Gail Wood has been a Witch and Wiccan priestess for more than twenty years, practicing a shamanic path celebrating the Dark Moon.  She is clergy, teacher, ritual leader, tarot reader and Reiki Master.  She teaches workshops and classes on alternative spiritualities, Wicca, tarot, ritual, shamanic journeywork, and Reiki.  She is the author of Rituals of the Dark Moon: 13 Lunar Rites for a Magical Path (Llewellyn, 2001); The Wild God:  Meditations and Rituals on the Sacred Masculine (Spilled Candy, 2006); and articles in a variety of pagan publications.  She is eagerly anticipating the publication of The Ecstatic Witch on shamanic Wicca from Weiser.   She is  High Priestess of the Coven of the Heron of the RavenMyst Circle.