ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Avi Salloway is an acclaimed musician, activist, and educator based in Burlington, VT. He grew up learning music from American folk legends, Pete and John Seeger, and from an early age, was exposed to the power of music to bring people together. Over the last 20 years he has collaborated with musicians all over the globe. He has toured with Bombino, the Tuareg guitar hero from Niger, lived in the Middle East working with Palestinian and Israeli youth musicians to transform conflict, and joined the native-led resistance at Standing Rock. Salloway is the bandleader of Billy Wylder and has recorded on 15 albums and performed over 1500 concerts across six continents from Coachella to Carnegie Hall, Rio de Janeiro to Sydney. He has collaborated and performed with Jack Johnson, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tinariwen, David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors), Mike Gordon (Phish), The Low Anthem, Celia Woodsmith, and Pete Seeger. Salloway is the founder and musical director of All the Rivers, a global ensemble of over 20 international musicians who now call Vermont home.
Gerard Williams is a lifelong student of multiple traditions of yoga. Currently studying the Tibetan yogas under Garchen Rinpoche, who is revered by many as a genuine, living enlightened master, from the last generation of Tibetan teachers to receive his training in Tibet before the Chinese occupation destroyed centuries of wisdom. Our sessions will aim to clear blockages in our body, speech, and mind through asana practice, prayer, meditation, and evening dream yoga practices. Dream yogas are a powerful, though lesser known modality, that bring recognition to the clear light of consciousness during dream and sleep states.
Kāya Pulz is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, through massage therapy, acupuncture, qigong, and meditation, as well as a journey and space holder through native Abenaki traditions. Growing up on the Passamaquoddy land of coastal Maine, she was taught the ways of foraging and plant medicine from her local elders and went on to study medicinal plants in the Himalayas - where her love for TCM and Buddhism blossomed. She then resided at Green Gulch Zen Center in California and began her deep study into meditation. Through these experiences she has woven earthly and celestial stories into folk songs that she is now sharing with the world.
