Mahala Frye has spent most of her life in the Pacific Northwest, where a deep love of the waters, mountains, and trees developed along with her profound love for the Great Mother Goddess. A degree in Fine Arts started Mahala on a path connecting Sacred Beauty and Healing. From many rewarding years creating and selling art jewelry, she morphed her business to a woodworking one.
Along the way, Mahala’s footsteps took her onto a Path where all her learning and various practices connected and were subservient to her commitment as Priestess to the Great Mother: she is a 3rd Degree Priestess and Elder in the Majestic Tradition of Wicca, and she practices Theta Healing, as well as Reiki. Mahala operates within the Core and Peruvian Shamanism systems, which have blended seamlessly with her many years of experience working with the Perelandra materials.
Mahala currently pursues her Healing arts through The Awakening Heart, a Shamanic Practice based on the Kitsap Peninsula.
Ron Hays was first contacted by the Sidhe about twelve years ago. It was a gentle yet persistent nudge that expanded significantly over the years. The Sidhe, whom he considers colleagues and friends, typically work together with him on various projects. The first they encouraged him to do was to create wooden outdoor gates or portals to the surrounding landscape. Working with them, he found they offered sound advice whenever he encountered an issue with the energy flow in the gate’s design.
David Spangler said of his work:
“Sometimes an artifact is created specifically to be a point of connection with a non-physical ally. An example of this is the “Sidhe Gate,” created by my friend and Lorian colleague, Ron Hays.”
Building portals led to presenting workshops on his methods of crafting projects with the Sidhe. Then, the Sidhe suggested another project—a website devoted to building connections with them. He proceeded to create Portals Connect, which offers both his and others’ written experiences of their connections with the Sidhe.
He continues to work with both the portals and the website. But his Sidhe friends continue to discover new possibilities for their mutual projects. Over the past couple of years, they have engaged with him in mutually developing a deeper understanding of Gaia’s ecosystems. Recognizing how climate disruptions are affecting the balance of species on the planet, they are working with him to investigate the current energetic balance of terrestrial ecologies. The Sidhe’s goal is to understand the balance of energy in harmonic landscapes in order to assist future disrupted ecosystems come into harmony more quickly. Ron finds this to be an exciting work that shows the possibility of future Human Sidhe collaboration.
Ron has presented workshops on the Sidhe at the Fairy Congress. He is an ordained Lorian priest and currently teaches nature classes that emphasize the spiritual connection that all humans have with the natural world.
His work with portals can be found at: https://www.elvengates.com/. The link to the Portals Connect site is https://portalsconnect.com/.