Laura Wyrd
Laura first began her spiritual work in 1986 at the Berkeley Psychic Institute studying meditation, energy work, and psychic healing. A year later she became involved with the Reclaiming Collective of San Francisco: taking magic classes, attending WitchCamps, dancing in the Spiral Dance, and radically transforming herself. Laura has taught at more than 17 Reclaiming WitchCamps since 1993, including those in Texas, Missouri, Michigan, California, Vermont, and Vancouver, BC.
Laura has taught and led workshops in dance, ritual, magic, and drumming at the Omega Institute in New York, as well as other locations around the U.S. She has recorded two drumming tapes and performed in numerous Goddess-themed theater pieces. In 1994 Laura moved to Los Angeles to teach yoga and was also one of the original founding members of Reweaving. Since 2004 she has been deeply immersed in the study and practice of Brazilian Spiritual Traditions and is initiated in the Umbanda tradition. Laura is currently working with a beautiful group of people to birth and create ReclaimingLA. She loves to hang from the trees and feels most at home dancing with the faeries in the woods…
Laurie LoveKraft
Laurie is a 20-year magical practitioner who has studied Wicca, Faery Tradition, Thelema, Herbalism, Chaos Magick, and New Age “Woo.” Laurie has taught and performed at the Starwood Festival, PantheaCon, Ancient Ways, Burning Man, and the Harmony Festival’s Techno Tribal Dance, among others. She studied North Indian Classical voice and has performed with Sharon Knight, Wynne Paris and Robin Silver. Laurie’s writings have appeared in Green Egg, Widdershins, and PanGaia Magazine as well as Bitch Goddess: The Spiritual Path of the Dominant Woman (Greenery Press). She also appeared in the book, Modern Pagans, by RE/Search Publications.
Laurie began attending Reclaiming Collective rituals in 1992 and attended WitchCamp in 1995. A graduate of the Berkeley Psychic Institute’s Women’s Clairvoyant Training program, she has also circled with the Church of All Worlds, co-led rituals at Ocean Song Farm & Wilderness Center, and was a founding member of the Crescent Hellions, a Northern CA coven that produced large group rituals. A long-time environmentalist, Laurie was an anti-nukes protestor in the ’80s, worked to save Headwaters Forest and the South Central Farm, and continues to support environmental and social justice causes.
Phoenix LeFae
Phoenix LeFae has been intertwined with the Reclaiming community for almost 15 years, taking a more active role, with teaching and ritual planning, in the last three. She is a Northern California native with a deep and intimate connection to the trees, animals, rivers, and Pacific Ocean that cover and surround the land. Phoenix believes that magick and ritual can transform lives and much of her work is connected to Rites of Passages, honoring the transitions in life. After taking a pilgrimage to Glastonbury, Phoenix became immersed in the mysteries of Avalon where she often walks between the worlds.
A lover of the liminal spaces, all that is and isn’t, Phoenix is a child of paradox. A professional Priestess, writer, body worker, and Doula, Phoenix is always immersed in the mystery that is the world around us. You can find Phoenix’s writing in SageWoman and Circle magazines, as well as online at Goddess Oracle, SF Paganism Examiner and her personal blog AMuse of the Goddess.
Urania
Urania makes her home north of San Francisco in the rolling hills of San Rafael with her beloved family. She came to Reclaiming in 1991 and began to teach Reclaiming core classes and priestess in 1993. In 1998 she was ordained as an Interfaith Minister. Her practice of Witchcraft is informed by Taoist principles and the ecstatic practices of all faiths. Her daily practices vary, but she is particularly fond of gardening, cooking, Tarot and divination, sex magic, making offerings to the Fey that live in her neighborhood and moon bathing. She considers herself to be one of Hekate’s Daughters and as such, loves crossroads, thresholds and moon rivers. She believes in the power of timing, destiny and free will — paradox is what she uses most often to explore the Mystery. She loves Reclaiming — paradox that it is.
Gwion
Gwion has been an actor, singer, and improvisational performer for much of his life. Most recently, he has been working with the Reclaiming community as a drummer, teacher, and ritualist. In Gwion’s words: “I am a pagan. I’m a searcher. I crave the delicious elixer that the Goddess and god brew in their cauldrons. I push the limits of what is possible and what is expected. I run in the dense forest. I swim in the blue/black waters. I fly with my brother and sister Ravens. I burn myself to ashes in the fires of transformation. And then, return humbly to the cauldron once more to begin again.”
