As an elder (in many circles), I see myself as a mentor and leader. There are so many young people seeking to make sense of our current world conditions and trying to find a way to realize their dreams. I can offer experience, guidance and grounding from the perspective of Permaculture principles. Being a landowner with a small scale farm I offer opportunities for them to experience what they are dreaming of. It is retreat-style living with work and learning the focus.
Within my community I am a leader in thinking about future growth while preserving the values and integrity of why people have organically migrated to this area.

Reaching out to members of the community and helping them understand they are a stakeholder in the process of community development. Inspire people to be involved. This year the Comprehensive Plan for our Borough is being reviewed and as many people as possible need to participate, have their voice heard and feel empowered by the process. Having a background in architecture, community planning and Permaculture I have more understanding than the general citizen about how the process works and the importance of their participation. The value of the Regenesis Practitoner Series is that i will be so much more prepared to do this as I evolve my own thinking processes.

My community is being threatened by archaic thinking and old approaches to development and its identity is being threatened. The Indigenous People want their land back so they can steward it appropriately rather than dwindling the natural resources that have been their cultural heritage for thousands of years. My goal is to stand with them and create alliances as we consider the future welfare of all of the animals, fish, birds and humans etc involved in living in balance with nature. I have worked with them on past projects using Permaculture to improve food security. We are actually talking about upholding the integrity of the state (Alaska).
My goal is to assist them making the Villages thriving communities. Along with that, to network, educate, inspire the people in the Borough to be involved in the development of their neighborhoods.

To learn to be a regenerative thinker so I can help lead my community (nested circle of neighborhoods, city, borough) in the direction of having thriving communities as we consciously and intentionally orient toward living in harmony with the natural systems of the ecosystem.
Become a more effective leader.
Understand a new way of seeing how to be good stewards of our watersheds and their resources.

To develop communication skills in reaching out to stakeholders. To network in a broader field of nesting communities.

I have invested quite a lot of time and studies in "formal education". I have a Bachelor's of Architecture and a Masters of science in Planning. I am certified in Water Harvesting, Permaculture and teaching Permaculture.
I have been studying, practicing and teaching Kundalini Yoga for 45 years. I have designed and taught many different types of courses and held some retreats. This has given me a lot of experience in teaching and reaching out ot people.
I own a small business where I design landscapes from a Permaculture perspective; I design, install and maintain Interior Scapes and manage gardens for restaurants.
I have studied and practice several healing modalities.
When the design season slows down I channel my visual arts into being a fiber artist.
I have traveled to several countries studying culture, art, architecture and the natural environment.
All of these studies have contributed to who I am today. I approach of all of them as being healing modalities and they all inform each other.

Observing life is my biggest teacher. We live in a world of duality and the beautiful experiences I have in life motivate and inspire me. The negative experiences and things I observe also motivate me. Since early childhood being in nature nurtured me and She is my most influential teacher and anchor. By the age of three I was disgruntled with development (1955) and by the age of seven I knew that I could design environments that would make people feel wonderful, therefore, they would stop destroying the environment and journey through life from a place of love. My first teacher was internal reactions to external conditions.

As an early teenager I found the Bhagavad Gita and learned that there is much more going on than what meets the eye. Soon after I found and read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand which affirmed my attraction to architecture.

One day when I was feeling especially frustrated about the course of local development I was taking a walk around Portland in the pouring rain and came upon a compelling alternative theater and found myself in the matinee watching Meetings With Remarkable Men. This opened up an exploration of Gurdijeff and Sufi Dancing.
This led me to the book Seven Arrows by Hyemeyohsts Storm. I studied shamanism for the next seven years with one of his students, Alan Joel. We read and discussed many books including further investigation of Gurdijeff to Carlos Castaneda and many others.

When I first entered architecture school in Eugene, OR I simultaneously began serious studies in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan and reconstructed my lifestyle to have the yogic experience.

In architecture school I was drawn to Buckminster Fuller, Mies Van der Roe, Georgia O'Keefe, Japanese style architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander and others.

During this time I moved to Alaska to become a moderate consumer living a bush life and traveled to Eugene for two semesters of the year(s) to focus on architecture.

While I was raising children in rural Alaska I mainly focused on returning to and expanding on the universe of fiber arts which I had started as a young girl with my grandmother and mother. I was making my own school clothes by eight years old. The architectural designer in me found an outlet where I could express creativity while working part time and being a stay-at-home mom.

By this time I was consistently teaching yoga, Tellington Touch and Reiki.

During my parenting years I also studied healing arts learning to work on animals, practicing Radionics, Tellington Touch, cranio sacral therapy via Upledger and becoming a Reiki Master including energetic healing. I traveled to France several times to study Pranamonics with Shelley Donnely who ran a school of radionics. We focused our work on animals, expanded radionics and developed Pranamonics. (Shelley's intuitive genius guided by animal communications with her deceased dog. I assisted by administering the treatments that were being developed.) Shelley introduced me to authors Madame Blavatsky, Joel Goldstein and Geoffrey Hodson who wrote The Kingdom of the Gods. I traveled with Shelley in France, England and the US as we worked on compromised animals in safari parks, horse race stables and zoos administering Tellington Touch along with Pranamonics. We worked with a man in Paris who did Kirlean photography testing the efficacy of the treatment protocols we were developing to analyze how they affected ones electro-magnetic fields. We performed these tests on ourselves.

I have traveled internationally to several countries, trekking in the Himalayas, sailing in the Galapagos Islands, studying Eastern philosophy in India and many additional countries. All of these have opened my eyes, enriching my perspective on culture and design. I have been to the Santa Fe, NM area many times for extended periods and lived there for three years at one point while studying healing arts. One of my strongest influences since childhood is Native American culture, especially their spiritual relationship to the land. This was strongly nurtured and experienced while in Santa Fe. At that time I also lived in the ashram in Espanola. I have lived in several ashrams for extended periods of time, all of them Kundalini yoga based.

When two of my three children had left home I returned to school at the University of Arizona to earn a Master's of Science in Planning. At that time I also studied with the Watershed Management Group in Tucson, AZ to gain a Water Harvesting Design Certification. When I returned home to Alaska I studied with Rico Zook in Homer, AK to earn my Permaculture Design Certification. In 2023 I studied online with Jude Hobbs (of Oregon) to earn a certification in teaching Permaculture.

I have made numerous trips to New York wandering the streets, taking in the architecture, visiting museums and botanical gardens. New York is a profound balance to
living tucked into the Boreal forest in the arctic regions of Alaska. My daughter lives in NY so I go there yearly to visit, shop and get my cultural boost. I love that NY spends lots of money obtaining the highest quality installation and artists for their cultural and educational exhibits.

Those are the highlights of the richness of the journey I have been on. I look forward to expanding on every aspect of it by studying Regenesis. I am still driven by the vision of creating healing environments for people that will inspire everyone to live from their highest place of love in harmony with Nature.

We are all One. We come from the same source, are constructs of the same five elements and are undeniably interdependent. What we do to others we are doing to ourselves. The Divine is the architect of this play we call life and The Divine is the source of the pranic life force that animates all of us. We call to the ancestors but we are the ancestors, wearing many different cloaks as we travel the universes. This is You. It is very simple, only humanity has misunderstood, thereby, complicating a beautiful interconnected ecology. Each of us is a feather on the bird of paradise.

It is the responsibly of humanity to steward this journey so that every specie can proliferate. We can recreate the Garden of Eden. We must stop over consuming unnecessary items, creating garbage, polluting and fostering greed or insecurity. Each time we over-consume we have caused injury to others. We must acknowledge, respect, honor and serve all life forms. As more people live their life as a demonstration of this others will heal, understand and follow. We need leaders and teachers in elevating the consciousness of humanity regarding how societies function, how they set priorities and what they value.