Guides & Artists

Amy Pearce-Hayden is a yoga teacher, author, and founder of The RajaHatha School of Yoga. For more than three decades, she has studied and practiced the traditions of Raja, Hatha, Jnana, Bhakti, and Tantra Yoga, training and mentoring teachers since 2004.

Her teaching weaves movement, breath, meditation, somatic awareness, and philosophy into an embodied exploration of what it means to live yoga beyond the mat. She is the author of Living the Sutras, creator of the Live Your Yoga card deck, co-host of the Living It podcast, and a longtime contributor to Yoga International.

At the heart of Amy’s work is remembrance: a return to what is essential, to our innate wisdom, and to our connection with ourselves, one another, and the living world.

Aubree Saia is an embodiment guide, breathwork facilitator, yoga teacher and trainer, and practitioner of shamanic energy medicine whose work bridges ancient wisdom with the intelligence of the body. For more than two decades, she has devoted herself to yoga, conscious breath, somatic healing and sacred living arts, creating experiences that invite people into deeper connection with themselves, the Earth and the wisdom already living within.

A cofounder of Remembrance Festival, Aubree’s work is rooted in a simple knowing: the breath is medicine, the body remembers, and transformation becomes possible when we return to what is already within us.

Alex has been teaching yoga in Madison for over 20 years and training yoga teachers since 2010. The driving force of his journey has been in harnessing yoga’s ability to relieve us of the emotional and psychic weight of unprocessed emotion. This led him to become a body worker focused on energetic and psychic release, and then to Neurogenic Yoga, a modality that utilizes a shaking response from the body (Neurogenic Tremors) that is accessible, unintimidating, and most importantly, every human’s birthright.

His belief is that humans are only meant to hold trauma or unprocessed emotions temporarily, to bridge us back to safety. After that, every single one of us has the natural ability to release it and come back to our natural home.

Poonam Gunjal is the Founder of Fullmoon Wellness Center, offering tarot, astrology, and ancestral constellation work rooted in over twenty years of leadership experience and a deep commitment to nervous system aware healing.

Andre Ferrella graduated as a Medical Illustrator from the University of Toledo/Toledo Museum of Art School of Design and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He discovered an organic photographic process called “The Living Pictures”, also known as “The Mold Picture Process”, that bridged the gap between micro and macro space. He has been nationally and internationally collected and exhibited at renowned institutions.

Known as “The Artist of The Spirit” who devotes his life to bringing Divine information from the other side of the veil. During a reading from Lee Carroll, KRYON described Andre as “The Evolutionary Artist, a Master of Light”. Andre brings the gift of accessing the other side of the veil via interdimensional devices he has created.

Andre brings to his art a lifetime of spiritual study and exploration of the world’s sacred traditions and iconography. With his indisputable technical virtuosity, Ferrella is able to reveal higher orders of reality and the interconnectedness of existence that has been described by ageless enlightened teachers and mystics. Ferrella communicates these ineffable spiritual experiences and phenomena, at the same time that he enables our own explorations and awakenings.

Andre Ferrella taught Creative Fine Art, Photography and Visual Design at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Dani is the creator and founder of Heartful Yoga, LLC, integrating yoga and art for creativity, healing, and self-expression. She is a professional artist, textile designer, entrepreneur, potter and yoga educator with an E-RYT 500 (YACEP). Trained in Raja Hatha Yoga, she also holds certifications in Iyengar Yoga Wall 1-2, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Kids Yoga, and Yoga Therapeutics. Her lifetime as an artist has given her a keen eye for form, function, alignment, and the body’s natural intelligence—supporting students in movement, release, and honest self-exploration. She is an embodiment teacher of process.

Dani believes yoga and art should be accessible to people of all body types, identities, and emotional states. She creates a safe, supportive space where everyone can show up as they are. Rooted in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Dani weaves together asana, pranayama (breathwork), meditation, mudras, mantras, and art-based practices—offering practical tools students can return to in everyday life.

Her teaching blends clear alignment, thoughtful pacing, and creative process—so students can build strength, steadiness, and trust in themselves.

As a creative guide, artist, and educator, Dani brings people together in studios, schools, festivals, galleries, and wellness spaces—to move, breathe, and make their marks on the canvas of life.

TJ DiCiaula earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry with a Bio-Medical Science concentration from UW-LaCrosse in 2000. He continued his studies in Holistic Health and Energy Medicine with a Practitioner of Healing Arts degree from Windemere Institute of Healing Arts in 2002 and acquired a Nationally Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork license before completing The Four Wind’s Healing the Light Body school as a Shamanic practitioner.

TJ also completed certifications in Sound Therapy and Crystal Healing, and completed Flower of Life courses, Spiritual Development training, various post-doctorate seminars, Reiki Master attunements as well as formal and informal teachings in the Medicine Wheel of Life. TJ spent many years studying Metaphysics and Spirituality; and studied with indigenous Shamans, Medicine People, healers, and elders from various cultures and found underlying unifying principles of consciousness, inner-alchemy, and Holistic Living present in all working modalities initiating proactive transformation to facilitate life growth.

TJ has involved himself with Sacred Geometry and uses it therapeutically in his Holistic Health endeavors and as a template for BioLogic Alchemy. TJ developed BioAlchemy as a holistic medicine wheel template, or map of Self; that can be used to navigate reality, heal thy Self and others, and for Spiritual and Psychic Development.

Being raised a competitive athlete and playing college basketball, TJ studied nutrition as a means of optimizing performance. He worked on developing growing systems to maximize plant potential as food and medicine. He developed a system to apply vibrational medicine and BioEnergetics into growing food to feed people physically and spiritually.

Treya Magdalena is a Certified Yoga Instructor and a Sound Healer with years of experience holding and facilitating sacred and transformational spaces. The founder of Blossoming Essence LLC and an artist at heart, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and is also a musician, weaving beauty and emotional depth into everything she offers.

Her QiGong practice is a blend of her 3 year training in the USA and India, under the guidance of various teachers and styles.

As the Director of a Montessori school and a teacher of music and art, she brings a unique integration of creativity, awareness, and holistic development into both education and spiritual work.

From 2006 to 2013, she lived and studied across Hawaii, India, and Europe—immersed in spiritual practice, community life, and pilgrimage. Ashram life, study under the wings of her teacher Sri Mātā Amritānandamayī Devi, and sacred journey across India continue to inform the depth and sincerity of her work.

Amy Nicholson, MS, SEP, LPC, LMT, is a somatic and transpersonal psychotherapist, medicine woman, teacher, singer-songwriter, and recording artist who has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersection of healing, consciousness, creativity, spirituality, and our relationship with the living Earth. At the heart of Amy’s work is a simple but profound question: What becomes possible when we learn to embody ourSelves more fully?

Amy is the creator of Embodied Consciousness™, an emerging body of work that weaves together Somatic Experiencing®, somatic and transpersonal psychology, relational somatics, nervous system regulation, energy medicine, animistic practice, and nearly two decades of apprenticeship, pilgrimage, and initiation within the living spiritual traditions of the Peruvian Andes. Her work is rooted in the understanding that regulation is an important pathway, but it is not the destination. Healing is also a process of remembering who we are underneath the layers of adaptation and returning to a deeper relationship with ourselves, one another, the Earth, and the sacred.

This same inquiry lives within Amy’s music. As MAIIMA, she creates deeply emotional and conscious music that explores the fullness of the human experience - love and grief, longing and belonging, awakening, beauty, joy, and the mystery of being alive. Her music is an extension of her spiritual and embodied practice: a way of listening, making meaning, telling stories, and giving voice to what can sometimes only be felt.

Whether she is teaching, guiding an embodied experience, sitting in ceremony, or standing onstage sharing a song, Amy’s work is an invitation to listen more deeply—to our bodies, to one another, to the Earth, and to follow the thread of our own becoming as we navigate the great mystery we are all a part of. For Amy, healing, spirituality, and music are not separate paths. They are different expressions of the same devotion: remembering who we are, becoming more fully ourselves, and coming more fully alive.

Sheila Darcey is an artist, author, and facilitator exploring the intersection of creativity, healing, and consciousness. She is the creator of SketchPoetic, author of Sketch by Sketch, and founder of Living Canvas Foundation. Through intuitive art-making, embodiment, and immersive experiences, her work explores creativity as a portal into presence, connection, and remembrance—inviting us to discover what becomes possible when we release the need to create and simply allow ourselves to be.

Ryan and Jenya are a creative couple devoted to bringing people together through music, art, sound, and meaningful shared experiences. Together, they created The Soulmate Way, a space rooted in connection, creativity, and conscious living.

Ryan is a multidisciplinary visionary artist and musician whose work is inspired by nature, spirituality, and the unseen worlds that connect us. Jenya is a sound practitioner, musician, and former professional dancer who facilitates sound journeys, song circles, cacao ceremonies, and creative gatherings.

Together, they weave music, voice, sound, and creativity into experiences that invite people to slow down, open their hearts, express themselves freely, and reconnect with one another.

Emily Killeen is a spiritual yoga teacher, wellness-focused sobriety coach, retreat facilitator, and heart-centered community builder. Drawing from more than 20 years of personal exploration in recovery, wellness, spirituality, and personal growth, she is passionate about creating welcoming spaces where people can heal, grow, connect, and celebrate life together.

Each spring, Emily hosts her annual Happy Sober Free Retreat in Sedona, Arizona—a playful, soul-nourishing experience centered around connection, adventure, personal growth, and celebrating the joy and freedom of alcohol-free living.

Through experiential workshops, transformative retreats, coaching, and meaningful community gatherings here in Madison, throughout the U.S. and abroad, Emily invites others to reconnect with themselves and experience greater freedom, joy, purpose, and aliveness.

MaaShakti Das (Paulie Skoglind) is a life-long musician, yogi, and healer who has been leading Kirtan and offering healing events in the Madison area for over 20 years. Steeped in devotion to Neem Karoli Baba, Maa has received multiple initiations into Bhakti lineages, is certified in Tantric Vinyasa Yoga, Thai Massage, and Reiki. Maa is incredibly passionate about sharing this path of self-realization and holding space for others' healing journey.

MaaShakti has shared hundreds of Kirtans, yoga classes and workshops, performed at both Bhakti Fest Midwest Festivals, Milwaukee Kirtan Fest, Shangri-La Festival and has released four albums in devotion to Neem Karoli Baba.

Maa live loops, improvising with percussion, harmonium, guitar, and native flute weaving a tapestry of mystical sounds for heart-opening communal song and Kirtan.

Andrea Russell is an Ayurvedic doctor, yoga therapist, meditation teacher, and Guided Deepening Coach with over 25 years of clinical practice across multiple healing disciplines. Trained in the US and India, Andrea has spent much of her life exploring the intersection of healing, contemplative practice, and our capacity for transformation.

Andrea offers Guided Deepening through individual sessions, courses, and retreats. Her work is informed by Buddhist and yogic traditions, contemporary neuroscience, and emergent maps of awakening.

Amie Heeter, RYT 500HR, is a nature enthusiast, adventurer, and life long learner. A yoga and meditation teacher since 2003, she regards yoga, meditation, and mindfulness as some of the best systems available to sustain health in our body, cultivate stability and resilience in our mind, and open pathways to the luminous heart.

Amie received her first teaching certifications in 2003 and 2004 through the Integral Yoga Institute. In 2007 she began studying with Rod Stryker and received her 500hr Parayoga certification in 2014. These studies led her into the wisdom of Tantra, Ayurveda, and becoming initiated into the Sri Vidya lineage of the Himalayan Masters. Amie continues her learning from several teachers including Pandit Rajmani Tigunait of the Himalayan Institute, Tracee Stanley and Indu Arora among the dozens she’s received from over her 20 years of study. Nature was her first teacher, and continues to be an intimate part of her practice and inspiration. Amie hosts group classes, various yoga studies' programs and trainings, leads regional and international retreats, and works privately with individuals. Learn more about Amie at her website www.amieheeter.com.

Kalaripayattu Instructor | DJ | Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner | Healing with Horses | Energy Healer, Master Reiki | 2nd Degree Priestess of Wicca | Yoga Instructor | Dynamic Farmer

Charity Joy Robinson, aka DJ CJ Fee’, is a movement facilitator, Kalaripayattu instructor, DJ, Thai Yoga Massage practitioner, energy healer, priestess, yoga teacher, equine facilitator, and passionate dynamic farmer.

With more than 20 years of experience teaching and facilitating movement and wellness experiences around the world, Charity weaves together ancient movement traditions, music, healing arts, ritual, horses, farming, and connection to the natural world.

She has practiced Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial art of Kerala, India, since 2019 and holds a 220-hour teacher training certification. Charity has spent time in Australia with her teacher and at the Kalariyil Dharmikam Ashram in Kerala where she has trained extensively with senior teachers.

As DJ CJ Fee’, Charity is the creator of Elemental Ecstatic Dance, blending global rhythms, live DJ mixing, drums, didgeridoo, and elemental ritual into movement journeys.

A 2nd Degree Priestess of Wicca, Charity is deeply connected to the cycles of nature, the elements, the moon, and earth-based spirituality. Her work includes moon circles, elemental ceremonies, energy healing, and sacred movement.

Charity has more than 20 years of experience in Thai Yoga Massage, combining assisted yoga, acupressure, stretching, and intuitive bodywork. Studied, trained and lived in Thailand.

She also offers Equine and unwind, drawing on her longtime relationship with horses to create opportunities for connection, presence, and being here now with horses and yourself in nature.

Her growing love of dynamic and biodynamic farming has become an essential part of her path. Working with soil, seeds, plants, animals, seasons, and the rhythms of the land has deepened her understanding of nourishment, reciprocity, and our connection to the Earth.

At the heart of all her work is a simple invitation: move, connect, remember, and come home to your joy.