Maria Christina Owl

Maria Christina Owl is an international transformational leader, healer and full-body channel. She has worked with over 15 different indigenous elders around the world, and is deeply rooted in her own indigenous identity. Maria credits her healing from post-traumatic stress to earth-based ritual work, which she launched into at age 19. She has held hundreds of people around the world through deep transformation through wilderness quests, grief rituals, women’s initiation, and many other forms of ritual and ceremony.

In 2016 Maria offered a Community Grief Ritual in Tel Aviv, Israel, and trained 12 facilitators in this powerful modality. She has led grief ritual at Joanna Macy’s facilitator training in The Work that Reconnects. She holds her own Master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology, and has taught Indigenous Wisdom at many institutions of higher learning, including the Ecopsychology Program at Naropa University. In 2012 Maria founded Sacred Future, an organization devoted to re-integrating human culture back into harmony with Nature and Cosmos through the development of intuitive and authentic leadership.

Duane Michael

Duane was introduced to earth based ritual over 25 years ago, when he was seeking a path of freedom from drug addiction. This opened him to a whole new world of indigenous medicine and healing. Upon his move to California he continued deeping into wilderness rites of passage, attending several mens initiation ceremonies, including T. Harv Ecker’s Enlightened Warrior Training.

Duane attended his own wilderness fast in 2012 with Maria Owl and Sacred Future, and this began an incredible partnership as collaborators in sacred leadership. In 2016 Duane and Maria had the great honor of traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel, to offer a Community Grief Ritual and train 12 facilitators in this modality.

The foundation of Duane’s current Earth Energy work comes from over eight years with Grand Master Le Tian of China, where he learned how to work with the fourth dimensional earth deities to cleanse and activate portals, grids, ley lines and vortexes.

Kayla Barnum

Kayla has been devoted to the study of Deep Nature Connection and Sensory Awareness for 13 years. She is passionate about cultivating the senses to awaken intuition grounded in each person's indigenous make-up. Through the scope of Tracking, Bird Language, Survival and Earth Living Skills, Kayla guides others through the journey of rooting in ancestral lineage to center in resilience. She loves working with individuals and families, and is committed to nature connection in the home for youth. She is a mother of two beautiful and very nature connected children.

Kayla has had the privilege of studying with many mentors with a broad spectrum of earth based practices. In 2009, she attended a 9 month nature awareness Immersion At the Regenerative Design Institute. She continues to study Bird Language and the Art of Mentoring with the 8 Shields institute. In 2013 She enrolled at Sacred Futures School in a Rights of Passage and Ancestral Wisdom course with Maria Owl, and went on to spend two years in apprenticeship with the school in Transformational Leadership. Most Recently she has studied with Tom Brown Jr, and Rick Berry in Lenape apache lineage of earth living skills. Kayla is weaving the wisdom of the past to find modern day presence, and heal future generations.

Jose Enciso

Jose is an engineer, poet, dancer and seeker of spirit and soul. He brings a gentle presence and deep respect for the interior journey as expressed through ritual and art. Jose is a skilled group facilitator who is committed to the spiritual and psychological growth of those around him. He trained under Francis Weller to lead men’s initiation groups doing deep soul work. Jose is devoted to the emergence of divine feminine wisdom, supporting women and men claiming their voice and power, and rediscovering the soul of masculinity. He is currently working on multiple projects including a book which seeks to encourage everyone to write their own poetry as a discovery of their own soul's truth. Jose’s day job is being a senior director of hardware engineering leading a bunch of engineers at a telecommunications equipment manufacturer. He received his masters in electrical engineering from Stanford back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.