Our Instructors
Our team is the beating heart of everything we offer. Each instructor brings a combination of direct relationship with the wild, deep domain expertise, outside-the-box creativity, and practical facilitation experience. But perhaps even more importantly, they all still look at the world in wide-eyed wonder.
Carlin Gettliffe
Rites of Passage • Animal Tracking • Fire • Survival Skills
Carlin's childhood experiences in the tops of apple trees and sneaking around in the dark for hours led to a deep and lasting trust in the power of the wild to invite our truest selves forward. As a synthesizer and edge-walker he has dabbled in many worlds, spending time as a startup founder, bartender, physics researcher, wilderness skills instructor, rite of passage facilitator, somatic parts-work practitioner, and hitchhiking vagabond. He weaves multiple complementary elements into his offerings, drawing on somatic trauma therapy, poetry and myth, and archetypal embodiment. Carlin's formal training includes relational somatic trauma therapy, Rolfing Structural Integration, and a nine-month nature instructor training at the Wilderness Awareness School. He loves to cook, especially ramen (from scratch), shakshuka, and buckwheat crust pies.​
Maria Rosa Galter
Rites of Passage • Nature-Connected Coaching • Ceremony • Dream-Work
Maria is a certified Nature-Connected Coach, Transformational Wilderness Guide, and Ceremony and Rites of Passage facilitator. She supports individuals through life’s turning points as a neutral witness who listens deeply, asks important questions, and mirrors your lived experience. Her experience of continued healing through connection with the animate world has helped her identify and transform internalized messages that say: "you are too much", "you are not enough", "you are not worthy", "you are alone." Left unexamined, these messages can stop us on our tracks and keep us paralyzed, out of touch with our most treasured abiding Self and disconnected from the sacred source within us and in the animate world around us. Her own path has led her to discover the treasures hidden within the shadows of transformational change, and though change can be painful, full of fear of the unknown and the ache of loss and grief, she has learned to trust the process of transformation itself because it is reflected in the natural world. Maria specializes in leading women’s rites of passage along the Camino de Santiago in Spain.
John Wolfstone
Rites of Passage & Initiation • Mythopoetics • Wilderness Ritual
John is devoted to the remembrance of soul, culture, and Earth. For over two decades, he has been guiding transformative processes that weave myth, movement, and ceremony into immersive rites of passage rooted in ancestral wisdom and animist reverence.  His work is deeply informed by study and mentorship within Earth-based lineages, wilderness initiation, and regenerative community practices. John is the co-director of the award-winning documentary The Village of Lovers, and co-founder of the School of Mythopoetics—a training ground for soul initiation, cultural repair, and ceremonial leadership. Through storytelling, ritual design, and grief tending, John guide individuals and communities across thresholds of transformation. His facilitation invites a return to deep belonging—with land, lineage, and purpose—and offers maps for becoming trustworthy humans in this time of profound cultural transition.
Sarah D’Antoni (Naiya)
Ancestral Midwife • Culture Weaver • Systemic Constellations
Sarah (she/they) is devoted to the remembrance of lineage, place, and the living thread that runs between them. She is the daughter of Sicilian and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors, and the founder of Ancestral Weavings, an organization devoted to reconnecting individuals, couples, and communities with ancestral roots, cultural memory, and relationship to place. Through systemic constellation work, ceremony, and earth-based practice, she guides people toward what so many quietly long for — belonging and freedom. She is a student of Mayan grief traditions and initiated in the Tzʼutujil lineages of Cacao and Tobacco, and has received ceremonial initiations with the Wixárika and Pygme communities. She is a Moondancer in the lineage of Abuela Tonalmitl. Her formal training includes Advanced Systemic Constellations, AWE Foundation’s Psychedelic Therapy Training, Sacred Passage Death Doula, and a Master of Science in Intercultural Psychology. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychedelic Studies focused on ancestral communal dreamwork and ritual.
Amy Sass
Theatre • Puppets • Fierce Play
Theater director, visual artist, performer, puppeteer, playwright, coach, lover of legend and lore… Amy Sass is a feast of creative action. A devotee of the study and practice of Ensemble, she spent the last 30 years in deep collaboration with teams and communities birthing physical theater, puppet spectacle, visual art and immersive experiences in the wild and urban spaces surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. Now finding her heart-home in the Rocky Mountains, her artistic path converges with her animist way of life, courting the mountain spirits, creating mythic art and wild ritual. Amy is the visionary behind FIERCE PLAY, a dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to creative practice. She is a provocateur at heart, inciting the spark and flow of artistic energy wherever she goes. Her great passion is to invite humans to enter the unknown and surprise themselves.