Healing Waters 2024 Team
Kelly aka Kellyfish McRee
Aguahara Professional & Healing Waters Creatrix
Water has always been a consistent safe haven and place of reverence and healing, a source of freedom and joy for her. Having learned to swim before she could walk, moving in water is a natural experience that she loves to share with others through group aquatic explorations, aguahara sessions, sailing, and swimming confidence lessons. She brings a powerful mothering, healing presence to all of her work through experiences as a mother, teacher, and trauma navigator.
John Delaplaine
Inner Sanctum Facilities Manager
John has dedicated much of the last 20+ years to exploring intimate human connection & expanded states of human awareness & consciousness. Through those pursuits he has become very passionate about creating sacred spaces, containers, & experiences based on various energetic, shamanic, & somatic practices that make it possible for you to have deep, meaningful, & often life-changing connections with self, Source, & other. Over the years, water has become a primary container for much of his work.
Copperwoman
Singing Medicine & Sacred Space Holder
“Open your heart, Let your voice come through, Just the way you do it, Nothing to compare to.” Copperwoman has been gifted in this lifetime to “catch” songs for us—for people who want to sing together to raise the collective vibration in a prayerful way, and for those who might be afraid to sing. She offers a safe space in which to find your voice and express that which lives within and wants to come out vocally. Her most passion-filled moments are when she finds herself surrounded by a group of people singing with her. Having visited Peru seven times, Copperwoman carries an energy of pachamama and a certain depth of ancient connected earth culture. You can hear Copperwoman’s music on Spotify and other streaming platforms.
Sam David
Shamanic Sound Healer
Sam is not your typical sound healing musician, as he is more of a "sound shaman" with an unparalleled mastery of a large range of sounds with his voice and sacred instruments including the Didgeridoo, Native drums, Crystal and Tibetan bowls, and other unique instruments like the Crystal pyramids. Sam was born in Hawaii and has traveled the world sharing the activating and healing power of sound for over 25 years. His vocals and sounds are channeled based on the energy he senses intuitively from the people and the space around him, with an intention for healing. He integrates powerful healing techniques from many different cultures including Tuvin throat singing, Tibetan monks, Native American sounds, Celtic Hymns, Vocal overtones and much more including the sounds of Whales of the deep.
Eve Oak
Somatic Movement Facilitator
Eve Oak is a trauma-informed somatic guide/counselor. She specializes in the welcoming of joy and the releasing of grief, utilizing mindfulness pathways to access our potential by unblocking our vital life force. Trained in contact-dance, Hakomi and earth ritual studies, Eve focuses on the intersection between playful embodied states and bringing awareness, acceptance and courage to move, feel and HEAL!
Jote Lamar
Site Manager & Somatic Movement Facilitator
Growing up in the lakes of Michigan, water was Jote’s first dance partner. Jote is an embodied reveler who has been studying contact improvisation and somatics for the last 15 years. Their interest in contact improvisation lies in the undercurve of momentum- the places where we source the soft power of spirals. Jote is excited to share how their embodied relationship with water has influenced the way they share contact improvisation on land.
Candice Holdorf
Somatic Movement Facilitator
Candice is an award-winning writer, performer, filmmaker & coach with a focus on reclaiming erotic embodiment through exploring shame & shadow. She brings her passion for movement, play, & creative self-expression to her work as a group facilitator. She has trained in various healing modalities such as yoga, somatic sex education, & orgasmic meditation as well as studied Alexander Technique & theatrical movement while getting her BFA at NYU. She completed her Masters in Psychology in 2022.
Gabriel Diamond
Blindfolded Contact
Gabriel is a dancer, filmmaker, facilitator, and experience designer. He has a passion for exploring how blindfolds can be used as a tool for transcending biases, cravings, and aversions (blindfoldedcontact.com). His work as an artist explores the intersection of activism, street theater, shadow work, and embodiment (vulnerablerally.org). He is a filmmaker by trade, specializing in telling stories of social change leaders globally (outsidefilms.com).
Jazzy Pignatello
Coproducer and Support Coordinator
Jazzy is an artist and web designer specializing in helping small businesses to leverage technology in a strategic way. She values autonomy and authenticity and helps artists and healers find sustainable tech solutions so they can focus on sharing their gifts with the world!