ANNE DELLENBAUGH
anne@herwildsong.com
Anne began guiding wilderness trips in 1983. In 1990 she founded HER WILD SONG in the belief that women's spiritual lives are vitally important and that nourishing our spirits with wind and trees and river and sea is restorative not only to ourselves, but to others around us and even to the Earth herself. Inspired first by the teachings of feminist philosopher Mary Daly and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, from the beginning Anne has combined the insights, principles and practices of feminism and Buddhism with her work as a wilderness guide and teacher. To this mix, she now adds Tantric Yoga, her current passion.

Anne is a registered Maine Guide, a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School and of the Outdoor Leadership Program at Greenfield (MA) Community College. She holds certifications in canoe and yoga instruction and Wilderness First Responder. She received a BA from Smith College and a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She created and named the Ordered Chaos of the Wild and Original Lotus, a contemplative lay community, in 1997. Anne is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a former Zen priest. For more information about Anne and her yoga and counseling practices, please visit www.wildlotusyoga.us.

KARIN SPITFIRE
Karin is a healer, poet and artist. Her first book of poems, Standing with Trees, was published in the fall of 2005. She is also the author, choreographer and dancer of several performance poems, including Incest: It’s all Relative, which toured nationally from 1982-86.

Karin has been guiding wilderness trips through the internal territory of body-mind for individuals and groups combining movement/dance practices, voice, anatomy and physiology, incisive intuition and a compassionate heart since 1979. Her major lessons have come from embodying a soul that was thrown far afield by trauma, and working with many others negotiating their lives out of poisoned fields. Her major teachers are sunrises, the wide horizon, body’s nature, singing and dancing, and the big mama's heartbeat in all manifestations. Under the rubric of Moving Matters she teaches a wide variety of integrative body-mind workshops, at home (Belfast, ME) and abroad.

Karin holds an MA in Women's Studies and is a certified teacher and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering TM, a Licensed Massage Therapist and former Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She has been guiding with HER WILD SONG since 1994, haggling about life and reality with Anne since 1976 and moving canoes, wanagans, and yoga postures with Meg since 1997.

SHARON SANDSTRUM
Sharon began cooking at the age of 5, buttering toast in her granddad ’s restaurant with a paint brush. The love of the kitchen and cooking never stopped and were further nurtured by her mother and grandmother. Each summer in her teens Sharon ran the outdoor kitchen of a girl’s wilderness camp in NH where cooking was done on an open fire. She has worked in the kitchens of the Common Ground Fair, the Michigan Women’s Musical festival and Greenfire Retreat Center for women. She teaches classes at Rising Tide Market and provides private and small group cooking classes upon request.

In 2002 her twenty-year career in public social services came to a screeching halt after being diagnosed with the final and terminal stages of thyroid cancer. Sharon turned to food as a major healing force. Today she lives to feed and nourish others.

Sharon began cooking for Her Wild Song in 2006. She truly believes that what, how and with whom we eat deeply affects not only our bodies but our spirits as well. Sharon feels that our kitchens, wherever they may be, are blessed by the presence of our ancestors when we cook and eat. Sharon’s meals nourish and support us on many levels as we retreat together in the wild.

SHANNON COYKENDALL
Shannon is a photographer and senior guide for Arctic Treks, our co-host for the Sheenjek River trip. Shannon lives in Denali, Alaska when she’s not guiding up in the Arctic.

Her Wild Song • PO Box 177 • Brunswick, Maine 04011 • (207) 721-9229 • journeys@herwildsong.com