Welcome to the International List of The Earthbody Institute Graduates!
Each graduate has a variety of professional skills, licenses, and/or trainings in addition to The Earthbody Institute training. We encourage you to contact them to work with them or to network.
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Adriel integrates somatic, transpersonal, and trauma-informed practices from her Master's degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, and as a certified yoga instructor (RYT200). Adriel is a certified Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning (ESMHL) through PATH International, and holds great value in the human-animal bond.
A student of Ariana Candell’s since 2011, Adriel also teaches at The Earthbody Institute, finding great meaning in helping others learn how to integrate their love of nature into their work. Adriel spends time outdoors everyday, in the garden, with her loved ones (human and other-than human), and exploring all the natural beauty this Earth has to offer.
I offer holistic psychotherapy, somatic ecotherapy, and equine facilitated psychotherapy. Mindfulness, movement, expressive arts are often integrated during sessions. Sessions are held indoors and outdoors in Santa Cruz County. As an Equine Specialist in Mental Health & Learning I also offer therapeutic, mindfulness and learning sessions with equine partners. Wholeness exists, sometimes we simply have forgotten how to connect with our true nature. I'm honored to support this journey of connection...
Introductory and advanced clinical ecotherapy training retreats; mindfulness in nature walks and retreats; nature writing
Nature Reconnection Experiences
Somatic Dance
Soul Art Sessions
Spiritual Coaching
Reiki Energy Therapy
Creative Nature Retreats
Ariana is founder of The Earthbody Institute, a professional, educational, and transformational forum dedicated to the cultivation of dynamic mutual relationships with the natural world. She is creator of the groundbreaking Professional Ecotherapy Training and Certification Program, now entering its fourth year. She facilitates workshops locally and internationally, including Online Ecotherapy Certificate Programs, Ecotherapy Immersion Programs and consultation groups. She also teaches Ecotherapy seminars as an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University.
Ariana believes that developing a consistent nature connection practice with elements of somatic awareness and openness to the sacred can foster a more holistic and balanced way of life. She is devoted to her own daily spiritual practice in nature, and encourages her private clients and students to develop their own practice. In all of her programs, she facilitates creation of a strong Earth-honored community, fulfilling an ancient human need of experiencing a profound connection to the sacredness of all beings.
Ariana is thrilled to be practicing Ecotherapy outdoors in the East Bay hills with more than half of her individual clients, and also brings the power of nature indoors to her private practice in Berkeley. Her main therapeutic influences include Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Ecotherapy, Dance Movement Therapy and Earth-based trainings from The School of Lost Borders.
Individual Psychotherapy
Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic Ecotherapy
Dance Movement Therapy
Small group facilitation. Local or will travel
1/2 day to 2 day themed retreat or workshop programs
Self-help/personal development book on creating a Wild Nature practice in process
One on one sessions in person or online, helping clients create a regular nature practice using the 5 part flow
Women in the Wild 4 Month Journey- once a month day workshop and overnight primitive backpack trip. Open to all who identify as women.
I am currently in the midst of deep spiritual and worldly exploration to uncover and embrace my gifts and sacred purpose, which I feel have been clouded by my steadfast journey towards obtaining licensure over the past several years. I am enjoying connecting with others who are following their unique paths to inspire and guide me in discovering my true purpose so that I may better align my life's work with my soul and values.
I was recently licensed in 2018. I have worked as a mental health therapist with teenagers and young adults for 6 years. I am currently working at Bay Area Clinical Associates which is an outpatient mental health agency with locations in San Jose and Menlo Park. I am the lead therapist of two Intensive Outpatient Programs for teenagers, young adults and their families.
Wildrock's programs emphasize therapeutic play-based learning and ecotherapy practices. Visitors of all ages come for field trips, day retreats, and overnights. Ecotherapy retreats are offered for human service workers. Open community play days are available on Saturdays and select weekdays. Wildrock also runs a urban outreach program connecting children to underutilized green spaces in their own neighborhoods and schools. Stewardship projects engage school communities in reducing plastic waste and planting pollinator gardens.
This gave her the motivation to go back to school to get her Health and Life Coaching certificates through HCI (Health Coach Institute), an accredited school of the International Coach Federation, to go along with her associate degree in Business. She later attended The Earthbody Institute where she received her level one & two certificates in Ecotherapy.
Because of Jamie's personal health journey and education, she focuses on giving others the hope and tools needed to discover the balance between mental, environmental, and physical health through product options, one on one consulting, classes, retreats, online webinars, and personalized group/individual programs that help with four areas of health she too has had to face head on: ADHD, Autoimmune Conditions, Gut Health, and finding what foods take away or add to your overall health. She teaches YOU to push aside circumstance, even those outside of your control, and choose to live life to its fullest!
-ADHD: Which foods, environmental toxins, mental stressors, or every day products are triggering ADHD? Find out tools & options to help give support for ADHD through nature, food, options, and tools.
-Autoimmune: Turn the Auto switch in Autoimmune to manual by understanding why autoimmune conditions do what they do, how they internally affect your mind & body, how to decrease stress & inflammation through nature, foods, tools and options to live life on your terms!
-Gut Health: Second brain? More like 1st brain! Get your gut-brain connection back in line with each other through nature, food, tools, and options to help alleviate toxic overload, strengthen your gut microbiome army, and increase optimal health.
-Nutrition: find out what foods and avenues of nutritional support take away or add to your overall health, energy levels, inflammation & free radicle levels, and which food plan is best for your unique body! Whether dealing with a disease/condition or just want a sustainable preventive health care plan for you, starting with nutrition is key!
*All above programs offered in Group or Individualized setting & can be done in person or online.
-Discovery Session: FREE phone/online assessment of which plan, program, tools, and/or options are the best route for you & if we are a good fit for each other!
-FREE overview of options for better, safer, and more cost affective ways of living healthy.
I take nature to people where they are and people to nature with a focus on what science has just begun to scratch the surface in identifying with regards to the depth of our connection to nature which brings to light the harm that the human race is experiencing from that disconnect. The BdP programs are designed to enhance teamwork and leadership through workshops and retreats in educational, residential, community and corporate settings. The 'Honoring Truth of Age Program' (http://jeanndeford.com/index.php/honoring-elderhood/honoring-truth-of-age/) utilizes the BdP method and is designed to inspire today’s elder population to learn and explore what it is to transition from ‘old’ to ‘Elder’ and reimagine by THEIR design what a thriving Elderhood Community looks like. During this collaboration a deep communicative connection with other living systems is revealed and the threshold of over all health, well-being and creative expression is crossed culminating in a BdP's 'Bridging Earthland Ceremony'. BIOdancePhilia is 'Life's-dance-Connecting to Life', it IS a dance between the Body, Soul & Earth that by design embraces an intergenerational perspective intended to deepen the bond that we all share with other living systems..
With a foundation of over ten years of professional experience as a program administrator with nonprofit organizations such as Girl Scouts and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Julia serves as the State Public Health Specialist for the University of Florida's Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences.
Julia holds a bachelor of arts degree in cultural anthropology from New College of Florida and in the process of earning a master of social work degree from Florida State University. She also holds certifications in herbalism, nonprofit management, yoga instruction (body positive and trauma-informed), flower essences and permaculture.
Julia is based in Gainesville, where she is guided by old live oaks and sweet water springs.
Services coming in 2020.
