FLOWER POWER

Alongside The O Zone bulk refill marketplace, Amelia Legare recently opened Flower Power, a native plant nursery & garden center in Red Hook, NY. Using re-used plastic pots, bulk soils & bareroot plant stock, she has been working hard to reduce waste within the gardening industry. She hopes to instill gardening inspiration into her community by revealing the vast benefits of creating native plantings that will enhance biodiversity & create abundant habitat. Home gardens can serve not only as a beautiful sight to see, but can also serve as a means of food production, environmental enhancement, and promotion of physical and emotional well-being.

GUT FEELING

Raised between Venezuela and New York, my life's journey is driven by a deep respect for various cultures, majorly expressed through food. My quest for unique global flavors and authentic culinary experiences has evolved into a love for healthy, culturally-sensitive eating. Currently, I channel my energy into Nutritional counseling through Gut Feeling Consulting, a one-on-one gut-health-centered practice that explores the root cause of all dysfunctions and traces them back to digestive function. This work allows me to blend my passion for cultural food traditions with promoting holistic health.

FORAGING & FEASTING

Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than thirty years. She offers online courses at InTheWildKitchen. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is the author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook and Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody.

HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION

James Walker has been working in the Boston music community for over 10 years advocating for safer spaces in the club scene, especially for POC, LGBTQ+, and folks with disabilities. Over the years this has also come to include harm reduction planning for nightlife events. He has attended 10+ Narcan training sessions, and ran Harm Reduction educational booths at Boiler Room Events and Official Movement After Parties.

As someone who has been teaching in the public school system for 15 years, working with kids and adults with different disabilities, James believes it’s important for our community to create awareness and safe spaces where people with sensory complications can feel supported when they want to experience dance music and club culture. James will be working with Alexis Amulets on creating an art therapy approach to de escalation and harm reduction.

THE OUTSIDE INSTITUTE

Laura Chávez Silverman is a writer, creative director and the founding naturalist of The Outside Institute, which offers nature-based education and experiences in the Catskills, including guided walks, foraging, wildcrafting workshops and botanical mixology. The Outside Institute has published three seasonal volumes of its Field Guide to the Northeast and now has an outpost in Callicoon, New York.

SOUND & REST

May Lin Le Goff is a dedicated practitioner of Reiki and sound meditation. She aims to create safer spaces for self-discovery and balance through sound vibrations and Reiki's universal life force energy.

May is an Usui Reiki III & Earth Evolution Reiki Certified practitioner, attuned by "Reiki Godmothers" Aki Hirata-Baker and Manu Del Prete, founders of the MINKA Mystery School in New York. She trained in sound with David Shemesh, co-founder of the WOOM Center in New York.

SACRED LOTUS YONI

Sabrina Vedete Elmaliah is here to bridge the ancient worlds of Mysticism & Medicine to alchemize womb wounds so you can liberate your Shakti flow. Her commitment is to inspire you to embody your divine purpose path through ritual; plant medicines and pleasure arts. Holding sacred space as a Ceremonialist, Divine Mother, Temple Body Priestess, Taoist Sensual Arts Guide, V Steam Therapist & Womb Healer, Sabrina guides women and couples towards restoring balance through devotional embodiment.

DIGGERS COOPERATIVE

Scott is a natural builder, compost educator, inventor, and farmer with a degree in chemical engineering from W.P.I. and 10 years of experience in the world of cooperative business. He is the founder of Diggers Cooperative, a local Maine compost business. Scott and his team's project portfolio includes raised bed gardens, permaculture design, greenhouse installation, composting systems, habitat restoration projects, soil remediation, pond installation, and all types of stonework. Scott brings permaculture principles to the workplace while keeping the group organized and on task. In collaboration with the permaculture education group, Permatours, and several other highly skilled educators, Scott is building an online education platform to share educational content on various topics such as natural building and composting.

METSI BOTANICS

Shri has devoted the last 10 years to studying and offering eastern arts and medicine. She teaches hatha, yin, and meridian yoga, and holds teacher trainings and vipassana retreats. She was taught herbalism by her mother, and formulates seasonal medicine like tinctures and salves that are also inspired by Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda. She also works with cacao and kambo, and holds monthly ceremonies sharing medicines dear to her heart and path.

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Tasha Mae, a captivating force of healing and transformation. As an international yoga instructor, musician, educator, ceremonialist, integration coach, intuitive healer, and shamanic reiki practitioner, she weaves a tapestry of wisdom that will leave you yearning for more. Tasha's intuitive downloads pepper her teachings, revealing the profound inner work she has undertaken. Her commitment to self-discovery allows her to skillfully guide others on their paths, empowering them to step into their sacred medicine.

TREE IS ALIVE

Trees academic journey began when he needed an excuse to pee outdoors. He now conducts this practice daily, often multiple times. He is held in high esteem by the plant & insect life in his local area. He was even featured on the Discovery Channel, trying to prove that we are all nothin but mammals. He believes that truly understanding this concept is the first step to healing the earth and ourselves. It has largely been forgotten that, like other animals, we are born fertilizers of the land.

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Wildsong Gaian Sanctuary is a 150-acre nature-based retreat center and regenerative agroforestry farm in Bethel, NY. Our intention is to practice living in alignment and harmony with nature and all our non-human kins, and in doing so find both our own wholeness and our place within the Everything. The regenerative farm is one aspect of this practice, where we learn by doing what it takes to grow food in a way that enriches the ecosystem and creates more abundance for humans and non-human-beings alike. With our retreat center, we intend to support other humans on the journey of connecting more deeply with themselves, each other, and the natural world with a welcoming space that holds the frequency of nature's coherence, beauty, and inspiration.