Soni Dasmohapatra has been a yogini all her life. Rituals, prayers, mantras, and spiritual traditions make up the tapestry of her upbringing and of her personal practice. She has recited mantra since childhood and has studied Indian classical dance forms Kathak and Odissi for over two decades. Yoga, dance, and singing has helped her build self-confidence, calm her nervous system, kept her connected to her roots, and to India’s rich culture, history, and identity.

Soni continues to nurture her inspiration to share yoga’s origins in India and support students by bridging this ancient science with modern experiences in the west. Her interest in well-being led her to attaining her Reiki masters, yoga teaching certifications from Akhanda Yoga and Miranda Gray’s Moon Mother level 1. She has a business called Lunar Womb.

Soni is a strong advocate in valuing that holistic wellness is nurtured through reflexive practice. Soni's passion is to facilitate a simple daily practice so that individuals can identify their rhythms and cycles in sync with their lifestyle pattern to maintain their unique formula of balance and stability while experiencing life. Soni offers tools such as Somatic Coaching, Ayurvedic Consultations, and yoga practice/teachings to provide a diversity of healing modalities which are catered to unique individual journeys or group classes for individual and collective action to embody well-being.

Usha is the creator of Womben Wellness, a teacher of feminine-based spirituality, and a master of alternative wellness and plant wisdom.

She combines her knowledge and practice of the ancient Eastern energetic practices learned from her teachers, Himalayan Yoga Master Yogrishi Vishvketu and maestra Doña Maria Carmen, a Zapotec midwife and curandera.

She draws upon her education as a holistic nutritionist, childbirth educator, full-spectrum doula, herbalist, and yoga teacher trainer to create profoundly comprehensive teachings offered in a clear, accessible, and compassionate way

Rochelle Starr is from Little Pine First Nation, which is located in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan and is of Cree and German descent. She presently lives in Edmonton, AB, Treaty 6 territory with her three children who are from Thunderchild First Nation, SK.

Rochelle is a Ph.D. candidate in the specialization of Indigenous Peoples Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta. She also holds a Masters of Education, and Bachelor of Arts, specializing in First Nation Studies and Political Science.

Rochelle's work focuses on Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous understandings of Crises (colonialism, oppression, racism, and Indigenous & non-Indigenous relationships), Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous pedagogy, Cree language, and Leadership of Young Indigenous women, Rochelle is also the Director of the Young Indigenous Women's Circle of Leadership, a program housed at the University of Alberta which provides access to Cree language, ceremony, land, and culture to young Indigenous women. Rochelle is committed to inspiring and creating ways of being that are deeply rooted in the power of our ancestors and that are therefore life-giving and bring about love, strength, and freedom.

Ivanna has found a passion in creating supportive spaces for people to courageously feel the electricity of their true, authentic and empowered nature. Sourcing knowledge from her BA in western psychology, as well as her education in the practices of yoga and the eastern philosophy of the mind, she is dedicated to shedding light on the layers of conditioning that keep us from fully connecting to ourselves and to others.

She is a certified Life Coach, a registered yoga teacher, Yoga Alliance teacher trainer, and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario where she is working on her Masters in Counselling Psychology.

Grief Counselor • Death Doula • Dying Consciously Teacher • Radical Forgiveness Master Coach · Logotherapist • Ceremony Guide

Patty Bueno lives in Mexico City. Having accompanied three of her grandparents and later her mother through their dying process was an initiation and powerful call to serve and assist others in her community to die with grace. She works mainly through ceremonies and rituals, helping her clients find their unique expression in creating sacred space with the symbols and elements that connect them with Spirit. She leads funerals, weddings, birthdays, sweat lodges and women's circles. She has been supporting terminally ill patients and their families on their dying journey for the last ten years. She teaches Death Rites and is a Radical Living Coach. She offers one on one sessions as well as workshops. She is the host of Amorte, a podcast on dying, grief and loss.

Refiloe Mofokeng is a somatic facilitator and curious soul who supports visionaries in sharing their potent offerings with the world. She knows that as artists, healers and world-creators wake up to their power, fears of rejection and failure often prevent them from sharing their unique gifts. Having grown up on the internet with perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and comparison creeping into her own ability to share, Refiloe understands how daunting visibility — especially online — can be. Drawing on her own experience and the transformative paradigm of somatics, she helps people metabolise their creative fears, expand their capacity for visibility, and show up in ways that feel pleasurable. In her own vibrant words, Refiloe is a Creative Fear Alchemist dancing towards the kaleidoscope of possibility that lies beyond fear.

Dana began life finding joy in dance, feeling fulfilled by the profound connection a performer has with their body as a means to express and communicate in creative and intuitive ways. In her early teens, Dana turned to drugs and alcohol to navigate depression and chronic fatigue, spiralling into risky behaviour, drifting further from herself into numbness and isolation.

After 15+ years of running on empty, Dana stumbled upon the practice of aerial yoga and slowly began to remember the feeling of trusting her body. She met a string of gifted teachers and healers that led her to Costa Rica to take her yoga teacher training. Life began to feel wider and opportunities more abundant. Now, with 1000+ hours of education and training in various movement modalities, as well as Clinical Somatics, Dana is sharing her path full time in Toronto through classes, 1:1 coaching and therapy sessions, in workshops, retreats, and charity events.

The most rewarding moments have been guiding clients to build trust and safety in their own bodies again. She feels honoured to continue learning in each session, witnessing the alchemy of this practice unfold in magical ways. We all have the capacity to feel healthy, joyful, and at home in our bodies. This work is remembering our true state of love and connection to ourselves, each other, and all that is - somatics is a reclamation of our birthright. 

Victorias passion for the healing arts developed through her own healing and life journey. During her mid-twenties she had an insatiable thirst to understand more about the complexities of being human. Her perception of herself and the world was filtered by the distorted lens of developmental trauma without yet having the knowledge to understand it for what it was. Wired for intensity, grasping for healing, Victoria took to India year after year for long stays. She immersed herself in many explorations, studies and trainings in different spiritual lineages and healing methodologies. All of this, yet she still felt disconnected and confused by the amounts of pain and contradiction she was experiencing. She had an abundance of tools and awareness, but deep down something wasn't shifting. She didn't feel safe or grounded in her body and the anxiety she felt didn't match her life circumstances. Shifts and integration started to happen for her when she started to bridge the gap between spirituality and science; Her teachings are inspired through spending time immersed in Eastern culture and philosophy and her passion in Neuroscience and Somatic Experiencing. Understanding the nervous system gently and gradually helped her walk the path from disconnection to gain her sense of self, her sense of wholeness. She believes safety and trust within ourselves, is one of the fundamental needs for us to live life to our full potential as human beings and that is why she encourages her students to become re-embodied and become fluent in understanding the various languages of the body.

Marianne is a licensed architect, a trauma-informed holistic therapist and yoga teacher, a facilitator of Family Constellations, and an educator based in Peru. Currently immersed in Somatic Experiencing™ training, her ultimate goal is to bring the education and tools used in body-based trauma healing and Family Constellations to the social and environmental justice field of work, and additionally, to medical and clinical spaces.

She specializes in personal, transgenerational, and collective trauma, and works hand-in-hand with indigenous experts educating young professionals from around the world on social and environmental justice around habitat and indigenous knowledge with her non-profit Construye Identidad. She advocates for an activism rooted in systemic approach, embodied leadership and nervous system awareness, so as to prevent burn-out or any other poor health conditions.

After having dealt with chronic back pain, anxiety, and panic attacks herself for 10 years, trauma-informed Yoga and Mindfulness and Family Constellations were the beginning of a healing journey for her symptoms and healing the relationship with her body. This first-hand experience informs her teachings and further professional development.

She now works with clients 1:1, facilitates Family Constellations workshops, leads trauma-informed Yoga Teacher Trainings at SoulWork and is an assistant at the international Family Constellations Training at Espacio Dragma, Argentina, where she trained herself. She is also a recurrent guest reviewer on trauma-informed design at Parson’s School of Design and Pratt Institute, NY.