We are a collective of independent teachers, healers, artists, and activists, who come together to facilitate community classes, member programs, retreats, and an artist mercantile.
Erin Pfahler
Erin Pfaher is a teacher and writer. As a lover of movement, this has naturally seeped into her work as a writer merging her interest in writing from and through the body. Yoga is Erin's primary personal practice, currently offering online group classes. Her official training ranges from the initial vinyasa yoga training she attended in 2015, to Mind Body Solutions Adaptive Yoga Training, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training and Accessible Yoga Training along with additional workshops in the modalities of Body-mind Centering, Authentic Movement and dance. Erin is a mover and artist creating interdisciplinary works of nonfiction writing, movement, video and collage with the themes of connection, relationship, and what it means to live in a body. https://www.erinpfahler.com/
Kelly McNicholas
Kelly McNicholas is a Ohio-based Graphic Designer, Art Director, and co-founder of SIDE Studio. She has previously worked with clients across various industries to define compelling and strategic brands. Her work can be seen at kellyamcnicholas.com and more information about SIDE Studio can be found at sidestudio.work or on Instagram @sidestudio.work.
Adrienne Covington
Adrienne was born and raised in Athens, Ohio among the redbuds, walnuts, goldenseal, and virginia blue-bells. Adrienne's early childhood helped support her early connections and love for the land. She has worked as a Massage Therapist, Yoga Instructor, Farmer, and Mentor. She now resides in Oregon while pursuing a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Community Mental Health. She currently works as a Youth Mental Health Coach and an Agricultural Education Specialist as a bridge between middle school students and local farms. Her current work primarily focuses on building student place-based learning experiences that foster connection to place and relationship building while offering educational activities that align with both middle school standards through an agricultural lens. Adrienne has a passion and inspirations to work with youth, families, and groups - navigating trauma, family separation, crisis, and addiction - and hopes to offer land connection and stewardship and a means for healing within these populations. Adrienne has a deep appreciation and reverence for art, creativity, music and movement. She works with various natural mediums and fibers in her own artistic endeavors, loves to play music and various instruments, and is deeply devoted to the Brazilian art form of Capoeira - and wants to give honor to her teacher and mentor Mestre Jamaika, who has deeply influenced her in practice, art, community, and soul. In other realms of her life, Adrienne enjoys videography/documentary film making, sharing stories, and learning Brazilian Portuguese.
Adrienne Covington
Meredith S. Jensen is a writer, artist, and performer living in Athens County, OH. For employment, she develops exhibits for museums nationwide; for enjoyment, she birds, hikes, gardens, reads, writes poetry, practices henna art, and makes lists. She resides in a hollow with partner Jamie Betit, orange cat, umbrella cockatoo, and occasionally two collegiate gremlins.
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Ada Matusiewicz
Born in Żytkiejmy, Poland. Raised in Southeast Ohio. Currently living in Portland, Oregon. Ada is an immigrant, a multi-disciplinary artist, a visual arts educator, and a student of wisdom traditions. She is forever indebted to the generosity of her life-long creative practice that has held her in times of great change and offered pathways to make meaning and process unexpressed emotion. Her community offerings exist at the intersection of grief-tending, soul work, creative expression and awe. You can learn more on her website adamatusiewicz.com and follow along with her artmaking on instagram @adababayaga.
Erik Peterson
Erik Peterson is a working permaculture designer and co-founder of Fern Hollow Farm. Erik has experience in natural building, earthworks, animal husbandry, native plants, and enjoys playing music, Tai Qi and Qi Gong, watching movies, and playing chess
Sasha Sigetic BFA, MSFS, PDC
Sasha lives in the foothills of Central Appalachia. Born and raised in Ohio, she has been practicing herbalism and studying holistic and natural health for almost 20 years and farming and homesteading for 15. After reviving a Bachelors of Fine Art in Ceramics, she moved to Austin, Tx, where she earned a Permaculture Design Certification in 2007. Combined with her interest in Natural Health and Wellness, she moved back to Ohio to start farming, focusing on goats, producing raw milk and grass fed meat. Farming, and teaching beginning farmers led to a Masters of Science in Sustainable Food Systems. She currently runs the Education Program at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association. She continues to make art, mostly fiber and ceramics, in the moments between farming, work and life.
Jamie Betit
Hello! My name is Jamie Betit and I am owner/operator of Functional Integrated Training, a fitness and Wellness company focused onTeaching individuals the importance of Whole Health Development and that healthy personal growth can help the overall health of a community. My approach to Whole Health is derived from decades of working with people in various capacities, and recognizing that The Law of Individual Differences should always be respected when working with individuals and groups. This approach has allowed me to develop programs ranging from creative, therapeutic movement classes for Combat Veterans living with PTSD and also Adult play groups teaching people the power of play for personal development and conflict resolution. I have served as a member JAG ( Juvenile Justice Advisory Group) in Maine and also as Mr. Jamie for various summer programs and Little Cities Black Diamonds, Kids on Campus and The Dairy Barn. The time I have spent with all manner of people and the lives I have lived has taught me that people need purpose,inclusion, love, empathy, honesty, exercise, whole foods, permission to do better and nature immersion to thrive and live a life fulfilled. I hope to share some of these perspectives and work with others that believe in the power of the common good! I transplanted from Maine to Athens, Ohio, 14 years ago and live down a country road bordered by acres of forest and rock outcroppings. I share this space with my best friend and partner Meredith, our Cockatoo Rocky, Queen Gouda the cat and occasionally our children Amelia and Molly. When I am not working, I can be found in my gardens, talking to plants and getting my fingernails dirty or with a book in my face.
Molly Donaldson
Molly lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and brings a deep appreciation for harmony and balance into all aspects of her work. With a background in interior design, she creates spaces that support well-being, clarity, and positive energy flow. Her practice extends beyond the physical environment into the energetic realm through Reiki energy healing, helping individuals realign with their natural vitality. She also curates intimate retreats that offer space for reflection, renewal, and connection—whether through mindful design, energy work, or immersive nature experiences. Her love for seasonal cooking and gardening keeps her grounded in the rhythms of the earth, which informs her holistic approach to wellness. Through intentional design, energy healing, and nourishing experiences, she strives to create environments that inspire and restore. Find more information through her social media page @mollyljdonaldson
Lonnie Galt-Theis
Lonnie is a mother, herbalist, flower essence practitioner, yoga and mindfulness meditation teacher, and earth steward of her beloved Equinox Botanical Sanctuary in Southeast Ohio. Lonnie lovingly grows and stewards many species of medicinal herbs in the gardens and forest, and ethically creates botanical products for her herbal products business, Equinox Botanicals. Within Cura, Lonnie intends to offer experiences that facilitate a deeper connection with the essence of who you are, and provide empowering and nourishing practices and plant connections for a life of well-being.