Meet the Community Collaborators

  • Sarah Naomi Jones

    FOUNDER/FACILITATOR

    Sarah Naomi (they/she/we/us/ours) is a dedicated mother, creative, educator, community organizer, and entrepreneur. Passionate about fostering connection, Sarah Naomi believes in the power of coming together to combat loneliness and isolation. With a focus on resilience, they facilitate song circles, sound healing sessions, and trauma-informed yoga support groups. Sarah Naomi is also a co-founder and an organizer with Amaranth, a collective supporting BIPOC femmes in capacity building and accessing homeownership, and co-owner of WOMB (Weavers of MoonBeams), a BIPOC, queer, single mother-owned intentional living community in Denver.

  • Jamie Jones

    ADVISOR/FACILITATOR

    Jamie Jones has been practicing yoga for 15 years, and in 2015, she completed her 200-hour teacher training with Satya Yoga. Since then, she has been dedicated to sharing the transformative benefits of movement and wellness with others, focusing especially on making yoga accessible to people of all ages. With a particular passion for teaching individuals 55 and older, Jamie empowers seniors to feel strong, vibrant, and connected in their bodies as they age. She is committed to creating supportive spaces where seniors can nurture both physical strength and meaningful relationships with their peers. Outside of yoga, Jamie enjoys gardening, hiking, crafting, and dancing around the house.

  • Ash Ferguson

    ADVISOR/FACILITATOR

    Ash is a queer, non-binary, mystic, spiritual coach, friend and community leader. A lover of Black people, especially Black women, Ash is committed to creating spaces for Black Femmes to heal and thrive against all odds. They are a pleasure doula, journeying with people in creating and birthing a life filled with pleasure. They also hold space for beloveds healing from trauma using Acudetox and sacred touch. Their primary work is centered on decolonizing love and spirituality as a tool for collective liberation.  Learn more about their work at www.lightfromash.com

  • LaRae Goldsmith

    ADVISOR/FACILITATOR

    As a queer being of mixed Mexican//Indigenous and european lineages, LaRae seeks to honor what it means to live authentically beyond binaries and build liberatory relationships across various communities. Their focus is on rematriating land, medicine, and community leadership with a focus on intergenerational, multi-cultural and beyond-human collaborations rooted in care for all beings.

    They have ten years of experience working with diverse communities of young people in various school, non-profit, and queer family configurations. They are a co-owner of WOMB (Weavers of Moon Beams community house) co-founder of Amaranth Collective, and co-facilitator of Fighting For Each Other.

    You can find their writing at  https://substack.com/@laraerae

  • Lakshmi Nair

    COLLABORATING FACILITATOR

    Lakshmi Nair is a yoga educator, engaged in reclaiming the pre-patriarchal, non-hierarchical indigenous resilience and resistance of her ancestral tradition of yoga and creating spaces for herself and others to authentically engage with the practices of yoga for self and collective healing and liberation. Learn more about her work at satyayogacooperative.com

  • Courtney Besser

    COLLABORATING FACILITATOR

    Courtney is an intuitive, creative, a misfit, and a seeker. Her business Intune Wellness in Denver offers 1:1 sessions of energetic balancing and attunement using Reiki, sound healing, intuitive readings, and mentorship. Her mission is to empower her clients and community to connect to their own intuition through various modalities. Reawakening them to thrive, create a path to empowerment, and demonstrate that vitality in their world and the collective. Learn more about her work at https://intunewellnesscb.com/

  • Ananas Mustafa

    COLLABORATING ARTIST

    Ananas Mustafa (she/her), is an educator, facilitator, and writer. She has a background in youth leadership development, grassroots grantmaking, and gender justice, and has worked with young people throughout the United States, Palestine, South Africa, and Northern Ireland. Also a community herbalist, she spends her summers deepening her wildcrafting practice in the Rocky Mountains. Ananas is interested in how land-stewardship and storytelling play an integral role in healing justice and liberatory movements.

  • Michelle Castor

    COLLABORATING FACILITATOR

    Michelle Castor (she/they) is a mixed latinx queer femme of color and a portal doula. They work with folks navigating the portal-like experiences of grief & loss, fertility/TTC, and the postpartum. Michelle’s offerings include 1:1 and group space holding, somatic care, intuitive coaching, and herbal remedios to help hold a gentle and steady chrysalis for those going through their “goo eras.” Learn more about their work at aguasangrehealing.com, and find her on IG @aguasangrehealing

  • Naomi Ochoa

    COLLABORATING FACILITATOR

    Naomi Ochoa (she, her, ella) of Wise Moon Wellness is dedicated to holding space for tender, loving respite. Through body/mind/spirit work, breath, movement, and elements of Curanderismo, she invites our bodies to remember how Sacred we are. She is a loving witness to the graceful unfoldings and rebuildings of beautiful humans, ever reaching toward homeostasis. With almost 2 decades of experience in the Healing Arts, and numerous certifications in Massage, BodyIntuitive, Breathwork, Circle Keeping, Plant Medicine Facilitation, and Somatic Integration, she continues to let her heart, passion, and Ancestors guide her to be of service to the community and Highest Good. Learn more about her work at www.wisemoonwellness.com