Acosia Red Elk is an enrolled member of the Umatilla Tribe and a 10-time World Champion Jingle Dancer, world-renowned performing artist, cultural teacher, and wellness advocate. An international yoga and dance instructor, Acosia travels throughout Turtle Island and beyond sharing Tribal dance, cultural knowledge, movement, and meditation. She is the creator of Powwow/Yoga, a fusion practice that braids Tribal dancing with yoga through an Indigenous approach to wellness, and she teaches with a seventh-generation mindset rooted in protecting what is sacred for generations to come. Through movement and storytelling, Acosia is passionate about building bridges between cultures and sharing practices that support healing, connection, strength, and a deeper relationship with body, community, and Earth. POWWOW YOGA: Powwow Yoga is a Yin & Yang movement practice that braids together Tribal dancing and yoga, creating a full Mind & Body Workout that will leave you feeling energized , confident in your body, and relieved of daily stress. Powwow Yoga is for everyBODY and can be modified or changed up to suit your body needs and/or limitations. All ages Youth to Elders alike can all benefit from practicing Powwow Yoga. It helps us to stay healthy – Physically, Mentally, Emotionally, and Spiritually. While also connecting us to the heartbeat of who we are as Tribal Peoples through Dance and Breathwork.

Aiyanna has been involved in her culture and has attended Komemma Cultural Protection Association (KCPA) events since she was young. She was a youth counselor as well as an adult counselor at KCPA’s Youth Indian Education Summer camp. Aiyanna was the 2024 Healing Landscapes intern with Vesper Meadow Education program and The Understory Initiative. Aiyanna is a traditional storyteller and enjoys participating in many aspects of her culture. Aiyanna graduated from Southern Oregon University in 2025 with a B.S. in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and a Certificate in Native American Studies. LAND REMATRIATION AND RESTORATION: Join members of the Komemma Cultural Protection Association and the Center for Rural Livelihoods for a conversation about Indigenous land return and ecological stewardship. We’ll share some of the history that has shaped relationships with land in this region, discuss collaborations taking place today, and the power of solidarity across difference.

Alyx Somas is a 2S Native North American Culture Tender, Re-indigenization Practitioner, and Liberationist devoted to restoring relationship with lineage, land, and kinship lifeways. Rooted in ancestral teachings and eco-somatic healing, they guide communities through ceremony, grief work, and belonging-based systems change. Their work, the Collectivity Project, nurtures ancestral healing, cross-cultural belonging, and collective liberation. ANCESTRAL FUTURISM: A ceremonial experience of lineage healing, multi-being relations, and the power of our spiritual sovereignty when embodying the world of mutual flourishing. Gardening the resilience of Earth, Ancestors, and more-than-human kin, this is a circle to realize the healthy living systems needed for the world to come, the world of the future ones.

Anna Bariyani is a Norwegian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founder and lead singer of the international sacred world music group Curawaka. Her musical path has taken her across cultures and continents, weaving voice, rhythm, prayer, and relationship with the natural world into her work as both an artist and educator. Through her vocal practice, Anna invites people to explore the voice as a channel for authentic expression, connection, and creative life force. Drawing upon years of musical exploration and land-based learning, she guides practices centered around voice, breath, embodiment, and deep listening, helping participants awaken a more instinctual and embodied relationship with their own sound. THE WILD VOICE: For this special collaborative offering at the Conscious Growth Convergence, Peia and Anna Bariyani come together to guide an exploration of the wild and embodied voice. The Wild Voice is an invitation to reclaim the voice as a living expression of our essence and the life moving through us. Through deep listening, breath, embodiment, and vocal practices, Peia and Anna will guide participants in softening the layers that inhibit authentic expression and returning to the voice as a channel of truth, beauty, prayer, and creative life force.

Arielle Therese is a queer song carrier of Celtic ancestry based in Seattle. She channels healing messages of self-liberation, empowerment, and earth reverence. By day, she is a community convener and systems change consultant and facilitator in service of a regenerative future. In her music ceremonies, she weaves an angelic landscape through layering harmonies with live vocal looping and a frame drum. She believes in the power of co-created collective energy and aims to facilitate a coherent group process where audience members and participants can tap into their magic together. CO-CREATIVE SONG CEREMONY: In this immersive, participatory session, we will explore collective channeling through voice, rhythm, and layered harmony. Together we’ll open with grounding call-and-response chants, awaken our shared voice, and create a sacred container for co-creation guided by the beat of a drum. Grounded in a regenerative philosophy, this experience invites each voice to matter, each layer to belong, and the whole to become more alive through participation. No musical experience required, only a willingness to make sound and trust what wants to move through you. Come ready to open our collective channel together!

Bonnie Medicine is a globally adored singer & songwriter from Scotland. Her unique song and prayer is born from her deep roots in the Celtic Isles and her connection to story and place. She weaves her yearning for belonging with the songs of the plants, the rhythms of the Earth, and the drumbeat of the heart; bringing through the frequency of unity and love with her grounded & evocative music. In recent years her passion for social justice and collective healing has hugely guided her songwriting and mission to bring people together and heal communities through song. Mairead has been sharing her music in circle, on stages and in ceremonies across the world for 7+ years, and is ever inspired by the magic of music as medicine for all beings, across all borders and for all hearts on this planet. SINGING THREADS OF RESILIENCE: Singing Threads of Resilience is a space to remember the ancient craft of spinning yarn - a global traditional practice of turning spirit into matter. Join Bonnie Medicine in this circle of voices and hands, remembering something once essential to humanity - our ability to sing life into being through ancient and primordial crafts. Learn to spin your own yarn from raw sheep’s wool, while singing songs new and old.

A Coast Salish storyteller, award-winning Native flute artist, and founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea, Chiyokten has dedicated his life to sharing the songs, stories, and teachings of his W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) ancestors while inspiring deeper relationships with the lands and waters we call home. Through traditional storytelling, Native flute music, and the wisdom carried through generations, Chiyokten reminds us that we are part of the living world, and that cultivating reciprocal relationships with all beings is essential to creating a more harmonious future. CO-CREATING PARADISE ON EARTH: A cultural sharing of stories, songs and verse from when humans could speak to the animal people and they could speak with us.

Daje Aloh is an Afro-Indigenous, Memphis-born, Appalachian-cured storyteller, story doula, and ecosomatic depth guide who supports healing artists and wild-hearted creatives in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. She is the founder of Storywork Studio, a space devoted to rewriting the inner myth, reimagining our shared futures, and reviving the wild nature of the soul through storytelling, embodiment, and relationship with the living world.

Dan Wahpepah is from the Ojibwe, Anishinabe, Kickapoo and Sac & Fox tribes. He grew up with his community’s cultural ways and has been politically active with the American Indian Movement and spiritually active through tribal ceremonies. Dan started the Rogue Valley Pow Wow, an American Indian Cultural Center, Red Earth Descendants and is also a board member of Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance and Rogue Climate, Pipeline Fighters. As part of his tradition, he is a Drum Keeper and Drum Chief. Dan’s efforts are focused on the preservation of this Earth for future generations. DECOLONIZATION, REINDIGENIZATION, & NATURALIZATION: Decolonization, Reindiginization and Naturalization focuses on developing an Indigenous lens for an upside down world. Learn how to be the countervaling force in a techno-industrial society by developing and maintaining community. Realize our connection to each other and our Elder Relatives (plants, animals, stones, stars, rivers, etc). Simple truths encourage critical thought.

Dana Aronson is a clinical herbalist and educator, whose work is rooted in helping people reconnect with their bodies and the natural world. Guided by a deep respect for plants, she blends clinical training with intuitive, relationship-based care to support healing that is both practical and deeply personal. In addition to her clinical practice, Dana is passionate about community care and education. Through workshops, plant walks, and mobile clinics, she shares accessible, hands-on herbal knowledge, inviting others to remember their innate connection to plants and to carry that relationship into everyday life. HERBAL FIRST AID AND MUTUAL COMMUNITY CARE: Herbal First Aid and Mutual Community Care welcomes everyone, the person who has never touched an herb in their life and the person who already has a cabinet full of tinctures but isn't sure what to do when something actually happens. We will open with a slow, intentional arrival, grounding into the space + into our bodies, because first aid begins before the emergency. From there, we move through an honest introduction to the plants most likely to be your first responders. Plants that stop bleeding, cool inflammation, calm a nervous system in shock, soothe a burn. You will learn how to use them when the moment calls for it. The second half of our time together turns toward community care, because herbal first aid is a weaving. We'll explore what it looks like to show up for each other at gatherings like this one, in our neighborhoods, and in moments of collective need. How to build a simple kit from accessible materials. How to ask good questions, follow someone's lead, and hold space while you also hold a compress. This is the part of herbalism that gets left out a lot, the relational piece, the showing up. Then every participant leaves with a simple reference guide to carry the learning forward. You will leave with skills you can use immediately, a handful of plants you know by name, personality, and purpose, and the felt sense that care is something we do together. That we are each other's medicine, too.

Hanna Leigh is a musician, voice doula, weaver, and founderess of Weaving Remembrance, an organization devoted to helping people rekindle relationships with earth and ancestral wisdom.Through facilitating community singing circles, weaving workshops, and international pilgrimages and retreats, she walks a path of devotion to remembering our belonging—to the living Earth, to one another, and to the hands & voices that have carried us here.Her growing catalog of original music expands this autumn with the release of Wishing Well, a new 13-song album. WEAVING OUR VOICES: In Weaving Our Voices, we will explore the power of singing as a way to honor our ancestors, celebrate the gifts of our lineages, and remember our shared belonging to Earth and one another. Through accessible songs and joyful vocal improvisation, we'll weave our individual voices into a collective expression that is both playful and profound. All voices are welcome, regardless of experience.

Heather Wolf is an herbal Brewess, folk herbalist, facilitator, singer & performing artist. Her work is devoted to reviving folk wisdom traditions, living folk arts, remembrance of our ancestral heritage. Folk wisdom is carried by the collective, belongs to the whole, is the vital foundation of every healthy culture, relating us with ourselves, each other, and the sacred world. WITCHING AND WILDCRAFTING: This immersive workshop will explore the matrix where folk herbalism, brewing & fermentation, sacred ritual practice, and incantation meet. Sharing her twenty years of study and practice of herbal brewing traditions and her crafting for Brewess Underground, Heather will give a talk, tasting, and tea ceremony. Participants will be guided into deeper personal inquiry of these themes, exploring the collective potency of the ‘witch.’

Helena Virga is the Engagement Director at FUSEE (Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology), where she works at the intersection of fire, community, and cultural change. With a Master’s in Environmental Studies and Conflict & Dispute Resolution and experience teaching meditation and mindfulness, her work weaves together ecological education, movement-building, and transformative dialogue. Helena is an intentional gathering facilitator and Jewish community leader who is passionate about reimagining our relationship with fire as both an ecological force and a sacred teacher. While not a cultural burn practitioner, she collaborates closely with fire practitioners and knowledge holders to uplift “good fire” and support a broader cultural shift toward reciprocity with the land. Her facilitation invites participants into reflection, connection, one's own cultural connection to fire, and collective transformation bridging science, Tribal sovereignty advocacy, cultural story sharing, and spirit. TENDING THE FIRE WITHIN: FIRE ECOLOGY, CULTURE, AND THE PATH TO COLLECTIVE CHANGE: Fire is often framed as something to fear or suppress but what if fire is also a teacher? In this immersive and reflective workshop, participants will explore fire as more than a physical force. Together, we’ll engage with fire as an ecological process, a cultural relationship, and a powerful metaphor for personal and collective transformation. This session weaves together ecological science, storytelling, cultural context, and guided reflection to invite a deeper, more nuanced understanding of “good fire” and our role in shaping its future.

Hollye Holbrook is a yoga teacher, graphic designer, and graduate student who brings creativity, curiosity, and warmth to her classes. With over a decade of teaching experience, Hollye offers strong, steady movement grounded in breath awareness and mindful presence, guiding students to feel into what’s alive in their own bodies. She loves witnessing people explore their own paths, grow, and heal through movement, breathwork, and a little laughter. Hollye values kindness, compassion, and connection, and aims to cultivate community and a genuine sense of belonging in every class. AWAKEN & ALIGN: MORNING FLOW YOGA: Start your day with intention through a grounding flow designed to awaken the body and create space in both body and mind. Expect mindful movement, gentle challenge, and moments of stillness. All levels are welcome, come as you are.

Hosanna White is an earth artist and educator dedicated to learning slow crafts that connect her with the source of her materials and the magic that comes from transforming them for everyday use. She lives in the foothills of Western Oregon, a geologically rich landscape that has inspired her studio work, Whitesnake Arts. She blends bio-regional history and land stewardship into her earth pigment artwork and place based pottery. For millennia, humans have been gathering rock dust to create vessels. Clay is the miraculous result of erosion, mountain building, and the energetic mobility of our earth’s mantle. We share this irrefutable connection to our mountains when we eat food grown in local soils. FALLING IN LOVE WITH THIS LAND: EXPLORING PLACE THROUGH WILD CLAY: In this workshop we will meet this land, the Southern Willamette Valley, through the geologic origin stories and textures of our regional clay. In contrast to conventional ceramics education, we will not focus on making a product, but instead ritually harvest clay, inviting conversation and intimacy with the land around us through ephemeral earthen sculpture.

Huehca Omeyocan is a Pacific Northwest-based cultural organization dedicated to sharing and preserving the ancestral dance, music, art, and cultural traditions of the Anahuac (Mesoamerican) peoples. Founded by Eduardo Cruz Torres (Amictlan) and Maria Elena Cortes Duran (Malinalmiquiz), their work centers Anahuaca ancestral Mexica-Chichimeca-Aztec traditions and values, strengthening relationships between culture, community, and the natural world. FIRE DANCE & CEREMONY: In this participatory cultural workshop, Huehca Omeyocan will share teachings about Huehueteotl–Xiuhtecuhtli and the significance of fire within the home, temple, everyday life, and ceremony. Participants will explore the symbolism of fire and the 52-year New Fire tradition, collaboratively construct a ceremonial altar with natural and cultural elements, and awaken the body through drumming and movement. The workshop will culminate in a communal Fire Dance & Ceremony, bringing everyone into a circle of rhythm, movement, offering, and gratitude. Rather than a performance to witness, this is an invitation to participate and experience fire as a force that gives, transforms, protects, consumes, and renews.

Janessa Bautista is plant dyer and clothing/textile designer based in the Columbia River Gorge. She cultivates many of the dye plants she works with and also gathers plants in her surrounding environment. PLANT DYEING WITH FLOWERS AND SEEDS: In Plant Dyeing with Flowers and Seeds, you'll learn to dye with different plant parts, the flowers and the seeds! We'll be making 2 separate dye baths and dyeing a cotton and silk bandana.

J Brave is a vessel allowing the Universe to express through him, with the intention of inspiring the remembrance of our divine nature. Through his music and message, he transforms trauma into triumph, turns his mess into a message, and shifts suffering into songs that heal both himself and others. A father, provider, and limitless creator, J Brave’s greatest gifts are speaking life into others and bringing people together in community. He embodies the virtues of devotion, reverence, authenticity, awe, and wonder. As an artist, he is a voice for the voiceless, a stand for Indigenous peoples, and a steward for Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants. KEYS OF KREATION: You have the keys to unlock the infinite potential of your creative expression. Join us for this impactful and inspirational workshop to help you deepen your commitment and practice to your artistry. Transform your trauma into triumph, turn your mess into your message, and shift suffering into songs to heal yourself and serve the world. Come as you are and learn to embrace your personal story as a means of inspiration. Learn to open your voice and craft lyrics within this safe, and encouraging container. Bring your journal or digital notepad and create a one of a kind lyrical composition on the spot. Plus, you will receive volumes of insight to support you on your journey of musical mastery.

Jenny Lee is a musician, healing artist, wisdom carrier and founder of the Temple of Belonging, Cascadia's first bio-regional women's gathering. Her work lives at the intersection of personal transformation and collective culture, exploring what becomes possible when belonging is treated not as a feeling to attain, but as a practice to embody. Drawing from decades of experience in the healing arts, ceremony and breathwork, depth coaching, bodywork, and earth-based spirituality, Jenny creates spaces where people can meet themselves with greater honesty, courage, and wholeness. Through her teaching and flagship program Truth Training, she helps people disentangle from inherited stories and reclaim a more authentic relationship with themselves, one another, and the living world. As the founder of the nonprofit Cultures of Belonging, she is devoted to restoring the village as a living reality through bioregional networks, community resilience, women's leadership, and meaningful cultural repair. Part mentor, part artist, part coyote, Jenny's work invites people beyond self-improvement and into something deeper: the lifelong practice of becoming fully human together. BRAVERY TO BELONG: Join us for an interactive exploration of what it truly means to belong. In this experiential workshop, we will dive into the many facets and feelings of belonging and practice new ways to build bridges and create inclusive narratives. Through a blend of group discussions, educational lectures, breakout sessions, and somatic exercises, you will learn how to move beyond "othering" and foster genuine safety, decondition ingrained relational and community values, and reclaim a sense of belonging for all. This workshop will teach you somatic practices to invoke embodied and sovereign belonging, explore the power of curiosity to counter systemic exclusion, and inspire new stories of interbeing in your work, relationships, and communities. By the end, you'll have the tools to create more inclusive spaces and promote healing on both personal and collective levels.

Jessi Rado (she/her) is an artist and educator working at the intersection of creativity and community and nourishing pathways of connection. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology at Fairhaven Interdisciplinary College in Bellingham, WA, and a licensed mental health counselor focusing on attachment connection. Over years, her work has oriented toward these very times, with themes of working with collapse, disorientation and loss through generative means such as storytelling, singing and visual artistry. She is a member of the song collective, Earth Practice, and co-creator of the beloved community singing podcast, Bliss is Ordinary. REWILDING ATTACHMENT: We hear a lot these days about our “attachment style”—anxious, avoidant, disorganized, or secure. These frameworks can offer useful insights, but they can also become limiting stories about who we are and how we relate. Rewilding Attachment invites us to widen that lens: to explore attachment not as a fixed trait or diagnosis, but as a living, relational capacity shaped by our bodies, our communities, our cultures, and our relationship with the more-than-human world. We’ll consider how colonialism and individualism have shaped attachment theory and disrupted older, more collective ways of belonging, while also exploring the possibility that our capacity for connection, resilience, and “secure” states is far greater than these models often suggest. Through accessible teaching, shared practice, and song, we’ll experiment with new ways of experiencing connection and belonging. What becomes possible when we stop asking what’s wrong with our attachment, and start asking what capacities for connection are waiting to be awakened? This workshop is an invitation to loosen the grip of fixed stories, remember our innate capacities for connection, and explore what it might mean to rewild our sense of belonging.

Joanna Botvin is an agroecologist, educator, regenerative landscape designer, herbalist, and lifelong student of plants. Her work centers on Syntropic Agroforestry, using ecological succession, biodiversity, and plant relationships to cultivate resilient systems that grow abundant food and medicine. Over the past decade, Joanna has worked with farms, nonprofits, and communities across the Americas, designing and installing regenerative agroforestry systems and facilitating hands-on education. She is the founder of Flora Viva, where she designs regenerative landscapes centered on edible, medicinal, and native plants, and Curalma Botánica, a living apothecary rooted in foraged and organically grown plants. REMEMBERING OUR ROLE: INTRODUCTION TO SYNTROPIC AGROFORESTRY: In this workshop, Joanna will introduce Syntropic Agroforestry as both an ancient and emerging approach to tending land—one that mirrors forest ecosystems to regenerate soil, increase biodiversity, and growing food and medicine in abundance. Rooted in ecological principles and biomimicry, we will explore humanity’s role within the living systems we are part of, weaving together teachings on land stewardship, natural cycles, and ecological succession. We will dive into the history, principles, and design methods of Syntropic Agroforestry as a scalable way to heal our broken food system. Through shared learning, embodied practices and hands-on planting, participants will co-create a small syntropic system and leave with a deeper understanding of how to cultivate regenerative relationships with the Earth, understanding our role as an integral part of this beautiful intelligent system.

Jordan Sun is a passionate advocate for movement as a means of healing. She gives gratitude to her teachers. She humbly offers appreciation for the opportunity to learn and act as an ambassador of the dance and culture of other lineages of origin, including MENAHT peoples. Jordan gives homage to her ancestors of Mediterranean and Ashkenazi Jewish origin. She weaves the cultural dances of her ethnic lineage with fusion bellydance. RESILIENCE YOGA: Resilience Yoga is intended to harmonize and integrate all parts of your being through a practice of Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga fused with functional movement and stability awareness.

Dr. Kat Brady, LAc. (they/them) has studied and practiced Qigong for over a decade and is a certified teacher from the Ling Gui International Healing Qigong school under the instruction of Master Liu He. They bring their Qigong practice to life by blending in Chinese medical and Daoist wisdom to connect each student to their place as the pivot between heaven and earth. Kat received their doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in Summer 2023 and has both a public and private clinical practice in Portland, Oregon. In addition, Kat hosts Reiki sound baths and plays in the band Deer Friend with their wife Sarah Rayne, studies and practices the Yi Jing (I Ching), and is a certified Usui Reiki Master teacher.

Katie is a Russian and Polish primal hand-drummer, songstress, musician, activator, connector and creator of Drum Temple, where she encourages people to return to the primordial pulse within through ceremonial hand drumming, ancestral reconnection, & inner activation. She believes that rhythm activates vibrational messages from our body and soul—so let us use it to communicate the messages coming through us during times of great responsibility and transformation. Katie shares the vibration of ancient cultures and traditions through her Return to the Primordial Pulse activation that takes the audience from the soil to the stars. Her ceremonies features sounds inspired by Africa, the Middle East, South America, and the esoteric cosmos in all their chaos. RETURN TO THE PRIMORDIAL PULSE: Return to the Primordial Pulse is an immersive rhythmic experience that travels from cosmic awareness into deep Earthen presence. Through guided meditation, vocal activation, body and mouth percussion, chanting, & song, and a freestyle rhythm and song circle, you will be invited to decondition — to drop the learned rhythms of performance and expectation, and re-inhabit the natural pulse of the body. This is where we are born. We move through birth in the ancient caves, from formlessness into form, into inner rhythm. Then we emerge in a state of communion through breath, song, rhythm, and spirit. Djembe & shamanic drums are supportive but not required. Extra shakers and rhythm keeping tools will be brought, but additional ones are always helpful.

Keith Gilmore is a writer, speaker, and psychospiritual advisor. His writing and public talks center on understanding and addressing the tendency of our age towards cynicism, nihilism, egotism, reality-tunneling, finger-pointing, polarization, and disconnection, and cultivating and inviting the reemergence of trust, re-enchantment, humility, sense-making, responsibility-taking, solidarity, and integration. THE SACRED LAW OF SOVEREIGNTY: Sovereignty means total authority within a domain. You are the absolute authority within the domain of your being. No other person, institution, or ideology has any authority over your decision-making. Oftentimes we give away our power to others. This happens: When we say "yes" when we want to say "no." When we take on responsibility for anything that is not ours to hold. When we defer to other people to make decisions for us. When we don't take responsibility for doing the right thing because it's inconvenient or hard. Teachings, participatory examples, practices, & dialogues will present a framework to reclaim your sovereignty, protect your boundaries, resolve conflicts, and get clear on what is and is not yours to carry. Your sovereignty is the most potent power you wield. Embrace the sacred duty of living as a sovereign being in service to truth.

Laurence Cole was born in 1943 during the Second World War, and his earliest memories are of growing up in Los Angeles before the freeways. Throughout his life, he has been shaped by many beloved teachers whose insights, wisdom, and practices he now seeks to carry forward. Laurence has spent many years co-facilitating an ever-evolving practice of communal grief tending alongside other experienced practitioners. He is also a beloved song carrier who has written and led songs with communities throughout North America. Laurence believes group singing is everyone’s birthright and a vital, natural part of community ritual. These rituals have served as living technologies of belonging and connection since time immemorial. It is his great and humble honor to help carry forward these enduring gifts and blessings from our deep-time ancestors.

LeeYen Anderson is a soul coherence guide, somatic facilitator, and Master Teacher of the Wu Family Chinese Healing Arts of BaguaZhang — a lineage practice of Shen Gong, or Heart–Spirit energy work. As a PhD student in Depth Psychology, her work centers on embodied practice, breath, and soulful inquiry to support emotional resilience and inner coherence, cultivating a grounded sense of wholeness in times of change. Drawing from modalities including Gene Keys, life coaching, aromatherapy, yoga, and integrative wellness practices, LeeYen offers pathways toward emotional balance and embodied well-being. Her background in economics and environmental policy allows her to bridge the worlds of personal healing and larger systemic awareness, bringing a grounded, integrative perspective to her work. QIGONG TO CULTIVATE RESILIENCE: This workshop invites people to pause and listen: to themselves, to each other, and to the living systems that support all of humanity. This embodied practice cultivates resilience by returning to a deep relationship with the body, breath, and the heart center within. Rooted in the lineage wisdom of Shen Gong, or Heart–Spirit energy work, this workshop will demonstrate the principle of resourcing strength from connection and flow instead of force. Participants contribute to coherence in the field through tending to reilience in community: one that is relational, embodied, and rooted in care.

Manimou Camara is a master drummer and dancer from Guinea. He began studying the music and dance of Guinea at the age of twelve. His primary education was spent with Sekou Dico Sylla, Karamoko Daman, and the nationally recognized Ballet Saamato. He has played lead dunun for Mohamed Kemoko Sano's world-renowned Ballet Merveille and conducted rhythm and dance camps for people from Europe, Japan, and the United States. Manimou is the founder of Dounia Djembe, a Seattle-based percussion and dance company. WEST AFRICAN DRUM & DANCE: Step into the vibrant rhythms of Guinea, West Africa in this high-energy drum and dance class. Build strength, coordination, and deep rhythmic awareness as live drumming guides you into authentic movement. Feel the unity of Denbaya (family) as music and dance become one. This immersive experience invites everyone to move, connect, and celebrate together.

Michaela is a yoga instructor, body worker, nervous system healer, and movement facilitator based in Washington. She has traveled, taught, and learned all across the globe and throughout the country. She is the founder of Alchemia for Humans, which merges movement and emotional alchemy. ROOT TO RISE YOGA: Ground down into your body, returning to the ancient technology of yoga as the last day of the festival begins. Whether you are preparing for a travel day ahead or integrating the experiences from the weekend, this yoga class will invite you to come back home to yourself. Take a pause to connect to the earth beneath your feet, and refresh your body, mind, and soul alike as we discover what lies beyond the physical postures. Together we root, together we rise.

Maeyoka Brightheart and Benjamin Pixie are medicinal beekeepers and herbalists devoted in partnership with the Hive as a living force of vitality and healing, creating many medicines with the bounty of the bees and plants and giving voice to the lessons and inspiration imparted through this relationship. They co-founded Skalitude Pollinator Sanctuary, where they live with their family and community, tending pollinator habitat on the edge of the wild in the Methow Valley of WA state. The Pixie Traveling Medicine Show, their pop-up apothecary, offers honeys, meads, potions, bee pollen, candles and many botanical creations. Their work bridges ancient wisdom and resilient future, deepening relationship between bee and human, feeding a world where all life can thrive.

Morgan Vanderpool, LICSW, (they/he) is a queer, trans, neurospicy, and ecologically- grounded: collective neuro-mechanic, regenerative-practice facilitator, neuro-sensitive movement specialist, drag king, poet, and community builder- with 15+ years experience as a global complex trauma specialist. They facilitate, mycelially-grounded and somatically abolitionist, embodiment practices- that strengthen our collective capacity to healthfully move with every layer of our badass survivor selves. So we may co-build thriving neural and eco-systems–ONE BREATH AT A TIME. COMPOSTING WHITENESS: This workshop invites participants into an honest, body-based exploration of how whiteness lives within us—as a set of deeply embedded somatic, neurological, and relational patterns. Grounded in this year’s theme of Rooting into Resilience and guided by the Fire element, we approach this work as a process of composting: breaking down what has been inherited and internalized so that something more life-affirming, just, and connected can emerge. Rather than approaching this topic through shame or self-punishment, participants will be supported to engage with curiosity, courage, and care. Together, we will work with the “heat” that arises in the body when confronting complicity—learning how to stay present through the decomposition process, and practicing how to metabolize it into fuel for meaningful change. This workshop is an invitation to step into the heat of the compost heap—not to be consumed by it, yet to connect to how we can be transformed by it.

Renowned Australian mystic troubadour Murray Kyle weaves sacred sounds that reflect his dedication to fostering positive change through the power of music. His contagious, soul-restoring melodies will sweep you off your feet, out of your head, and into your heart. A prolific songwriter, multi instrumentalist, live looper and sound engineer, Murray has released multiple self produced studio albums over the last decade, grounded in unity consciousness, and dedicated to the re-awakening of the beauty way. VOCAL BODY JAM: Join Australian Sacred Song Carrier Murray Kyle for this journey of expression using voice, body percussion, sounding and movement. Together we will dive into the playfulness and the prayer of the human voice, as a bridge to all of life. Discovering connectivity through our collective sound and song, using the most ancient instrument that we carry within. We will play with harmonics, full body listening, song writing, vocal interpretation, toning, & collaborating with the great mystery. No musical experience is needed, just a curious heart to play with the energy of the moment & discover how your voice is a powerful friend and ally.

Patrick is a heart-centered healing artist specializing in psychosomatic therapy and spiritual guidance. Patrick serves as a Senior Trainer and Certified Facilitator in the Breathwave Conscious Breathing community, an internationally-acclaimed modality of conscious connected breathing. Based in Portland, OR, Patrick offers community Breathwave ceremonies, festival workshops, private retreats, facilitator trainings, and psychedelic integration education worldwide. BREATHWAVE CEREMONY: Breathwave is a powerfully gentle approach to Conscious Connected Breathing. Founded by Robin Clements, Breathwave is an internationally-acclaimed modality of breathwork that is known for its impeccable hands-on facilitation style from trained facilitators and its ceremonial understanding of breath as free, universal medicine. Breathwave is a direct path to self-responsibility and self-realization that requires the active choice of the practitioner to maintain conscious connection with their own breath. The somatic experience of sustaining present-moment awareness with the breath is the equivalent of drinking directly from the source of living water, where deep human needs are quenched and original inspiration is received. In this way, Breathwave is a ceremony of communion with Spirit where people of all paths can come drink freely. Learning to establish a Breathwave self-healing practice expands our experience of wholeness and deepens our connection to consciousness itself; holistic well-being is an eventual consequence of living in alignment with our most authentic selves. Any habitual resistance to the power of conscious connected breathing tends to show up as unwholesome patterns in a practitioner’s respiratory rhythm or body posture; Breathwave facilitators are trained to help identify and correct these imbalances, making easy the removal of barriers that keep us from sustained coherence with Breath/Spirit.

Peia is a song collector, writer, and multi-instrumentalist whose work weaves ancient folk traditions with original music rooted in place, ancestry, and the natural world. Drawing deeply from Celtic and Old World European traditions, she carries songs from Irish laments and Scottish waulking songs to Bulgarian mountain calls, honoring the stories and languages held within them. With her soaring, crystalline voice and lush instrumentation, Peia creates immersive musical journeys that invite us into deeper connection with ourselves, one another, and the living Earth. THE WILD VOICE: For this special collaborative offering at the Conscious Growth Convergence, Peia and Anna Bariyani come together to guide an exploration of the wild and embodied voice. The Wild Voice is an invitation to reclaim the voice as a living expression of our essence and the life moving through us. Through deep listening, breath, embodiment, and vocal practices, Peia and Anna will guide participants in softening the layers that inhibit authentic expression and returning to the voice as a channel of truth, beauty, prayer, and creative life force.

Plaedo is a community facilitator, performance artist and educator with over 15 years experience pollinating and weaving webs through the worlds of performance, education, and community development ultimately towards the goal of cultivating joyously resilient communities and cultures. Kody Barnett brings community together with the intention to find the wisdom in the room. His approach is rooted in creating a soil for relationships to sprout and deepen within, all in an effort to escape the gravitational pull of a culture that isolates us. SENSEMAKING SOIREE: The sensemaking soiree is an experience meant to connect with others over an exploration of meaning our individual lives and how we are connected to the larger circumstances of our world. You can expect 1 on 1 conversations with other participants and a group sensemaking activity that is meant to grow our understanding of our similarities and differences, and how those dynamics might help us navigate these changing and challenging times.

Reishi Strauss is the founder of Earth & Spirit Botanicals and Elixir Bar, where they explore the relationship between plants, wellness, and everyday ritual through handcrafted botanical offerings and elixirs. Their work invites people into deeper relationship with the plant world and the nourishing, transformative possibilities it offers. Nick Canino is the founder of Rhythm Seed Farm, a community-oriented farm rooted in the intersection of music, food, land, and connection. Through his work, he creates spaces where people can gather, cultivate relationship with the Earth, and experience the rhythms of growing, making, and being together.

Ríomas (they/them), previously known as Shireen Amini, is a queer, trans masculine nonbinary, Puerto Rican-Iranian artist and immigrant settler on Turtle Island creating at the intersection of music, healing, and cultural change. Drawing upon pop and folk textures, gratefully and respectfully from Black and Afro-Latin musical lineages, they craft artful, participatory songs that invite realness and transformative energy. Bridging contemporary music mediums with ceremonial ways and resistance efforts, Ríomas creates soulful and joyful community singing experiences that reconnect people to their power and place. SINGING LIBERATORY MAGIC Ríomas will lead a community singing experience of original songs that bridge our connection from land to our interpersonal relationships, from the hard work of unwinding patterns in us to the joy of birthing new ways forward. With elements of storytelling, ceremony, and rhythmic participation, we will summon soulful depths and enliven the energies needed to affirm our collective power. Some songs will be drawn from Ríomas' recent album release Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation.

A humble servant of sound and a potent voice of the land, River is an Indigenous artist, energy worker, and sound weaver enrolled with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Raised at the base of the Blue Mountains in northeastern Oregon, her path has carried her far beyond the homelands of her Cayuse and Nimiipuu ancestors, weaving through the red rocks of Sedona and across the country for the last decade. Now returned to her roots, River offers group sound healings and one-on-one sessions in service to her community. With a deep pulse on the heartbeat of the collective and a keen awareness of what is present, River carries the prayers and love of her people wherever she goes - The river forges a path, bridges worlds, and guides us back home. RIVER MEDICINE SOUND JOURNEY: Smudge. Prayer. Heart Cleanse. A sacred journey through sound, vibration, and stillness. Allow the healing medicine of native drum, rattle, flute, and song to ground, restore, and guide you back to yourself. Bring blanket + water bottle.

Saffire Bouchelion is an Embodyologist, a deeply devoted Rhythmatist, and a Music/Movement Alchemist who sources the love, joy and healing of Spirit into all that he does. Be it classes, workshops, or performances, Saffire’s commitments to service is clear and inspiring. As a 1st Degree Nia Black Belt and Instructor, Saffire has presented classes and workshops in 17 countries. As a professional percussionist he has performed on over 51 recording projects, and in bands that have opened for numerous International acts, including Sheryl Crow, Crash Test Dummies, Paul Winter Consort and John Denver. Saffire holds weekly Drumming sessions, for both groups and for private students. His Children’s book, The Groove Goblin, truly encapsulates Saffire’s life philosophy, and it is this philosophy that he brings into his work as a music therapist for Hospice clients near transition. MOVING YOUR ELEMENTAL SELF: This is an immersive, joyful, body-centered journey, inviting you to step out of habit and into elemental presence through dance, rhythm, sound, and embodied awareness.

Sara Tone is a Portland-based musician, educator, and activist who’s shared Earth-inspired love songs for decades. Blending fae-soul, world-folk, and a playful hip-hop sensibility, she layers voice, looping, and an array of instruments into soulful sonic spells celebrating nature and connection. CASCADIA ECORHYTHMS Rooted in the rhythms of the natural world, this participatory percussion experience invites us you to explore music as a living ecosystem. Through playful exercises, layered groves, and collective creation, we'll build rhythm from the ground up - awakening coordination, creativity, and connection. Inspired by Cascadia landscapes, this workshop blends musical ecology and community music-making into an all-levels rhythmic journey.

Simon Yugler is a depth psychotherapist, psychedelic educator, and author of Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair. With a master’s degree in Depth Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Simon weaves Jungian psychology, mythology, Internal Family Systems, animism, and psychedelic integration into his work. His path has included years of experiential education and international travel, learning alongside diverse Indigenous and land-based traditions, as well as serving as a retreat leader and therapist at a psilocybin retreat center in Jamaica. Through his teaching, writing, and facilitation, Simon invites people to move beyond the pursuit of personal optimization and into deeper questions of soul, initiation, relationship, and cultural repair—exploring psychedelics as potential catalysts for transformation and a renewed relationship with the living world. PSYCHEDELICS & THE SOUL: A grounded and mythopoetic exploration of psychedelics as tools for soul-making rather than optimization, escape, or spiritual consumerism. Drawing from depth psychology, animism, initiation traditions, and contemporary psychedelic culture, this workshop invites participants into a deeper conversation about what these medicines are actually asking of us in our age of capitalism and extraction. Together we’ll explore the differences between a medicine, a medication, and a drug, along with the differences between insight and integration, and transcendence and transformation. This workshop asks the question, how can psychedelic healing become a practice of relationship with self, community, ancestry, and the living world, rather than just another ego trip?

Founded by drum carrier and storyteller Sewa M. Valencia, Sisters of the One Drum is an intertribal, intercultural circle of women who gather around the Grandmother Drum for the soul purpose healing, ceremony, and ancestral remembrance. Rooted in Indigenous teachings, their mission is to restore balance and connection through the Medicine of the Drum. With circles, workshops, and gatherings across Turtle Island and beyond, Sisters Of The One Drum lifts voices in unity — one prayer, one voice, one heartbeat. UNIVERSAL HEARTBEAT: Step into a sacred circle where the Grandmother Drum calls us back to the original heartbeat of creation. Sisters Of The One Drum invites you to remember who you are through song, prayer, rhythm, and collective healing. In this gathering, voices weave together as medicine — lifting prayers for ourselves, for one another, and for the Earth. This is not performance; it is a living ceremony where all who enter are welcomed, held, and transformed. Come as you are, and leave with the heartbeat echoing inside you.

Steve Hancock is a land steward, healer, musician and educator. Having spent the past decade working as a lead interpretive park ranger with OR State Parks, Steve facilitates meaningful connections to the Earth through place based educational programs and events related to the outdoors, natural sciences, history and culture. Steve is a reiki master, alchemical healing and vibrational sound healing practitioner, and is passionate about bringing a spiritual perspective to all areas of life. He currently offers individual and group ancestral skill mentorship in hunting, fishing, foraging, and survival skills through a spiritual lens. Steve is committed to reconnecting people with the earth and its elements, fostering a firsthand relationship with our food and a deeper understanding of the realities of our own survival. His work is rooted in the principles of reciprocity, resilience, and an honest engagement with life and death. He is dedicated to divesting from harmful agricultural practices and rebuilding the village through meaningful community connection. FRICTION FIRE: AN ANCESTRAL PRACTICE Have you ever challenged yourself to build a fire by rubbing two sticks together? In this workshop we will learn the ancient art of bow drill friction fire and how this practice can teach us to navigate adversity in our lives. This workshop reframes friction, adversity and failure as a crucible for growth and healing. Together we will develop a framework to bolster our ability to navigate hard things and to work on being ok with failing forward. Participants will emerge with an ancestral skill to practice, learn from, and use as a tool to move through any challenge in our lives.

Uria Tsur is a singer-songwriter, facilitator, and visionary devoted to the transformative power of voice and collective music-making. He is the creator of the international Vocal Freedom workshops and Voice Medicine retreats, founder of the School for Singing Circle Leaders, lead singer of Orot Band, and producer of The Sacred Journey festival. Since 2015, Uria has brought his work around the world, creating spaces where people can free their authentic voices, move beyond fear and self-consciousness, and experience the healing power of singing together. His work explores music as more than entertainment—as medicine, connection, and a pathway toward greater authenticity, courage, and collective harmony. VOCAL FREEDOM Sing, improvise and practice courage as we relax into the portal of self expression. Music is not entertainment, it is a profound way for us to channel life as it flows through each moment. This workshop is designed to inspire you, to playfully explore the voice of life that you are.

Wes Ozier is a longtime permaculture and ecological design educator, community builder, and member of the City Repair core team and Board of Directors. Former Education Director at Lost Valley Educational Center, the Ecosa Institute, and the Arcosanti Project, Wes has spent decades teaching permaculture, ecovillage design, and sustainable living practices. His work centers on helping people develop the knowledge and skills to create more resilient, regenerative communities and places.