2024 facilitators

  • About: they/them; is a genderqueer Somatic Sex Educator and relational intimacy coach who facilitates group workshops and offers 1-on-1 support around the themes of eroticism and belonging. They specialize in helping people connect to their erotic nature, queer desires, repair relationship to their pelvic wisdom, and disentangle from the romance myths of our time (thanks Disney). They often feel like a detective, working with clients to uncover something wild but hidden due to repressive, oppressive cultural upbringings and experiences. 

    They’re trained in Somatic Sex Education, Sexological Bodywork, Inner Pelvic Attunement and Trauma-Informed Myofascial Release and are currently working on their hypnotherapy certificate. The tools they utilize in their work are relational exercises, movement practices, guided visualizations, art-making, ritual co-creation, trauma-informed touch, breathwork and nature connection. Their studio is on a half acre of oak tree land, just south of Sellwood. 

    Workshops:

    • Queering Erotic Belonging: Imagenitalia

    • Communal Erotic Belonging: Solo Pleasure Together

    Website:

    Erotic Belonging

  • About: he/him/they/them; has been dancing Contact Improvisation for seventeen years and is currently a host at the weekly Queer Contact Improvisation Jam which he started in 2019. Lee is a teacher both locally and internationally, leading classes in both foundational and advanced Contact improvisation technique. Lee's current classes focus mainly on how utilizing a queer lens can benefit everyone in the contact scene and help to make the form a more inviting and inclusive movement practice. 

    Workshops:

    • Queer Contact Improvisation

  • About: she/her; queer, transmasculine, nonbinary; is a Puerto Rican-Iranian American, earth-loving song creator, rhythm maker, and community facilitator based on unceded Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and Grande Ronde territory, aka Portland, Oregon. She believes strongly in music’s power to propel cultural revolution and blends pop, rock, hip hop, latin, and roots sensibilities with socially-conscious themes as a singer-songwriter and creates modern medicine music for community singing. As a community songleader, she holds transformational space, leading joyful, groove-based songs, evoking tenderness, and often engaging her participants in the rhythm and ceremony of it all. She also teaches drumming, facilitates grief ritual, and hosts a Portland-based queer and poc-led song circle series called Sing People Sing! as part of her community-based music empowerment project, Shireen Amini Music Medicine.

    Workshops:

    • Singing our Queer Grief, Power, and Joy

    Website:

    Shireen Amini

    Shireen Amini Music Medicine

  • About: they/she/ella/elle; is a Latine gender-fluid immigrant, a Colombian living in diaspora. They are a committed arts and environmental justice advocate, and a place-based, political and sensorial facilitator. Maya is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (through ISMETA), and has  been practicing somatic and expressive arts therapy formally as Mayavita Expressive Arts Therapy and Facilitation for the last two years. Their work of movement and expressive arts is guided by the connections between the cellular, social, and political contexts to our physical, mental, and spiritual health.

    She integrates body-based intuition for working through ancestral gifts and traumas, and the power of the art-making process to nourish our resilience and to create new meanings in our lives. Maya offers their work and healing collaborations to the immigrant and refugee communities, in particular to the Latino/e communities. Her services are both in English and Spanish, and in-person or online.

    Workshops:

    • Perfect Flower: Sensorial and Movement Exploration of our Wholeness with Roses

    Website:

    MAYAVITA EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY AND FACILITATION

  • Workshop: Resourcing From Our Queer Ancestors for this Collective Liberation Movement: This collaborative workshop anchors in honoring our queer lineage and shared roots, to explore the living practices of somatic abolitionism and regenerative social permaculture as they nurture collective liberation. We learn together, supported by the wildlife of our space, engaging our attention, attunement and witness, and integrating with somatic practice and community song. This is a gentle and encouraging experience to expand our capacity to align our intentions with our impacts, to nourish our wholeness, and to live into our deepest human nature: Belonging.

    About: Alyx Somas is a Native Northern American with roots from multiple Detribalized Peoples whose lineages have been living upon Tongva Lands for four generations. Their primary work is within movements of Collective Cultural Re-Indigenization, partnering alongside cultures of Belonging, Reciprocity, and Restorative Action.

    Their community organizing is in service with Indigenous Knowledge Systems, supported by their training in group facilitation and somatic healing. They have spent the last decade working in education and organizing collective spaces for expressive arts, healing, de-colonization, honoring ancestry, connecting with the land, communal grief and prayer, and rituals of initiation. They especially find joy in decentralized spaces of ceremonial song, dance, and counsel.

    They are on a journey of Initiation, training to be a Good Elder. All of their work holds heart in the belief that "we all come from peoples who gathered around fires storytelling, dancing, and grieving together." They are gently composting generations-old colonial wounding; resourcing in prayers that dismantle inner-supremacy, disengage from cultures of shame, blame, and carceral action, and offering prayers towards the unfolding of a multicultural peoples living out restored relations, in devotion to Inter-Dependence and to the ancestral ways of reverence for all that lives.

    Their labor is for the world coming, where we gather together over the open flames that birth reciprocity from the fertilizer of our decay, united in our Praise and Grief towards the expression of our true nature — Reciprocity and Deep Beauty.

    Website:

    Alyx Somas

  • Workshops:

    Bad Feeling Go Away w/ Root: A performance-workshop about the absurdities and beauties of humanity’s attempts to manage being alive. Explored through ancient cultural technologies as well as the sometimes (or often) ridiculous “magic bullets for healing” that the white, western- dominated wellness industry has produced in the last few decades. Informed by years of working with groups and individuals as a community organizer, performance artist, ritualist, and therapist. A foray into the nondual animist view of Feelings As Beings, and the "self" as a living labyrinth that responds to high integrity play. Hosted by two clownselors/guides (myself and my friend Root) who have been through the journey of Dealing with Bad Feelings and are now overly and sincerely confident in their ability to pass on their Knowledge. These clownselors oscillate between moments of true wisdom and endearing failures, playing the line of benevolent chaos while never actually dropping the audience-participants. Like everything I do there will be the ability to choose how deep you want to go with the invitations on offer. Bad Feeling Go Away touches on cultural pain points like exile, death, eros, excess, and wildness with the intention of increasing our capacity to build intimacy with the Totality of Reality.

    Tabooboo Play: Meditation on Origins: an introduction to the ongoing embodied research of consciously and creatively relating to individual and cultural qualities that are maligned, avoided, exiled, or craved. Loosely inspired by the art of Bouffon, but more aligned with benevolent primordial trickster energies in service to the wrathful feminine. This project incorporates “nondual animist ways of relating” to ALL phenomena. AKA, honoring Reality as it is: alive, intelligent, and untameable. Tabooboo Play aims at training us to become skillful players that can apply social acupuncture to stale or toxic cultural beliefs and behaviors. We all have patterns of avoidance and patterns of craving, of shutting parts of ourselves off or pretending like certain aspects of our lives aren’t really happening. Individually this disrupts our full experience as beings on this planet. Culturally and collectively this leads to violence and oppression toward people we associate with exiled parts of ourselves. Tabooboo Play is a way to become a devotee of Totality, to reveal the absurdity of cultural norms with primordial erotic joy. Participants will learn about the history of this line of research, what is sourcing and guiding it, and some of the foundational principles used. We will then embody some of those principles through ritual theater activities, ranging from very simple to complex depending on the group’s capacity. Everyone has the capacity to “choose your own adventure” or what degree of intensity they are up for. Some of the practices we use are contemplative movement, meditation, Tabooboo figure drawing, communing with supportive ancestors, theatrical game structures, and Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process.

    About Larissa: they/them; is a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, ritualist, and counselor designing experiences to support people in waking up to their creative agency and the ancestral technologies of art-making. They design play-labs and performance workshops that feed Spirit, welcome home the exiled, shape culture, and reinvigorate our birthright to embodied liberation. They are a mixed race, non-binary person living with chronic pain and mad gifts, and this blend of life experiences informs how they design. Catch Larissa experimenting in semi-abandoned malls, behind waterfalls, and in the virtuals.

    Website:

    Embodied Dreaming (larissakaul.com)

    instagram @kaullarissa

  • Workshops:

    Saturday Night Kinky Karaoke

    Curious what it would be like to be tied up, touched, or sensually flogged while singing? Join Amory Jane and KJ Luke for deliciously fun karaoke with a kinky twist! Participants put in their song request and on their turn they spin the Wheel of Sensation to see what kind of kinky demo they'll take part in during their performance. Amory Jane will be the one doing most of the "topping," though participants are always allowed to request being the top and selecting their own excited demo bottom or skipping/selecting a different option on the wheel. In Kinky Karaoke, consent is key, and negotiations are always encouraged!

    Sensational Exploration

    Tune in and turn on! In this unique hands-on workshop, Amory Jane will teach about sensation play and discuss ways to enhance arousal and awaken erotic imagination. There will be a consent talk and grounding exercise plus safety demos on providing stimulation to a play partner or oneself through ALL of the senses. We'll have sensation stations set up with: feathers and other light touch, pinwheels and sharp claws, sensual feeding (fruit), temperature play, impact, electricity, and more!

    About: AJ: she/they; is an award-winning Sex Educator, Mom, licensed psychedelic facilitator, and the COO of Fractal Soul (a woman-owned legal psilocybin service center in Portland). They dream of a world with less suffering and more pleasure, and have been trying to help build that dream collectively for over 15 years.

    AJ has taught hundreds of sex and relationship workshops around the country and has been featured in Playboy, on BBC, Fusion TV, Savage Lovecast, and in countless other magazines and newspapers throughout the PNW. She is also the muse behind Amory.Design, which makes handcrafted wooden sex toy storage furniture.

    Website:

    Amory Jane – Sex Educator & Empowerment Specialist

  • About: (pronoun-fluid) is a queer community planner specializing in the design of group processes, urban spaces, sustainable systems, and transformational rituals. He is a student of anti-racism, a descendant of settler colonialists, and an advocate for all animals, including humans. Their work is informed by their background in psychology and pastoral care, and motivated by their needs for agency, integrity, intimacy, and radical authenticity. Her primary goal in her work is to honor our pain for the world. 

    Workshops:

    • Grief Sanctuary w/ Roy Amotz

  • About: they/she; embodied artist, storyteller and space holder residing on Duwamish Land, Coast Salish Territory. Their facilitation work lives at the intersection of performance arts, science, storytelling and yoga.

    An interdisciplinary artist from a young age, Jam grew up studying music, dance, acting and visual arts simultaneously, but dance is her first love.

    She/They have over 20 years of experience studying dance & over 13 years creating and sharing their original choreography. They continue to practice dance and teach Non-Performative Yoga weekly, sharing their lessons through movement and song. Jam’s intention is to use performance arts and media as vehicles to communicate and strengthen our movements for intersectional climate justice.

    Workshops:

    • Intuitive Asana

    Website:

    JAMUNA KAUR

  • Workshops:

    • Queer Ancestry Ritual w/ Andy Martin: We will gather to co-create ritual space in which we view queer experience and identity through the lenses of history, tradition, spirituality, and culture. We will contemplate how our queerness is passed down through a lineage of human and nonhuman ancestors, taking time to honour our ancestors’ courage and resilience, and to notice how we are influenced, inspired, wounded and resourced. This ritual is a group contemplation and enactment of a queer cosmology, exploring age-old questions such as: “what is queerness?”, “why does queerness exist?”, and “where does queerness come from?” This ritual is based on the work of Daan Van Kampenhout, facilitated with permission, and incorporates inspiration from archetypal psychology, science and biology, social history, queer ecology, and transformative justice.

    About B: they/them; is a committed peace worker and truth seeker who brings extensive experience from a decade of immersion in intentional communities. They identify as soul researching on how to be a loving human being in service of life on Earth. Their diverse expertise includes social dynamics, spiritual exploration, and communal living, all underlined by a deep respect for nature and holistic healing approaches. Inspired by Buddhist principles and the Gaya theory, B. dedicates their life to the power of love and interpersonal connections as essential drivers of meaningful societal change. Their passion for nurturing the next generation is seen in their work with children. They cultivated most of their knowledge at the Peace Research and Education Center - Tamera, in Portugal.

  • About: they/she/he; is a community organizer, relational healer, and cultural visionary who believes that revolution happens at the level of relationship. With over 9 years of facilitation experience and dozens of trainings under their belt, Lux has cultivated a strong capacity to hold potent group containers for interpersonal skill-building and cultural transformation. Some of Lux’s politicized identities are white (Northern European ancestry), AFAB, non-binary, and queer. Lux has an ongoing practice of anti-racism work and is committed to uprooting supremacy culture in themselves and in the spaces they hold.

    In addition to holding regular community workshops and events, Lux serves the community as a Conflict Mediator, Relationship Coach, and Community Consultant, supporting individuals, couples, and groups to alchemize conflict and tension into connection and clarity. Lux is also a singer, an ecstatic dancer, and a playful spirit! Drawing on their background in Consent Education and Somatic Experiencing, Lux is excited to bring intentional, playful movement to Interplay to help settle our nervous systems, drop us into our bodies, and open our hearts to deeper connection with each other.

    Workshops:

    • Catalyzing Connections

    Website:

    Hearth Revival | Coaching, Mediation, Facilitation (healingrising.com)

  • Workshops:

    • Queer Ancestry Ritual w/ B Silva: We will gather to co-create ritual space in which we view queer experience and identity through the lenses of history, tradition, spirituality, and culture. We will contemplate how our queerness is passed down through a lineage of human and nonhuman ancestors, taking time to honour our ancestors’ courage and resilience, and to notice how we are influenced, inspired, wounded and resourced. This ritual is a group contemplation and enactment of a queer cosmology, exploring age-old questions such as: “what is queerness?”, “why does queerness exist?”, and “where does queerness come from?” This ritual is based on the work of Daan Van Kampenhout, facilitated with permission, and incorporates inspiration from archetypal psychology, science and biology, social history, queer ecology, and transformative justice.

    • Queer Dance Temple: This dance workshop is offered in the form of an ecstatic dance session – clothing optional and touch optional.

    We will create a mutually-supportive, judgment-free space to honour and explore authentic expression through movement. With no moves to learn, this session is an invitation to tune into our unique selves and free our bodies to move as we please. Participants can dance solo, and/or explore dance with others. Wear whatever they want. Sit in stillness or twerk it out. It's up to them completely.

    Participants have described this session as liberation!, cathartic, meditative, movement medicine, connecting with their inner child dancer, wild, so much fun, a good workout, and a practice in releasing inner judgment.

    Andy (DJ Bluesky) will be facilitating and spinning the tracks, taking participants on a journey from stillness to the peak and back again, riding a wave of diverse musical styles from around the world. The session will start with a short introduction to ecstatic dance, followed by the dance set (ideally 60-90 minutes), and a closing reflection circle.

    About Andy: any pronouns; is a heart-led community planner and facilitator, working at the intersection of personal development, cooperative culture, peace work, and regenerative design. Andy loves creating transformative and supportive spaces for meaningful connection, empowerment and flourishing through work for diverse organizations and community groups, so Andy is thrilled to be a facilitator at InterPlay Festival! At the moment, Andy and several dear friends are in the beginning of a year-long project to create more spaces and events for queer joy, healing, and ecological connection… stay tuned! When not working on a passion project Andy can be found gardening, dancing ecstatically, singing prayerfully, wandering in forests, and swimming in wild waters.

  • About: they/them; is a beacon for pleasure and embodiment in the LGBTQIA+ community and beyond. Their work amplifies the subtle whisper that calls us home to our bodies to experience our lives and our connections to their fullest. With almost two decades of experience working in embodiment and sexuality and over 20,000 hours forging pathways between bodies and minds, Terra’s unique approach to healing joins the powers of pleasure and embodiment to bring us closer to ourselves and one another. Terra is the founder of Embody Emerge, a somatic sex therapist, an intimacy coach, and a published researcher on the impacts of oppression on the body. Through their work, Terra aims to offer a direct experience of the transformative power of pleasure as a navigational force by which we may heal ourselves and the world.

    Workshops:

    • Pleasure Mapping: A Queer Intro to the Erotic Blueprints™

    Website:

    https://embodyemerge.com/

  • About: they/them I have been a yoga practitioner for over 15 years and teacher for 7 years. Early on, I got the opportunity to live in India and delve deeper into pranayama, yoga philosophy, as well as movement. Practicing yoga in India as a beginner was transformative, and I got to understand early on that āsana is just one limb of an entire practice of mindful living. I also learned just how impactful intentional movement and breathing is for the body and mind. I'm from Iran but primarily grew up in Austria and moved to the US in 2011 to earn my master’s degree in International Human Rights. I completed yoga teacher training in Vancouver, WA in 2017 and have since continued my education, completing Living Yoga's trauma-informed teaching program, 100-hour Yin training, and expanding my movement practice by completing aerial yoga training and a 500-hour Pilates teacher training.


    I love the discipline and dedication of a movement practice, and how it helps me show up more authentically in the world and hope to share that with others. My practice and offerings are informed by my diasporic upbringing and rooted in values of collective care, solidarity, abolition and true justice. I wholeheartedly reject spiritual bypassing and believe we all have an obligation to remain present with and respond to the injustices of the world.

    Workshops:

    • Portals: Yoga + Writing for Creative Flow

  • About: (they/them) Antje is a movement facilitator, community space curator, artist and somatic guide who creates experiences for people to activate their senses and unfurl in embodied, relational play. They have been teaching partnered movement and shaping liberatory spaces that contribute to cultures of resilience and connection for over a decade. As a queer, non-binary, German immigrant, they are constantly investigating the spaces between - in their personal process as well as in the group and cultural bodies they work with.

    Their endless curiosity has led them to somatics, expressive arts, relational technologies, nervous system science, many deep encounters with the natural world and countless hours on dancefloors everywhere, shaping their offerings today. They lovingly craft workshops, spaces and immersive art in collaboration with the wisdom that comes from their personal process, their students, teachers and peers. Alongside hosting local fusion partner dances Nectar Fusion and QueerBeat, they facilitate mind-body agility practice for embodied resilience and relational intimacy for groups and individuals.

    Workshops:

    • Body inQueery - Co-creating Queer Culture through Movement

  • About: they/them a champion of somatic embodiment, erotic liberation, and transformational wellness. They facilitate healing and transformational experiences to support individuals, partners/polycules, groups, and organizations to Align, Integrate, and Expand into their full potential. Avery Deane is also a bit of a body nerd, and in addition to their embodiment and erotic education licenses, they are certified in a number of different energy, healing, and somatic methodologies. Their greatest joy is holding space for people to re-member their wholeness, and embody it fully.

    Avery Deane has been studying with Jaiya (creator of the Erotic Blueprints and Sexologist for Tony Robbins) and Satyen Raja (Creator of Accelerated Evolution and Mentor for Gabor Maté) since 2020. They have served in leadership roles and on equity teams for a variety of both for-profit and non-profit organizations committed to changing the world through sex-positive community and education. They also organize and facilitate a sexuality education program in their local community, offering inclusive and pleasure-forward sex ed primarily to youth ages 9-14, as well as adults. 

    Workshops:

    • Nourishing Ecstasy: Boundaries, Consent, Touch

    • Responsible Self-Regulation: PolyVagal theory and practice

    Websites:

    www.embodyyoursenses.com

    www.gorgebodywise.com

  • About: they/them;Jen is a queer + trans coach and bodywork practitioner, passionate about helping people come home to their bodies, their pleasure, and their power. At wild root revival, they offer somatic homecoming and liberation practices designed to help you enhance your ability to be in and aware of your body, ground in your curiosity, cultivate intimacy, and amplify both your pleasure and your voice. They especially love facilitating clients’ explorations with gender embodiment, libido and pleasure practices, belonging, and grief.

    Jen joyfully centers trans and queer people in their practice and warmly welcomes people who are allies of these communities. They create a warm and welcoming container for the most vulnerable explorations, for all of the feelings, and for the homecoming that happens when we are fully and heartbreakingly human.

    Jen’s own homecoming practices include lots of river time, friendship adventures, sexy/kinky/geeky pleasure practices, intimacies with grief, and all the trans community they can find.  They have certifications in Embodied Sex Coaching, Sexological Bodywork, and Psychedelic Integration Coaching and they are an organizer with Greater Portland Trans Unity.

    Workshops:

    InterConnect

    Website:

    www.wildrootrevival.com

  • About: he/him a Portland-based dancer known in the West Coast Swing community for his proficiency in both leading and following. In 2013, he created the group "Degendering West Coast Swing" to rally support for the removal of gender restrictions from WCS competitions. With the support of the community and his predecessors, the WCS circuit began to remove the gender restrictions. From there, he became one of the first dancers to earn an Allstar ranking in both roles.

    Having walked the "walk-walk" on both sides, his teaching style focuses on connection, technique, and effective partnering. Phoenix is celebrated for his playful musicality and shameless confidence on the dance floor.  He now spends multiple weekends each month traveling, teaching, competing, DJing, and judging around the world.

    Workshops:

    Speaking body language (partner dancing 101)

    Website:

    https://www.phoenixgreydance.com/

  • About: Roy is a musician and soul activist. He grew up in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin, Germany. 

    After his classical music education and many musical performances world-wide, he realized one of his deep desires is to use music as a means of personal transformation and healing.

    In order to support this intention, he put emphasis on creating safe and intimate containers, inviting the listeners to relax and connect with their deep-listening capacity - both inwards and outwards. This work goes hand in hand with a commitment to radical transparency and showing up fully on and off stage. 

    Personal and group grief work (mainly inspired by the work of Francis Weller) have become a significant part of her path - and she has been participating in and facilitating grief rituals supported by music in diverse contexts in the last couple of years. 

    Through their music, they convey both joy and sorrow. The melodies of their flutes reflect their deep connection to water, gratitude towards nature, and their grief for what we humans have inflicted on nature and ourselves.

    Workshops:

    Grief Sanctuary w/ Corey Buttry

  • About: (she/they) is an artist, movement guide, writer and advocate of all things that support spiritual, social and ecological wellbeing. She currently holds roles at a PDX-based environmental justice nonprofit and an international nonprofit focused on postgrowth ideas and education, as well as teaches yoga regularly.

    Jasmine is a lover of dance, movement, and somatic exploration and healing -- and they look forward to co-offering an opportunity to deeply tune into yourself, your dance partner and the magical co-creative flow in between.

    jasminecoart.com

    Workshop:

    • Dropping in Deeper: An exploration of partnered attunement through co-created movement w/ Robin Ekeya

  • About: (they/them) Ariel is a USA-raised Argentine-Jewish performing artist obsessed with bringing queerness, weirdness, intimacy and consent everywhere they go. A professional dancer and burgeoning drag queen/king/monarch, Ariel infuses their love of dance and curiosity around the human body into all of their endeavours. They are particularly interested in tapping into the signals of our body, parsing out the difference between our own body's intuition and the constant buzz of our complex minds. Their favorite color is Teal, they prefer soft and fuzzy textures, and love physical contact - as long as it's consensual (kind of like how they feel about biting!).

    Workshop:

    • Cuddle Puddles Galore

    • Body Love: connecting to joy through mindful dance & movement

  • About: Robin He/Him: Is a student of bodies speaking to each other in the language of dance and collaborative movement. Most recently he has been focused on collaborative dance as a doorway to somatic conversation and the healing potential this promises. Along this journey he has been inspired most powerfully by the modalities of blue fusion, contact improv and the deep practice of ecstatic dance. He has been practicing Contact Improv for 15 years and currently co-hosts a queer Contact Improv Jam with a few other folkx in Portland, OR.

    Workshop:

    • Dropping in Deeper: An exploration of partnered attunement through co-created movement w/ Jasmine Co

  • About: Root (they/them) is a genderfluid clownwink researching the strange back alleys & ecstasies of embodied consciousness (etc et. al).

    Their prayer is to be an accessible vessel for the exact tender mutant emergence Mystery deems necessary for this time and incarnation, in the name of truth and liberation through time, while inspiring, supporting and enjoying others in doing the same. This prayer is their fuel for surviving disability, distortion/divergences and addiction.

    Curiosity/play/movement rooted in pleasure/rest/existential trust are their preferred lubricating agents. Aka eros. They are a student of the beings who see them more clearly than they see themself and the quiet inner pull of their intact ancestral thread.

    You can find their recovering body dancing the dynamic tension between tired grumpy overwhelmed student of Life and devoted hornball lovemaker of Mystery & Paradox.

    Workshop:

    • Bad Feelings Go Away w/ Larissa Kaul

  • About: (he/they) Sunray is a genderqueer Filipino-American traveling yogi based in the Pacific Northwest. He is a community builder, yoga teacher, and nature enthusiast. He has facilitated and taught at various retreats in the US, Canada and Mexico. He shares his unique perspective of Eastern wisdom and spirituality from a Western point of view, combining elements of Tai Chi and Qigong in his teaching styles. Sunray strives to create spaces for balancing strength, authenticity and self-exploration to help students find personal healing and transformation.

    Outside the studio Sunray can be found at home with his partner gardening with regenerative techniques, converting their urban yard into a more native habitat, or trekking various regions of Cascadia on wilderness adventures.
    www.sunray-yoga.com

    Workshop:

    • Unveiling Your Temple: clothing-optional yoga & meditation

  • About:

    Osprey

    (they/them) is a nonbinary singer-songwriter and song leader descended from Scotch-Irish and German settler colonists. They write quirky, authentic lyrics about love, healing, community, justice, and our relationship with the planet. Their songs (such as

    Grief and Praise

    ) have taken flight all over the U.S. through the community singing circuit.

    Osprey

    ’s catchy tunes go deep and stay in your head for days, but it’s all good because they hint at answers that are relevant to now. A blend of queer-folk-pop (with a hint of 90’s R&B), their songs are genuine, heartfelt, and easy to sing along to.

    ospreyfliesthenest.com

    Workshop:

    • Sing the Body Erotic