Carla Richmond, founder + director

Carla is a trauma-informed somatic practitioner, yoga and meditation facilitator, death doula, and mother whose work centers on helping people come into deeper relationship with themselves. With warmth, attunement, and respect for the uniqueness of each person’s experience, Carla creates spaces where people can slow down, listen inward, and welcome more of who they are. Her approach weaves together somatic embodiment, breathwork, parts work, timeline work, meditation, ritual, and intuitive practices to support greater clarity, connection, and aliveness.

Carla’s work is both gentle and profound. Rather than asking people to override, fix, or transcend what they are feeling, she invites curiosity toward the body and the inner landscape — creating room for what has been held, protected, forgotten, or waiting to be felt. Her path into this work grew from her own experiences with depression and addiction, which led her into years of study and practice with a wide range of teachers, healers, and contemplative traditions. Along the way, experiences of humility, grace, and connection transformed a deep sense of loneliness into greater joy, belonging, and trust in life. It is from this lived experience that Carla continues to share practices that have supported her own transformation. Her intention is not to offer a single way of healing, but to create accessible pathways through which people can reconnect with their bodies, their inner knowing, and a fuller experience of being alive.

Carla offers a weekly Somatic Kundalini class on Wednesdays at 10:30 at Light and Space in Echo Park.

Along with her partner, Ernest, Carla works with individuals and couples who want more than simply making their relationships work. Their work invites partners into greater honesty, intimacy, embodiment, play, and connection.

Carla holds a BA in Sociology and is trained and certified in the following healing modalities: Alchemy of Self Realization, Alchemy Somatics Healer Training, Advanced Alchemy Somatics Training, 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training, Kundalini Yoga & Meditation, Going with Grace Death Doula Training, Reiki level 2 attunement, Family Constellations, Tantra, Imago Conscious Communication, The Aquarian Child.

Contact: info@themoonsanctuary.com or carla.richmond@gmail.com

Ernest Uettwiller

Ernest is a coach, men's work facilitator, and somatic practitioner whose work explores leadership, relationships, purpose, identity, and the transitions that ask us to become more fully ourselves. After more than three decades as a filmmaker, creative executive, and company builder, his own journey through recovery, fatherhood, relationship, loss, and reinvention led him toward embodied leadership, men's work, somatic practice, and Family Constellations.

Today, Ernest works with individuals and groups to explore the patterns that shape how we lead, love, belong, and move through the world. His approach is grounded, relational, and experiential, creating space not for self-improvement as an end in itself, but for greater honesty, connection, freedom, and aliveness.

Ernest also works alongside Carla Richmond, bringing their complementary practices together through couples work, Family Constellations, workshops, retreats, and embodied experiences exploring intimacy, relationship, polarity, and deeper connection.

Contact: uettwiller@me.com

Jannica Klinborg

Certified Chi Nei Tsang practitioner, reiki healer , yoga instructor and colon hydrotherapist, Jannica provides integrative wellness solutions. Establishing balance and helping to promote healing from within, amid today’s busy, contemporary lifestyles, she has over a decade of experience in holistic healing.

Having worked, taught and trained around the globe, in Europe, Asia and now in the US, Jannica offers a broad, cultured and versatile approach to well-being. With a strong desire to heal and share knowledge, on creating equilibrium and invoking healthier living, she continues to enrich her education and qualifications.

Contact: chiflowhealing@gmail.com www.chiflowhealing.com

Madre Jaguar

Madre Jaguar is a Birth Doula, Seer, Mayan Time Keeper and Healing Practitioner of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico, their practice is rooted in their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of Mesoamerica. Madre has always walked between the worlds. Ever since they can remember, Madre Jaguar has experienced visions, prophetic dreams, visitations and a strong clear connection to their Spirit team.

Nature was their first teacher. Most of their childhood was spent observing and studying the cycles and seasons of Earth, connecting and experimenting with the energy of the elements, animals, herbs, plants, flowers, rocks, crystals and beings seen and unseen. As a child, their maternal grandmother taught Madre Jaguar ways to communicate with the plant kingdom; to sing to them and to listen to their songs. Their Abuela also taught them ways in which these plant allies could be used to treat all kinds of ailments from a tummy ache to a broken heart. 

As an adult, a passion for helping others and a strong desire to help propel positive change in the world, led Madre Jaguar on a path of self-discovery and exploration of different healing modalities including Curanderismo, Reiki and Energy Healing, Shamanic Practices, Folk Magic, Herbalism and Tarot. They have studied and continue to learn from indigenous healers and teachers in Mexico, Central and South America.

Madre Jaguar believes that Love is our super power. As human beings we are here to bless and be blessed by all of creation. Harmony and Joy are our birthright. Through their healing practice, readings, classes and projects Madre Jaguar’s goal is to help you connect with the inner power, wisdom and magic that lies within; all while helping you remember your Divine origin and unique soul purpose. 

Contact: hola@iammadre.com / Iammadre.com

Harley Frank

Harley has spent the last decade building expertise in somatic psychology. Harley holds a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, has multiple certifications in somatic psychology, and is trained as a teacher of yoga, mindfulness meditation, energy work, Reiki, and EFT tapping. Harley has learned from esteemed teachers including Stacy Matulis, Alyssa Nobriga, Tara Brach, and Jack Kornfield.

Before starting a healing practice, Harley worked as a startup executive in San Francisco. During Harley’s time in the tech world, Harley built and managed teams across Account Management, Customer Support, Business Operations, and Sales before spending three years as Head of Operations at a Series B company. Harley brings expertise in business strategy and human behavior to all of this work. Harley has supported leaders at established tech companies including Google and Postmates, early-stage and established CEOs, and high-performing women in corporate settings ranging from nonprofits to healthcare.

Contact: hello@harleyfrank.co / harleyfrank.co

Justin Waring Crane

Justin is a trauma informed somatic practitioner and occupational therapist. She has a heart for working with therapists, healers, and artists—intense people with rich inner worlds, big imaginations, and sensitive systems who want to step into the kind of work only they can do. Life might feel fine, and on paper nothing is “wrong”, but these high-functioners can sense a deeper level is out there. Justin creates a space that allows people to explore their emotional depths in a way that feels gentle yet directed. Through self-parenting, parts work, and embodiment practices clients develop more agility to move with emotions, often finding relief, clarity, and deeper joy. 

Thrust into her own healing journey through anxiety and co-dependence, Justin developed a hunger for understanding how sustainable healing happens, sending her through a maze of teachers and modalities. This brought and continues to bring a new understanding of service and a deeper experience of flow and intimacy in relationships. She loves walking with others on the path of creating lives that feel empowered and meaningful. 

Justin has experience and training in the following areas: neurodivergence, reflective parent coaching, spirituality, somatics, Intuitive Eating, interpersonal neurobiology, mindfulness based self compassion, interoceptive awareness, Safe and Sound Protocol, sensory processing, breathwork.

You can learn more about Justin’s work on her website: https://www.justinwaringcrane.com/

Book an initial free session here: https://calendly.com/therapy-with-justin/free-intro-session

Nicki Wong

Nicki Wong is a ceremonial plant medicine practitioner, sound healer, and integration guide with a decade of experience in mindfulness, plant medicines, and somatic healing. Her path has been shaped by her experiences of stillness and oneness through deep meditation and ceremonial plant medicine use for initiatory spiritual awakenings. Rooted in her Buddhist and Taoist bloodlines—her work draws from esoteric psychology, somatic wisdom, the dharma and her connection to nature and the elements. Nicki creates attuned spaces that support integration, remembrance, and connection with guides, ancestors and Source, inviting participants into communion with the subtle body and the intelligence of the heart. Please find out more about her work at www.aurarayhealing.com and to book a free 30 minute consultation.

Contact: wong.nicki@gmail.com

Xochitl Ivanov

Xochitl comes from a lineage of sobadores, traditional massage from México. Rooted in that, she is a, Certified Massage Therapist with extensive training in various modalities of massage, including Pregnancy Massage, Shiatsu, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Traeger, and Jade Stone. She pulls what is needed for each and every custom and intuitive massage experience for the, Divine Feminine. She welcomes and will hold space for all who identify with feminine energy, especially pregnant mamas, postpartum mamas, and mamas grieving their pregnancy and child.

Contact: massagebyxochitl@gmail.com

Jimmy Cabrera Jr, LCSW

Jimmy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Reiki Master, meditation guide, and founder of Holographic Psychotherapy — an integrative approach that explores the relationship between nervous system regulation, consciousness, authenticity, and personal transformation.

Drawing from psychotherapy, mindfulness, breath awareness, and lived experience, Jimmy creates spaces that are warm, reflective, emotionally honest, and deeply human. His work invites participants to reconnect with the parts of themselves they may have silenced, postponed, or avoided — and to discover how fear itself can become a doorway toward clarity, embodiment, and meaningful change.

Contact: jimmycabreratherapy.com / jimmy@collectivelovedream.com

Karla Cardoza

Karla is a holistic therapist specializing in empowering adult women towards a more connected sense of self and supporting them through various life cycles. Her approach to one’s awakening journey is drawn from a holistic perspective that honors the mind, body, heart and spirit by providing a sacred space for self-reflection, shedding limiting beliefs and thriving into their best version of themselves. 

Karla’s offerings include postpartum care utilizing the Mexican Traditional Medicine, closing of the hips as well as circle gatherings (‘encuentros’ in Spanish) with Cacao. These ‘encuentros’  are opportunities to celebrate love by intentionally connecting with the healing medicinal properties of Cacao and receiving an abundance of love, the one that we feel for ourselves.

Contact: karla@yerbabuenawellnessandcounseling.com

Dorian Von Neumann

Dorian is a certified breathwork facilitator, birth doula, and devoted mother, weaving together her diverse experiences to create a profound healing practice. With over 15 years of experience in transformational breathwork, she possesses a unique ability to hold space for individuals as they navigate their inner landscapes. Her work is rooted in a deep understanding of the transformative power of breath, allowing for the release of what no longer serves us. Dorian's journey has been shaped by her own struggles with traditional therapy, which led her to discover the life-altering benefits of breathwork. Once burdened by trauma, she now embodies the principles of letting go and renewal, having experienced firsthand the liberating effects of conscious breathing. This profound personal transformation ignited a passion within her—a calling to guide others through their own healing processes. In her practice, Dorian creates a safe and loving container, fostering an environment where all emotions and experiences are welcomed. She understands that true transformation requires vulnerability, and she skillfully navigates the complexities of the human experience, encouraging others to embrace their deepest feelings. Her approach is both nurturing and empowering, allowing individuals to explore the depths of their being while feeling completely supported. Breathwork, for Dorian, is more than just a technique; it’s a sacred practice and a natural medicine that reconnects us with our life force. She believes that the breath is a gateway to healing, offering a pathway to release long-held tensions and traumas. Through her guidance, clients find the tools to engage with their breath, facilitating deep emotional release and profound self-discovery. Dorian's commitment to her work is fueled by the belief that everyone deserves to experience the freedom that comes with letting go. As she holds space for transformation, she invites each person to embark on a journey toward healing, empowerment, and reconnection with their true selves. Her mission is to share the gift of breathwork with the world, illuminating the way for others to step into their own healing journeys with courage and grace.

Contact: Neu.breathwithdorian@gmail.com