MEET THE ELDER COUNCIL
Diana
Diana has offered her Priestess counsel, ceremony, and healing in retreats and trainings for over 40 years.
She is the founder of Scent Priestess, a sacred training that takes you into the heart of the ancient art of anointing. Anointing is a 7000 year old practice of healing, awakening and consecration, passed from temple to temple, priestess to priestess. Using holy oils, and the laying on of hands, Scent Priestesses awakened the gateways of the body, and mind, to the healing life force of the divine. Scent Priestesses are sacred passage guides, midwifing you from birth to death.
Diana has re-consecrated the Scent Priestess lineage of the sacred rose: Rosa Mystica. She has created the Emerald Temple anointing oils to empower modern day scent priestesses in their personal and professional work.
Claretta
Captain, U.S. Navy Retired; Freelance Editor; Ethicist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Data Safety Monitoring Board; Adjunct Professor of Advanced Bioethics, Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL; Chairperson, Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity Academy of Fellows (“Exploring the nexus of biomedicine, biotechnology, and our common humanity”) www.cbhd.org
Dr. Claretta Y. Dupree, PhD is a registered nurse with a wide variety of clinical and academic experiences in both the civilian and military sectors. She has served on active and reserve duty at naval hospitals in Philadelphia, PA, Naval Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes, Houston, TX, New Orleans, LA and in Milwaukee, WI from 1976-2005.
As a civilian, Dr. Dupree earned a Master of Science in Oncology Nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1985 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Nursing with a minor in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in 1998.
She is co-chair of the Race and Culture/Ethnicity Affinity Group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and is Chairperson of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity Academy of Fellows. She also currently serves as ethicist for the Data Safety Monitoring Board of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Dupree was an assistant professor at Medical College of Wisconsin, where she was the Director of Research of the Pediatric Palliative Care Department. In 2011, she completed the Palliative Care Education and Practice Faculty Development Program at Harvard Medical School.
In addition to advance directives and cultural diversity issues in ethics, her current research interests are hope, ambiguity in ethical decision-makers, research ethics, and moral distress among pediatric intensive care staff.
She is keeping busy in retirement, operating an editing business, learning to crochet, rooting avocado seeds, and studying music theory and healing touch.
Dr. Dupree calls both Greensboro, NC and Kenosha, WI home.
You can reach Dr. Dupree via email: [email protected]
Linda
I work with women navigating their quest to spiritual freedom. This freedom aligns them with their inner power to intentionally manifest healing and wholeness for themselves and others—”to lay hold to the star in their wombs and make it strong in the splendor of the sun.” Moving toward this destination is accomplished by participating in the Journey of Auset: 9 Steps to Spiritual Freedom(© 2017).
The desired outcome of this journey is to increase the capacity for the spiritual freedom needed to fulfill our Divine purpose. Spirit Quest includes an exploration of timeless spiritual teachings from Kemet, African-centric and other spiritual and religious sources for 21st century living. Although this site is designed with women of African Descent in mind, all whose souls resonate with the spirit and intent of this site are welcome here.
I am an ordained clergy person, who completed the UM Two-Year Spiritual Formation Academy. My project from that experience is a ministry for Clergywomen of African Descent with a focus on health and wholeness called “Sacred Sisters.”
I earned an MDiv, and DMin degrees; my DMin subject was The Use of Ritual for the Spiritual Empowerment of Women of African Descent.
I edited a book called A New Dawn in Beloved Community and am a contributing writer to several other publications.
I am also a Certified Kemetic Yoga Teacher and practitioner, a Certified Scent Priestess, and a Qi Gong Student.
Ejna
Ejna Jean Fleury is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and is their first Tribal Peace Ambassador. She co-founded her tribe’s first Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society and serves as their first Chairwoman. Her mother is enrolled with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Ejna participated in the 100th Year Memorial of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1990, as a Walker on the Big Foot Memorial Ride. She has ancestors who were killed at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the Mankato 38 Plus 2 Hanging the day after ChristmEjna Jean Fleury is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and is their first Tribal Peace Ambassador. She co-founded her tribe’s first Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society and serves as their first Chairwoman. Her mother is enrolled with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Ejna participated in the 100th Year Memorial of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1990, as a Walker on the Big Foot Memorial Ride. She has ancestors who were killed at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the Mankato 38 Plus 2 Hanging the day after Christmas in 1862.
She is a founder of Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee and the Wounded Knee Global Ceremonies to heal the multi-generational and multi-lineal effects trauma; and is a Convener of Sacred Earth Council to honor and enjoin with the sacred in all things.
Ejna invites Sacred Presence guidance and conscious participation in our lives and future legacy through ceremony, prayer, meditation, and coming together to mutually heal, evolve and realize sacredness of who we are.
Ejna carries a sacred pipe in the lineage of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Sacred Bundle. The Keeper of The Sacred Pipe coming down through 19 generations is Chief Arvol Looking Horse. The main Pipe is housed at Green Grass, South Dakota.
A practitioner of meditation for 45+ years, Ejna is a certified meditation teacher and spiritual counselor, ceremonialist, minister, and priestess.
She holds a BS in Nursing and MA in Counseling Psychology.
She is the mother of 5 beloved grown children, 9 precious grandchildren and one treasured great-grandchild. Ejna is promoting our human legacy to heal so we can all create peace, joy, and celebration of our lives here on beloved Earth for all life and future generations.
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