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.
SALT BEARERS
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.
Angie Hensley, PhD, LMFT
A woman in the world led by spirit, brave enough to listen and with the trust to walk into the unknown, Kaysee founded and owns Alchemy Hot Yoga (YTT 500), is a Reiki Master, practices ceremonial healing, and creates an intentional life with her son and partner. After experiencing great loss and uncertainty, Kaysee devoted herself to providing a healing center for her community. Releasing her fears and self-limiting beliefs, she created a life of her own design, one that nourishes her mind, body, and spirit with a profound sense of belonging and service to others.
Kaysee Collins
A Kanaka Maoli Practitioner, Lorilani lives in the moku of Ko'olau on Kaua'i. Right relationship with 'āina (land), kai (ocean), and wai (waterways) is an intimate relationship that she weaves into her every doing. In the Western context, Lorilani's work is in community organizing, policy and bill tracking around 'āina justice, food sovereignty, and Hawaiian cultural education. A vessel to four keiki (children) and a soul partner of another 'āina Warrior, Kapule, together they grow the ancient ancestor, Hāloa also known as Kalo or Taro. Lorilani is a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and lifelong educator, doula and sacred birth practitioner, artist and a lifelong learner of lā'au lapa'au, Hawaiian medicine. Her involvement with Shakti Rising is an investment into the future of her children, Kauai, the nation, and the world. It is an investment for all keiki (children). Pa'akai (salt) is always in her 'eke (bag).
Lorilani Keohokalole
Caroline is a visionary woman with an immense heart for humanity and an insatiable curiosity for exploring the breadth and depth of the human experience. She walks the path of the seeker, visual artist and poet, teacher and guide, and is a catalyst for connection and transformation. Listening to her soul's call to serve women and girls seeking healing, change, liberation, and empowered leadership within their families and communities, Caroline came to Shakti Rising in 2019 as a student and has become one of our Salt Bearers. She carries within her medicine basket the tools of Intentional Creativity® and many years of walking with people on their path of recovery as a former nurse clinician in the mental health and substance use field.
Caroline Miskenack
Kai is a regenerative systems thinker whose ideas find expression through their work as a teacher, facilitator, and community builder with Shakti Feminine University, in birthkeeping as a certified doula, in the co-founding of the Kila Dada Initiative whose focus is female reproductive health education, with seed sovereignty as a member of the Route To Food Alliance, and through their solution-oriented activism. Kai also works their craft .daki. as an adornment medicine alchemist and as wordsmith in their first published poetic work .n'kato.
Kai Njeri
Eden Trenor
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.