Nixa De Bellis

Nixa's life long interest in spiritual traditions began in earnest through nature and art. While other children were out playing competitive sports, she soaked in sunshine as worship, immersed in water with elemental delight, and spent hours drawing flora and fauna as her favorite subjects, or grounding under the big pine tree ritually arranging seeds and sticks in prayerful contemplation.As a teenager, she found yoga, which has been the longest consistent endeavor of her life. She is a lineage holder of Rajanaka Sri Vidya with Dr Douglas Brooks and Gopala Iyer Sundaramoorthy, to whom she is eternally grateful for helping her find her heart in the expansively diverse ever-growing tree of life. She founded Inside Out Yoga School at exhale and Inside Out Yoga Village, both in Manhattan, for continuing studies in the deepest dimensions of the yogic mind.She has been a devoted Wiccan since Starhawk, her primary teacher in Magic, guided her in feminism, activism and permaculture. She has held sacred circles since 1991, holds moon rituals and all of the sabbats as a guide for interested hearts.Nixa has been meditating and teaching in the Wiccan, Yogic and Shamanic traditions for four decades.Nixa holds an aesthetics license in NYS, which she uses in her treatment practice including Shiatsu, massage, gua sha, skin care, acupressure, AromaPoint Therapy and other spa therapies. She is a certified herbalist, mixes brews and blends of aromatic healing, and knows that the refinement of the senses is the accomplishment of Earthling wellness, insight, intuition and imagination.Nixa has been spending time in the woods and waterfalls of the Hudson Valley since 2014, reclaiming the spirituality of Great Nature in nature, ever-happily.In recent years, Nixa has earned a certification through SUNY Albany School of Social Work in Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy to aid her proficiency in her work as a SoulCollage Facilitator. SoulCollage is a method, created by a Jungian psychotherapist, that involves using prepared images to access deep insight and inner guidance, voicing the images, scribing for others, sharing ourselves and making a collage card, or what might become an entire deck of oracle cards. Like tarot from one's own soul. Nixa offers SoulCollage Card-Making Studios, Card-Reading Salons and SoulCollage Gallery exhibits in the Hudson Valley at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck and at Evolutionary Holistic Healing in Kingston.