California Witchcamp Teachers 2025
Dominic Bodden
I am an illustrator and a witch, a creator and disciple of Mystery. I live and weave magic in Lenapehoking (Lenape homelands) known by many as New York City. I jumped into the Reclaiming cauldron at 16 and in 2014 attended my first California Witchcamp. Soon after, I cut my teeth as a priestess by joining the Ritual Planning Cell in Los Angeles where I co-created public rituals for the community.
My art is an extension of my magical practice. I set an intention for each endeavor, and I use my intuition as an ever-present influence that guides my pen and brush. I bring ideas to life through art by utilizing my unique perspective. When I speak through art, the spirits listen.
At the heart of everything I do is a deep curiosity and a devotion to art, knowledge, and magic. I want to co-create stories that become the mythology for the world to come. I want to activate, transform, and inspire. If you have a world-shaking vision, I want to help you realize it. I believe as witches, we can create the world we want to see. We are the spell.
Phoenix
I am a blue-eyed wanderer and passionate devotee of the Goddess who currently resides on the land of my daughter’s people, the Coastal Miwok, currently known as Sonoma County, California. I am a restless seeker of knowledge and magick; always yearning to learn more, dig deeper, and dive into mystery. I hope to never quench my thirst in spiritual development. My exploration of magick expresses itself through writing books, creating spells, crafting rituals, teaching, and devotion.
My spiraling path of the witch began officially in the mid-1990s when I was using a wooden handled butter knife, stolen from my mother’s kitchen, as an athame. Shortly thereafter, I attended my first public Reclaiming ritual and was immediately hooked. Now I find myself a Reclaiming initiate, teacher, and ritualist; deeply in love with the tradition. I am devoted to several deities from different pantheons, always looking to expand my relationships with the Divine.
Beyond my love of Reclaiming, I am also a 2nd degree Gardnerian Wiccan, hoodoo practitioner, and Druid initiate. I have written several books on magick, spellcrafting, and witchcraft. I have traveled all over the world exploring, making, and sharing magick.
Currently, I am blessed to work as a professional witch and tarot reader; offering readings and spell crafting support to my clients and students. I am also the owner of an esoteric Goddess shop called Milk & Honey, that is located in Sebastopol California.
Ultimately, I believe in beauty and magick. Every day I am reminded of the wonder that resides all around us. I hope to share that beauty with others, because when we can change the heart of just one person (even if that person is ourselves) we can truly change the world. The time for revolution is here, the Goddess is alive, and magick is afoot.
Silen Silvertongue (they/he):
I am a sculptor of sound, artist of people, storyteller, genderqueer shapeshifter, mercurial name collector, and lover, among other things. I have been practicing in the Reclaiming Tradition for nine years, and have been remembering witchcraft my entire life. I practice witchcraft to deepen communion with Mystery, to show up and be fully present in the world, and to steward better futures.
I live on unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute, Lakota & Shoshone Lands in what is otherwise known as Fort Collins, Colorado. In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, this land has held me most of my life and taught me much about raw, hard beauty.
In the Reclaiming Tradition, I am a co-founder and current anchor for two witchcamps — WorldWide Witchcamp and Colorado Witchcamp. I bring Reclaiming magic to my home community through teaching, coven work, and rituals.
As a composer, I weave magic into my art with poetry, performance art, and music. My work has been performed in gardens whispering delightful fae dances to the trans-ancestors that escape definition, featured boys in dresses next to saxophones, unveiled prescription label collages amid chaotic soundscapes of dysphoria, danced nonbinary shadow puppets behind sheets of rainbow light, and given permission to intramuscular testosterone injections under expansive life-giving harmonics.
I am a certified peer support specialist who facilitates groups, 1:1 support, and training in the Alternatives to Suicide and Intentional Peer Support frameworks. I co-founded and direct a nonprofit in Northern Colorado called the Yarrow Collective, which offers peer support for people struggling with mental health and/or substance misuse, all designed and led by people with lived experience. I am passionate about anti-carceral mental health support alternatives that center consent, choice, and healing in community.
As a lover of thresholds, I feel most alive when I am holding and facilitating spaces for my own and others’ transformation. I am honored to co-create magic at California Witchcamp this year on the teaching team!
Ravyn Stanfield
Ravyn Stanfield, (she/they) is a pansexual author, acupuncturist, relational therapist, and international educator dedicated to liberating the super powers within each of us. Her spiritual work is woven through these jobs, as well as alchemy, runes, dreamwork, marine biology, Tarot, forest ecology, singing, community organizing, mushrooms, conflict resolution, learning the language of birds, herbology, and political activism. She lives in so-called Portland, Oregon, land of the Kalapuya, Clackamas, Siletz, and tribes of Chinook. Her biological ancestry is Scots-Irish, Polish, Danish, Italian, Russian, and is also filled with question marks due to the scandalous escapades of her matriarchal forebears. She is definitely more of a dog and a tree person, but has experienced polyamorous love with a few cats.
Ravyn attended her first witchcamp in 1999, and has organized, taught, and attended many camps since then. She has led workshops and rituals all over the world for over 25 years, and is initiated in the Reclaiming and Feri traditions. Her book, Revolution of the Spirit: Awaken the Healer is available at www.gerriravynstanfield.com and her essays and poetry feature in many publications. She uses her background in traditional medicines, alchemy, neurobiology, theatre, and creative writing to coax more of the extraordinary into the world through the cracks in Western civilization.
Sequoia Roane (they/them)
I’ve been a witch all my life, and many lifetimes before.
I came into Reclaiming in 2004, after Starhawk directed my desperate mother (“My child says they’re a witch, I want to support them, what is there to do?!”) towards Witchlets in the Woods – our community’s first family witchcamp. 20 years later, I am a teacher, initiate, organizer, and lover of this tradition which is my home and family.
Witchcraft – even in the peculiar Reclaiming modality – is for me an intuitive practice, as much as a conversation with lineage. And the two often serendipitously align.
Anti-authoritarian, neurodivergent, trans-nonbinary, queer – I find joy and power in opening, and letting the magic flow where it wants. My fetch is often close to the surface, and play is an important piece of my practice.
An 11th-house Solar Gemini and student of (art) history, I love to perform ritual practices which delve into the methodologies written by our myriad ancestors of craft.
I like to mess with modern spell structures emerging from pop culture. Some of my favorite spells to cast utilize a string of carefully-selected emojis as glyphs of intention.
As well as “witch,” other words I wear include artist, singer, and writer. Everything I create is in some way devotional – to self, to craft, to one of the many gods I hold close to my heart. Within it you will find lots of death, sex, queerness, identity stuff, body, and (of course) magic.
My place is half on Siletz land in so-called Portland, half on Ohlone lands across the so-called Bay Area. Descending from Irish ancestors, and born in a redwood forest on Coast Miwok territory, the misty trees under which we gather for camp have always felt like home to my body. I enter here reverently, and with gratitude to be welcomed as a guest among them. I am delighted and honored to get to do this work with you all! Slainte!
Preston Coyote Vargas
I carry the blessings, wisdoms, and joys of my ancestors. I was born from the land of my grandmother's ancestral Wampanoag people. It is a place where my liberated Black ancestors found family and home with the local Indigenous communities. It is also the land where my mother's Cape Verdean immigrant ancestors cultivated cranberry bogs and blueberry bushes amidst deciduous forests. Though I live on the Pacific coast, I honor my ancestors, the land-water spirits of Massachusetts, who periodically draw me back home.
I am a Black queer spirit-worker, author, artist-healer, and scholar. At heart, I am a storyteller and oracular artist. I enjoy exploring how humans navigate through the lenses of their own experiences, engage their creative talents, and re-present these stories for healing and transformation. I weaves the gifts of my ancestral traditions and scholarship with a commitment to anti-oppression, Pleasure Activism, and my embodiment of Decolonial Love.
I am the author of Cala F’ Iya, Book One: Initiation- Part 1. The first novel in this Black liberatory, queer, and magical series, Cala F’ Iya; Queen of Cala F’orn Iya. It is reauthoring of the narrative of the Blackwarrior queen famed for riding atop a griffin, Califia, Queen of California; for which his home state is named.
I hold a Ph.D. in Transformative Studies and a M.A. in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness. I am currently the Director of the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. I’m passionate about supporting Black and Indigenous folx to reclaim their ancestral wisdom traditions, in present-day context, to heal their communities’ souls through oracular art and ceremonial collaborations with their ancestors, deities, and spirits of the Land. I enliven my passions through my lived experiences as an Ifa practitioner, animistic healer, Reclaiming Tradition witch and community ritualist.
I am excited to weave magic with you.
Gwydion
Gwydion is a queer man, born and raised on a farm in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been priestessing and teaching in the Reclaiming San Francisco Bay Area and international communities for over 30 years. He is a devoted science geek, who is fascinated by protein structures and cell surface receptors but equally interested in botany, herbal medicine, and ecological interdependency. He thrives when standing at the intersection of science, magic, and mystery-- weaving spells into the cauldron of molecular sequences and genomic memory. As his beard turns increasingly gray, he can be found brewing potions and crafting magical tools. He lives on the land of the Ramaytush speaking Ohlone people in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Stephen Pocock
I am a Aotearoa-born immigrant to Turtle Island, where I grew up and came to live in Huchiun in unceded Lisjan territory, home of the Chechenyo-speaking Ohlone people (now known as Oakland, California). I am or have been an actor, director, cook, alchemist, soothsayer, protester, producer and ritualist. A good blend for this witch. I came to Reclaiming in 2015 and fell spirit first into classes, rituals and this camp. Continuing in this path led to me being an initiate in this tradition. I also delve deeply into British Traditional Witchcrafts as well as the syncretic magic of late antiquity. My personal practice centers on working with spirit allies and deities in trance and aspect. Mirth and Reverence, from the Charge of the Goddess forms the axis around which my spirit revolves. Over the years I have taught in a number of different disciplines, from acting to food crafting, all of which inform my own magical practice. I became a student teacher in Reclaiming in 2021. I am both humbled and delighted to teach again at California Witch Camp!