Mika

As an educator, integral coach and ceremonialist, I foster sanctuaries and pathways for transformation, soul recovery and consciousness expansion. Decades of devotion to yoga and shamanic practices, coupled with deep and ongoing training and studies in cross-cultural psychospiritual traditions, have led me to this offering: a praxis for illumination rooted in ancestral wisdom, informed by emergent science, and guided by apprenticeship to sacred plant lineages. I welcome all who are called towards connection with the healing intelligence of nature, within and without.

Attuned to the transpersonal and the embodied, the nondual and the relational, I situate this work at the confluence of the disciplines that shaped my journey: ecopsychology, psychedelic therapy, ritual practice, creative arts, Eastern wisdom and sacred activism. Influential mentors include: Joanna Macy, Chellis Glendinning, Malidoma Somé, Stephen Foster, Meredith Little, David Abram, Wade Davis, Martin Prechtel, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Josh Schrei. As a longtime practitioner in the Santo Daime—a syncretic entheogenic religion from Brazil—my work is grounded in the animist cosmovision alive in the medicine of the forest. All my gratitude to my plant teachers and elders in the Amazon.

I am committed to reciprocity with the wisdom-keepers who have tended sacred plant traditions for millennia, and solidarity with movements for indigenous sovereignty, with a deep bow to the Coast Salish tribes who are the original stewards of the land I call home. My work is gender-identity and poly-affirming, and grounded in decolonial, anti-racist, feminist and neuro-queer theory. I speak English and Spanish. Services are available at a sliding scale for all people with marginalized identities and limited resources.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • PhD student in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (currently enrolled)

  • MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (May 2025)

  • Inner Trek’s Psilocybin Facilitator Certification program (March 2023)

  • 8 Limbs Yoga Centers Teacher Training (2015)

  • Vancouver Film School Digital Design Program (2005)

  • Esalen Institute Massage Certification Program (2001)

  • Ida Rolf Institute, Rolfing Trainings 1 & 2 (2001)

  • Naropa University, BA in Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies (1999)