About Us
This is a vision that was planted in the hearts of many, and manifested by a few brave women ready to draw this vision down in and through the body of our collective.
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We are real-life women with a shared vision for creating a safe and sweet spaces for us all to return to right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the spirit of all things that holds us all.
Our Story
Over the years, we’ve dipped our toes into many women’s events, from big, bustling gatherings and cozy, extended retreats. Each one left us with nuggets of healing and sparks of inspiration. But even with all these beautiful moments and memories, something essential was often missing that kept us from feeling truly connected.
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Enter the idea for "The Temple of Belonging."
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We created this space with two big heartbeats:
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1. Locality : Our events are bio-regional and local because real friendships grow best when they're close to home. We’re all about creating connections that last longer than the closing ceremony, making it easy to grab coffee or share a walk, not just during events but in the everyday rhythm of life. This is how we truly move from cosumerism to community!
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2. Authenticity: We’re here to keep it real and strip back the layers of 'shoulds' and 'supposed to’s' that sometimes sneak into women’s gatherings. No need to be anything but your genuine self here—whether you’re into yoga and crystals or if you prefer sneakers and sci-fi. It’s all about celebrating the full spectrum of what it means to be a woman today, and how to come back together in reverence.
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"The Temple of Belonging" is a cozy corner of the world where we celebrate the magic of our everyday lives. It’s a place to laugh, share, and grow together, anchored in the traditions that touch our hearts and the spontaneous joys that make life worth living.
Integrity Leadership Council
As The Temple of Belonging grows, we are committed to growing in a way that stays aligned with our values.
The Integrity Leadership Council is an emergent part of that commitment.​
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Organized through the metaphor of the wheel, the council is a small group of trusted women who help steward different areas of Temple’s life and future. Together, they support decision making, tend key relationships and resources, share creative problem solving and help ensure that growth remains connected to the values and culture that brought us here.
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At its core, the Integrity Leadership Council is an experiment in practicing what we teach: that healthy communities are built through shared responsibility, trust, and leadership that is relational rather than hierarchical.
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Temple has always been more village than event. This is one way we are learning how to build accordingly, together.
Alyx Somas
Alyx Somas is a 2S Native North American of multiple tribal and detribalized peoples. Rooted in life-honoring ancestral teachings, they walk as a Culture Tender, Re-indigenization Practitioner, and Collective Liberationist — guiding communities to re-member our truest human natures and to restore relationship with lineage, land, and kinship-based lifeways.
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Raised by a family of 200+ kin, Alyx carries the gift of intergenerational belonging — and walks in active training toward elderhood, anchored in deep belief in all people's dignified ancestry, innate capacity to heal, and inherent belonging within the whole. Grounded in years of studying ancestral healing, decolonial systems, and grief work, Alyx is the founder of The Collectivity Project and Poets for Liberation, a core organizer of Earthsong Gathering and Liberation Lab, and a council or board member of Cascadia Song Rise, Stellar Village, Conscious Growth Convergence, Revival Gatherings, Grieving Man, and Temple of Belonging. They offer ceremonies, workshops, public speaking, consultation, 1:1 sessions, and mentorship in ancestral healing, cross-cultural repair, belonging-based decolonial systems, and initiation and grief work.
Currently, Alyx is tending the launch of Grieving Whole — a grief cohort rooted in animist kinship— alongside TCP's various community circles and councils.
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Their work, The Collectivity Project, is an indigenous response to polycrisis, genocide, and ecocide — anchored in the truth that we all come from people who gathered around fires storytelling, dancing, and grieving together in medicinal ways. It is an offering toward pan-cultural interdependence and reciprocity with all of life, directly dismantling colonial wounding through relational world-building. May this collaborative work nurture our sacred responsibility as living ancestors, together.
Daje Aloh
Daje Aloh is an advisor, consultant, and vision midwife for wild-hearted creators, entrepreneurs, and culture-makers. An Afro-Indigenous, Memphis-born, Appalachian-cured storyteller, story doula, and ecosomatic depth guide, her work lives at the intersection of mythopoiesis, leadership, creative rites of passage, entrepreneurship, and collective transformation.
As founder of Storywork Studio, an Institute of Visionary Praxis, and The Midwives Studio, a ritual design and concept studio, Daje supports seekers, lovers, crafters, and kin in finding and singing the deep song of their lives. Her work invites individuals and communities into deeper relationship with imagination, liberation, emotional truth, and the living intelligence of story.
Guided by a devotion to what she calls “the internal waters” and the deep world beneath modern consciousness, Daje’s work centers listening as a sacred act. She believes there are new stories, new ways, and new templates for meeting life that long to be born into collective awareness, and that in order to nurture them, we must “get low and listen,” turning on “the ears of the psyche” to call forth what waits beneath the surface.
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Through consulting, teaching, ritual design, and cultural inquiry, Daje helps individuals and organizations cultivate deeper integrity, imagination, and liberatory vision. Rooted in animist philosophy, ecosomatic practice, and depth storytelling, her work serves the collective womb of transformation: the soil’s mirror, the seasons, the breath of God, and the unfolding of more life-giving futures.
Often described through her own language as a “Hope Punk,” “Regenerative Mystic,” “Mississippi River Witch,” “Animist Minister,” and “Story Doula,” Daje’s work ultimately centers the sacred art of helping people remember who they are, what they carry, and what longs to emerge through them into the world.
Wyld Lee
Wyld Lee is a somatic facilitator, ceremonialist, and community guide whose work centers on embodied transformation, emotional intelligence, and authentic human connection. She is a certified 5Rhythms facilitator, Family Constellations practitioner, and founder of Wyld Fempyre, an experiential platform devoted to movement, ritual, creativity, and relational healing.
Drawing from years of experience in somatic practice, group facilitation, and ceremonial leadership, Wyld creates spaces that support personal sovereignty, emotional honesty, and meaningful belonging.
Her work integrates movement, feminine wisdom traditions, shadow work, and community-based healing practices to help individuals reconnect with themselves, one another, and the living world.
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Known for her grounded presence, intuitive facilitation style, and ability to balance compassion with accountability, Wyld is deeply committed to cultivating spaces where people feel genuinely welcomed, seen, and empowered to engage in authentic transformation. Her approach emphasizes humility, lived experience, and the importance of embodied participation in both personal and collective healing.
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Through workshops, ceremonies, retreats, and community gatherings, she continues to support individuals and organizations in fostering deeper integrity, connection, and cultural belonging.
Meet The Team
Jenny Lee
Founder, Executive Director, Belonging Specialist, Marketing Manager & Resident Class Clown
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Jenny is the mother of Temple of Belonging, a multi-passionate Healing Artist (bodywork, breathwork and transformational coaching), Musician, and Community leader who is equally fierce as she is soft. She walks with integrity for the greater good of all beings, and has devoted her life to creativity, embodied healing and the wisdom of radical acceptance. She tracks the currents underneath the obvious, and has a skill for giving generous permission to all she encounters to live into their more authentic and courageous selves. Jenny is a devoted student of asking more beautiful questions, and thinking outside of the box.
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She is the visionary engine behind TOB and it's whole production, and spends too much time personally updating the website, tending to the vision, answering emails, dreaming up how to brave and beautiful spaces and making instagram posts - aka hi it's me :)
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Jenny lives and laughs on a shared homestead on the Hood River, and holds a brave dream for the future of The Temple of Belonging, including having land someday, and becoming a philanthropic non-profit that raises funding for micro-grants for women to start businesses and soul-lead projects.
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Check out her work here: Thesacredwholeness.com
Madeline VanMan
Co-Producer, Volunteer Coordinator​
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JMadeline professionally moonlights as a business consultant, working with ambitious women and visionary leaders to craft immersive brands and elevated experiences. As a twin artist and mother, she is rooted in the Cascadian homesteading way of life and deeply in love with this region's waters and fruit. At Temple of Belonging, she brings that same rooted understanding to the bones of the gathering itself, building scalable systems, tending the team’s vision and execution, while weaving together volunteers, partners, and kids village so that each thread is resourced to show up fully. Onsite, you'll find her already looking around the next corner, one hand on the pulse and both feet on the ground.
Jillian Kay
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Co-Producer, Bookkeeper
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Jillian brings 20 years of event & production experience to the team with a passion for supporting through intention, care, structure, and flow. As co-producer and bookkeeper, her support helps hold Temple's vision through operations, logistics, and financial flow, providing a grounding approach with lots of love throughout the production process. Dedicated to supporting community and connection, she is a steady and thoughtful presence behind the scenes.
Alyssa Reyes
Partner Marketing Lead ​​
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Alyssa (she/her/ella) is a mixed-heritage integration coach, yoga teacher, Reiki practitioner, wilderness guide, musician, and teaist dedicated to weaving community through embodied connection and collective care. She believes in the magic of spirited adventure and is passionate about crafting expansive journeys for conscious explorers.
Her offerings are rooted in eco-somatic well-being, blending movement, self-study, and a reciprocal relationship with nature. Alyssa brings a compassionate and playful energy to her heart-forward work, supporting others in connecting with their inner landscape, embracing their most authentic selves, and unlocking their innate capacity to heal.
Adrienne Hasler
Head Chef and Kitchen Lead
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Meet our Head Chef Adrienne! She is the spicy botanical chef of our dreams who will be coming into her third year leading the Temple Kitchen! She has a passion for infusing the seasonal gifts of nature into her creations which can be felt when you eat her dishes. With extensive training in Nutrition, Herbalism, and Ayurveda, she brings a holistic approach to her cooking, that focuses on both flavor and wellness.
For Adrienne, cooking is not just a profession but a way of life. A way to reconnect to nature and the most joyful expression of her creativity and lifes work. Throughout her journey, Adrienne has discovered the profound importance of nourishment in one's life, especially for women.
She is an advocate for the vital role nutrition plays in nurturing not just our bodies but also the mind, spirit, and the planet. Adrienne believes that through mindful eating and self-care, women can truly thrive and embrace a life of vitality and well-being. She can't wait to meet and serve you on your journey.
Sah'Rah Ma'at Bey and Mama Graciella
BIPOC space holders and collaborators of community
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Rooted & Held is a dedicated cultural tending space created by the Ladies of the Light Collective to support BIPOC women within the broader Temple of Belonging experience. This intentional “circle within the circle” offers a grounded sanctuary where women can soften, exhale, and be held in shared cultural understanding and collective care. Rooted & Held is not separate from belonging — it is belonging. By honoring the lived experiences of BIPOC women, we strengthen the integrity of the entire community and make belonging real for everyone.
Katya Wellspring
General Assistant and Facilitator Liaison​
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Katya Wellspring is a teacher, weaver, herbalist, and community steward living in the Columbia River Gorge. Her work weaves together ancestral skills, education, and land-based living with a deep commitment to relational culture and belonging.
Katya has spent nearly two decades working with human development through education, guiding children and adults in experiential learning rooted in craft, nature, and story. She is the founder of BeHold Life Packs, where she teaches Adirondack pack basket weaving as a living thread connecting modern life to ancestral traditions. In addition to her work in teaching and weaving, she operates a mutli-faceted special events catering business in the Gorge.
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Within the Temple of Belonging, Katya serves as Facilitator Liaison, helping hold the relational field between facilitators, organizers, and participants. She is devoted to cultivating spaces where people can arrive as they are, reconnect with the land, and rediscover the village that lives within community.
Shea Bodine
Girls Camp Leads/ Wild Rivers Collective
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Over the past 12 years, Shea has worked with young people in a variety of settings as a classroom educator, nature-based educator, and emotion resilience mentor. Through her LLC Rooted Resilience, she runs nature-based mentorship & education programs for young people. She weaves practices of non-violent communication, trauma-informed mentoring, somatic practices, and guidance from the Wilderness Awareness Institute into all that she does. In 2023, she completed a Rites of Passage Guide training with EarthPath Education. She continues her study of the great Mystery through deep listening, herbalism and wildcrafting, and general courtship with the unseen and ancestral realms. She is a mama to two sons, whose wild rivers are always teaching her. It is her deep desire that young ones have a place where they can be immersed in gentle and grounded guidance; experience a true sense of belonging and share their most authentic Self with the world.
Avalon Reynolds
Kids Camp Manager
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Avalon Reynolds-Brice is an experienced early childhood educator, program manager, and community care leader based in Eugene, Oregon. With over a decade of hands-on experience supporting children and families, she brings a depth of skill in creating developmentally attuned, trauma-informed, and relationally grounded environments for youth.
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Avalon has worked across classroom, outdoor education, and residential program settings, with particular expertise in early childhood and group care. Her approach draws from Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and Waldorf philosophies, weaving together structured rhythm, creative play, and nature-based exploration. She has led preschool classrooms, directed youth programs, and managed teams of staff and volunteers, consistently bringing clarity, steadiness, and responsiveness to dynamic environments.
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In her leadership roles, Avalon has overseen program design, staff development, and operational logistics, while maintaining a strong commitment to safety, communication, and emotional intelligence. She holds certifications in trauma-informed facilitation, restorative justice, and pediatric and adult First Aid/CPR/AED.
Samone Marie
Babies Camp/ Mama's Den Lead​
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Jessica Keaveny is a passionate photographer and legacy doula dedicated to capturing the profound beauty of the human experience. With a deep love for celebrating people and preserving their stories, Jessica brings a unique, soulful touch to her work. She specializes in documenting the essence of moments, from milestones to everyday joys, ensuring they become timeless memories. Jessica's work is fueled by an endless supply of energy from love and gratitude-filled moments, leaving her with a lasting smile after every shoot. Her mission is to honor the journey of your soul and narrate your legacy through her lens.
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Jessica shoots this gathering along with her daughter, a real family of powerful women!
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Jessica Keavney
Photography Mama and Cup of Warm Honey
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Jessica Keaveny is a passionate photographer and legacy doula dedicated to capturing the profound beauty of the human experience. With a deep love for celebrating people and preserving their stories, Jessica brings a unique, soulful touch to her work. She specializes in documenting the essence of moments, from milestones to everyday joys, ensuring they become timeless memories. Jessica's work is fueled by an endless supply of energy from love and gratitude-filled moments, leaving her with a lasting smile after every shoot. Her mission is to honor the journey of your soul and narrate your legacy through her lens.
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Jessica shoots this gathering along with her daughter, a real family of powerful women!
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Freedom Ciavalero
Marketplace Lead
I’m Freedom Ciavarello, founder of Moonbeam Daydream, a botanical skincare line rooted in ritual, intentional living, and the belief that skincare is spirit care. Through botanical formulations, thoughtful details, and meaningful connection, my work is centered around one simple idea: we all deserve spaces that feel like home to our nervous systems, our bodies, and each other.
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I love creating experiences where women feel encouraged, included, supported and beautiful exactly as they are. I believe in ease, humor, authenticity, and the kind of community that allows people to soften and fully show up as themselves. To me, part of the medicine the world needs is people living more honestly, more connected to their truth, less afraid of who they are and more connected to one another. Everything I create through Moonbeam Daydream is rooted in that spirit: beauty that feels grounding, modern, approachable, and real.
Harty Kelley
Wellness Team Lead​
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​Harty has been studying earth magic and honing her relationship to the spirit world since 1994.
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Her ancestral lineage can be traced back to the Druids of the O'hAirt tribe of prehistoric Ireland, whose teachings began arriving on the wind in her early childhood.
In adulthood, those teachings have been cultivated through the east-asian threads of mindful embodiment as well as the elemental and seasonal understandings of
humans as inseparable elements of the Earth-Body. She came into the teachings of the New Age through Buddhism and Yoga in 2004, and began teaching qigong and Daoist philosophy under Master Zhonxian Wu in 2016.
Today she infuses the Buddhist and Daoist teachings into the Druidic knowledge of her heritage in an ongoing mission to help unite modern humans with their prehistoric knowing. Harty believes the path to heart freedom and sovereignty begins with ancestral remembrance and a return to the knowledge of our innate divinity.
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Olivia Robinson
Inclusivity Advocate and Editor
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Olivia is a beacon of joy and delight, a master of clever problem-solving, and a steadfast advocate for welcoming and affirming everyone as they are. By day, she is a passionate advocate with a non-profit organization that expands social services to combat ageism in rural Oregon. Bilingual and armed with a degree in Spanish from Purdue, she is dedicated to building equitable bridges across diverse communities.​