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Teachers
Fio Gede Parma (they/she)
Fio is a Balinese-Australian queer, non-binary witch, initiate, mentor, and award-winning author. They have authored or co-written and edited 8 books including The Witch Belongs to the World, Ecstatic Witchcraft, and Magic of the Pearl Pentacle. She has been initiated into four traditions of Witchcraft and their Craft can be described as intrinsically transgressive, anti- imperialist, love-drenched, justice-oriented, folkloric, and initiatory.
Fio is a co-founder of CloudCatcher Reclaiming WitchCamp and has taught Core Classes and WitchCamps in the Reclaiming Tradition for the past 15 years both in-person and online. They have had a relationship with the God called Odin since high school when Odin helped to re-orient Fio back to their Craft and promised to see them again. Odin has indeed kept that promise. With the Elder Futhark inked across her upper body and the Old English rune-staves (as well as Tarot, Ogham, and the Planets and Stars) in their hands - they weave with the Wyrd.
Fio has taught the Craft and ecstatic spirit-work in five continents and regularly offers workings and courses online. For more about Fio visit her website: fiogedeparma.com
Instagram: @fiogedeparma
Fio's most recent published books are The Witch Belongs to the World: A Spell of Becoming (Llewellyn, 2023) and the revised edition of Ecstatic Witchcraft: Magic, Philosophy & Trance in the Shamanic Craft (Crossed Crow Books, 2024).
Ravyn Stanfield (she/they)
Ravyn is an author, acupuncturist, relational therapist, and international educator dedicated to liberating the super powers within each of us. Her spiritual work is woven through these jobs, as well as alchemy, runes, dreams, marine biology, Tarot, forest ecology, singing, community organizing, mushrooms, conflict resolution, learning the language of birds, herbology, and political activism. She lives in so-called Portland, Oregon, land of the Kalapuya, Clackamas, Siletz, and tribes of Chinook. Her biological ancestry is Scots Irish, Polish, Danish, Italian, Russian, and is also filled with question marks due to the scandalous escapades of her matriarchal forebears. She is definitely more of a dog person, but has experienced polyamorous love with a few cats.
Ravyn attended her first witchcamp in 1999, and has been organizing, teaching, and attending many camps since then. She has led workshops and rituals all over the world for over 25 years, and is initiated in the Reclaiming and Feri traditions. Her book, Revolution of the Spirit: Awaken the Healer is available at www.gerriravynstanfield.com. She uses her background in traditional medicines, alchemy, neurobiology, theatre, and creative writing to coax more of the extraordinary into the world through the cracks in estern civilization.
Insta: @Gerri Ravyn Stanfield
fb: Ravyn Gerri Stanfield
Introduction to Alchemy: The Art of Transformation (6 month intensive) Dec 2024 - June 2025 (first Saturdays 1-3p Pacific) https://tinyurl.com/mr3v85td
And here's a recent essay that was nominated for Best American Essays 2024 https://therumpus.net/2023/08/08/when-we-melt/
Kate Ash (she/they)
Kate is a Wildwood priestess and Reclaiming witch and teacher, a writer and ritualist and healer. They live with their family on unceded Yugembah land (the so-called Gold Coast of Australia), cradled by the foothills at the base of CloudCatcher.
Her witchcraft practice is centred upon living relationships with place and dirt and blood and bone. She is passionate about stories and storytelling as gateways into deeper understanding of our selves, and all the parts of our self that we project or hide. Much of their work dives into healing and becoming whole, as well as shadow-stalking and relationship with our demons and our Dead. Their most recent work has centred around recreating, relearning and sharing the lost (stolen) skills of being in healthy community.
Odin—the Allfather, the Wanderer, Ol’ One Eye—has been living rent-free in Kate’s head since CloudCatcher 2013, and the story of Freyja and the Brisingamen. You’ll note that Odin isn’t even in the name of the myth, but He made His presence known profoundly—alongside His blood-sibling Loki—and Kate Ash came away deeply changed. She is hungry-yearning-ready to return with Odin to the Mountain and climb the winding branches of the Worlds Tree into the mighty spell and holy risk of WitchCamp.
Kate Ash recognised herself within the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft when she attended the 2011 Australia Reclaiming Camp in so-called Victoria. She leapt heart- first into the tradition, and has been an organiser and a teacher of WitchCamps, core classes and community offerings.
Lisa Valkyrie (she/they)
Born on Odensgatan (Odin's Street) in Uppsala, Sweden, Lisa grew up on Algonquin territory in small-town Canada with the moose and bears before finally ending up in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) on beautiful Wurundjeri country. She was introduced to her beloved Odin, Freyja, Thor, and Hel long before I ever heard of a Christian god (thanks mom!) and therefore they reside deep in her bones. The trolls and gnomes have also followed her on her travels - turns out they find wombats as adorable as she does!
Lisa is a Reclaiming, Anderson Feri, and Wildwood Initiate who has been practising Reclaiming-style magic for 25 years. Their activism takes the form of rewriting gender policy and creating avenues for Indigenous health initiatives and cultural education. They have devoted a large part of their life to understanding how our bodies function and to developing better treatments for those of us who are severely ill. Lisa's spirituality and scientific mind are inseparable. They relish embodied magic, gritty transformational work, and a good old-fashioned belly laugh. The dead are their allies in almost all the magic they do.
Over the years, Lisa has been active in the Australian and International Reclaiming communities as a witchcamp organiser, teacher, general lackey, and bower priestess. She knows all roles in community to be equally necessary and sacred. To be able to work the stories of her homeland with our Reclaiming community means a tremendous amount to her.
Kara Unndis (she/her)
Kara Unndis (she/her) is an animist, oracle, heathen, and Reclaiming witch. She was born, raised, and continues to live with her spouse and two cats on the tribal lands of the Osage, Shawnee, and Monongahela peoples along the three rivers that thread their way through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. Her magic is rooted in runes, songs, silence, plants, foods, and fibers.
In addition to Reclaiming, Kara is a proud member of The Fellowship of Fire and Ice (https://www.onblackwings.com/), a freely associating community of radically inclusive Norse and Germanic pagans from across the globe. She teaches classes about Norse magic and mysticism (also known as seidr) and serves as a mentor for the Fellowship's apprenticeship program. Kara loves drinking coffee, reading, listening to music, watching bad movies, laughing, crocheting, spinning fiber, crafting, cooking, talking to birds, walking in the woods, and visiting the ocean as often as she can. This is Kara's first year at CloudCatcher, and she is full of joy and deep gratitude for the opportunity to learn and serve the community as a student teacher.
Pablo Isidoros (he/him)
Pabs is a Reclaiming and WildWood Witch living on stolen (sovereignty was never ceded) Gadigal Wangal Country, with his beloved EvaLuna, his miniature Schnauzer companion/familiar with attitude. Having been born on the land of the Mapuche people in so called Chile under the watchful eyes of the Andean Mountains, processes of neo-liberalism and empire forced him and his family forced to flee Chile to so called Australia in the late 80’s. A broad- rimmed hat enthusiast, Pabs has a gemini sun, Sagi moon, and Pisces rising, likes words and brings precision of the sword and the power of his queer heart to the work of his witchcraft. Pabs has had a relationship filled with curiosity and mystery with the one named Odin since he discovered him in the high school library, reading the tales of his far-reaching travels, and how he hung himself on the World Tree. Most recently at Winter WitchCamp 2020, Odin surprised Isidoros one night while visiting the toilet! Isidoros considers his relationship with the Spirits, and all things witchery as ever unfurling like a flower towards the sun, and always learning, by listening, feeling, and trusting (it’s definitely a practise)!
Dan (they/them)
Dan is a non binary person. Since 2016, Dan has been back in Australia, after twelve years in the UK, and worked with their sister to create the Temple of All Gods in so called-Brisbane.
In 2018 Dan attended their first CloudCatcher. The same year Dan became a Priest of Apollo and since then, they have attended every CloudCatcher, and completed three years of Organising the Camp. They have been revolutionised by the experience of finding Reclaiming, diving head first into the style of magic and learning from some incredible witches and mentors along the way.
Over the last five or six years, they have taken on several students, either in small groups, or as individuals. Teaching is part of Dan's life's purpose. They have been a teacher as a profession for fourteen years, and worked with children since 2001. Most of their work has been in the Neurodivergent community, supporting kids and young people with a variety of access needs.
They are a visual artist, enjoying watercolours and collage and an avid collector and reader of books. More than anything, Dan is a devotional polytheist. The Gods and Spirits are at the centre of their practice and they have created a life that attends to a variety of Deities and Spirits in a range of ways. Dan devotes to their Gods with art, writing, offerings, prayers and divination.
Georgie Craig (She/her)
Georgie is California witch who realized she was a witch in 1994 when she began taking classes in a different Witchcraft tradition. That teacher was using Xeroxed copies of Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance. Georgie loved the sections she was reading so she bought the book. She read it, was hooked, and now, 30 years later, is still practicing, teaching, and mentoring others in the Reclaiming Tradition. Why? Because she loves practicing and sharing this style of magic. Georgie is initiated in the Reclaiming Tradition and has taken and taught all the core classes with as many different magical teachers as she could wrangle her schedule around. Georgie has also taken and taught many other magical classes with fantastic teachers. She’s also designed and facilitated rituals in the San Francisco Bay Area and at Witch Camps with many magical beings. Georgie was the main storyteller for Witchlets in the Woods for years. She also taught the Ravens Path (Teens) and the Newts Path ( 4 to 8 years old) at Witchlets.
Georgie loves theater. This love has expressed itself in her being a member of ritual planning cells including the Spiral Dance Ritual Planning cell. There Georgie stage managed the ritual and co-lead the Spiral Dance trance with Starhawk. Georgie is very excited to be part of CloudCatcher Witchcamp. She’s has worked ritually with Odin and The Norns in classes, and is excited to explore this camp story more deeply, Georgie is very grateful for her teachers, such as Starhawk, Rose May Dance, Suzanne Sterling, Ravyn Stanfield, Beverly Frederick , Doug Orton, Cybele, Hilary Valentine, Seed, Urania, Fio Gede Parma, and Willow Kelly, among many others. When she’s not pulling tarot cards or runes, playing with her pendulum (not a euphemism), creating Witchy comedy routines, outlining her second mystery novel, taking drumming lessons or going for walks with her dog Banjo, she follows her other dreams as an actress, witch comedian, mom, and wife. Georgie deeply believes everyone has their own path, that “there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”