About the Facilitators

ced clearwater is a bodyworker, community herbalist, and astrologer. they live along the connecticut river on the lands of the Nipmuc and Pocumtuc people. they are inspired by cyclical time, celestial bodies, plant relationship, and the way water and stardust move through the world in our form. they are in devotion to community care and health autonomy from the individual to the ecological. ced practices being part of joyous, powerful systems that create mutual support beyond the structures that are currently imposed.

Erin Trent Johnson is an experienced transformational leadership coach, facilitator, and storyteller committed to building ecosystems of resilience and communal care for changemakers and chainbreakers. With twenty years of experience in community organizing, group change work, and leadership development, Erin knows our bodies are deeply wise which means that we are the authority on what we need to be whole.

Erin’s coaching supports people in unleashing creativity and trusting they are worthy of pleasure and joy. She believes mothering is an advanced form of leadership demonstrated by the capacity to attune to our own needs, share, and receive care. As a facilitator and curator of spaces for soul nourishment, her practice integrates trauma-informed healing methodologies, creative expression and a liberatory approach to coaching that guides non-linear thinkers, parents, and caregivers to remain grounded in their deep inner resource while holding change and transition. 

Erin is also a student of spiritual ways of knowing, myth, and astrology in service of supporting sensitive and soulful people in reclaiming their authenticity and internal authority to tell their own story of who they are. Guided by the moon, Erin moves at the pace of her body’s natural rhythms. She knows that any limitations to our vision are rooted in a historical and structural barriers to dreaming.   Always evolving, Erin is a part of a long lineage of careworkers and mothering leaders and is humbly becoming the best parent to herself.

J Bouey:At the end of the day and beginning of the next, I am a griot. I receive and share stories through dance projects to support the liberation of our global community.

I use astrology (the observation of the stars and planets of our lives) in a myriad of ways to support us as many griots have done before me.

I pray we all experience liberation on a healthy planet. if not us, then the next generations. Learn more about J here

Natalie Rico is a Turtle Island based reiki jin kei do master and astrologer. Her work blends magical and mundane energetic and herbal practices.

She is currently on a journey to remember ancestral knowledge and wisdom of Mexican herbalism and curandera practices where she dreams to reconnect, and root into plant knowledge tied to her ancestral lands, lineages, and cultural memory.

Natalie is also a Pilates and Yoga teacher, where she creates space weaving health of movement with embodied practices to strengthen, release, open, and reconnect with the Self. 

Vera Mar (they/she/he) is a relation doula, sexual health educator, student of counseling, and can be found sunning in Harlem. VM is home to transitions of place & relationship, and fluent in the language of emotion.

Renee Sills is the founder of Embodied Astrology, a podcast and community learning platform that prioritizes co-learning and co-leadership, and accessible, experiential approaches to astrology through a wide application and synthesis of astrological practice in combination with arts, healing, activism, and social design thinking. A second generation astrologer, intuitive, and somatic educator, and a devoted student of embodied spiritual practices for over 30 years, Renee’s work integrates mysticism, bodywork, ritual and participatory art. She seeks to proliferate practices that reawaken enchantment, empathy and environmental interrelatedness.

Rev. Yokasta Tineo (she/her) is a mother, a hermit, and a weaver who also happens to be a Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Practitioner, Interspiritual Minister, death educator, facilitator, and founder of Kasa Healing. She assists people in their healing by weaving healing arts, massage therapy, Reiki, somatic practices, and guidance in a way that holds and nurtures their wholeness. 

In her practice, she is attuned to each individual, family, and organization she serves and to their intentions for wellness and healing; this requires deep listening and a spiritually and culturally rooted approach that mirrors our interconnected nature. Through the integrative implementation of all her learnings, training, and creative wisdom, she customizes healing sessions, circles, workshops, and retreats.

Yokasta has a BA in Anthropology and Psychology from Wesleyan University (2007), trained at the Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences (2014), attained her Reiki Master training in the Dominican Republic and NY (2007), is an Ordained Minister from One Spirit Interspiritual Seminary (2020), and has a Certificate in Integrative Thanatology from the Art of Dying Institute (2024).