Memorable Workplace Experiences

Erica is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, nervous system health coach, and Safe & Sound Protocol practitioner. She has extensive experience leading workshops and empowerment groups centered around cultivating mind-body balance.

Having traversed the challenging terrain of work-related burnout and chronic illness, Erica wholeheartedly shares the invaluable tools and wisdom she has acquired on her personal journey.

Drawing from a rich tapestry of ancient traditions, science-based practices, and her own profound experiences, Erica illuminates pathways to profound self-discovery, resilience, and well-being. She infuses her teachings with creativity and play, fostering a joyful and dynamic environment where individuals can explore their inner selves and cultivate a sense of childlike wonder alongside their mindfulness and well-being practices.

Erica’s offerings serve as beacons of hope and transformation, inviting individuals to embrace a life of mindful awareness and heartfelt fulfillment.

Sarah Lynn Wayne is a functional nutritionist and intuitive wellness consultant with 20 years of experience in private, clinical, corporate, and community settings across the Bay Area. She graduated in 2006 from Bauman College Holistic Nutrition, with a thesis on corporate wellness.  

Her work bridges root-cause nutrition, brain and metabolic health, and mindset-level change, addressing the patterns that drive stress, fatigue, and chronic dysfunction at their source. 

She has collaborated with medical doctors, chiropractors, and community leaders, and brought wellness programs into doctors' offices, hospitals, fitness centers, and corporate environments. 

As a special needs mom raising a daughter with a brain injury and rare genetic condition, Sarah brings a depth of understanding no credential alone can teach.

Michele Lomax is an employment and civil rights attorney, mindfulness teacher, and founder of Practice Mindfully, a coaching and wellness platform for busy professionals. Drawing from her experience in both BigLaw and public-interest practice, she helps legal and corporate teams cultivate clarity, resilience, collaboration, and emotional intelligence in high-stress environments. Her work bridges science and self-care—showing how mindfulness and preventative well-being strategies enhance focus, collaboration, and organizational performance.

Shannon Hopkins is a practitioner in the healing arts of shamanic guidance, intuitive healing, and energy work. She focuses on opening to the unseen realms, honing intuition, and facilitating a deeper relationship with yourself. She leads rituals, ceremonies, rights of passage and women’s moon circles for all life transitions including birth, death, seasonal shifts, and life changes and celebrations. She has practiced for over 20 years in the Bay Area in person and online. She lives in Walnut Creek with her husband and two sons.

Explore her offerings at www.blessingways.com

Savannah Joy is a transformational music facilitator, certified life coach, somatic healing practitioner, portrait photographer, and international retreat leader. She guides leaders and teams into deeper presence, aliveness, and connection through co-created sound, blending improvisational looping, circle singing, and voice activation with somatic healing principles. Her voice is often described as ethereal and otherworldly, paired with a grounded and playful facilitation style that creates spaces where people feel safe to express and connect.

Savannah has been a lifelong musician, first stepping onto the stage at age nine and recording in studio by twelve. After stepping away from the traditional music industry, she returned to her voice through a healing-centered path, discovering its power as a tool for connection, regulation, and transformation.

Today, her work bridges artistry and leadership, supporting individuals in cultivating self-acceptance, confidence, and creative flow. Her music and sound healing experiences have reached audiences in over 60 countries around the world.

Listen to Savannah's music here

Bryce Mulholland is forging his own path through the world of instrumental music, weaving together styles and inspirations from the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh to the sun-drenched shores of California.

With a genre-defying approach, Bryce creates freely, unbound by convention. For over 15 years, he has captivated audiences across the Bay Area, bringing his sound to life at iconic venues—from Sonoma’s vineyard-covered hills and San Francisco’s intimate dives to the forests of Big Sur and the honky-tonks of gold country. Bryce’s journey also extends into sound therapy and meditation, where he continues to explore music as a healing art.

Listen to his latest work here: Earthtone.

Mariko Drew, LAc, MSTCM, MA is passionate about providing whole person care, weaving the art and science of Classical Chinese medicine with evidence-based medical research. She is licensed in acupuncture and traditional herbology with a focus on sports medicine, women’s health, digestive disorders, and pain management. Her goal is making the wisdom of this ancient medicine accessible to everyone, supporting deeper transformation.

She was first influenced by the ancient art form as a child within her Japanese American family through shiatsu, cupping, and traditional foods. Later she studied Chen Taiqi and began growing her own medicinal herbs, experimenting with medicine making and food as medicine.

Mariko is a San Francisco native and the daughter of artists and activists. She has studied Afro-Latin dance and music for over 20 years and loves dancing in San Francisco’s Carnaval with her group Fogo na Roupa.