Featured Guests

Tigre Cruz is a rhythmancer (drum mage), drum instructor and a drum circle facilitator. In his 35 years of drumming, studying, training and/or instructing classical and modern percussion, he has acquired a wealth of experience in band, orchestra, marching band and competitive drum corps. He is immersed in traditional West African Djembe drumming and technique. He studies drumming and drum circle facilitation with Jaqui MacMillan. He has performed and/or studied with many artists, including David Korup, Aesa Grayson, Sogjbeti Diamante, Jaqui MacMillan and Jim Donovan of Rusted Roof. Tigre facilitates groups to shape intentions and drum circles for a variety of reasons--ritual, meditation, inspiration, trance, healing and enjoyment. Tigre has co-created formal and informal ceremonies, and taught classes for many regional and nationally recognized organizations and events, such as Drum and Splash, The Mid-Atlantic Men's Gathering, Sacred Space, Fires Rising, Sacred Well, and Carolina Spirit Quest. He joined Kiva in 2005 and lives in Baltimore.

Elspeth of Haven-- Teacher, pastoral Counselor, irrepressible storyteller - Elspeth is an honored Elder in the Pagan community. She is co-founder of The Haven Way: an eco-spiritual path of personal and planetary transformation. Her workshops reflect her primary concerns: healing as a multi-dimensional spiritual path, the unrecognized value of the older woman, the integral relationship between humans and other beings, all this combined with our power and ability to create a world of compassion, justice and sustainability.

Elspeth has created a CD of all her Trance Journeys. Called “Into the Forest”, now available.

Elspeth is a living example of the messages she brings: a 79-year-old great-grandmother who travels over the country in Harvey, the RV, to teach her lessons. Elspeth holds the Certificate of Shamanic Practitioner from The Church of Earth Healing. All her other training is experiential, and her learning received directly from the Source. Two of her major contributions to personal development include “Resonating With the Crone”, designed for peri- and menopausal women, and “Personal Evolution”, a workshop for adults of all genders. When she is not being Crone-on-the-Road, Elspeth is at home in wild and wonderful West Virginia with her beloved Nybor and a fur person named Soltice. Her website: GrandmotherElspeth.com

Nybor is an artist, healer, teacher, pastoral counselor, theorist, self-taught ritual magician and, with Elspeth, co-founder of the Haven Community. His art has appeared in Science Fiction and Pagan publications. He has been named Pagan Artist of the Year several times. He has recently completed the Nybor Tarot Deck, a 30-plus year project to produce a divination deck more in line with modern society and thought. His next project is an illustrated book of Goddesses.

As a ritual magician he is working on a theory of spiritually, revealing a new way of looking at the world that incorporates all systems of Magick.

He has been named Elder in several communities as well as for the various Guardian groups, and as such is available to the community as a resource. He lives in West Virginia with his wife and soul mate Elspeth and a furry entity. His website: NyborArt.com

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