Vanya Leilani, author of The Flesh and the Fruit, is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external “shoulds” in our lives encounter our own wild knowing and un-knowing. She is passionate about helping us cultivate deeper friendship with our own lives as we learn to live from nature, rather than from obedience to the status quo and she devotes herself to this work through individual accompaniment, sacred gatherings, storytelling, teaching, and writing.

Vanya holds a PhD in Depth Psychology with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She has also completed a certificate training intensive with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés and has served as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching on the creative power of archetypes.

Vanya was born and raised in southeastern Brazil and currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where she tends to the land and many animals.

Alice Grist, author of Soulful Pregnancy and Dirty & Divine, lives in Leicestershire, UK, with her musician husband and two little daughters. Following a spiritual, feminist upbringing and a wild and wanton youth, she has spent the past ten years devoted to a personal spiritual path, her writing, tarot and more recently, her babies. Alice is a soulful Mama with a passionate belief in the divine that resides in us all. Her approach is refreshingly gritty with a huge focus on the darker, dirtier, and amusing side of a spiritual, human experience. She has four previously published books which have received awards and international acclaim. They are the perfect bridge for a modern reader to a more soulful life. Her writing has been endorsed by luminaries such as Gabrielle Bernstein, John Perkins and Jacky Newcomb. She has received many glowing reviews and her work has been featured on radio, TV and leading spiritual websites.

Alice has used and studied tarot for 25 years, initially taught by Wiccan High Priest and Priestess. She is certified in NLP, Hypnotherapy and Shamanism. Alice is a reiki master, she has practiced spiritual healing since childhood.

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