Land + Spirit

Reconnecting to the wisdom that flows through land, ancestry, and the more-than-human world

We are not separate from the earth beneath our feet or the spirits that guide us. Yet modern life creates profound disconnection from the sources of wisdom that have sustained humans for millennia.

These offerings invite you back into relationship - with the land that holds you, the ancestors who shaped you, and the spiritual guidance that's always available when we remember how to listen.

Here, healing happens in relationship to forces larger and older than our individual stories. Here, we remember that we belong.

Earthways & Ancestral Wisdom

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Offerings

Through divination, ritual, foraging, and somatic land practices, we step out of human-centered healing and into the larger web of life that wants to support our wholeness. This is about finding our rightful place within the world - as participants in an ancient conversation between earth, spirit, and soul.

Ceremony for life transitions and spiritual support
What it is: Individual ritual work for thresholds, rites of passage, or spiritual questions. May include divination, ceremony design, or preparation for significant life transitions.
This is for you if:
- You're navigating a major life transition
- You want ceremonial support for a threshold
- You're seeking spiritual guidance or divination
- You need help designing personal ritual practices
- You feel called to deeper spiritual connection
Session length: 2 hours
Investment: $200-250
Suggested commitment: 1-3 sessions spaced over several months - timing depends on the specific transition or spiritual work
Somatic work in connection with the natural world
What it is: Sessions conducted while walking or sitting on the land, combining somatic practices with connection to plants, trees, and natural rhythms.
This is for you if:
- You feel most centered in nature
- You're seeking to repair your relationship with the natural world
- You want to incorporate earth-based wisdom into your healing
- You feel called to work with plant or land spirits
- Traditional indoor therapy feels too contained
Session length: 2-3 hours
Investment: $180-220
Suggested commitment: Monthly sessions through at least one full seasonal cycle (3-4 months) - deepening relationship with land happens over time
Learning to harvest sustainably while supporting local ecosystem abundance
What it is: Hands-on learning about local wild food systems, sustainable harvesting techniques, and land tending practices that help ecosystems thrive. Sessions combine plant identification, cultural harvesting wisdom, and reciprocal land stewardship practices taught with permission from California Native communities.
This is for you if:
- You want to deepen your relationship with local ecosystems
- You're curious about wild foods and medicinal plants
- You're seeking practices that support rather than deplete the land
- You want to learn sustainable harvesting with cultural respect
- You're drawn to hands-on earth connection
- You want to understand how humans can be beneficial to ecosystems
Session options:
- Public workshops: 3-4 hours
- Private sessions: 2-3 hours
- Weekend intensives: 2 days
Investment:
- Public workshops: $60-80 sliding scale
- Private sessions: $180-220
Suggested commitment: Seasonal workshops through one full year cycle - each season offers different plants and teaches different aspects of ecosystem relationship
Turning Loss Into Love Through Sacred Witnessing
Regular ceremonial gatherings to honor what we've lost and compost our grief into connection
WHAT WE DO
Grief was never meant to be carried alone behind closed doors. It's meant to be witnessed, ritualized, and transformed in community. When we gather to honor our losses together - whether recent deaths, ancestral wounds, or the collective griefs of our times - we create sacred space for healing that benefits not just ourselves, but our communities and the living world.
These ceremonies are held in the traditional lineages taught by Sobonfu Somé, Malidoma Somé, and Martín Prechtel. We create containers of trust and safety where personal and collective grief can be witnessed, validated, and composted into the fertile soil of deeper connection and liberation.
This Ritual Is For You If:
- You're carrying a loss that feels too big to hold alone
- You want to honor grief as sacred rather than pathology
- You're seeking community that can hold the depth of human sorrow
- You feel called to ancestral or collective healing work
- You want to learn traditional approaches to grief and ritual
- You're ready to transform pain into connection
HOW WE GATHER
Seasonal Public Rituals - Quarterly ceremonies open to the broader community
Intimate Monthly Circles - Smaller ongoing groups for deeper work
Threshold Rituals - Special ceremonies for major life transitions and losses
Each gathering includes altar creation, traditional songs and rhythms, witnessing circles, and ceremonial practices that help move grief through our bodies and into healing for ourselves and our communities.
Investment & Participation
Public seasonal rituals: $40-60 sliding scale
Monthly grief circles: $50-70 sliding scale
Private threshold ceremonies: By arrangement
No one turned away for lack of funds. These rituals serve the community's healing and all sincere hearts are welcome.
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Rituals are held outdoors in sacred natural settings.
Stay tuned for upcoming courses.

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How I Hold This Work

I've spent over 25 years creating healing spaces for individuals and communities, drawn to this work through my own journey of transformation. As a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I've been blessed to study with the pioneers of this field—Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, and master teachers like Ariel Giarretto, Joshua Sylvae, and Efu Nyaki who opened my eyes to transgenerational trauma.

My spiritual path runs equally deep. Since 2009, I've studied at Bolad's Kitchen with Martin Prechtel, a Keres/Mayan spiritual leader who taught me about the sacred nature of grief and beauty. I've had the profound honor of learning from Malidoma Somé for 15 years and Sobonfu Somé for 12 years, elders from the Dagara tradition who welcomed me into their understanding of ritual and ancestral healing.

Keith and Shane Pease from Dakota Tipi tradition have been my teachers for 12 years as well. These relationships aren't casual—they've given me explicit permission to share certain practices, a responsibility I hold with deep reverence and continued reciprocity.

Having lived across multiple countries and speaking four languages, I bring both clinical training and authentic spiritual lineage to this work, always in service of the healing that wants to emerge.

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It has been one of the most significant years of my life.

The healing that I am undergoing is far beyond anything I have experienced in the past, and it has also greatly supported my spiritual practice. My depression has greatly lifted (which is more amazing than I can put into words), and my anxiety is starting to make some headway. Coby has a way of making me feel safe and allowing me to feel more deeply and to be open with what I am feeling. He is the most caring and open health care provider I have ever been to. My wife praises the day I found him.
— RICK B.
Old and deep holdings have found their way to the surface, been witnessed, held, shifted, and often released.

Somatic work with Coby has been incredibly effective, much more than the many years of talk therapy that I did prior to Coby. I feel more grounded, clear on my boundaries, and am more aware of what activates my parasympathetic nervous system more than at any other point in my 56 years. Coby has this way about him; gently and respectfully creating a space where my mind, heart, and body imperceptibly know it’s safe to be vulnerable.
— ANGELA C
I feel like I come back home to myself.

He has a way of reflecting my true self back to me so that I can find my own ground and remember my roots — my inherent connectedness to the greater web of life. He is able to hold all the details and sort through them in a way that sheds light on the heart of the matter while also illuminating a clear path forward, free of the clutter that my mind so often adds to things. I also feel like our work together is informed by Coby's deep connections to Ancestral and Natural worlds such that it becomes apparent each session that my healing is also the healing of my lineage which is amazing. I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with Coby and have him as an ally on my journey.
— EMILY K.
Coby is a delight.

Our sessions are founded on his unique ability to co-regulate. I find myself making huge, honest, and expansive shifts when we are together simply because he can hold our nervous systems in harmony. We talk a little, feel into the body a lot, and sync our systems with the birds, trees and other creatures near us. It has been healing to feel in my body that there is another way beyond the constant bracing, clenching and constriction. He has shown me on a visceral level new ways of being that feel liberating and easeful.
KATE E.