Lila Sophia Tresemer ~ is a group facilitator, playwright, photographer, ceremonialist, minister and co-Founder of The Path of Ceremonial Arts. As President of the Board for The StarHouse, she continually co-creates programs for Sacred Living and Remembrance; she is dedicated to building a global community, which honors the Feminine and celebrates the Sacred in all beings. Lila has worked with rites of passage and ceremony for over thirty years. With her beloved partner, David, she has written and produced a trilogy for the theater about Divine Feminine, called “Remembrance”.This series includes stories involving Mary Magdalene, Inanna, and the Cathars.
 

Since 1970,Lila has been a multi-media artist working with photography and video productions as transformational tools, which are used within the ceremonial art workshops.Primarily living in Boulder , they also have created Healing Dreams, a retreat in Australia , which honors the Dreamtime memory of the Aboriginal people, and seeks to preserve that corner of paradise as a place of power on Flinders Island in Tasmania .

 
 

Anastacia Nutt , M.A. is a co-founder and facilitator of the Path of the Ceremonial Arts. She is devoted to listening to and tending the sacred within and without.  As a Seer, she endeavors to weave the seen and unseen worlds, strengthening the bonds between them. 

Her areas of expertise and interest include the art of Seership, reviving primal ritual as a tool for transformation, facilitating threshold crossings, public presentation skills, exploring messages within ancient artifacts & iconography and deepening into her Celtic ancestral roots.  Her enduring prayer is that people unite in an interfaith alliance, beyond doctrine and distinction, to heal the Earth and her people.

 

Anastacia is an environmental economist, Administrative Director of All Seasons Chalice, ASC Minister, Toastmaster, Certified Level One Mediator and passionate ancestral cook. She lives by The StarHouse in the Earthstar community with her kitty companion, Sophia.  PCA Credits: “The Sacred Circle: The Definition, Dynamics and Psychology of Sacred Council”, “Level One Primer & Teachings”, “Our Feminine Heritage: 22 Sacred Expressions of The Mother Goddess” and “The Sacred Cross of the Priestess”.

 
 
Candice Knight – Candice was in the first group of women to complete the PCA training and has continued her work by stepping into the role of facilitator for the past 3 years. As a facilitator she brings her unique understanding and living exploration of what it means to "walk the path of the divine feminine" in the world.
Candice honors the power of women’s circles and works with elder women in helping them discover their wisdom and how to share that wisdom in the world.
As one of the founders of Ceremonies for Sacred Living she is committed to reawakening the richness of ritual as a transformational tool in our everyday lives. Candice leads ceremonies to honor all of life’s passages for individuals, families and communities.
 

Candice also works to bring this experience to the young women of today as one of the founders and designers of Goddess on the Go, a new interactive experience for young women. Candice is also an ordained Interfaith Minister.

 
 
JJ Booksh, CMT ~ JJ Booksh embodies Priestess, Teacher, Healer, and Dancer in this lifetime. She is a graduate of the first class of PCA in 2002. She has been a co-facilitator of PCA since 2004. JJ is an ordained minister of All Seasons Chalice and the StarHouse, and she has a Massage Therapy and Reiki practice in Lyons, CO where she enjoys working with people one on one. JJ is an aerial dancer dedicating her art to the Sacred Marriage of the Divine Feminine meeting the Divine Masculine in balance. JJ is skillful at directing energy to empower authentic expression.
 

 

 
 
Madhavii Shirman engages in the transformative power of the Goddess Lakshmi through beauty, works with the wisdom of the stars through tropical and sidereal astrology, is a facilitator of ³spirit-words² for personal transformation, and is a graduate and teacher of The Path of Ceremonial Arts program.
As an ³ambassador to the stars² for over 15 years, she specializes in the knowledge and wisdom of personal cycles and transits. Madhavii works with clients to deepen their understanding of the cyclic (lunar phases, phase moons, power moons, dream cycles) and elemental alchemy (earth, air, fire, and water) in their birth charts and illuminates how these natural propensities are engaged by the current reality of the transiting heavens.
 

As a ceremonialist, Madhavii respects beauty, balance and wisdom as sacred arts. She illuminates darkness with humor and is revered for helping others quickly cut through the veils of illusion.
Madhavii is a master stylist and has worked with women in the realm of beauty for over 30 years. She has two philosophic and creative children and one great love, Gary, who continues to provide a grounding presence for her when she is communing with the celestial.

 
 
Kate Carbone considers herself a modern mystic whose pursuit of truth and beauty have led her to explore many spiritual traditions. Unable to choose just one she settled in the trans-faith community of  The StarHouse where she graduated as a Priestess from the three year Path of Ceremonial Arts program. She then went on to become a minister of All Season’s Chalice Church . She is in her fourth year of facilitating the Journey of the Feminine, a nine month multicultural exploration of the many faces of  the Divine Feminine.  Her family is the cornerstone of her world.She lives with her husband, teenage son, two dogs and her cat at 7,000 ft. in the Colorado Rockies. Over a decade of work in the hospital setting as a Respiratory Therapist has given her the opportunity to help people breathe through life’s passages from birth to death,  joy to grief.
 

These experiences have led her to the deep belief that each moment we are given is sacred.  Kate insists she is just like you, ...only different!

 
 

Jewels Marshon is a Life Success coach, speaker and facilitator. She the founder of Creative Path Solutions (CPS), providing programs for Success in the areas of happiness, health and wealth, leadership development, and optimal wellness.

A graduate of The Path of Ceremonial Arts program for women and is a gifted intuitive, transformational healer, and inspirational teacher.
 

As a practical mystic Jewels guides individuals in understanding and resolving that which keeps them from experiencing their deeper gifts and the truth of who they are. Her unique set of tools provides her clients with a range of versatility for the body, mind, spirit and soul, rarely found in one person. In addition she is the author of “BathWisdom: A Soaker Guide to Healing”. She is committed to planetary oneness, to raising the feminine principal in today’s world and providing the opportunity for everyone to heal and awaken.

 
 

Sally Nurney, BFA loves to create with fabric, color, pattern and style ~ she brings this devotion to self-expression to her work with the Path of the Ceremonial Arts, that women (and people everywhere) develop the skills to unveil their True Selves. She is passionate about Sacred Union ~ the balance of masculine and feminine forces within oneself and in the world. She is dedicated to reconnecting our modern lives to the starry beings that surround our beloved earth.
 

Sally is a Tarot and Astrology teacher and reader, an Associative Minister of All Seasons Chalice, and facilitator of the Beacon School of Imaginative Studies, a program of empowerment for girls ages 9 –14. She also co-facilitates the New Moon Program for Women at The StarHouse.

 
 

Laine Gerritsen , has worked with circles of women in Boulder since 1978, participating in seasonal rituals, song circles, sweatlodges and support groups. She served the women of Boulder as a homebirth midwife and childbirth educator for fourteen years, helping to found the Colorado Midwives Association and the Midwives Alliance of North America. She now considers herself a midwife of Spirit.

  
  Adding to the diversity of the facilitator group, Laine brings a passion for science, reading and travel, as well as Star Wars, the Grateful Dead and the Broncos. Her spiritual stream is largely Celtic, and she has a strong interest in the most ancient goddesses. She has been happily married to her husband Greg since 1980, and they are blessed with two wonderful children.

Laine feels privileged to be part of the StarHouse community, nurturing and being nurtured by this amazing temple and land. She is on the Board of Directors for All Seasons Chalice, and she has served as a coordinator for Journey of the Feminine, the New Moon program and for the Priestess Circle, the organization of PCA graduates. She currently co-facilitates Year Two in Path of the Ceremonial Arts. She is very grateful to be able to work with women of such power, depth, love and integrity.