Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction!
Rumi
Cynthia Eisho Morrow
Cynthia Eisho Morrow (she/her) has been guiding wilderness programs with EarthWays since 2006. She trained with the School of Lost Borders in wilderness rites of passage, and has been guiding with them since 2011. Cynthia is also a depth psychotherapist of 30 years and an ordained Buddhist priest of the Japanese Tendai lineage. Through inner psychological work, contemplative practices, and earth-based ceremony, she is dedicated to the individual and collective awakening of our innately interconnected world: our inner nature (body, mind, heart, spirit) and outer nature (humans, other sentient beings, and the earth). As a bi-racial woman—half-Japanese and half-white, she is passionate about supporting people of diverse backgrounds, bloodlines, and lifestyles to discover how their unique gifts are exactly what’s needed at this time to co-create a life-sustaining world.
Cynthia can be reached at:
(415) 221-6373
cynthia@earthwaysllc.com
Her web address is www.natureofsoul.com
O. Andrew Schreiber
O (he/him) is dedicated to reconnecting people with nature. He brings a reverence for Mother Earth, and all beings to his rites of passage work. As a lifelong percussionist, O uses rhythm and song to nurture community through ritual and ceremony. He is deeply grateful to have been mentored by indigenous elders. This includes a 20 year mentorship with Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabeg Mashkikikwe (Ojibwe herbal medicine woman), and 4 years with Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé. O is committed to educating himself and doing the inner work required to understand his White male conditioning. He strives to work toward a world of racial, social and environmental justice for all. He is the proud father of two amazing daughters and is blessed to be a grandfather with two precious granddaughters. O has trained with the School of Lost Borders and is a certified Wilderness First Responder.
Roy Remer
Roy (he/him) began guiding with Earthways in 2008 after training with the School of Lost Borders. After joining Zen Hospice Project in 1997 as a volunteer caregiver and working in various roles, he now serves as the non-profit’s Executive Director. Roy is the lead instructor of Mindful Caregiving Education for ZHP. He is a certified instructor of Compassion Cultivation Training and a dedicated practitioner of Soto Zen Buddhism, receiving his lay ordination at the San Francisco Zen Center in 2018. Although he is a longtime hiker and climber, Roy spends most of his time in the wild these days sitting quietly. He sees the natural landscape as a place where the absolute beauty of our own impermanence is mirrored back to us; where we learn to cherish the passages of life.
Roy can be reached at:
roy@earthwaysllc.com
Sahara Chaldean
Sahara
She is committed to waking up through the practices of relational presence, storytelling and earth based ceremony. She is passionate about co-creating and facilitating circles, councils and day long programs that combine awareness of the body, psyche, mind and spirit in relationship with the earth. She has practiced mindfulness meditation and Tai Chi for over 20 years. Sahara is one of the first to become a Certified California Naturalist. Sahara has won awards for teaching excellence in Environmental Education. She is also a Certified Speaking Circles Facilitator.
Sahara can be contacted at
sahara@earthwaysllc.com
Sara Harris
Sara Harris, co-founder of EarthWays LLC, has retired. Since it is hard to tear herself away, she will be guest guiding an occasional DayWalk for EarthWays. She remains on the board of Veteran Rites and very involved in all of her other projects and learnings. She counts her 21 years with EarthWays as an amazing and deeply transformative chapter of her life. To bear witness to brave people going out on the land with open hearts over and over again, bringing back their gifts and stories, has been a gift beyond measure. And to her fellow EW guides, all she can say is thank you, thank you, thank you.
Sara can be reached at:
sara@earthwaysllc.com
Scott Eberle
Scott (he/him) is a hospice physician, educator and writer who has worked as a wilderness guide at the School of Lost Borders since 2003. In early 2020 he started a new private practice, offering rites of passage counseling and ecotherapy. Soon after starting this counseling practice, he also joined EarthWays, so he could do more wilderness work in his home area, Sonoma County.
His first book, The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live, explored how the symbolic death-and-rebirth dimension of a rites of passage ceremony is informed by his considerable experience sitting with people who are physically dying. He is nearing completion of a second book, The Soul’s Red Thread, which explores this same interest, while also seeking to understand why and how we humans tell stories.
For more details about his counseling practice and writings visit his website: www.scotteberle.net
Vanessa Eyen
Vanessa (she/her) is passionate about sharing deep and meaningful experiences in the healing beauty of wild nature. Following her heart she has been led to co-create and guide rites of passage, educational, and adventure wilderness programs for 25 years. She also gives back to the community as a licensed psychotherapist currently as the founder and supervisor of two local school based counseling programs and the Center for Nature Based Therapy. She is most excited about her new endeavor training as a sacred sexuality and feminine power coach to support women to create their most true and empowered lives. She loves yoga, meditation, traveling, dancing, and drumming. The greatest joy and spiritual teacher in her life is the journey of motherhood with her son Sage.
Logan Falley
Logan (he/him) is passionate about holding space and witnessing others in their journey, inviting playfulness and curiosity to council. Nature has consistently served as his container for growth in unique and special ways, and he is excited to invite others into the experience as well.
Since 2014, he has been in the world of nature connection and rights of passage work when he did his first vision fast with the School of Lost borders. He also has deep experience in education. Through teaching high school and leading backpacking trips in the backcountry, nature has served as a playground, teacher, and mirror.
Logan is excited to step into the role of guide for EarthWays and bring his enthusiasm and sincere joy to programs. He too is on a journey and is looking forward to being a part of yours.
Kiea
Kiea feels honored to join EarthWays to create therapeutic space for participants to reconnect to themselves through deep nature connection. She has personally experienced and witnessed many others in the transformative power of spending intentional, solo time outdoors, returning to share their story in a confidential council space, and feeling a renewed sense of joy, clarity and belonging.
Kiea is grateful for decades of training and life experiences that have woven together to create the foundational basket in which she guides… with deep listening skills, an open heart, compassion and positive regard for others. She is a mother of two incredible daughters, has a background as a field biologist, naturalist mentor, educator, as well as certification as a somatic ecopsychology and wilderness quest guide (Wilderness Reflections), mindfulness outdoor guide (Kripalu Institute) and is currently pursuing a Masters in Mental Health Counseling at Naropa University, in their Mindfulness-based Transpersonal Psychology program.
Reet Rannik Carías
Reet (pronounced Rhett) Rannik Carías (she/they) is a Latinx Ecopsychologist, wilderness guide, whittler, song carrier, yoga teacher, creative writer, and psychotherapist dedicated to fostering reciprocal healing between humans and nature. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Reet has worked as a wilderness therapy guide, supporting at-risk youth navigating emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges in the high deserts of Arizona.
Being a multicultural, bilingual, Latinx, and a gender-fluid person, Reet is an advocate for diversity and inclusion within the field. They believe that creating inclusive spaces enriches the therapeutic process by inviting a wider range of perspectives, experiences, and cultural wisdom into the healing journey. She views diversity as essential to understanding the intricate relationships between culture, identity, and the natural world, and she actively works to make the outdoors accessible to all, regardless of race, gender identity, or socioeconomic background.
From 2021 – 2023 Reet apprenticed as a wilderness rites of passage guide with Tina Ashrae Fields and Shea Hummingbear Armstrong for Naropa University and more recently with Cynthia Eisho Morrow at Earthways. With a background in Ecopsychology from Naropa University and currently studying Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Reet blends wilderness therapy, mindfulness practices, gestalt, and council to facilitate transformative experiences in nature. Their approach, rooted in a deep relationship with the earth, emphasizes gratitude, presence, and the development of meaningful connections to cultivate personal growth, community and environmental stewardship.