INSTRUCTORS MOON

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

Misty is a mother, beauty expert, and ritualist with over 16 years of experience helping women embody their essence through intentional beauty and self-adornment. As the founder of a high-end beauty brand, she integrates ancient traditions with modern practices to guide women toward inner radiance and vitality. Grounded in her studies of intuitive practices, ceremonial arts, and women’s wisdom, Misty creates practical rituals that align women with their natural rhythms. Her work offers a blueprint to access reclamation of the innate inner wisdom within to harness energy, creativity, and strength to cultivate greater balance and vitality in life—enhancing the ability to weave meaningfully with the world around us.   Misty Spinney & Tiffany Janay will be teaching Natural birth control: Cycle Tracking and Semen Retention....

10 January, 2025

Natasha Pachalove is a healing arts practitioner, ceremonialist + full spectrum doula committed to facilitating regeneration. She has studied womb wisdom, meditation + therapeutic dance since 2015. Experiencing abortion at home has enabled her to support others in grief of pregnancy release. Natasha utilizes breath, plants + prayer to alchemize our greatest pains into our valuable strengths. She is devoted to creating nurturing spaces in her circles + private sessions where people can ignite their inner healing powers. Natasha is grounded in her spiritual service as a Moon Dancer, Vision Quester + Reverend Priestess ordained through the Iseum of Quimera. She is deeply grateful to her teachers + Taíno, Haudenosaunee, European + African ancestors for guiding her in these ways. You can connect deeper with Natasha + learn...

15 January, 2025