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
Earth•Dreaming Substack Writer
Charleston City Paper Writer
Loudfarm Writer
14 Hills Literary Magazine Literary Intern
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Intern

