Teachers

Lark Lyra Lou Hill (they/them) is an artist, educator and organizer born and raised in the Reclaiming tradition. They live in Los Angeles and are currently working towards a degree in ASL Interpreting. Their art practice includes writing and drawing alternative comix, making experimental films on celluloid, and hosting and producing ritual variety shows. Lark is passionate about performance, participation, accessibility, honesty and mischief. They revel in locating growth edges and applying just the right amount of pressure, consensually, upon themself and others.

Lark has been teaching and organizing at witch camps since 2004, repeatedly declaring "never again." As a founding member of the Pleasures of Beltane organizing team, Lark is proud and relieved to help co-create a camp that prioritizes spaciousness, transparency and a proactive approach to navigating inevitable power dynamics. As a slut and a kinkster, Lark enjoys showing off, stirring the pot, and hearing people scream :)

Luna Crow (she/her) works magic at the intersection of immanence and desire, where the sacred pulses through flesh and earth. Her practice centers on embodied power—the kind that rises from deep in the belly, courses through blood and bone, and spills out to reshape the world. For Luna, magic isn’t transcendent escape but radical presence: feeling the divine in sweat and soil, in the electric charge of intentional will meeting matter.

At the heart of her work is the alchemy of sex and power—not as separate forces but as interwoven expressions of creative energy. Luna's path exalts the receptive and the submissive as profound sources of magical strength, reclaiming surrender as an act of will and opening as a wielding of power. This is magic that doesn’t deny the body but claims it fully; magic that understands pleasure as a technology for transformation and power-within as our birthright to shape reality according to our deepest wisdom.

Luna brings this fierce, grounded approach to her path at Pleasure of Beltane, where the season mirrors this teaching: life force rising with will and desire to create new worlds.

Selene Rising (she/her) comes to magic via a journey out of patriarchal fundamentalism that included re-connection with Earth as living being and reclamation of Body as sacred temple.  She self-initiated as a witch in 2007 while first discovering embodied, earth-based, animism as a student at CIIS.

Selene has taught consent and writing the erotic for sensuality retreats in BC, Canada. She is also a therapist in private practice, serving members of marginalized and alternative sexualities and relationship identities.   

Selene has been turned-on by submission from an early age. She used to judge myself for that, but no more. She's dedicated to dreaming ever deeper forms of relational sovereignty and generative pleasure into the world, and she takes turn-ons seriously. Including finally, her own.  

Her beloveds include a long-term, ride or die nesting partner, and a Master who has earned her trust and the honorific in every way. She's also in ever-evolving relationship with the Goddess Innana.

These days Robin Bean Crane aspires to be a steamy compost pile for the stinky stories of separation, shame, and coercion. They wear multiple hats, including: a cultural organizer with Art.Coop which supports artists and funders to participate in the solidarity economy; a facilitator with Somatics of Money supporting people to find a more balanced and liberatory relationship to wealth; and a co-steward of Creative Wildfire where artists and organizers collaborate towards ecological and economic justice. 

As a co-director of a theater collective called Playgrnd, they co-host a monthly laboratory for collective inquiry as well as seasonal participatory performances. They study and practice various modalities at the intersection of collective healing, embodied storytelling, and group facilitation: the mentorship program at the Mandala Center for applied theater, forum theater, Rainbow of Desire, physical theater devising, psychodrama, improvisation, clowning, playback, the Trauma of Money practitioner training, ecological somatics in Weaving Earth’s Attune program, and conflict reconciliation methods. 

They get to practice all these ways of being at home - a community farm-ish project of living intentionally across race, class, faith, age, etc in Oakland, CA. Robin loves you already.