Simon Buxton is Founder/Director of The Sacred Trust and the UK Faculty for The Foundation For Shamanic Studies, the foremost core-shamanic training organisation in the world, directed by Dr Michael Harner. Simon has worked and trained within shamanic traditions for over twenty years, including a thirteen year apprenticeship to a European Bee Master, as detailed within his book The Shamanic Way of the Bee, which was the recipient of the 2005 Canizares Book Award for non-fiction. He is also the co-author of the seminal work Darkness Visible, and his third book, The Serpent Flight of the Honey-Bee is published later this year. Simon is a Fellow of The Royal Anthropological Institute, the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology and his work has been profiled within several books including Travelling Between the Worlds by Hillary S. Web and Soul Companions by Karen Sawyer.  In 2007 Simon opened The Sacred Trust Centre in Dorset, England where he conducts his writing, research and teaching work.

Naomi Lewis is the Educational Director of The Sacred Trust and Founder of The School of Animal Spirit Medicine. She is a professional shamanic counsellor and healer, teacher and ceremonialist, known for her remarkable abilities in communing with the animal kingdom. Naomi trained as a photographer at Central St. Martins College of Art, a discipline that led her directly onto the shamans path through her interaction with sacred and mythological landscapes. Her work is heart-centred, and the weaving of the unguarded self with power stands at the forefront of her work, creating a dynamic learning space for students. She teaches the One Year Training in Animal Spirit Medicine  as well as co-teaching The Shamanic Way of the Horse training, Darkness Visible courses and other Sacred Trust teaching events.

Kate Shela is a shamanic teacher and shamanic practitioner known for her enormous passion, a vulnerable sense of the intimate and the ability to create community and tribe.  She is a senior instructor within the Moving Center School founded by Gabrielle Roth with whom she has been closely associated for over fifteen years. She is also an initiate of the Path of Pollen shamanic tradition and one of only two individuals authorised to teach seminars and trainings for women on behalf of the Path of Pollen. In that capacity she co-teaches The Way of the Melissae seminar and the year-long training Arte Tryptich Melissae within The Sacred Trust programme. Kate possesses a bold improvisational style and a passionate sense of humour that enables magic to ooze into the everyday moments. This is her seventh year as a member of The Sacred Trust faculty.

Professor Stuart Harrop has been described as a 'walker between the worlds' of shamanism and academia. His professional background includes heading up the Anthropology Department at the University of Canterbury, advising the United Nations on issues concerning conservation and the preservation of human heritage, and playing a vital role in the development of conservation regulation. His fieldwork focuses on the role and practices of indigenous and rural communities in the conservation of biodiversity, and in that capacity he has worked with communities living in biodiversity-rich areas in Meso and South America, Africa and the Far East. Stuart co-facilitates a unique two-week physical darkness retreat The Journey to the Midnight Sun bringing with him a wealth of experience in darkness work, which he sees as the optimum vehicle to enable us to access inner silence and to perceive our true relationship with the Earth and the wider cosmos.

Catriona Macdonald is a cranial osteopath and a shamanic practitioner specializing in animal healing and innovative health. Her private practice was established eighteen years ago and she is now considered to be one of the most senior members of her profession. She regularly treated advanced competition and Grand Prix level dressage horses but stepped away from that world due to her concerns regarding animal welfare. A particular area of her expertise is working with trauma in both animals and humans, and her approach is biodynamic, placing the influence of spirit at the centre of her practice. Catriona Macdonald has been in deep communion with the horse since early childhood, and the themes of wildness and wilderness have been key in both her life and spiritual practice, with a recognition that the human spirit can be refreshed and nourished by exposure and interaction with the natural world.  She joins Naomi Lewis in co-facilitating a revolutionary new training for horse-people: The Shamanic Way of the Horse.