Our Workshop Team

Anita Bokil is an Ayurveda Health Counselor, Meditation Instructor, and certified Yoga Instructor with over 10 years of experience. She specializes in guiding individuals to discover their unique body constitution, addressing imbalances, and promoting healing through the natural principles of Ayurveda. Anita’s holistic approach focuses on treating health concerns at the root cause, helping her clients achieve lasting wellness and balance.

Rachel Frank is a Southern California-based Laughter Yoga teacher, breathwork and meditation guide, and comedian. With a passion for raising the vibration of joy, Rachel draws from her personal journey of overcoming depression and transforming negative thought patterns. She is dedicated to helping others heal and embrace self-love, using laughter and mindfulness practices to open the hearts of those she encounters.

Dacara Seward is a San Diego-based vocalist, actress, model, and creative entrepreneur with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. She combines her love for the arts and mental health to help others find joy and self-expression. Inspired by her family’s artistic legacy, Dacara sees creativity as a powerful tool for mindfulness and emotional well-being.  ​

Sydney Daly-Weber is a certified Reiki practitioner, Sound Healer, and Circle Facilitator, specializing in crystal therapy, sound healing, breathwork, and tarot card readings. After overcoming personal struggles with anxiety and health issues through holistic healing, Sydney now guides others on their healing journeys. She fosters supportive communities through her Soul Circles, providing a safe and judgment-free space for participants. Sydney is also the creator of the Create Your Phase Wellness Festival, a transformative event blending art therapy, yoga, sound healing, and local vendors to inspire connection and personal growth.

Briana Salas is an intuitive healer, energy alchemist, and spiritual guide dedicated to helping others unlock their inner wisdom, balance their energy, and reach their highest potential. As a certified trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, she integrates mindfulness, breathwork, and somatic healing to create safe, transformative experiences. Her heart-centered workshops blend intuitive activation, chakra balancing, and manifestation with meditation, sound healing, aromatherapy, and interactive exercises. Passionate about guiding others to trust their inner voice and awaken their spiritual gifts, Briana creates spaces for deep healing, self-love, and alignment.

Kiki Matoba is a Reiki Master, sound healer, and meditation coach who has played for Goop's At Home Summit, Vox Media’s Code Conference, Suntory All-Free's Gold Women Luncheon, the Net Zero Conference, and The Den Meditation.  She specializes in guiding people into a deeply calm state where their body can relax into its healing mode, their mind can expand into higher consciousness, and they can tune into their intuition.  Kiki is dedicated to helping people experience ease, peace, and calm to recalibrate and harmonize the self in order to respond to our over-stimulating reality rather than react.

As a Trauma Informed Somatic Practitioner, Em guides you into the body and invites you to lead from the heart. Through the subtle wisdom and truths of the body, we align to our highest values and expression of self. 

As a lover, practitioner, and life-long student of a wide-range of psycho-spiritual modalities and embodiment practices, Em shares and offers new perspective, tools, and practices that come from different traditions and wisdoms. She invites you to open to new levels of living in truth, consciousness, success, and bliss!

Melissa Kiernan, the founder of Spirit Child Healing, is a Holy Fire Reiki Master practitioner and sound healer based in San Diego. She integrates energy healing with breathwork, aromatherapy, crystals, color therapy, movement, guided imagery, and shamanistic elements. She offers both individual and group sessions in California and globally, often collaborating with other healers for transformative events and retreats. Her work is guided by intuition, creating profound and magical healing experiences.

Ashley is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, certified yoga instructor, and sound bath facilitator dedicated to helping others find healing, stress relief, and balance through holistic practices. Her personal wellness journey began with plant-based nutrition and deepened after an ACL injury led her to yoga, where she found not just physical recovery but emotional and mental renewal. With a psychology degree from UCLA and experience leading yoga and sound healing for students and hospital staff, she specializes in psychosomatic healing—guiding others to reconnect with their bodies, release stored stress, and cultivate balance through movement, breath, and sound.

Alexandria Florez, a mother of two, discovered ASMR’s calming effects during the Covid pandemic, thanks to her son. Inspired by its impact, she left her high-stress food service job to create ASMR Collective SD, a unique bodywork destination that opened in November 2024. Passionate about fostering connection through ASMR, she likens it to the bonding of skin-to-skin contact and aims to bring its benefits to the San Diego community through group sessions. Her mission is to promote serenity and deeper relationships, enriching lives one gentle whisper at a time.

Cassi Sattazahn, RYT 200, is a creative soul who integrates a spirit of play and exploration into her teaching style. Always a student of yoga first, her spiritual path has evolved over 20 years.  Cassi’s classes are informed by her yoga mentors, Vajrayana Buddhism, and transformational work. She guides meditation and yoga from the philosophy that we may have been hurt but we are not broken. We are complete, we are whole and we have the opportunity to discover that within ourselves through tender and intentional work. Cassi’s workshops are founded on the practice of living from an open heart. We are already what we wish to see alive in this world.

I am a natural healer with nearly 10 years of experience in tarot and metaphysical magic. My passion lies in creating a safe space for vulnerability, allowing people to express themselves and explore their own journeys. I believe that love is the greatest force in the universe, and I aim to share that transformative energy with others.

Melanie is a nutrition and vegan educator, recipe and ebook author and disordered eating specialist. She has been plant-based for over 30 years. She uses experience and science-based evidence in exploring the vegan lifestyle. Her philosophy is to to educate and empower others how easy it is to integrate a more plant-forward diet into one's life—for your health, the environment and more. 

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Melanie's is completing her Masters's in Nutrition at Bastyr Unviersity. She also holds certifications from eCornell and NASM. She currently teaches vegan, whole-foods education, and cooking classes at community colleges and within her own practice. 

When not in the kitchen creating recipes, you can find her teaching Zumba; hiking or exploring Ocean Beach with her dog, Nova. She is also a proud football Mom to a college freshman. Melanie recently moved here from her hometown of Portland, Oregon in September 2024. She is so excited to be a part of—and make a difference— in her new community of beautiful San Diego!

Stacey Polacco is an author, certified community leader, and mindfulness meditation teacher with over 25 years of experience in meditation and personal growth. Her global journey to deepen her practice has taken her to places like Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Since 2018, Stacey has been dedicated to teaching, leading retreats, and fostering community through her organization, where she offers mindfulness meditation, discussions, and teachings. Sharing the knowledge and insights she has gained over the years is her greatest passion.