ADVISORY COUNCIL
Mary H. A. Kearns is an internationally sought-after healer, intuitive coach, author, and retreat leader who has studied a wide array of holistic methods and wisdom traditions with world-renowned experts. Her mission is to help people discover and nourish their Inner Light. Since 2003, she has offered workshops and talks on a wide range of mind-body-spirit topics. Mary holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology, is a Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Life Coach, and Registered Yoga Teacher. She is the author of "Lessons from a Reluctant Healer: On Learning to Listen to that Still Small Voice Within to Better Bring Your Gifts to the World".
South African born Heather Mendel, 'the disobedient kabbalist’ is a mystic, artist, author and intuitive seeker of the Sacred Feminine. She is drawn to the call of the mystical where myth and metaphor reside, where we all connect deeply to Divinity and divination. Her life axiom is to celebrate diversity and so sanctify life.
Emmi Mutale is an intuitive healer, energy medicine practitioner and a shamanic Womb Priestess and teacher, dedicated to re-awakening ancient feminine wisdom. She is an initiate to a South African shamanic lineage and trained in womb shamanism (Fountain of Life and Sanctuary of Sophia), Zen Shiatsu and Usui and Lightarian Reiki. Emmi is also an advanced level EFT (EFTI), Matrix Reimprinting (MRA) and Heal Your Birth Protocols practitioner. In her sacred healing work, Emmi weaves these modalities together to create a magical experience for deep healing and transformation for women of all ages around the world, holding a safe, protected and non-judgmental space for the emergence of authentic connection, profound knowing and inner power. She works with women one on one and in groups, both face to face, online and in retreat settings with the intention of raising the frequency of our planet and fostering healing one womb at a time.
Emmi also hosts the Sacred Feminine Power podcast and runs House of Gaia, a suburban sanctuary and a centre for healing and transformation in Lusaka, Zambia. She is a bestselling author and the creatrix of a soul-centred leadership training for female leaders of civil society organisations. With an MA in Human Rights, Emmi continues to support organisations in their quest to end injustice and inequality.
Thought leader, speaker, seven-times published author, podcaster and social justice activist, Karen Tate is a Caring Economy Conversation leader and Power of Partnership presenter. She has a certification from Smith College in the Psychology of Political Activism: Women Changing the World and she participated in the award-winning docu-film, Femme: Women Healing the World. Karen is a Joseph Campbell Foundation associate and she has been named one of Thirteen Most Influential Women in Goddess Spirituality. Her newest book, Normalizing Abuse: A Commentary on Our Pervasive Culture of Abuse was released in January along with the return of her long-running podcast, Voices of the Sacred Feminine.
Her other book titles include: Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, Walking An Ancient Path, Goddess Calling, Voices of the Sacred Feminine; Conversations to Change Our World, Awakening the Feminine and Goddess 2.0. Karen is an inter-faith minister who leads sacred tours. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of 35+ years and their feline daughter, Lilly.