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Micha Merrick

BIG SUR,CA
Micha Merrick

Summary

Micha holds space for individual and community healing in settings of natural beauty and sensory delight, bringing diverse populations together through circles of sound, story, herbs, healing touch, and intention.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
7

Certificates

Skills

    Wild Creativity

    Nature Attunement

    Ancestral Skills

    Grounding Force

Work History

Esalen Institute

Experiential Faculty and Alternative Healing Arts
04.2018 - Current

Job overview

Create land-based multisensory transformative containers for individuals and groups

Post Ranch Inn

Forest Meditation and Herbal Education
06.2018 - Current

Job overview

Lead outdoor self-exploration and nature connection experiences including Forest Meditation and the Herbal Spirit Journey.

Spirit Weavers Gathering

Instructor and Healing Arts
06.2018 - Current

Job overview

Teach workshops in ancestral Herbal Poultice Massage, for women's heath, and perinatal support. Offer womb rituals and herbal massage treatments at a well known women's ancestral skills outdoor camp gathering.

Self Employed

Birth Doula and Herbal Massage Ritual
04.2016 - Current

Job overview

Private practice attending births, perinatal massage and herbalism, somatic ritual and retreats focused on herbal poultice massage and embodied land connection

Birthlight Yoga Training

Retreat Leader
06.2016 - 11.2019

Job overview

Retreat activities including woman's circles, herbal rituals, wildcrafting, music and dance, for perinatal yoga teacher training retreats.

Bumi Sehat

Doula and Herbal Massage
03.2013 - 04.2019

Job overview

Assist births in sacred flower baths, alongside traditional Bali Hindu Midwives. Perinatal herbal poultice abdominal and breast massage, teach prenatal yoga (recurring two month residency and mentorship)

Ashokananda School of Traditional Thai Massage

Retreat Yoga Teacher
11.2013 - 04.2016

Job overview

Teach yoga and vipassana meditation for Thai Massage training retreats in an outdoor traditional village setting. Simultaneously studying with the local Lahu healer and shamanic midwife. Also teaching at affiliate schools in Greece, Italy, Spain, Hungry and Nicaragua.

Club Med

Resident Yoga Teacher
12.2009 - 12.2013

Job overview

Create and lead a weekly yoga program including outdoor meditation, mother-baby yoga, children's yoga, paddleboard yoga and circus arts dance performance

Mia Gyzander Costumes

Costume Engineer
03.2007 - 11.2009

Job overview

Engineer and pattern theatrical costumes for film and stage from designer sketches. Best part of job: learning about life from the seamstress-grandmothers working with me, elder women from every continent sharing stories about what it means to be a healer, a nurturer, a creative, in their cultural lineage.

Soulflower Studio

Ritual Fire Dance Teacher
05.2005 - 02.2007

Job overview

Teach and chorograph ritual theater and multisensory outdoor elemental dance performance

Triad Stage

Costume Manager
11.2003 - 02.2007

Job overview

Oversee the design, creation, maintenance of all costumes. Manage seamstresses and wardrobe employees

Education

University of North Carolina, School of The Arts
Winston-Salem, NC

Bachelor of Fine Arts from Theatrical Production
05.2002

Certification

Kripalu YTT, Esalen Massage, Thai Massage TT, DONA Doula, Mentorship with traditional midwives, folk herbalists and healers


Micha Merrick