Instructor Ariana Candell, LMFT, Somatic Ecotherapist and founder of The Earthbody Institute, an Earth-centering, community-creating organization that train professionals to help people to connect to the sacredness and wisdom of the Earth for healing and life-regeneration. She has been guiding individuals and groups to develop relationships with the natural world for the last 15 years and includes the poignancy of "Honoring our Pain for the World" from The Work that Reconnects in her classes and workshops. She believes that healing and responsive actions for the Earth come from being held in community with humans, trees, waters, creatures and all beings. Ariana is a California native who has loved redwood forests since she was a child.