7Sisters Productions

The 7Sisters Production Team

MAnaFest Big Island 2020 Producer, Workshop Coordinator and Promoter

Le`a Colter, Co-founder of MAnaFest, is a change agent who engages people with warmth, humor, intelligence, respect for cultural differences, and a reality-based approach that encourages personal growth in all aspects of relationship.
Le`a has practiced PsychoTherapy on the Big Island of Hawai`i for 22 years.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and has continued to teach, heal, and inspire as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and as Clinical Director and Supervisor in both Mental Health Agencies and in Private Practice.
MAnaFest Big Island grew out of her desire to offer a larger healing container for women to learn, express, do deep work & raise their voices in an empowered celebration of the sacred feminine together, integrating the men that celebrate this energy, as well.

MAnaFest Big Island 2020 Producer, Media and Workshop Coordinator

Suzenne “Zenne” Seradwyn is deeply honored to be a co-founding sister of MAnaFest Big Island.
An independent filmmaker on over 100 short films and documentaries, she has worked professionally in academia, non-profits and with a very diverse group of artists,
dancers and musicians. She gained notoriety for her Co-Directorial debut of the multiple-award winning, documentary film,"Aloha from Lavaland." alohafromlavaland.com which was recently featured on Hawaiian Airlines.
You can view her work at puremotherlove.com
Zenne (formerly known professionally as Susan Marie Snyder) came out of retirement in 2018 from her career as an actress in TV and Film to play the role of "Zen" in the critically acclaimed, award-winning film, "Stoke."

MAnaFest is the convergence of her personal life mission to re-awaken the Sacred Feminine back into the hearts of all.

MAnaFest Big Island 2020 Music& Art Coordinator

Hope Medford (hopemedford.com) Co-founder of MAnaFest, works in the creative and healing arts~ as a musician, midwife, and educator. She is recently best known for her percussion and performing with the tribal world roots band, Medicine for the People. She has been playing and touring around the world with this socially conscious, activating music project since 2007. She has spent years leading and empowering over 2,500 participants in youth and women’s groups in rhythm & drum circles, encouraging participants’ creativity and strengthening their voices through music. Hope has 3 solo music albums as well, featuring women’s voices.

MAnaFest Big Island 2020 Producer and
Red Tent Ritual Coordinator

Jill Walton has been an Intuitive Counselor,
Educator, and Ceremonialist for 30+ years.
She is deeply attuned to the Natural World,
as teacher and guide.
As a Grandmother, Jill is committed to serving her community traditionally by finding ways to share her gifts, talents and wisdom and supporting ways
for others to do the same.

MAnaFest Big Island 2020
Attunement Temple Coordinator

Diana Stelzer
facebook.com/dianastelzer55

Let love rule!

MAnaFest Big Island 2020
Volunteer Coordinator

Allison Genevieve resides on a beautiful homestead
in lush and life changing Puna!
She is passionate about health and wellness. Farm to table! Superfoods! She opens space at her home for gathering, celebrating, healing! She is an certified Occupational Therapist trained in rehabilitation. Allison is a Wild Woman Circle Facilitator with thewildwomanproject.org. She listens and guides others to tune in to the inner voice. She honors ancient wisdom. She seeks the truth within. She respects our plant allies. Allison is led to cultivate the Wild Woman Spirit. So it Is!

MAnaFest Big Island 2020
Producer and Volunteer Coordinator

Saga DeShong is an established yoga teacher and art therapist based on the Big Island of Hawaii. She is the founder of Wild Wonder Yoga & Art Therapy located in Puna, HI. She is also founded “Da Wata Fountin”
a nonprofit organization that blends creativity and mindfulness healing practices in Belize, Central America.
Saga is also a passionate holistic life coach, retreat facilitator, spiritual activist, and blogger. Saga has studied indigenous healing practices and works with clients individually from around the world to heal through Master plant teachers. She offers a wide range of tools and practices to empower her clients in their personal yogic & mindfulness-based healing practices. Saga focus is on sharing the sacred through yoga,
creative expression and mindfulness. She currently travels and teaches workshops, classes, and retreats in Hawaii and all over the world.
botanicalspiritjourneys.com

MAnaFest Big Island 2020
Food Court Coordinator

Karen O'Brien

The greatest teachers I know came unexpectedly. Having children made me question everything from expectations to the meaning of one's existence. In 1996 A Course In Miracles came into my life. So inspired by the teachings I immersed myself in a community living and applying those principles to everyday life. During those years I became a minister and one part of the ministry was councilling ACIM students. Working with people who had a desire to look deep within became my passion. With each session I facilitated I could feel the love within me grow. During the past 22 years I have explored deep within the mind, watching beliefs and patterns affect all interaction for clients and myself. Beyond ACIM and beyond the ministry I continue teaching what I have learnt. I share how to be present in every moment, so you can listen to the voice deep within guiding you to a place of harmony in everyday life.

MAnaFest Big Island 2020 Producer and
Vending Coordinator

Omra Kubby is holding the space of vendor facilitator this year. She will also be preforming, live painting, selling her visionary art prints, and vending her eco-dance clothing line, Omra Organics.
Omra has lived on the Big Island since 1994. The natural beauty and healthy lifestyle of the Island are the main inspiration of her creations. Currently, Omra has been focussing on her clothing line, and her local studio/store ( Moana Organic Trades) in Hilo, where her line is made. Her deep and mystic art, can be found at WildHeartist gallery in Hilo as well as her "Visions Oracle Cards", a collection of her paintings and writings in a card deck style.
Any of Omras time not spent with her family, or at her boutique, is spent in the music studio producing electronic music. Omra Djs and preforms, an evolution inspired from 15 years experience as a singer/songwriter.
Etsy.com/shop/omra
Soundcloud.com/omra-art

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Producers from Previous Years

MAnaFest Big Island 2019 Producer and
Vending Coordinator

Marcela Solera is a dancer of life. She has spent over 20 years on the leading edge of the ever-emerging new paradigm culture, both locally in Hawaii and internationally. An entrepreneur since age 27, Marcela has grown and assisted a series of events, supporting personal growth and transformation; healthy and sustainable lifestyles; leading-edge spirituality; and community connection, such as Big Island Dance Camp, Keiki Day (Oahu), Mahina Fest (Oahu) and Onanya (a fair trade clothing line, supporting indigenous groups).

She is a prominent positive force, continuing to develop new businesses and events that support the emerging new culture, and inspiring the development of deep community.

MAnaFest Big Island 2018 Producer
and Volunteer Coordinator

Amberay Light began co-creating and producing dance events and music gatherings on the Big Island in 2001. The last few years she has been heavily involved with many of the local festivals, dances and fundraisers.

Currently Amberay manages Bee Dance, a weekly event at Hawaiian Sanctuary.

She is passionate and dedicated about bringing together our community for harmonious and uplifting experiences.

MAnaFest Big Island 2018 Food Vendor Coordinator

Andrea Sparks, MA , Andrea Sparks is deeply committed to healing the root of consciousness that supports honoring the goddess. She believes in helping all beings to recognize and heal the divine feminine and masculine within. To this end, she has been training, practicing and teaching through tantric traditions with the International School of Temple Arts, Conscious Sensuality, ZEGG forum traditions, Quodoushka and Tantravaya yoga.
She has also trained with the International Association of Kambo Practitioners
and is serving Kambo to those wanting a total reset.
She has been a highly qualified English teacher licensed in the state of Hawaii for the last 15 years and looks brightly to a future where young men and women are given tools and resources to step into a sex positive, consent-based culture that honors, protects, and
serves the highest good for all beings.

MAnaFest Big Island 2018 Merchant and Volunteer Coordinator

Niki Faldemolaei, Digital Publisher and #1 International Best Selling Author, has spent the last few years facilitating conferences and trainings around the world, based in the spiritual mecca of Sedona AZ, San Diego and Hawaii Island. Her talent stems from a solid background in live event marketing and sales in the biotech and wellness fields. With an entrepreneurial eye to the future she embraces the possibility that life extension is possible with a combination of advanced technology and earth-based wisdom. Her training and mentors in Pranic Healing, Shamanic Pathways and Tantra have included the talents of Alejandra Armas DeLuca (Master Choa Kok Sui), Laurie Handlers (Butterfly Workshops), Kenneth Ray Stubbs (Sexual Shaman, Crystal Whisperer), Flaming Eagle (Native American Church), Bearcloud, Baba Dez Nichols (Sedona Temple and ISTA), Charles Muir (Source Tantra Yoga)
and Crystal Dawn Morris (Sky Dancing Tantra).

Tuesday Meetings at Lolia Place

The Producers 2017

The 7Sisters of the Tribe of Lower Puna, Hawaii:

Val Colter, Hope Medford, Le'a Colter, Melissa Honeybee, & Zenne Seradwyn,

MAnaFest Big Island 2017 Producer and Promoter
Le`a Colter is a change agent who engages people with warmth, humor, intelligence,
respect for cultural differences, and a reality-based approach that encourages
personal growth in all aspects of relationship.
Le`a has practiced PsychoTherapy on the Big Island of Hawai`i for 20 years.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from San Francisco’s California
Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), and has continued to teach, heal, and inspire as a
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and as Clinical Director and Supervisor in both
Mental Health Agencies and in Private Practice.
Le`a has 5 years of experience teaching at Argosy University Master’s Program in Marriage
and Family Therapy as adjunct faculty member, and many more years of Coaching self-care for caregivers.
MAnaFest Big Island grew out of her desire to offer a larger healing container for women
to learn, express, do deep work & raise their voices in celebration of the sacred feminine
together, integrating the men that celebrate this energy, as well.

MAnaFest Big Island 2017 Producer and Music & Art Coordinator
Hope Medford (hopemedford.com) works in the creative and healing arts~ as a musician, midwife, and educator. She is recently best known for her percussion and performing with the tribal world roots band, Medicine for the People. She has been playing and touring around the world with this socially conscious, activating music project since 2007. She has spent years leading and empowering over 2,500 participants in youth and women’s groups in rhythm & drum circles, encouraging participants’ creativity and strengthening their voices through music. Hope has 3 solo music albums as well, featuring women’s voices.

Hope is also a midwife, having graduated from the National College of Midwifery and attended over 450 births, both in the US and in Senegal, West Africa, where Hope worked at a village birth center with the African Birth Collective. Her approach to birth has always been natural and holistic, focused on out of hospital care; she practiced at the first water birth center in the US, Andaluz Waterbirth Center. To educate and raise awareness for women’s health & birth options, Hope began the Artemis Healing Arts education program and has taught natural birth classes in Peru and Brazil as well as in the US.
Hope’s commitment to the Earth is also important to her; she currently serves on the board of directors of the non-profit Honor the Earth, whose mission is to protect and provide sustainable options for indigenous land & culture in North America. She is also a co-founder of Tryon Life Community Farm, a non-profit education and demonstration center for sustainability in Oregon. She began the education and events programs there which continue to feature permaculture farming, natural building, and community skills.
Hope is constantly creatively weaving her love of the earth with respect for women in her projects. She has just returned, in Sept 2016, from being presenter & teacher at the Healthy Birth, Healthy Earth conference at the renowned Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland.
She is currently proud to be a co-founder of MAnafest 2016 & 2017, honoring the feminine on the Big Island of Hawaii.
She has been basing on the Big Island for about 6 years now, and is proud to create this event for our Wahine and Ohana.

MAnaFest Big Island 2017 Producer and Workshop/Ceremony Coordinator
Melissa Honeybee Plotkin
Melissa is a visionary, web-weaver, cross-pollinator, event coordinator and commUnity organizer. She is passionate about supporting people to see their own talents and gifts and encouraging them to offer them to the world.
She has been sharing these skills since she can remember and has a long herstory of collaborating on awesome projects! To name a few, she was the manager and promoter of concerts for Green Music Network (San Francisco, CA), the Volunteer Coordinator for Urban Alliance for Sustainability (San Francisco, CA), has initiated and organized the Really Really Free Market, a monthly commUnity gathering representing the Gift Economy (Naples, FL & Pahoa, HI), & has been involved with commUnity shapeshifting projects such as the Village Building Convergence and City Repair
(Portland, OR).
Melissa has called Hawaii hOMe for close to 5 years and is in Love with Living Life in Puna! Here she founded and co-facilitated an empowerment group for teenage girls called the Blossoming Lotuses. She was an organizer, part of the core visionary team, and food vendor coordinator for the Ho'ohana, "A SustAINAbility Talk Story" Festival in Kalapana. She is currently the manager of the Seaview Eco-Epicurian Waterfarm, an inspiring permaculture farm devoted to the earth-conscious pursuit of sensual pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of water, food & commUnity comfort. She regularly hosts various local commUnity events and special dinner clubs where she invites in local chefs and musical talent, and, every chance she has, she works with her friends at Pohaha I Ka Lani, a Hawaiian non-profit organization rooted in Waipio Valley that practices and perpetuates cultural knowledge and land stewardship. Melissa tends the honeybees of various Hives in Puna, deeply listens to their messages, and is focused on living life in Hive Consciousness.
For MAnaFest 2016, Melissa poured her MAna into organizing all the workshops and ceremonies, the Red Tent, the MAna MarketPlace (creative vendors), the Food Vendors and the Healing Grove.
She looks forward to co-creating the magic of MAnaFest 2017!!

MAnaFest Big Island 2017 Producer, Documentarian and Volunteer Coordinator
Suzenne “Zenne” Seradwyn is a video creatrix currently based on
The Big Island of Hawaii.
An independent filmmaker on over 100 short films and documentaries, she
has worked professionally in academia and non-profits, as well as for a
diverse group of artists, dancers and musicians.
Her film, "Emergence: Sky City Cultural Center," was recently added to the
Smithsonian's collection at the National Museum of the American Indian.
"Emergence" and the multiple-award winning, "Aloha from Lavaland" are
both currently active on the film festival circuit.
You can view her work at puremotherlove.com
Zenne is a regular Facilitator at Kalani Oceanside Retreat's long-running, legendary EDance and is presently engaged in the Volunteer Office.
She has been an integral part of the production team for Kalani sponsored events including the Hawaii Yoga Festival,
Puna Music Festival, Puna Culinary Festival and lluminato.

MAnaFest Big Island 2017 Producer, Promoter and Workshop Coordinator
Val Colter
Val has lived 30 years in Puna on Big Island, Hawaii. She holds degrees in Art and Psychology, and is a certified high school art teacher. She is currently self-employed as a planner and architectural drafter and designer. She has been drawing house plans and getting permits for Big Island projects for about 25 years. Val has spent many years practicing organic farming, including raising poultry. She has also been involved in amateur theater, with experience designing sets and props, running lighting and sound, acting and producing. She has studied herbal lore, played music, made art, experimented with magical practices and ritual, practiced and taught yoga. She loves dancing and swimming in the sea.
MAnaFest 2016, Val volunteered and acted as goddess of Queen-Up helping keep the grounds clean during and after the festival. This year her involvement includes overall planning and pouring her energy into the Red Tent where she is visualizing and dreaming a loving tight container for some inspiring and powerful workshops.

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HAWAIIAN SANCTUARY PRIESTESS / PROPRIETRESS

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