Mina Isabel Shahriary

Hello! I’m Mina Isabel—and yes, that’s me gazing at an oak tree in deep admiration while casually striking a yoga pose.

I love sharing somatic and rewilding practices, making plant medicines, and creating healing spaces for those who long to reconnect with the innate wisdom held within our bodies—and remember the truth of who we are as humans.

I grew up in a loving, mixed-culture home in the D.C. suburbs, often feeling—like many of us—a sense of disconnection from both the land where I was born and my ancestral homelands, which include present-day Iran and Northern Ireland.

Much of my journey "home" has been about remembering what it means to live in deep relationship with my body and the land I live on.

This path has led me to traditional knowledge systems rooted in unbroken spiritual and ecological connection. I’ve spent many hours in formal training and continue to learn from teachers of vitalist herbalism, classical Tantra, yoga and Ayurveda, Zoroastrianism, and Andean nature mysticism. I hold deep gratitude for the ways these lineages continue to shape my life and work.

I’m drawn to syncretic pathways rooted in interdependence, inner work and cultural respect. Lately, my curiosity is especially alive around the feminine mysteries, water consciousness, vibrational healing and the co-creation of New Earth.

I live on traditional Cherokee land in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where my partner Kyle and I steward a 33-acre regenerative homestead with our two little boys and a lively crew of cats, dogs, chickens and ducks.

With deep reverence for the intelligence of nature, my work is grounded in the belief that healing and wisdom are always available—through attunement to the rhythms of body, earth and sky. I trust in the power of plant medicines, embodiment, nature connection and community as potent ways to mend the ancestral and cultural wounds—the story of separation—that has left so many of us feeling disconnected and disempowered.

My work is devoted to helping others remember and reclaim their innate capacity for vitality, joy and sovereignty—to move beyond old patterns and conditioning, and begin writing a new story rooted in interconnection and wholeness.

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants