FOUNDER & LEAD MENTOR

Bringing over 25 years of experience in the healing arts, weaving together body, spirit, and story. With degrees in Religious Studies and Dance, her work is rooted in a deep understanding of how belief, culture, and lived experience shape the female body across a lifetime.

Her path has taken her from directing award-winning theater in San Francisco — where she was named Emerging Artist of the Year by Brava — to apprenticing with Indigenous midwives in Guatemala, always guided by a devotion to the voices and experiences of women.

Following the births of her children, she co-founded a nonprofit nature-based learning center and launched a movement-based math curriculum company, bridging education, embodiment, and the natural world.

As a massage therapist, doula, and emerging interreligious chaplain, Megan holds space at life’s most profound thresholds — birth, death, grief, and transformation. She offers integrative bodywork, perinatal care, and ritual experiences that support individuals in reconnecting with their bodies and honoring the sacred transitions of being human.

She lives with her family in Nevada City, where they homeschool their children and tend the forest they call home.

LEAD LOGISTICS & MENTOR

Walking a path of remembering—of returning to the body, the breath, and the living earth.

Her work is rooted in the old ways, where learning comes through relationship: with the land, with spirit, and with one another. Through earth living skills, ceremony, and time on the land, Tam opens spaces where stillness can be felt, where the noise softens, and something deeper begins to speak.

In circle and in wilderness, Tam guides youth, teens, and families through rites of passage and vision quest, tending the thresholds where transformation unfolds. Their path is also shaped by participation in various sweat lodge and Mayan ceremonial traditions, where prayer, rhythm, and devotion weave a bridge between worlds.

Born in South Africa, Tam’s connection to the wild began early and has been carried through years of study and practice in earth skills, tracking, and ancestral lifeways. Their hands have learned from the land—through basketry, foraging, and quiet observation—and their heart continues to listen.

This work is an offering:
to remember our place within the web of life, to walk with respect and reciprocity, and to return, again and again, to what is sacred and alive.

THE MAIDEN INITIATION PATH - LEAD MENTOR

A cultural midwife; helping us individually and collectively come back into remembrance and alignment with the earth and spirit around us.

She has been working in the ceremonial arts and rites of passage field for the last 20 years. Training in wilderness survival skills, deep nature connection, ancestral skills, cultural regeneration, and rites of passage. Then put through her own Spirit led, multi-year initiation, Rachel, founded and runs the Tree of Life Adulthood Initiation for the last 15 years. www.treeoflifeinitiation.org

Currently, she is raising her 3 children in the forests of Occidental, California, working with groups and individuals as a spiritual mentor, running earth based ceremonies, holding first moon & adulthood initiation rites alongside other ceremonies, while training to be a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.