About Us

Activated Earth's Mission is to uplift and inspire humanity by providing experiential learning and reconnecting opportunities in nature for all.

Guiding Principles

To facilitate, support and strengthen relationship development between human and nature intelligence by hosting earth-honoring guided forest experiences and nature-based workshops.
To spark curiosity and provide experiences in nature that serve to renew our spirit and our mystical connection to nature.
To empower people of different races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, genders, and sexual orientations to remember their innate and mutually restorative relationship with Nature and to serve our vibrant and diverse communities uniquely.
To be an ally in decolonizing the environmental sectors by providing trauma-informed, equity-centered experiential learning and reconnecting opportunities in nature.
To empower BIPOC by fostering a sense of ownership in forest resources, thereby creating a more sustainable existence for the forest as well as an better quality of life for all.
To uphold key concepts of best practices in environmental education.

Meet Yanina

Yanina is a first generation immigrant from Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a curandera, environmental educator, ceremonial artisan and the founder of Activated Earth and BioForest Restore™

Yanina values sacred reciprocity with nature, the universe, and all living beings and is passionate about sharing that message. She creates Medicine Wheel Pollinator Gardens to restore native plant species as well as traditional ecological knowledge and practices. Yanina currently resides in the ancient mountains of Asheville, North Carolina.

Trainings

Healing Arts

North Carolina Certified Environmental Educator- NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Diploma in Forest Mgmt. Technology-Natural Resource Specialist
Tremont Institute- Naturalist Studies
Non-Violent Communication Training Level 1 and 2- NVC Asheville
DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) Training- Racial Equity Institute, ongoing 2016 - present
Trauma-informed Training- NAMI Family to Family Educational Program
Trauma-informed Coach Certificate- The Centre for Healing
BLS (Basic Life Support) CPR Certified 2023

Curanderismo (Nahua and Mayan Traditional Medicine), Tonazhiua Holistic Center
Pampa Mesayoq Rites (Master of Nature Energies) don Wilbert Salas-Atasi, Q'ero lineage
Healing the Light Body- Alberto Villoldo teachings, taught by Theodore Tsavoussis
Heart of the Healer Shamanic Mystery School- don Oscar Miro- Quesada
Herbal Immersions Program- Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
Certified Sivananda Yoga & Meditation- Vastu School of Yoga
Reiki Level 1 and 2 Practitioner- North Carolina Reiki Training Center