Programs

Current programs:

Ecological Gardening: Practical Permaculture for Resilience & Regeneration 9-month Immersion at the Natura Institute for Ecology & Medicine in Bolinas, CA; Sept. – May
Permaculture Gardening 5-week series online through College of Marin Community Education, Fall 2021
Permaculture and Vedic Wisdom: Ayurvedic Agriculture online and in person at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; Fall 2021
Ayurvedic Agroforestry at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; February 2022
Permaculture Design Course at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; Spring 2022

Elemental Adventures: Homeschool Nature Education in Marin: Homeschool Nature Education in Marin County – Groups for fall now forming, contact me for details
Elemental Quest: Teen rites of passage – groups starting in spring or fall for 7th and 8th graders
Back To Earth: Wilderness Immersion & Leadership Development – 10-Day Summer Backpacking trips and yearlong mentoring circle in the East and North Bay for teens

Elemental Quest yearlong rite of passage program for 8th grade boys, Fall 2021
Elemental Leadership – camping and backpacking trips for high schoolers, weaving naturalist and ancestral skills training with leadership and ceremony

Ecological Gardening online and in person at Natura Institute for Ecology & Medicine, Spring 2021
Permaculture Gardening online through College of Marin Community Education, Spring 2021
Permaculture & Vedic Wisdom online through Sivananda Yoga Farm, Spring 2021
Permaculture Design Course at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; Spring 2019
Ayurvedic Agroforestry at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; Feb 2018, Feb 2017
Ayurvedic Herbs in the Garden at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; June, 2017
Tao of Permaculture daylong at Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm; September 2017
Four Seasons Permaculture Design Course at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, CA; year-long course running October – September, teaching since 2013
Two-week Permaculture Design Course at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, CA; September 2013, June 2014
Youth summer camp: Wild Farmers at the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden in Novato, CA: 2014, 2015
Permaculture Design Course at Westminster Woods, Occidental, CA; March 2014

Elemental Nature – Homeschool nature education in Marin County
Back To Earth – Wilderness Immersion and Leadership Development, 10-day backpacking trips and yearlong mentoring circles
Vilda – Youth homeschool programs: Dirt Time and Dirt Time Adventures
Vilda – Nature After School: weekly after school program for elementary schoolers
Vilda – Youth summer camps: Wild Farmers and Fairfax Tracks in Fairfax, CA
Vilda – Teen and Tween backpacking trips in Point Reyes and in the Sierra Nevada, since 2014
Vilda – Firekeepers: Camping trips in Marin for boys age 11-13, since 2017

Vilda – Elemental Quest: yearlong rite-of-passage program for boys
Stepping Stones Project: multi-year coming-of-age rites of passage programs for middle school boys
Wilderness Reflections: Terra Soma Ecopsycology and Wilderness Guide Apprenticeship: co-guiding wilderness fasts, 2017, 2016
Wilderness Reflections: Yoga Wilderness Quest, July 2017
Back To Earth: 10-day teen boys backpacking trip
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education – 10-day Wilderness Retreat; Sierra, 2017
Regenerative Eco-psycology and Applied Permaculture (REAP) at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, CA; March 2017
Earth Peoples United: Elders and Youth Council, July 2016

Ayurvedic Agroforestry at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA; Feb 2018, Feb 2017
Tao of Permaculture daylong at Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm in Petaluma, CA, September 2017
Ayurvedic Herbs in the Garden at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in Grass Valley, CA, June 2017