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 Ione is a dedicated educator and counselor who specializes in dreams and the creative process, she conducts seminars and retreats throughout the world. She is the Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc a spiritual organization specializing in women and community with goals of world harmony and balance.
She is a noted author, playwright and poet whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream! Her recent book of texts and poems is entitled: Nile Night: Remembered Texts from the Deep. She is the playwright and director of Njinga the Queen King and the dance opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him and director and writer of Dreams of the Jungfrau, a 20 minute experimental narrative film shot high in the Swiss Alps. Ione is also an improvising spoken word performer and sound artist who performs with Pauline Oliveros and other artists in the United States and Internationally. She is also the Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. |
 Andrea Gale Goodman is director of Ruby-Throated Spirit Healing Center and a co-founder of the Ministry of Maåt. An interfaith minister, mythic astrologer and counselor, she specializes in sound healing, Her career as vocalist/actress spans over thirty years, and she is the author of Lightning Holds My Hand, A Woman's Journal of Guidance. |
 Anne Bourne is initiated in the concepts of energy healing by Patricia Langer, Rosalyn Bruyere, Robert Harris, and further in sound, with Ione and Andrea Goodman, and Pauline Oliveros. Anne's experiential research is in inter-dimensional sounding for transition, coma, and distance healing. Anne received a Deep Listening Certificate in New Mexico in 1998. She participated in Women's Mysteries with Ione in New York, Maine, Egypt and Hawaii, from '94 to the present. Her interest in healing became the creation of 'song remedies,' and the restoration of tissue resonance through 'sonic anatomy.' While in Egypt with Ione and the Women's Mysteries women, Anne experienced, especially at Saqqarra, a visual on the sound of architecture, and it's relation to anatomy. These experiences surfaced as drawings and scores.
As a composer and performer Anne reconciles the two streams of sound in her voice, and the natural overtones of her cello. She values improvisation and invitation for its truth and compassion. Anne has performed and recorded extensively, internationally, and often in relationship to songwriters, and other artists. Anne's creative work contains in varied array, the integration of words, dance, film, experimental context, and visual media with sound. 'Anne Bourne is an earthy unrestrained musical force who accompanies her cello with otherworldly vocalizing.' CODA |
 Shirley Parker-Benjamin is a priestess, artist, writer and arts educator, also known as Iya Osun Guunwa was initiated as a Priestess and daughter of Osun, a river deity in the West African Yoruba religion of Ifa by Awo Falokun Fatumbi.
In addition, Shirley was initiated as a high priestess, Mambo Asogwe in Haitian Vodoun. In Haiti by Papa Fan Fan. Shirley offers services that include readings/divination, ritual ceremonies, ancestral celebration, weddings, naming ceremonies, blessings and private sessions. She is available for counseling and mentoring. Her late father exposed Shirley to the Khemetic/Egyptian Mystery system; Clifford D. Panton. She later continued her studies with Reverend Mother Ione in The Ministry of Maat, Inc. |
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 Julia White is a Priestess inspired to discover and celebrate the sacredness of each moment. She appreciates the teachings of the Egyptian Mysteries and of the Tantric Wisdom Goddesses of India, and their intertwined roots. Julia delights in aligning with the essence of the Divine through creativity. In her own art and work with others, she facilitates journeys deep within to the joy and inner wisdom of the authentic self. |
Laura Biagi, Ph.D. - Laura Biagi was ordained a Minister in 2004 on the shores of the Ionian sea, in Italy.. She is a storyteller, a singer and dancer, a scholar and professor, and a sound healer. Originally from Siena, Italy, Laura Biagi has been living between the United States and Europe since 1997. During this time she has been collecting Italian folk songs, tales, dance steps, and the secrets of folk medicine. Laura holds a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Her doctoral research was on the relationship between ritual, art and healing in tarantismo and tarantella. The focus of her work is to study the manifestation of the world's phenomena as vibration. This includes emotions and thoughts we well as disease and illness. Laura' modality is sound healing, which she uses to support and facilitate rites of passage. Laura Biagi has been serving as faculty at New York University and Vassar College teaching Italian folk music and dance. She is available for lectures and workshops on Italian heritage, cultural memory and folklore, as well as sound healing across cultures. |
 Lisa Barnard is a vocalist, writer and performance artist. She received her BA in Performance Studies in 1999 at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and has been studying music and performance independently in the Hudson Valley of New York for the last eight years, collaborating professionally with musicians, actors, production companies, puppeteers and visual artists. She has honed her skills over the years in acting, movement, stage direction/design, puppetry, jazz/free improvisation and sound production which she experiments with in performances that include elements of spoken word, vocalization, masks, music, dream adaptation and movement. She dedicates her craft to exploring the open field of vocal expression from within and through the guidance of her mentors. Recently, Barnard made her NYC debut in Roulette's Interpretations Series with Al Margolis, completed projects with Pauline Oliveros for a commissioned film score Maquilapolis and sings with the band brothelkin around New York. |
 Sadee Brathwaite, founder of La Leona Arts – an arts organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts through various art initiatives, is an artist, curator and arts advocate. Her drawings and paintings explore issues of beauty, universal womanhood and the metaphysical. Her ongoing studies of Egyptian mythologies and divinities are oftentimes translated into visual form. She draws upon the rich legacies of the ancestors to explore the mysteries of life. As an independent curator, based out of the Hudson Valley, Brathwaite works with a variety of galleries and art spaces to exhibit work that reflects our diverse cultures. She continually advocates and appreciates the importance of diversity in the visual arts. To learn more please visit www.laleonaarts.com. |
 Jacqueline Vogel
half smile of the buddha lately, i have been smiling more. i smile, but since i was injured- i have found myself consciously smiling from the inside. |
 Jane Solorzano
With my strength, commitment and integrity I honor, behold bring forth and BE the feminine in mind, body and spirit. |
Rachel Koenig, L.ac, CH is a practitioner of Oriental Medicine specializing in holistic Women's Health, Fertility, and Pediatrics. She directly apprenticed with Jeffrey Yuen, a Taoist Priest in the Jade Purity Tradition, as well as De Ying Huang. Her homeopathic mentors include the late Dr Edward Whitmont, and Alize Timmerman. Founder of Aurora Healing Arts in Park Slope, Brooklyn, she has treated families in community for 18 years. Co-author of the first published collection of Interviews With Contemporary Women Playwrights (1987), her forthcoming novel, set in Prague during three eras, is entitled The Ravens' Bridge. She is the ninth priestess ordained in the Ministry of Maat.