About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Havalyn is an initiated folk healer, animist, breathwork facilitator, somatic practitioner, womb keeper, ritualist, artist and cacao ceremonialist devoted to the restoration of right relationship between humans, Earth and the living web of life. Her work is guided by a deep listening to the wisdom of the body, the land and the ancient rhythms that shape all living systems.
Of Swedish, German, Polish and Northwestern European ancestry, Havalyn walks a path of remembering—reweaving the threads of earth-based wisdom, embodied healing and forgotten ancestral ways of knowing. For more than twenty-five years, she has immersed herself in the study of nature-based and indigenous wisdom traditions, alongside graduate-level studies in psychotherapy and somatic healing.
A lifelong dancer and artist with over thirty-five years of training devoted to movement and creative expression, her work bridges somatic awareness, ritual, the creative process, breath, voice and embodied presence. She weaves songs, dances and ceremonial spaces that invite people into deeper intimacy with themselves, each other and the living world.
Havalyn lives with her partner on a regenerative homestead in the mountains of Western North Carolina on traditional Cherokee lands. Living with, tending to and listening to the rhythms of nature deeply informs her practice and devotion to cyclical wisdom, earth stewardship and the restoration of healthy/right relationship.
Her work—rooted in what she calls The Spiral Path—supports the Great Healing and Great Re-membering of humanity: the return to embodied wholeness, ancestral remembrance and the awakening of our innate capacity to live in beauty, reciprocity and reverence with all our relations.