Heart-Centered Practitioners & Performance Artists


As we gather in sacred space for The Embodied Medicine Retreat, we're honored & grateful to be joined by a diverse and gifted group of practitioners, performance artists, and vendors. Each brings their own unique medicine—through movement, sound, healing, creativity, and conscious connection. Together, WE ALL weave the tapestry of this retreat experience, offering opportunities for transformation, inspiration, and deep embodiment. We invite you to meet the incredible souls who will be sharing their gifts with us!




Maria GIngras RN- Host & SoulSiSTAR


Maria Gingras RN, Certified Shamanic Practitioner– a Soul-led healer, grounded Spiritual mentor, and visionary who blends her diverse nursing background, with her own medical journey and deeply intuitive gifts to hold powerful space for emotional healing, ancestral release, and deep Soul reconnection. She is a walking embodiment of grounded LOVE, genuine empathy and energetic integrity. Maria has healed many physical ailments & DIS-eases within her own body over the course of her evolving journey & she is here to INspire & guide others in becoming their own master healers. Authenticity is her vibration & living a life of conscious intention is her mission! 

Samantha Shea RN- Host & SoulSiSTAR



Samantha Shea, your SoulJoy™ Alchemist whose path weaves oncology nursing, shamanic wisdom, quantum healing, light language flame activations and fierce compassion into one powerful offering of truth and transformation. Sam knows what it means to walk through the fire and choose joy, intuition, authentic communication and self-love on the other side. Her journey is one of reclaiming magic and guiding others to their own. Her medicine is her embodied voice, intuition, auric presence and ability to shift perspective helping you to recognize your blind spots, gifts and welcome you home with remembrance and activation.

Sidney Kendall- BreathWork Queen

Sidney Kendall is currently a facilitator at The Healing Tree Collective in Tempe, Arizona.  As an Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor, she also offers tools such as Embodiment Movement, Ultra Grounding, Reiki, Tai Chi and Limitless Readings. She has found her passion with guiding others to connect to their sovereignty. Sidney offers one-on-one sessions and group sessions. During this journey, Sidney has navigated her way through curiosity. Her curiosity started when she was just a child, seeing the duality of life so quickly trying to make sense of it all. With an unstable home, no guidance she still decided to remain with her heart open. This led her to explore all parts of religions, spiritual practices, breathwork, modalities and movement. Not only did this continue to open her mind and heart, this opened her gifts. Sidney merges with the quantum realms with one foot in and one foot in the human experience. This allows her to expand her gifts into readings, the infinity system, higher frequencies, leading Vibrational
transformational sessions and much more! 

Saying yes! – Once asked to be a part of Embodied Retreat, I felt it in my soul, my highest excitement – that this was the right alignment for me. My soul ignites in each session I lead, to be able to be the mirror of sovereignty. We are all divinely connected and sovereign in our being. Which is why I have found my passion, to help guide others back to source – themselves. Not only do I get to offer all the tools I have learned and created, I get to continue to expand and grow in return. What an honor it is to continue curiosity, play and be vulnerable in sacred spaces with the ones that choose to share this space together. I cannot wait to vibrate with you all, connecting to our primal core – our sovereignty. See you all there!
 
IG: thecatalystexperience
TikTok: thecatalystexperience
Margaret Rubin- Yoga Master

Margaret Rubin became a yoga instructor over 10 years ago. She is known for her calming voice, ability to gauge the energy of the room, and her intuitive guidance that helps students connect body and mind. Her wisdom is shaped by learning to navigate life for half a century. Margaret believes that we can live happier, more peaceful lives when we listen to our intuition & flow with life, knowing we are on a journey. New to working with Maria and Sam, she felt drawn to them when she read the retreat description, especially ‘deep wisdom within’ guided by her own intuition that this retreat will be a wonderful experience for all, including Margaret’s Yoga classes.  

Margaret’s intention is to help you reconnect with your inner guide, learn to trust your innate ability to know what YOU need. 
Fun facts: 
  • Climbs mountains & canyoneers
  • Loves solo travel and camping 
  • Former homeschool mom & Girl Scout leader
  • Absolutely loved raising her 5 (now adult) children 
IG: margaret_7renewtravel


Sol Yam Way - Songbird Alchemist

Through the essence of Sol Yam Way, Sydney Dunevitz channels sacred sound as embodied medicine. Her musical prayer is backboned by ancestral rhythms, lifted by angelic vocals and light language, and rooted in Earth frequencies. Through sound baths, vocal activations, and creative fire tending, the body is honored as a vessel of truth and wisdom.  These ceremonies allow grief to sing, joy to pulse, and our souls to speak.  Living intimately with the land she stewards, Sydney co-creates her ceremonies with mother nature— listening to the mountains, waters, winds, and forests that teach her how to hold sound not as performance, but as living prayer.

Saying yes!: It is an honor to lead with other soul-centered healers and light workers to create a sacred space that returns us to our own innate wisdom and reminds us that we already know the way back home to ourselves. I have sat with my own pain and discomfort and am grateful for the opportunity to sit with my brothers and sisters through theirs. 



DJ Side Affex- Music Artist

No set is the same, no trick the same. Its like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel; only his canvas is the dance floor, and the paint is music. It’s a work of art, day in and day out! He’s an animal to the 9th degree. He’s a party rocker, with more skills than most...more knowledge than Apple Music, and he makes it all look so easy! Come listen to DJ Side Affex "paint" his canvas, & dance your asses off to his works of art! He'll be performing @ The Pavillion on Saturday 08/09/2025 from 7PM-11 PM!


YouTUBE: DJ Side Affex

DJ TurtleBear- Music Magician

Bringing presence and an intuitive sense of flow, TurtleBear is known for creating contrast and beauty into a collage of sacred sound. Genre-bending and blending, strange and beautiful symphonies, and heavy beats that make the heart feel light are the themes of the sound that he brings to the table. Whether it's deep house, heavy bass, or organic tribal varieties, each set is intentionally created as a way for you to find peace within through song and dance. TurtleBear has been mixing for over a decade in many different scenes. Living in Denver, CO since 2020 he’s been influenced by House, Bass, Ecstatic Dance, and different Tribal styles of music. Able to fit whatever set and setting, color, and theme, his versatility and ability to hold space through sound is unprecedented! Come listen to his magick & dance your asses off @ The Pavillion on Friday 08/08/2025 from 7PM-11 PM! 



MORE TO COME ....

If you're interested in being a practitioner or vendor, please email soulsistars@branchesofvibrationalhealing.com