Stacy Ellis (Creator of Liberation Workshops)
Dr. Stacy Ellis is a seeker on the eternal path toward a deeper understanding of truth, love, and freedom. She believes that wonder and nourishment should be fundamental qualities of our lives. Her bright and passionate spirit combined with clarity and coherence offers connection and guidance to anyone committed to meaningful change.
A Doctor of Psychology by trade, she grafts together branches of science, insight, and somatic practices to create unique offerings to the world. She plants seeds in the hearts of those she works with to assist them in better understanding themselves and their place in the higher consciousness of the world.
Stacy brings over fifteen years of clinical practice and ten years of experience running ongoing groups. Dr. Ellis has facilitated workshops and public speaking internationally for over eight years.
As a lifelong learner, Dr. Ellis searches for appropriate and novel ways to benefit her patients and coaching clients. She has a passion for creating experiences that support people integrating meaningful changes in their life through week long workshops. She has studied modalities that take the work beyond just talking and drawing individuals out of their “heads” and into full embodiment. She believes in using all the tools at her disposal to deprogram the nervous system of negative childhood beliefs so individuals can live presently as their authentic selves.
Dr.Ellis is a trauma informed psychologist. In addition to her academic qualifications (two master’s degrees and a PysD), she also has professional training in EMDR, TRE, NPL, EFT, IFS, somatic therapies, breath-work and sound healing. She has specialties in forensic psychology, trauma, inner child work, LGBTQIA, addiction medicine, pain management, alternative relationships styles, and maintaining a healthy nervous system.
Sarah Love (Organizational Consultant for Liberation Workshops)
Sarah Love is a dedicated educator, coach, and event designer who has spent her career inspiring others to grow, connect, and transform. With over 16 years of experience as an elementary educator, Sarah has developed a strong foundation in leadership, curriculum design, and creating environments that foster meaningful learning and growth.
Now, she channels her passion for education and creativity into running her own coaching business, where she empowers individuals to reconnect with their purpose and unlock their fullest potential. As an accomplished event designer and retreat organizer, Sarah crafts transformative experiences that merge deep reflection with creative expression, offering participants opportunities to recharge, connect, and explore new ways of being.
Her innovative coaching and event designs are rooted in her unique ability to blend evidence-based practices, personalized tools, and immersive experiences. From facilitating leadership workshops to curating retreats, Sarah is dedicated to helping individuals and teams step into lives filled with purpose, joy, and connection.
FACULTY
Aya Kamānaka
Allured by the wild and beauty within us, Aya Kamānakai calls us to remember the ancient wisdom and awaken the intelligence stored inside our bodies. She passionately calls beings to embrace their pleasure and their prima life force to live their soul’s true expression.
Combining embodied movement, somatic expression, and vocal empowerment, Aya guides journeys of self exploration reimagined mystery school where we learn from the wild, the wisdom in our bodies, and the vastness of our inner-knowing.
Aya hosts exotic transformational retreats, womb awakening workshops, online courses and private coaching as a shamanic transmission and cauldron of healing.
She has also completed a Womb apprenticeship with the Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand of Womb Awakening, and is a VITA certified coach. She is an advocate for all beings reclaiming full creative potential, pleasure, and passion to live as whole awakened beings.
Aaron Mandelbaum
Aaron has been researching, studying, practicing, and working in philosophy, transformation, and shamanism since the late 1900s.
He holds a BA in Philosophy with a concentration in ontology and a master’s degree in business strategy.
He has facilitated and designed experiences, programs, courses, and trainings worldwide and continues to coach individuals, groups, and businesses.
Aaron also holds two Guinness World Records for co-organizing and participating in the largest Secret Santa exchange ever… two years in a row.
Website:
aaronmandelbaum.com
FACULTY APPRENTICE
Ali Avalon
Allison (Ali) Avalon, MHS, Ord. is a dynamic and playful force of nature. As a world-renowned meditation teacher, musician, best-selling author and storyteller, facilitator, breathwork practitioner, Hospice Caregiver, and initiated priestess, she devotes her life force energy to alignment, truth, and wholeness. She radiates deep compassion, grounded wisdom, and a timeless child-like innocence. With a background in ecology, a master’s degree in permaculture design and horticultural science, she now tends the inner landscape with the same care as she tended the outer landscape.
Although these various hats she wears may at first seem strangely diverse, ultimately, each is a facet of the same jewel of presence. By resting in stillness and bringing conscious awareness to the breath, we learn to really listen and surrender into the truth of our being. Cultivating this alignment can help us live a more fulfilling and meaningful life, so ultimately, we can rest in peace as we meet death, liberated from fear. For Allison, music, meditation, medicine, movement, and mindfulness are 5 pillars for wellness.
Allison joins the Liberation team as a budding co-facilitator, bringing her rich palette of experience to this powerful training. She knows first-hand that listening to, feeling, and loving our inner child is a fundamental part of living a liberated life.
Briana Cribeyer
Briana Cribeyer is a transformational facilitator, and relationship and intimacy guide. She was raised in the Midwest of the United States by parents who bridged the gap of educational professionals and new age devotees. Fleeing the Midwest, she found wisdom in the mountains and forests of Colorado, New Hampshire, Washington– and living abroad in Japan and throughout South America. In that time, she absorbed the teachings of the elders in the communities, and began to craft her connection back to the mother (earth) and womb medicine through movement, prayer, and shamanic practice.
Beginning her career in social services and education, leading to non-profit management, Briana wove the thread of a desire to serve throughout each step along her path. She sees all of her past career as energy work, supporting individuals and groups to find their own power to heal. With degrees in Sociology, a focus on ‘Race, Culture, Power,’ Sexual Behavior, and a minor in Natural Resources (focused on sustainability). Briana brings humility in leadership and objectivity to retreats, board rooms, corporate offices, private sessions with couples, and family mediating alike.
Briana can most often be felt in her ecstatic joy, grinning ear-to-ear, channeling her inner little girl that loves to jump in puddles, or groove on the dance floor. Her happy place is in facilitation and workshop creation, which have been a constant for the past 15 years.
She believes that deep radical love, coupled with ownership and self-responsibility, will shift the trajectory of humans on the planet.
To work with Briana directly, to book her for teaching or speaking engagements, and for more information, visit brianacribeyer.com
Usha Rose
She is passionate about supporting her clients and students to live more confident, embodied, lives so that they can powerfully create the most nourishing and satisfying relationships, career and life possible.
She believes in creating the life you love and breaking free from social paradigms and limiting beliefs. She specializes in trauma-informed, somatic-based healing.
She is a VITA™ certified Empowerment & Conscious Relationship Coach.
Usha is a dancer, hiker, nature-lover and community organizer. She produces and facilitates transformational dance and sacred retreats around the globe. Her offerings are deeply informed by over fifteen years of training and professional experience in massage therapy, yoga, meditation, conscious dance and holistic healing arts.
Learn more at usharose.com and follow her on IG for education and inspiration https://www.
Blake Zealear
Blake is a transformational guide, love and relationship coach, and group facilitator working at the intersection of personal empowerment, shamanism, and new-paradigm relating. His multi-disciplinary approach provides the empowerment, permission, and playfulness that enable a liberated reclaiming of his students’ lives. Blake has studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Radical Honesty, Landmark technology, trauma-informed developmental psychology, Yogic embodiment practice, breath-work, , esoterics, polarity, non-traditional relationship design, shadow-work, parts work (IFS), and Spiral Dynamics, among other modalities. He is a group facilitator for the Re/MEN/ber Brotherhood Journey, and the Extraordinary Lovers experience. Blake is devoted to the emergence of a new culture of love in our lifetimes, the transmutation of suffering into power, and the ascension of humanity through healing our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. You can learn more about Blake and all of his offerings through his website: blakezealear.com
Issac Palman
Isaac is a passionate teacher, dedicated to exploring and facilitating human connection at the intersection of Love, Spirituality and Nature. With a unique background in science, yoga and 12 step recovery his work is a calling to intertwine the raw beauty of the natural world with the intricate tapestry of human emotions and relationships.
He brings his extensive experience as a teacher, guide, and coach to his work, creating safe, nurturing and transformative spaces of individuals and groups alike. His work is deeply informed by the profound wisdom of nature, aiming to guide students towards recognition of their true selves and forming meaningful and authentic connections to the world.
At the heart of his approach lies the recognition of humanity’s belonging to this earth and the belief that every person has the capacity to heal, empower and revitalize their lives. He created Laughing Tree Life as an expression of his commitment to offering experiences that are imbued with joy, laughter and the playful magic that connects us all.
Isaac has served as faculty, facilitator and guide for The Somatic Center, Earthworks Wilderness School, ISEE and The Audubon Society, The Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and Cuddle Party.
ORGANIZERS
Elias (New York)
Elias has been cultivating safe containers for personal development, spiritual expansion, and temple culture for 3 years and produced and organized over 20 transformational events of high quality programs. He has produced life changing experiences throughout North & Central America including the USA, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, And Panama.
Levitie Danielle (Arizona, Colorado)
Levitie is an enthusiastic lover of life on an intentional growth path. She specialize in organizing transformational workshops across the country. She also is a coach and a writer. With travel to over 45 countries, She draws inspiration from diverse cultures and experiences, bringing a global perspective to her work. Passionate about human connection, she bridges people, ideas, and resources to create a meaningful impact. A lifelong student of mindfulness, Levitie stay grounded through daily meditation and yoga, while nature provides balance and restoration. She is committed to living a life of service, purpose, and authenticity.
Dana Humphrey (New York)
Dana Humphrey is an Agent of Culture, People Gatherer and Parade Expert, celebrating dancing in the streets with Dance Parade New York, and she also the instigator of the Rockaway Dog Parade. As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, Dana is a Life Coach, Death Doula, Author, Consultant and a Hot Yoga Instructor among other things.
Humphrey moved to New York from California in 2008. She currently acts as the Chair for “Rockaway Creates” a local non-profit which aims to bring the peninsula of Rockaway together through creativity, community, and action.
Learn more at danahumphrey.com.
Amara Karuna (Washington, Oregon, Hawaii)
Amara Karuna has been involved with New Culture for many years and is the Director of the New Culture Hawaii Winter Camp. She lives in Oregon and on the Big Island of Hawaii in the New Culture community called La’akea Permaculture community. She lives New Culture full time!
Amara is a main organizer of the Oregon Tantra Festival, an event that offer a variety of classes on sacred relationship as a spiritual path
Amara developed Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy, a method of healing the inner infant-self using cradling, hypnotic induction and suckling to address emotional issues stemming from lack of breast feeding & loving closeness as an infant. She is the author of “Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy- Healing Our Hearts Together”
In 1989, she developed her own approach to peer counseling, called Holistic Peer Counseling integrating counseling with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing, breath work and body centered techniques. She recently published a manual on the techniques.
Philippe Lewis (California)
Philippe is a passionate relationship educator and founder of Exquisite ❦ Love. With a mission to empower men and women in making informed and positive choices for themselves and their partners, Philippe guides individuals on transformative journeys to become sovereign beings through the art of connection, trust, consent, intimacy, and love. Drawing from the profound insights of attachment theory, he helps people explore the depths of human connection and understand the dynamics that shape their relationships.
Philippe’s impact in the realm of personal growth and self-discovery extends far and wide. As a co-founder of The Journey to Secure, he fosters a supportive community of like-minded individuals on a shared path of growth and an earned attachment style.
Over the years, Philippe has been instrumental in founding vibrant communities that tackle essential topics. The Open Relationship Community, the Attachment Community, and the Consent Community provide safe spaces for individuals to engage in emerging discussions, redefining societal norms, and promoting healthier relationship dynamics.
Website: exquisite.love
Facebook Page: facebook.com/scorpiodreaming/
News, Events, Classes: facebook.com/groups/exquisiteheartlove/
Julia Vieau (Austin, TX)
Julia is an embodiment + relationship coach and event producer.
Her mission is to inspire you to express your authentic brilliance, delight in your innate playfulness, and cultivate deep connection.
In addition to her 1:1 coaching Julia is a facilitator of Latihan (a blindfolded movement meditation) and the organizer for other workshops in Austin.
Follow her at @jeweliiaa on Instagram or send her an email at julia@exquisiteintimacy.com to learn more.