Sundial Center at Rune Hill

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Lauren Chambliss, M.A.

Lauren Lauren is the Director of the non-profit Sundial Center at Rune Hill. An international journalist in Washington, DC for 20 years, three years ago Lauren and her family moved to the Finger Lakes region to be closer to the natural world and begin a new life of bringing her passion and grief in service to the world. Her deepest commitment is to help people dive into the wild, mystical undercurrent of soul and spiritual connection, to bring grief back into life, and old ways back to new. Her early experiences in Africa and Northern Europe birthed a lifelong interest in other cultures' unity with the natural and spiritual worlds. Lauren and her husband of 20 years are together raising three vibrant, passionate kids and managing nearly 200 wild acres at Rune Hill. Lauren is an EMT on the volunteer squad in Spencer, NY. Lauren is a minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth and is licensed to conduct weddings and other ceremonies in the state of New York..

Jeffrey James Allen, M.A.C.P

Jeffrey, a Vermont psychologist in private practice since 1984, supports people in making deeper connections with soul, spirit, and community. He is a father, husband, naturalist, and a guide of vision quests and wilderness journeys. He co-founded the Burlington Taiko Group, a troupe nationally performing Taiko drumming (a Japanese musical and martial art), and has recently devoted himself to trance drumming. In 1987, he co-founded Men Alive, an organization that creates transformative experiences for men. As a guide, he delights in evoking the mystery of our deepest truths. He brings a playful spirit and a keen intuition to all programs he guides.

Len Fleischer, Ed.D

Len is a licensed clinical psychologist and a professor of education and counseling. A longtime practitioner of meditation, he is engaged with the confluence of awakening, mindfulness, compassion, and action, a place where soul, spirituality, and social justice can be on intimate terms. Len guides adolescents and adults to the transformative truth of their authentic identity and community. He believes the natural world mirrors our potential for sacred balance as well as the challenges of storm, struggle, passion and love.

Rev. Rose Khalsa, RPP. CPE.

Rose Khalsa is the Director of the Polarity Center & Shamanic Studies. She has been teaching internationally for over 20 years. Rose offers trainings in Polarity Therapy, Visionary Cranial Work and Shamanism, and integrates nature-based and holistic approaches to healing in her private practice. Her healing work includes polarity therapy, cranial sacral, spiritual counseling, and shamanic healing. Lakota Ways and Tibetan Buddhism are integrated into Rose’s life and work and are shared as part of her Medicine.
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Constance Lynn

Constance Lynn Constance has an intrinsic awareness of the role soul plays in our everyday lives. This has led her to weave together farming, yoga, journaling, whole foods cooking and eco-centric healing to create a holistic, nature based teaching ethic that focuses on personal transformation and reconnection with the earth. She has a BA in Psychology and Therapy, certificates in Interdisciplinary and Therapeutic Yoga, as well as Horticulture and Seed saving. She has been journaling for 30 years, and has recently published her first novel. Constance’s passion has inspired her to work on organic farms throughout the country and New Zealand, as well as, teach yoga that emphasizes both emotional and physical well-being. She has participated in programs and enacted a vision quest with AVI and is currently contributing her time to improving the organic gardens and whole foods menus at the Sundial Retreat Center.

Liz Maxwell

Liz is an Episcopal priest and psychotherapist. She has worked with New York City’s homeless, served as a chaplain at Ground Zero, and led retreats using movement and other creative processes to evoke the deep self. She loves to play with dreams, dance barefoot and explore the inner and outer wild. Her great privilege is accompanying others in their soul journeys, and she is regularly surprised by wonder.

Peter Scanlan, PH.d

Peter Scanlan is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a vision quest and soulcraft guide for the Animas Valley Institute, where he trained under Bill Plotkin. He has also trained with Steven Foster and Meredith Little at the School of Lost Borders in Big Pine, California. A former Roman Catholic priest, Peter sees his current work as the further manifestation of he call to priesthood, a priest defined as one who guides people to the edge of mystery and lovingly holds the space while they venture alone in exploration of that mystery. He has a keen interest in exploring the many facets of the dance of masculine and feminine energies within each person. He brings an open heart and a playful spirit to his work.

Jade Sherer

Jade is a wilderness guide, ceremonialist, artist, and bodyworker. She has led vision quests and wilderness journeys in California, Hawaii, and the American Southwest. She supports global transformation through guiding individuals towards respectful interaction and deep communion with nature. Exploring and guiding in the wilderness for 26 years, Jade is fascinated with the way nature serves as a mirror for the feminine mysteries. The Earth Mother has been her biggest guide towards womanhood in her life. Her work as a vision quest guide is rooted in her deep love and respect for the Earth and her creatures and a yearning towards the wild. She loves creating safe and beautiful containers in which people can open their hearts.

Kayla Becker

Kayla Becker, NCMT, B.A. in Women’s Health, has been practicing bodywork therapy for more than 21 years in Montpelier, VT. A Nationally Certified Massage Therapist, Kayla is certified as a practitioner and Self Care Instructor in Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage. She is committed to bringing awareness to the beauty, power and wisdom of women's cycles, particularly the initiation of menopause.