Carlo Hawk Walker Carlo Hawk Walker is a respected Elder in the Western Cherokee of Missouri, a Pipe Carrier and Sun Dancer in the Lakota Tradition, a U.S. Veteran and a Bundle Keeper. He comes to Ohio to share an ancient way of walking together on Mother Earth with love, peace and respect. "Medicines of the Heart" is, in Carlo's words, "something that reaches from the deepest sea to the farthest star" www.hawkwalker.com
	M.R. Sellars M.R. Sellars is An active member of the HWA (Horror Writers Association), M. R. Sellars is a relatively unassuming homebody who considers himself just a “guy with a lot of nightmares and a word processing program.” His first full-length novel, Harm None, hit bookstore shelves in 2000 and he hasn’t stopped writing since. He says that the biggest adjustment he has had to make with his writing career is coping with the time spent away from his family while traveling on promotional tours. Still, he approaches it with the same humorously deadpan and occasionally acerbic wit that he applies to life in general. All of the current novels in Sellars’ continuing Rowan Gant Investigations saga have spent several consecutive weeks on numerous bookstore bestseller lists as well as a consistent showing on the Amazon.com Horror/Occult top 100. Sellars currently resides in the Midwest with his wife, daughter, and a host of what he describes as “rescued, geriatric, special-needs felines.” At home, when not writing or taking care of the household, he indulges his passions for cooking and hanging out with friends. www.mrsellars.com
	Alaric Albertsson Alaric Albertsson, author of Travels Through Middle Earth: The Path of a Saxon Pagan, embraced polytheism back in the summer of 1971 and has never looked back!  Over the past four decades his personal spiritual practice has developed as a synthesis of Anglo-Saxon tradition, rural customs, herbal studies, spiritist beliefs and rune lore.  For Alaric, a reverence for the earth and respect for ancestral and indigenous spirits are fundamental defining qualities of pagan religion. Alaric eventually moved to Kansas City, where in the 1990's he served as Vice President and on the Board of Directors of the Heartland Spiritual Alliance.  Alaric is a member of the druidic organization Ar nDraiocht Fein, and was proud to complete the ADF Dedicant Program as a Saxon druid (drýmann) in 2006.  His forthcoming book, Wyrdworking: The Path of a Saxon Sorcerer, is scheduled to be released by Llewellyn Worldwide in their 2011 Winter catalogue. www.alaricalbertsson.com
	Alex Wedmedyk Alex Wedmedyk is a facilitator of self-healing and spiritual growth workshops, using the power of rhythm. He is a Master Drummaker, Drummer, Workshop Facilitator, and Craftsman,.who relates to a wide range of human experience. He connects with compassion and deep understanding to the struggles and challenges of everyday life with a proactive, simple solution oriented methodology.  In his workshop he integrates the powerful methods of shamanism, with ecstatic trance rhythms as well as rhythms for fun-fulfillment.    In this process which he calls "Rhythmical Attunement",  Alex uses sound therapy (Cymatics) to help people shed their old patterns of ill health, dissatisfaction and dysfunction and realign their energy patterns to create a new healthy more complete self.  "Our inner strengths and outer powers are directly related to how well we move through our lives in rhythm". Alex started his career as a professional craftsman in the early "70"s working in leather and marketing a a line of original  brasscast belt buckles and then in sterling silver jewelry.  In the early "90"s, he settled on making drums and drumming as his main form of creative expression.  After having a spiritual awakening, he shifted his focus from business to finding the hidden secrets of rhythm.  Alex has studied with many teachers and master drummers, over the past 15 years.  He has performed and done workshops at many gatherings, schools, and public venues, and he has been a ritual drummer and various Earth Spirit Ceremonies
	Joy Wedmedyk Olorisha Omi Lasa ( Joy Wedmedyk ) is an initiated priestess in Regla do Ocha, a Lukumi tradition known as Santeria. For over 35 years she has studied symbolism, divination and shamanism, and has learned from and is indebted to the spirits and ancestors of the planet, her elders and the indigenous people of the Americas, Cuba and Africa. While in Africa, she was recognized as a Kontoumble Gatekeeper (Shaman) by the Dagara people in Burkina Faso. Joy and her husband Alex are co-founders of Earth Rhythm, a company dedicated to bringing drums and drumming to the community. Over the past 17 years they have taught hundreds of people how to craft and play their own drums.
	Luna NightShade As well as being a bonny pirate, connoisseur of fine whiskey, and all around groovy girl... Luna NightShade has been studying the craft for 21 years in the Southwest Ohio Area. Her study of various different theologies and cultures will take you on a mythologically scientific look at the moon and its magic.
	Rev. Robin An ordained Minister with the Church of Many Ways, Robin is also a Reiki Master Teacher. She is a published author with her Ph.D. and is a complementary Health Practitioner. Her passion in this life is sharing the Sacred Healing Grid through writings and teachings. She is a follower of the Old Ways and strives to live in peace and harmony with All That Is. A self described "Happy Earthling" Robin carries a rare heart energy that we call a blessing to the community and society in general.
	Sige Jen I Rev. Garry C. Herron aka Lord Sige Jen I, ia a Wiccan High Priest and Shaman with over 28 years experience in Occult, Metaphysical and Earth based Mysteries. After many years of self examination, study and learning, he now comes out into the mainstream to share wisdom, enlighten others, teach and lecture what he has learned. Rev. Herron, also an Ohio Licensed Minister, Tarot card reader and Artisan lives in New Straightsvile, Ohio.
	Terri Rivera (Sings with Ravens) is known by many as a gifted psychic and Curandera. She sometimes employs the use of a Temezcal (sweat-lodge) to talk to spirit and find the source of an illness, then cleanse, heal, and retrieve lost parts of your soul. She can also see and hear people's spirit names.  Her family background is Pima, Aztec, Chilean and Irish.  She comes from a long line of Curanderas — female healers — on her father's side. Her maternal Irish/Chilean great grandfather was a healer who came to the United States from Chile. He called himself a dentist, but did much healing and curing. Sings with Ravens has joined with Navajo, Hopi, Shawnee, Choctaw, Cherokee, Apache, Lakota, Irish, Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Healers, sharing Healing ways as well as learning from many traditions. It is because of her studies and her rich and diverse ancestral heritage that her mission has become to help others rediscover (as she has) their own Indigenous Spiritual identities.
	Taren Martin Taren Martin combines imagination and an eye for detail in all of his artwork.  His prints offered through Wolfden Designs feature dragon, fairy, fantasy and mythical themes, as well as a collection of stirring images of the Old Gods.  His most recent and ambitious project is the Martin Rune Deck, a set of cards depicting the mysteries of all 33 runes of the Futhorc.  The deck is a collaboration between Taren and Pagan author Alaric Albertsson, and includes all of the runes of the Elder Futhark plus the nine additional Old English runes which are missing from most commercially available rune sets.  Taren’s illustrations are inspired and creative, and yet remain true to the lore of the Old English Rune Poem.  A member of Ár nDraíocht Féin, he has been active in Sassafras Grove ADF since 2005. www.wolfden-designs.com
	David Sorcher  David Sorcher has been playing Afro-Caribbean and West African drums since he happened upon an open drum circle in New York's Central Park back in the summer of 1987 and got bitten by the rhythm bug. Since that time the drum has been at the center point to his spiritual path. He studied Cuban and Haitian rhythms with John Amira (author of Rhythms of Santeria) for 6 years and has attended classes and workshops with Baba Olatunji, Yaya Diallo and Ladji Camara, just to name a few better know movers and shakers of the Afro-percussive world. In 1989 he founded New York City Drum & Dance, an open rhythm and movement community which sought balance between the structure of traditional rhythms and the freedom of improvisational freestyle forms. Over the years David has been a member of numerous performing ensembles and he is currently a percussionist for Baoku & the Image Afro Beat Band in Cincinnati, OH.