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Homestead • Podcast • Seasonal Ceremonial Micro-Village & Library of Earth Magic

Established in 2020 by Yaya Erin Rivera of the arts, culture and education organization Active Culture Family, Escuela del Río Cósmico is located in the foothills of the Cuyumaca Mountains, on Kumeyaay land in Southern California. Río Cósmico is a place where elder and emerging folk medicine practitioners, earth tenders, and other wisdom keepers can exchange multidimensional tools, and support one another on the Green Road to responsible, creative, liberated embodiment.

Yaya Erin Rivera

Creative Director & Land Steward

Yaya Erin Rivera is a bicultural Folk Medicine Practitioner specializing in sacred plant medicines for creativity, communication, right relationship and liberation. Best known through her work as Active Culture Family, Yaya walks a path of stewardship and service to Atabey/ Itiba Cahubaba ( Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Gaia) through her rolls as a mother, artist, knower of plants, and guest steward of Río Cósmico, a unique 4 season homestead nestled in the foothills of the Cuyumaca mountains (Kumeyaay Land, Southern California) Of primarily Taino and Irish descent, Yaya was raised on a 100 acre tree farm in a small town in the rural Northeast of Abya Yala ( Turtle Island, USA), where she was taught by her elders from a young age the skills and cosmology neccessary for living in harmony and reciprocity with the natural world. Yaya Erin is the host of the Río Cósmico Podcast, the facilitator of our Seasonal Support Circles for members (online), and the host of the Medicine Mandala Folk Medicine Apprenticeship.

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Amber Voner

Creative Consultant & Equity Advocate

Amber is a hair historian & technician, breathwork practitioner in training, and queer community cultivator. Her passions for the esoteric arts, mother nature, fine details and curiosity intersect with their intuitive equity and harm reduction study and practice. Amber currently resides in the East Coast on Narragansett and Wampanoag lands in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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Lux Sterling

Web & Ceremony Support

My name is Lux, and I am a multiethnic, non-binary, queer earthling with Norwegian-American and Nigerian-American ancestry. I was born, raised and currently live on Ute, Arapaho and Cheyenne territory in Denver, Colorado. I am an Integrative Healthcare student, psychedelic sitter and guide. I am dedicated to self exploration, growth and helping to create safe spaces for others to have expansive and healing experiences inside of themselves.

Courtney Graham

Portal Priestess & Kitchen Witch

Courtney is a creative writer and artist, with a passion for spiritual philosophy and indigenous medicine. The 8 limbs of Yoga were her doorway into Self-realization, and she has been practicing and teaching for over 20 years, most recently as an Iyengar apprentice. Her compass in life has been to cultivate and share practices that support Awakening, Embodiment, Compassion, Bliss, and Harmony. She is an Ayurveda Counselor, Massage Therapist, Green witch, and is now both a student and a promoter of a Regenerative Health MA/PHD program with a focus on Jin Shin TARA and the Prenatal Origins of Health. Now living in the foothills of the Appalachians in the northwest corner of South Carolina ( the region of the Cherokee people) she gave birth at home to her baby daughter in the spring of 2024.

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