Alchemy of the Season Guides
Dr. Alexis Goth, MD CFCP, Hospitalist, Fellow Integrative Medicine, IFM Functional Medicine, Founder of Alchemy of the Season
This Margaree native is exploring from inside our cells all the way up to our relationships with what it means to be human in our experience of reality. Alexis supports our individual integration of mind/body/spirit by blending her holistic and Western medical training, with traditional wisdom teaching, movement, breath, presence, plants, and botanicals. She welcomes individuals to remember their own power, and ability for self-directed love, healing and adaptation when offered the right tools and support. She is trained in psilocybin and ketamine assisted therapy, and is committed to the decriminalization and safe accessible use of psychedelic assisted medicine to explore and integrate expanded states of consciousness for whole person and community healing.
Shelley Long, BA, DTATI - Art Therapist and Artist
Shelley’s creative practice is interwoven with nature, most often expressed through botanical painting and drawing, growing flowers and plants from seed, making floral arrangements and creating beauty with nature. As an Art therapist and member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association, Shelley encourages free expression through the art making process and gives others permission to explore their own creative urges and find their flow in a safe and contained space. She is trained in psilocybin assisted psychotherapy and has a special interest in utilizing the healing power of art to support and deepen the integration process.
Katie Hanczaryk, BA RCAT- Art Therapist and Co-founder of the Naropa Community Art Studio International and Wild Art Therapy Collective
Katie has been in the field of Transpersonal Art Therapy for over 13 years Working in the field of Transpersonal Psychotherapy in Canada, USA, and Internationally. Katie specializes in supporting individuals to connect to their own unbounded creativity and connect to their higher selves using expressive art to cultivate Self-Expression. Katie is a Registered Counselling Therapist, trained in the Focusing Technique, IFS, Emotional Freedom Technique, and offers individual and group psychotherapy. www.wildarttherapy.com
Mariah Pelley Smith is a multi-passionate human weaving all her practices
She is a trained Kundalini Yoga Teacher focusing on removing secret grief from the body, receiving prosperity and grounding your own creation. She uses mantra, movement, sound, mudra and meditation to get you into a deep trance of your own creation. She believes if we clear the clutter of what the world believes you should be, you will grow beyond your potential. She is also a self-trained Sound Therapist using Light Language & symbols that connect to different plant medicines and elements. The sounds create an exact polarity to what you need, replacing the old with the new vibration, in order to ground the nervous system and open to potent creativity.