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Song Leaders
Shiloh Circle
Writing, performing, teaching, and leading song circles for over 20 years, Shiloh is also a multi instrumentalist singer/song writer. A Renaissance water nymph who sings magic into being, conjuring pulsating moisture to the heart center of all entranced by her spell, fire circles are her favorite place to shine.
Katie Sontag
Katie will teach original songs that celebrate self love, support a sense of community, and remind us that we are not alone. The circle will create a safe space to grieve, celebrate, feel and be authentically together. We sing to remember our connection. Through rounds, part songs, harmonies and unison, we will revive our belonging and leave with a sense of true self worth.
Karsyn Wagner
Karsyn has loved singing her whole life. To her, singing is as essential as breathing, and she loves to share the joy it brings her with anyone willing! Although Karsyn is freshly on her song leading journey, she has been writing circle songs longer than she has been teaching them. She draws inspiration from nature and its inseparable influence on the human experience. Deeply humbled by the trees, flowers, and bees, Karsyn is grateful that nature’s muses will never not encourage her. To her, life’s mysteries and unanswered questions are the sustenance that feed her soul, drive her to delve deeper, and listen. She is overjoyed by any and every opportunity to sing in unison with others and share her story through song.
Genevieve Wallis
Genevieve ‘Water Song’ Houck is an aqua therapist, massage therapist, and music therapist from Pittsburgh PA who travels the country performing at sacred fire circles, teaching voice and self care workshops at gatherings, and sing while fire spinning.
Tracy Robertson
Tracy LJ Robertson is a performing and recording vocalist and vocal percussionist, vocal arranger, music director, and facilitator in the world of empowerment through music. Tracy is particularly grateful to find himself working in organizations like the Urban Voices Project, Gaia Music Collective, and in more and more spaces where music and improvisation is explicitly supporting/instigating connection and self-surprise. Through his project, Vocal Bloom, Tracy is building community through events and workshops for musicians and vocalizers from all walks of life, engaging their voices and bodies through playful connection and self-surprising creativity.
Heather Pierson & Bernice Martin
Heart Songs & Circle Songs' is the co-creation of Heather Pierson and Bernice Martin. Heather is a nationally touring singer/songwriter, pianist, songleader, and performer from New Hampshire. Bernice is a singer/songwriter, licensed massage therapist, and ordained community minister from Maine. In 2018, they launched 'Heart Songs & Circle Songs' and began sharing their original songs for community singing, taking as their inspiration the power of song to cultivate harmony, connection, joy, and peace.
Adrian DiMatteo
Adrian teaches guitar, voice, music theory, songwriting and the principles of sound healing. He is a passionate educator who understands that creativity and heart-centered self-expression are keys to a healthy life.
Corey Conscious
Corey is a traveling songbird whose mission is to re-awaken the heart of humanity. His refined craft of medicine music is a reflection of his artistry, creating space for those listening to receive healing frequencies. It is through singing where Corey’s found himself most connected to life. His musical journey expands as he weaves through the world, collecting songs from the Divine.
Jason Cohen
Jason “Many Hats” Cohen is the producer and senior rattle shaker of the ceremonial fire circle gatherings known as Forestdance, the 41st of which is happening Aug 13th-17th, 2025. He is the Director of the 501(c)(3) culture & arts org The HeARTbeat Collective Inc, and has produced and held musical space for 100’s of healing and expressive arts rituals around the world. He has a deep knowledge and level of experience, with sensitivity and training as a ritual facilitator, and has walked and danced with a lifelong pursuit of making music that connects people with nature, mysticism and one another around the fire. Jason was one of the founders and chaired the Board of Managers of Camp Timber Trails, LLC, until he became the Camp Coordinator.
Jason’s latest efforts is as the Director for the historic Montague Retreat Center, a gorgeous 34 acre venue with a geo-thermal Great Hall and a deep and fantastic progressive legacy.
Jason is a community organizer deeply committed to creating spaces where people can become empowered and inspired. He is a musician, composer and songwriter and sings and plays keys, accordion and percussion with his project Incus.
Jason is a proud and loving father, and takes much of his inspiration from his humble and direct connections to nature and his ancestors. And he is excited to be offering an experience in a new setting that will be pushing his edges in a new direction.
Elana Brody
Elana leads prayer and communal song gatherings all over the USA, including the annual SING A NEW SONG new year’s retreat in Upstate NY, offers ancestral healing workshops, releases and performs original folk music, and serves as a teacher of voice and creative empowerment. In addition, Elana serves as a visionary prayer leader and founder of a blossoming ritual community for earth-based Judaism in Asheville, NC.
Teja Kinney
Meet Alexandra 'Teja' Kinney - an Artist and Community Leader in Brattleboro, VT. She teaches Vedic Astrology and community singing for clarity, liberation, and empowerment. Her workshops and new and full moon circles unravel the mysteries of Vedic Astrology and harness the transformative power of voice, sharing Vedic tools and wisdom for life purpose.
Onome
Onome brings over twenty years of experience in expressive arts facilitation, across a diverse range of programs for both youth and adults. She has partnered with numerous organizations as an artist-in-residence, teaching artist, and facilitator, including the United Nations, Madison Youth Choirs, Grace Episcopal Church, Teachers College-Columbia University, Juilliard, Música do Círculo in Brazil, Teatro Portapotese in Italy, and Bobby McFerrin's CircleSongs retreat at Omega Institute.
Her immersive group vocal rituals include singing circles, concerts, poetry readings, panel discussions, experimental theater, and sound installations. She has led improvisational vocal gatherings at hundreds of venues, created vocal film scores, and recorded soundscapes for podcasts and guided meditations.
She is a partner artist at Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, where she contributes her performances and trainings across their vast educational programming spectrum.
Isa Flora
Isa has been connected to song and ceremony since birth. Experiencing the power of the voice through singing and sound making is what has held Isa during life’s ups and downs. She is so grateful to be able to weave Cacao into this experience of voice and heart and their connection to spirit. Sitting with and now serving Cacao is a part of her devotion and life path. She wants to share the way this plant spirit and Mother Earth can support us in connecting with our authentic self ( heart essence) to be able to express ourselves through voice and song with deeper trust and love. May we all trust the songs in our heart as the medicine we need.
Reverand Rhetta
Rev Rhetta has been leading singing ensembles and circles of many different styles of music for over 40 years. She has led here in the US, in Europe and recently in South Africa. One of her favorite places to lead is Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat Center in Wallingford PA.
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