Hi, I’m Alexandra.

Here to be in the mystery of being with you.

I am a doctoral student in Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, with research concentrations in dream studies, relationships, shamanism, and ecopsychology. My work explores how dreams, expanded states, intimacy, and our relationship with the animate world catalyze human transformation.

Along my journey, I have had the honor of studying with master teachers of meditation, yoga, dreamwork, tarot, Ayurveda, and sacred ritual practice. I bridge my esoteric studies with a graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, bringing psychological depth and spiritual insight in how I hold space for others.

I began exploring consciousness and connection to nature while growing up in the forests of New England. Spontaneously, I started meditating at age eleven. From then on, I had a natural proclivity toward spirituality and read anything I could get my hands on from Be Here Now, to Ishmael, to the Tao Te Ching. I began practicing yoga at eighteen, and later experienced my own healing crisis in my early twenties. I turned to yoga, meditation, and holistic practices to heal myself. My esoteric education began in earnest at twenty-four when I studied the Science of Ayurveda at Mount Madonna Institute and had the privilege of sitting with Baba Hari Dass, the silent monk. Ever since, I have been devoted to healing mind, body, and spirit in alignment with Creation.

My dreams came online when I moved to the forests of Nevada City, California at age twenty-eight and experienced my first teaching dream. Since then, dreams have been at the center of my spiritual practice. Lucid dreaming, psychic experiences, astral projection, precognitive visions, and profound symbolic encounters have expanded my consciousness and continue to guide my life and work.

Today, my path is devoted to helping others reconnect with the wisdom of the psyche, the imaginal, and the more-than-human world. I believe dreams are not merely personal—they are relational, ecological, and, at times, visionary. They can become portals into healing, creativity, healthier relationships and deeper belonging within the living cosmos.

Together, we work with our dreams as teachers and guides in the process of coming into contact with our true nature.

Some of my most influential human teachers include: Dr. Angel Morgan, Dr. Barbara Tedlock, Dr. Jeanine Canty, Baba Hari Das, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hahn, Starhawk, Brooke Sullivan, Ann Averbach, Chonie Vargas, Dove Mosis and Mihai Algiu.

Education & Experience

EDUCATION

PhD Transpersonal Psychology Sofia University In Progress 2027

Master of Arts in Marriage & Family Therapy Touro University 2022

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature San Francisco State University 2010

DREAM SPECIALIZATION

Dream Studies Graduate Certificate Sofia University

Doctoral Research Concentrations: dreamwork and intimacy, relational dreamwork, group dreamwork interventions, PSI dreams, indigenous shamanic dreaming cultures, earth dreaming

Working with Dreams and Nightmares: Jungian, Cultural, and Active Imagination Perspectives Pacfica University In Progress April 2026

Tibetan Dream Yoga Retreat with Bon Buddhist Dzogchen Master Tenzin Wagyal Rinpoche

Dreamwork for Personal and Collective Transformation CIIS with Luz Valverde & Indigo Som

TRAUMA-INFORMED & SOMATIC FOUNDATION

YogaSeed Trauma-Informed Yoga Studio Executive Director

Embodied Awareness for Trauma Release CIIS with Licia Sky

Circle of Being Practitioner Training Mihai Algiu

Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training - 200 hour Divinitree Yoga & Arts Studio

Yoga Ceremony Teacher Training - 200 hour Ann Averbach

Tantra Vinyasa & Spirit of the Plants - 100 hour Wild Temple School

Restorative Yoga Teacher Training - 50 hour Ananda Yoga School

PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE

Shamynds Ketamine Healing Center Executive Director & Therapeutic Guide

Harm-Reduction Sitter RGX Medical & Psychedelic Sanctuary, Lightning in a Bottle & Arkadia

ECOPSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING

Group Leadership in Social Permaculture Starhawk

Permaculture Design Starhawk’s Earth Activist Training

MEDITATION & SPIRITUAL STUDY

Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor Training - 652 hour Mount Madonna Institute

Zen Meditation Retreat Tassajara Zen Center & Ann Averbach

Level 1 Thetahealing Training School of Thetahealing with Dove Mosis

Holistic Birth Doula Sierra Childbirth Institute

The Thoth Tarot Course All Souls Flight School

The Serpent Path Retreat Academy of Oracle Arts

PROFESSIONAL & LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

I have 15+ years of nonprofit leadership, project management, and community-based program development.

ThetaSoma™ Founder & Transformation Guide

Executive Director Shamynds Ketamine Healing Center

Executive Director YogaSeed

Associate Director !?Food, What?!

Development Director CampInteractive

Co-Founder Sacred Lands, Native Hands

PUBLICATIONS

By Lamplight Substack Editor

lamplightstories.substack.com

Earth•Dreaming Substack Writer

alexandracarelli.substack.com

Charleston City Paper Writer

Loudfarm Writer

14 Hills Literary Magazine Literary Intern

San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Intern