ANIMARÁ: RENEWAL

Emotional Support & Logistics Anchor

Chelsea Ericksen is a certified life coach and energy worker specializing in shadow work, emotional integration, and compassionate self-awareness. She creates transformative, heart-centered spaces that guide guests into deeper honesty with themselves, helping them illuminate subconscious patterns and return to clarity, grounding, and inner strength.

On this retreat, Chelsea serves as both an emotional anchor and the logistical heartbeat that keeps the container flowing with ease. She supports guests throughout their journey, offering grounded presence, integration guidance, and one-on-one check-ins whenever deeper support is needed to make sure everyone has an individual experience within the container. Behind the scenes, Chelsea ensures that every part of the retreat runs smoothly: coordinating timing, holding structure, and tending to the little details that allow participants to fully drop in and feel held.

Blending intuitive teaching, guided self-inquiry, and sound-bath healing, Chelsea supports participants in integrating the parts of themselves they’ve long avoided or outgrown. Her approach is gentle, authentic, and rooted in the belief that true transformation happens when we courageously face our inner world and choose ourselves with love.

Curandera & Ceremony Holder

Linda is a respected curandera and medicine woman of this region, carrying the ancestral traditions of Temazcal, sacred fire, and earth-based healing. As a devoted Moon Dancer and keeper of the fire, her path is woven with prayer, ritual, and deep reverence for the elements, the land, and the feminine lineage she represents.

On this retreat, Linda guides both the Temazcal Sweat Lodge and our sacred evening ceremony, holding each with the depth, care, and protocol passed down through her teachers and ancestors. Her presence is grounding, powerful, and deeply intuitive. She carries the songs, the prayers, and the ceremonial structures that create a safe and transformative space for healing.

She will also be our steady spiritual anchor during the week and be present for integrations and teachings, ensuring that every guest feels guided, protected, and supported as they move through their inner work. Her guidance is both fierce and tender, inviting release, clarity, and a return to balance. Through her leadership, wisdom and teachings, guests experience the medicine of the land, the lineage, and the elements in an embodied, grounded, and deeply respectful way. Her path is one of deep reverence that we have the honor to walk alongside her for this retreat.

Founder of Animará • Holistic Health Coach, Movement & Performance Coach

Denali is a holistic health coach and movement & performance coach whose work centers on functional strength, embodied awareness, and the deep intelligence of the human body. Her approach to holistic health is rooted in the integration of mind, body, heart, and spirit, supporting the whole human through practices that ground, strengthen, and reconnect you to your own vitality.

Alongside her work in wellness and performance, Denali walks a parallel path rooted in ancestral wisdom and earth-based teachings. She carries a devotion to ritual, land connection, and the sacred practices with the belief that the elements, the earth, and community are powerful teachers.

As the creator of Animará, Denali serves as the bridge between these two worlds, bringing together the grounded structure of movement and holistic health with the softness, depth, and spirit of ancestral practice.

On this retreat, she holds the overarching vision and guides the daily rhythm of the container. She leads movement and holistic health practices and offers the steady attunement that helps guests feel safe, supported, and connected throughout their journey. Her presence is intentional and heart-led, inviting guests to return to their bodies, reconnect with their truth, and remember their own inner medicine.

Yoga, Breath & Sound

Adrian is a soundscapes artist, breath-work guide, and yoga teacher whose work lives at the intersection of vibration, movement, and emotional integration. With a diploma in musicotherapy and extensive training on his yoga path, he blends therapeutic understanding with embodied wisdom to create deeply grounding, transformative experiences.

Adrian weaves breath, alignment, somatic awareness, and intuitive flow into practices that calm the mind, open the body, and regulate the nervous system. His sessions are spacious, intentional, and deeply attuned, inviting participants to move with presence, listen inward, and reconnect with their natural rhythm.

On this retreat, Adrian leads sound journeys, yoga and meditation practices, and somatic grounding work. He also helps hold the energetic and emotional field of the container, offering a steady, compassionate presence throughout the retreat. His sound healings are known for their emotional depth, weaving ancestral instruments with therapeutic resonance to guide guests into states of profound inner stillness and release.

Gentle, grounded, and intuitively connected, Adrian creates a space where guests feel safe to soften, unravel, and return to themselves with clarity and ease.