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Our Celebrants for Weddings or Unions
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Jeanne Adwani is co-founder and Creatrix of Evenstar's Chalice. She's an artist/creatrix, a poet, a Creativity Coach, a Light and energy worker, and a hair ‘healer’. She owns Be Hair Now, and co-creates the beautiful experience of Evenstar’s Chalice in downtown Ypsilanti, MI.

Jeanne creates and delivers creative, unique ceremonies that are personal and very memorable.

Mara Evenstar, co-founder of Conscious Rites, creates and delivers beautiful, meaningful, and powerful ceremonies of many kinds that add depth, meaning, and connection to all of life's big transitions. She is a mother, grandmother, scholar, priestess, and business owner and her many endeavors share her interest in exploring the divine feminine. For many years she taught psychology at Washtenaw Community College, has a master's of transpersonal psychology, and is currently working on her doctorate at Meridian University under Dr. Jean Huston. She has also co-founded two local social enterprises, Sophia Unfolds, a program for transformation and a growing community of awakened women who come together for support, and New Myth Works, an LLC that provides a dynamic sanctuary for our conscious evolution with a focus on evolving consciousness. Last year she opened the Ypsilanti retail store Evenstar's Chalice with her husband, Russell Jones, a retired EMU professor, and hairstylist Jeanne Adwani, selling art, collectibles, and antiques and providing a sanctuary for gathering and rites that, she noted, has attracted a base that is queer and trans-positive. Her work is supported by her ever-growing knowledge of the human condition through studies in psychology, religion and spirituality, anthropology, integral theory, and the arts, among many other domains. Her practice is also grounded in professional, real-world experience with research and development in education, business, and technology.

Sandy Finkel is a longtime seeker of truth and purpose who is also known as a meditation teacher and a co-founder of Jewel Heart Buddhist Center. She creates and delivers beautiful and meaningful wedding/union ceremonies. Sandy began studying meditation and eastern spiritual traditions at the age of 15. After completing an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan she traveled overland to India where she lived for two years, studying with Tibetan Buddhist masters Gelek Rinpoche, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, Zong Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After returning to the United States, she co-founded Jewel Heart Buddhist Center in 1987 with Gelek Rinpoche and Aura Glaser. She received a Masters of Public Health in Health Management and Policy from University of Michigan, School of Public Health (1988) and worked over 20 years in health care management at University of Michigan Health System.

Sandra can be reached at finkelsand@gmail.com.

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