Guides
We support a highly vetted community of multi-modal practitioners, wisdom keepers, elders and facilitators who represent pillars of a modern life of practice. These are leaders in their respective arts who guide others in depth practices.
Our patron funded programs provide our guides with free support across many of the uniquely challenging aspects of living a life of service.
If you are interested in meeting, booking or supporting our guides. Please be in touch with love@namuna.earth.
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Jyoti Ma is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher. She has cultivated projects that demonstrate ways of life that honor the Earth and all Peoples. As the Grandmother Vision Keeper of the Center for Sacred Studies, she co-founded Kayumari with spiritual communities both in America and Europe.
Other projects she has helped to convene are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and the Unity Concert. She is the founder of The Fountain. Its mission is to restore an economic model that is based on reciprocity and collaboration guided by Nature and the Sacred. She serves as a delegate of the Mother Earth Delegation of United Indigenous Nations. And it is through this current work in collaboration with the Fountain, that a global Sacred Territories Initiative is evolving to protect Mother Earth's sacred sites and Her Original Peoples.
Jyoti has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional medicine ways. Through this work collaborative relationships with organizations that are focused on economic, social and environmental solutions have developed, creatively addressing the global challenges of our times.
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Spiritual Educator & Monk Holding the distinguished title of Swami, was initiated in the Hari Bhakta Vedic Lineage by his Guru, Paramahamsa Vishwananda. Before entering the spiritual path, Swami Chidananda had a successful career as an investment banker and entrepreneur. Now, he uses his experiences to convey the ancient Yoga Systems in a relatable and accessible way for those seeking to reconcile Western and Eastern philosophies.
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Queen Afua has over 50 years experience as a holistic health practitioner and wellness coach. A pioneer in the green foods movement, Queen Afua is the author of 7 best selling books, the creator of the Heal Thyself product line Founder of Sacred Woman Rites of Passage Program, CEO & Director of the Queen Afua Wellness Institute.
She has devoted her life to holistically empower both women and men to heal thyself in utilizing the power of food as medicine and healthcare as self-care, is a holistic lifestyle method for health and longevity.
Queen Afua has holistically inspired over 1,000,000 women, men and children throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe with her workshops, books, products, and presentations.
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For over a decade, Baelyn has devoted herself to meditation, ritual studies and a daily ceremonial way of life. She has a background in the Zen/Taoist Arts, sharing the art of Tea wherever she goes and holding space for communities worldwide, to awaken and remember.
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My name is Paul Kuhn. I am a sound practitioner, musician, coach, and kundalini yoga teacher. I help people find resonance in themselves and their lives through the cultivation of holistic listening.
Holistic Listening is not just hearing in the auditory sense - it is a development of listening to all the sensory languages - sight, touch, smell, taste, auditory, and intuitive. Life is constantly whispering at you, pointing you to your destiny. My work is to teach you how to hear these signals through the noise and to use what you discover as a tool of awakening.
As a facilitator, I integrate archetypal work (The Gene Keys), breath, sensory stimulation and meditation to deepen presence, awareness and insight. This is the foundational keystone of Sound and Self.
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Dr. Erica Matluck is redefining modern healing. Trained as a Naturopathic Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, Reiki Master, yoga instructor, and massage therapist, she merges decades of expertise in conventional and alternative medicine to offer a one of a kind approach to wellbeing.
Drawing from 20+ years of clinical experience and spiritual practice, Erica created the Holistic Intelligence Method™, a groundbreaking framework that integrates physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of health.
Her approach empowers individuals to uncover root causes, align all parts of the self, and achieve deep, lasting healing.
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Mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author, and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena Brower is a celebrated international yoga and meditation teacher on Glo, guiding transformative practices since 1999. Her debut book, Art of Attention: A Yoga Practice Workbook for Movement as Meditation, was published in 2012 and has since been translated into seven languages. Her bestselling journals Practice You and Being You, her collection of poetry Softening Time, along with her courses and talks, explore stages of studentship, practice, life, and listening.
Her next book, Hold Nothing, will be published by Shambhala Publications in late 2025. Her column on Substack supports girls and women, through On The Inside, Girls on Fire Leaders, Women for Women, and Free Food Kitchen.
She hosts the acclaimed podcast Practice You, a series of deep, compassionate conversations with teachers, artists, and thinkers, designed to support you through life’s transitions, encouraging presence, care, and openness. Offering two new virtual classes on Glo each week, Elena weaves body, breath, art, and contemplative mindfulness into practice. Bridging ancient yogic precision with creative depth, and emotional intelligence, she serves individuals in cultivating resilience and inner alignment.
In 2023, she received Jukai (lay Buddhist vows) from Roshi Joan Jiko Halifax at Upaya Zen Center, and is a student in Upaya’s Chaplaincy Training. As part of her service, she volunteers in hospice and penitentiary settings, bringing yoga, meditation, and compassionate presence, aligning with Upaya’s commitment to local service and community support.
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Jai Dev Singh is a renowned international teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Ayurveda, and founder of Life- Force Academy (LFA), a global training academy for the yogic arts and sciences with members in over 60 countries around the world.
Jai Dev was raised by a loving Jewish family in upstate South Carolina. While his family environment was nurturing, there was a lingering sense that he didn’t quite fit in. As a young man, he developed health challenges. While modern medicine offered temporary relief, it couldn’t get to the root of the problem. This led him on a search for true health and a deeper understanding of the human body that has taken him across the world and back.
His intense love of music brought him to Middle Tennessee State University where he studied Production in the Recording Industry. It was in college that he found himself at his very first Kundalini Yoga class. Jai Dev didn’t know much about yoga but was magnetically drawn to it. After one class he was hooked and thus began his life-changing yogic journey.
Inspired by his teacher, Jai Dev soon began to teach himself. He almost immediately attracted an audience of eager students, making it clear early on that he had uncovered a natural gift that he continues to nurture to this day.
Over the years Jai Dev trained extensively in Kundalini Yoga and a variety of other yogic traditions. He moved to Nevada City, CA to study Ayurveda. There, he discovered the true root of his health issues and exactly how imbalances in the mind and body occur. This led him on an incredible path to restoration, healing, and teaching others how to do the same. After graduating, he became the Clinical Director at the College of Ayurveda until his teaching demands led him to create his own training school: The Life-Force Academy.
Jai Dev travels the world with LFA’s mission to help people restore their inner vitality, connect to their genuine sense of purpose, and learn to live a happy life. LFA offers (virtual and in-person) courses and workshops on Kundalini Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. The courses are designed to improve your health, mental wellness, inner-confidence, increase prosperity, and so much more. Jai Dev’s down-to-earth sensibility and humor, combined with a creative delivery of yogic teachings have influenced thousands of practitioners and teachers around the globe.
Today, Jai Dev is based in Nevada City, California. When not running his global training academy, he enjoys basketball, spending time with his son, and experiencing as much live music as possible.
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Aude is a practitioner of beauty and seeker of truth. Immersed in a life of devotion she has studied the arts of beauty and sensuality with masters’ throughout the world. Her work is a synthesis of Tantric, Taoist, Shamanic and Gnostic teachings. Focusing on intimacy she specializes in embodiment and awakening of the Goddess within. A trailblazer of finding beauty in all experiences, pleasure is her medicine. Her practice is to guide people into remembering their divine essence through the embodiment of a more delicious connection with themselves at every level. Allowing herself to be a channel for divine love, all her endeavors are a prayer, an offering to the Divine Mother. Aude’s vision is to preserve ancient wisdom by creating pleasure temples to celebrate and honor the arts of the divine feminine, spaces where pleasure is revered as sacred medicine - a safe haven for students and devotees of beauty.
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Ramsay is a practitioner and instructor of several Native Hawaiian practices: Hoʻoponopono (stress release and mediation), lomi haha (body alignment), and Kaihewalu Lua (Hawaiian combat/battle art).
Kumu Taum in 2009 was recognized and honored by the University of Hawaii as a Star of Oceania, an honor presented every three years to extraordinary individuals of Oceania for their work and service-related contributions to raising greater awareness of Oceania and its people to the nation, region, and world.
Kumu Ramsay is recognized locally, nationally, and internationally for transformational leadership in sustainability, cultural, and place-based values integration into contemporary business models, Ramsay Taum advocates team building, strategic partnerships, community brilliance, and creative thinking. He is a recognized cultural resource, sought after keynote speaker, lecturer, trainer, and facilitator. He is especially effective working with Hawai‘i’s industries where he integrates Native Hawaiian cultural values and principles into contemporary business.
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Men have a habit of waiting until the eleventh hour before being motivated to change. Not until the sickness kicks in, the job disappears, the wife has an affair, the money runs dry or the habit becomes an addiction. Not until we feel the raw obliteration of life, to be stripped bare do we take heed. The masculine grows by challenge and there is simultaneously no greater challenge or blessing, than to have to start over with a completely fresh, unsullied perspective on the infinite possibilities of life.
Like many men, Nic reached a point in life where his only satisfaction was found in the dulling numbness of anything that would take his mind off it; drugs, alcohol, porn. Unable to face the burden of the life he created, everything else suffered until his only option left was to face everything he had been resisting. And by doing so, discovering that our resistance is the doorway to the next level of life.
With the sole purpose of his own healing, growth, expansion, learning and discovery, after almost ten years, Nic has now worked with hundreds of men, helping them peel back the layers of culturally inherited, socially permeated models of behaviour and conditioning.
To heal their relationship with themselves and with others. To help empower those yearning for clarity, confidence and connection, to rediscover the power of living on purpose, fully from their heart, connected to their spine. To embody their truth. To transform their lives.
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Born in Mesa, Arizona, Indigenous to and raised on the island of Guam, Isis Indriya dedicates her life in service to prayer, education, and community activism.
With the loss of her Mother, Deborah, at age of 4, her desire to commune with the Unseen, the Ancestors, and those on the other side has been at the forefront of her life and what led her to Ritual as a way of Life. At the age of 17 she moved to the US and began her studies in mythology & breathwork which led to the focus of Ancient Mystery studies, Sacred Sciences, and Earth Wisdom Traditions.
With cultivation of community at the heart of her offerings, she dove into event production, ritual, & education as a way to create culture. With over 20 years experience in various forms of gatherings, ranging from one-on-one sessions to facilitation of rituals of over 30k people with Wisdomkeepers from around the world, Isis dedicates her life to learning and creating platforms for teaching of the sacred sciences of the Ancients, Indigenous wisdom, cultural exchange, Nature’s intelligence, and inner transformation as pathways for moving forward. Many people know her through the role she holds as one of the lead producers of The Compass at Lightning in a Bottle Festival where she has hosted hundreds of thought leaders and entertainers from around the world.
As a Minister, Culture Creator, Bridgebuilder, and fireplace keeper for the Oracle Clan, an educator of Ritual, Divination, Egyptian Cosmology, and Hermeticism, Isis shares what she has learned along the way all over the world, online, on Ritual Community, and through the school she birthed; Academy of Oracle Arts. She also leads pilgrimages to Egypt and in her Temple hosts community prayers and gatherings.
She is on the board for Water Now, Church of the Essence, Living Village Culture, the Oracle Clan and is an advocate for The Fountain.earth, Bioneers, Unify, and the Compass @ Lightning in a Bottle. Her continued study and focus is in regenerative culture as an offering to this life and future generations to come.
namūna provides our guides similar to how mainstream religions support their leadership.
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All of our guides are active in the religion of no religion world. As such we support them to achieve all possible support that main stream religious leaders have access to
Various applicable religious tax-exemptions
Non-Profit status
Ordainment as a minister for weddings and funerals
(Our religious exemptions do not or protect anyone who works with currently illegal substances and we do not endorse any of those practices.)
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All guides receive non-profit status. We work with each guide to set them up to be able to receive philanthropy from their community.
Non-profit religious status to receive philanthropy
Access to our network or patrons
Underwriting for retreats
Grants
Finance or Book keeping
Financial mentorship programs
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Our guide community is a highly vetted group. Collaborations, support and gatherings have proved to be highly rewarding.
Invitational Gatherings
Mastermind cohorts
Mentorship with other guides
Monthly calls
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Spiritual teachers shouldn’t also have to be good a Instagram and Quickbooks.
Operations
Accounting
Finance
Admin
Marketing
Collaborative marketing
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namūna often functions like an ‘agency-ish’ for our unique world.
Support with event booking
Speaking
Workshop placement
negotiate compensation and donations
Support with donor communications