Student of Native American Ceremonial Traditions
Creator and leader of the Dansa de la Luna Ceremony, Isabel Vega - rebirthing the women’s ceremony in Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Women’s Blessing Way, Betty’s Creek, NC: honoring the work of Betty Whitecloud, Cherokee midwife who birthed all the children of the valley where Lisa lives in the Northeastern Appalachains.
Lisa’s spiritual journey has led her to the heart of indigenous ceremonies in Mexico and the Lakota traditions in South Dakota. She has completed a four year commitment to the Dansa de la Luna (Moon Dance) in Teotihuacan, and for the past five years she’s participated in the Wasteskun Meztli Northern Lights Moon Dance in Quebec, where she’s received her Grandmother and Naming Ceremonies. She has also supported the traditional sun dance ceremonies on the Yankton Sioux and Pine Ridge Reservations in South Dakota.
She continues to walk a path that honors our deep interconnectedness with all life and strives to cultivate harmony, respect, and reverence for the natural world, embracing traditions that nurture balance and spiritual connection. She offers regular women's sweat lodge ceremonies at Leah Lake, where people come together in deep heart-fulness to honor the turning of the seasons. Beyond Blessing Ways (honoring new mothers giving birth) and life changes, people gather to celebrate Imbolc (the turning of the seeds), the spring equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice—marking these sacred transitions with prayer, intention, and community.
Leader of Expeditions
As an educator and guide, Lisa believes in rooted, hands-on experiences that inspire curiosity, respect for diverse cultures, and environmental stewardship.
She has had the privilege of leading transformative expeditions through The Grauer School to Yosemite, Zion, and Pinnacles National Parks, as well as the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. During the Pine Ridge expedition, she arranged for students to stay on a permaculture farm, sleeping in tipis under the vast Dakota sky. Students also shared traditional songs with Lakota elders, participated in a powwow generously offered by the Red Cloud School, and joined students and elders in a powerful sweat lodge ceremony on the school property. This experience was life-transforming—not only for her students but also for The Grauer School’s founder, Stuart Grauer.
Beyond these expeditions, she also lead a month-long DIG program—an interdisciplinary archaeological, anthropological, and cultural study designed for elementary students. Through this program, her students explored Lakota traditions, culminating in a journey to Pacha Mama at the border of Mexico and Escondido, CA. There, students participated in a traditional inipi sweat lodge ceremony, which was particularly transformative as one of the students’ classmates had been undergoing a year-long cancer treatment and his classmates brought photos and special items to lay on the altar, prayed and sang out-loud for the buddy, and experienced a profound moment of unity, resilience, and the unexplainable power of communal healing (their buddy fully recuperated!).
Lisa’s passion lies in guiding students toward self-discovery, fostering global awareness, and cultivating a lifelong appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things.
Speaking At Wayfarers Chapel, Dillard GA
Lisa is honored to be a speaker at Wayfarers Chapel, a nondenominational place that embraces all great religions and enlightenment traditions as expressions of the One universal presence. Rooted in the values of inclusion, love, gratitude, health, and service, Wayfarers honors the diverse spiritual paths that guide each individual’s journey. Lisa’s talks have explored topics such as telepathy, the summer solstice and the nature of light, animism, and the Imbolc season—when seeds begin to stir beneath the earth, preparing to take root for spring. She also co-leads a meditation group and a full-moon drum circle at the chapel.