The Gathering Facilitators
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Author, yogini, teacher trainer, Odissi dancer, and founder of the Bhakti Nova School of Yoga & Dance, Nubia Teixeira has devoted herself to teaching different aspects of yoga for over thirty years. Perceiving yoga as a healing art, Nubia's refinement and unique style overflows with sacred meaning and heartfelt inspiration. Nubia leads workshops, teacher trainings, online courses, and retreats locally and around the world.
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Kiranjot Kaur is a devotional vocalist, Indian classical music instructor, and Kundalini Yoga teacher known for blending sacred Kirtan, A Course in Miracles teachings, and Hindustani vocal music into powerful, heart-opening experiences. A founding member of the vocal trio Copper Wimmin (The L Word, Democracy Now), her work invites all voices — experienced or new — to use their voices as a tool for presence, surrender, and revolutionary self-love.
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Jocelyn Kay Levy is a mama, musician, yogi and social innovator. She has been performing music and leading yoga and fitness workshops for over 20 years. Jocelyn founded Wee Yogis in 2010, with a mission to bring yoga and mindfulness to children through music, videos, podcasts, teacher trainings and now has a home based studio in San Anselmo. Wee yogis is also the kids yoga program for Ram Dass’ Nonprofit Love serve remember. Learn more at weeyogis.com
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"I believe when we learn to slow down, attune to the body, and source from our true desire, we can lead from our values and live a life filled with more play, pleasure, and passion.
I design experiences that enliven and celebrate the full human experience so that we can expand our capacity to feel, open, and receive.
My goal is for you to feel deeply held, heard, and seen so that you can awaken to new possibility and potential."
—Eliza Falk is a mind-body coach, mindfulness-based somatic practitioner, and experience designer asking how we can more fully embody the ways of the village, together.
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Molly Johnson is mother to three soulful + wonderful little humans and founder of wild jasper nourishment. She is passionate about nourishing the minds, bodies, bellies, and spirits of new mothers in her work as a postpartum doula, mother’s blessing facilitator, and chef.
Molly aims to illuminate both the strength and softness that led each mother to and through the unfolding of her matrescence, reminding women to attune to and trust their innate wisdom and intuition. She holds space for all birth and postpartum brings, becoming part of a each family’s village, tending to the mother, baby, and home. Supporting in various ways, Molly creates space for the mother baby dyad to blossom, deeply honoring the sacredness of the fourth trimester.
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Taira Restar, our Children’s Camp director, is a mother and grandmother, who lives in the forest above Tomales Bay in the unceded ancestral lands of Coast Miwok.
“My Big Why is to bring greater well-being to places and people. In service of this mission, I have worked for the past 35 years as a body-based Expressive Arts coach and educator. Specializing in place-centered nature education, I have worked with in-person groups internationally as well as online.
My joy for supporting children and my beloved home lands inspired me to co-found In Place, a nonprofit for place-centered nature education.”
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Kate Q. Hernandez is a mother, women’s circle facilitator, equine-guided life coach, and earth-based ritualist. She creates spaces where women come home to their bodies, their power, and each other — through ritual, nature connection, and sisterhood.
Motherhood was her initiation and her awakening. It exposed the deep fractures in modern culture and called her into a path of healing and remembrance — reclaiming ancestral ways of care, ceremony, and collective healing. Her work honors matrescence as a sacred rite of passage and helps rebuild the village one gathering at a time.
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Gina Rose weaves herbalism, ceremony, and dreaming with her work as a floral designer and healer. In her work, you’ll find yourself tuning into nature, your innate healer and wisdom while finding your own intuitive way of communing with plants. Gina owns her own floral business and does plant healing and bath sessions out of her backyard studio in Marin. Gina is trained in the Wise Woman School of Herbalism and in ceremony and dreaming through Grandmother Sarah’s Arbor Legacy. She’s been studying healing and plant modalities for the pat 10 years.
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Offering Well Woman Care and Hands on // Hands in Holistic Bodywork. In reverence of and in service to: the entire experience of Woman. Informed by physiology and ancestral healing practices. Well Woman Care is informed by the innate intelligence of physiology and ancestral healing practices, Embodied Prayers is an integral and holistic approach to Women’s health calling forth the innate intelligence that lives and breaths within you.
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Wawira Amasha is a fine artist celebrated for her striking acrylic and digital paintings, as well as her distinctive wearable art. Her work is defined by intricate textures, bold patterns, and vibrant colors that bring landscapes and characters to life.
Rooted in the rich traditions of her Kenyan upbringing, Wawira draws inspiration from the natural beauty and cultural heritage of Africa. Her art not only reflects this deep connection but also advocates for the preservation of indigenous life and sustainable farming practices.
Through each piece, Wawira invites viewers on a visual journey that honors her heritage while fostering a sense of wonder for the natural world. Her creations serve as both a celebration of African identity and a call to live in harmony with the environment.
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Emmet is a mother of two and a devoted guide on the sacred path of helping women birth themselves into themselves. She believes deeply that all the medicine you need already lives within you - that your pelvic bowl is sacred, potent, and powerful beyond measure.
Drawing from her training as a Holistic Pelvic Care practitioner with founder Tami Lynn Kent, Emmet weaves together energetic and internal pelvic work with her gifts as a community herbalist trained through Land of Verse and in psychic herbalism. Her approach honors the profound wisdom of our bodies while offering plant allies to support your unique healing journey.
Emmet’s work is rooted in the understanding that our bodies are wise and powerful. Through gentle internal work, energetic healing, and plant spirit medicine, she creates sacred space for women to reconnect with the ancient knowing that lives within their wombs. Her sessions invite you to remember what your body has always known and to reclaim the magic that is your birthright.
Deeply connected to plants, the earth, and womb health, Emmet offers 70-minute sessions that blend hands-on healing with herbal guidance, creating a holistic experience that nourishes body, spirit, womb and soul.
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Nimisha Gandhi is a devoted mother, visionary leader, and passionate advocate for collective wellbeing. As a functional medicine nutritionist and Ayurvedic counselor for over 20 years, Nimisha supports women across the full arc of womanhood— from menarche to menopause and every sacred phase in between.
Nimisha is also a sound healer, Yoga Nidra and meditation teacher, Yoni Shakti practitioner, and conscious parenting coach.
Through her practice, Moon Cycle Nutrition, she weaves together science, spirit, and soul to offer personalized care that honors the unique rhythms of each woman. Nimisha specializes in fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and hormone balance, offering grounded, research-informed protocols alongside intuitive practices that support deep healing and embodiment.
Her work invites people to remember their innate wisdom, restore their vitality, and reclaim their power. Whether they’re birthing children, creative projects, or new versions of themselves. As the keeper of Moon Cycle Circles, Nimisha creates sacred space for women to gather, share, and reconnect with the Divine Feminine in community.
Blending ancient traditions with modern science, and always guided by the heart, Nimisha brings a soulful, playful, and deeply compassionate presence to her work. Her offerings are rooted in both evidence and intuition, inspiring a conscious evolution in personal and collective wellness. @mooncyclenutrition
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Thea Atkins is a birth doula and fertility awareness method educator. She supports women who are trying to conceive, seeking highly effective, 100% natural birth control, or simply desiring a deeper connection to their femininity, fertility, cycle, and essence. Her doula practice is rooted in reverence for a mother’s immense capacity to know. She is devoted to making the experience of womanhood something we recognize as a profound gift—something to be truly relished.
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Stephanie Ormsby is a mother, women’s circle facilitator, and certified somatic and expressive arts educator. Born and raised in Germany, she has lived in five countries—each shaping her understanding of belonging—before settling in California’s golden hills. Her journey revealed that belonging isn’t tied to any one place; it’s a living practice of rooting into what matters most to the heart. Stephanie weaves together expressive arts, somatic practices, and rituals infused with ancestral and earth-based wisdom. As the Founder of Roots and Wings of Belonging she holds spaces for women to explore and wholeheartedly belong to the richness of their traditions, stories, and lived experiences.
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Jennifer MacGregor Lopez is a mother, artist, teacher, and guide whose roots stretch from the Highlands of Scotland to the coast of California. Raised in the wild beauty of her ancestral homeland, she carries a deep reverence for nature, ritual, and the sacred threads that connect us all.
A lifelong student of yoga within the Iyengar method and compliments this practice with her love of dance. Jennifer weaves together expressive arts, somatic practices, and earth-based wisdom to hold space for transformation and connection. She trained at the Tamalpa Institute and is co-owner of Bija Yoga in San Francisco.
She is also a co-founder of Anam Cara Journeys, and circle facilitator, inviting women into spaces of remembrance, beauty, and belonging—both within and with the land.
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Aria (Lisa) Beem is an ICF-certified money coach and experienced rite of passage guide. She has a degree in Environmental Economics from Scripps College. After a career in program management and municipal government, she went on to be a fundraiser for nonprofits through the Movement Voter Project. She holds an Associate Coaching Credential from the International Coaching Federation and has studied extensively in the field of feminine embodiment.
Aria brings a grounded and intuitive presence to every space she supports. She is devoted to creating environments where transformation feels both safe and expansive, and where individuals can return to the clarity and power of their own inner knowing.
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Daniella Noguera is a somatic doula and parenting companion devoted to creating nurturing , brave spaces where the full spectrum of the human experience can be expressed and witnessed. The loss of her mother at 25 initiated her into threshold tending, an experience that embodied in her the capacity to walk with others through the vulnerable, raw , heart illuminating passages of transition and the wisdom they hold. With over a decade of experience as a postpartum doula, she now works as a consultant, co-creating containers that weave relational attunement, intuitive and somatic guidance, nervous system care, and nature based ritual. Her presence invites parents to slow down, meet each moment with compassion, and cultivate secure attachment and new patterns of connection across generations.
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Rebecca Dye experienced a major life shift when she died and was reborn during childbirth. After that experience nothing was the same. Plants began talking to her and she could see with a new eye. A child, or twins in one case, would appear climbing over their future mama’s shoulder even before the mama knew she was pregnant. Rebecca opened to the spirit within and to new healing gifts. Since that time her life has blossomed focusing on connecting people to nature and helping people find their way back to themselves through her work as an intuitive, healer and astrologer.
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Marisa walks alongside women and families as a doula & birth educator, prenatal yoga instructor, and sound healer. She weaves together holistic practices, and education to empower mothers with knowledge, and connection to their innate wisdom in preparation for birth and postpartum .
With roots between California, Hawai‘i, and Italy, Marisa brings a global perspective on re-villaging and community based motherhood.
@lumanavita
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Alexis Held is an embodiment facilitator, massage therapist, and intimacy coach offering deeply attuned, therapeutic sessions. Her work weaves together Deep Tissue, Thai massage, Craniosacral therapy, breathwork, and energy medicine—rooted in the sacred art of presence.
Called a “Rebirth Doula” for her ability to hold space for transformation, Alexis helps guide women back to their breath, body, and soul. Her sessions and workshops invite softness, connection, and embodied renewal—a sanctuary for the nervous system and a soft landing for tired hearts.