The Grandmother Council of Nevada County is a circle of wise elder women, walking the Beauty Way in quiet devotion to the wellbeing of all life, for the next seven generations.
They offer presence and guidance to the community through one-on-one counsel and mediation rooted in spiritual insight to restore harmony.
Through our Fireside Storytelling Gatherings, they help us remember that wisdom is meant to be shared, carried in the heart, and passed from one generation to the next through story.
The Grandmother Council
Kalita
Kalita Ma is a Priestess of Isis - goddess of ten thousand faces, who honors all ways to spirit.
She is an earth based visionary, who has been deeply moved by the study of and honoring of the cycles and seasons of humanity and the planet through her work as an organic farmer (50+). And with Women’s circles (40+) offering guidance to recall and reclaim feminine potential, strength and dignity.
Kalita has done her best to live by the natural laws of organic farming, as she has engaged in assisting in the creation of food coops, farming conferences, school gardens and agricultural education.
Her message to our tribe is to stay calm and have faith, as we travel thru this birth canal into a new world of wide open potential. Turn your focus from fear to the best possible outcome. It just might work and what have we got to lose?
Kalita Ma is available for a variety of services: spiritual counseling, energetic healing, classes in initiation and ritual work, mentorship in homestead skills and gardening.
Lily
Grandmother Lily Pantheion is devoted to preserving the truth, depth and vitality of ancient shamanic energy medicine. Initiated through two near-death experiences at age 4 months and again in 1997, her shamanic calling, healing path and Service to humanity has been guided by Creator and a spiritual master of ancient Siberian shamanism.
For over 27 years, Lily has also studied and practiced with indigenous traditions across Hawaii, Belize, Costa Rica, Peru and North America. Her path also weaves in Jungian-based theta meditation, enabling conscious, subconscious and unconscious soul awareness.
She facilitates deep emotional soul healing restoring balance to mind, body, heart, and soul. Bringing truth, love, forgiveness, and clarity for self and generations to come.
Lily Walks with one foot in spirit realm and one on earth.
She offers an array of services including spiritual counseling,
Nature connections to plant, animal, elements and Spiritual teachers, group shamanic journeys and past life regressions. Individual soul retrieval, spirit releasement, psychic mediumship, inner child & family healing. Lily is a chakra navigation artist and death doula facilitator for all faiths.
Also known as Lily White Snake, Cypress, Eagle 🦅
CoraLuz
CoraLuz aka Dr. April Bolding, is a visionary and light ambassador pollinating the new earth.
She joins The Grandmothers Council to reintroduce multigenerational dialog, support, and healthy interdependence between the generations of our communal body.
CoraLuz is a physical therapist and also offers wise guidance sessions, and ascension doula work. She is a believer in entering the deep silence of contemplation to connect with the godself and find deeper aspects of who we really are.
She facilitates a sacred fire circle every Wednesday at the South Yuba Club. You can connect with her via her website : aprilbolding.com
Starlit
Starlit Kompost is a revolutionary off-grid earthling who has built and is stewarding a multi-generational primitive-technology village on the ridge. To minimize pollution impact on the planet, the focus of the village is to practice efficient and sustainable living.
She is an ancient calendar enthusiast, blending together 14 modalities, including numerology, herbology, and mythology, to tap into the energy of the day and the story of one's life.
Her deepest desire is that we live close to the earth, and she encourages those around her to spend more time in nature. Starlit holds containers for vision quests and is also available for teaching the primitive skills of felting, spinning, fire making, and basketry.
You can connect with her via her website starlightcompost.com.
Laughter Medicine
Laughter Medicine is a Ridge Grandmother who embodies an optimistic, present moment way of living, finding joy and meaning in all that is. A lyricist, musician, basket weaver, and maker of ocarinas, she shares her gifts through song, story, and craft, offering teachings in respect, creativity, and positive perspective to all ages. With a deep love for community, she envisions the Grandmothers’ Council as a space that knits people together in connection, care, and belonging, where no one feels alone.
She encourages others, especially the youth, to honor their uniqueness, follow what brings them joy, and measure their growth only against who they were yesterday. Rooted in the belief that true worth goes far beyond money, she inspires a life of curiosity, humility, and continual learning, reminding us that listening is as powerful as speaking. With warmth and wisdom, she supports others in discovering their own gifts and “superpowers,” while fostering a more connected, family centered community.
Shan
Shan Kendall is a hand tinker artist who engages in a wide variety of fiber arts, she is deeply familiar with the connection between our hands and our brain, seeing fiber arts and other modalities that engage our hands in presence and high level tinkering, as a foundational way that develops the brain and joins the two hemispheres together, which among many other benefits, develops our critical thinking skills.
She has also studied herbology, energy modalities, and nutrition. One of her joys in life is sharing her accumulated wisdom from an intuitive heart centered space, in a way that turns her stories into deep medicine for others.
Cathè
Cathè Fish is a community activist, retired commercial pilot flight instructor, retired master gardener of 37 years, and ongoing permaculture professional for 38 years now.
She is supporting work to reestablish rights, take back freedom from the dark entities of this world, and connect people to the earth in a sustainable way. She offers past life regression sessions, house and land hardening classes for fire protection, land restoration counseling, as well as land consults for sustainable and gentle relations with the earth.
Cathè believes deeply in the connection of community supporting each other through difficulties, as we are not meant to do this life alone.
Claire
Claire comes to The Grandmothers Council as a grand receiver of stories. Her deepest wish is the wholeness of all beings, which she shares; is cultivated through true listening and navigating relating to each other with deep empathetic resonance, and allowing the richness of stories shared among open hearts to heal humanity.
Claire is a women's health specialist with a background in anthroposophic medicine, she has also studied in herbal medicine, massage therapy, and acupuncture. She urges our acknowledgment of the anthropocene era we are now in, where humans hold a high level of influence to alter the earth, and that we must do so intentionally, with care.
Claire joins The Grandmothers Council to support the balancing of sharing and receiving stories, and to build bridges of cross generational connection, to minimize isolation across all people and stages of life. She has many stories to share with you.