Meet the Group Practitioners
for the Healing Convergence
Nov. 21-24th at Mandala Springs
Rob Lenfestey: Sweat Lodge Ceremony + Wim Hof Experiential Workshop
Rob Lenfestey is a radical visionary; he and his wife Co-Steward Mandala Springs Community. Together they are fueled by love and a vision of creating a village we are proud to give to future generations.
Friday, 8-11:30am Kambo: Kambo, also known as the "frog medicine," is a traditional healing practice used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon. It involves applying the secretion of the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog to the skin, leading to a detoxifying and cleansing process that can help with physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
Sunday, 8-9am Wim Hof Experiential Workshop: Join Rob Lenfestey, one of the inaugural Wim Hof Method Instructors in the United States, for an immersive workshop that delves into the transformative practice of the Wim Hof Method.
The Wim Hof Method is a scientifically-backed approach to wellness, incorporating specialized breathing techniques, mindfulness exercises, and controlled cold exposure.
Dobarae: Ecstatic Dance
Dobarae is a multi-instrumentalist, throat singer, song writer, rhythmic producer. They are about merging sounds and rhythm of spirit into a format for the soul to dance.
Thursday 6:45-8:45pm: Covering multiple genres and styles of music there is a taste for all to enjoy and experience, allowing you to move the body with grace and also, allowing moments for pause for emotional release and surrender.
Danielle Smith: Group Restorative Yoga
Danielle is an event coordinator, yoga instructor, astrologer, Reiki Master, energy worker and massage therapist. She creates nurturing, ceremonial spaces and facilitates holistic healing experiences through an intuitive blend of modalities. Her offerings focus on accessibility, embodiment, play, structural alignment and releasing trauma.
Friday 8-9am: Group Restorative Yoga using the astrological and celestial energies of the day to influence a flow that connects us with internal and external peace.
Alanna, Wryn, + Rob: Kambo
Kambo, also known as the "frog medicine," is a traditional healing practice used by indigenous tribes in the Amazon. It involves applying the secretion of the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog to the skin, leading to a detoxifying and cleansing process that can help with physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
Friday 8-11:30am: Whether you are seeking physical detoxification, emotional release, or spiritual awakening, Kambo ceremonies provide a unique opportunity to connect with ancient wisdom and experience profound healing.
Eleanor: What is Trauma? Understanding PolyVagal theory
Eleanor Bramwell Lenfestey is a radical visionary; she and her husband Co-Steward Mandala Springs Community. Together they are fueled by love and a vision of creating a village we are proud to give to future generations.
Saturday 10:30-11:30am: Join Eleanor, the founder of BodyWise Trauma Institute to explore the fundamentals of trauma, the nervous system and PolyVagal Theory. You will leave empowered with simple tools to support your nervous system in self regulation.
Rhea Light: EFT
Rhea is an EFT and Breathwave Teacher with a practice based out of Asheville. She has worked with clients individually and in group settings teaching these self healing modalities for over a decade.
Friday 12-1pm: In this experiential session, discover the power of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to support regulating the nervous system and integrating safely back into the body after the devastation and challenges of Helene.
Rachel Scevola: Breathwork
The Breath Nurse, Rachele Scevola, a.k.a The Breath Nurse, is a Registered Nurse turned Breathwork Facilitator dedicated to empowering others to reconnect with their true nature through the transformative medicine of breath for optimal health and well-being. She works with clients locally and globally, guiding them toward a more joyful, healthy, and fulfilling life.
Friday 12-1pm: Community breathwork for hope and healing: Together, we’ll create a safe space to process, release, recalibrate, reconnect, and nurture inner peace and harmony. Come as you are and leave feeling renewed, grounded, and hopeful as we build resilience by tapping into our innate healing ability through the power of our breath and community. Must be 18+ and in good health to participate.
Eden + Nicole: Reiki & Sound Healing
Eden is a Usui Reiki Master Teacher, Health Coach, and Therapist in training. She offers energywork from a grounded, science background that incorporates the importance of surrender in the magic. Nicole is the founder of Wellness Wonderland Collective, offering countless modalities including sound, reiki, and yoga in the Charlotte area.
Friday 3-4:30pm: Community Reiki + Sound Healing: Allow yourself to relax and receive during this community space. Combining crystal bowls with reiki touch facilitates deeper peace, healing the body from the inside out.
Wryn: Authentic Relating
Wryn’s deepest heart’s longing is to be of service to the divine in all beings by cultivating vibrant health and sharing her most sacred gifts: healing touch, devotional song, loving awareness and compassionate listening. She is honored to share the practices and teachings of yoga, tantra & ayurveda that have helped her through some of the most painful trials of life.
Friday 3-4:30pm: Authentic Relating is a practice that aims to create more meaningful, healthier, and better relationships. It's based on the idea that humans are social creatures and seek solace in others, especially in times of stress. Together we will coregulate and come back to not only self-care, but community-care.
Uncle Mud: Rocket Stove Workshop
Uncle Mud (aka Chris McClellan) raises free-range, organic children in suburban Ohio. He has been using natural building as his soapbox to preach self-reliance and community empowerment, since 2004. Building houses, pizza ovens, and woodstoves with mud and junk is his way of sharing the Can-Do spirit. He writes, teaches workshops and hosts a mud pit and DIY building demonstrations at Fairs across the US.
Friday 6-8pm: Rocket Stove Workshop: This new innovation built with simple earthen ingredients like cobb and metal allows a home to be heated efficiently, cleanly, and with no worry of fire or exhaust dangers. Come learn the multiple different building styles in this workshop with Uncle Mud!
Luna Ray: Yoga + Kirtan
Luna Ray is an SEP (Somatic Experience Practitioner) , and is ERYT-200 Yoga Certified. For over 20 years, Luna has been leading a variety of body-centered classes, sessions, workshops and retreats locally and internationally. She is a musician and international recording artist. Luna has a BA in Community Studies, and is a Co-Founder of True Nature Education, and When Women Come to Pray.
Saturday 8-9am: Yoga and Kirtan will cover multiple genres and styles of music, allowing you to move the body with grace and also, allowing moments for pause for emotional release and surrender.
Rhiannon: Authentic Movement
Rhiannon Burk (she / they), invites us to dive into the depths of our creative centers, embody the pearls of wisdom, and bring them to light. Rhiannon holds a Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, from Naropa University; is pursuing a Certificate in Dance Movement Therapy, from Antioch University. She has worked in the human services field for over 15 years, and has served as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor for the past decade. They value the use of movement as medicine, as teacher, and as creative and emotive expression.
Saturday 10:30-11:30am: Authentic Movement is a self-directed, expressive, and improvisational movement process, which uses the wisdom of the body as a pathway to awareness. In this work, we being from the recognition that the body, the emotions, the heart, the mind, and the higher self, are all facets of the one. We embody mover and witness. Nothing is not invited. All experience and all sensation is raw material for enlightenment through embodiment.
Sylvie Silva- Alchemy of Grief
Sylvie Silva is a counselor and attachment trauma specialist in the field of wilderness therapy. She practices individual and group therapy in St. Petersburg, Florida and Marshall, NC. Sylvie is the founder of a non-profit in WNC offering wilderness therapy for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ youth. Her workshops use playful modalities to address trauma, authentic relating and healthy attachment.
Saturday 10:30-11:30am: Alchemy of Grief works through healing the relationship with the earth and transforming the destruction into new creation. This incorporates wilderness art, trust walks, naming ceremonies and community building. Individual counseling is offered via Eastern Psychology through a gestalt lens, allowing authenticity and mindfulness to be the catalyst for healing.
Rachel Daybell- Breathwork
Rachel was born and raised in Utah before moving to SC with her husband and two toddlers. She decided to dive into breathwork to help her manage her anxiety and depression while learning to be a new mom. Rachel also loves photography, painting, cooking, and starting lots of new hobbies that she rarely finishes.
Saturday 12-1pm: Spiritus Breathwork assists in getting out of your busy mind to tap into to your body and spirit’s wisdom. Regulate your nervous system, heal your body, release trapped emotions, and connect to your higher self through the gift of your breath.
Justin Cos Moore - Wisdom Circles
Justin’s work is deeply rooted in the intersection of healing, community, and personal growth. His background is as adjunctive therapist in inpatient crisis stabilization, a yoga teacher, CEO of the Appalachian Psychedelic Society, and a dedicated dad, partner, and basketball lover. He is committed to creating spaces for meaningful connection and growth across life’s many facets.
Saturday 12-1pm: Cross-Cultural Wisdom Circle is a reflective journey that invites participants to explore what it means to be fully alive. This circle blends personal reflection with collective wisdom, allowing participants to draw from cross-cultural insights and deepen their engagement with life’s unfolding currents. Together, we’ll explore practices that help cultivate resilience, joy, and a wholehearted embrace of our individual and collective paths.
Austin Shook: Sound Journey
Austin Shook of Alignment Sound Energy will play an array of instruments to aid you in achieving deep relaxation and to guide you into the parasympathetic state of your nervous system. With the aid of these instruments, space will be held for you to connect with the deeper aspects of yourself. This experience is an invitation to enter into your own essence, deeply connect with your body through ethereal sound vibration; to release, soften, unwind, envision and to meditate.
Saturday 3-4:30pm: Come wake up your ability to hear with more than your ears as you bathe in the sounds of 14 different instruments! You are invited to let go and just be as you receive the harmonies and vibrations washing over and moving through you.
J Miles: Heart Medicine
Yogi J Miles is a student of yoga, martial arts and Thai medicine, with well over two decades of experience. He is also a Reiki level 3 practitioner, sound healer, fire keeper, seed sower, cultivator and pollinator. He is a teacher and healer who has been dancing to the rhythm of life since childhood.
Saturday 2-5:30pm: Get ready to move with intention and connect deeply with your courage and compassion! This session is dedicated to opening our hearts and nurturing self-love through asana, pranayama, healing affirmations, and sound vibration. Heart Medicine is the medicine that is inside of all of us, when we arrive at the space where we have absolute trust in who we are. It is where we ignite the flames of compassion by learning to care deeply for ourselves. In this session we’ll flow through heart-opening poses, and use sound and mantra to activate the energy of the heart. When we learn to love ourselves we learn to love in a way that is healing for all, and we remember that we are the Medicine.
Samara Jade: Fireside Song Circle
A multi-instrumentalist folk troubadour, song doula, grief tender, sacred space holder, underworld spelunker and prolific weaver of memorable soul-centered songs, Samara Jade is known for a sophisticated quality of musicianship distinctly her own and for always having a song on hand that is medicine for the moment. To Samara, music is primarily a healing and spiritual practice - and her songs are most at home in ritual space or sung with many voices around a campfire.
Saturday 7-10pm: Samara will take us on a journey in a prayerful container through warming up our voices and then teaching easy-to-learn songs to sing together as a group - songs to honor our inner and outer winter, the darkness, shadows, grief, as well as welcome back in the returning light and amplify our intentions.
Tori Allenspach: Slow Flow
Tori has worked with students from ages 2-80 in public schools, mental health treatment centers, homeless shelters, and studios. She enjoys embracing the facets of yoga that go beyond the poses by weaving poetry, philosophy, and storytelling into her classes. She believes in doing less with more intention, that faster isn’t always better, and that yoga is for everyone and every body.
Sunday 8-9am: Take your time savoring every pose and transition. The practice of slow flow is an opportunity to combat the fast paced world we live amongst, and remember our natural pace. Expect longer holds combined with ample time for meditation and stillness.