INSTRUCTORS MOON

A proud daughter of two immigrants from Iran, Lily Mojdehi learned to connect to her homeland through dance, music, and community. She grew up surrounded by the rich traditions of Persian culture, spending Sundays at the Persian Cultural Center. These gatherings were filled with connection, language, and shared stories, fostering a deep appreciation for cultural roots and collective experiences that continue to shape her path. Lily and her mother shared the same Persian dance teacher, creating a meaningful link between generations. Persian dance became an act of remembering her heritage, land, and spirit. In high school, she was introduced to Modern dance and improvisation, where she learned that there were no rules for how something should look or feel. Moving with different teachers and styles for...

31 December, 2024

  Livia Lichtenstein-Hershman (she/her) is an artist, potter, counseling program grad student, small business owner, and lover of potlucks based in Portland, Oregon. Raised on a rural sheep farm and unschooled for the majority of her youth, she has always been most content creating with her hands for hours on end, and then sharing her work with her community. Since 2019 she has worked primarily in ceramics, supporting herself by creating functional, small-batch stoneware dishes. In her free time, Livia enjoys sewing, mending, natural dyeing, and quilting.   Livia will be sharing Intro to Intuitive Quilting with her dear friend and co-teacher Sam Rosenfeld.    ...

31 December, 2024

Liya Garber is a recognized yoga and meditation teacher (E-RYT 500) based in the Bay Area. She is a passionate advocate for women’s empowerment and is the founder of Aura Kundalini Yoga, an innovative online yoga studio that embodies the new paradigm of Kundalini energy and mind re-programming. As the visionary behind the Self-Mastery Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training program, a 200-hour (E-RYS), Liya empowers individuals to unlock their fullest potential through transformative practices and deep self-awareness. Liya’s teaching style is joyful, lighthearted, and full of wisdom that helps her students align with their inner truths. Her journey has taken her to spiritual hubs worldwide, including Guatemala and India, shaping her authentic and progressive approach. She leads weekly classes, retreats, teacher trainings and workshops across prominent venues...

27 December, 2024

  Lydia (she/her) is an earth scientist by trade and a perpetually enthusiastic maker of things by nature. As a product of immigrants displaced by revolution and hardship, Lydia’s upbringing elevated self reliance and reverence of natural beautify in equal measure. Over the past few years, Lydia has been melding her knowledge of geologic materials and natural herbs with her arts and creations to incorporate a sense of place and grounding. Provenance is an enduring element of her work. Lydia will be sharing Natural and Nourishing Soap Making....

26 December, 2024

  I have travelled an interesting and curvy journey in my life, from growing up in a small town near the sea in the Netherlands to living in an Aboriginal community in the tropical rainforest in North Queensland, Australia. From being a university lecturer in psychology and anthropology to working on my heart-project spreading awareness, kindness and happiness in the world. Once I started giving up my expectations of what life should be like and what I should be like, I found that there is soo much that I love to do. So I decided not to limit myself anymore in saying “this is what I do” but to go with the flow of adventure and magic in life. I can feel the importance in my bones...

13 January, 2025

  Maria will be sharing Yoga and plant dyes and is also our Movement Lead.  Bio coming soon...

17 January, 2025

  Melissa Richards is a multifaceted yoga instructor and brand marketing professional with deep roots in the beauty, wellness, and fitness industries. With experience teaching and living in New York, Miami, and now Charlotte, North Carolina, Melissa is passionate about helping students reconnect with themselves through the transformative practices of breath, movement, and community. Melissa holds two 200-hour Yoga Alliance certifications in power and Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga, earned at The Sacred Space Miami and Ahana Yoga, and is a 200HR RYT. She is currently part of the top-ranked Life Time Yoga team in Charlotte, where she shares her dynamic, creative approach to teaching. Her classes aim to inspire breakthroughs by integrating breathwork, the mind-body connection, and self-acceptance, all while flowing through playful, imaginative sequences to thoughtfully curated...

05 January, 2025

Mikhel Neshat hails from the motherland of Austin, Texas, though California has been her home for 17 years. She’s been slowly building her grassroots company, Wayfinder Archery. Wayfinder is a Traditional Archery company teaching fundamental knowledge in instinctive shooting, the development of a relationship with the bow & arrow, and a platform to transform your relationship to yourself & nature. Mikhel brings people together to remember who they are through the power of presence, self reflection, authenticity, embodiment, nature, high-quality company, yielding weapons well, and good ole’ fashion humor. Mikhel brings a special twist to the Archery Range via her tracking skills and insights of the human psyche, body language, and subconscious symbology. She’s known to shoot straight from the heart paired with some damn fine...

02 January, 2025

Miriam Grace (she/they) has been studying and sharing wilderness survival and earth living skills for over fifteen years. Her work strives to merge sustainability, beauty making, craft, and resilience through ancestral arts and a deepening connection to the natural world. Born and raised in an intentional community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, Miriam’s lifelong closeness to nature and spirituality has intimately informed her experiences and offerings. Miriam received extensive education at the Tracker School in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey as a young adult, and has since studied traditional crafts and earth skills on her own and with mentors from many walks of life. She has led workshops and run programs independently and in collaboration with other schools, events, and skills gatherings for people...

03 January, 2025

Misty Dawn is a mama, a midwife and an herbalist. Descending from east Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Misty is a generational women’s healing arts keeper who has had a calling to serve women since she was young. Her ancestors lived close to the land as farmers and herbalist and much of her wisdom has been passed down from her aunties and grandmothers. . Misty graduated from a traditional midwifery school in 2003 and has continued to study with midwives around the globe. Misty believes that birth is a sacred right of passage, a 10 moon journey from maiden to motherhood. She honors pregnancy as a liminal phase in life, a phase of becoming. The best way to support this phase is to empower women...

05 January, 2024