Collette Barnard is a fully qualified experienced Counsellor and Astrologer, who has worked with groups, individuals and couples since 1982. She is, and always has been, devoted to Spirituality, Psychic and Energy Awareness, and the Great Mystery in all traditions. This quest has taken her on journeys and travels, far and near, where she has encountered many wonderful and great teachers.

She is trained in group dynamics, group facilitation and adult education. She communicates self-empowerment and the unveiling of one’s personal, individual connection to Spirit. She feels blessed to do this work, and to do so in Glastonbury. She is nourished by her family, children and friends, her spiritual practice and her connection with the sacred land.

Collette practises as a Psycho-Spiritual Counsellor, Supervisor, Visionary Astrologer and a Core Kinaesthetic Coach. She is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychologists. Her website is www.sweet-track-counselling.co.uk.
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Ren initiated as a Priestess of Avalon in 1999. ‘That initiation was a pivotal experience in a long journey. I remembered it from many times before and knew the Lady of Avalon had brought me back home. I vowed to serve Her in any way She asked.’ Ren was born in the U.S. from British/Scottish ancestry. Her spiritual path embraced Buddhism but her truth was feminine and earth based. From California she travelled here often to walk the ley lines and sacred sites.

Her solitary work widened into a shamanic apprenticeship and participation in large community celebrations for the festivals. Avalon was calling, however, and she moved to England in 1995. ‘After initiating, opportunities to serve continue to open, and I love teaching people hungry to learn about the Goddess, who are seeking the path they know in their heart.’ Ren has taught Goddess courses and led ceremonies and hand fastings in her community. She has participated in the Goddess Conference for several years and has had the honour to be part of the Ceremonial Group since 2002. She lives in the countryside with her cats, is a Neonatal Nurse and Reiki Master. She loves doing Equine Reiki for horses.
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Stephen Cox is a psychic artist and clairvoyant medium, living and working in Somerset, England. For over fifteen years he has been drawing portraits of spirit guides and loved ones for people all over the world.

Stephen travels around the UK giving private readings, as well as demonstrating at workshops, spiritualist churches, evening events and charity fayres. Stephen has also been featured on Glastonbury Radio and Spirit Realm TV. In recent months he has assisted several paranormal investigations, drawing the spirits who are still connected with a building or location.

"It is extremely rewarding,’ Stephen says, ‘to be able to draw for someone the image of their guide or loved one. It is a privilege to be able to offer this visual proof that life continues after physical death."

Stephen’s wife, Gwyn Ardyth, is a professional artist with a BA (Hons) in Drawing & Applied Art. Her experience includes painting, exhibiting and teaching art.

Stephen and Gwyn have recently completed a successful three week tour of Western Australia, working with Angie Kruger, one of the UK’s most talented trance mediums. Stephen and Gwyn are now teaching workshops on psychic art / spirit portraiture to help others learn this unique and rewarding form of mediumship. Their websites are: www.stephencoxart.com and www.gwynardythart.com.
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Ross Heaven is an established writer and workshop leader, who presents widely on his work and has been a guest on numerous radio and television programmes, including This Morning, Jane Goldman Investigates, Richard and Judy, and The Heaven and Earth Show. He has written for, been interviewed by, and had his books reviewed in magazines, journals, and newspapers in the UK, Europe, and America.

He is the author of several books on healing and shamanism, including the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism and The Journey to You, as well as his two latest, Love’s Simple Truths: Meditations on Rumi, The Path of The Heart and The Way of The Lover: Rumi and the Spiritual Art of Love.

Ross is an accomplished healer, practicing the art of Soul Therapy, based on sin eating and shamanic wisdom, and also leads trips to the Amazon, to work with indigenous healers and the ayahuasca shamans of the Rainforest.

For more information on his workshops, sacred journeys, and healings, and his involvement in The Village project to form a new holistic community in Ireland, visit his website at www.thefourgates.com.

Shahrukh Husain writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. She also writes screen plays and the occasional theatre play. Her adult fiction, published by Virago Press, can be described as re-worked myths reflecting a universal theme of modern relevance. She thoroughly enjoys writing for children because its demand for simplicity, clarity and brevity hones the craft. She likewise relishes the craftsmanship that goes into creating a screenplay and her adaptation of Anita Desai’s Booker nominated In CUSTODY, for Merchant Ivory Productions won the President of India Gold Medal and got an Oscar nomination.

Currently, she is working on an exciting historical screenplay commissioned by Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Films and is completing a series of mythological books for children. Her latest book, The Wit and Wisdom of Mulla Nasruddin was published in the summer of 2006 and has been very well received. In her ‘other’ life she practices as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist specialising in transcultural work

Shahrukh was born in Pakistan and lives in London with her husband – her two children have flown the nest. To read more about Shahrukh, reviews of her books and her company Narratives Ltd visit her website at www.shahrukhhusain.com
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Kathy Jones is a writer, healer, ceremonialist, sacred dramatist, teacher, initiator and Priestess of Avalon. She is the author of several well-loved Goddess books including The Goddess in Glastonbury, The Ancient British Goddess, In the Nature of Avalon and Spinning the Wheel of Ana (Ariadne Publications), and has played a key role in bringing awareness of the Goddess into Glastonbury and today’s world. She is the organiser of the internationally famous annual Glastonbury Goddess Conference.

She is a co-founder of the Glastonbury Goddess Temple, the first officially recognised indigenous Goddess Temple in Britain. She is a teacher of Priestesses and Priests of Avalon. Kathy has worked as an esoteric soul healer with individuals and communities for over 25 years. Her teaching helps people to connect to the deep energies of the soul and to bring that soul energy into everyday life, to help heal disease and the causes of disease. Kathy is a author of Chiron In Labrys: An Introduction to Esoteric Soul Healing and Breast Cancer: Hanging on by a Red Thread, which chronicles her own experiences with the disease. She is a co-founder of the Isle of Avalon Foundation, the Library of Avalon and the Brigit Healing Centre.
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Initiation into the way of the Shaman began for Elsa with total paralysis following Polio at 11 years of age. She had a near death experience at this time, one of many throughout her life. For three years she was in a wheelchair unable to walk. Gradually with the help of guides and teachers from spirit, she managed to walk and overcome many other obstacles. Those years of struggle have given her a compassion for all people and a desire to work with those who need support and help.

As a young woman Elsa was a natural physic and for many years sat in a healing circle at her local spiritualist church, until one day she became disillusioned with what she was doing. On a physical level the results were outstanding, but she knew there was more to do. She knew she was here to help and teach on a very deep soul level. There followed many years of confusion and disillusion with society and authority. She never stopped working with and for those in need, those with a soul need, but it was only upon reaching a major crossroads in her life, when she met Howard and they started a journey together that she realised what she was doing had a name: it was called Shamanism. Elsa is also a Director of the UK branch of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners.
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Being sent to a Boarding school in Ireland as a 9 year old was a very special opening for Howard. This school was run by his first Shamanic teacher, and much time was set aside for attunement with nature. It was at this time he opened to his passion for nature and everything natural. He was able to sit quietly in that beautiful ancient Celtic land, communicating eye to eye with the various animals and birds that approached him, these communications gave him a deep understanding of the natural world.

After training as a Chemical Engineer, he spent years fighting the opening he had had as a child, until he could deny it no longer. This was at a major crossroads in his life. The route he took has led him to meet amazing teachers and to sit in a place of wonder and acknowledgement of the spiritual world. The Shamanic way is the cloak he wears that blends his deepest desires with those of helping others find their soul healing. With his partner Elsa he also works in the NHS using complementary therapies to help those with mental health difficulties and those suffering with addiction problems. Howard is also a Director of the UK branch of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners.
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Jane Meredith is a priestess of the Goddess and a writer who is dedicated to creating ritual and living magically. She lives in Northern New South Wales, Australia and has presented workshops and rituals in both England and Australia, including many years of presenting at Glastonbury Goddess Conference. She is known for her unrelenting work with the Dark Goddess, her clarity and her evocation of the divine.

Jane has a passion for dynamic, creative, participative ritual; the myths of the god and goddess and the patterns and cycles of the earth and moon. Originally trained as a teacher, she has facilitated women's groups and magical circles for many years and taught and read Tarot cards for 14 years. Some of her favourite topics include: the Dark Goddess, women's sexuality, sacred marriage, a magical system based on the eight-fold wheel of the year and radical child-rearing.

She has one son, 16, who has been raised within the Goddess religion and largely home-schooled. She lives in a magical castle in a hidden valley with her beloved partner, son, two cats and a great many books. She loves travelling, chocolate and transformative change. She is delighted to be returning to the Isle of Avalon in 2008. Her website is www.janemeredith.com
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Angela Paine, author of The Healing Power of Celtic Plants was brought up in the Weald of Kent, where she absorbed her botanical knowledge from her botanist father. She went on to gain a first degree in Human Physiology and a PhD in the chemistry of medicinal plants. Ten years ago she left academia to live on the borders of Wales, where she spent several years researching the plants native to that region, growing them, preparing them and using them.

She was drawn to the Celtic traditions of story telling and poetry, which are still so alive in that part of the world, and became interested in the symbolic meanings of the plants growing there. She is a teacher and has run workshops for several organisations, including the Summer Academy, based at Exeter University, Hawkwood College, Stroud, Oak Barn in Shropshire and the Festival of Mind Body and Spirit. Her book is on the recommended reading list of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and she is currently carrying out research for them.
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Nick believes passionately that your work should be a source of inspiration, deep fulfilment and material success. He loves helping you discover the work you were born for and then helping you create that into a successful business. Nick knows this success comes from a potent combination of marrying your spiritual heart with your business mind and having the two work in partnership. Nick knows that for many people, earning money from what they love is the final frontier, and loves helping you pin point what is holding you back from who you can really be and how successful you can be.

His style is real, authentic and entertaining. Based in London, Nick is founder of Heart at Work London, co-founder of Dreambuilders Community, and a trustee Director of Alternatives at St. James’s in Piccadilly. He is the author of five books, The Work We Were Born To Do, Unconditional Success, Powerful Beyond Measure and How To Be Inspired. He is regularly invited to speak around the world.

Karen Woodley has been teaching since she was a little girl. She is the creator of Dance Your Feelings a therapeutic movement company that can be applied to different types of people. She trained with Rolando Toro Araneda, the creator of BioDanza, and therefore has huge expertise in BioDanza for adults and children. She also has experience in shamanism, the alchemy of the four elements, the tree of desires and awakening of inner Angels, as well as teaching holistic fitness and empowerment classes.

She has been a Montessori teacher for 17 years and taught all kinds of dance and movement to all ages of children in many different environments, including leading a seminar for teachers of children in South Africa in 2004. She has taught carers at the British Psychotherapy Association conference for the Touch Trust, a charity for children and adults with profound disabilities in Cardiff, and many other organisations including at the Girona Theatre, Escobar, Argentina.

Karen is the creator of the Oracle of the Fairies dance, the Celtic Pathway dance and the Celtic Tarot dance. She is a beautiful teacher, gifted with the ability to put your body back on the path to health. Her website is www.danceyourfeelings.com.