Winter camp presenters 2024

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Aiua is a devoted guide in the realms of peace, liberation, and pleasure. As a mother, wife, sister, friend, and Sacred Sexuality facilitator, she embraces her calling to help others experience deeper love, intimacy, and connection.

With over a decade of study in bio-psycho-social-spirituality under renowned teachers like Gabor Maté, Diederik Wolsak, Mooji, Pema Chödrön, and Gerald Jampolsky, Aiua integrates wisdom from diverse traditions. 

Aleanu is a relationship coach trained through the Somatica Institute in San Francisco. His heart-centered experiential practice offers sessions on self love, self empowerment, emotional healing, conflict navigation, relationship dynamics, sexual intimacy and many other personal and relational growth challenges. He is a trained tantric shamanic healing practitioner (School of Tribal Tantra), a certified mediator (Ku’ikahi Mediation Center, Hilo), and a men’s work facilitator (Man Kind Project)

Amara is a member of La'akea community. In 1989 she developed her own approach to peer counseling, called Holistic Peer Counseling, integrating many ideas from RC with spiritual meditation practices, psychic healing, breathwork and body centered techniques.  She is the author of Heartbeat Nurturing Therapy. She began studying Tantra and Sacred Spot work, a method of sexual healing, on Maui in 2003, and has since studied many methods of pelvic and sexual healing bodywork. 

Aniko has a love for traveling, which she has pursued with delight in her adult years.  She has a son, named Kaiea, who was born here at La’akea in 1997.  Aniko loves nature, she is passionate for the ocean as a surfer, snorkeler and has worked with stranded sea turtles on Maui.  Her connection to the plants and trees is also healing and grounding for her.  Aniko is a certified yoga instructor, has studied and taught Non Violent Communication, and Peer Counseling

Gratitone loves music, loves dance. He’s taught movement in many forms… Salsa dancing and other Latin dances, contact improv, even rock climbing. As a DJ he's skilled at crafting delectable sets to delight your ears and set your body in motion. With a degree in ethnomusicology, he knows his music (and is always happy to chat about it) and  his sets tend to journey around the world— focusing on the groovy and the heart-felt!

Judy has trained in improvisational and Playback Theater for over 40 years, teaching and performing in Oregon and Hawaii. She served as artistic director of the Rogue Valley Playback Theater and is a co-founder of The Hamazons, an all-women comedy improv troupe in Ashland, OR.

A trained psychotherapist, she has facilitated grief healing groups including pet grief support groups. Judy was a member of La'akea community from 2005-2015, and is proud to have been part of this great community.

Kalama is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of HI, Hilo, where she teaches Sustainability, Interpersonal & family Communication courses. Her cultural reproduction and transformation research transcends disciplines and forges new paradigms and possibilities. This workshop, like her books Mana Cards: The Power of Hawaiian Wisdom, encourages exploration of the ways that identity, communication, synchronicity, nature, and connection converge. https://www.catherinebecker.com/ 

After personal training and teaching dance all over Melbourne and the USA over the past 15 years, Miranda discovered GROOVE Dance & a new way of living, authentically!  She loves sarcasm & saying it how it is. She studied Tantra and Tantric yoga in Australia.  Miranda enjoys sharing what she has learnt and has a passion for ‘psychological experiments’ - because they always offer a different perspective on things.  She is excited to connect with the community & see how much we can learn!

Sequoia/Curtis a seasoned explorer of spiritual connection, personal empowerment, and sacred intimacy. With a deep commitment to self-discovery and healing, Sequoia integrates elements of Tantra, shamanic practices, and mindful embodiment to create transformative experiences.. He has been a successful entrepreneur most of his life, a free thinker, filmmaker, percussionist, who has survived the native American vision quest ceremony, parenthood, and marriage.

Shoshannah Crow was a founding member of GoddessIs; Womyns Ritual Theater Collective, which performed original works in Eugene, Oregon for ten years. She has been a Summer Camp West organizer since 2008, co-authored "Loving Freely," a journal of discovery in Polyamory. She has been a Forum facilitator since 2009 and teaches Forum facilitation for communities and groups. Most recently her passion has turned to painting and creating workshops around self awareness, and self love (aka Boundaries) c

Signa is a veteran yoga teacher with more than three decades of experience, specializing in Kundalini, Tantra, Bhakti, and Hatha Yoga styles. Known for her ability to weave pranayama, mantra, yoga philosophy and yogic sound current technology into her practices. Signa holds a Master's degree in Teaching and is a certified Natural Health Educator. She earned her Massage Therapy license in 1990, and is a lifelong dancer, athlete, outdoor enthusiast and musician. 

Tracy is an educator turned gardener, mother, permaculture instructor and lover of life. She is a founding member of La’akea Community where she has been living and experimenting with sustainability for more than ten years. Tracy practices what she teaches. She practices non-violent communication, peer counseling, Huna (a form of Hawaiian spirituality), couples counseling and group facilitation. When people learn from Tracy, they tend to feel good and have fun.