Anita Bondi and Naila Francis

Anita Bondi, Ph.D is the founder of Wellspring Holistic Center which has been in existence since 1994 based in the Pocono Mountains of PA. She is a leader in the fields of Holistic Health and Somatic Based practices and has been in private practice since 1989. She has led workshops all over the country and in the UK . She is a life long lover of  meditation, movement and writing and enjoys leading ecstatic dance events, wild writing sessions, and teaching meditation and mindfulness. She brings an enthusiasm and warmth, along with a deep presence and listening as she meets each person and each moment with gratitude and awe.

Naila Francis is a certified grief coach and death midwife, an ordained interfaith minister and writer/poet. Through one-on-one coaching, workshops, rituals and ceremonies, she holds soulful and holistic space for grief, inviting people to journey alongside their losses with compassion, authenticity and heart-centered care. Her work is additionally informed by Francis Weller’s grief ritual leadership training, Strozzi Somatics’ Embodied Transformation and her apprenticeship in an earth-based Andean mystical tradition. Naila is also a founding member of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective honoring and reclaiming grief as natural and sacred through community rituals. She is especially devoted to holding communal grief spaces where we can practice getting free and being human together. Learn more at www.thishallowedwilderness.com or www.salttrailsphilly.com