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Sound & Vibrational Healing * Yoga * Meditation & Spirituality * Dance & Movement Arts
* Leadership Skills * Art & Creativity * Personal Development * Healing Arts * Sustainability & Permaculture * Flow Arts & Poi
* Leadership Skills * Art & Creativity * Personal Development * Healing Arts * Sustainability & Permaculture * Flow Arts & Poi
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Julie North
Julie North is a born psychic medium and medical intuitive working with doctors, therapists and clients worldwide. As Ceremonial Center Director, Julie will le leading the Opening Intention Setting, Sacred Circle Gathering and also be teaching a workshop this year. |
Chrystal FireHeart Kubis, TLC
Master it! Move it! & Let It Out! Chrystal Kubis always brings the whole package to Rootwire!! Learn how to feed your life force, maintain balance and take control of your life in “Master Your Energetics”! She’s also bringing back a Rootwire favorite: “Let It Out! A Movement Experience” where you can release your joys and stresses, express your authenticity and have a ton of fun! |
Ken Wylie, IFMGA
Make your adventures MEAN SOMETHING! We are beyond THRILLED to bring Internationally Certified Mountain Guide, Ken Wylie to teach TWO amazing workshops at Rootwire this year! Ken, who has 30 years’ experience, runs “Mountains for Growth” In British Columbia and specializes in using outdoor experiences to deepen our awareness and understanding of Self. “Adventure Literacy: Moving from Event to Experience” and “Adventure Beyond Escape” will have you making the MOST out of every experience you have!! |
Antonio Merlo, LMT, BA
Everyone loves Antonio! Whether he’s making you feel amazing in the Free Healing Tent or surprising you with a dance-massage on the field to music….Antonio epitomizes the Rootwire vibe of Love! He shares his 20 years of experience, endless skills, giant heart and infectious laugh with EVERYONE and has been an integral part of Rootwire for five years now! Come get what your body and Be-ing are asking for!! |
Maureen Metcalf, MBA
Lead YOUR life to its fullest potential!! Maureen Metcalf has 13 international book awards for Innovative Leadership, runs an International Radio Show and is highly sought after for her skills in leadership and business consultation. Maureen will be co-teaching with Mike Davis focusing on YOUR life’s directions and discernments. Make sure you attend “Love, Lead, Life” and “Destination is a Delusion” and learn invaluable skills that will allow you to find your true passions and move forward! |
Mike Davis
Find YOUR direction in life! Trying to get your passions into a career? The President of Junior Achievement of Central Ohio and recognized by CEO Magazine’s “CEO of the Year” (2011), Mike Davis will be bringing CURRENT strategies for defining your passions and interests and options for turning them into Successful career paths for YOU. Co-teaching with Maureen Metcalf, they will be hosting “Love, Lead, Life” and “Destination is a Delusion” at this year’s Rootwire! |
Melissa Ayotte, ATC-BR
Find YOUR INNER ARTIST and HEAL!! Melissa Ayotte uses her 25 years in Art Therapy and educational programs to curate and offer workshops in the Open Art Studio for Integration of Spiritual awakenings (O.A.S.I.S) at Rootwire! Melissa and the O.A.S.I.S. will be offering a range of workshops in a safe and playful environment where art can heal, help you find yourself, work through issues or just play with purpose!! Extended hours run even into the night! |
Dr. Clara Bayer, ND
Find the Shaman in YOU! Naturopathic Doctor Clara Bayer uses her long history of both studying and teaching to delve into modern shamanism in her workshop “21st Century Shamanism” at Rootwire this year! Her years of practice alongside her enduring work in soul retrieval, past life healing, Holistic Iridology and many other specialties come together in the beautiful workshop on finding the Shaman IN you!! |
Jennifer Gardner, LMT, NMT
Let’s get connected!!! In this SPECIAL EXTENDED workshop at Rootwire, “Creating More Meaningful Connections with Others”, Jennifer Gardner brings her decades of experience and extensive education to share how your brain and nervous system can work TOGETHER to create more self-compassion AND help YOU make the kind of connections you’re really seeking! |
Joel Whittaker
MAKE A BEAUTIFUL NOISE! No one makes learning to play the Didjeridu easier and more fun than Joel Whittaker! With almost 20 years of playing experience and hand crafting custom didjes, Joel Whittaker, of both Tingari and Sanjati, shares the basic and more advanced breathing techniques, how to find the didje that is right for YOU and he evens brings didjes for you to practice on! COME PLAY!!! |
Jim Grote
You can have it ALL! We’re thrilled to bring Donatos founder Jim Grote to host “Love & Money: The Principals of Agape Capitalism” to Rootwire this year!! Jim’s life and businesses have all been based in the power of positive thinking, the law of attraction, imagination & affirmation! Come see how to have your heart in the game AND be successful! |
Christina Grote
Evolve Yourself! Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) is a program designed to help you realize YOUR fullest SUPERNATURAL potential! ITP board chair and longtime practitioner, Christina Grote, will help YOU learn to consciously align yourself and engage with this universal seeking through the cultivation of your latent capabilities in "Supernormal capacities - next stage in human evolution?" Come find out ALL YOU CAN BE!!! |
Anthony Flowers Ward
Commune with FLOWERS! Teacher at Omega Institute, world renown floral artist, sculpture and author Anthony Flowers Ward has graced Rootwire with his talents many times but will be bringing his workshop “Being With Flowers: Floral Art As Spiritual Practice” to Rootwire for the FIRST TIME!! Anthony’s integrity and deeply centered energy combined with his approach, make this a MUST ATTEND workshop! |
Ryan Lubin
Get DEEP in this year’s workshops and meditations with Ryan Lubin, scientist and martial arts master for nearly 30 years! Come sink into stillness and enliven your Soul at his meditation “Namaste in Action” or explore the mind-spirit connection in “Navigating the Mind: Bridging the Gap between Science & Spirituality” in some of the most amazing ideas and practices around! Come share in the discussions and connect!! |
Patti Kok
Let’s change the World!! With over 30 years of experience in renewable energy systems, and the creators of a fully sustainable and off-grid home, Terry & Patti Kok are sharing their deep knowledge and passions in TWO workshops at Rootwire this year: “Establishing Sustainable Reality” and “5 steps to a DIY Home scale off-grid electrical system”! You will NOT want to miss these!! Be the Change! |
Terry Kok
Let’s change the World!! With over 30 years of experience in renewable energy systems, and the creators of a fully sustainable and off-grid home, Terry & Patti Kok are sharing their deep knowledge and passions in TWO workshops at Rootwire this year: “Establishing Sustainable Reality” and “5 steps to a DIY Home scale off-grid electrical system”! You will NOT want to miss these!! Be the Change! |
Edward Beyer, RMT, HHCP, THP
Re-Wire at Rootwire!! in Edward P. Beyer’s workshop & meditation “Realign Your Wiring”! As an Usui Reiki Master Teacher for almost 20 years, a Touch for Health practitioner and a Holistic Health Counselor, Edward’s meditations always bring the state of Centered-self and Peace that we are so often in need of! Come get your energy and physical bodies clear and working together! |
Aaron King & Darma House YOGA
Body-Soul CONNECTIONS! The founder of Dharma House Columbus, Aaron King, will be facilitating a couple of very special Yoga classes this year at Rootwire!! “Soul Yoga: An Out-Of-Body Experience” will connect YOU to your source of peace and power!! “Rootwire TRIBE Yoga” is a special chance for Thursday Early Birds to gather with the Rootwire Staff all together in fluid motion! |
Dr. Daniel Continenza, DC
Chiropractor and Network Spinal Analysis specialist, Dr. Daniel Continenza is offering a unique workshop this year! “Spinal Hygiene – Upgrade Your Operating System” will help you empower yourself through greater awareness of your spine as the regulator of emotion, thought, consciousness and physiology! He will also be offering his amazing services in the Free Healing Tent again this year so make sure to stop by so you can feel GREAT! |
Kevin Karas
Laugh! Play! And commune with your body in either of Kevin Karas’s two workshops at Rootwire! “Laughter Yoga Playshop” will help you harness YOUR powerful laughter through this unique movement class, or awaken your ability to scan your own body for divine messages in “Oneness: Energetic Sound Healing & Body Scan”. Kevin is the founder of Holistic Leaders, LLC and the host of Elevate Akron, Ohio’s largest Yoga Festival! Don’t miss the opportunity to spend time with this amazing Soul! |
Ziel Amalgamation
Come get your CUDDLE ON!! in Ziel Amalgamation’s "Cuddle Up: The Healing Power of Human Touch" workshops! We are SO blessed to have Ziel’s workshops back for the fourth straight year! Charismatic, authentic, genuine and always in Integrity, Ziel holds the BEST SAFE SPACE for getting your cuddle on and satisfying your human touch needs!!! EVERYONE LOVES ZIEL and THE CUDDLE DOME! |
Chris (Krish) Davis
Chris (Krish) Davis brings his years of study and practice as a facilitator of Tantra and experience in India with Gurus, baul mystics and Dakinis to Rootwire this year in his workshops “Intro to Tantra” and “Power of the Yoni”. Krish directed the documentary “Stolen Innocence” in India, which combined with his personal studies have brought him to a deep and unique position to offer these much-needed workshops in today’s culture! |
Sada Nam Singh
Balance your energy! Sada Nam Singh has been a devoted yogi for more than a decade. He brings his extensive studies in yogic practices, Conscious Communication, gong sound healing and Reiki to YOU at this year’s Rootwire workshops with “Kundalini Yoga: A Celebration of the Embodied Spirit” and “Kundalini Yoga Therapy: Mind/Body/Spirit Healing”! Sada Nam is exactly the centered and compassionate energy you’d want in a Kundalini class so don’t miss out!! |
Briana Cribeyer
Embrace your DIVINE SEXUALITY! Briana Cribeyer, certified facilitator and life coach, specializes in intimacy and the healing arts. Her extensive education is being shared in this year’s workshops “Introduction to Sacred Sexuality” and “Emotional Release Technique”. Come grow in ways that bring consciousness to your partnerships, balance to your emotional body and a sacred centeredness to your life! |
Clint Kiehl
Foot rub anyone?? Reflexologist Clint Kiehl brings back this popular hands-on workshop “Reflexology for Yourself & Others” at this year’s Rootwire! Come learn while playing as Clint shares how to release blockages, reduce stress and ease physiological issues through working on specific points ...and get your feet worked on while you’re at it!! Come get your dancing feet ready!! |
Michael Queck, LMT
Let the Healing Begin!! Michael Queck’s “Ortho-Bionomy: A Guide to Self-healing/Self-correction” brings more than 30 years of professional practice to this one-of-a kind workshop!! Come learn simple techniques that you can perform on yourself to auto-correct misalignment in your OWN body! Michael’s gregarious personality and knack for making things simple make his workshops truly useful and his services in the FREE Healing tent invaluable! |
Abby Miller, RYT, LSW
Map & Master your Brain! Abby Miller’s years of teaching yoga, combined with her master’s degree education in social work, are the perfect foundation for her workshop “The Neuroscience of Yoga and Meditation: Shifting our focus and improving our mood”. A fascinating way to activate very specific parts of your brain and become a master of your emotional state. Abby’s workshop will give you just the tools you need to be in the driver’s seat of life’s ups and downs! |
Dr. John F. Wiechel, PhD, P.E.
Prayers UP!!! Ever wonder how to REALLY make your prayers work? With almost 40 years of physics and engineering under his belt, Dr. John F. Wiechel, PhD brings his expertise to the practice of prayer so that YOU can get your prayers to work for YOU in “The Resonance of Prayer”! Using resonant frequency generators and other fun science, John will discuss WHAT creates the frequencies we send out and how to make them more powerful! A “Not-to-miss” workshop! |
Cheryl Durgans, MFA, LMT
Heal Your Body! Cheryl Durgans is one of the most amazing massage therapists you’ll ever come across! Each year she gifts the Rootwire family with her skills and heart in the FREE Healing Tent so make sure you stop in and get your body ready for whatever the day and night have in store! |
Sumerlee Woodard, LMT
FEEL GOOD! Sumerlee Woodard will be back again this year in Rootwire’s FREE Healing Tent to make you feel AMAZING!. Whether you gave your all in a yoga workshop or danced your butt off the night before, Sumerlee skillfully combines massage with Usui reiki into one of the most relaxing sessions you can imagine! |
Christian Continenza, LMT, CST
Get you head put back together! Christian Continenza is a Craniosacral practitioner and LMT who’s got JUST WHAT YOU NEED to feel GREAT! Offering her services again this year in the FREE Healing Tent, Christian’s gentle approach and deeply held compassion allow you to totally let go and recharge! Let her share her mission to “bring light and love to each soul” to YOU! |
Mother Firefly
Get the support you need! Mother Firefly is once again bringing her healing energies and skills to the FREE Healing Tent at Rootwire! Helping you ground your energies through body work, Usui reiki and a host of other modalities, she’s passionate about supporting YOU on your journey! |
Ria Greiff
Get involved!! NPR radio show host Ria Greiff will be bringing the Rootwire Community an opportunity to listen in and participate in “You Inc LIVE @ Rootwire with Julie North”! An interview and Q & A around what it means to participate in community and healing! Come be part of the experience! |
Alistair Hawkes, MA, LPC
Your EVOLUTION is here! Alistair Hawkes travels from Colorado to share her 25+ years of experience and training in this INCREDIBLE workshop “Wiring Your Brain for Evolution”. Come merge ancient wisdom with modern somatic psychology in basic daily practices that can help YOU create your future! |
Sherry Hoff
Enter the Inner Deep! Yoga teacher Sherry Hoff will take your yogic practice to the next level in “Eyes Wide Shut” at Rootwire this year! An entire practice designed to help you let go, turn inward and have a powerfully deep personal experience in a yoga class with your eyes shut! |
Pat Underwood
Who wants to be a NINJA?! What do you get when you mix 20+ years of martial arts with tricking, acroyoga, jiu jitsu and free running?? You get Pat Underwood and his high energy workout covering mixed martial arts, flips, kicks and more in “Move Like A Ninja 101” at Rootwire!! For beginners and Advanced student alike! Come bring out the best in yourself |
Darin Stahl, LMT
Martial Arts and Yoga TOGETHER? YES! Darin Stahl, Director of Dhanda Yoga for the American Bando Association will be offering this AMAZING “Dhanda Yoga w/ a staff” workshop this year based on the practices of Burmese monks! Get your warrior AND your stretch on in one incredible class!! |
