GUEST TEACHERS

Zarah Kravitz

Zarah Kravitz is a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, having received her degree from The Ayurveda Institute in New Mexico, where she studied under the divine guidance of Dr. Vasant Lad.

Prior to her Ayurvedic studies, she became a Certified Holistic Health Counselor at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she focused on vegan cooking and lifestyle. She is also a Certified Hatha Dharma Yoga Teacher, trained by Sri Dharma Mittra, in New York City.

She has dedicated the past 14 years to working internationally with clients, individually and in group settings, leading cleanse programs, teaching yoga classes and workshops, hosting retreats, and facilitating Ayurvedic cooking classes and nutrition programs. She currently offers private Ayurvedic consultations and treatments to help clients find personalized, balanced, and achievable approaches to diet and lifestyle, pursuing ultimately the integrated health of the whole body, mind, and spirit.

Kat Gordon

Kat cultivates immersive experiences and retreats that reveal the sacredness of life and connect individuals to their highest truth and most aligned self in loving awareness. Her passion is activating the power of plant spirit guides and reconnecting all beings to nature to reconnect to self. From the outset, she chose the path of the heart, valuing social and environmental impact over profit. Kat's journey began with a mission to positively impact our global food and soil system, a journey that led to steeping in the wisdom of the Sacred Valley of Peru for nearly a decade, learning from the land, herbalists, sacred medicines and ancient wisdom holders. This journey began by working in regenerative agriculture, permaculture design, food justice and non-profit fundraising; however, Kat realized that to show up for the well-being of our communities and environment, we must first show up for ourselves and our hearts. She now dedicates her time to guiding resilient skills, building and sacred co-creation between Mother Nature and our divine nature to weave a new web of life and envision creative ways of being in the world. Kat spends much of her time weaving with the sacred, serving as a bridge between ancient wisdom holders and the modern world through ceremonies, ritual co-creations with nature, and plant diets/immersions with everyday plants and herbs.

Juliane Miklos aka "Jules"

Juliane Miklos, the spirit behind the Garden Jules, is a self-titled young child herbalist. She’s been studying herbalism hands on for the past 5 years, so in the herbal world she feels like a 5 year old. Born and raised in South Florida, she’s immersed and embedded in all things tropical. Her herbal journey began 5 years ago at a gathering called Medicina Tropical, under the guidance of Julia Onnie-Hay, Paula Diaz and Monique Moyer. It was there that she fully realized the power of plants and the amazing medicine that had been and is growing all around her in her subtropical home. She continued her studies through the Magic City Herbalism course taught by Julia Onnie-Hay in Miami. During this course, she attended the Florida Herbal Conference in 2018 and has since been in attendance at the past 4 conferences. After attending that conference, she began studying under Emily Ruff and Maggie O’Halloran at the Florida School of Holistic Studies in Orlando.

Tawna Renee

 Tawna Renee’s love for earthworks began when she was just a child. Her youth was spent picking apples, peaches, oranges and grapes. Both her mother and father kept gardens. Her mother had grown up on a farm in Maryland. Tawna’s love for the earth and its splendors pushed her to become an environmental advocate. Her studies in college revolved around wilderness conservation and water issues in the Monterey Bay area. 

She first experienced hands-on land management during her second year of college, when she volunteered for an organization called Return of the Natives. She began to carry that wisdom into personal endeavors like small landscaping projects, garden maintenance, and seed banking. 

Upon her return to Orange County, Tawna Renee was able to transform her small grassy backyard into a bustling permaculture project. From native plants to edible annuals, compost bins to rainwater catchment systems, her backyard became an urban Eden. Though she no longer owns that property, her skill set and passion for wholistic land management has only grown. 

Cathryn Henning

Cathryn “Cat” Henning is a farmer focused on farming systems that regenerate the soil.  She worked in nonprofit farming for 9 years connecting folx to the land and empowering volunteers with the skills and information to participate in a healthy food system.  Now she co-owns BeeWorthy Farms, a farm growing cut flowers and medicinal herbs for people and pollinators!  Cat has embraced becoming a business owner and is enjoying learning when to follow and when to lead with her business partners.  It truly is a beautiful process when we learn to let go of control and allow things to unfold with grace and ease.

Cat lives in San Diego with her 2 cats and 10-year partner.  She enjoys spending time outdoors hiking or at the beach and loves to cook!  Silence, qi gong, and prioritizing the week ahead are her current favorite tools to balance her energy, mood and spirit.