Seeding the Future - a Sound Healing Experience with Jose Rodriguez and Yulia Klimento 

This workshop will take you into a Permaculture experience through the lenses of an ecologist and a holistic teacher, guiding you through both visionary and earthly realms. During a guided meditation and sound bath, we will use the mind as a tool to engage our human potential to imagine and bring forth rooted, radical solutions to the present challenges of our times. Going inwards to design the collective future that we want to be part of and raise the next generations in, we will listen to our own intuitive wisdom to piece together a mosaic of solutions. We will close in a circle where we will use the vibrations of our voices and sacred instruments to bring this vision to fruition. Bridging these two realms into our present reality, we will have an option to finish with a sacred planting ceremony of fruit and nut trees, along with our intentions and visions for the future. 

From the vast northern lands of Canada and Russia, Yulia Klimento brings her deep love and reverence for the natural world to the forefront of all her work. Trained as a conservation ecologist, she has lived and worked across various continents, exploring the ins and outs of native biodiversity and local ecosystems. It has become her greatest passion to help conserve the natural environment we call home and encourage others to unearth the same perspective. From researching microplastic pollution in freshwater aquatic ecosystems in the St. Lawrence River of Canada, to building massive permaculture gardens and food forests at grassroots community levels to achieve localized regenerative food production, to building relations – food systems – classes with Kahnawà:ke as a means of working towards cultural revitalization and food sovereignty, to workshopping with humans of all ages – from small kiddos to our wise elders – to band together and reimagine how we can move forward into a future of restoration in an era of climate change. This is the heart and soul of Nation Regeneration, a permaculture consultancy co-founded by Yulia. She brings great purpose in remembering our place within the web of life and works through lenses of creativity, imagination, healing work, permaculture, whole systems theory, and deep ecology to facilitate this.

Jose Rodriguez is a Navy veteran that is passionate about finding ways of exploring the inner-self by following his heart and gaining different skills & traits along the way. He is a permaculture consultant and the Co-founder of Nation Regeneration, an organization that focuses on creating a network of small landowners in different communities – installing food forest systems that will be self-sufficient in providing food, fuel, and medicine to the people, while also emphasizing on education to bring cultural shifts to a larger community. He became an agroforestry technician on a Kilauea culinary campus, where he installed a mixed tropical agroforestry system, interplanting hundreds of trees and vegetables with the purpose of restoring the natural habitat as well as creating a food forest. He now works in various themes around rebuilding and regeneration, in conservation as a forest technician for carbon sequestration, a massage therapist bringing healing touch to the ones in need, and as a local carpenter. As the world is changing fast, he feels the importance of working together with various generations, teaching and learning from one another. Guiding ourselves to understand the importance of carrying hard and soft skills, how to listen to our inner guidance, face our fears to unlock doors of opportunity, removing self imposed limits to our spirit, and remembering the art of listening to and communicating with Mother Nature.