Meet Your
Elemental Salt Teachers
Compassionate, Alive, Insanely Skilled & Salty AF
Elemental Salt teachers carry the medicine of the Caves and Waves, having committed themselves to the juicy and challenging work of sustained personal and collective transformation. Hailing from diverse ways and walks of life, they embody what it means to source wisdom from within in order to show up for our collective responsibility to dream into being a more enlivened, sustainable, and just-for-all future.
HOOP WOMEN & SALT BEARERS
Angie Hensley, PhD, LMFT
Angie is an agent of transformation with over 25 years of experience as a teacher, counselor, circle keeper, and community builder. Having taught in environments that span from universities to prisons, her approach is all heart, authentic presence, and unapologetic joy. She is passionate about educational spaces that facilitate our becoming ensouled and believes in the power of the classroom as a catalyst for collective change-making. Supporting the students she works with in practicing embodiment, mindfulness, self-care, and compassion, Angie naturally works with aliveness – the felt sense and body wisdom as a powerful way to challenge unconscious patriarchal inculturation within and collectively.
Christina Burke, BA
A woman who thrives creating connection to the environment, our collective livelihood, health and well-being. Christina is a community and resource development lead, helping folks realize their capacities to contribute. As a natural asset-mapper, she has worked in community development throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa over two decades, engaging communities to re-define themselves and their surroundings through sustainable development, regenerative practices and holistic education. She integrates a passion for community building, social change, and weaving systems of support that lead to healthy, sustainable ecosystems.
Christina obtained two bachelor degrees from the University of California, San Diego in Urban Studies and Planning and Sociology; both with honors, participated in several certificate training programs through NeighborWorks America Training Institute for civic engagement, community organizing, and community leadership. As a development professional, she trained at the Lilly School of Philanthropy. Christina forwards a fundraising and education model, known as cultivating "resource rich" individuals and communities, that topples the scarcity mindset society faces.
Teri Hedman, LCSW
Teri emphasizes a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to healing and recovery. Weaving together her focused studies and over a decade of experience in sexual trauma, addiction recovery, regenerative farming, herbalism and art, she brings an outside-of-the-box approach grounded in somatic practices, nervous system regulation and eco-psychology. She is deeply committed to re-membering feminine ways of knowing and being.
Eden Trenor, BA
Eden is a Seattle-born poet and educator who has worked in a woman-owned bicycle shop in Cuba, started a farmer’s market in her hometown, facilitated circles in San Quentin prison, studied permaculture, and traveled to over a dozen countries. Some say she resembles a redwood tree. She has trained in ceremonial traditions and practices Reiki, acupressure, yoga, flower essences and western herbalism as well as transformational facilitation, systems thinking, alternative economics, learning design, and community organizing. Weaving through her varied life experiences is a deep desire to learn and cross-pollinate the regenerative cultural practices that birth creative, peaceful, interdependent people and communities. Her heart is stirred by dance, sacred song, and sensory exploration of the natural world. Her soul’s calling is to steward and share the visceral experience of magic, purpose, and belonging that come from being in rooted relationship with All of Life.