Workshops & Events

Dr. Fatima Alleyne

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging & Accessibility (Quarterly workshops)

As CEO of BeyondDEIBA, Dr. Fatima Alleyne delivers impactful solutions and training to educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and private corporations. She specializes in STEM and healthcare entities that share her commitment and passion in not just centering DEI, but grounding DEI principles, in all aspects of their organization.

She has also facilitated workshops at the national and international levels on a myriad of topics, such as: building diverse teams, bias, cultural competency, community engagement, and inclusive teaching; Her goal is to leverage her engineering doctorate and professional experience to serve as a leader, role model, and mentor in the STEM profession and DEIBA.

Learn more at beyonddeiba.org

Dr. LeTa Jussila, DAOM

Monthly transformational experiences & seasonal workshops

Dr. LeTa Jussila is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a Licensed Herbalist, and a Taoist Embodiment Facilitator with over 20 years of experience in holistic healing. She weaves together ancient wisdom and modern practices to guide others toward vitality, balance, and self-discovery.

Through her workshops and special events, Dr. LeTa offers transformative experiences rooted in qigong, tea ceremony, seasonal wellness, and embodied movement. Whether leading Five Element Qigong flows, meditative Gong Fu & Side-Handle Puerh Tea Ceremonies, or somatic dance practices, she creates intentional spaces for deep connection, healing, and integration.

Her seasonal workshops in Chinese medicine, morning rituals, and self-care practices empower participants to align with nature’s rhythms and cultivate sustainable well-being.

Dr. LeTa’s approach is both intuitive and practical, offering tools for presence, transformation, and embodied vitality.

Sebástian Beca

Monthly breath journeys

Seba (tse-bah | he, him, Nahuel) is a hacker turned healer. After over two decades as a computer engineer, he shifted paths to focus on consciousness and the healing arts. He became a licensed psychologist in Chile in 2014, earned a Master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology from CIIS in 2018, and became a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #134131) in 2022.

Seba is a Gestalt Therapist specialized in healing trauma, managing anxiety, and navigating life transitions. His core training comes from Gestalt, in the lineage of Claudio Naranjo, EMDR, Eco-Therapy, and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. Certified as a Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapist, Seba guides Cannabis journeys for individuals and groups. He’s also trained with Polaris, Journey Clinical, and Fluence among others, in working with Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAP) which he offers through his private practice: Natural Bridges Therapy.

Together with his partner Javi they founded Green Magic Yoga, a visionary healing arts center and community rooted in Cannabis, Psychedelics, Yoga, and Mindfulness. Seba also serves as Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society, organizing Psychedelic Integration Circles, Microdosing Hikes, and more. In his free time Seba enjoys meditation, walking in the forest, biking, yoga, reading, djing, learning music and playing with the cats!

Javiera Köstner

Yoga Teacher & Psychedelic Guide

Javi (ha-bee | she/her) is an Advanced Therapeutic Yoga teacher (ERYT-500), a Credentialed Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Guide, an Integrative Coach, and is on her journey to becoming a certified Yoga Therapist. Her path into yoga began as a way to navigate chronic illness, manage pain and anxiety, and rediscover a compassionate connection with her body.

Specializing in Trauma Recovery Yoga and Mindfulness-Based Somatic practices, Javi blends slow vinyasa flows, grounded spirituality, and a hint of Latin flair. Her passion for the healing potential of cannabis led her to the Ganja Yoga community, where she studied under Ganja Yoga curator Dee Dussault and later developed her unique style called Magic Yoga. She is also the curator and creator of Magic Breathwork, a modality that combines the power of intentional breathwork with microdosing for deep healing and connection.

Originally from Chile, Javi is a bilingual cannabis guide and group facilitator as well as a teacher with the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness. She is the founder of Green Magic Yoga, a visionary healing arts center, through which she offers mindfulness, yoga, and guided journeys for individuals and groups in Santa Cruz and around the SF Bay Area. Javi also serves as the Community & Event Coordinator for the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society.

Kaitlin Hebard

Wellness Guide

Kaitlin Hebard is a wellness guide, a creative wellness instructor at Cabrillo College, and a graduate student studying Marriage and Family Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology with an emphasis in Creative Expression. Passionate about building community and holistic healing, Kaitlin believes that we all have an inner healer and that deep transformation happens through connection, creativity, and intentional practices. Rooted in a transpersonal approach, her offerings provide a sacred space for reflection, renewal, and self-discovery, guiding others to reconnect with their own wisdom and well-being.

Renee Robison

Monthly Psychedelic Integration with SoulCollage®

“When the Soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.” Meister Eckhart, 13th century theologian and mystic.

In SoulCollage for psychedelic integration, we create a visual documentation of the gifts of our journeys to use them a portals for the on-going transformation that we seek. SoulCollage is a creative, visual method of accessing the insights and transformative actions gleaned from a psychedelic journey. Recommended as an effective visual integration method by Stanislav Grof in the Way of the Psychonaut and Marc Aixala, Psychedelic Integration, we open the SoulCollage session with gentle hypnotherapy to recall any images, energies and insights that arose in the journey space. Using an abundance of prepared images, we then create one to three individual 5×8 collages, each representing one aspect of the gifts of the journey, including the shadow if needed. Participants will work with journaling prompts to deepen their integration. Your collage cards support your journey insights and the transformation that you seek long after the journey ends. Workshops are 2.5 hours. All materials are supplied and no artistic experience needed for this supportive, creative process. Group and individual collage sessions are available.

Renee Robison, MSW, is a long-time SoulCollage Facilitator with a specialty in psychedelic integration, microdosing, and hypnotherapy.

Elizabeth Borelli

Certified Yoga Instructor, Breathwork coach, Author

Elizabeth Borelli is a certified yoga instructor, breathwork coach, and bestselling author devoted to exploring the mind-body connection. With a foundation in mindfulness and movement, she integrates dynamic vinyasa flow with breath awareness to create practices that energize the body, focus the mind, and uplift the spirit. Her classes are designed to build strength, flexibility, and resilience—supporting students in moving through life with greater ease and presence.

In her Energizing Flow class, Elizabeth weaves traditional vinyasa-style sequences with intentional breathwork to awaken the senses and enhance vitality. Her teaching style is both empowering and approachable, inviting students of all levels to find their own rhythm and embrace the joy of movement. Expect a playful yet grounding practice that leaves you feeling refreshed, focused, and recharged.

Outside the studio, Elizabeth is the author of Breathe Into Breakthrough, an Amazon bestseller on stress relief and personal transformation. Drawing from her extensive experience in breath coaching and wellness education, she offers tools to help students cultivate balance, clarity, and deeper self-connection. Whether you’re seeking physical strength, emotional resilience, or simply a moment of peace, Elizabeth’s classes offer a welcoming space to grow from the inside out.

The Lovebyrds Music

Sound Healing

The Lovebyrds, Lola Lovebyrd and Justin Mosley are a magical multi-instrumentalist musical duo. 

Based out of Santa Cruz, CA, their offerings range from high energy electrified performances, as well as acoustic sets and restorative sound healings. 

A love story of amor fati, Lola and Justin met at a beach sound bath, and connected through the shared love of music. Their passion is creating inspirational, original music, channeling divine frequencies, melodies, and healing lyrics. Blessing the world with the vibrations of music, yoga, movement, & breathwork, their soul purpose is cultivating connection and healing for those suffering from trauma, addiction, and who are recovering from drug/alcohol abuse.

Live performances include original songs and improvisations on instruments including: bass, ukulele, harp, crystal harp, flute, piano, synth, percussion, and much more.

Justin plays the harp at the seasonal beach sound baths while Lola offers personal healings on the crystal harp.  Year round, they host the sound healing collective at Pleasure Point Yoga along with Aubrey Padma. Catch a sighting of The Lovebyrds around town: Tuesday’s sunset sound bath at Moran Lake Beach, Thursday’s sound bath at Pleasure Point Yoga, or Fridays at Village Yoga.

Book the Lovebyrds for your next event: retreats, ceremonies, weddings, private events, sound baths, birthdays, yoga classes, and more.

Follow @TheLovebyrdsMusic on IG for updates on performances, workshops and album releases. thelovebyrdsmusic@gmail.com justinmosleymusic.com.

Dallas Mackenzie

Ritual of Breath: A Ceremony of Body, Earth & Spirit

This isn’t just a breathwork class. This is ceremony.

A guided return to the wisdom already alive inside your body the same wisdom held in the earth, the trees, the waters, and the ancestors who walked before you. Inside of you lives ancient intelligence, the kind that doesn’t speak in words, but in sensation, emotion, and intuition. And when we honor the breath as a sacred element, we reconnect that intelligence to the larger web of life.

In this ceremony, you are invited to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with the rhythm of your body. We’ll work with conscious connected breathing and gentle somatic movement to release what is asking to be released, and reclaim what has always been yours. Dallas will end the ceremony with a sound bath, bringing in the didgeridoo, drum, gong, flutes and voice. 

This is a space for:
💨 Nervous system support & grounding through the body
🔥 Emotional clearing and inner transformation
🌊 Ancestral connection & soul remembrance
🌱 Coming home to the magic of being human

Your breath carries the stories of your lineage, and the possibility of your becoming. Let this ritual guide you back to both.

Marsea Marquis

Brazilian Dance

Marsea Marquis is a passionate artist offering community classes and performance art in Santa Cruz, CA. beginning in 1990. Marsea has contributed to the advancement of cultural art in the United States, through her, “Dance of Brazil” community and network which was founded in Santa Cruz, CA. in 1995. Marsea taught community classes and led performance art as well as hosting master teachers and performance groups supported by her network. Marsea dedicated herself to the study of traditional dance with movement masters from their country of origin as well as traveling abroad. Brazil, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and many African regions were her main focus areas. Marsea has led and entertained groups of adults and children with love and devotion throughout the decades.

Marsea remains focused on learning, sharing and celebrating music and dance traditions nascent to the diasporic communities that she is influenced by. She stays committed to bringing her teachers for master workshops and performances in order to remain a student herself.  Dedicating to this exchange, she helps foster awareness and the opportunity to learn more about the rich history from which these dance and music expressions originate. These encounters enhance community building and help support and preserve traditional art forms and their legacies. Marsea is a believer that dance, music and art, brings us inspiration, fuels self-esteem and fosters hope. This hope in turn invites the opening of an evocative gateway, which enlivens our spirits and leads us to a more embodied connection to ourselves, one another and the larger global community. Something worth celebrating!

Sarah Newman

Certified Sound Healer

Experience the transformative power of sound healing. Her sessions combine guided meditation and a soothing sound bath to reduce stress, improve sleep, and enhance overall well-being. Discover the healing power of sound with Sarah Newman’s sound baths.

Sarah Newman is a multi-instrumentalist with 15 years music teaching experience with all ages. She started Alto Saxophone at age 8 and started harp 8 years ago and has been teaching harp for Be Natural Music and Santa Cruz Community music school since.

She is a UCSC graduate with a Major in community Studies and a minor in Jazz Music. While her experience with playing harp only started 8 years ago she is very passionate about sharing the joys of playing harp and finds it a very natural instrument to play and the most inspiring for song writing with individuals and groups.

Peggy Bascou

Nurse, Reiki Master, Sound Bath Facilitator

Peggy Bascou holds a Master of Science in Nursing and has spent more than 25 years working in diverse hospital settings, offering skilled medical care alongside deep emotional presence. Throughout her nursing career, she supported individuals and families through moments of vulnerability, illness, birth, transition, and healing, always attending to the whole person rather than focusing solely on diagnosis.

In addition to her clinical background, Peggy is a Reiki Master, integrating subtle energy work to support balance, regulation, and restoration. Reiki informs her sound bath practice by helping individuals reconnect with their own innate capacity for healing, empowering self-awareness rather than imposing intervention.

Peggy is also the co-owner of Staff of Life Natural Foods Market, a family-owned business devoted to nourishment, sustainability, and community vitality. Her sound bath practice is a natural continuation of her lifelong devotion to care, weaving together medicine and energy, nourishment and connection, science and spirit.

Ember Paige

Cardiac Sonographer, Integrative Healer

As a cardiac sonographer, Ember has spent years attuning to the rhythms of the human heart. She has also immersed herself in the Akashic Records and deepened her connection to movement through dance and yoga. Today, she combines her medical knowledge with energetic and spiritual practices to create a uniquely holistic approach to healing.

Karen Holden

Sage. Personal Energizer Bunny.

Karen Holden is a powerful, wise and incredibly funny  teacher of life and relationships. She will guide the day  with lively discussion on the Yoga of Communication,  how to radically improve your relationship with your self, deepen connections with others and cultivate a  sense of unshakeable wellness. 

Wellness Expert, Master Trainer in the Science of  Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), ACSM Certified  Clinical Exercise Specialist, Certified Yoga Instructor,  BA from UC Berkeley in Communications and Public  Policy, Certified Stress Management Educator and  Personal Trainer. Karen’s unique and transformative  approach to healing & wellness is based on her studies  with master teachers in the areas of Tai Chi, Qi Gong,  Psychology, Yoga, Hypnosis & Neuro Linguistic Programming.