The articulate guides
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The articulate guides 〰️
SAVANNA FELSTEAD
Savanna is a medicine carrier, facilitator, visionary, and lifelong creative devoted to personal and collective liberation through the intelligence of the natural world, movement, music, Indigenous wisdom, and Western psychology. Guided since childhood by a deep pull toward consciousness and flow states - through ballet, dance, and later expanding into yoga, music, meditation, and work with Indigenous teachers across Central and South America. She holds over 17 years of personal and professional psychedelic experience and 6 years of traditional apprenticeship in plant medicines. Savanna continues her studies and dedicated work alongside Shipibo Conibo Onanya healer Maestra Ynes Lopez-Sanchez and her family in the Peruvian Amazon.
In non-medicine retreat spaces, Savanna’s work is grounded, intuitive, and embodied. With training in somatics, movement, bodywork, parts work, energetics, kinesiology, and meditation, her approach centres on strengthening connection through the body’s natural rhythm, creative instinct, and our relationship with the plant kingdom - all in service to awakening the truest expression of Self and sovereignty in how we move within the world.
As the co-founder of ARTICULATE, Savanna is devoted to cultivating real change through community, creativity, and systemic liberation. ARTICULATE marks the first stage of a living school that aims to build a lasting cultural structure based around intergenerational relating, consciousness exploration, and reciprocal ways of living with nature. She is committed to her vision for a community devoted to weaving a culture that can echo through time, offering a new culture for future generations.
HOLLIE THOMAS
Becoming a mother to a wonderfully curious child has been Hollie’s greatest initiation - a profound remembering that the heart never leads you astray. This journey continues to shape her with joy, humility and openness, offering a clear and compassionate understanding of what it means to be human.
As co-founder of ARTICULATE, Hollie brings a rare ability to balance corporate expertise with soulful purpose. With two decades of experience in Brand, Marketing and Production, she's collaborated with international brands and visionary leaders across London, New York, Shanghai and Sydney. Her capacity to move seamlessly between strategy, creativity and intuition has made her a trusted partner in projects that require both precision and heart.
Alongside her corporate path, Hollie is devoted to creating spaces for genuine connection and personal awakening. She facilitates retreats, ceremonies and community gatherings that help people reconnect with themselves and each other. Trained in Vedic Meditation, attuned as a Reiki practitioner, and experienced in cacao ceremony facilitation, she weaves practices that nurture listening, remembering and acting from one’s own truth.
Hollie aspires to live from the heart and be guided by spirit. As Katharine Hepburn said, “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun” - a sentiment that reflects her commitment to living boldly, consciously and unapologetically aligned.
TASHA SAMARA SAMUELS
Moving between the quiet of the mat and the ruggedness of wild landscapes, Tasha Samuels teaches from a place where body, breath, and earth meet. Her background spans Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Qi Gong, Body-Mind Centering®️, Zen Thai Shiatsu, 5 Element Theory, massage, Reiki, and many years of meditation and awareness practice both practicing and studying with many amazing facilitators around the world. She has been steeped in yoga since 2008 and guiding others since 2014 both on the mat and in the bush.
Tasha’s love for movement extends far beyond the studio - she is a canyoning and abseiling guide, a sailor and windsurfer, a kayaker, a rock climber, a surfer and a devoted nature lover. She spends much of her life outdoors, walking in nature and exploring wild places. Since 2018 she has been apprenticing herself to traditional survival skills, bushcraft, and nature-connection mentoring. Her sessions invite slowness, deep listening, and a remembering of our place within the more-than-human world.
BENJAMIN COOLING
Benjamin is a charismatic and vibrant human who carries the archetype of the spiritual clown and magician - the one who reveals truth through humour, depth through play, and authenticity through disarming presence. He is a devoted father, storyteller, actor, medicine facilitator, and creative, moving through life with a rare blend of mischief, heart, and sincerity.
His working practice began in his early twenties as a meditation teacher and student of energy healing. Ben has over a decade of experience with numerous teachers and years of facilitation, from yoga and tantra to medicine ceremony and men's retreats. These experiences have shaped his ability to hold both the profound and the playful, the sacred and the human, with equal reverence.
Benjamin is a natural coach and a pillar within his men’s community. He has an intuitive gift for drawing out deep, authentic communication from those around him, using his own “masks” consciously to mirror and relate to the unconscious masks others carry.
He now dedicates much of his energy to the psycho-spiritual craft of acting, training within the Meisner lineage. For him, acting is not performance - it is a path of truth-telling, emotional exploration, and embodied presence. His work continues to inspire those around him to inhabit their fullness, speak from the heart, and return to the honesty of their own experience.
maddie Culican
Embarking on a rhythmic journey through life, Maddie finds her heartbeat in dance and her soul in spiritual exploration. Her initiation into Vedic Meditation became a gateway to the profound realms of Yogic and Vedic wisdom. Venturing through the inspirational landscapes of Sri Lanka and India, she immersed herself in ancient healing practices, uncovering the transformative powers of Reiki, Yoga, Marma Therapy and Ayurveda.
These learnings weave themselves into her bodywork as an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Abhyanga Massage Therapist, with her nurturing, holding presence and meticulous strokes. She enlivens the whole physiology, grounding and nurturing the physical body while going beyond and fostering deep spiritual rejuvenation.
Dedicated to aligning with the rhythms of nature, inspiring others to come back into balance and uncovering a remembering of our true essence through daily rituals, lifestyle practices and plant medicine. In each step of her exploration, Maddie seeks to blend the wisdom of the past with the vibrancy of the present, creating a harmonious dance that resonates with the experience of life.
Whether she's dancing barefoot in the bush or whipping up a kitcharee for loved ones, Maddie finds pure joy in these simple pleasures. She cherishes the camaraderie of her sisters, revelling in the magic that unfolds when women come together in celebration.