, musician, teacher, writer, and facilitator who has been exploring the connections between rhythm, consciousness, and healing for many years. She is co-founder of Earth Drum Council, and has been teaching rhythm since the early nineties throughout the Northeast. She works as director of program development at a community art center in her hometown in
The Pigeon Hawk is a rare bird of the Mystery with a keen sense of Vision and ability to catch his Pray through a startling array spiralacious flight. Often seen around water, especially water that has been enlivened, he is often considered an indicator species for recovering ecosystems, and can sometimes be found teaching Permaculture workshops and tinkering with Flowforms. Some of the wonderful things that Pigeon Hawks do can be seen at ...more
Sonic Alchemist Peter van Gorder promotes the philosophy that every sound and movement we make is but a mere carrier wave for the more interesting data of: Thoughts, Feelings, and Emotions. His unique view and teaching style has led him to create "Conscious Drumming" a workshop where the mind and body-energy are the primary instrument and the drum [or any instrument] is the amplifier.
As a facilitator he has both organized and led drum & sound circles, sonic journeys, hea ...more
Rodger Osgood has been drumming since Rites of Spring and the Rainbow Gathering in 1986. He learned traditional drumming of Ghana with Agbekor Drum and Dance Society and has studied with African masters Abubakari Lunna, Godwin Agbeli, Mamady Keita, Mohammed "Joh" Camara. He has been an integral part of Earth Drum Council and the drumming at Rites of Spring and has performed with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, Rhythm Alive!, and Circle Skin and Bone.
Shimmering Wolf has been drumming and dancing around fires for 2 decades. He has been a "personal growth junkie" since childhood. As a teenager, he led Parent/Teen Encounter communication workshops with his family, taking the experience for several years to families from houston to Los Angeles. In the 80s, he studied the Course in Miracles and participated in the Beyond War movement. He became inspired to study Native American wisdom after reading Carlos Castenada's books. In 19 ...more
Padme hails from the wild neon jungles of Las Vegas, where she is an active co-conspirator in the Vegas Vortex and Desert Moon Circle. She cares deeply about creating spaces for deep connections, personal growth, transformation, and healing, and is a student and practitioner of various healing modalities. Padme is also passionate about music of all kinds and has been singing as long as she can remember.
Tao is one of the founders of the Bay Area Spark Collective, a fire spinner, and a proud member of the getting-it-done crew. He spends his days working on open-source software for UC Berkeley (you're using it right now), and his evenings working on the home he shares with his wife Jasper and son Milo.
Venee comes to Phoenix Fire with a wide range of experience in the volunteer /event realm. She has a BA in Arts and Social Change with an emphasis in Interdisciplinary Arts and Education from the New College of California. She is a ritualist, altarist, artist and dancer. Venee has been a priestess for rituals at events such as Ancient Ways and Pantheacon. She has served as a stage and event manager, event planner, artistic director, altarist/ installations artist, and curator for a varie ...more