Sarinda Hoilett @sarindah) is a plant food alchemist and chef, yoga instructor, holistic massage practitioner, philosopher, and mother. She has been practicing Osho Rebalancing, integrative bodywork that includes deep tissue massage, Trager, breathwork, cranial sacral therapy, and intuitive energy work, for 23 years. Sarinda completed her yoga teacher training at Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. She combines the two practices at her studio, Earth Wisdom Yoga and Bodywork in Mount Currie, British Columbia.

Sarinda founded Wild Planet Raw Food and holds workshops and retreats on living cuisine and natural healing. She also worked as a raw food chef. Sarinda aspires to transform her land in the coastal mountains of British Columbia into a biodynamic permaculture oasis.  “Our most intimate connection to the planet is through the food that we eat, the air that we breathe, and the water that we drink,” she says. 

In partnership with Spirit Plant Medicine Conference, Sarinda was awarded a Cosmic Sister Emerging Voices Award (CS EVA). She will participate in the panel “Rising Voices: Women of Color in the Sacred Plant Community,” on the main stage. 

Rising Voices: Women of Color in the Sacred Plant Community

Women of Color’s voices are greatly underrepresented in the psychedelic plant community, despite their demonstrated talent for, connection to, and keen interest in these profound medicines. Cosmic Sister is proud to sponsor the panel discussion “Rising Voices: Women of Color in the Sacred Plant Community,” on the main stage. Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance grant recipient and main stage speaker The Dank Duchess will moderate the panel, which includes Cosmic Sister Emerging Voices recipients interdisciplinary artist and storyteller Tonye Aganaba, plant food alchemist and chef and yoga instructor Sarinda Hoilett, urban gardener and community artist Sabrina Pilet-Jones, and performing artist and adventurer Vanessa Yuen.