Emeline Crutcher
Founder, Tree of Life Temple
Emeline is a shamanic practitioner, guide, teacher, and space holder for those wishing to connect with their own personal power, purpose, and divine inspiration. She facilitates a space for healing and remembrance through connection with nature and the elements and guides in a way that honors the connection between body and earth. She works with sacred plant medicines, sound healing, and teaches deep somatic practices to help integrate and ground higher states of conscious awareness into the physical body with the goal of creating a state of alignment and flow between body, mind, and spirit.
Emeline was initially called to the path of sacred plant medicines and somatic therapy to heal physical and psychological ailments brought on by unprocessed childhood trauma that led to deep emotional suppression and disconnection from self. She provides a safe and nurturing space for all who are processing personal, ancestral, and collective trauma, and is dedicated to making the same level of healing and self-discovery she has received available to others.
Emeline practices and teaches Q'ero Andean shamanism and has been initiated as Pampamessayoc in this lineage. Her practices are also deeply rooted in the codes of the Rose and she has received priestess training in Venusian Temple Arts from the Rose Lineage. Her somatic practices stem from the teachings of Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, Irene Lyon, and others. Additionally, she has an extensive background in science and biotech and holds a Ph.D. in Genetics and Neurodevelopment from Baylor College of Medicine. She has a passion for understanding more deeply the truth of our existence and the natural order of life on this planet and beyond. This background informs Emeline's work with others in a way that brings the structure of intellectual thinking into union with the intuition of feeling. She is dedicated to empowering each individual she works with through facilitating the inner divine union of the duality of our human existence to cultivate connection and flow with the One. Through connection to divine source Love, Emeline holds a space for safe exploration and integration of both light and dark inner aspects while providing resources to enable the conscious choice of desired reality. It is her ultimate goal to help others discover and embody their own unique personal power in a way that is in alignment with the highest good of themselves and all beings.

Sonia Marie Salas

Somatic and Entheogenic Healing Practitioner
Sonia embodies the essence of the creative mother, balancing loving softness with a graceful strength. Her powerful presence inspires and empowers others to step into their full potential, through vibrant authenticity and awakening to the expansive joy of the heart.
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Sonia was first called to plant medicine while seeking guidance navigating the mental chaos and external losses resulting from the end of a traumatic relationship. She discovered through plant medicine and the wisdom of her own body that this internal
suffering was part of deep ancestral roots and layers of trauma stemming from childhood. Sonia is initiated as a Paqo in the Q’ero Andean shamanic lineage. Aligning with the teachings of this lineage, she believes in creating balance and harmony amongst individuals, families, animals, the community and the universe. She is a practitioner of Kriya breathwork and guides groups with the breath to attain an experience of oneness. Sonia also weaves Somatic Integrative Embodiment, Feminine Mysteries, and Sacred Sexuality practices into her work, following the teachings of the Venusian Priestess Path. Through these practices she helps others to heal deeply through the body rather than the mind, recognizing that to expand and evolve we must build our capacity to hold with love and acceptance the entire spectrum of polarity - both the shadow and the light. Her teachings guide the mind to stillness and open the heart to embody the frequency of its truest desires.
Equus energy coaching is a core pillar of Sonia’s work, utilizing dynamic partnerships with horses to create a playful, open, and authentic environment that facilitates dramatic enhancement of self-awareness. This work leverages the natural groundedness and embodiment of horses to mirror our own vibration, allowing a deeper connection to felt sensations and emotional states. She facilitates these practices with the intention of enabling others to create more access to personal power, a deeper trust in knowing of self, and a deeper sense of self-love and safety.
Sonia is devoted to her soul’s purpose of service and embodying her soul’s true frequency of authenticity and love. Her mission as a facilitator and space holder is to bring gentleness, safety, kindness and support with humility. Her wish is to assist others in their healing process through facilitating attunement to their own body’s wisdom to co-create a life of love, abundance, beauty and magic!
Ellie Ray
Wholistic Wellness Facilitator
Ellie was called to work with sacred plant medicines several years after beginning her yoga practice. Where she approached yoga simply with curiosity and seeking a more spiritual path, the practice had opened up deeply repressed trauma and emotions that were causing her emotional and physical distress. Shamanic medicines and gifted guides brought her to the path to work with this energy, and to ultimately support others as well. Ellie’s approach uses somatic tools such as sound, movement, and energy work to allow individuals to connect with their body.

She has a strong presence to hold space in medicine ceremonies and serves as support in preparations with dieta protocol, forming intentions and guided meditations leading up to retreats. She believes in creating authentic connection in groups by facilitating activities that allow one to connect to their inner child to heal buried wounds. Her strength to heal herself shows up in her ability to walk alongside those who desire to unearth their true potential, heal and have a deeper connection to themself.
Ellie has an adventurous spirit and prefers to be in nature, swimming in natural waters and walking barefoot on the earth. She integrates after ceremonies through dance, marking art or being around animals. She is an ashtanga yoga teacher, certified sound healing practitioner, and reiki attuned Level 2. She travels to India each year to study with her teachers and connect with the ashtanga yoga community around the world. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Ellie’s core values in holding space for others are rooted in the Ho’oponopono prayer: love and forgiveness of self and others.
You can connect with Ellie on Instagram at @ellierayofyoga