We look forward to Elizabeth joining us in teaching in our future Shivakti Tantra Yoga Teacher Trainings, as well as offering her wisdom in online workshops. They serve as iboga providers with the IbogaSoul team.īast is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area & Costa Rica. They are educators and activists for iboga, sacred medicine sustainability, the Bwiti tradition, drug policy reform, and holistic addiction treatment. In December 2014, the couple traveled to Gabon, Africa, where they began their iboga provider training and experienced a traditional Bwiti initiation, Rite of Passage, and wedding. After their healing experience with iboga, Bast and Chor Boogie were inspired to give back. Together, they have produced numerous collaborations of visual and performance art at galleries, museums, and special events. Since 2007, she has lived and co-created with artist Chor Boogie. She continues to study teachings of the Sri-Vidya sakta tantra tradition through Janice Craig and is completing an additional Bhakti Nova Yoga Teacher Training with Nubia Teixeira. In 2010, she completed the Anusara Yoga Teacher Training through Katchie Ananda.
In 2004, she completed the Interdisciplinary Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at the Nosara Yoga Institute. In 1993, Bast began a passionate practice of hatha yoga. Bast is the author of HEART MEDICINE: A True Love Story, an intimate memoir about a healing experience with the African sacred medicine, iboga.īast is a recipient of a "Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance" grant from the psychedelic feminist organization Cosmic Sister and a member of Cosmic Sister's Expert Advisory Circle. Bast completed the transformational coach training program with Being True to You. She studied at New College of San Francisco with an emphasis on Art and Social Change. Her greater intentions are to help facilitate 100% natural bliss, synergy between culture and nature, and conversations between the old & new ways of knowing. She is a lifelong devotee of plant medicine, ceremony, and prayer, having been raised within a long family line of plant healers and an inter-tribal community with traditional ceremony. Private Lifestyle Live-in Personal At-home ImmersionsĮlizabeth Bast serves as a writer, yoga teacher, performance artist, ceremonial facilitator, speaker/educator, & holistic coach specializing in sacred plant medicine support, spirit-led addiction recovery, & visionary life design. Michelle passionately believes that simple but radical shifts from our normal ways of living and consuming cause powerful transformations in our physical, mental and spiritual health. As part of her journey of bringing healing to herself and those around her she is a part of running a retreat center in Costa Rica. She shares her simple, original recipes, facilitating a long-term sustainable approach that you can bring with you. She is the Founder of Gypsy Greens, a meal prep distributor specializing in food that is ‘alive’, Michelle Introduces her clients to a way of eating and experiencing food that causes a shift in the body to more energy, a clearer mind, less food cravings, heightened senses, deeper rest and a profoundly new connection with a healthier self. Michelle comes from a family background that has suffered many diseases and she found yoga to be the key to breathe through these old programs to become a new, healthier you. She facilitates others in their healing and healthy lifestyle space.
Michelle’s background is in Ashtanga Vinyasa where she has led many 200-hr Teacher Trainings. Michelle will be teaching in the Asana workshops of our Teacher Trainings, breaking down many of the Asanas in the Surya Namaskars, to facilitate greater alignment in the postures. Michelle Scarbrough, 500 E-RYT, has been a passionate yoga instructor for 8+ years, dedicated to helping others live in the present moment in their body, mind and spirit.