The Temple of Belonging
Bio-Regional Women's Collective and Gatherings

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Alyx Somas is a 2S Native Northern American Culture Tender and Reindigenization Practitioner who guides communities in life honoring ancestral teachings to re-member our true human nature and to restore relationship with lineage, land, and kinship-based lifeways. They offer ancestral healing, cross cultural repair + coalition, belonging-based decolonial organization systems, and grief, initiation, + heart healing work.

Their work, The Collectivity Project, is an indigenous response to polycrisis, genocide, and ecocide—an offering to support pan-cultural interdependence and reciprocity with the living world. With a background in village-belonging, community movement, and eco-somatic healing, their work is to nurture our sacred responsibility as living ancestors.

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I am a physician, healer and teacher.

In partnership, I listen with my hands, my heart and my intention to support your body and spirit in remembrance of your wholeness. Through bodywork and shamanic practices, I support the flow and natural movement of body with spirit. Your true nature. Your full expression.

When you work with me, you can expect spiritual, emotional and musculoskeletal shifts that result in ease of movement – through the body, heart, mind and spirit. This is Freedom. It’s a reclamation and refinement of your own true nature. It is change that is deep and lasting as it blossoms from your own inner wisdom and your natural, luminous organization.

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Mother, badass, warrior woman, and a devoted student of the quiet strength found in softness. She teaches women self-defense not only as a physical skill, but as a way of reclaiming instinct, boundaries, and inner authority. Rooted in a lifelong commitment to evolution and growth, her work invites women to embody both their power and their presence with clarity and courage.

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Andrea is a native to Oregon, lover of magic, tinkering herbalist, dancer at heart, and has been a Massage Therapist in the Portland area for over 25 years. She weaves together modalities that bring a deep sense of awareness to her clients' bodies while tapping into their inherent healing capabilities and ancestral wisdom to attain healthy menses and/or conception, deep nervous system resets and process trauma stored in the body. 

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Ashley Bonn is a community weaver, event producer, and cultural facilitator based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the founder of Conscious Growth and Cascadia Culture, initiatives that bring people together through regenerative education, music, and cultural gatherings across Cascadia. Through her creative project Wisdom Weaver, she explores ancestry, land-based traditions, and the role of craft in restoring belonging between people, place, and lineage.

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Claire Sierra, MA is an arts therapist, spiritual counselor and author/founder of The Magdalene Path book/program. She guides women to remember their embodied Feminine Soul, through Divine connection with Mary Magdalene. An initiated anointing Priestess also trained as an Expressive Arts Therapist, certified True Purpose™ Coach, and Reiki Master, Claire uses cutting edge practices that fit her grounded, expansive, soulful approach. She has maintained a private practice for almost 30 years, currently at Spa Sanctuary, a boutique wellness studio at the Balch Hotel, a destination retreat in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.

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As an Afro-Indigenous, Memphis-born, Appalachian-cured storyteller, story doula, and ecosomatic depth guide; Daje Aloh supports seekers, lovers, crafters, and kin in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. She does this in several domains: entrepreneurship, creative rites of passage, and musings on mythopoiesis, culturework, and leadership. She is the founder of Storywork Studio: An Institute of Visionary Praxis and the Midwives Studio: A Ritual Design and Concept Studio. 

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Exploring what it means to unfold (not just find) and build (not just buy) home. The journey started with my ancestry in China, continued with my birth in the suburbs of Detroit, MI, and spending most of my adult life overseas, mostly in Arusha, Tanzania. Since returning to the States in 2021, I've seen enough of the country to finally fall in love with it in my 30s, and I'm determined to cultivate healthier relational soil for all those prefiguring a more caring, beautiful, magical world during this transition of the US global domination empire into our next era.

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Emily is a Massage Therapist, Reiki Master Teacher and Certified Firewalking Instructor. Emily is known for holding an inviting space for powerful rites of passage and personal healing.

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Graciela follows in the ancestral lineage of her Grandmothers.  She works with Energy (Reiki), Frequency (Sound), and Breathwork....and a very small window of ceremonial plant medicine from Amazon tribes.  Through these modalities, she provides a restorative, relaxing, and restful environment to ease the stressors of life that are often a part of all diseases.  This reset leads to healing and overall since of wellness.  Thus, she is a Medicine Woman bringing Divine Love to restore ones' balance.

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Harty is a licensed acupuncturist with the Oregon Medical Board, trained in East Asian medicine through Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, where she earned her Master’s degree in 2019. Her work bridges modern science and ancient practice, rooted in early research on the gut–brain axis and a lifelong inquiry into the mind–body connection. She is a certified practitioner of Kiiko Matsumoto Style acupuncture and has studied Traditional Daoist arts under Zhongxian Wu, alongside extensive training in Qigong and myofascial and craniosacral therapies.

Harty began her clinical path serving underserved communities at the Quest Center for Integrative Health, supporting chronic pain and addiction recovery. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she expanded her reach by offering free virtual Qigong classes globally, helping people regulate anxiety and reconnect with their bodies. Now based in Central Oregon, she sees patients in both clinical and home settings while continuing to teach workshops and retreats. Her approach is trauma-informed, gentle, and responsive, using the body’s own feedback to guide treatment toward ease, balance, and lasting change.

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Ida Cavewoman is an American-born Nordic Folk Magic and shamanic practitioner and a retired massage therapist with over twenty years of hands-on experience. Rooted in ancestral healing, she weaves earth-based wisdom with somatic embodiment to help modern people remember their lineage, reconnect with their bodies, and restore their relationship with nature. 

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I'm an acupuncturist and massage therapist by trade and a true believer in the human spirit. On your quest for wellness, I want you to feel empowered by your health, not powerless. 

Seed was born from the idea that you already have everything you need to be your own hero. Imagine a giant sequoia tree swaying in the breeze. It all started as a tiny seed, finally taking root under optimal conditions to become its true, majestic form. My job is to nurture your own unique seed, helping you to sprout into your ultimate potential.

I use a wide variety of modalities including acupuncture, electro acupuncture, massage, herbs, food choices, and movement suggestion to nudge your well-being towards dynamic balance. I'm excited to meet you and can't wait to see where our journey will take us. 

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Music acts as a compass on Lucé’s path.  She is most interested in the practices that bring herself and others back home to themselves and invokes ceremony and ritual.  Finding "light within the struggle, and knowing the struggle within the light".   This is medicine.  

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Jocelyn Rahm has a masters degree is transformative arts which allowed her to deeply investigate the intersection points between her greatest passions in life: creativity, community and consciousness. She has taught art extensively with kids, teens and adults and has merged her background in Buddhism, mindfulness and creativity to offer a unique approach to exploring the Dharma and the depths of Self through the harmonization of inner stillness and outer expression.

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Laura is a village herbalist and nurse, who is passionate about food as medicine, herbs as allies and connection as guidance. She is the creatrix of Backyard Harvest, creating herbal medicines, based on the inspiration of the seasons and the abundance of the harvests! She is dedicated to offering mama’s and their families support and inspiration through holistic healing that nourishes mind, body, soul, and the Earth and honors intuition.

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Madison is a small business owner, mother, multi-talented artist and 3rd generation Japanese-American woman creating a variation of original artwork: sumi-ink paintings, poetry, leathercraft, wood-burning and jewelry.  Her connection with nature and animals has led to her most creative passion by working with and teaching the humble tradition of leather craft.  Her son is her greatest teacher and her family is the most beautiful joy in life alongside growing their businesses in White Salmon, WA.    

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Maeyoka Brightheart is a mama, medicinal beekeeper and herbalist devoted to serving the Life Force of the Earth through embodied elemental magic, crafting medicine in partnership with the bees, and weaving community with resilience and reciprocity. Looking to the bees’ living example of giving back to that which sustains us, she has been tending hives and facilitating collaborative group ritual since 2009. Maeyoka is co-founder of Skalitude Pollinator Sanctuary, Pixie Mead, Spirit of the Hive and Temple of Nectars Flowing.

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Megan believes that vulnerability is the ultimate expression of strength and specializes in creating spaces that feel safe to be open-hearted. She has been holding transformational circles on sacred land in Mosier, OR for the last 12 years, dedicated to the Remembering of all that we are. She offers channeled guidance while serving as a Plant Medicine guide and women's workshop facilitator.  Megan has also worked as a Registered Labor & Delivery Nurse for the last 21 years, holding safe space in a different way, empowering women and families through the portal of Birth. 

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Natalya is a Registered Somatic Educator, Sound Therapist, and LMT who offers individual sessions of Therapeutic Bodywork, Somatic Restoration Trauma Release, Medicine Sessions, and summer retreats and courses at Sky Mother Temple in Hood River, OR. 

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Jessica and Olivia are devoted friends who share a common goal of removing fear and stigma around talking about death. Jessica is an Oregon based wedding, lifestyle & legacy photographer who documents stories of human connection and self embodiment through poetic imagery. Olivia works for a nonprofit serving older adults by doing community engagement and improving access to essential services. We are both long time supporters of Temple and we are beyond thrilled to be offering this new workshop together.

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Rev. Sara Luna is a doula and teacher who works at the intersection of birth, transition, and reclamation. She supports individuals and communities through life’s initiations with a blend of trauma-aware practice, embodiment, and grounded ceremony. Her work centers belonging, self-trust, and remembering one’s own inner capacity.

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I am a wellness guide and founder of Shana’s Sanctuary, a space I created to help others deepen their connection to themselves through yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, and embodied self-exploration. My work is rooted in creating sanctuary within the mind, body, spirit, and soul — guiding people toward inner peace, presence, and empowered living. Trained in mindfulness facilitation, yoga, and Ayurvedic practices, I support individuals in cultivating self-connection and authentic transformation. My passion is helping others heal, grow, and create meaningful daily rituals that nourish their lives.

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Amanda is a dance + breathwork facilitator. Her gentle and potent guidance invites you to deepen curiosity and presence, to create space in and around you, and to re-member your self in the process.

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Amron is a physician and researcher whose work bridges nutrition science, bioenergetics, and the deeper study of human vitality across body, psyche, and spirit. With roots in early exploration of energy medicine and plant therapeutics, and a professional background in anti-aging and nutritional research, she brings a grounded yet expansive lens to the themes of money, sex, and power. Her work invites a clear, embodied understanding of how life force moves through these domains, helping participants examine patterns of worth, desire, and agency with both precision and depth.

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Annie Adamson is the founder of Primal Vinyasa® and Primal Child™, two education-driven platforms rooted in ancestral movement, nervous system literacy, and embodied family wellness. For over two decades, she has guided women, mothers, and teachers back into rhythm with their bodies through somatic practice, developmental awareness, and transformational mentorship. Her work bridges movement, functional nutrition, early childhood development, and feminine leadership into a cohesive, lived philosophy. Annie brings a grounded, experiential approach that honors both ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience, helping families and practitioners embody wellness from the inside out.

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Cass is an intuitive coach, shamanic practitioner, and maker whose work lives at the intersection of healing and creation. She is devoted to helping others reconnect with their vitality, pleasure, and creative essence. Whether guiding clients through transformational coaching or leading hands-on creative workshops, Cass brings presence, beauty, and soulful attention to everything she creates. She believes in the magic of working with our hands, hearts, and intuition to remember our innate connection to beauty, purpose, and the sacred rhythms of life.

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​Courtney Noel is a Breast Massage Practitioner, Embodiment Coach, and Women’s Circle Facilitator with 2.5 years of experience supporting women on their journey back to the wisdom of their bodies through breast massage. Rooted in Ayurvedic teachings and somatic exploration, her work gently invites women to honor the stories held in their breasts and uncover new layers of self-love. Having studied under Abigail Hinds of @blessourbreasts and co-taught at two breast massage trainings, Courtney has guided over 200 women in reconnecting with themselves through this powerful practice. With over seven years of experience holding transformational women’s spaces, she weaves self-devotion, vulnerability, truth, and play into every container. 

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Courtney Noel is a Breast Massage Practitioner, Embodiment Coach, and Women’s Circle Facilitator with 2.5 years of experience supporting women on their journey back to the wisdom of their bodies through breast massage. Rooted in Ayurvedic teachings and somatic exploration, her work gently invites women to honor the sacred stories held in their breasts and uncover new layers of self-love. Having studied under Abigail Hinds of @blessourbreasts and co-taught at two breast massage trainings, Courtney has guided over 200 women in reconnecting with themselves through this powerful practice. With over six years of experience holding transformational women’s spaces, she weaves self-devotion, vulnerability, and play into every container, inviting women to meet themselves more deeply than ever before.

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I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner dedicated to helping people reconnect with their innate capacity for safety, resilience, and aliveness. My practice integrates body-based healing, relational attunement, and trauma-informed approaches to support individuals who have experienced developmental and intergenerational trauma.

I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. I am also a musician, mother, and proud auntie. 

BIO:I am a full time potter living and working in beautiful Hood River, Oregon at the Clay Commons, a community ceramics studio located downtown at 616 industrial st. I make functional wheel-thrown pottery when I’m not busy teaching the amazing community of students at the Clay Commons or choosing to be distracted by the adorable studio pup Lemon. 

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I am Sarah, born of Mari, born of Alice Maclean born out of the west highlands of Scotland, of Gaelic language and Queen Victoria’s empire

I am born out of the British Empire, of Shanghai banks, of whaling and Newcastle beer.

Born out of Clarence Bicknell, esperanto and wild alpine flowers, out of Constable and knights and those who burnt King Alfred’s cakes.

I am born out of crofters and fishermen and the Scottish potato famine. The old ones tended the hill fires at Beacon Hill, Devon deriving the name Bicknell

I am born out of stone and wild moorlands, of moss and the fae, who travelled west through the Summer Isles on an immram of her own

I am a Brit who washed up on the shores off the Pacific Northwest amidst seaweed, ravens and cedar bough who found her feet amidst clabber board, wild mountains and cranberry bogs.

I am one who loves and changes and creates as she goes

For I am many lifetimes all rolled into one, a  traveller, a juggler, anam cara and priestess

I am one who has been adopted by these shores, who 50 years later carries my new roots in a US passport and has birthed children and grandchildren into this new land.

I am she who found her place inside and out at the feet of Native wisdom borrowed and returned.

I am the medicine of my rowan roots interwoven with wild salmon and Douglas Fir

I am earth person, vulnerable to the song of life and I follow my breath.

I am Grandmother Turtle landing in meadowland,  fresh from the ocean currents of life

I am she who crosses oceans and cultures to connect and be whole, One who dances with others in shared language of the soul

I am a dreamer, a sharer of truth, an assistant, a collaborator

I am a special education teacher, a mentor of life, a student, a poet

I am a lover, a wife, a mother, a ceremonialist, and shadow doctor of grace

I am you, I am me, and I am continuing our prayer

To love even more, to be kind even more and be here even more, whomever we be.

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Je Amaechi (she/they) is a queer Black community organizer, healer, futurist, and astrologer of Jamaican descent who has been doing consciousness-raising work since she organized her first protest at 14. She is a student of cycles: astrological, ecological, ancestral and her work treats inner transformation and collective liberation as the same project, because they are. She is a NextGen Foresight Practitioner Fellow and a Black to the Future Public Policy Institute Fellow.

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Heyona is a mother, teacher, and storyteller who moves with breath, music, and prayer. She holds space with warmth and presence, inviting others to slow down (or fire up), feel deeply, and notice the rhythm of their own hearts.

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Jessi Radovich (she/her) is an artist and teacher working at the intersection of creativity and community and seeking living means to nourish pathways of 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. She currently teaches college courses in Community Singing, Collective Grief Tending and Rewilding Attachment Theory.

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Jen Gens is a Purpose Clarity Coach, Breathwork Ceremonialist, and Spiritual Guide who empowers heart-centered creatives to clarify their purpose and live in alignment with their deepest calling. Drawing from over a decade of experience and a rich tapestry of modalities — including Breathwave, Ritual, Jungian Psychology, Somatic Healing, Energy Medicine, Sound Healing, and Yoga — she weaves together spiritual wisdom and practical tools to help people move from confusion and self-doubt into grounded, confident clarity about who they are at a soul level. A student of her own profound transformation, Jen also brings her voice as a healing instrument, channeling sound and ceremony to access the deeper realms where true purpose lives. Through deep listening and honoring of The Sacred, Jen cultivates transformational containers where people are inspired to return to the wholeness of their soul's truth and the freedom of their authentic expression.

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Dr. Lula Plumb is a Chiropractor and Breathwave Facilitator in Portland, OR. She weaves together bodywork and breathwork, alignment and expansion- creating a space where whole-person healing can unfold. As mother of three young daughters, she feels the importance of coming together as women to support each other.

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​Lydia Skahan is a Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) and Yakama artist, cultural educator, and enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Specializing in Plateau tribal arts, she creates quillwork, cornhusk basketry, and traditional clothing, blending ancestral techniques with modern designs. Through her business, Wiyeépi’im, she shares traditional knowledge, teaches workshops, and helps preserve Indigenous artistry for future generations. 

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Maddy Betancourt is an Oregon-based bead artist specializing in intuitive beadwoven designs created stitch by stitch without a loom. Her work is inspired by nature, blending intricate detail with channeled creativity.

When Maddy is not creating beaded art, she is usually in her garden, in her kitchen, or spending time somewhere in nature. 

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Maeyoka Brightheart is a mama, medicinal beekeeper and herbalist devoted to serving the Life Force of the Earth through embodied elemental magic, crafting medicine in partnership with the bees, and weaving community with resilience and reciprocity. Looking to the bees’ living example of giving back to that which sustains us, she has been tending hives and facilitating collaborative group ritual since 2009. Maeyoka is co-founder of Skalitude Pollinator Sanctuary, Pixie Mead, Spirit of the Hive and Temple of Nectars Flowing.

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Maitreya Wolf is a musician, shamanic counselor, and medicine guide who bridges worlds and awakens souls in all of her offerings. Deftly weaving her deeply cultivated intensity of presence as a wild mysticism suffused with practical life-and-street smarts, she guides people into embodied experiences of their truth and power through the catalytic process of relating to life as an initiatory path of awakening, healing, liberation, and conscious evolution. 

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Melissa Robin is a ritual artist, embodiment facilitator, and photographer devoted to creating spaces where people feel safe to be seen in their truth. Their work weaves somatic movement, meditation, authentic relating, and ceremonial practice to support emotional alchemy and power reclamation. As a queer, non-binary facilitator, they centers inclusivity, consent, and nervous system awareness in all of her offerings. Melissa believes belonging begins when we stop abandoning ourselves.

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Natalya is a Registered Somatic Educator, Sound Therapist, and LMT who offers individual sessions of Therapeutic Bodywork, Somatic Restoration Trauma Release, Medicine Sessions, and summer retreats. She also offers distance coaching and classes at her community center, Sky Mother Temple, in Hood River. 

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Janessa Fortes Bautista is a textile artist, clothing designer, natural dyer, and devoted plant ally. Her journey with natural dyeing began 25 years ago, sparked by a deep fascination with the vibrant pigments that can be coaxed from plants and insects—a sense of wonder that continues to inspire her today. Although Janessa considers herself a lifelong student of the plants, she has spent many years sharing her expertise by teaching dyeing, believing it to be an essential, accessible skill for everyone.

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I am a natural builder based in the Columbia River Gorge and co-owner of Clay Sand Soul, a natural building workshop company.  Our primary goal with CSS is to inspire and empower others to build beautiful, healthy, and functional dwellings with local and minimally processed materials like clay, sand, straw, roundwood, and stone.  From the beginning, Grandmother Clay has been my guide and inspiration, showing me the way to living in right relationship to the Earth. 

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Wyld Lee is a sensitive & awkward animal whose native tongue is dance. Her business - Wyld Fempyre - strives to support women in waking up to their own domestication while stepping powerfully into rebirth, creativity, their own channel.  Her primary focus lives in Instinct & Intuition reclamation through the lens of the animal body.