Your Retreat Coordinators
Flor-Mari Crisostomo, MA, CPLC
Flor-Mari Crisostomo is a dynamic force in the worlds of hospitality, event production, and community building. Her diverse career spans roles as a marriage and family therapist, biomedical researcher, and caterer. Flor-Mari has seamlessly combined her passion for food, creativity, and connection into thriving businesses, including Iris and Poppy Kitchen and the pandemic-born Picnic with Me Seattle.
A natural visionary, she transforms ideas into unforgettable experiences, whether through curated dining pop-ups or bespoke events. Her expertise in crafting memorable moments is rooted in her ability to cultivate joy and connection, bringing people together through food and fun.
In addition to her entrepreneurial ventures, Flor-Mari is a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on criminal behavior. She also serves as a facilitator for Awareness, Courage, and Love, a global movement dedicated to creating connections through deep and meaningful conversations. Her love for understanding human dynamics extends to her favorite shows, like Criminal Minds, and the podcast Crime Junkie.
A devoted mother of two amazing adults, she finds inspiration in cuisines from around the world and counts a classic tuna melt or an egg salad sandwich—and a side of potato chips—as her go-to comfort meal. Now based in San Francisco, Flor-Mari believes that meaningful moments and shared experiences have the power to connect and transform lives.
Amihan Flores Crisostomo, MPH
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Our Facilitators, Experts & Practitioners
Dr. Amy Day, ND
Dr. Amy Day is a women’s health and hormone expert who has been at the forefront of the natural women’s health movement since 2004 when she received the 4th Naturopathic Doctor license in the state of California.
She is a sought-after speaker and is the founder and clinic director of The Women’s Vitality Center, a virtual concierge-style practice based out of Oakland, CA. Using a unique approach called The VITAL Method her team offers compassionate care that combines lifestyle counseling, functional lab testing, nutritional supplements and bioidentical hormones to help women+ feel great in and about their bodies, and stay vital throughout all stages of life.
Learn more at www.WomensVitalityCenter.com
Valerie Tookes
Valerie Tookes is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness coach who believes that you, trusting your body’s deepest wisdom, equals true health. As lead coach at The Women’s Vitality Center, she has devoted her life to helping women transform their world by changing the way that they see and talk to the woman in the mirror. She is also a faculty member in the Open Source Wellness coach training program.
One client described her time in coaching as “priceless,” while another declared Valerie’s encouragement as “allowing her to step outside of her comfort zone and begin to live a healthier lifestyle.” She holds degrees from Florida State University, University of Oregon and the California Institute for Integral Studies as well as a wide variety of coaching certifications.
Mia Velez
Mia Velez (she), E-RYT 500, believes that teaching is a privilege and learning is a reciprocal process between student and teacher. She teaches Ving Tsun Kung Fu, offers yoga to incarcerated men, and stress management techniques to new parents. After completing her first 200-hour teacher training in 2008, she began to see undeniable parallels in Yoga and Kung Fu. Her goal in teaching is to connect with the students and to facilitate a safe space for exploration and self-inquiry. She is a teacher trainer, a mentor and DEI Coordinator at Integral Yoga Institute.
Her goal in her life’s work is to liberate herself and others from oppressive conditioning so she and others can live harmoniously with Nature/ Great Mystery/ The Source/ God/ Tao, or any other name one uses to articulate the thing that makes things so. Kung Fu and Yoga are integrated into her daily life as a healer, a householder, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race and class equity through multiple organizations. Her wish is for people to awaken to their true purpose in this life.
Jessica Bloom
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Lily Panyacosit
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Becca Mehling
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Maryzelle Ungo
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