Old Instructors

Bianca Fox Ballará lives her life like she is on mission to restore balance on earth through the resurrection of ancient magic paired with modern activism. In her perspective, there are several types of empowerment that are not taught in mainstream schools and these includes Divine Power in connection with Earth and the whole cosmos and also Personal Power to create local institutional change by connecting with the Personal Power of others together as Collective Power. It is for this reason that she has dedicated the last decade of her life pursuing astrology, ritual arts, land stewardship and grassroots organizing for environmental justice. With intention, the spiritual support of our guides and ancestors as well as politically-aware action, we are unstoppable. Caribbean soul transplanted to the...

21 December, 2019

Blake is a breathwork facilitator focused on trauma studies, emotional literacy, and authentic communication. She weaves together earth based teachings, astrology, and the human experience for a holistic body based approach. Blake is committed to creating safe spaces for the learning, sharing, and processing of all the feels. She teaches tools to help others live more in tune with their body and the earth and emphasizes that there is actually no separation between the two.   Blake will be sharing Trauma Tracking : Breathwork Immersion, as well as a Breathwork Circle...

18 January, 2022

Caitlin is a lover of all earth-based crafts. After receiving her BFA in Ceramics from MICA in 2012, she left the east coast to pursue an education in earth architecture and a career in production pottery. Over the last decade, Caitlin has worked as a natural building instructor and artist-in-residence with various nonprofits including Cal-Earth Institute and Quail Springs Permaculture. Alongside creating large earthworks, she became a full time potter through her ceramics business, Urthen, focusing on birthing desert inspired functional dinnerware. Her discovery of clay and its endless possibilities opened a path for her to develop a reverence towards local and natural materials. This reverence inspired Caitlin to study various ancestral arts that help her connect more deeply with others and the world around...

19 December, 2019

Cameron lives in a small, rural community in North Central Washington, where she owns and operates an organic farm and food business with her partner, Eric. Cameron has been growing food and nourishing her community for most of the past fifteen years. She and her husband added a value-added food component to their farm in 2017, and have a line of handcrafted sauerkrauts, live sodas, nut and seed crackers, and much more that they offer in retail stores and local farmer's markets. Cameron has been practicing Ancestral Skills since 2003, when she attended her first primitive skills gathering. Cameron and Eric participated in an intensive skills program in 2004 learning a variety of skills such as traditional brain-tan buckskin, fire-craft, basket weaving, felting, whole animal...

18 December, 2019

Let us find ourselves within our bodies! I will be teaching a blend of Yoga, Pilates, & circuit; with an emphasis on core training, balance control, and alignment. Using only our body weight, the classes will range primarily in intermediate level, though that being said it is very easy to modify for both beginners and advance. All are welcome and encouraged! Movement has always been my primary medicine, beyond just health of body; it has cultivated a peace of mind, and helped me channel and transmute negative energies and thoughts. It brings my eternal self into the present moment and the house we call body. I have been a movement coach for over ten years, teaching Circuit, Pilates, Zumba, Tabata, Sports Enhancement, Yoga, Balls & Bands, and Agility...

18 April, 2022

Chloe Skerlak didn’t always listen to her body, embrace her femininity and fertility, and live in harmony with her menstrual cycle. This came with many years of finger testing her cervical mucus, taking her temperature in the morning, and getting up close and personal with her cervix. Since rediscovering herself and her body through fertility awareness charting, Chloe is eager to help women reconnect with their body by offering online fertility awareness education. She is trained as a Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and certified with the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals. Some of her favourite things are full moon bathing, ecstatic dancing, and nourishing her plants with her menstrual blood. She is excited to share her newest endeavour with you — the art of cervix photography! Connect with...

26 December, 2019

Peruvian born Claudia Cuentas  (MA, SEP, MFT) is a sound healer, singer-songwriter, and educator of the Andean traditions.  She has dedicated her life work to healing and social justice, and has a deep commitment to bring peace and healing into the relationships between self, family, community and the world at large. Claudia walks the Red Path of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan and leads “Casas de Sudor” (Temaskal)/sweat lodge), as well as workshops and presentations in Andean Traditions, Art as healing, Planetary Dance & Traditional song circles. In 2017 she founded the Canta Colibrí Project, an multicultural artistic platform that supports ART as healing, to restore well being within the body, mind and spirit, of individuals and communities alike. Claudia Cuentas will be offering Andean Sound Healing....

17 December, 2018

Dani comes to this work because of a deep need to live life in the liminal spaces and foster experiences for others seeking comfort in unfamiliar territory. While working as a home birth midwife for almost 2 decades, she realized that the same skills of the heart that have served birthing families could also help deepen the experiences of families facing death. Dani is a home funeral guide, passionate public speaker, writer, mother, wife and homesteader. Her deepest passion lies in creating strong communities by encouraging grace in challenging moments. Dani will be sharing Family Centered Death Care and Satisfying Grief and Herbs and Practices for Supporting Grief....

04 January, 2020

Dejah is a force of nature, committed to nurturing, and building you up, enhancing the  quality of your life, and promoting a heightened state of awareness for greater clarity,  intention, and purpose through music medicine and spiritual healing and counseling.  An inimitable talent, accomplished and seasoned vocalist with a solid history of  achievement in music entertainment, Dejah, an elegant and soulful vocalist who has  graced TV, Broadway stages, toured supporting legends and icons nationally and  internationally, from the White House to Royal Albert Hall, has expanded beyond music  entertainment.   With an indomitable spirit, Dejah’s ability to exemplify poise and grace in an ever changing music business, inspired her to explore coalescing her passions of psychology  and music. She now holds safe space, nourishing those who need spiritual,...

28 February, 2022

Growing up on Puget Sound and in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, Diane cultivated a lifelong love of nature. This reverence for the earth continues to inform every part of her life and work. On her journey as an artist, weaver and teacher, she seeks to share this passion and commitment to honoring our sacred planet home. A student and teacher of yoga and art for the past eighteen years, Diane finds joy in the intersections of her creative work. She is blessed to work with middle school students as a public school art teacher. Diane lives with her family near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. They enjoy traveling and exploring nature together. More of her work can be seen at: https://dianemwrightstudio.weebly.com and on...

23 December, 2019