the people
Kate
Kate is the founder of NAHLA Community and has been holding space professionally for over a decade. She hosts regular circles in the Sea to Sky and online, and facilitates retreats. She is also a passionate yoga teacher, children’s nature educator, and poet, which she weaves into her work regularly.
Kate began her professional journey in business school, which led her to a ten year career in executive event coordination. Following severe burnout and authenticity crisis, she left the corporate world and embarked into a dark night of the soul wherein she questioned everything she had ever been taught about success, health, and relationship. This journey through grief and transmutation led her to begin creating spaces for participants to be deeply seen, heard and felt; to be safe and wildly alive in their biggest, brightest truth. “What would the world be like if everyone felt safe to be themselves? If no one distorted their true light in order to receive validation, belonging and safety?”, she wonders.
Kate is deeply passionate about community building and sharing the profound impact connection can have on our vitality and empowerment. As a facilitator, she helps guide participants inwards to their innate, unique power, authenticity and alignment so that they can live the lives they’re meant for. She believes “life’s curriculum” is never fully complete and that there are always more juicy edges of growth to uncover, but with deep self-intimacy and compassion spurred through the catalyst of connection, we can learn to dance through life and awake to the magic of it all.
LUISA
Luisa facilitates women’s circles as living sanctuaries — spaces devoted to witnessing one another’s becoming. Week after week, these gatherings offer a steady presence to each woman’s evolving sense of self, inner states, and ways of being.
Her circles are less about conversation and more about reflection. They act as mirrors, helping women see their current abundance while gently reflecting their potential back to themselves and to one another. In this shared witnessing, clarity emerges — not through advice or fixing, but through presence.
She listens deeply, to herself and to the women in the room, creating a steady, compassionate field where inner landscapes can soften and unfold. In this atmosphere of care, the knots of the heart begin to loosen and make sense in their own time. Her willingness to meet each moment with honesty and tenderness becomes the quiet teaching, inviting others into the same gentle self-recognition. What unfolds is not direction, but remembrance.
These circles are places of rest and refuge; spaces of being held in womanhood. A place to rest your wings, to notice all that you are becoming, holding, and nurturing into existence. Within this sanctuary, women are invited to pause, to feel, and to listen closely to the questions they are asking themselves in this very moment.
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.