Moon's Nest Playschool
PLAY. ADVENTURE. CONNECTION.
Miz Flow
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Flow WithWater is founder, guest teacher, and administrator of The Moon’s Nest Playschool and the Moon’s Nest School of Magic Mischief, & Mystery.
She graduated as a first generation student from Portland State University as a highly distinguished McNair Scholar whose research focused on the transmission of epigenetic trauma, early childhood neurobiology, and the biopsychosocial impact of institutionalized systems of oppression. Her current research is in trauma mitigation and best practices for cultivating resilience to trauma in early childhood development.
She’s been a practicing Witch in the Reclaiming Tradition with a focus in the hearth arts and practical magic for over a dozen years. She is based out of the Okanagan Valley, where she lives off grid, spending her time practicing a wide variety of ancestral skills including land stewardship, hide tanning, and wild food gathering. She lives with the “old-time bug”, enjoys slow mornings playing around on her banjo, and is a long time student of old time traditional square dance culture and community.
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She wakes each day with an intention to find holiness in the mundane and reverence for the sacred simplicity of bird song.
Follow her on Instagram to keep up with her practices n' craftyness.
Claire Wild
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Claire Wilde has loved working with children throughout her life, and has many years of childcare and experience in early education under her belt. Spending time with kiddos has shaped her way of moving through the world, whether as a summer camp assistant at the Audubon Society of Portland, a nanny, an enrollment coordinator in Head Start and Early Head Start settings, or a childcare provider for local community organizing collectives. She graduated from Smith College with a double major in Gender Studies and Spanish, and has also worked as a full-spectrum doula and a yoga teacher for children, families, and pregnant folks.
Claire's magical practice is deeply informed by her anti-racist organizing; for her, witchcraft is inseparable from justice. Her personal practice is also rooted in creativity, parenting, embodiment, the cycles of the seasons, and her devotion to the moon. She, her wife Haley, and their toddler Archer live in Brentwood-Darlington with their dog and two cats, and they are so excited to be part of the Moon's Nest community!
Kaan Oral
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Kaan is a Retired Fish Biologist, Wilderness instructor, Magician, Wizard, Balloon twister, Land Tender, and Crafter.
He has worked at the Tracks and Trails summer camp in Duval Washington for a couple weeks every summer teaching wilderness skills and awareness for ages 2-12. He spent a year living in the woods in a shelter he built, eating almost entirely food he gathered and harvested, using supplies found and made from the land. He is adept at shelters, bow drill fires, weaving baskets, spinning fibers, tanning hides, and weaving on a backstrap loom. He is also a nationally registered EMT-Basic and Wilderness First Responder.
He can additionally be found teaching ancestral skill workshops at local Granges and Ancestral Skills Gatherings Spring through Summer.
And did ya know? You can book his Mountain Man Magic show fer yer kiddos birthing day celebrations n more. Check out his website fer all the info.
Lissette Martinez
Lissette is a long time resident of Portland, a dog mom, and mama to a Moon's Nest Witchlet.
And, Miz Flow is her mama!
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Lissette leads our Wednesday friend group of babes ages 0-3, and substitutes occasionally too.