Meet Our Guides
Yamin is first and foremost, an apprentice to Mother Nature with a Master’s degree in Acupuncture and Herbal medicine and a BA in Social Communication. She uses this knowledge, coupled with her intuition and your wisdom, to partner up with you in the creation of vibrant spaces to understand and meet with your own healing potential. Her training both as a Rites of Passage Guide and a Council Facilitator, also assist her in helping you draw out the medicine that you carry in your body and in your story. As a Senior Qi Gong Instructor, she will assist you in expressing your true youness through movement.
Her passion is to learn from Mother Nature by listening to her wise voice spoken through animals, plants, minerals and humans.
Rory Green is a writer with an MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. After immersing herself in both professions, she decided to merge her passions and create Write To Be You, a reflective writing experience for groups and individuals designed to unlock creative blocks and explore authentic voice and self-compassion. Rory has worked therapeutically with children and adults in London and Los Angeles, where the unique gatherings she offers have been described as a “supremely creative environment with ideas to short circuit the critic and unleash the beast, the child, the truth teller, the dreamer within…” Rory is also a certified grief educator, with an emphasis on working with people who are grieving their beloved ‘soul dog’.
She is passionate about providing spaces that encourage deep listening to ourselves and to each other.
Cynthia Eisho Morrow (she/her) is a wilderness rites of passage guide, a depth psychotherapist of over 20 years, and an ordained Buddhist priest of the Japanese Tendai lineage.
She has been guiding wilderness programs with EarthWays LLC since 2006, and with the School of Lost Borders since 2011. Through inner psychological work, contemplative practices, and earth-based ceremony, she is dedicated to the individual and collective awakening of our innately interconnected world: our inner nature (body, mind, heart, spirit) and outer nature (humans, other sentient beings, and the earth).
As a bi-racial woman—half-Japanese and half-white, she is passionate about supporting people of diverse backgrounds, bloodlines, and lifestyles to discover how their unique gifts are exactly what’s needed at this time to co-create a life-sustaining world.
Allison (Ali) Roper (She/Her) is an Intuitive Bodyworker, Yoga Educator, and Spiritual Advisor with twenty years of experience in energetic intuitive bodywork and massage therapy. She has been a Yoga teacher since 2014. Ali has spent the last two decades learning from her teacher, Suzanne Lewis, in bodywork and natural spirituality. She is dedicated to understanding the body, mind, heart, spirit, and soul both through movement and spirituality.
Ali finds immense joy in sharing what she learns in an authentic way, recognizing that we are all beginners with new perspectives to explore.
Ana K Garcia is an experienced singer, actress, and vocal guide. She is a certified teacher in the FVT Functional Voice Training method. After starting her career in Argentina, she has spent over twenty years in Spain, honing her skills.
As an active singer, she performs with the tribute band Abba The New Experience and the duo SHO, focusing on both original music and cover songs. Ana has also engaged in several world music projects.
In her role as a vocal guide, she is dedicated to guiding those who wish to dive into their vocal universe. She integrates her experience, humor, and deep passion for music with the FVT method, which offers a detailed map of understanding both the physical and emotional aspects of vocal functionality.
Guest Speaker
Originally trained as a mathematician (BA, MA and PhD from Yale, Harvard and University of Southern California, respectively) He worked as an applied mathematician for many years before becoming a high school Headmaster. In 1979 Jack started an experimental school in Los Angeles, where the use of council in schools was initiated. This led to council programs in other independent and public schools in California, as well as in other parts of the US and abroad.
By the 1980’s Jack found his path as a counselor, educator, writer, and council trainer. He has been in private therapeutic practice for couples and individuals since 1975 and, with his life partner, Jaquelyn McCandless, MD, conducted numerous relationship intensives for couples in the US and abroad. They are co-authors of Flesh and Spirit: the Mystery of Intimate Relationship (1998) and Jack and Jaquelyn: An Adventure in Evolutionary Intimacy (2014). Love Beyond Boundaries: An Elder Explores the Evolution of Intimacy was published in 2023.
He has trained and mentored countless council facilitators and trainers over a period of more than forty-five years and is the co-author (with Virginia Coyle) of The Way of Council, now in its Second Edition (2009). Jack was the President of the Ojai Foundation from 1991-2007 and retired as Board Co-Chair in January of 2008 after many years of serving in that capacity.
Rooting and Rising 