Grail Lady Faire June 27 to July 4

Check in often as we update our extraordinary lineup of authors, thought leaders, wisdom keepers, green entrepreneurs, recording artists, global actionist and other beautiful inspirational women from around the world!

Marcia Martin is the President of 1Degree Media & Entertainment, Inc., a Global Media Company that creates, acquires, markets and distributes Programming & Content in the ‘Quality of Life’ Sector (‘becoming a better person’, and ‘creating a better World’) on online Broadband, Mobile, Film, Radio, Cable, Satellite, Video On Demand, and Network Television. She is also an Associate Producer of Positive Living TV, a TV series being broadcast in Canada and in the USA on ION TV. And she is the Associate Director of the Bali Social Change Film Festival. Marcia was one of the original pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, and was Vice President from inception of est (Erhard Seminars Training, now Landmark Education), the largest personal education Company in the World. Marcia is a world-renowned Motivational Speaker, Coach and Trainer. Her keynotes, seminars and workshops receive raves and accolades from participants worldwide. Marcia has been a Consultant and Advisor to many of the major transformational educational companies, including LifeSpring, Insight Seminars, Robbins Research (Tony Robbins), Jack Canfield Seminars, Humanity Unites Brilliance (HUB), Sports Mind, Human Potential Project, and the Money & You Seminars. She is a Founding Member of the Transformational Leadership Council, and served from inception as its first Vice President, original Board Member, and Managing Director for TLC’s first five years of operations. She now serves as TLC Board Member Emeritus. Official website

Minnie Matoush, Cree Nation ~  My Christian name is Minnie Matoush.  I am of the Cree First Nation of Mistissini, James Bay Northern Quebec.  Presently, I work as a career counselor for the Cree School Board, Post Secondary Student Services located in Gatineau. My first language is Cree and I am a fluent speaker.  I mainly work in a second language of English.  I walk in two worlds, one following the educational path of the academia and the other learning my traditional teachings from my elders, teachers.  I began returning to First Nation traditional knowledge when I entered my Masters in Education back in 2001.  I graduated from M. Ed at Ottawa U. on October 2005.   It seemed appropriate at the time that I learn from my adopted grandmothers and grandfathers about the teachings of ceremonies.  I began my healing journey to reclaim those teachings that have been dormant within my own life.  I have been very blessed to encounter many teachers along this journey, some who tested my abilities and some who encouraged me to attempt higher learning in both worlds. To date, I have completed the third level of the Medicine Wheel teachings, a basic introduction to the worldview of First peoples of Turtle Island.  I continue to do my training and hope to achieve the fourth level where I will learn more about ceremonies such as the purification lodge, and traditional healing practices. I began using the Medicine Wheel teachings and the circle of life to keep balance within my own personal journey and how I relate to all my relations.  For the past five years, I had a wonderful opportunity to share these teachings to elementary, secondary, post secondary classrooms and faculty of various institutions, Aboriginal organizations, Residential Schools Resolution Canada office employees to name a few.  These teachings are not to be put aside but shared with those who lend an ear and ready to receive these teachings.
I always address my audience in my first language as this is the first language I came to know when I entered Mother Earth.  And when requested, I share the smudge with those who wish to participate.  For those women who are on their moon time (menstruation), you do not need to smudge as you are already in cleansing time.
I am also a member of Every Woman’s Drum, a traditional hand drumming women’s group with members from various native and non-native backgrounds.  We have been drumming together since Fall 2003, and make public performances at various venues such as the Black History Month program, Every Child Is Sacred annual celebration and at other organizations and conferences in the National Capital Region, peaceful protests on Parliament Hill and the list grows each year.

Membership to other interests:
Member of Canadian Counseling and Psychotherapy Association - NCR
Aboriginal Council for Education and Employment – University of Ottawa
Aboriginal Education Council – Algonquin College, CEGEP Heritage
Every Child Is Sacred – J’Nikira Dinqinesh Education Center
The Wolf Project Award – National Capital Region
Race Relations and Intercultural Understanding Advisory Committee – WQSB

Spryte Loriano, President and Chief Humanitarian Officer of HUB, and Founder of FEED333 Since the age of 21, Spryte has been an entrepreneur and marketer. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian from FIDM in Los Angeles with a Merchandising/Marketing degree, and started her own Marketing and Print Brokering business. By the age of 26 Spryte was awarded, "Small Press Publisher of the Year" from the American Booksellers Association for her niche-marketing talents. Recognized for her networking
and business abilities, she was soon offered a unique business opportunity in the Closeouts and Liquidations industry, specializing in building relationships with Name Brand Manufacturers, and by the age of 31 had built a two million dollar business and was living her financial "dream" in Southern California. Through a spiritual "wake up call," Spryte transitioned into a holistic healing career, where for over 5 years she helped clients find emotional and physical relief from debilitating illnesses working alongside naturopaths, acupuncturists and homeopaths in Beverly Hills and Santa Barbara. She is a spiritual teacher, divine feminine workshop developer and leader, and author of "9 Secret Ingredients of a DELICIOUS Life." In 2003 she was introduced to a network marketing organization and starting part-time, she and her partner created a successful downline which brought them both financial freedom in just a year and a half. Then in May 2006 she formed FEED333 (Feminine Enlightened Entrepreneurs Dedicated) and in 33 days raised money through a viral marketing campaign that provided 1.2million meals to hungry children in the US. Through networking and collaborations she has also helped sponsor and organize three years of the single largest food drops in US history. Combining her understanding of the importance of
receiving as well as giving, she co-founded HUB - Humanity Unites Brilliance in 2007 and is a guiding light to social entrepreneurs in several countries. Spryte has a tremendous gift for working with, managing and empowering people to recognize their inner brilliance. She has a huge passion for making a difference both in America and in developing nations and has a keen ability to surround
herself with the best-of-the-best and pull many pieces of the human puzzle together. Official Website

Janet Attwood is a visionary, a transformational leader, and a world humanitarian.  She travels the globe, supporting people in all walks of life, in knowing their personal greatness. Janet is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, 'The Passion Test: The Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life's Purpose'. Janet has given The Passion Test™ to millions of people all over the world, and has shared the same stage with other top transformational leaders such as Mark Victor Hansen, Marci Shimoff, John Assaraff, Reverend Michael Beckwith, Dr. Sue Morter, Dr. Barbara De Angelis and Jack Canfield, to name a few. Janet is co-founder of one of the largest online magazines in the world, Healthy Wealthy n Wise Magazine.  Twice a month Janet hosts “Passion Series” where she interviews people in the top of their field on what it takes to live a passionate life. Janet's latest passion is working with kids, teens, youth in detention centers, and homeless men and women in transition.  Just recently, Janet launched programs for each of these different areas; The Passion Test™ for Kids, The Passion Test™ for Teens, The Reclaim Your Power Program for the Homeless and The Empowered Teen Series for kids in lockdown detention centers. For her ongoing work with homeless women and youth in lockdown detention centers, Janet received the highest award for volunteer service in the U.S., The President’s Volunteer Service Award from the President of the United States. Official website

Lili Fournier (President) is the producer/director and host of the award winning Quest series of specials on PBS.  Her latest PBS Special, Quest for Success, featured some of the world’s leading business and spiritual leaders: The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson, Russell Simmons, Stephen Covey, Jack Canfield, et al. Critically acclaimed as the best of its genre for its in-depth approach to contemporary life issues, the series features a mastermind group of America's most influential thinkers on personal achievement and well-being, including Thomas Moore, Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss, Marianne Williamson and John Gray, among others.  

Lili Fournier produced and directed the Women of Wisdom and Power trilogy, featuring some of today's most fascinating and socially active women, including Jane Goodall, Anita Roddick, Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, Shirley MacLaine, and Alanis Morissette.  The series premiered in New York with a five hour special celebrating the power and influence of women.  The trilogy aired in March for Women’s History Month, prime time in numerous cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington, Denver, San Francisco, etc.
In 2004 Lili produced a major “Call to Action” email campaign to millions of women in the U.S. to use the power of their Vote.  She produced and hosted the 2 hour special on Women in Media for the Toronto Film Festival with Sharon Stone, and leading Oscar winning women producers in Hollywood.  She produced the documentary Expulsion & Memory, which featured the historic reconciliation of the King of Spain and the President of Israel, which was filmed in five countries on 3 continents.  She also produced the historic By My Spirit concert in Toledo, Spain, for the Quincentennario celebrations, with Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic and Placido Domingo in the presence of Queen Sophia, with thousands of people and dignitaries joining hands from around the world to usher in a new era of peace and co-existence.

Lili Fournier is a passionate advocate for personal and societal change.  She is a past chairman of Community Liaison for Women in Film, where she launched the highly successful mentorship program for women, and a former member of the Women’s President’s organization and the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where some 100 women leaders use their influence, power and energy to empower women worldwide.  President Clinton personally invited her to make WomenAID Live!, a global humanitarian campaign and benefit concert a Clinton Global Initiative commitment.  She consulted on the Vancouver Peace Summit 2009, which brought together Nobel Peace Laureates and leading visionaries.  She helped set up the broadcast special.  She was Executive Producer of Michael Beckwith’s PBS special.  Official website

Madeleine Marentette is the founder of Grail Springs and 'The Grail Lady Faire'. With a background and a passion for beauty in design, she began her studies in design school but her plans were cut short when she contracted a debilitating disease. Her path changed at that moment and as she immersed herself in a quest to find healing, peace and understanding about life itself. The successes she encountered along the way are now reflected in the beautiful Grail retreat property and in the programs she designed in 2003 and now available in her best-selling book 'Holistic Detox: For Body, Mind & Spirit'. To this day she is still a seeker and guardian of all traditions Grail, a compelling pathway that she believes represents the story of the true human condition; that we come into this world whole, we live, we hurt, we experience illness, and then one day we are given opportunity to grow from our pain and suffering. She believes this is a divine promise that avails us all. It is with an open heart and open mind that she continues to be a well spring of inspiration with a determination to share her story, wisdom and inspirations to all who seek the same.
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Tracey Penington and Caroline Mills are the Managing Directors of Gordian Global Solutions and Ripple Energetics.  They have in excess of 45 years joint experience working in Senior Management roles across the corporate sector.  Tracey and Caroline have brought together an integrated approach to energy, bringing to life an understanding of how it relates to our physical, mental and emotional state and the impacts for individuals and business.  They have developed numerous programs that they facilitate with individuals and business alike.  These programs promote a greater understanding of how what we say, think, feel, and see affects our overall wellbeing and that of other people.   Tracey’s qualifications include a Diploma in Banking and Business, Advanced Diploma in Metaphysics, Diploma in Energy Healing and she is an accredited Executive Coach and NLP Master Practitioner.  Caroline’s qualifications include a Diploma in Business Management, Post Graduate Diploma in Human
Resource Management, Bachelor of Arts in Education & Psychology, Advanced Diploma in Metaphysics, Diploma in Energy Healing and she is an accredited Executive Coach and NLP Master Practitioner.
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Bernardina Catari Alvarez graces us all the way from Cusco, Peru. Wisdom Keeper, Shaman and Sage, Bernardina will both lead and perform several of the morning and evening ceremonies as she shares with us many mysteries of the Andian culture. Bernadina is a rarity in this world today, as she holds the ancient wisdom and rites of Pacha Mama.

Debbie Danbrook is a Composer and Recording Artist performing original, contemporary compositions. Incorporating the Shakuhachi into a distinctive new Healing Music that blends Eastern and Western musical traditions.A master of the Shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese bamboo flute. She is the first professional female player to specialize in the unique healing abilities of this sacred instrument. To this end, she has recorded seventeen CD's, fourteen of them specifically for healing and meditation. Her music has been embraced by healers and spiritual practitioners around the globe. Ms. Danbrook also incorporates the sacred symbol of the Labyrinth into many of her events. She performs around the world at concerts, workshops, conferences and special events.Debbie Danbrook has been featured in articles in the Toronto Star newspaper, Canadian Living and the Elm Street magazine. She has been seen many times on TVO, Vision and CBC on television and radio and was profiled in a half hour documentary on the Person to Person TV program.Ms. Danbrook has performed for Japanese royalty, the Prince and Princess Takamado, at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. She was the only woman to perform and offer a workshop at the 1998 International Shakuhachi Festival held in Boulder, Colorado. She has performed at the Sacred Music Festival in Vancouver, the Sacred Dance Conference in Ottawa and has had her music featured at many of the Canada Dance Festivals. She has performed several times at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.She has performed at the Daibutsu, the famous Buddha in Kamakura, Japan and at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo. She also performed at the International Wellness Conference in Galveston, Texas which featured Deepak Chopra. Ms. Danbrook was an invited performer at the 2001 ISPA conference in Palm Springs, California. She has played her Healing Music for many of the Spa Canada conferences, Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch and Sound Colloquium conferences. She also performed at the Aspen Center for Integrative Health Symposium in Aspen, Colorado. Many of Ms. Danbrook's original compositions have been featured in Japanese television programs, including her hit 'Treasure' in the Nippon Television feature documentary, 'Kyoto - A Spiritual Voyage Through the Seasons'. Ms. Danbrook performed with Steve Raiman at EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan in the main Expo hall. Ms. Danbrook has received a total of fifteen awards from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts
Council and The Toronto Arts Council. official website

Dale Allen has been igniting audiences at universities, conferences, executive women’s meetings, holistic learning centers and theaters nationwide.  Her passionate message guides women to their strength as leaders, and restores in men and women, the validity of right-brain, “feminine” strengths. Described as a "Cape Canaveral lift-off," this dynamic, multi-media 1 hour 15 minute performance features history, myth, original songs, art, artifacts, characters and comedy.  Dale Allen, a 15-year veteran of corporate and commercial communications, gives voice to a brilliant, long-forgotten intelligence that is within each of us – the intelligence of the right hemisphere of the brain, the “feminine gatherer-nurturer” side. In Our Right Minds explores the Goddess archetype as a metaphor for our right-brain wisdom. Without an understanding of this archetype, women have been left with no clear model to guide them to their strength and wholeness, and men have been forced to suppress vast parts of their own intuitive, emotional and nurturing natures. The piece uncovers the roots of our left-brain dominant culture, looking at the emergence of alphabetic literacy across the world and the correlating subjugation of women and all things “female.” Returning to a time before written history, In Our Right Minds retrieves ancient definitions of “woman."  In these ancient cultures, female power was valued, as wells as creativity, nurturing, earth, and the eternal cycles of nature.  The strengths of the right brain were integrated and these cultures were more balanced.  As humanity is once again utilizing the strengths of the right hemisphere through the use of modern technologies that rely on right-brain skills, we are poised to create a more balanced society.  In Our Right Minds explores this unprecedented time of transition with optimism, calling us into our role as designers of a new reality. Official website

Imani is the visionary behind the MAMALUTION™ - the revolution of mamas taking back the planet and author of the recent release The Absence of Soil. She is the owner of Alchemy, an all organic living foods juice bar café in Hartford, CT along with her beloved. They also own and operate the Growing Green Co-op which offers classes and events pertaining to health, sustainability and community. It also houses the Sustainable Academy for Kids designed to empower up and coming generations with the life skills and knowledge necessary for our future survival as well as tools to escape the grips of modern day marketing tactics. Her message is one of RADICAL homesteading, FEMININE sovereignty and food FREEDOM shaped by our power as western women to change the course of history simply with the ways we consume. Her inspiration is her family. She is the mother of six homeschooled children ages seven to eighteen. She birthed her four biological children at home and has raised her children to be real-foodists with diets consisted of whole, organic, non-packaged, non-GMO foods. Her most recent project is to acquire a thirty year working farm, Alchemy Acres, that will serve as both an educational center for growing nutrient dense food as well as a key provider for real food for her family and the community. You can find out more about Imani and her revolution (and download the first three chapters of her book for free) at official website.

Pam Gerrand is a singer/songwriter/sound healer with a passion for personal and planetary healing and transformation. Drawing from her background in theatre, music, meditation and ancient chant, Pam’s unique performing/teaching style has been described as a blend between the shamanic and the bardic. Pam spent four seasons in the Acting Company at the Stratford Festival, and has taken her love of the communicative art of theatre to new levels of expression with her original music and workshops. A founding member of the Canadian Association of Sound Practitioners, Pam has performed and led workshops in sound healing, creativity and self-expression across Canada and the U.S, and at festivals in England, Sweden and Costa Rica. Pam has had the honour of performing her original music at keynote talks given by Byron Katie, Deepak Chopra, Margaret Trudeau, and Stephen Lewis. Pam travels widely, performing at forums and festivals devoted to peace and social justice, and delivering workshops at universities, spiritual and community centers. For more information, and to sample Pam’s creative offerings, please visit www.pamgerrand.com 

Vera Lopez, spiritual guide, healer and sage, she is a native of Brazil, and began studying metaphysics and spirituality at the age of 18. For 14 years she studied, and worked, with Luiz A. Gasparetto in his spiritual center in Brazil. There she was a teacher, channeller, healer and spiritual counselor. She is also a Traditional Japanese Reiki teacher. Today she is deeply immersed in study with Debbie Ford and 'The Shadow Effect'. Since founding 'Spirits of the Earth' in 1989, she has touched the lives of hundreds of people personally guiding groups to Machu Picchu, Peru. Her extensive experience with Peru, the Andean Culture and her spiritual background insures all the participants the journey of a lifetime. Vera considers her work her ministry. Vera will bring her wisdom and grace to deliver ancient ceremony as she leads the opening and closing of the Grail Lady Faire. Her commitment is that each woman returns home transformed by joy, love, beauty and find her way to empowering all that she is. Official Website

ALisa Starkweather believes that women who are remembering and fostering their deepest spiritual gifts right now in service to the greater good are making an enormous difference in the world simply by shifting and rebalancing energies. As the visionary and founder of Daughters of the Earth she wishes that all women who feel connected or long to feel connected to the earth and one another show up and value this sacred container. She is the founder of a women’s mystery school, Priestess Path Apprenticeship, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings and co-founder of Women in Power. She has three CD’s, Women Rise Up, Daughter of the Earth and Calling Us Home. ALisa is a certified Shadow work facilitator and women’s empowerment trainer for 23 years. Every day of her life is devoted to the upliftment of women. Official website

"ALisa, your spiritual warrior has been doing double time for at least the last 22 years I've known you. You are absolutely one of the fiercest spiritual warriors I know."  ~ Sylvia Brallier

Siri Sevak Kaur has been dancing with joy her entire life. She has studied ballet, jazz, modern, Middle Eastern Belly Dance, Hoop Dance, Fire Hooping, Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhytms, Vinn Marti’s Soul Motion, and more. As a teenager in Los Angeles she was blessed to meet Yogi Bhajan and became one of his earliest students. She is certified by the International Kundalini Research Institute (KRI) to teach Kundalini Yoga and she holds a Masters Degree in Exercise Science.
Siri means great. Sevak means devotional service.  Kaur means the Princess/Lioness of God who walks with grace and power throughout her life.  
Siri Sevak Kaur is blessed and honored  to offer the powerful teachings of Kundalini yoga and the grace of dance to others as her devotional service.

Sugar Singleton MD is a practicing medical doctor, loving wife and mother, and a powerful resource for women and their wellbeing. Dr. Sugar has dedicated her life to helping women break through barriers and transform their lives. "My specialty is working with women to take their lives to the next level, to achieve the breakthrough that they desire and absolutely deserve to receive."  An exhilarating speaker and presenter, Dr. Sugar takes women on a journey of discovery to their highest potential. She is a cellular memory expert and assists women to release unproductive cellular memories which are blocking them from achieving true success, wellness and happiness at regularly held "RELEASE" experiences in the US. Her presentations are transformational and can be applied to all aspects of everyday life.  What's unique about her is that she has a love for true healing as opposed to the traditional ways of just treating disease.  Being someone who always follows her heart, she has dedicated her life to being a healer.  Today, in addition to saving people's lives in the urgent care, she spends most of her time in assisting women to release the blocks that are getting in the way of their true self-esteem, fulfillment, and prosperity.   This passion has led her to become the exclusive expert on cellular healing in the largest online community for inspired women which is called  BraveHeart Women Global Community.
Every month, women fly in from different parts of the world to spend quality time with her in order to gain clarity about the causes of their resistance, and be able to learn the tools that give them permanent transformation on a deep cellular level. You'll soon find out that she's an authentic woman who loves to make a difference, have fun, and wait till you hear her explain how to release your issues from your tissues!  "Dr. Sugar is one of the most grounded & purposeful women I have had the privilege of connecting with. She is genuine, intelligent, focused, and above all inspiring." ~ Dr. Ellie Drake, Braveheart Women

Debra Poneman is the founder and President of Yes to Success, Inc, an international seminar company dedicated to the transformation of people’s lives in the direction of profound success, deep happiness, unlimited prosperity and lasting fulfillment.  Since founding her company in 1982, Debra has taught the concept of the Law of Attraction and other techniques for discovering and manifesting your dreams to tens of thousands of people around the world. In addition to giving hundreds of keynotes for businesses, associations and professional organizations, appearing on radio and TV from coast to coast and writing a syndicated newspaper column on the principles of true success and how to achieve it,  Debra was an early mentor to some of today’s most renowned transformational leaders including Janet Attwood (The Passion Test); Marci Shimoff (Happy for No Reason); Steve Farber (Extreme Leadership) and even Deepak Chopra. Debra has written several books including the best-selling Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul which she co-authored with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. In 2007, she spent six months interviewing American Idol Top 10 finalists as well the judges, producers, directors and scores of fans to create this powerfully inspirational book.  Throughout the book, which is filled with stories of how the Idols overcame tremendous obstacles to create their mega-success, we hear Debra’s voice inspiring us to create our own. Debra, an active meditation teacher and seva junkie for almost forty years,  shares her life in beautiful Evanston, Illinois with her husband Fred, their children, 18 year old Daniel and 21 year old Deanna, and their two Boston Terriers, Minnie and Mollie. Official website

Dr. Christine Page has over 30 years of experience in the caring professions as medical doctor and homeopath. Receiving her medical degree from London University, she specialized in pediatrics, obstetrics and general practice. With her vast knowledge of complementary medicine, she contributed to its widespread acceptance within the British health care system. Now, focusing on education, she is a gifted intuitive and mystic who shares her insights and knowledge through teaching, soul readings and writing. As an international speaker, she sees herself as a messenger and bridge builder between different worlds whether this includes modalities of health care or levels of consciousness. Author of 6 books, the best known being Frontiers of Health, her latest, 2012 and the Galactic Center was published in September 2008. Official website

Pat Potter has been an Environmental activist for over 39 years. During this time she has addressed environmental issues, such as PCB contamination, ground water quality, radiation and toxic waste. She has been instrumental in educating society about the environment and the effects that it has on our health. Currently she resides in an Earth Home, which is a house made from recycled car tires, where she works to increase awareness of the need to change the way we live and how it impacts the earth; to live gently on the planet!