2026 Retreat Facilitators

Crystal Alethia

Instagram @thrubodymindbreath

9D Breathwork Facilitator

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Retreat Organizer

Crystal ensures that everyone who walks into her life feels her heartfelt passion of service. She excels in making her clients feel truly supported in their journey towards feeling mentally & emotionally strong, joyous and fulfilled, balanced & resilient, attuned, compassionate and truly aware of their self through her Whole Person Approach to healing.

Crystal was very aware that when people come to seek healing or help, they bring many parts of themselves to each session and each treatment.

thru bodymindbreath coaching

was created to address the many parts and individuality of her clients.

Crystal’s coaching is a true integration of bodymindbreath through Hypnotherapy, Breathwork, 9D Breathwork, Integrative Health Coaching, Stress & Anxiety Management and Reiki.

Masani St. Rose

Instagram @ masani_strose

Soul to Sole Movement & Dance

Masani (she/her) is born and raised in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, AB). She immersed into learning about her ancestral roots through dance at the tender age of 3, specializing in West African and Caribbean Dance. Upon the introduction to dance, Masani found passion for the West African traditions, culture and style. It was through training under Michele Moss-Johnston at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, she was able to build her foundation. Still working very closely with Michele Moss-Johnston and various other artists from Guinea & West Africa. She finds every opportunity to take master classes from artists from various regions of Africa including Congo, Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Guinea and Zimbabwe. Throughout the years, Masani has worked with various studios and professional groups across Canada. It is her mission to keep the art and culture alive from soul to sole!

Tara Stonemother

Opening & Closing Ceremony

1-1 Healing Sessions

Tara has been walking the Medicine Wisdom Path her entire life. In 2013, she fully answered the call to dedicate her life to this work and to serving through deep presence, healing, and connection to nature.

She is a space holder, guide, and facilitator of deep inner work—supporting people as they move through emotional, energetic, and embodied layers of transformation.

Her work is rooted in a relationship with the Great Mother and a lifelong devotion to listening to the intelligence of nature as teacher, mirror, and guide. She brings this connection into her facilitation through grounded practices that help people slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and return to inner clarity.

Tara holds space for people from all walks of life who are ready to turn inward, whether they are navigating burnout, transition, emotional processing, or a desire to feel more connected to themselves.

Her approach is intuitive, grounded, and deeply attentive to nervous system safety. She works with presence, listening, and attunement—meeting each person where they are without forcing or rushing their process.

She is also in ongoing relationship with traditional ceremonial medicines including sacred mushroom, Kambo, Bufo, and Hape, and has trained within Andean lineage teachings as a mesa carrier in the Qanchis Ylla Inti tradition.

Alongside this, Tara is trained in intuitive and nature-based perception practices, including working with symbolic and natural forms as a way of receiving insight and guidance. These practices are used in service of clarity, reflection, and inner understanding—not prediction or performance.

Above all, Tara’s role is simple:
to hold a steady, compassionate space where people can soften, listen inward, and reconnect with themselves in a deeper way.

Jennifer Rykurd

Instagram: wildrose_healing_drums

Sacred Medicine Drum Workshop

Originally from southeastern Quebec, I grew up on a sugar bush farm surrounded by nature, family, and a deep sense of freedom. My childhood was spent outside—swimming, kayaking, building forts in the woods, making homemade films, and exploring life through movement, imagination, and land.

From a young age, I felt a strong connection to nature, ancestral roots, and the stories carried through land and lineage. Much of my early curiosity was drawn toward the Wild West, Indigenous histories, and understanding my own Abenaki and Celtic ancestry. Travel became a way of deepening this inquiry—both outward into the world, and inward into myself.

In 2012, I backpacked across Europe, moving through 13 countries over 3 months. That journey marked a turning point in my life, expanding my sense of self, resilience, and connection to lived experience through immersion, simplicity, and direct relationship with life.

Over the years, my path naturally led me into hands-on, earth-based creative work. I began working with drums, flutes, and natural materials—learning how to shape, build, and listen through craft. What started in a workshop evolved into facilitating drum-making spaces, traveling across Quebec, and sharing creative practice in community settings, including with Indigenous communities.

This connection to earth-based creativity has remained a consistent thread in my life—working with hides, leather, plants, and natural materials, while staying close to land-based ways of learning and being.

Alongside this, I have studied and continue to deepen my training in body-based and therapeutic modalities, including reflexology, craniosacral therapy, massage, and somatic emotional release work. My focus has always been on understanding the connection between body, emotion, and nervous system—and how healing can happen through presence, touch, and awareness.

In 2021, I spent time in northern Manitoba working as a wildlife and polar bear tour guide with Churchill Wild, including time along the Hudson Bay coast and at Seal River Heritage Lodge. Living and working in such a raw, powerful environment deepened my respect for land, silence, and the intelligence of nature.

Since 2023, I have been based in Alberta, where my life continues to be shaped by relationship—with land, community, and ongoing learning. My path has deepened into grounding, embodiment, and living in closer alignment with nature, creativity, and simplicity.

Today, my work is rooted in holding space for others to reconnect with themselves through nature, nervous system awareness, and embodied presence. I bring together lived experience, hands-on earth connection, and somatic understanding to support people in slowing down, softening, and returning to what is essential.

My greatest devotion is to presence—to life as it is—and to creating spaces where others can feel safe enough to return to themselves.

Theresa Lee Morris

Kootenay Sound Healing Center

Having a passion for learning and a natural curiosity about the inter-connectedness of all things led Theresa to Acutonics and a world of Tuning Forks, Singing Bowls and Gongs. This dynamic and powerful system of vibrational medicine has transformed Theresa’s life and inspired her to become a Certified Practitioner and Senior Faculty Teacher for the Acutonics Institute of Integrative Medicine.

In 2013 Theresa created the Kootenay Sound Healing Centre, with treatment rooms, teaching space and accommodation for students.

Theresa has been teaching Acutonics® classes since 2013, creating a growing community of sound healing practitioners from all around the world.  Her students include acupuncturists, doctors, nurses, hospice workers, physiotherapists, chiropractors, social workers, massage therapists, Reki and other forms of energy medicine.

Theresa’s love of gongs led to a collection of 17 Paiste planetary gongs. These powerful instruments have transformed Theresa’s life in ways never imagined. Theresa has played her gongs at local festivals and events throughout BC and now with husband, Will.  Theresa and Will are available for private and public events and festivals.