Before I found my way to the healing arts, I spent years as a social purpose brand designer and marketing consultant — helping visionaries build businesses aligned with their values.

I've always wanted to serve the healing of humanity's relationship with the Earth, and address the cultural sickness that is poisoning and degrading our gorgeous garden planet.

That consulting work was deeply fulfilling and meaningful in that I was helping create positive culture change through business. But what I found working with founders, business leaders and well-intentioned visionaries, was that despite beautiful intentions and good strategy, something else was getting in the way of their success — trauma, unhealed emotional wounds, spiritual disconnection and a hijacked nervous system. 

Not to mention, my own health was declining as I spent long hours bound to my computer each day... So, I could feel something was calling me deeper.

What followed is nearly a decade of immersion in embodied healing, feminine mysteries, ancestral reclamation, and ceremonial practice.

This wasn't just training. It has been an ongoing initiation. As well as an investment of at least $50,000 dollars, more than ten years of my life, and my whole heart — devoted to personal healing, ceremonial work, solo travel into the wild mountains of Mexico for elder's gatherings, 8-hour boat voyages into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, to study, dance, sing and pray with those whose deep ancestral roots remain intact, who have been so generous to share some of their profound wisdom, culture, medicines and teachings with me.

But like many in these times, I was raised with little connection to my ancestrality... colonized, disconnected from the land, from my body, and from land-based ancestral wisdom, culture and traditions of my lineages. 

But also lucky for me, the Celtic magick runs deep — as my grandma Fern was an Irish-Scottish "cailleach" or witch, a wise woman and was one of my first spiritual teachers.

What I am doing now is not appropriation. It is reclamation and reparation.

I walk the red road as a devoted moondancer, pipe-carrier, student of plant medicine, and initiated young abuela. I am actively decolonizing my lifeways, mindset, and relationships — rebuilding what was severed, re-indigenizing my way of being in the world. On the European side, I am reviving my pagan ancestral roots and the earth-based wisdom that lived in my own bloodline long before colonization disconnected my family from their cultural inheritance and euro-indigenous lifeways.

I serve the prophecy of the Eagle, the Condor and the Quetzal — not as concept, but as fundamental orientation to daily life. Supporting the reunification and amplification of indigenous wisdom of the Americas, as leaders and wayshowers guiding humanity back into right relationship with the Earth and harmony with all beings, forging a pathway to a respectful, livable, beautiful and vibrant future for the children and generations to come. This is not work I take lightly. It is the work of my life.

I have visited the Yawanawa village, sat in wisdom talks with Chief Nixiwaka, and participated in ceremonies that moved me in ways I'm still integrating. Over five years and nearly one hundred nights of ceremony, I've sat with Grandmother Medicine across multiple lineages — Shipibo, Mestizo, Huni Kuin, and Yawanawa. This work has broken me open more times than I can count. It has healed me at core levels of my being, given me access to profound understandings and connected me with a majestic and cosmic beauty that will forever be beyond words.

For four years, I have had the privilege of dancing and praying at the Chichuahtlimetzli Moondance — an indigenous women's prayer ceremony emerging from Teotihuacán and the Aztec Codices, carried by Susana and Shimshai, the Abuelos of the California Moondance, who received the blessing to carry the altar of this dance directly from Abuela Mallinali. At this danza, I receive profound teachings that have touched my heart and fortified my Spirit in inexplicable ways. Among the many teachers here, I give my deep gratitude to Abuela Delia, a Mexica elder and fellow carrier of the Moondance, who has taught me so much. This year, I was honored to receive my Nahuatl name and my sacred pipe. This danza has and continues to change my life, and grow me into my best version. I pray to be a part of this danza for many more years to come. 

In 2021, I was inducted as a young abuela into the Elder's Council of Abuelo Marzo Yuk Quetzal, a Maya elder — and I returned for three solstices of study and ceremony with him. I have also participated in a summer Indigenous Wisdom University pilot program with Abuelo Ty in Mexico that year. 

Along my path, I also found ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, and completed Level 1 and Level 2 immersions, and Practitioner Training, studying and practicing sexual shamanism, sacred sexuality, transpersonal sexuality, and somatic trauma healing. Of all my formal educations, ISTA has been one of the most influential — shaping not only my methodology but my understanding of how sexuality, spirituality, and healing intersect.

I have been profoundly blessed to have received so much healing, wisdom, and love from all of these teachers and wayshowers — and feel it is both an honor and an obligation to share what I have received with others so that we all may heal and realize our most beautiful potential.

Some of my teachers can be named. Some prefer not to be, to protect their sacred work. Some know me deeply, personally and for many years, while some I've studied with online, or attended their workshops or talks. All of them have shaped me, and if they are listed here, I offer them my recognition and deep gratitude as they inform and inspire my work.

Among those I can share:

• Bixku, Biruany, and Nawa Sia Huni Kuin — Spiritual leaders of the Huni Kuin, who have demonstrated true love, belonging, family, humility, integrity and kindness in a deeper way than anyone else.
• Xochiquetzalli (Susana)— Abuela of the California Moondance, carrier of the lineage received from Abuela Malinalli.
• Abuela Delia (Mexica) and Abuelo Marzo Yuk Quetzal (Maya) — elders whose generosity in sharing their ancestral wisdom has been so influential on my path.
• Abuelo Ty — Toltec elder and teacher in the Indigenous Wisdom University, who helped me find my path and reconnect to my ancestors.
• Seren & Azra Bertrand — whose work in Womb Awakening has shaped my outlook on life itself, and underpins all of my work.  These transmissions have influenced me more deeply than I can express. My copy of their 500-page book is tattered from years of study.
• Cherezade Aanya — an initiate of the Fountain of Life Mystery School, who trained directly with Seren and Azra, and who initiated me into the womb mysteries and my priestess path. Endless gratitude to you dear sister.
• Triambika Ma Vive — whose teachings at the ISTA Practitioner Training shaped my approach to sacred sexuality and sexual healing, and how to hold this sacred work with professionalism, impeccability and integrity.
• Amara Karuna — with whom I completed a multi-year apprenticeship in the teaching, facilitation and technique of sacred pelvic healing massage.
• Isis Indriya (Academy of Oracle Arts), Kumu Ramsey, and Sajah Popham (School of Evolutionary Herbalism) — each of whom offered teachings through online study that contributed to my paradigm and orientation to my work.
• Elders of Aniwa — a global assemblage of wisdom keepers from around the world, modeling the kind of cooperation, respect and compassionate leadership our world so desperately needs. Thank you for all your teachings.
• Paul Chiyokten — Coast Salish Wisdom Keeper and Indigenous activist, whose stories and prayers are embedded in my heart. 
• My husband, Brian — one of my greatest teachers in the beauty and power of love, sexuality and emotional intimacy.
• Mahina — My primary collaborator and best friend, who has taught me so much about friendship, sisterhood and leadership. Thank you for walking this path by my side. 
• My parents — who have taught me about hard work, unconditional love, partnership, and devotion while offering me the stability and energetic support to be able to courageously pursue my path and dreams. 
• All of my plant, mushroom and animal allies, guides and teachers — thank you Bobinsana, Tobacco, Nixi Pae, Coyote, Deer, Frog, Eagle, Cedar, Fern, Maple... all my relations. I love you all.

There are so many teachers, guides, collaborators, and loved ones to whom I owe my gratitude. These are but a few of the countless beings who have cross-pollinated and influenced the body of work that flows through me... Very little of this work "belongs" to me. It belongs to the ancestors, the future generations, and the lineages that birthed them, the elders who carried them forward in the face of existential danger and colonial violence, and the web of relations and communities that sustain this delicate fabric of wisdom and culture. I am simply a steward of what has been entrusted to me — forever learning, deepening, and growing with respect, gratitude and humility.

Since opening, the Temple has served more than 2,000 people through ceremonies, workshops, trainings, retreats and healing events. I'm humbled by that number, and pray together we may reweave our wholeness, heal ourselves, restore the sacred balance, and experience the full beauty and power of Love's majesty, creating a safe and healthy world for the children on this garden planet. 

If something in you is stirring as you read this, I trust that, and hope you reach out. We can discuss and explore what your body and soul are seeking at this time and whether I'm the right guide for you. It is an honor to serve you.