Donna Mitchell-Moniak
is the founder and spiritual director of Spirit Fire. Her work has spanned three decades and many lives. She is an author, lecturer, teacher, guide, and mother. Through the course of her largely “remembered” spiritual and meditative practice, she developed The Practice of Living Awareness as both a meditative and a life practice.
Donna’s work, study, and offerings and writing has spanned the Native Tradition, the Trans-Himalayan codex of Alice Bailey, Raja and Agni Yogas, mystical Christianity, and Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
Donna lives in community and serenity at Spirit Fire in Leyden, MA.
Sara Traub
Sara Traub is Spirit Fire Canada. Sara has been teaching the practical ways of the spiritual path since the late 1980’s.
Embracing and warm, direct and delightful, Sara encourages people through their challenges to their fullness.
Joy Om
Joy Om is one of the two cornerstones of Spirit Fire Colorado. Essential Embodiment is Joy’s keynote. This is offered through the consciousness expanding classes she develops and teaches as well as her over 30 years profession as a Rolfer and Cranio-Sacral practitioner.
Cherie Peterson
Cherie Peterson is the other cornerstone of Spirit Fire Colorado. She is also an entrepreneur, long time Bailey student and meditator. As such Cherie creates programs and presentations that bridge the business world of creativity and consciousness.
Martha Henry-MacDonald
Martha Henry-MacDonald is a physical therapist with extensive post graduate study in Manual, Visceral, Neuro-Meningeal, Cranio-Sacral, and Energetic Medicine. She has taught physical therapy postgraduate courses for many years.
Martha is a certified instructor of Esoteric Healing through the International Network for Esoteric Healing (INEH), which she teaches in North America. She also teaches Discover the Self – the Science of the Seven Rays, meditation workshops, and leads a bi-weekly meditation at Harmony Center in Medfield, MA, and has earned a certificate in Esoteric Psychology through Spirit Fire.
Martha is a member of Spirit Fire’s Board of Directors and is actively involved in the development of our health and wellness classes.
“Spirit Fire has proven to be a very lighted path in consciousness: in education, group, heart, and soul. Join us at Spirit Fire and open to your wholeness!”
Judy Harrison
I am a practiced meditator and long time student of consciousness and the ageless wisdom. My path has included participation in the Arcane School and extensive study in the writings of the Master DK. It was in this pursuit, during the fall of 2001, that I met Donna Mitchell-Moniak. I was drawn to enroll in a course that she was offering at that time entitled Clarification of Consciousness. In retrospect it was clearly a soul driven decision since for me the class truly lived up to its name. At its conclusion I had found in Donna a spiritual mentor and in Spirit Fire my soul group and spiritual home. Both have since become an anchor in my life.
I joined the Board of Directors for Spirit Fire in May of 2005 and have since taught meditation and introductory classes in both esoteric studies and conscious living. I hold a Master’s degree in education and supervise a clinical team that supports delayed and disabled infants and toddlers and their families. I am also affiliated with a local Unitarian Church which has given me the opportunity to work with youth and teens, a population close to my heart. Together these various fields have been where I touch others and integrate the teachings of consciousness in my day to day interactions. This has been my joy and service as I practice living the motto of Spirit Fire to “Change yourself—change the world”.
Adjunct Faculty
Darren Roth
Darren Roth is a longtime member of the Spirit Fire community. He is a student and researcher of the world’s wisdom traditions, with a particular interest in Buddhist philosophy. He holds a Masters degree in Conflict Transformation and works in the field of international conflict resolution with a focus on Asian peace building initiatives. Darren currently lives, works, and plays in Colorado.
Laurie Warren
Laurie Warren has been an enthusiastic student of Spirit Fire and is a regular meditator with the morning group. She holds a master’s degree in human nutrition and teaches “Food and Your Health” classes for the Spirit Fire community. Laurie is a passionate and dynamic clinician, coach, and educator who is committed to teaching about the direct affect that food, movement, and emotional/spiritual health have on the overall health experience of the individual. Her work, both clinically and as an educator, weaves science and wisdom together to promote healing and to educate and empower her students to claim their natural state of vibrant health.
I believe in the unlimited power of the body to heal itself when it is properly supported and my work is based on this premise. I am passionate about helping people empower themselves to reclaim their own well-being. I combine my understanding of functional medicine, biochemistry, the power of herbs and whole foods, and the intricacies of endocrinology to facilitate a healing journey for clients and students alike. I also incorporate the hands-on learning from both my own spiritual practice and my role as the nutritional provider, advocate and educator of my four children and stepchildren into my practice and teachings.