The Village Aunties
Shea Bodine
I’m a mother, earth-praiser, song-holder, and community tender. I have completed trainings in somatic & embodiment work, trauma-informed facilitation, Coyote Mentoring, and grief training, as well as the Rites of Passage Guide Training with EarthPath Education. I hold a K-12 bilingual teaching license.
I am devoted to supporting individuals access their innate wholeness, through exploration of all facets and expressions of Self. For the past 12 years, I’ve served youth and families as a facilitator of a wide range of offerings—from classroom teaching, to nature-based education, emotional resilience coaching, to sacred space-holding for mothers and now threshold mentorship. The spaces I hold, offer meaningful connection rooted in soul, nature, ceremony, healing, and creative expression.
I hold a flame to the vision that we are rebuilding culture that honors and holds young people & their adults through their most important transitions in life. I live in Oregon with my two sons and partner, tending life through presence and song.
I'm a somatic psychotherapist, storyteller, musician, and mindfulness teacher. My work weaves together training in Unified Mindfulness, Voice Dialogue Parts Work, Somatic Experiencing, and Rites of Passage Council along with two years living and training at a Zen Buddhist monastery. I am also a student of the Diamond Approach, a path of spiritual inquiry and embodied realization.
All of these threads meet in the spaces I tend—places of deep listening, creative emergence, and soul connection.
I’m lit by the inner flame of curiosity to know and love myself and the world beyond the stories of limitation and fear. The heat of this love is what brings me into this offering space. There is great joy in my being when I can support another to see, feel, or know what hasn’t seemed available within themselves—to taste the satisfaction of greater freedom, love, and creativity.
The flame also shows up as a lifelong love of theater and the expressive play of the many “selves” that live within us. Through Voice Dialogue and somatic inquiry, I help these inner characters find their voice and place in the greater mandala of awareness, where contradiction can soften into wholeness.
Magnolia Medlin
Our Shared Vision
We carry a shared devotion to re-member the sacred task of raising youth in community.
To be a Village Auntie is to walk beside, to tend the fire of curiosity, and to model the courage it takes to be human.
We hold that every girl and teen already contains the wisdom she needs — our role is to help her trust it.