Lisa Lichtig, MD, is a passionate doctor, midwife and mother. She has been a holistic family physician for over 20 years and a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner for 8 years. She is the mother of two teenage boys both born at home and has attended over 400 births. As co-founder of Family to Family: Your Home for Whole Family Health, Lisa has long sought to provide a safe and sacred forum for the process of healing and transformation in the lives of many people. She specializes in integrative family medicine, Plant Spirit Medicine and heart-centered maternity care. Lisa sees pregnancy, birth and parenting as natural expressions of life. She also serves as a Fire Keeper for the Sacred Fire Community, along with her husband Patrick Hanaway, in Asheville, NC, and is an apprentice in the Huichol shamanic tradition.

Deanna Jenné, a marakame (shaman) in the Huichol Indian tradition of the northwestern Sierra Madres of Mexico and a Granicero (weather shaman) in the Nahuatl Indian tradition of the highlands of central Mexico, is a healer, a Fire Keeper, and a ceremonial and ritual leader. She has worked with circles of women for more than 20 years. With her husband, Gary Weidner, she is building an intentional community near Grand Junction, Colorado.

Jessica De la O is a Sacred Fire Community Fire Keeper, along with her husband, Larry Messerman, in Bend, Oregon. Having earned a doctorate in education, she has been an educator and researcher in girls’ development, violence prevention, and risk and resilience among youth. She developed a rites of passage program for adolescent girls and offered it in middle schools and youth organizations in Santa Barbara County. She is currently studying to become a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner.

Sherry Boatright is a Granicero (weather shaman) in the Nahuatl tradition of the highlands of central Mexico. She serves on a Sacred Fire Community Executive Committee and manages Lifeways initiative. She is a Sacred Fire Community Fire Keeper and through her healing work as a practicing psychotherapist she has worked with women’s groups for more than 25 years.

David Wiley is a Tsaurirrikame (Elder Shaman) in the Huichol Indian tradition of the northwestern Sierra Madre of Mexico and a Granicero, or Tiempero (Weather Shaman), and healer in the Nahuatl Indian tradition of the highlands of central Mexico. David is also recognized as being a spiritual conduit for the elemental deity of fire known by the Huichols as Tatewarí or Grandfather Fire (along with many other names in various other cultures). In his early adult life he worked in business, developing team performance models for clients and by the early nineties was an established management consultant working in Atlanta, Georgia and later as an international trade consultant in Mexico. In 1996, as a result of the dramatic appearance of Grandfather Fire in his life, David was directed to begin a shamanic apprenticeship under the guidance of Huichol Shaman Don Lupe Gonzales Rios and then later with Don Jose Sandoval de la Cruz and Eliot Cowan after Don Lupe's passing in 2002. Over a period of years he received instructions while completing a rigorous series of pilgrimages to many prescribed sacred sites. In 2008 David was initiated as a Tsaurirrikame (Elder Shaman). Along with this work David was guided to become a Granicero under the instruction of well-known Nahuatl Indian Shaman Don Lucio Campos Elizada. Shortly before Don Lucio's passing in 2005 at the age of 93, Don Lucio gave David the responsibility to continue his work as a teacher, initiator and healer which is know as Caporal Mayor in the Nahua Weather Working tradition. David is also an Elder to the Sacred Fire Community, an organization whose purpose is to preserve and promote the wisdom of ancestral traditions and Chairman of the Board of the Sacred Fire Foundation.

Dan Sprinkles grew up and lived around the world, including Taiwan, Greece and up and down both coasts of the U.S. plus Hawaii and Alaska. Dan first attended college at Vanderbilt University and received an honors degree in Electrical Engineering. After college he was commissioned as a naval officer and was selected for nuclear training. He spent a year learning nuclear theory and hands-on nuclear plant management. Dan served five years as a naval officer on two nuclear submarines in clandestine and highly classified submerged operations. During this time he was responsible for various nuclear plant operations, maintenance of nuclear weapons and the operation of high tech, billion-dollar submarines. After serving in the navy, Dan received an MBA from Harvard Business School. During his business career, Dan spent over twenty years as a corporate executive, including International Controller (for Dole Foods), CFO for an electronics company in California and years consulting, mapping business processes in large-scale integrative software (ERP) implementations. After a shamanic experience, he left it all behind to begin the role of elderhood (giving back, helping others, healing). He has now been an initiated shaman in the Nahua tradition (granicero) for nine years and is also an initiated shaman in the Huichol tradtion (marakame). He serves as a Board member of the Blue Deer Center, a retreat center providing a home for ancestral traditions and is also a Shaman-in-Residence for the Blue Deer Center.

Prema Sheerin is an initiated Marakame or shaman in the indigenous Huichol tradition of Mexico. She offers workshops internationally and has a shamanic healing and life coaching practice. Prema was the Wellness Director for a spiritual retreat site for 10 years, supporting hundreds of staff and visitors in all aspects of their physical and spiritual wellbeing. She lives in Victoria, BC, with her husband Scott Sheerin. For more information about Prema’s work go to healingwisdomcoaching.com

Sherry Morgan is a weather shaman in the Nahua indigenous tradition of México having been initiated in 1998 by the late and esteemed, Don Lucio Campos. That same year, she “received her moccasins” from the late Ojibwa Elder, Carolyn Oliver. Sherry leads pilgrimages twice each year to honor a tradition at a sacred mountain connected with weather in Ontario, Canada. Responding to messages to teach people about prayer, she was called to Mexico to receive the first of the teachings from the program Grandfather Fire created, called “Exploring the Phenomenon of Prayer.” Sherry has been teaching the first part of this program, called Exploring the Core Basis of Prayer, since 2001. Prior to her calling to a spiritual path, Sherry worked in banking, accounting and personnel management for many years. She is currently the Executive Director of Development for the Sacred Fire Foundation.