Co-Creators
Laurelyn Baker
Boulder and Santa Fe
Laurelyn Baker is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa from Great Falls Montana currently residing in Boulder Colorado. She is a Sundancer and shares the medicine of the Sacred Pipe entrusted to her by her relatives on Turtle Mountain. Her company Visions of Home Multicultural Feng Shui incorporates conscious aesthetics informed by her studies of the I Ching, Tibetan Treasure Vase, Interior Design, and Five Element theory. Her passion to inspire others to see value in drawing on ancestral knowledge guides her in all endeavors.
Transformative ceremony informs all of her work as she creates meaning for her students and clients. House blessings, clearings, weddings, and more are each created to to animate intention with enthusiasm and clarity.
“Blessing Earth one home at a time with the spirit of beauty has continued to inspire my work since 1991. The current phase capturing my enthusiasm is the planting of Treasure Vases and ceremonial activation in a network of points all over the planet to widen the influence of Feng Shui.” Drumming in the Dream is a natural outgrowth of my work in the world. I am thrilled to welcome and assist Kat and Liza Jane in conducting this meaningful event in Boulder and Santa Fe this summer!”
Liza Jane Alexander
Buttermilk to Bliss
ElleJay is a lover of Mother Earth. Her devotion to service arises through compassion, curiosity, creativity, and child-like wonder. She is both a celebrant and a mourner within the sacred vessel of ceremony. She engages hands and heart in creative practices that embody service to the healing and protection of Mother Earth.
ElleJay shares this about her familial and cultural background. “I am my mother’s daughter! Her name was Dot. I learned the wild joys of spending time in forests and lakes with her. I followed her into the labyrinth of self discovery and honoring the wild and sacred. I trace, and am guided by, ten generations of my Mother Line. I am of mixed European blood and bone with ancestry in the WISE Isles of Britain and Scandinavia. I was born and reside on ancestral lands of the Yuchi, Cherokee, Muskogee Creek and other unnamed indigenous people. I belong to this land. I am a Southern Appalachian Woman who honors the ancestors of land, blood and elements.”
Liza Jane travels a path of embodied peace maker intending her actions to be accountable to the benefit of all of creation. She is a life-long teacher and learner. She has a deep love for gathering with humans in nature and in ceremony to energize that which serves the wholesome presence of healing. As a musician, poet and artist she continues to explore ways to embody prayers. The Gathering of Interbeing and Drumming in the Dream make ElleJay’s heart sing!
Kama Tai Mitchell
Washington, D.C.
Kama Tai Mitchell is a mama, auntie, yogi, certified birth and death doula, dancer of the African Diaspora, and cultural healing arts innovator. She has a core belief that living an authentic and embodied life is the root of all healing. She practices and facilitates racial healing circles/wisdom keeping/embodied culture bearing and is a newer student of traditional West African Ifa, griot musicology, and ancestral lineage healing; she now incorporates these learnings into her yogic lifestyle. She identifies as a mixed race, queer, radical, abolitionist, and a grand lover of life in all its natural splendor.
Kama is the founder of Rootead Enrichment Center in Kalamazoo, MI. A center focused on reducing epigenetic stress/trauma, de-stigmatizing mental health, and disrupting intergenerational poverty and disease through generative offerings and collaborations, while intentionally centering the lived experience of BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ folx.
Alessandra Santos Pye
Washington, D.C.
Alessandra Santos Pye, or Ally Pye (she/her/hers) is a ceremonialist, psychedelic assisted therapist, educator, psychotherapist, facilitator, consultant, artist, reiki practitioner and budding herbalist. Her clinical approach and facilitation offerings center relational dynamics rooted in liberatory, restorative, and revolutionary processes.
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, original territory of the Tupi Guarani, her identity is multifaceted by Indigenous, West African, and European culture and ancestry. The interlacing of spiritual syncretism, art, and animism continue to shape Alessandra's trajectory on personal and professional levels.
Curando is the current iteration of Alessandra’s therapeutic work, offering full spectrum Psychedelic Assisted Therapy designed to support and inspire the unfolding of both personal and collective narratives, in pursuit of a just and sustainable future. Ally has earned many post-graduate certificates in psychedelic studies, including Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Certificates from the Center for Psychedelic Studies and Research at the California Institute of Integral Sciences and the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies and has served leading psychedelic institutions as facilitator and lead educator in the past several years
At Curando, Alessandra also offers decolonized group & family psychotherapy sessions including healing modalities supporting the physical, energetic, emotional & spiritual well-being of her clients. Clinicians, facilitators, community leaders/organizations often reach out to Ally seeking supervision, mentorship, mediation, and transformative team building sessions and workshops.
Alessandra is also the proud Founder, Creative Director and Lead Facilitator of The Chrysalis Institute which empowers emerging artists and changemakers by creating nurturing gathering spaces, facilitating meaningful dialogue, and offering generative practices that catalyze personal and collective liberation.
Other Contributors
Deep Gratitude to the folks that help with organizing these gatherings and especially to
Louise Green and Leslie Meehan. [Washington, DC]
Cheryl Blackington and Lea Sevigny. [Grand Rapids, MI]
And to my husband Tom for his ongoing support on every level.