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Misted Forest (they/them) is a multi talented “merperson” who gracefully sprinkles fun wherever they go while fiercely advocating for all beings to transform into their greatest and most authentic selves.
Misted Forest (they/them) is an artist, wellness coach, accessibility/disability advocate and educator, and healing movement, teacher.
" My greatest gift that I offer this world is the drive and ability of diving deep into research and experimentation, disseminating that knowledge and expressing it creatively for the general population to understand."
Misted is also getting their Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy at Dominican University.
Their goal is to become a licensed Mental Health and Art therapist. Once this is accomplished Misted would like to open up a nonprofit to help fill the gaps for neurodivergent adults who can not get disability but have support needs such as therapy, life skills training, entrepreneurship coaching and more.
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Education
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Currently in the M.A program in Art Therapy and Marriage and Family Counseling at Dominican University
Learn how you can help me and my peers in our graduate school journies.
Degrees
Bachelor's in Psychology from San Francisco State University
Associates in Liberal Arts with a focus in Linguistics from Kapiolani College 2013
Certificates
Trauma Sensitive Yoga 20 hour training
50 hour Teen Yoga from Rise Yoga for Youth 2016
200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher through San Mateo Community College 2015
Second Language Teaching Certificate from Kapiolani College 2013
Art Training
I was mostly self taught until about a year ago. Crazy right!?
Drawing with Color and Painting Fundamentals from UC Berkeley Extension.
Figure Drawing one and two from SRJC
Painting, Ceramics I and Etching I at SRJC
Beginning Wheel at Petaluma Pottery
Making pigments from scratch from the Historical Artist
6 years of being a professional figure model 2014-2020 (Through Bay Area Models Guild 2014-2018)
Other intensive Trainings
Completed 2 semesters of the Masters in Counseling and Buddhist Psychotherapy at Naropa University
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4 weeks of intense meditation practice at Shamballa Mountain Center
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Classes in Counseling and Buddhist Psychotherapy
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Daily Meditation Practice
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An extremally lively and thought provocatively cohort
Self Taught and work-based learning in the Wellness Feild
Over a decade of yoga and meditation practice
Over 15 years of wellness education: wellness conferences, supplement and herbal sales, nutrition conferences, nutrition and diet trainings, vegan and animal welfare trainings
Over 80 books listened to in the past 3 years
Expressive Arts Experience
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Dance Professional From 2014-2017
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Improv Actor and Comedian 2012-2018
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Basics in Iching Drumming from AUM
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Land Acknowledgment
Misted Forest recognizes that they live and work on Indigenous peoples lands in Sonoma County — namely the Pomo, Miwok and Wappo tribes
Learn More about coast Miwok and Pomo Here