Anahata’s Purpose

05/05/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Annalee Burnes | Paranormal Investigating: Through The Witch's Lens ✨

In this course, we move beyond the "gear-only" approach to ghost hunting. We explore how the traditions of witchcraft — grounded in intention, energetic sensitivity, and elemental connection — can be used to enhance modern paranormal investigations. Students will learn how to transition from passive observers to active communicators, using metaphysical tools to protect themselves, clear spaces, and understand the nuances of the spirit world.

Annie Burnes is Lead Investigator for the Paranormal Investigators of Minnesota (SIM), where she acts as a guide, healer, and educator — balancing traditional investigative rigor with a holistic, respectful practice. From a childhood spent making friends with spirits in the woods of rural Ohio to a career in multi-disciplinary paranormal research, Annie blends the "old ways" of spiritual connection with modern investigative techniques to help navigate and heal the relationship between our world and the next.

https://www.siminnesota.com/
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05/02/2026

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✨ Steffanie Sparrow | Ground Yo Ti***es ✨

Ground Yo Ti***es is a workshop that encourages positive body image, rebellion against the Beauty Industry & patriarchy, and normalizes all bodies and shapes. This workshop encourages a sense of belonging and connection, and brings you back into your body and nature with new sensations. We'll briefly explore the messages society sends to those with female-presenting bodies to encourage shame and disconnect — then move into a short guided meditation on how the elements feel against our exposed (or as exposed as you wish) skin in the sunlight.

Steffanie is a practicing Witch whose day job is in psychology. While she officially started her spiritual practice in 2020, tarot cards have been (lovingly) screaming at her since she was a child. Steffanie is an advocate for those with special needs and other forms of inequality, be it s*x, gender, or race.

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05/01/2026

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04/30/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Breezy Hoppenrath | Elementary Music Class ✨

This beginner-friendly music class is designed for adults who want to reconnect with music in a low-pressure, supportive space. We'll explore the basics of rhythm, pitch, singing, and simple music games through playful, hands-on activities inspired by elementary music education. No experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to try. This class is about rediscovering joy, building confidence, and remembering that making music is something everyone deserves to experience.

Breezy is a music teacher, mom, and creative spirit with an eclectic, witchy practice that's always evolving. She enjoys finding the sacred in everyday life and in the care we owe each other. Her past AP classes include The Power of Your Voice and Low-Spoons Witchcraft.

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04/28/2026

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✨ Mary DiMeglio | The Art & Science of Sound Healing ✨

Sound healing is skyrocketing in popularity in the collective consciousness. As a complementary therapy, it can be used alongside all other forms of healing and is said to lower blood pressure, help with deep sleep, and even relieve pain — but do you know how it actually works? Come learn the art of how to play some of the instruments and the science of how sound frequencies affect you on a physical and energetic level. Then experience a beautifully guided meditative sound journey.

Mary "Mare Bear" DiMeglio is founder and director of Mishana Yoga & Wellness in Philly, co-creatrix of Harmonic Earth Festival, curator of Phillylife.love community calendar, and mama of ELEVATE Dance Party. She shares Yoga, Dance, Meditation, Sound Healing, Life & Wellness Coaching, Spiritual Counseling, and Reiki Energy Healing, and is honored to guide you to joy and vibrant wellness through the world's oldest spiritual healing practices.

www.mishanayoga.com
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04/26/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Diane Boswell | Five Minute Daily Practice for Witchcraft ✨

Finding time to do your daily practice is hard. Even when you have the desire and energy — when do you have the time? Let's talk about what you can do to save some time and still feel like you have a fulfilling daily practice, in bite-size pieces.

Diane Boswell is a lifelong student of witchcraft and an eclectic witch whose practice is woven into the fabric of everyday life. Finding balance and connection to the universe has been a lifetime journey — and helping other people find it has become her passion.

https://creativecauldroncollective.mayhem.my/
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04/24/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Chelsea Wittlich | Death Cafe ✨

The Death Cafe is a warm, reflective space to explore our own mortality as well as all matters of death that impact us — whether it be the end of relationships, the loss of loved ones, the death of parts of ourselves, the afterlife, spirituality, and grief in all of its forms. Through curiosity and conversation, we normalize the one thing we all share — and perhaps find more meaning in the now.

Chelsea (she/they) is an embodied identity coach and s*xuality educator based in Philadelphia, PA. By exploring self-love and moving through limiting beliefs, she helps people grieve the death of old identities so their truest self can finally breathe and come alive with curiosity and play. Rooted in somatic practices like breathwork and guided visualization, her work invites reconnection with intuition and creates brave spaces for folks to deepen intimacy with themselves and others through bold, heart-centered conversation.

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04/22/2026

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✨ Bekah Bexes | Cultural Astronomy ✨

Have you ever thought about what you might see in the sky and the stars without knowing what constellations already exist? In this class, we are going to gaze at the sky together and try to name what we would see without being told about a pre-existing sky culture. We will then discuss what various cultures around the world saw when they looked up at the stars. No previous star knowledge is required, and we will also have a telescope for some closer viewing!

Bekah Bexes has a passion for connecting with others, past and present, through nature and the surrounding environment. They are a friend, a naturalist, a folklorist, an artist, and a Pagan practitioner. Through their podcast, Fieldnotes and Folklore, they share science combined with culture for various nature topics. Finding inspiration through nature and using various mediums, Bekah creates unique pieces that are sold through The Didelphis Goddess.

🎙️ Fieldnotes and Folklore: Instagram + TikTok
🌿 The Didelphis Goddess: Instagram + TikTok
Website: https://the-didelphis-goddess.myshopify.com/

04/20/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Amberleigh Leitenberger & Christen Miller | Becoming the Guardian: Spirit Doll Creation ✨

In this hands-on class, you will create a personal spirit doll using found objects and recycled materials, turning the ordinary into something sacred and intentional. Through a gentle guided meditation ritual, you will be invited to meet the spirit of your doll and allow that presence to inspire its form, adornment, and purpose. We will also explore how spirit dolls can be used in spiritual practice—as protectors, anchors for intention, and quiet companions—and how to care for them so they remain a living part of your path.

Christen and Amberleigh are High Priestesses in the Greenwild Tradition and ordained Pagan ministers, each holding a Bachelor of Divinity from Greenwild Mystical Academy in South Carolina. They recently founded a new ministry, The Sacred Hearth Collective, where they create and hold sacred space for people of all walks of life and spiritual backgrounds, in part through teaching classes and crafting sacred objects to share with the wider world.

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04/18/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Cheryl Wylie Natusch | Wylde: Movement Untamed ✨

Wylde: Movement Untamed defies the typical movement practice box. Wylde is a music-driven movement practice that blends together Kundalini breathwork, primal moves and dance, and yoga asana, to create a cathartic, well-rounded practice that allows the participant to sweat, release, and let go of stuck energy, bringing one back into the present moment and grounding back into the physical body.

A long-time movement alchemist, Cheryl has been circulating in the fitness and wellness realms for over 15 years, helping to spread joy through movement and inspiring others to find passion in moving heavy weights. With too many certifications to list, Cheryl has a well-rounded fitness and yoga education with experience to match. Her movement philosophy comes from the belief that in order to become closer to spirit, one must ground and take care of the physical body first.

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04/16/2026

✨Facilitator & Workshop Highlight✨

✨ Nicole Tuttleridge | Activism Roundtable: Transmuting Feelings into Action ✨

The U.S. is a scary place right now for a lot of people. Sometimes everything going on seems so large that we feel helpless against it. This roundtable discussion will begin by introducing resources and things that we can do as individuals to help transmute that fear, anger, helplessness, into productive actions toward a brighter future. Everyone is encouraged to come ready to contribute resources and ideas, and if you don't have any, that's ok too - come get inspired.

Nicole Tuttleridge lives in The Midwest with her family and an extraordinary number of animals (mostly barn cats). She has decades of experience in immigration, law, community service, mutual aid, protests, and politics. Her hobbies are reading books, watching Shoresy and Abbott Elementary, knitting square coasters, witchcraft involving sigils and menstrual blood, and completing her 2026 bingo card of goals to achieve this year.

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04/14/2026

Who better to kick off our 2026 facilitator lineup than Whitney & Camille!

✨ Whitney Dawn Pyles and Camille Newsom | Collage and Connect with The Zone of Authenticity ✨

This is an open play experience with 'The Zone of Authenticity: Authentic Connection Cards'. Engage on your own or with others, and come and go as you please. This thoughtfully designed deck was created to meet an increasingly essential need for honest, empathetic human connection. Each card includes a core question, a deeper reflective prompt, and a grounding affirmation inviting reflection, embodiment, and colorful creative play. Materials for journaling, coloring, drawing, and collaging will be available. Learn more about the cards and the concept at whitneydawn.com/zoa

Camille Newsom is a poet, artist, educator, and land steward who weaves creative practice and curiosity into her work. She is the author of This Suffering and Scrumptious World (Galileo Press, 2023) & Purgatory Ju**ie (Main Street Rag, 2025).

Whitney Dawn Pyles, ACC is a somatic coach and facilitator, dance and movement guide, award-winning artist, and adoptee on a mission to ease the loneliness epidemic. She believes we all deserve spaces to be who we are, that movement, presence, and play are powerful medicines, and that magic happens when we allow ourselves to show up authentically in all of our beautiful complexity. Learn about her coaching, community, and embodiment work at whitneydawn.com.

https://www.whitneydawn.com/zoa; https://www.instagram.com/thezoneofauthenticity/; https://linktr.ee/thezoneofauthenticity