Sokhna Heathyre Mabin is a mother, an herbalist, a doula, and a performance artist and has been teaching Hatha and Kundalini Yoga for 2 decades. Her children were born between the transitions of both of her parents ~ giving her the wisdom teaching of life~death~eternal. In 2014 she relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Michigan where she now cares for her brother David, a Veteran of Desert Storm. Sokhna leads retreats and teaches trainings of embodiment that allow the cross pollination of the human plant to return to its true natural form. She uses practice, herbs, yoga, movement, stillness, ritual, and collective support in the alchemical process of embodiment. You may contact her at mamasokhna@gmail.com.

Vanessa Carter is a Northern California native dedicated to supporting educational communities to weave ecological literacy into their schools’ cultures through the living learnscape. After 11 years of teaching interdisciplinary environmental studies in Bay Area, Venezuelan and Mexican public high schools, Vanessa is now based at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (www.oaec.org) supporting school permaculture design engagements.

With a B.A. in Sociology & Urban Education from Swarthmore College and a Masters in Teaching from the University of San Francisco’s Center for Teaching Excellence and Social Justice, Vanessa has combined research and practical experience to provide transformative and empowering opportunities to her students. She continues to mentor youth as they cultivate their voices and step into powerful leadership roles as environmental solutionaries. As an Ecoliteracy Consultant, she co-facilitates professional development, presents at national conferences and consults with educators, administrators and community organizations to support whole systems design, curriculum envelopment and school garden implementation.

Vanessa’s dedication to ecological justice, permaculture design, gardening, cooking, writing, yoga, dancing, laughter, biking, swimming, travel and nature connection keep her busy in West Sonoma County and beyond. Committed to cultivating a thriving community network of living systems, Vanessa can often be found with her hands in the dirt or preparing delicious meals that honor the resilient and regenerative practice of homesteading.

Guzel is a nature lover, youth and food activist and a lover of life! Her background includes, environmental education, off-the-grid-living on a permaculture farm in Costa Rica, starting a communal house in Santa Monica (utilizing permaculture principles), organizing events, hosting co-ed and women only circles, one of those events being Cross Pollinate, which is a networking and empowerment women’s only gathering in Los Angeles. She has a deep spiritual practice rooted in Native American, Mayan and Gaia loving traditions. Guzel is a Reiki practitioner and has just begun an Herbal Medicine apprenticeship and is currently studying Chinese and Ayurvedic Nutrition medicine. Guzel believes our connection to mother earth and all her healing elements are a catalyst for deep transformation, connection and true bliss. She loves to share her wisdom and practices with the world.

In the Healing Arts, Celia Anne is an International Jivamukti Yoga Teacher and Natural Healing Educator. Her training as an Herbalist includes the Wise Woman Healing Tradition and apprenticeships with Robin Rose Bennett and Judith Berger, study in clinical herbalism with Amanda McQuade Crawford as a graduate of the Ojai Center of Phytotherapy and Eco-Spirituality and Aromatherapy with David Crow of Floracopeia.

Celia Anne was inspired by the writing of Krishnamurti at age nine and was always drawn to the mystical, even through some wild years as a youth in Brooklyn, New York. Particular contemplation in Taoism, Tantra in the Kashmir Shaivism and Sri Vidya lineages, the Divine Feminine, Tibetan Buddhism, Brazilian Spiritism, Shamanism and Ayurveda. She has had opportunity to explore deeply in sacred pilgrimages and global travel.

Celia Anne is the Editorial Consultant and a Writer at A Green Beauty Magazine, Mara Schiavetti founder and editor.

For five years she was on staff at LA Yoga Magazine guided by Julie Deife, founder and editor.

Celia Anne also has extensive background in the Arts.

In the past decade she has called Los Angeles home and more recently Paris, France.

She is thankful to be part of the global movement that crusades to create an ecologically supportive and sustainable world, where new paradigms are entirely possible, and love and peace shine supreme.

www.celiaannebrowne.com

Rowen White is a Seed Keeper from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for seed sovereignty. She is the director and founder of the Sierra Seeds, an innovative organic seed cooperative focusing on local seed production and education, based in Nevada City CA. She teaches creative seed training immersions around the country within tribal and small farming communities. She weaves stories of seeds, food, culture and sacred Earth stewardship on her blog, Seed Songs. Follow her seed journeys at www.sierraseeds.org

Krista Holland, is a yoga practitioner and mentor to women helping them to create satisfying, passionate lives both on the inner realm and in the outer world through yoga, conscious life design, embodied mythology and mysticism. Krista draws from her in-depth practice and studies in the realms of yoga, Ayurveda, Tantrik philosophy, permaculture, sacred drumming and the ancient Goddess traditions to guide women to the depths of their own beauty, power and unique offerings to the world. Krista was first introduced to Eastern philosophy, mysticism and various practices of meditation at an ashram in India at the age of twelve. Krista is a devoted practitioner and teacher of the essence of non-dual tantra, inspired by the lineage and sacred texts of Shaiva tantra and Sri Vidya. She is known for her gift of weaving the ancient wisdom of yogic philosophy through the practice of full spectrum yoga and Embodied Life Coaching. Krista is also a faculty member of the College of the Melissae – Center for Sacred Beekeeping where she teaches Embodied Mythology, Symbol Systems and Sacred Drumming connected to the ancient Bee Priestess traditions. The synthesis of her multidisciplinary work and dharma is embodied through Yoga and Living Arts, where she offers a rich mandala of teachings and private coaching dedicated to personal and planetary healing, spiritual liberation and the full flowering of embodied life mastery.

http://www.kristaholland.com

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