THE ARTISTS

Appreciation

My thanks go out to all those who have helped bring this work into manifestation.

To the embodied and spiritual beings who have co-created this work, I bow down and give thanks.

To the Dakinis, and the Great Goddess they represent, I make this offering and lay it at their feet, at Her feet.
I give thanks to Karmapa Llama, the 16th Karmapa, from whom I received direct transmission when he performed the Black Hat Ceremony in New York in 1976. Salutations to the great teacher.

I give thanks to Christopher Hills who recognized the importance of the Goddess for the planet and created a retreat to serve her. He recognized and confirmed the Goddess energy in me and, although no longer in the flesh, has been a facilitator and constant supporter of this project.

I thank all the women who have offered themselves in service to the Dakinis. May they be enriched and blessed by this experience. It this time of harsh materialism and challenging economics, it is of noteworthy significance that the models did not do this for money.
I thank the team of people who have stepped forward in support of this endeavour. In particular I would like to thank my partner, Dhiren Dasu, for all his assistance and patience, his creativity and the set of skills he has contributed.

I thank Wendy Doyle for stepping up and bringing an invaluable and complimentary array of skills in make up, costume and styling to the shoots. These assets, along with her dedication and casting skills, have been one of the greatest enablers of the project as it has come to completion.

I thank Romio Shrestha for his inspiration and his art.

While the main subject matter of each digital collage have been photographs I have taken myself, I want to thank the photographers who have, often unknowingly, contributed to this work. The scope of the project has made it impractical to contact everyone whose pictures have formed part of the visual mosaic of these images. I send my thanks and heartfelt appreciation to you all. May the blessings of the Dakinis reach out and bless your lives.

If any photographers and/or artists recognize any image included in any collage as one of theirs, please contact us and we will be very happy to include a credit to you in future editions and provide you with a link to your site from our website, so that you may be credited and benefit from the connection in a direct way. My apologies for not being able to reach out and acknowledge you all personally. I want to take this opportunity to thank you all again for being part of this work.

I thank Wendy Grace for her timely support which has greatly assisted in bringing this project to completion.

I thank Nik Douglas for first introducing me to the 64 Yogini Temples of India in the 1970s.

I want to thank the many people have offered their support during the evolution of this project. I especially want to thank Patrick Flanagan and Stephanie Sutton, Sylvia Brailer, Wendy Doyle and ShuLei Tong. 

I also want to thank John Wadsworth of Floating Worlds and Francisco Loza for their generosity in supplying video cameras for many of the shoots.

‘Behind the Scenes’

Special thank you to Larry Coppage.

I thank Celestine Star, Robert ‘Azul’ Simmons, Scott Railsback, Ima Banasky, Travis Liggett and Jake Balakoohi for insight, feedback and editing.

Thank you to Dalana Cleopas Castrell for prompting me to write a book that would ‘help people in their everyday lives’.

I give thanks to my parents, Edward and Molly Audrey Slinger, who gave me life and whose love and support was always there for me, however challenging the circumstances. Thank you for recognizing my talent and allowing me to be myself.

Special gratitude and appreciation goes out to Dhiren Dasu and Gabriel DeWitt for the work they have donated in designing and building this website.

Dakini Credits

All shoots:  Director & Art Director:  Penny Slinger


Penny Slinger

This collection represents the crowning achievement in the life and art of Penny Slinger. In her career as a ‘maverick artist’, she has carved paths for herself - often where others have not dared to tread. She evades categorization. She brings together pieces of ‘reality’ to create new realities, in whichever medium she works. She has developed a wide skill-set over her artistic career both artistically and spiritually, all of which she brings to this project.

Penny graduated from Chelsea College of Art, London, in 1969, with a First Class Honors Degree in Fine Art and Design. She had discovered Surrealism as an art student and this became her primary mode of expression through the mid 1970s, where she employed it to probe the feminine psyche. Sir Roland Penrose became her patron and her work was featured in ‘Young and Fantastic’, an exhibition of ‘New Surrealists’ at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, followed by two solo exhibitions at the Angela Flowers Gallery (1971 and 1973).

In 1971 her first book, ‘50% The Visible Woman’, of photographic collage and poetry, was published.
She performed in an all-women theater group called ‘Holocaust’, and played a major role in the movie ‘The Other Side of the Underneath’.
In 1977 she published ‘An Exorcism’, a ground-breaking journey of self-discovery told through photographic collage.

After Penny discovered Tantric Art, she published: ‘Mountain Ecstasy’ (1978), ‘The Secret Dakini Oracle’ (1977-79) and ‘Sexual Secrets, The Alchemy of Ecstasy’ (1979) with Nik Douglas.

Her work was exhibited in solo and group art and photography exhibitions in London and New York, through the early 1980s.

Penny turned her attention to the Arawak Indians while living in the Caribbean during the 1980s and early ‘90s. She exhibited a collection of over a hundred original paintings and pastels, which became the basis for her video, ‘Visions of the Arawaks’, released in 1994.

She moved to California that year and established a multi-media studio with Dr Christopher Hills. From 1997 through 2001 Penny produced a series of multi-media, sacred art events at the Goddess Temple. She released the video ‘Dance of the Cosmos’ in 2001, and, with Dhiren Dasu, the DVDs ‘Goddess Juice’ (2003), ‘Rainbow Body Awakening’ and ‘Polynations’ in 2009.

The ‘64 Dakini Oracle’ represents the synthesis of the artistic disciplines Penny has worked with during her career. As a student she was told, ‘You want a glue that will stick anything to anything’. Utilizing the ‘new tools’ of digital media (all these photographic collages were composed in Photoshop), she seeks to blend physical and metaphysical realities to open portals into other, visionary but tangible, dimensions. For Penny, this is not just her art, but her spiritual practice. These images are her offering to the Dakinis as their vehicles for manifestation in this dimension.

Linkis: www.pennyslinger.com
www.goddesschannel.com
www.goddesstemple.org

 

1.     Inspira
Model : Sunny Soriano
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

 


2.    Sophia
Model : Eliza Moon
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger/Avatara
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


3.    Angel
Model : Katherine’Ka’ June
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Ka
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Davin Infinity
Photographer: Penny Slinger

   * Kathryn "Ka" June weaves her art through the multidimensional web with continuous threads of beauty and prayer.  As she paints visions of divine love, transformation, healing and rebirth, she also embodies these energies through dance and ceremony, bridging her prayers throughout all of existence and revealing universal interconnection and Divinity in all beings.  Dancing the angelic feathered rainbow serpent, Ka opens a portal of healing energy as an offering to every heart to receive and embrace the medicine of unconditional love. Her vision is to create a Divine reflection that gazes back into humanity, illuminating the beauty within the beholder, reminding us all of our innate ability to heal ourselves, heal each other, and to create Heaven here on Earth.

www.serpentfeathers.com


4.    Cosmicini
Model : Amber
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/ Phyllis Laurie
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Nassim Haramein.
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

5.    Queen of Heaven
Model : Kami
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger /Amber Brashears
Assistant to Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


6.     Queen of the Night
Model : Denise Leeds
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

I am a LVN, and I am currently studying to become a certified Healing Touch Practitioner.  My passion is being present for people and animals, and helping them physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually.  Studying energy medicine has opened the door to a much deeper understanding of my own personal healing journey on many levels.  I am continuously grateful to facilitate others on their healing path. My hobbies include modeling (I love being part of the art), fire dancing, reading, gardening, living, laughing, loving and playing with my kitties J.

DeniseLeedsHealing@gmail.com

 


7.    Fractali
Model : Klara Lova
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Klara Lova
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Klara Soukalova grew up in the Czech Republic and moved to the US in
2000 where she studied healing arts in California. Today she is
dedicated to working with sacred plants as an apprentice to Indigenous
healers of the Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon. She runs with her
husband a healing center that focuses on working with female shaman
and the Divine Feminine. She has also been a passionate dancer /
performer since a young age and a painter for the last nine years.

www.templeofthewayoflight.org
https://www.facebook.com/pages


8.    Faery Queen
Model : Wendy Doyle
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above photo by Jennifer Esteban (JenniferEsteban.com)

I am a Southern California girl born and raised.  I consider myself a transformational artist.  I have gratefully been working as a professional hair and make-up artist, wardrobe stylist, and fashion designer for over 20 years.  I currently design my clothing line Gypse Couture, using mostly upcycled materials.  I am passionate about my own self-discovery and transformation, and love helping others discover theirs.  I am mostly inspired when I am painting mandalas, exploring in nature, enjoying life, and working on projects filled with love.

Gypsecouture@gmail.com
 www.gypsecouture.etsy.com

 


 

9.    Media
Model : Hollis Doherty
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above Photo by Hollis Doherty

"Hollis Doherty is an actress and a screenwriter. She was busy writing her second screenplay when she came to the Goddess Temple to shoot the 'media dakini'. When Penny was discussing which dakini Hollis should play, she said the sentence... "Her ideas are projected upon the screen." This is all the more prescient for Hollis as she has now written a 6 part miniseries and yet another screenplay. And it truly is a dream come true for her ideas to be projected upon the screen. The dakini magic started to work for her at the inception of her involvement, in her alignment with the perfect dakini!"


 

10.  Owl Dakini
Model : Jinn Luna
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

 


 

11.  Spider Woman
Model : Meriana Dinkova
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger/Meriana
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Meriana DInkova is a Marriage and Family Therapist and Life- and Relationship Coach based in the Bay Area. She does workshops and teaches nationally and internationally.
Website:
www.merianadinkova.com

 


 

12.  Metamorpha
Model : Sherise
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

13.  Maha Maya
Model : Lakshmi Narayan
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Art Credit: Romio Shrestha

Lakshmi Narayan
I am a graphic designer, poet, psychonaut and free thinker. And I mean FREE. My goal in life is to use media to transform humanity into a 'high culture'. Like Egypt, the Maya and many great civilizations that disappeared, our global culture is on the brink of massive change, collapse of overdeveloped systems and the birth of something new, that we glimpse and feel but cannot fully imagine as yet. It takes a decisive lifting of the veils of Maya, a look into what reality IS in order for us for us to see and create that future, and make the collective shift that would put us in harmony with nature and our evolution again.

http://narayandesign.com
http://trancequill.blogspot.com

 


 

14.  Isis
Model : Penny Slinger
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistants to the  Director: Phyllis Laurie/Lorenzo Patterson
Photographer: Lorenzo Patterson


 

15.  Creatrix
Model : Penny Slinger
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle (featuring Gypsy Couture)/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Dhiren Dasu


 

16.  Apsara Cultura
Model :  Charya Burt
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Sotheary Au
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Rob Burt
Thanks to: Aurelien Pumayana Floret for photographs of Ankor Wat.
Photo by Patricia Bashford

Charya Burt is a graduate and former dance faculty member of the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Her training began in 1982 under the direction of the foremost dance masters of Cambodia. As a member of Cambodia’s royal dance troupe, Charya toured nationally and internationally. After immigrating to California in 1993, Charya has performed throughout the USA, including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and 12 times as a featured performer at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Charya, who has a B.A. (cum laude) from Sonoma State University, has conducted many dance workshops at colleges around the country. She has also been awarded numerous grants icluding three times from the Irvine Dance in California Program, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the Creative Work Fund,CCI Investing in Artists, and the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange. Here  new works include Romlik Kun Know (Forever My Ancestors), Pka Kolab Khiev (Blue Roses), Intersectios Through Time, of Spirits Intertwined, and Caressing Nostalgia. A recipient of the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Individual Performance, Charya is currently a contributing artist for the Khmer Arts Academy in Long Beach, and the Cambodian Cultural Dance Group in San Jose. She is the artistic director of Charya Burt Cambodian Dance, based in Windsor California.

www. Charyaburt.com

Her next upcoming performance is on July 1-3 at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.


 

17.  Vajra Yogini
Model : Penny Slinger
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistants to the Director: Phyllis Laurie/Lorenzo Patterson
Photographers: Phyllis Laurie/Lorenzo Patterson


 

18.  Saraswati
Model : Anja Indirani
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Art Credit: Romio Shrestha

AnJa Indirani is a dynamic and inspiring performer. Born in London of Indian ancestry, AnJa moved to North Carolina as a young girl and has been living in the San Diego area since the age of 18. She is the CFO of a hotel during the weekdays, operates her own online store and performance company (Indirani.com), and blends tribal fusion belly dancing with fire dancing and other dance props such as Isis wings, silk fans, and swords. Her powerful sultry performances spring from the Soul and always touch the witnesses to the experience deeply. We are truly blessed to have her be a part of our ever-growing global Tribal community of dance artists. Becoming the avatar of Saraswati for the 64 Dakini Oracle was a profoundly transformative archetypal revelation for AnJa, putting her in touch with the compassionate well-spring of musically artistic Divine Grace that the Goddess in partnership with Brahma embodies. It will be an experience she never forgets, and it was an honor and a true pleasure working with Penny and Wendy and personifying the spirit of Saraswati . AnJa fully relates to Saraswati as she very much enjoys learning, knowledge, music and the creative arts. She hopes and prays that the 64 Dakini Oracle will awaken Divine archetypal energies in an ever-expanding circle of blossoming human beings.

http://www.indirani.com
http://www.facebook.com/anja.indirani

 


 

19.  Tantric Kitty
Models : Goddess Kitty, Jinn Luna, Natalia Price
Styling & Make Up: Penny Slinger and models.
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Art Credit: Romio Shrestha

Goddess Kitty has been an avant garde performer/dancer/nude/fetish alternative model for more than 20 years, and is also known as a cable show host/producer/director/writer/ sexual avatar and comedic actress in Manhattan. Born and raised in NYC, she's made a name for herself in the underground scene for many years, not only as a cable access queen but a radio show host and a burlesque dancer too. The Goddess of all media!  Now in 2011 she is embarking on a new venture as a host for a sexy cooking show and also as the creator of an online sexy fetish/alternative magazine called GKM, (Goddess Kitty Magazine) to be launched in July of 2011.  for more info: goddesskitty.com  facebook.com/goddessshow  myspace.com/goddessradio  hookersarecookerstoo.com (in the making)

www.facebook.com/goddesskitty
Photo by Alex Colby


 

20.  Kuan Yin
Model : Hideyo Blackmoon
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger /Phyllis Laurie
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above Photo by Zigen
Styling, hair, and makeup by Noburu Tomizawa | Assistant to the Director Hirosuke Hoashi

Hideyo Blackmoon - Shamanic DJ Diva from Japan
http://hideyo.jp


 

21.  Ecstatica
Model : Amanda Rose Loveland
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above photo by Gene Marcus (Higherartphotography.com)


 

22.  Tara
Model : Kaori
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistants to the Director: Phyllis Laurie, Lorenzo Patterson
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

23.  Quetzakundalini
Model : Jamila Caro
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Jamila:  Sprouted upon moon beams of love, sculpting dreams with sun rays above.
I'm Om the path, cultivating the most ultimate purpose of life's amazing journey.. the journey.
For me it unfolds in creating the conscious mystery everyday.
I am a muse, writer, songstress, artist, actor, and world traveler.
A thirst for knowledge connects me with a love for metaphysics, philosophy and the unknown.
I've had the glorious pleasure of living the majority of my life in various parts of astonishing LA.
I am also a lover, loner, socialite, rebel, warrior, vegetarian, yogi and peacemaker.
As the list continues I continue to create and coexistence in an odd and magnificent world.
A fraction of more of me is available at http://jamilacaro.com

 


 

24.  Chi
Model : ShuLei Tong
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Mark Hagar
Photographer: Penny Slinger

ShuLei Tong: Greetings to all who are committed to your well-being through the creative arts of self practice ~*~
After 25 years of serving through the healing arts, the method I will endorse is a practical method derived through the ancient forms of healing in China called QiGong.  It is a way to allow the body to follow the breath in an orderly manner, creating an assembly of functioning forms internally and therefore externally, holding space for beauty throughout.  Guigen QiGong is medical and is practiced by patients at the XiYuan Hospital in Beijing for auto-immune diseases, anxiety, insomnia, physical disabilities and pain, migraines and scoliosis to name a few.  Try it and you will feel the dynamic results of these Medical Qigong DVD exercises.  God Bless You All  ~*~
www.TheBlossomingSpirit.com


 

25.  Mistress X
Model : Wendy Doyle
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Ropes: Eden Wells
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above photo by Jennifer Esteban (JenniferEsteban.com)

I am a Southern California girl born and raised.  I consider myself a transformational artist.  I have gratefully been working as a professional hair and make-up artist, wardrobe stylist, and fashion designer for over 20 years.  I currently design my clothing line Gypse Couture, using mostly upcycled materials.  I am passionate about my own self-discovery and transformation, and love helping others discover theirs.  I am mostly inspired when I am painting mandalas, exploring in nature, enjoying life, and working on projects filled with love.

Gypsecouture@gmail.com
 www.gypsecouture.etsy.com

 


 

26.  Secret Geisha
Model : Hideyo Blackmoon
Styling & Make Up: Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above Photo by Zigen
Styling, hair, and makeup by Noburu Tomizawa | Assistant to the Director Hirosuke Hoashi

Hideyo Blackmoon - Shamanic DJ Diva from Japan
http://hideyo.jp


 

27.  Electra Li
Model : T-Rex
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger/Amber Brashears.
Crown by: Pyro from Unifier.           
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Lights thanks to: Michael Moore/Golden Spiral.
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above Photo by Rootssolutions.com

Teresa T~Rex Mercsak
A master multitasker, T~Rex is always creating. From instructing at The Art Institute of California-San Diego to co-owning a fire dancing and stilt walking company called Unifier (www.myfiredancers.com: link to http://www.myfiredancers.com/Site/Unifier_Home.html) to co-owning a leather retail business called Lunavore (www.lunavore.com), she's always on the go. Harnessing her "electric" side was a lesson in patience, one of trust and integration with a medium she came to love and embrace.

https://www.facebook.com/Trexattacks


28.  Dreamer
Model : Ima Banasky
Styling & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer:  Penny Slinger

iMa, meaning “Now” in Japanese and “Mother” in Hebrew, lives from the spirit of presence being the seed of true compassion. It is with this grace and openness that she approaches each of the holistic modalities that constitute the art and passions of her life. She has been a student of transformational modalities for 14 years and a Holistic Practitioner for the past 8 years. Her integrative approach combines Thai Massage, Japanese Foot Reflexology, Reiki (Usui, Tibetan, Shambala & Celtic Reiki), Breathwork, Meditation, Yoga, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine. She also leads annual transformational retreat in Hana, Maui. Complimenting her journey through the healing arts, iMa has also been involved in the creative arts throughout her life, exploring a variety of modalities. She is about to publish her first book, 'The Star Fisherman', a nature-based young adult myth that is the first in the trilogy 'The Chronicles of L'Quinon' - soon to be followed by 'The Golden Leaf' and 'The Spirit in the Water'. It is iMa’s mission to share these gifts with you in order to create more opportunities for optimum joy, vitality and liberation.

 


 

29.  Kali
Model : Penny Slinger
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger /Phyllis Laurie
Assistants to the Director: Phyllis Laurie/Lorenzo Patterson
Photographer: Lorenzo Patterson


 

30.  Aphroditia
Models : Penny Slinger/Botticelli’s Aphrodite & Wendy Doyle
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistants to the Director: Phyllis Laurie/Lorenzo Patterson
Photographer: Phyllis Laurie

 


31.  Phoenix
Model : Marya Stark
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Ima Banasky
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Marya Stark is a passionate sultry bard from Santa Cruz. She works with song in groundbreaking models, integrating elements of music therapy, sound healing, energy healing, operatic story-telling, and traditional folk-like heart sharing. She has lived into the mythos of the fierce fiery Phoenix, and has developed song cycles around rebirthing through the flames of transformation, becoming the light of tomorrow and burning through the shadows of yesterday. She is a voice, she is a song, and she is aflame with the fires of love. 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marya-Stark/131988230145049

www.firesoflove.org


 

32.  Liquida
Model : Megan Anastasia
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu/Max Peterson/Matthew ‘Hanuman’ Breno.
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

33.  Enflami
Model : Tuana
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger 
Airbrush Bodyart:  Icarus
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

 

The body painting artist Icarus Zaure has been taking airbrushing to the next level for 4 years now. Inspired by tribal ritual preparation's, fantasy art, art make up, and using templates or stencils he has created unique design's few have seen in the body painting world. Painting in ranges of ritual, performance, dance, circus, modeling, runway, children, and costume with only high quality airbrush body make up paint Icarus Zaure is opening a new gate into the way we view the human form.

www.icaruszaure.com


 

34.  Octopusi
Model : Ima Banasky
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/ Ima
Airbrush Bodyart: Icarus
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

iMa, meaning “Now” in Japanese and “Mother” in Hebrew, lives from the spirit of presence being the seed of true compassion. It is with this grace and openness that she approaches each of the holistic modalities that constitute the art and passions of her life. She has been a student of transformational modalities for 14 years and a Holistic Practitioner for the past 8 years. Her integrative approach combines Thai Massage, Japanese Foot Reflexology, Reiki (Usui, Tibetan, Shambala & Celtic Reiki), Breathwork, Meditation, Yoga, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine. She also leads annual transformational retreat in Hana, Maui. Complimenting her journey through the healing arts, iMa has also been involved in the creative arts throughout her life, exploring a variety of modalities. She is about to publish her first book, 'The Star Fisherman', a nature-based young adult myth that is the first in the trilogy 'The Chronicles of L'Quinon' - soon to be followed by 'The Golden Leaf' and 'The Spirit in the Water'. It is iMa’s mission to share these gifts with you in order to create more opportunities for optimum joy, vitality and liberation.

www.iMaHealingArts.com

The body painting artist Icarus Zaure has been taking airbrushing to the next level for 4 years now. Inspired by tribal ritual preparation's, fantasy art, art make up, and using templates or stencils he has created unique design's few have seen in the body painting world. Painting in ranges of ritual, performance, dance, circus, modeling, runway, children, and costume with only high quality airbrush body make up paint Icarus Zaure is opening a new gate into the way we view the human form.

www.icaruszaure.com


 

35.  Pele
Model : Lisa Han
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

36.  Mermaid
Model : Cynthia Monteil
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger /Cynthia Monteil
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

37.  Protectress
Model : Naomi
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

38.  Avalonia
Model : Penny Slinger
Styling & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistants to the Director: Phyllis Laurie/Lorenzo Patterson
Photographer: Phyllis Laurie


 

39.  Funtasia
Model : Annie Sprinkle
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger/Annie Sprinkle
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. has 38 years of experience in sexually oriented art, entertainment, and activism. She was a prostitute and porn star for twenty years, then bridged into the art world and became an internationally acclaimed performance artist doing theater about her life. Sprinkle was a mover and shaker in the 80’s “sex positive feminist” movement, taught sexuality workshops in 14 countries and helped pioneer new sex film genres.  Sprinkle became the first porn star to earn a Ph.D. Today she is a committed environmental activist and growing the “ecosex movement.” She lives and works with her beloved life partner, artist/professor Elizabeth Stephens, and their doggie Bob, in San Francisco. They are “pollen-amourous,” married to the Earth, Sky and Sea.

www.anniesprinkle.org
loveartlab.org
SexEcology.org


40.  Kumari Maria
Model : Sarah Elizabeth Wells
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above Photo by Sarah Wells

Sarah Wells - east coast caterpillar turned west coast butterfly, sarah is loving her life in the Bay Area. She is a graduate student at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, pursuing a master's degree Women's Spirituality, with a specialization in Creative Expression. She loves the sunshine, her dream life, time spent in nature, and being alive at this most beautiful and perilous time.

blog: http://emotionsarethecolorsofthesoul.blogspot.com
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/naivemelody09

 

 


 

41.  Erotica
Model : Eline
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Eline is a dancer, erotic performer, ritual facilitator, as well as a somatic sex & relationship coach, erotic yoga instructor, somatic sex educator & sexologist assisting individuals, couples and groups to access profound ecstatic and erotic states by incorporating breathwork, touch, erotic massage, pelvic release bodywork, scar tissue remediation, and Orgasmic Yoga coaching. Eline was certified at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, Ca.

She embraces the body as a miracle of senses, a temple of creation and a vessel capable of accessing infinite levels of consciousness.  Eline promotes awareness of the body as a source of wisdom and freedom:
"In order to gain access to our full potential and live as our highest totally manifested self, we must face our fears, embrace our resistances and love ourselves unconditionally. I am ecstatically embracing my path and sharing my highest vibration, guiding towards liberation into the mystical and shamanic aspects of human sexuality. My mission is to inspire the acknowledgement of the spiritual dimensions of sexuality.”

http://www.sexualiberator.com/


 

42.  Mercura Reflectiva
Model : Lauren  Abraham
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu/Max Peterson
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

43.  Durga
Model : Jamila Caro
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie (crown)
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Background image: Romio Shrestha collection.

Jamila:  Sprouted upon moon beams of love, sculpting dreams with sun rays above.
I'm Om the path, cultivating the most ultimate purpose of life's amazing journey.. the journey.
For me it unfolds in creating the conscious mystery everyday.
I am a muse, writer, songstress, artist, actor, and world traveler.
A thirst for knowledge connects me with a love for metaphysics, philosophy and the unknown.
I've had the glorious pleasure of living the majority of my life in various parts of astonishing LA.
I am also a lover, loner, socialite, rebel, warrior, vegetarian, yogi and peacemaker.
As the list continues I continue to create and coexistence in an odd and magnificent world.
A fraction of more of me is available at http://jamilacaro.com

 


 

44.  Lady Rainbow
Model : Cynthia Monteil
Styling, Hair & Make Up:  Cynthia Monteil
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

45.  Yogini
Model : Maura Rassman
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Background image: Romio Shrestha collection.

Above photo by Rich Van Every

Maura Rassman, M.A., B.S. holds degrees in Biology and Education.  She is a leading trainer, workshop facilitator, yoga instructor and integrative body worker in Encinitas, California with over 15 years experience.  With a background as a biologist, acrobat and massage therapist, Maura integrates healing traditions from around the world into a powerful unique system that is sought after by healers and yoga teachers alike.  Her integrative style blends Thai, Shiatsu, Deep Tissue, Cranial Sacral, Acroyoga, Massage Therapy, Yoga Therapeutics, Osteopathics and Rolfing.  A world traveler, she has studied with masters in massage and healing arts in places like India, Thailand, Laos, Bali and Nepal.  She is also the creator of the Aum Dome, a sacred space used for yoga workshops and bodywork therapy.  Her latest creation involves a gifted group of world class healers, known as the Body Magicians.

Links:
www.maurarassman.com
www.bodymagicians.com
www.aumdome.com


 

46.  Oshun
Model : Shay ‘Butta’ Hughes
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu/Max Peterson
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Oshun portrayed by Shalena "Shay Butta" Hughes.

photo by Darren Miller

Shalena, better known amongst the west coast visionary tribal scene as "Shay Butta" is a humble servant of the Yum...The Yum Sauce that is. Shay is  the founder & producer of the The Yum Sauce Lounge, a conscious platform for healing, visionary & performance arts, dedicated to integrating & upgrading the highest potential of living, through art & community though collaboration of heart, mind & spirit.  The YSL experience is a vessel to invite  enchanting possibilities which inspire a higher quality of celebration.
Yum Sauce strives to shine what it means to know & love thyself...to innerstand & express what it means to be a Human BEing, as we are the Sauce, the Divine Flavor of Life. The Yum, is the precious moments of presence: Kisses, chocolate, sunrises, love making... those moments that make your heart sing out mmmmmYummmmm...the moments recognized in bliss....those moments we become aware of GOD=YUM....
Beyond producer, Shalena is a performance artist, working in dance, tv/film & modeling. She is delighted to be living her dreams creating beautiful inspiring art with her beloved friends in the new multi media fire dance fusion troupe, SERAPHIM. Shay honors & celebrates her life experience by enjoying a healthy lifestyle of yoga, meditation, sacred dance & a plant based diet. She is a lover of travel, culture & nature. Living to learn, to be a student & a teacher. Striving to thrive on her path of stirring up the sacred sauce of life

 


47.  Mystere
Model : Angelique Payne
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Angelique Payne
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

48.  Algaea
Model: Amber Brashears
Styling, Hair, Make Up & Body painting: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistants to the Director: Dhiren Dasu/ Max Peterson
Thanks to: Icarus
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

49.  Aghori
Model : Wendy Doyle
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle /Penny Slinger
Assistants to the Director: Dhiren Dasu/Max Peterson
Thanks to: Max Peterson/ Christopher Hills
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above photo by Jennifer Esteban (JenniferEsteban.com)

I am a Southern California girl born and raised.  I consider myself a transformational artist.  I have gratefully been working as a professional hair and make-up artist, wardrobe stylist, and fashion designer for over 20 years.  I currently design my clothing line Gypse Couture, using mostly upcycled materials.  I am passionate about my own self-discovery and transformation, and love helping others discover theirs.  I am mostly inspired when I am painting mandalas, exploring in nature, enjoying life, and working on projects filled with love.

Gypsecouture@gmail.com
www.gypsecouture.etsy.com

 


 

50.  Lakshmi
Model : Zeerak Khan
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Smt. Rajyalakshmi and Smt. Srilakshmi.
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

51.  Alchemica
Model : Penny Slinger
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Dhiren Dasu


 

52.  Copper Woman
Copper Woman
Model : Renfey.
Featuring:  Magic the dog.
Styling , Body Make Up & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Above photo by Allan Amarto

LESA HARDY
It has been a beautiful experience to embody this Dakini and work with Penny
Slinger and Wendy Doyle to bring the magic and essence of these powerful women
spirits to life. And to now set them to work on the betterment of our
consciousness, our capacity to love and our courage in seeking our inner truth.

I am a singer, songwriter and performer who has made creative madness my way of
life… from performing a rock opera called The Burning Opera, to releasing my
alternative rock album, Rise, under my persona Renfey, to touring throughout
California, Burning Man, Europe and West Africa to perform and play music, to
heading up a music production company called Land Factory Music, to meeting up
with so many incredible creative spirits to form a bond of positive energy and
free expression that is a gift I am grateful for everyday!

www.renfey.com
www.landfactorymusic.com
www.burningopera.com


 

53.  Shamani
Model : Luzia Krull
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Luzia Krull
Model: Jessan
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

54.  Vegetiva
Model : Tara Somers
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Phyllis Laurie
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

55.  White Buffalo Calf Woman
Model :  Mia Valentina Jojola
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

56.  Flora
Model : Anju Lewis
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Anju
Airbrush Body Art:  Icarus
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Ima Banasky
Photographer: Penny Slinger

The body painting artist Icarus Zaure has been taking airbrushing to the next level for 4 years now. Inspired by tribal ritual preparation's, fantasy art, art make up, and using templates or stencils he has created unique design's few have seen in the body painting world. Painting in ranges of ritual, performance, dance, circus, modeling, runway, children, and costume with only high quality airbrush body make up paint Icarus Zaure is opening a new gate into the way we view the human form.

www.icaruszaure.com


 

57.  Bionica
Model : Eden Wells
Styling, Hair, Make Up and Body painting:  Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger/Eden Wells
Assistant to director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Garee Stadler
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

58.  Medicina
Model : Dragonfly
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Thanks to: Marya Stark.
Photographer: Penny Slinger
Art Credit: Romio Shrestha

DRAGONFLY DE LA LUZ
I work for the Universe and I’m here to fulfill my role in the reinstatement of Heaven on Earth. I travel the world, guided by my Heart, helping Goddess answer prayers. I am sent on missions that involve kissing boys back to life, administering amazing glow-jobs, giving 24-hour heart-ons, being the rainbow after a shitstorm, and offering bong-hits to those in need. Sometimes I write about my (mis)adventures as a blossoming spiritual-sexual warrioress, using my own brand of humorous eroticism, in a blog called “Diary of a Tantrik Cosmik Sex Bomb.” I am also a cannabis chronnoisseur. I trek to exotic countries and write about the cannabis varieties and counter-cultures I find. My strain review column, “Getting High with Dragonfly,” is a monthly feature in West Coast Cannabis and SKUNK magazines, and my articles have also appeared in Cannabis Culture, Kush, the Journal for the Education of Medical Marijuana, and the Journal for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. I am the global ganja correspondent for TV's Cannabis Planet news show, and was recently named one of the "Most Influential Women in Weed" by SKUNK magazine. I studied English Literature and Women's Studies before pursuing my graduate degree in Feminism and Social Justice. I spend every day in happiness and love.

http://tantrikcosmiksexbomb.blogspot.com/

http://gettinghighwithdragonfly.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dragonfly-de-la-Luz/160549580671636

 


59.  Pythia
Model : L’eema Graham
Styling, Hair & Make Up: L’eema Graham
Lighting: Dennis Miller
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Le'ema Kathleen Graham
Biography
Rev. Le’ema Kathleen Graham is a visionary sacred dancer, an ordained priestess of the Temple of Isis, and a master teacher. She is the author of Dancing the Inner Serpent: Memoirs of a Suburban Snake Priestess and the producer of the DVD Snake Yoga: Sacred Feminine Wisdom.  With over 30 years of experience in the field of Somatics, Le'ema has helped people of all ages embody their inner serpent. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including the book Sacred Woman/Sacred Dance, Yoga Magazine and Conscious Dancer Magazine. With Master's work in World Dance, she performs and teaches internationally and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Contact Info:
www.dancingpriestess.com  
www.goddesswork.com   
www.snakeyoga.com
Facebook: Le'ema Kathleen Graham- Visionary Sacred Dancer-Priestess-Yoga Teacher

 


 

60.  Nurtura
Model : Betsy Finklehoo
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Betsy Finkelhoo is a young woman living her dream as an artist and healer in beautiful San Diego.  Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she has always been nurturing to all who cross her path.  Deeply loving of her family and friends, she expresses her gratitude and love as often as possible.  Clothing transformation is one of her many creative passions along with dance and photography. Trained in massage therapy, Betsy balances her creative endeavors with her intuitive and healing touch.  Devoted to growing, she is open to see the lessons and blessings in every experience of life.

www.finkelhoo.com


 

61.  Crone Lhamo
Model : Anonymous
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Penny Slinger
Assistants to the Director: Max Peterson/Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger


 

62.  Crystal Gaia
Model : Avatara
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Wendy Doyle/Avatara/Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu/Max Peterson
Photographer: Penny Slinger


63.  Innana
Model : Marya Stark
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger/Marya Stark
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Scarlet Moon is a myth. She travels between worlds riding the wings of dawn, writing her chronicals of heartbreak, shadow dancing, and transcendence. Scarlet is the unrefined edge, the one who stands at the crossroads and sings for you as you take your first step into the fortress of the unknown. She loves like a Scorpio and plays like a Leo, and enchants the soul with her sacred songs of lament. 


 

64.  Mother Yin
Model : Celestine Star
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Rev. Celestine Star, D. Div is the Founder of the Temple of Light (1986), Priestess in the Fellowship and Temple of Isis and Founder and Director of the Marin Alchemy Institute of Hypnosis.

Gifted with natural psychic and medium abilities, mystical knowledge and a spiritual healing practice that spans over thirty years Celestine* has successfully offered her powerful, transformative knowledge of Life, Love Health, Healing and the Mysteries to hundreds of people. Celestine enjoys her family and social life as a professional dancer, singer, artist and businesswoman, owner of Golden Star Production, an event and media company in Northern California.

Celestine is known as a modern day Mystic who offers wisdom from a life time of studying and practicing the Mystical ancient Mysteries such as the ancient Kabbalah, Native American Shamanic practices (she is a Medicine Wheel Keeper- Iroquois Nation), the ancient Egyptian Mysteries as a part of her Egyptian heritage, Divine Oracles, which she has offered since 1980’s, the Mysteries of the Great Goddess and Divine Birth, Arcane Magick both ancient and modern, the Mysteries of the Gnostic and Christian lineages, Muslim studies, Buddhism, Tibetan and Indian Mysticism, Ayurvedic Philosophies, Ancient and Modern Arts and Sciences, Tibetan Mysticism, Hinduism, Ancient Krias and Yoga practices, Confucius and Taoism, the Mysteries of Mu, Atlantis and Lumaria, Pyramidology, Spiritism and the Divine Presence of the High Spiritual Councils and Galactic Federations. She has presented Channelings, Sacred Ceremonies, Lectures and Workshops on the "Divine Mysteries" around the world for over 20 years.

http://www.CelestineStar.com
http://GoldenStarProductions.com
https://www.facebook.com/celestine.star
http://www.youtube.com/user/Goldenstar6066

 


 

65. Tribali
Model : Eline
Styling, Hair & Make Up: Penny Slinger /Serena Scaglioni
Assistant to the Director: Dhiren Dasu
Photographer: Penny Slinger

Eline earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from Rutgers University through which she studied abroad in Mexico, Israel, Italy & South Africa. She crossed Ecuador on horseback with NomadsUnited and later became a certified yogi & naturopath at the Chandra College for Yoga & Naturopathy in New Delhi, India.  She practices Rebirthing and has studied with Leonard Or.  She was also a fitness instructor.  In 2005 she created Tribal X an invigorating fusion of strength training, Native American & African style dance; as well as Dance Healing an empowering integration of yoga, dance & theater.  In her work she weaves together her talents & tools creating a highly transformational practice.

Eline is a lover, lover of life, Earth, Universe, of all who exist, of all that is and of herself.