hello@mossvillage.org
hello@mossvillage.org
Our aim is to foster the holistic wellbeing, regeneration, and thriving of individuals, communities, and ultimately our Earth. We serve an emergent vision of wholeness in all of these spheres, and focalize offerings in the areas of embodiment and somatics, relational spirituality, Earth-based ritual, expressive arts, and/or contemplative, mindfulness, and meditation traditions.
Moss Village is a sanctuary that supports personal and collective healing and growth. We are a small resident community in service to offering and hosting a diversity of experiential healing arts trainings, workshops, and residential retreats.
Jo Wunderly is the visionary director of Moss Village and Vision Walkers Collective. She is dedicated to developing human evolution ecosystems – safe and nurturing spaces – where practitioners and teachers can work with clients and students in meaningful ways. Jo believes if we each resolve our personal trauma and shadow, and grow a diverse set of skills, we become stewards of change in world in need of healing.
When Jo is not designing spaces, she leads retreats that weave together shadow inquiry, empathetic communication, Zen koan meditation, Continuum movement, vision questing, and permaculture stewardship.
Olga Sohmer, Ph.D. is a holistic counselor, integration guide, and experiential educator passionate about encouraging the depths of human potential. Drawing from a diverse background in transpersonal and depth psychology, mindful embodied counseling (Hakomi), transformative coaching, archetypal cosmology, and participatory inquiry, she brings a multidimensional approach to her facilitation, writing, and counseling.
Parallel with her private practice and scholarship, Olga lived at Moss Village during its inception and is honored to be a resident in support of retreat operations.
Kate Flore, MPH, OTR, CMP, is a somatic and bodywork practitioner, educator, and Gestalt facilitator. She began her profession researching population health disparities at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. An epigenetic perfect storm caused her to lose the function of her left arm and hand, shifting her focus toward the pursuit of modalities more holistic than what the medical model offered. As part of that process, she came to Esalen 12 years ago to study bodywork. While she was a resident, a blend of water therapy, the advanced Rolfing series, the Feldenkrais Method, CFR, and therapeutic touch began to re-integrate her limb and inform her clinical training. It was her potent experience with Esalen’s foundational Gestalt process and the “Open Seat” technique that led her to integrate relational process as an integral component of her bodywork education programs and clinical practice.
Kate is co-founder of TensegrityU, an education program teaching Ida Rolf’s 10-series recipe, subtle body anatomy, and weaving foundational practices of the Esalen Institute.
