Our Team

Benji

CURRENT SERVICE

  • Yoga instructor and project manager at the Yoga Studies Institute, a global non-profit providing yoga philosophy and practice.

  • Owner of Giving Tree Nursery providing fruit and nut trees to the local community.

  • Partner in Gentle Spirit Healing Studio in Hendersonville, NC, offering massage and craniosacral therapy for local community

PAST SERVICE

  • Caretaker a 7 person co-housing community in Fruitland, NC: Blossom Branch Homestead. This project includes land management, tiny house construction, electric & plumbing, community development, human relations, community gardens.

  • Managed five acre homestead in Central Florida; establishing food forests and edible plants systems, tiny home construction, homestead luncheon and tour events and working with intentional community

  • 7 years experience working in nursery setting for organic edibles and native plants at A Natural Farm. Development of ANF e-commerce websites, shipping fruit trees and edible plants across the world.

  • Consultant & Installation in various landscapes across southeast USA and Costa Rica

  • Wilderness Therapy Instructor for at-risk youth

STUDY

  • Bachelors in Studio Art, SUNY Oneonta

  • Bachelors in Computer Art, SUNY Oneonta

  • 500 Hour RYS with Yoga Alliance

  • Lady Niguma Yoga Levels 1 + 2 with YSI

  • Yoga Sutra 1-4 courses with YSI

  • Hatha Yoga Pradipika 1-4  with YSI

  • Bhagavad Gita 1 with YSI

  • Sanskrit for Yogis with YSI

  • Yoga for Financial Abundance with YSI

  • Yoga for Negative Emotions with YSI

  • Foundations of Meditation with Michael Johnson

  • Foundations of Mantra with Michael Johnson

  • 198 Day Challenge with Michael Johnson

  • Science of Stretching Coach with Yoga Body

  • Breath Coach with Yoga Body

  • Meridian Yoga I with Science of Self

  • Vegan Permaculture Design Certification course with Graham Bennett

  • Permaculture Design Certification course with Geoff Lawton

  • 45 Day Temezcal Retreat