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About us
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About our Philosophy
Connection is key. The mind has a tendency to split things apart. Divide and conquer, as they say. This drive towards separation is not only visible in our thought patterns, but also in our culture. Every topic is approached as a stand alone unit, without deeply considering how it relates and connects with everything else. Awakened Earth School grew out of a desire to once again bring connection back to the various modalities that promote wellness and heal our mind, body, and earth.
About our school
By integrating yoga, meditation, chinese medicine, permaculture, herbalism, and more, Awakened Earth School provides a common thread across these modalities, allowing practitioners to begin a journey by picking up a thread, and following it to the center, creating a unique path along the way, weaving and connection a new story of being in the world and in ones self.Â
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Our niches
Yoga
Our teachers are experienced and empowered community leaders, who engage in the world by living their yoga practice. We offer Certifications and Continuing Education in self-paced, live virtual or a blend of both.
Meditation
There is no one right way to meditate. Our platform brings together diverse practitioners and different styles, which provides ample opportunity for each individual to discover a path to peace and stillness.
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Permaculture
Our Permaculture teachers come from diverse climates backgrounds, and bring decades of design experience. Courses for both beginners and advanced gardeners offer deeper exploration of Earth Care in practice.
Healing
Explore Chinese Medicine, Herbalism, and other healing and wellness modalities offered by expert practitioners with many years experience teaching and living the art of a well lifestyle.
Shad Quidsi
Shad has 15 years experience in organic and commercial gardening and farming. He is certified in Permaculture Design and has over 6 years experience in holistic site development and homesteading. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University with a double major in Applied Mathematics and Psychology, Shad and his now-wife, Colleen, moved to Central America with only vague goals of farming at some point in the near future. In January of 2010, Shad and Colleen moved onto a very small piece of land located in the traditional Mayan village of Tzununa, which is on the north shore of Lake Atitlán, in Guatemala. Shad has since developed the land into a small but profitable farming enterprise focused on salad and cooking greens, goat dairy products, and agrotourism. Recently, Shad has been hired as an Agriculture Consultant for a development project being carried out in the Tzununa Valley. He oversees four community gardens and is implementing two sustainable locally-run businesses based on the production and local marketing of clean organic food. Aside from all of this, Shad is an enthusiastic teacher who truly believes in the work he is doing, and can be found dancing in his garden in Tzununa.
Julia Forrest
Julia is an international yoga teacher, birth doula, women’s health advocate, and closet artist who is passionate about health, environmentalism and empowered birth. She is co-creator of the Sacred Birth Yoga & Doula Training, is founding director of Awakened Spirit Yoga and co-founder of the Wellkind Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on community empowerment and wellbeing through the lens of permaculture. She also created the Sacred Earth Yoga Training, the first yoga teacher training program that combines yoga, mindfulness, permaculture and leadership to transform lives and communities.
During the past 20 years, Julia has been practicing and studying with extraordinary teachers in North America and in India and deepened her practice in several lineages such as classical hatha yoga, mindfulness meditation, vinyasa, Scaravelli inspired, yoga therapy and kundalini. A solo journey to Spain sparked a 10 year pilgrimage to Rishikesh India, where she taught and studied yoga and meditation in ashrams and monasteries.
our staff
Kathrin Brunner
nutritionist + yoga facilitator
Kathrin Brunner is a Toronto-based nutritionist, health educator and movement teacher. She has a passion for holistic living and loves to share that in the clinic, the classroom and the studio.
Chris Kummer
naturopath + anatomy facilitator
Chris Kummer has been teaching yoga and movement anatomy for two decades. As a naturopath with a special interest in fascia-based functional posture and movement, he developed the AnatomyShow courses to help people around the world discover more sustainable movement and engagement patterns.
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Shad Qudsi
Shad Qudsi is a passionate Permaculture Teacher and Designer with over 15 years of experience. Shad is the founder of Atitlan Organics, which started a two decade long journey with a passion in growing food, planting trees, and promoting diversity. Through a deep connection with the land, he eventually found his way to the ‘inner landscape’, a place that permaculturists often dare not go.
Scott Davis
Chinese Medicine + yoga facilitator
Scott Davis has been sharing his passion for health as a doctor of Integrative Medicine, movement therapist, yoga teacher and health educator for the past two decades. He integrates therapeutic traditions, contemporary approaches to health and the latest research in biomechanics and human movement in ways that are clear, accessible and results-based.
Holy Mech
200 hr yoga teacher facilitator
Holly fell in love with yoga because of the sense of connection she felt every time she came to her mat.
She began teaching yoga in Chicago in 2011. Her desire to deepen her teaching and personal practice led her to continue her yoga education in California, Bali, Australia and Guatemala.
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