Ariel Johnson (she/her) is an embodiment facilitator and certified psychedelic integration coach specializing in trauma-informed somatic practices. With extensive training in ballet/modern dance, yoga (E-RYT 500), and Gyrotonic Level 1, she helps students cultivate greater presence and intuition in their connections with self, community, and the earth-body. A practitioner of meditation and mindfulness practices, she is a dedicated student of Gestalt Awareness Practice in the lineage of Christine Price, as well as grief tending with Francis Weller. As a certified Wilderness First Responder, Ariel is a facilitator and guide with Wildtender, supporting participants to cultivate deeper relationships with land, place, and the broader web of kinfolk.

Growing up in Japan, Washington, and California, Ariel inherited from her father a deep love of the natural world through camping and hiking. Now living with her family in Pacific Grove, California, she finds joy in studying natural history, literature, and Japanese tea ceremony.