Meet Your Facilitators
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Tara Stonemother
Shamanic Seer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TaraBradleyIntuitive
Webpage: https://www.stonemothershaman.com/
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
Wild Rose Drums
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JennRhicard
Instagram: wildrose_healing_drums
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.
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Masani St. Rose
West African & Caribbean Dance
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/masani.s.rose
Instagram: masani_strose
Masani (she/her) is born and raised in Mohkinstsis (Calgary, AB), and has been in relationship with dance since early childhood—beginning her movement journey at the age of three.
What began as expression quickly became a lifelong connection to ancestral rhythm, culture, and embodied storytelling through movement. She specializes in West African and Caribbean dance traditions, which continue to shape her practice, teaching, and way of being in the world.
Her foundation was deeply influenced through training at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks under Michèle Moss-Johnston, where she developed both technical grounding and artistic discipline. Over the years, she has continued to learn directly from artists and cultural practitioners from across West and Central Africa, including Guinea, Ghana, Mali, Congo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
These experiences have shaped more than her skill—they have shaped her relationship to rhythm, presence, and embodiment as a form of connection and remembrance.
Masani has worked with studios, performance groups, and cultural spaces across Canada, bringing movement into both stage and community settings. Alongside performance, her deeper devotion lies in sharing dance as a living, embodied practice that reconnects people to joy, expression, and the intelligence of the body.
Her facilitation style is grounded, joyful, and deeply embodied—inviting people to move beyond self-consciousness and return to natural rhythm, presence, and aliveness in the body.
Her intention is simple:
to keep movement alive as a form of connection—between body, spirit, and story. -
Crystal Alethia
9D Breathwork & Retreat Coordinator
Instagram: thrubodymindbreath
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thrubodymindbreath
Website: https://www.thrubodymindbreath.com/
Crystal is a Certified Trauma-Informed 9D Breathwork Facilitator who creates deeply immersive breathwork experiences designed to support emotional release, nervous system regulation, and inner transformation.
Her sessions integrate Somatic Breathwork, Master Reiki, Clinical Hypnotherapy, sound immersion, and intuitive guidance to create layered, multi-sensory journeys that support people in moving through what feels held, heavy, or unprocessed.
At the heart of her work is one intention:
to help people reconnect with themselves in a safe, supported, and deeply embodied way.Her path to this work
Crystal’s journey into this space was shaped by her own lived experience of healing and recovery.
In 2023, she faced a significant health challenge following a serious brain diagnosis, which impacted her daily functioning and brought her into a period of physical, emotional, and psychological instability. During this time, she also moved through depression and anxiety, and experienced what it felt like to lose connection with the life she knew.
It was through breathwork and holistic healing practices that she began to rebuild her sense of self—slowly restoring her nervous system, her energy, and her relationship to life.
Through this process, she not only recovered her wellbeing, but discovered a deeper sense of purpose and direction.
A turning point
Reflecting on her experience, Crystal shares:
“Looking back, I can see that the pain, fear, and challenges were guiding me toward my true path. Breathwork supported me in ways I never thought possible, and it completely changed my relationship to life. Now I feel deeply grateful to hold space for others who are on their own healing journey.”
Her broader life experience
Before stepping fully into this work, Crystal lived many lives in one lifetime.
Her background includes professional dance, studio ownership, corporate leadership, service as a Peace Officer, and operating large-scale transport vehicles. Each chapter has contributed to her understanding of resilience, discipline, presence, and the human experience.
She brings this depth into her facilitation—meeting people not only with intuition, but with grounded life experience and a strong capacity to hold complexity.
Her facilitation style
Crystal’s breathwork sessions are immersive, guided journeys supported by carefully designed soundscapes and trauma-informed pacing.
Her approach is both intuitive and structured—creating space for emotional release while maintaining a grounded sense of safety and containment.
Participants are supported through experiences that may include deep emotional processing, energetic release, nervous system regulation, and moments of profound clarity or rest.
Each session is personalized by presence and attunement to the group’s energy and capacity.
Her intention
Crystal’s work is rooted in the belief that healing does not have to be forced—it can unfold when people feel safe enough to soften.
Her intention is to support people in returning to themselves with more clarity, compassion, and connection than when they arrived.

