Who We Are
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Nicole Nyhan
Founder
Nicole Nyhan (they/she) is the creatrix behind The Bridge. They are the former Managing Editor of Conjunctions and have served on the editorial staffs of Grove Atlantic, Atavist Books, and Other Press. After undergoing a spontaneous Kundalini awakening in 2021, they opened The Bridge with the intention of creating a space to help foster individual and communal healing, restoration, and connection.
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Libby Nicholaou
Communications, Programming, and Growth
Libby Nicholaou (she/her) is a yoga and meditation practitioner who is dedicated to building sustainable communities and sharing subtle practices that support people’s health and wellbeing from the inside out. She has completed over 900 hours of training, including tantra meditation, yoga Nidra, restorative yoga, prenatal yoga, vinyasa yoga, and regenerative healing. Prior to teaching yoga, she was a marketing and communications manager in corporate design world.
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Mary Evelyn Pritchard
Business, Design & Community Consultant
Mary Evelyn Pritchard (she/her) is an artist, ritualist, beauty-maker, and community builder who’s work centers on creating sacred spaces and experiences. For the last decade she has worked in the Healing Arts as a Feng Shui practitioner & designer, meanwhile, actively exploring the realms of embodiment and eros through study and personal practice with deep devotion to the Earth and Sacred Feminine. She has a particular passion for facilitating community ritual and ceremony as a pathway to individual and collective transformation.
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Kylla Delisio
Operations Assistant
Kylla Delisio (she/her) is an advocate for the healing and magic realms. She is also a Ceramics artist and full time forest frolicker also known as dog walker/pet sitter.
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Chynna Dee Andrada is the founder of SAGE Cacao, a community-centered collaboration bringing people together through cacao, spirit, and self. A nature loving holistic nurse, yoga and sound healing practitioner, she has spent over a decade exploring modern and ancient wellness practices. She continues to deepen her studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as, the Maya and Andean traditions. Through SAGE, she shares her love of Cacao and the Earth creating gatherings, retreats, and educational experiences that foster connection with plants, self, and community.
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Caro Arévalo (she/her) is a Peruvian visual artist based in Woodstock, NY. Her artwork explores the plant and fungi kingdoms as seen with our naked eyes and through the microscopes. From her Amazonian heritage, Caro embraces the importance of rituals and ancestral wisdom, of embracing our unity with nature in our daily lives. She has been learning the ways of cacao with the Tz’utujil, K’iche and Kaqchikel communities in Guatemala as well as with Florencia Fridman and Cacao Laboratory.
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Corinna Barsan (she/her) is an Akashic Records reader, Crystal Resonance therapist, spiritual medium, and Reiki practitioner. She is also an independent editor, having worked in publishing for fifteen years. She is a co-creator of Spiral Mirror in Kingston, NY. You can find her and her offerings at Aligned Light.
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Alex Bodey (he/him/they/them) is a chef and writer who explores the world through the lens of people. He draws inspiration from his childhood full of the stories that his mother would tell about growing up in Naples, Italy. These vivid recollections of food memories set the groundwork for a life of curiosity. He has been able to examine storytelling through food alongside the team at Lamisa, cooking Neapolitan classics with his personality on every plate. You should leave the table with not only a full stomach but a full heart, feeling closer to food and its origins than before.
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Marybeth Bonfiglio (she/her) is a writer and community weaver who was born raised in Jamestown, New York. She is a writer, a mother, and a descendant of grandparents from Sicily and Northern Italy. She is the founder of @radicisiciliane, a project devoted to reweaving the threads of Italian and Sicilian culture, language, and folk tradition through immersive travel, ancestral reconnection, and soul-deep remembering. She lives between Sicily and Kingston, NY in the Hudson Valley, working at the crossroads of magic, land, and lineage.
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Sophia Bruun (she/her) is a multidisciplinary healing arts practitioner based in Woodstock, NY. Her offerings draw inspiration from an extensive background in meditation, yoga, sound facilitation, ecstatic dance, and international travel. Sophia has been practicing and teaching for over a decade, leading from the heart, guided by the intention to cultivate balance, harmony and healing through her work.
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Ana Francisca Callahan (she/her) is an Earth and Birth Worker. She has trained in multiple yoga lineages including Hatha and Kundalini and is certified at the 500hr level. She has been living and teaching yoga in Kingston since 2013. Ana is a trained Birth and Postpartum Doula with a passion for native plants, helping resource new families, regenerative earth practices and ancestral health. Ana has a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston College and a Masters in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College in New Mexico where she studied Eastern Philosophy and Sanskrit. She is a trained Radiant Child Yoga Teacher with a background in Children’s and Family Yoga. She continues to work with children as an Instructor at a local non-profit wilderness program for kids and teens. Ana is the mother of two children and in her free time enjoys writing, wild crafting, foraging, hiking, dance and sustainable cooking.
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Dan Chung (he/him) is an energy healer, group facilitator, and community builder. He is a co-creator of Spiral Mirror in Kingston, NY. You can find him and his offerings at DC Dreams.
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Caroline Contillo (she/they) is a facilitator, performer, and steward of the relational field. She has been going to Sicily with Radici Siciliane to study drumming and music with ritualist Barbara Crescimano and somatics with facilitator Michael Strom. Caroline has been supporting Marybeth Bonfiglio in cultivating joy and practice between people who are connecting with their Southern Italian and Sicilian ancestry here in the Hudson Valley. She brings fifteen years of facilitation practice and a deep interest in contemplative and somatic traditions. She also brings her sense of humor which comes from over a decade of comedy and performance work. She has a keen sense of connection with place and revels in the way The Bridge is an active participant in the work.
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Liridona Duraku (she/her) is an artist and land diviner living in the Hudson Valley. Her work spans many mediums but is always connected to the liminal space between land, spirit, and the self. She has degrees in Journalism, Political Science, Psychology, and Fine Arts. She has done 7 herbalism trainings as well as other spiritual attunements, but her connection to land and spirit starts with her Albanian ancestral lineage and her experience of diaspora. She has been giving readings since the tender age of 8 years old and hopes to help others feel more connected to the natural and spirit worlds.
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Alexandria Gianakos, LMT (she/her) is a clinician, educator and movement facilitator. Since 2015 she has been teaching classes in clinics, jail and other community spaces to bring us together and explore the individual and collective body. She runs Liminal Bodywork, a clinic in Stone Ridge dedicated to bringing therapeutic bodywork to folks dedicated to healthy change.
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Greater Mysteries is an ongoing cycle of seasonal gatherings in the Hudson Valley stewarded by composer and artist Kelli Scarr. Drawing inspiration from archetypal descent myths and ancient mystery traditions, the project explores transformation through the timeless arts of music, myth, and ritual. Each year, participants are invited into a sequence of communal experiences that echo the initiatory cycles of the natural world. Concerts, workshops, and shared ritual are shaped by a living score that holds space for reflection, connection, and collective meaning-making.
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Inka Hodes (she/her) is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Certified Structural Integrator with over ten years of experience in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration. Her work focuses on addressing pain and postural imbalances through the myofascial and neurovascular systems of the body, combining a deep understanding of anatomical structure with an intuitive awareness of the body’s more subtle energetic patterns, often overlooked in modern medical approaches. Inka is also a trained Ayurvedic Body Therapist. Her approach is rooted in a lifelong passion for holistic healing and mental well-being, with a focus on supporting the body as an interconnected system rather than treating isolated symptoms. She offers private sessions, workshops, and retreat facilitation designed to support a full nervous system reset. Her work helps regulate the nervous system, deepen body awareness, and release chronic pain and tension.
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Homecoming Healing is a space where astrology leads the process of your holistic healing path. With Homecoming Healing, Issa Marcantoni Rosa holds space for seekers to come home to themselves through evolutionary astrology, somatic healing practices, and the power of rewilding. Issa uses astrology as a tool for self-liberation. It is a highly personalized, developmentally oriented, psychological form of astrology that has a neutral, soul-centered lens. Evolutionary Astrology is not just a medium for predicting mundane events or a personality profile, it is a map of your soul’s inner development and the medicine needed to activate healing.
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Hudson Valley Social Club creates community–based programming and events to connect people. We celebrate weirdness, vulnerability, and collaboration. We partner with local event organizers and community leaders who care about bringing people together in meaningful ways. We want to help people have more fun and to find a place where they belong.
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Maria Fernanda Hubeaut (she/her) is an Argentine-American photographer and performance artist whose rich ethnic background and roots in Eastern European life and philosophy inform her life and her work. Nothing is at it appears, and Hubeaut’s composition and timing capture those encounters in which superficial societal constructs break to reveal our human story of survival and joy, and our astounding capacity to hope, grow, and create beyond our self-imposed limits. She is the creator of La Fotografia Performatica, an artistic manifestation that undoes the limits between photography and performance. Her solo works as well as her collaborative projects have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, in New York, Boston, France, Czech Republic, Japan, Italy, UK and Argentina, namely: Performeando, Queens Museum; Museum Fueguino of Art; Museum of Fine Art, Octavio de la Colina (Argentina); Grace Exhibition Space, BK; Panoply Performance Lab, BK; Open Studios (BOS) Bushwick, BK; The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA); The IMC Lab + Gallery, NYC; Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival; Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; and English Kills Art Gallery, BK, to name a few. She lives and works in New York.
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Kat Hunt (she/her) is an artist and mystic who has been working in the unseen realms for nearly two decades. For the past seven years, she has practiced in the Akashic Records professionally, exploring the modality as a healing offering and as an art form. Her work can be found on sunmoonearthsea.com.
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Hadar Kaly (they/them) is a RYT-200 yoga teacher, pilates instructor, and ACE certified personal trainer. After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, Hadar had to stop working as a chef and shift their focus to movement-based work. They have learned firsthand how crucial it is to listen to our bodies, and this has deeply informed their teaching in all modalities. Their goal is to facilitate movement in ways that truly cater to every body, not just in spirit but in practice.
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Elana Kaufman (she/her) is a Yoga instructor (E-YTT 300,) Usui Reiki practitioner, space holder, and musician who is passionate about fostering community, whole being nourishment, and self expression. Her degree in holistic psychology and the healing arts alongside a dedicated Yoga practice of over 20 years inform her love of teaching and facilitating healing experiences.
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Lamisa Events is a private chef coalition helmed by Chefs Charisse Ledres, John Paul Manansala (known as Daps), and Alex Bodey. Through food, Ledres and Daps have been able to share a piece of their Filipino culture by offering a variety of cooking and dining services, often rooted in communal experiences. Through Lamisa, the Chefs invite others to learn about Filipino culture and make connections through food that transplants them home, to the Philippines, wherever they may be.
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Charisse Ledres (she/her) is the founder of Lamisa Events. She attended the Culinary Institute of America and Johnson and Wales University. Throughout her time in the Hudson Valley, she has worked at the CIA, Marist College, Bread Alone, and the Rhinecliff Hotel and Catering Company, where she served Executive Chef. She is currently a multiple estate Private Chef in New York City. Inspired by self-expression, she founded Lamisa as an outlet to tell her cultural background and childhood memories through hospitality and food. Lamisa has now become a platform for other chefs to do the same thing. Her goal is to continue to represent her Cebuano roots within the culinary industry in the US and eventually go back home and establish a creative food space for aspiring Filipinx/Filipino/Filipina chefs.
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For two decades, Camellia Lee (she/her) has walked the path of embodied wellness. A Licensed Massage Therapist, Craniosacral Therapist, Aromatherapist, Hatha & Restorative Yoga Teacher, Cam blends somatic intelligence, soulful presence, and skillful alignment that invite students into deeper belonging within.
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May Lin Le Goff (she/they) is a dedicated practitioner of Reiki and Sound Meditation, offering spaces where people can unwind, ground, and reconnect through the power of energy and sound. She is certified in Usui Reiki III and Earth Evolution Reiki, having trained with Aki Hirata-Baker and Manu Del Prete, founders of New York’s MINKA Mystery School. May is also a Jyorei-attuned practitioner within the Shumei lineage. Her studies in Sound Meditation include training with renown sound practitioner and educator David Shemesh, as well as Joule L’Adara, through whom she completed the Feeltone Sound Practitioner I & II certification. May’s work is deeply rooted in the teachings and lineages of these influential guides - practices she is honored to share in her work. You can find her at soundandrest.com or reach out directly at info@soundandrest.com.
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Marianna McClellan (she/her) uses movement as a means for creative self-expression, therapeutic rehabilitation and building community. She connected to the deep work of Body Intelligence in 2017 while training with Brenna Palughi in Virago, their physical theatre company. The work developed new meaning after Marianna was hospitalized with Guillain Barre Syndrome (a rare neurological condition that causes full-body paralysis). Throughout her long recovery, Body Intelligence movement work became a guiding force for healing as she reunited with sensation, mobility, strength and proprioception. In addition to training to teach Body Intelligence with Brenna, Marianna completed a yoga teacher training at ISHTA yoga in NYC. She continues to study anatomy and fascia with Tom Myers and has completed a course in Pelvic floor health (which she is extremely passionate about) with Lauren Ohayon and Diana Zotos Florio.
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Dayle McLeod (she/they) is a decolonial dream weaver using Performance, Storytelling, Poetry, Music, & Film to inspire visions of what liberation could look like. She is a Multi-disciplinary Artist, Clown, South African Sangoma, & Birth/Death Doula, & author of The Big Dream. As an actor you’ve seen her on Amazon’s The Expanse, Orphan Black: Echoes, StarTrek Starfleet Academy, and the upcoming series Cry Wolf on FX. Her folk music albums In Bloom and Snakes have been featured in a number of film and television productions including CTV’s Kims Convenience; Mary Harron’s film, Charlie Says; and the award-winning web series Avocado Toast. She is currently touring her documentary short film, Day of My Death, that followed her initiation as a sangoma in South Africa.
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After emigrating from Manila to South Jersey at the age of 14, John Paul Manansala—known as Chef Daps (they/them)—found their way back to the Philippines through food. “I was the kid always in the kitchen, asking questions, tasting everything, wanting to understand how it all came together,” they recall. With family roots in Pampanga, often called the culinary heart of the Philippines, cooking was less a skill than an inheritance waiting to be claimed. For more than two decades, Daps built a career in hospitality across South Jersey, New York City, and Upstate New York, much of it spent in front-of-house leadership. But it was later in life that they began to truly embrace food as their calling—not just to feed others, but to heal, connect, and remember. “Cooking Filipino food is how I decolonize myself,” they say. “It’s a journey for me, and one I share with others.” Drawing inspiration from heirloom recipes passed down by Lolas, Titos, and Titas, the energy of street food vendors, and the diverse culinary scenes of Philadelphia and New York, Chef Daps has become a spirited voice for Filipino cuisine in America. Through pop-ups, collaborations, and community-centered dining experiences, their mission is simple yet profound: to share the soul of Filipino food in ways that spark comfort, joy, and belonging.
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Catherine Meringolo (she/her) is a multidisciplinary performance maker, movement artist, and writer working at the intersection of theater, dance, and poetry. As a facilitator, Catherine offers movement and creative process sessions with an approach that encourages playful curiosity and experimentation. In addition to acting in film and theater, Catherine’s collaborative and solo work has been presented at venues such as The Emerging Artists Festival, New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival, Gibney Dance, ChaNorth and 1 Brooklyn Bridge Gallery. Catherine is Artistic and Managing Director of North Node Space, formerly located in the Shirt Factory in Kingston, NY and now existing as a live arts laboratory and initiative to bring embodiment and creative expression to the community through partnerships, pop-ups, and performances.
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Mikella Millen (she/they) is a Reiki Master Teacher, licensed Art Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, Medium, Tantric Meditation Teacher, and Yoga Nidra facilitator. She brings over 15 years of experience facilitating trauma healing with individuals, couples, and groups, and developed an approach to incorporating Reiki principles into clinical practice called Reiki-informed Psychotherapy. For Mikella, Reiki is a lifestyle that links many different forms of healing, self-care, and meditative technique. Her integrative perspective welcome prospective trainees from all backgrounds including psychotherapists, coaches, medical professionals, hospice workers, massage therapists, intuitives, astrologers, those seeking support for their own self-healing, and anyone else who is interested in deepening their relationship to spiritual energy.
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Deoné Newell (she/her) is a Diné (Navajo), Black, and Creole medicine woman, Reiki Master, ancestral medium, and community organizer who has recently landed from the Navajo Nation, where she was deeply rooted in traditional practices and community wellness work. Her path is guided by the ancestral healing practices of her Diné lineage, lovingly passed down through generations. Deoné creates transformative spaces that honor cultural roots and support collective healing, weaving together the medicine of Navajo chants, the soulful resonance of the African Kora, and the restorative power of sound and energy to guide people into deeper connection with themselves, their ancestors, and the land.
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Melissa officinalis (she/her) is a sound meditation practitioner, ecstatic dance facilitator and DJ, herbal medicine steward, and community organizer. Her artist name comes from the botanical name for the plant Lemon Balm, whose plant spirit medicine is uplifting and grounding. She is passionate about bringing community together for holistic experiences, connecting with mind, body, spirit, and nature. She is an event producer of Hudson Valley Ecstatic Rhythms, and Hudson Valley Silent Disco.
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Elizabeth Stanger (she/her) is an herbalist, bodyworker, meditation and yoga instructor, and end-of-life doula based in the Mid Hudson Valley of NY. Elizabeth’s mission through her business Selkie Medicinals is to provide optimal comfort and care to people experiencing major life transitions. Elizabeth supports her clients to bring simple and effective herbal self care practices into their lives in support of spiritual and physical well being. Her focus is to provide holistic support for times when nourishment, restoration, and rejuvenation are crucial.
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Cody Rogowski (she/her) is a kirtan leader based in the Hudson River Valley, dedicated to guiding others into deeper connection with spirit through the practice of devotional chanting. Her journey with kirtan began in India in 2017, where she first experienced its transformative power, and she has since returned multiple times to deepen her practice. With extensive training in kirtan, yoga, and Ayurveda, Cody brings a broad understanding of Vedic wisdom to her offerings. She is passionate about making this ancient practice accessible to all, seeing kirtan as a sacred invitation to awaken the divinity within while reminding us of our inherent oneness with all beings.
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Tanya Himeji Romero (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and energetic alchemist whose vision for over a decade has materialized in her work and devotional practices as a forest farmer, plant steward and intuitive culinary herbalist. While she believes any medium can be used to communicate our creativity, reverence and inherent connection, she is especially devoted to the realms of nourishment inspired by that which activates and attunes the inherent potential of our bodies as instrument, vessel and channel. She is the founder of Woodland Pantry in Kingston, New York.
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Issa Marcantoni Rosa (they/them) is a queer, trans non-binary Boricua witch whose life is guided by the alchemist’s quest—exploring how the metaphysical becomes tangible and how we can consciously engage with that transformation. This curiosity has shaped their path, leading to their first career as a sacred space designer, then getting certified as an RYT-500 Kundalini Yoga Teacher with a focus on Yoga Therapy, and now in their graduate studies in Trauma-Informed Mental Health Counseling (currently in training at SUNY Fredonia) to add to their expertise as a counseling Evolutionary Astrologer. As the founder of Homecoming Healing, Issa facilitates transformative group healing circles and astrology-based coaching, creating spaces for deep connection and self-discovery. Their work thrives at the intersection of decolonizing psychology, somatics, esoteric wisdom, yoga, and embodied movement. With nearly 20 years of astrological study, Issa offers an integrative, pragmatic approach to mystical practices—providing a grounded, inclusive, and empowering path for those seeking profound transformation.
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Elisabeth A. Rose (she/her) has been serving Cacao for 7 years and is currently studying alongside a Maya community of the Tz’utujil and K’iche’ lineages of Guatemala, it is with permission, humility, honor, gratitude, and reverence that she shares what she has learned in her time walking alongside them as a student. She has a background in eco-therapy, trauma informed integration, archetypal psychology, somatic practices, and ancestral spirituality.
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Cassady Rosenblum is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Thunder Perfect Mind, a new print magazine for the Great Mother. When she’s not pondering the Goddess, you can find her writing about psychedelics for Rolling Stone. Her life’s work is to nudge the psychedelic community toward ecological action, and infuse a sense of the sacred into politics. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
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Selkie Medicinals by Elizabeth Stanger offers contemplative care for life & death transitions. Elizabeth weaves her training as an herbalist, yoga instructor, end of life doula, Thai Yoga bodyworker, and willow casket weaver into many of her offerings. Her approach emphasizes embodiment and contemplation, so you can find support to stay present and connected through what might be one of the most difficult experiences you’ve ever been through. Addressing the pieces of life that are not commonly given attention regarding menstruation, fertility, contraception and the natural cycles of birth and death is exactly the type of work Elizabeth loves to do and has been her focus both personally and professionally for nearly 15 years.
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Amy Shearer (she/her) is an Emotional Wellness Facilitator and Spiritual Embodiment Coach. She supports sensitive, burnt-out individuals in finding freedom from stressful relationship patterns, enabling them to experience nourishing and balanced life connections. She is a Trauma Informed Master Life and Success Coach, Master and Trainer of NLP, EFT, TIME, Hypnosis, certified Breathwork Facilitator, certified Somatic Stress Release Facilitator, and educated in Somatic Attachment Therapy. Amy is a California girl who resides in Kingston, New York, with her husband, Brian, and their sweet rescue dog, Brinkley.
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Kelli Scarr is an artist, composer, and the creator of Greater Mysteries. This ongoing series of seasonal programs, conversations, and gatherings weaves together music, myth, and ritual to explore transformation and the sacred cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
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Millana Snow (she/her) is a globally recognized wellness leader, healer, teacher, and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience guiding people into deep, lasting transformation. A former fashion model and winner of Project Runway, Millana has brought her signature Integrative Breathwork method to communities around the world, training over 150 certified breathwork facilitators and impacting millions through her teaching. Her work bridges science, spirituality, and somatic healing to offer accessible, inclusive paths to inner power. Featured in Vogue, Marie Claire, Wall Street Journal, Refinery29, and more, Millana is known for her bold, visionary voice in the wellness space.
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Sound & Rest offers gentle, grounding modalities that support physical relaxation and mental balance. Founded by May Lin Le Goff and based in New York's Hudson Valley, our Reiki and Sound Meditation practices work with the concept that energy frequencies influence our wellbeing. Through intentional application of sound and energetic touch, we create conditions for deep relaxation and restoration. Every Sound & Rest session provides a judgment-free space where you can simply be yourself—fully, softly, and without pressure. You don’t need to do anything. Just arrive.
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Molly Spaulding (she/her) has been immersed in the study of sound since 2011. What began as a personal practice has grown into group journeys, ceremonies, and one-on-one Frequency Sessions, all rooted in the power of resonance and deep listening as pathways to presence and expanded awareness.
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Spiral Mirror is a metaphysical bookstore and community space in midtown Kingston, created by Dan Chung and Corinna Barsan, that is devoted to personal evolution including events, used books, crystals, tarot/oracle decks, and plant allies.
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Rebecca Steele (she/her) possesses deep awe for the wisdoms of the body, nature, energetic medicines, and non-ordinary experiences. Holding true to the integrity of her being, she has a special interest in recognizing and interacting with the inherent health within you. She practices the modalities of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Classical Chinese Medicine in such a way that brings all of her gifts online. She is a New York state licensed Acupuncturist and certified practitioner of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST). She has studied extensively in a Taoist lineage of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), holding in-depth knowledge from academic and clinical experience, to self study and direct revelation of the compliment channels, taoist stone & crystal medicine, dynamic pulse reading, and dietetics.
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Thunder Perfect Mind is a magazine-shaped altar for the Great Mother. Offered once a year in print, TPM draws inspiration from psychedelics, animacy, Buddhism, and other disciplines of interbeing. Its inaugural issue, themed Matter, launched Summer 2026.
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Alex Tse (she/they) is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki practitioner, artist and movement instructor. They live in the Hudson Valley and offer weekly group yoga classes, as well as specialty workshops, trainings and private sessions. Alex blends her passions and studies of music, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yoga philosophy, and anatomy to weave individual sessions and experiences for clients.
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Krysten Vazquez (she/her) is a student of life and indigenous wisdom dedicated to helping others remember the power that they hold to heal themselves. With over 900 hours of yoga training, MBSR, meditation and pranayama, Krysten combines spiritual practices with science and sound to bring a holistic healing approach to the classroom. Bringing a variety of instruments to the table, she cultivates sound journeys and experiences that create room for emotional processing and vulnerability, shielding participants with a blanket of safety. She has spent almost a decade working as a physician assistant in family medicine and urgent care, with an affinity for the Latino community, as well as the underserved. She is also a clinical herbalist and advocate for the plants, using herbal allies to treat a plethora of chronic medical conditions whether physical, emotional, or spiritual.
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Very Ape is an award–winning documentary production company specializing in intimate and authentic unscripted films. Operated by Sean Dunne and Cass Greener, Very Ape is committed to making bold and heartfelt art that gives a voice to unexpected people and communities. Their films include Wild Magic, Family Trip, American Juggalo, Wooks, and Cam Girlz. Sean and Cass also produce and co-host the Very Ape Podcast.
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Orlando Carlos Villarraga (he/him) is a sound artist, composer, and musician who blends ancient and modern practices, integrating organic and digital instruments to create immersive spaces for meditation and reflection. Orlando’s professional journey includes creating two albums in collaboration with MoMA New York, as part of a research project on human well-being with MindHeart. He also launched a sound meditation and course on “belonging” through MoMA’s educational platform, which was exhibited at the museum in the winter of 2024.
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Diana Wassef (she/her) is a Lebanese-Egyptian cyclical embodiment coach living in Rosendale, NY. She guides menstrual and fertility awareness through 1:1 sessions, intimate circles, and everyday practice. Diana also runs Cremona Studios, where she creates garments that honor the four phases of the cycle—designed to support embodiment and intention, with cyclical living at heart. Her work is rooted in the understanding that the menstrual cycle holds a deep source of inner guidance, and she invites people into a space where emergence, rhythm, and body-trust lead the way.
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Tiffany Wattanporn (she/her) is a crystal curator and passionate collector whose journey began over half a decade ago with a deep fascination for the natural beauty and energetic properties of stones. What started as a personal exploration to connect with the earth’s elements has evolved into a devoted practice of discovering and sharing crystals that feel truly alive- each one selected for its rare composition, vibrant color, and unique energetic resonance. Her curations are the result of countless hours spent wandering gem shows, connecting with both domestic and international vendors, and following an intuitive sense of which stones are meant to be found. Guided by the belief that each crystal carries a specific purpose, Tiffany approaches sourcing with reverence and joy. From shimmering labradorite that seems to capture the northern lights to grounding smoky quartz laced with golden rutile like cosmic maps, she honors the transformative power these stones hold for those who are called to them.
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Woodland Pantry is a method/lab food studio in Kingston, NY with a mission to create work practices so replete with safety that collaborators are as much being refined and healed by the process of production as those who receive the products they create. Founded by Tanya Himeji Romero, Woodland Pantry is a collaborative space in which the coalescence of safety and beauty beget regenerative systems; where intuition arises, informed by texture, color and energetic curiosity. Here we discover, learn, remember and remind ourselves of our best ways of being so we can best take care of ourselves and one another.
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Zaneta (they/them) is a Filipinx interdisciplinary sound artist, medium, and nature recordist, whose work brings communities into close and loving relationship with their local wilderness through listening, sounding, and ritual as sacred expressions of ecological stewardship and care. Drawing from the work of their lola sa tuhód (great-grandmother) as a hilot healer in Iloilo, Philippines, and her multi-modal ways of communing with the land, Zaneta weaves local field recordings, environmental studies, activism, sound art, community art and story gathering, painting, ritual, mediumship, and vocal channeling to create experiences of deep communion with the more-than-human world. Zaneta’s work has been presented in spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, and featured on WKNY Radio Kingston, and Wave Farm Radio. Their past projects Sacred Seasons (2020) and Where Land Meets Sky: Geophonic Transmissions for the Body (2022), were awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council grants, and they were a 2025 Strange Foundation Residency Artist. Zaneta currently serves as the environmental artist-in-residence at Marydell Faith and Life Center at Hook Mountain in Nyack, NY. They also teach field recording, listening, and land communing workshops in the Hudson Valley. Their upcoming project, Invitations from the Land: the Zena Highwoods (2025), was created in partnership with the Woodstock Land Conservancy and in collaboration with the Zena Highwoods.
