Kashi Ananda is the owner/director of Devi Yoga Center in Sebastopol, CA. She is a senior teacher of TriYoga International, has studied with Kali Ray, the founder of TriYoga since 1991 and is on the TriYoga teacher training staff. Her lifelong exploration of movement, breath and spirit has strongly influenced her teaching style.  Kashi creates a safe and joyful environment for students to enter deeply into the inner flow while giving clear and precise guidance for the correct alignments and the gentle spinal wave-like movements unique to TriYoga.

Luna Hart has been mystified by the art of fermentation, its exciting tastes, and depth of nutrition. She enjoys pulling this wise old tradition out of the closet and putting it back on to the kitchen table. Luna lives in Willits, CA and has a raw food booth at her local farmer's market. She has taught fermentation techniques at the Women's Herbal Symposium and many other areas in the US.

Patrick Garretson is a long time student of Nature – out of which his deep passion for water and its healing capacity was born. Patrick’s first introduction to water ecology and biodynamic agriculture was as a farmer and watershed restoration worker. Patrick earned his B.A. from New College of California with his thesis on the Astrological Aspect of Biodynamic Agriculture. This study brought him to water flow science. During this time Patrick was also trained as a Permaculture Designer at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center during a 10 month internship there. Later, Patrick also studied fungi and soil relations under renowned mycologist Paul Stamets. He has since taught in numerous venues on permaculture, biodynamics, water flowscience and is an Adjunct Faculty member at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, CA. More info at www.californiaflowforms.org

Bridget Mary Henry has been exploring the possibilities of color reductive woodcut for 14 years, and continues to be enthralled with this alchemical process.  She is a graduate of UCSC and the recipient of the 2001 James Phelan award in printmaking.  She has been opening her north coast studio every fall in the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz’s Open Studios since 1997.  She is enthusiastically employed at UCSC working as one of the print studio technicians and has taught several woodcut workshops including one for the Cabrillo Summer Arts program 2008. She has a 100% success rate in teaching the woodcut process with such comments as “Wow, that was fun”. More info at www.elegantgeek.com/bridget

Kari Stettler is a healing arts practitioner and student of the earth.  She is particularly fascinated with ways of being effective stewards of ourselves, our communities, humanity and the earth and how these are being implemented to serve the shift to a life-sustaining society.  Implementation of this in her own life include permaculture living and growing food, herbal medicine, therapeutic body and energy work, whole foods nutrition, facilitating and participating in community rituals, systems approaches to project development, active listening, yoga and dancing.  Her love for nature and humanity brought her to study with Joanna Macy in 2005 and since then she has been facilitating the Work that Reconnects in community circles in Northern California.  She brings her work forward through her practice Inner Earth Healing Arts and Polcum Springs where she has been a pioneering member for five years.

Tamara Wilder has been practicing, teaching & demonstrating primitive living skills since 1989 and has been running school programs across Northern California since 1998. She regularly teaches at the Solar Living Institute, California School of Herbal Studies, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, Pt. Reyes National Seashore & the Mendocino Art Center; is coauthor of the book Buckskin, and demonstrates ancient living skills for museums, fairs & schools. She is also featured on the History Channel in the Modern Marvels show entitled "Leather". More info at www.paleotechnics.com.

Tim Henry is an artisan baker, saurkruat maker and kimchee shaker, and has taken up the art of non-alcoholic herbal brews. Tim is the head teacher at a one-room school house outside Laytonville.  There he teaches K-6 students through project-based learning.  With his help, the students have transformed the school campus into a permaculture site featuring swales and rooftop rainwater harvesting, wood-fired cob oven, trees and gardens, a grid-tied photovoltaic system, a working greenhouse, and animal husbandry.  Tim is a co-founder of Polcum Springs, and lives there with his wife, Alison, and their daughter.

Dennis Martinez is of O’odham, Chicano, and Swedish heritage.  He has worked in ecocultural restoration for over 40 years in temperate terrestrial, and tropical terrestrial and aquatic-marine ecosystems as a restoration and ethno-ecologist.  He is Founder and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network of the Society for Ecological Restoration International and is Co-Director of the Takelma Intertribal Project.  He works internationally with community-based Indigenous Peoples on cultural rights, resource access and protection, climate change, forest restoration, and bridging Western Science with Traditional EcologicalKnowledge.  He is a well-known speaker and writer, has received awards in restoration and social justice, and was an awardee in the Ecotrust-Buffet Award for Indigenous Conservation Leadership in NW North America. He currently is focusing on climate change, is on the steering committee of the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Assessment, and consults with the National Congress of American Indians and the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Network on Indigenous adaptation and mitigation of climate change. 

Harkening from the rocky mountains of Colorado, Kyle Collins moved to California in search of sustainable agriculture and permaculture training. He received his Permaculture Design Certificate from the OAEC in 2007 and has been teaching workshops and a high school class in permaculture since then. Kyle's love of fungi grew out of the experimental days of his college years. Kyle now has seven years experience of working with and growing organic culinary and medicinal mushrooms at home. He has taught workshops in mushroom cultivation and mycological restoration techniques in Sonoma County for two years. His programs fuse together the wisdom of permaculture principles with the hands-on experiential techniques of mushroom cultivation. Kyle teaches at Summerfield Waldorf School in Santa Rosa, California.