Meet Our Team
April Blair
April Blair has been teaching in the Cascadia bioregion (NW US) for the past 18 years, weaving Waldorf Philosophy, Deep Nature Connection, Ancestral Skills, Permaculture, Diversity Awareness, and various Sensory and Therapeutic Healing Arts, including a resilience-based trauma-informed perspective into her work with children. She has also raised two unique children of their own.
Laura Mayer
Laura Mayer is co-creatrix of Cascadia Cauldron. She is a village herbalist and Innate Postpartum Practitioner, who is passionate about food as medicine, herbs as allies and connection as guidance. She is also the creatrix of Backyard Harvest; creating herbal medicines based on the inspiration of the seasons and the abundance of the harvests! She is dedicated to offering families support and inspiration through holistic healing that nourishes mind, body, soul, and the Earth, and honors intuition.
You can find her at www.backyardharvestherbal.com
Daniel Newman
Daniel Newman is a collaborator and co-creator of Mythic Adventures. He grew up camping and playing in the waters and mountains of the PNW, from being a Scout learning bushcraft skills and sailing in the Puget Sound as a boy, to becoming a rescue diver and continuing to build his bushcraft and ancestral skills through the many skillshares he regularly attends. He has also had the privilege of co-leading a group of boys ages 11-14 around Mt Hood on the Timberline Trail. In addition to sharing his many skills and love of the outdoors with groups of youth he is the Father of two beautiful daughters ages 10 and 16. He feels blessed to have the elementals of this bio-region as allies and supports on his parenting journey. With all the many distractions of modern life he is happy to help create deep connections with nature and self and hold a safe place for our youth to have the time to arrive in a new way.
