In October of 2019 Cassie’s life was completely upturned when fires burned through her home and school. After the shock subsided, Cassie turned to the flow of creativity to aid her in healing and discovering what the next chapter of her life would hold. Always a dancer, a baker, a gardener, a quilter, a painter, a teacher of embodied arts, a movement therapist, she brought all the tools of her trade to bring healing to herself, others and the land she stewards in Northern California. Cassie is a wild card in a world of order and her path to this moment has been curvy, full of surprise, life, love and beauty. In 1988, Cassie graduated with an MA in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University. She went on to work in psychiatric hospitals in New York while continuing her career as a teacher and dancer. In 1991, Cassie returned to Naropa to teach, help administer and eventually to become the director for the Somatic Psychology Department. During this time she had a private practice which focused on authentic movement as a primary modality for healing, birthed two beautiful daughters and, during the summer of 1999, moved her whole family to Sonoma County, California. Cassie was returning home after being gone for 20 years. The next twenty years of her life was spent raising her girls and creating an extraordinary offering, LEAPYEAR, with her husband. LEAPYEAR was an alternative year of college in which students were on retreat, at what is now SeedPods Living Arts Center, for 8 weeks of the year and spent the rest of their time either traveling with a group through India of Latin America (first semester) and then on a solo internship anywhere in the world (second semester). Cassie created the curriculum for the year and when the students were on retreat they learned about emotional literacy, right speech, communication skills as well as spending time on the land and in the kitchen learning how to work with their hands and to create beautiful meals for each other. It was an extraordinary time for all as we all learned about evolving consciousness (our own) and how to the serve the world in these ever changing times. Since the 2019 fire, Cassie has been on a creative and soul searching quest finding that home is where she is and out of that discovery birthed the creation of SeedPods Living Arts Center!