Co-Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Tonia blends her life-long passion for embracing life through ancient traditions and wisdom with more than 20 years of experience as a scientist and leader in the environmental and engineering consulting sectors. Her formal education in geology and business is complemented by extensive training, certifications, and apprenticeships in holistic practices, including shamanic energy medicine, reiki, yoga, breathwork, meditation, coaching (i.e., integrated life, health, team and leadership), plant medicine, and the ceremonial arts. This diverse background enables Tonia to offer a fresh, heart-centered approach to life and leadership. With her enthusiasm, inner fire, and guidance from Spirit, she is dedicated to advancing Wild Minnow’s mission and actively contributing to the growth and evolution of humanity.

Rooted in Sacred Valley, Peru

Co-Founder + Chief Creative Officer

Jessica is dedicated to providing opportunities for energetic expansion through ceremony, ritual, creative expression, healing sound, and plant medicine to empower individuals to align with Source and their highest destiny.  A sanctioned wisdom-keeper of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition™️: Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts, Jessica creates educational and immersive experiences that nurture self-inquiry, transform intra- and inter-personal relationships,  and encourage harmonized, heart-centered leadership. Drawing upon more than twenty years of experience working with individuals and teams in the public sector, including eight years in public education, and integrating extensive training and apprenticeship in plant medicine, shamanic energy medicine, and sacred ceremonial arts, Jessica invigorates pathways of wholeness to empower and cultivate cultures of inspired creativity, dynamic growth and expansion for the Common Good.

Rooted in Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Executive Producer + Director of Paqarina Eco Lodge

Jose Tomas carries a deep love and respect for the Earth, along with a strong bond with the plant spirit of mama aya, cultivated over a decade of living and working with this sacred plant medicine in the Peruvian Amazon. He has organized immersive pilgrimages and experiences for groups ranging from one person to hundreds across the US, Canada, Europe, and South America. Committed to being a steward and guardian of the earth, Jose Tomas ensures that individuals that he works with on their journey feel supported, safe, and nurtured as they deepen their connection with the unseen world.

Rooted in Sacred Valley, Peru

Nicole is an accredited Creative Mindfulness for Kids practitioner, holistic teacher, and published author. She is patient, kind, caring and creative professional with 13 years of experience as a public school teacher in Germany. She believes deeply in the healing power of mindfulness, Love, poetry and creation. Nicole is especially passionate about helping sensitive souls embrace their gifts as a superpower in a world that is not used to welcoming all feelings. Her work is characterized as respectful, mindful, non-judgemental, playful and creative approach to help children and adults overcome self-doubts, fears and achieve their goals. Nicole is enthusiastic in helping children on their way to adulthood as well as to help adults to live authentically and to embrace their humanness. Her work also includes online courses, Co-Creative Conversations, written guidance for the spiritual journey, as well as in-person workshops and day-retreats in Ireland.

Rooted in County Longford, Ireland

Tamara is a seasoned practitioner with over 30 years of experience in bodywork and the healing arts. Tamara started her career in massage therapy and has studied many modalities over the years to be able to connect intentionally to our multidimensional natures, mind, body & spirit. Tamara not only practices these modalities but she has been called to teach others how to find these layers within themselves. She is passionate about guiding others on their journey to self-discovery and healing. Tamara’s approach is deeply rooted in whol-istic healing, breathwork, mindfulness, and shamanic techniques, offering a unique blend of ancient wisdom and modern practices. Her work is dedicated to helping individuals connect with their true selves, break free from limiting stories, and embrace their multidimensional nature. Through her teachings, Tamara creates a safe and supportive space for personal transformation, inviting others to explore the depths of their being and step into a life of greater awareness and purpose.

Rooted in Livingston, MT, USA

Dr. Lou Walters is a naturopathic doctor at The Source Wellness Center.  He graduated summa cum laude from the National University of Natural Medicine.  Before Dr. Lou was a doctor, he was a patient.  He suffered for years with depression, insomnia, pain, obesity, GI issues, and eczema.  When he moved beyond treating the symptoms he transformed his health and the quality of his life.  Becoming a naturopathic doctor was not a choice, but a calling to help others transform their health and lives. Dr. Lou’s focus and passion is helping people who want to go beyond just managing their symptoms and triggers to resolve the source of their health issues so they can feel their best and fully enjoy life.  He will work with you holistically to elevate and maintain your physical, nutritional/biochemical, mental-emotional, and epigenetic health.  Are you ready to transform your health and life and begin the journey? 

Rooted in Bozeman, MT, USA

Wendy Thompson Lang is a certified Senior Coach with This Naked Mind, where she has spent the past five years helping hundreds of people transform their relationships with alcohol. With a deep passion for guiding individuals towards addiction-free, fulfilling lives, Wendy excels at helping clients identify and replace habits and behaviors that stand in the way of happiness, creativity, and prosperity. She lives in Rhode Island, USA, with her husband and three incredible step-children, embracing every opportunity to make a positive impact on those around her.

Rooted in Centerville, MA, USA

Meredith McCowan is a Professional Astrologer practicing in St. Paul, MN, USA. Astrology found its way to her as an adult after a lifelong interest in science, metaphysics, astronomy and spirituality. Meredith practices Evolutionary Astrology which focuses on the idea that we are spiritual beings having a temporary physical human experience. Meredith is also a dream worker and certified in Reiki as well as crystal healing. Before discovering the ancient art of astrology, Meredith worked in the field of intellectual property for 17 years filing patent applications for computer technology, biotech/biopharma and cellular technology. She takes a scientific approach to her practice which includes pattern recognition, data accumulation, analysis and observation. In her free time, Meredith enjoys spending time with her musician husband and their many furry companions. She enjoys time in nature and discussing the mysteries of the universe for hours on end!

Rooted in Saint Paul, MN, USA

Veronika is an experienced warm hearted therapist and a shaman. For more than 20 years she has been supporting her clients on their paths of  personal and spiritual blossoming and transformation in a very unique way, combining modern psychotherapeutic tools with ancient holistic wisdom. Her gift is to bring light and peace into the aching places of the soul, turning challenges into opportunities and ends into new beginnings. Her joy is her family with two little children. Her passions are soul journeys, travelling the world learning from native wisdom-keepers and to be humbly led by Life in awe and gratitude.

Rooted in Prague, Czech Republic

With over 30 years of experience working with individuals and families, Lisa focuses on Grief Empowerment and Healing, helping people to bring balance, alignment and rebirth within the Universal Experience of Loss. Lisa guides people on their life journeys to find release from pain and despair, and rise to a new and nourishing landscape of Compassion and Grace through a personalized combination of Ontological Transformational Coaching, Conscious Breathwork, Guided Meditation, Sound Healing and Earth-Honoring Andean Shamanic Energy Medicine. Lisa is greatly honored to walk with you on your Grief Empowerment and Healing Journey. 

Rooted in Boston, MA, USA

Renée is a Certified NeuroSoma Massage Practitioner, Ayurveda Wellness Practitioner andSanctioned Teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. Renée’s practice is to guide clients in restoring balance to their mental, physical and spiritual bodies by sharing easy yet potent ways of living a more functional, healthier and happier life. While the NeuroSoma, Ayurvedic and Shamanic approaches to wellness are not directly related they are complementary in that they all treat the body as a living organism whole and divine with a great capacity for self-healing. Given the proper guidance and assistance it is possible to reset our bodies to a healthy state of balance. Through traversing the inner realms, we can go beyond our conditioned thoughts of who we are to see and reacquaint with our True Self. Renée helps seekers to recover from physical, emotional and mental blocks as well as guiding them in lifestyle and dietary choices that fulfill the needs of their individual body and constitution so they can awaken to re-membering their Truth as a conscious member of the collective of all Sentient living cosmic beings here on Earth. 

Rooted in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Daniel Lang is an occupational therapist who specializes in Somatic Experiencing (SE), a body-based approach that centers polyvagal theory, physiology, and instinct. He integrates SE with holistic health education and greatly enjoys helping clients tap into their vitality, their sense of aliveness and wonder. Trauma and chronic stress often result in feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or out of touch with oneself, and Daniel uses gentle and intuitive processes to release old patterns so new channels can form. He merges SE and holism with qigong and sensory integration so increased awareness can be accessed anywhere, at any time, from within the body. Creativity and imagination are central to his approach.

Rooted in Putney, VT, USA