the people
Kate
Kate is the founder of NAHLA Community, a rites of passage guide, facilitator, yoga teacher, children’s nature educator, and poet. She has been holding space professionally for over a decade, hosting circles in the Sea to Sky and online, and facilitating women’s retreats rooted in connection, safety, authenticity, and growth.
Kate’s professional journey began in business school and led to a ten-year career in executive event coordination. Following a period of severe burnout and an authenticity crisis, she left the corporate world and entered a “dark night of the soul,” a profound period of questioning and transformation that changed the course of her life. Out of this journey came a deep calling to create spaces where people can be deeply seen, heard, and felt; to feel safe enough to be wildly alive in their biggest, brightest truth.
Her path eventually led her to the School of Lost Borders, where she trained as a rites of passage guide. Her experiences of extended solitude in the desert through vision fast have been particularly instrumental in deepening this calling: to help others cultivate a sense of peace and intimacy with themselves, and for this healing to ripple out into the world.
Kate is deeply passionate about community building and the profound impact connection can have on our vitality and empowerment. As a facilitator, she guides people inward toward their innate power, authenticity, and alignment, while creating space for the wisdom that emerges through relationship, with self, with one another, and with the natural world. She believes that “life’s curriculum” is never complete, and that there are always more juicy edges of growth to uncover. With deep self-intimacy and compassion, supported by the catalyst of connection, we can learn to dance with life and awaken to the magic of it all.
At the heart of Kate’s work is the question: What would the world be if everyone felt safe to be themselves? If no one had to distort their true light in order to receive validation, belonging, or safety? NAHLA is one offering toward that possibility.
SERAYHA
Serayha hosts weekly women’s circles in Sechelt, BC. Her work has been shaped through years of witnessing healing in motion, and is informed by her background as a yoga teacher, classical Pilates teacher, and dancer.
Her path first led her through business school and into marketing at an inspiring physiotherapy clinic, where she received a quiet apprenticeship in care. There, she observed how trust, consistency, and compassionate presence can restore a sense of safety and agency within the body. These early experiences laid the foundation for her belief in the body as a wise and responsive guide, and ultimately inspired her to become a movement-based bodyworker and women’s circle host.
Serayha’s devotion to vitality, movement, and joy, invite women to remember the pleasure of being alive, to meet one another in authenticity and love, and to reconnect with the innate wisdom that unfolds when we are fully present and in relationship. Her goal is to create spaces for women to feel enlivened, seen, and at ease in their own skin.
ELle
Elle is a space-holder, wilderness guide, and friend who is passionate about supporting people through moments of transition, grief, and the thresholds of everyday life. Her work is rooted in nature-based ceremony, rites of passage, and helping others remember that life can be richer, more connected, and more intimate and wild than the narrow blueprints we have collectively inherited.
Since starting her first women’s circle in 2019, Elle has been guided by a deep belief in the sacred, alchemical power of women gathering together, and that this simple practice is essential medicine for these times. She believes that through connection with ourselves, one another, and the Earth, new and more loving ways of being are born. Nourished by community, song, martial practice, and the sacred art of rest, Elle shows up as a friend; here to laugh, to sing, and to hold and be held with tenderness and courage.
MAYANA
Mayana is a women’s circle facilitator who weaves ancestral remembrance, emotional safety, and embodied presence into community spaces. She believes that being witnessed in our truth, our messiness, our shame, our laughter, our anger and grief, restores a sense of belonging, and reconnects us to the life force within. Her circles are invitations to soften, speak, and be held, together.
Born and raised in Canada with roots in Guatemala, Mayana has spent her life between worlds. This lived experience has shaped her devotion to creating spaces where people from all walks of life can express themselves freely, without judgment or ridicule, and where authenticity is met with care. She believes such spaces are essential to individual and collective well-being.
As a VITA-trained love, sex and relationship coach, Mayana takes great delight in creating environments where women and femme-identifying folk can deepen their relationship to self, partners, and community. Her greatest desire is to activate women into their most boundless potential so that we can elevate the feminine power that protects life and leads with love during these threshold times.
She understands women’s circles as places of nourishment for mind, body, and soul, and as an antidote to the disconnection that shapes so much of our world.
These gatherings invite participants to gently look beneath the surface of their lives to find tender grief, buried dreams, unfelt anger, silenced voices, and the parts of themselves longing to be expressed. Part ritual, part practice, part shared humanity, these spaces are held with reverence and honesty. Again and again, Mayana has witnessed the synchronicities, healing, and quiet magic that arise when women gather with intention.
Her circles are invitations into awareness, reflection, inspiration, compassion, joy, laughter, and connection, with self and with one another.