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Core Collaborations
Josh Schrei / The Emerald
Being a Co-facilitator for The Mythic Body course, created by Josh Schrei of The Emerald Podcast is a continual stream of inspiration, discovery and mythic purpose. I am overjoyed to be co-conspirators in waking us back up to our Animist roots and interweaving devotional practice and social action.
The Last Supper Club
The Last Supper Club is an immersive ritual theater and open-fire feast project that blends myth, memory, and elemental sensuality into evenings of radical presence and reverent play. Rooted in the ancestral art of ceremonial feasting, these collaborative offerings serve as a vessel for metabolizing historical wound and rekindling the sacred bond between humans and fire. Inspired by traditions of ritual theater and communal rites, each gathering invites participants into a richly woven world of storytelling, embodied ritual, and sensual reawakening—where grief and celebration, remembrance and imagination, are fed at the same table. I serve as Artistic Director.
Isis Indriya and I were deep collaborators for 20+ years, founding Living Village Culture, The Compass at Lightning in a Bottle and producing un-numbered Ritual Theater productions and educational immersions. I am now very honored to be a teacher within her Academy of Oracle Arts.
Linestone
Linestone is an evolving experiment in connection, creativity, and learning. An intimate collective seeking to bring new forms of beauty into existence by finding the natural alignments between people, places, projects, and dreams. We host invitation-only gatherings of leading practitioners across a wide range of disciplines, creating the conditions for radical collaboration towards positive futures.
Mentors
Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook
Oglala Lakota
Tom Cook
Mohawk Wolf Clan
Katsi Cook
Mohawk Wolf Clan
José Barriero
Taíno
Truly one of the great gifts of my life is to be learning from these legendary Movement Elders and Beloved Relatives. Lifelong activists, ceremonial leaders and visionaries, I am honored to have traveled far and wide supporting their work and learning from their vast and grounded wisdom, in service always to the web of all relations.
Susan Griffin
Susan’s many books, and most especially Woman and Nature: the roaring inside her, have been no less than life-changing and a major inspiration for my current writing project. I am deeply honored that she has agreed to mentor me through this arduous endeavor.
After being explicitly directed towards the work of Ancestral Healing during my own healing crisis over a decade ago, I finally found a modality and a teacher that I feel in deep alignment with, particularly through the insistence upon the structural interdependence of animist spirituality with the need for cultural repair. I am gratefully approaching Certification within this global network.
Zhenevere Sophia Dao
This emergent embodied philosophy of Animist Daoism owes its inception and foundation to ZSD’s brilliant Post-Daoism and Mythosomatics. I trained intensively with her, in person in Santa Fe, NM, 5-6 days a week for 3 years from late 2017-2020, and online through 2021. I am a Certified Teacher in all of the original Mythosomatic practices.
Martín Prechtel
I studied within Martín's school Bolad's Kitchen for two 10 day Intensives a year for 10 years, from 2007-2017. While we ultimately came to irreconcilable differences, I received instrumental teachings and orientations from him in Imperial/Indigenous Histories, Initiation & The Art of Offerings.
teachers
Alessandra Belloni
I had the great pleasure of traveling on pilgrimage with Alessandra to many Black Madonna sites of Campania, Italy in August of 2024, studying the traditional trance traditions and rhythms of the tarantella and tamoriatta, and continue to study these frame drum and song traditions.
Rebecca Solnit
An absolute high point of Grad School was getting into a class called "Essay Lust", which Rebecca taught during her one and only year at CCA. Her crystalline critiques and genuine praise completely shaped me as a young writer. I am still inspired by her precise meandering through the vast landscape of culture and into revelation.
Diane di Prima
I spent a week studying with the unapologetic oracle of Beat poetics and came away utterly transformed in my relationship to the functions of language, the embodied image, and what it means to carry a female voice. She told me it wasn't currently fashionable to be the kind of contemplative poet that I was and that was good. I believed her then and I believe her still.
Gabrielle Roth
As a young women, working at the Omega Institute in upstate NY, I had the opportunity to do an Immersion with Gabrielle Roth in her 5 Rhythms movement technique that began a long-standing journey with this powerful modality. Without naming it as such, this was my first real experience of the power of Mythosomatic practice.
Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
I received my Permaculture Design Certificate from this groundbreaking West Coast institution of change making and earth stewardship, and also took their course on Starting & Sustaining Intentional Communities.
About Eve
Eve Bradford has spent over two decades exploring the fertile intersections of art, activism, medicine, and magic—as educator, ritualist, and mentor (as well as camp counselor, direct action organizer, chef, and phone psychic). Born in a log cabin built by her parents in Peru, Vermont (with no electricity and abundant playtime alone in the wild), Eve now lives among mulberry, cottonwood, and juniper trees in a hundred-year-old adobe homestead in La Puebla, New Mexico, with her beloved, Carl. Here, she offers practice & retreats, pours tea, holds community ceremony, and creates immersive ritual theater—most often centered around open-fire feasts. Eve teaches, writes, and lives in devotion to the vibrant mystery at the heart of life, and the singular ways that mystery moves through each of us.