PRACTITIONERS
Graham Slick
• Founder and Creator of Aloka.
• Named Best Sound Bath Experience by Willamette Week’s Best of Portland Readers’ Poll 2025.
A lifelong musician and spirit seeker, Graham has spent the past five years immersed in the world of sound baths, quickly emerging as a master of the form. His background in rhythm, creativity, and spiritual inquiry all converge to shape a style that’s as heart-centered as it is skillful. Expect a passionate, playful, and deeply thoughtful guide who brings warmth, curiosity, and authenticity to every session.
Valerie Starr
Over 15 years of experience and study in yoga, music, meditation, and facilitation.
Obsessed with learning, growing, expanding, rituals, healing, dancing with light/shadows and yoga. Val loves these because they are all a part of the healing process, a big piece of Val’s creativity, passion, flame, and spirit. She lovs experiencing the capacity in which we can move our bodies and connect with breath as a spirit ritual and moving it outward into the world.
BIRDIE
Teacher, guide, and voice for alternative healing and holistic health since 2015.
Since 2015, Birdie has continued to expand her devotion and life work to alternative healing modalities that have helped her reclaim her body and move through both personal and generational trauma over the past eleven years. She has led thousands of classes to help people regain access to things that have been forgotten, restore their parasympathetic nervous system, and reconnect to their purpose. Over her years of teaching, facilitating workshops, and holding ceremonies, She has noticed a significant pattern - that all humans need safe spaces for expression, release, and being seen. As a healing guide, She has immersed herself in many circles with different teachers, healers, plants, and shamans perpetually learning from ancient modalities, methodologies, and medicines that unveil the subtle anatomy of the body and beyond.
Birdie has devoted herself to studying Eastern wisdom traditions, integrating the teachings with her own ancestral native roots and lived experience… And along the way realized something vital: We are not made whole by a title or a label or searching for our purpose. We are the living expression of the very wisdom we seek. We are the purpose.
Geoff Falkenberg
Certified Breathwork Practitioner
My personal journey with breathwork began years ago out of mild curiosity and a desire for self-discovery, and the journey led to profound shifts in my life and ignited my passion to guide others.
Over the years, I have come to understand that breathwork is more than a practice; it's a transformative and natural power that unlocks our innate ability to heal from within. In my sessions, you will learn to use your breath to foster emotional release and mental clarity, enabling a deep connection with your inner self and the world.
Together, we will navigate this journey, feeling and experiencing the subtle yet significant shifts that come from engaging with what you were already doing, just breathing. My role is to help you use breathwork as a tool to become more grounded, balanced, and fulfilled, embracing transformation in its most intuitive form.
JASON LASLEY
Over 14 years of experience in massage therapy and sacred plant medicine.
Jason believes that the first steps in healing the body are to slow down so we can actually be in the body. Once we are in the body we can begin to listen and meet the body where it is so that we can give our body what it needs. Whether it's stretching, a walk, water, or a hug. When we unravel these old patterns and begin to give the body what it is asking for, we can begin to find freedom from pain.
Jason is just as passionate about sacred plant medicine as he is about bodywork. Over the last 14 years his experience growing medicinal and gourmet mushrooms has further planted his feet in the realms of healing, which is his life's work.
rY THE HEALER
Was once on America’s Got Talent and broke through to the gooey center of Simon Cowell’s inner nugget.
Ry (they/them) is a sound healer with a passion for sound, nature, and healing the world.
“My whole life I’ve been creating music which has helped me developed an intuitive and personal understanding of how sound can be used to promote healing and wellbeing.” Through years of spiritual exploration, Ry has developed a deep understanding of how sound can be used to shift energy, reduce stress, and promote inner peace. In 2023 Ry completed their training at The Sound Healers Academy and began using my gifts to heal.
“My goal as a sound healer is to create a safe and welcoming space where people of all backgrounds can come to find healing and balance.”
Through the power of sound, Ry works with frequencies to promote balance and wellbeing. Whether you're dealing with physical pain, emotional stress, or just looking to tap into your inner peace, Ry is here to help.
I’m not just a healer - I'm also a proud member of the LGBTQIA2S community. As someone who has struggled with identity and belonging, I know firsthand how important it is to feel seen and accepted. That's why I strive to create a space where everyone feels welcome and celebrated, regardless of gender, sexuality, or any other identity marker.
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