Facilitators in Residence

Stephanie is a psychotherapist who has developed Presence Embodied, an approach which integrates Breathwork, Compassionate Inquiry of Dr. Gabor Maté, the Contemplative Psychotherapy of Joe Loizzoand Dr. Robert Thurman, and the Micro-dosing protocol of James Fadiman.

A former model and yoga teacher, Stephanie decided to devote her life in helping people heal their trauma after she experienced healing symptoms of trauma herself. She uses her protocol in 1-1 sessions, group settings, workshops, and retreats.

Stephanie also shares with her husband Giancarlo a passion for regenerative farming. They resource themselves in the nature and silence of Ibiza with their family.

A professor of psychology for more than 20 years at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where Ferrer also served as chair of the Department of East-West Psychology and launched a concentration on Shamanic Studies. He currently teaches in several psychotherapy training programs and coaches top-rank world executives through Mobius Executive Leadership.

Considered one of the principal architects of contemporary transpersonal psychology, Ferrer is the author of dozens of articles and several books on psychology, education, and religious studies.

He is the creator of Embodied Spiritual Inquiry and Transpersonal Somatics, and offers spiritually grounded, holistic counselling to individuals and couples in both English and Spanish. In addition to psychospiritual guidance, he specializes in intimacy and couples counselling: infidelities or broken agreements; jealousy; sexual challenges or incompatibilities; struggles with monogamy, polyamory, or open relationships; and the design of more satisfying intimate relationships.

Ferrer received the Fetzer Institute Presidential Award for his seminal work on consciousness studies, was a member of the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory and Research, and an advisor to the Religions for Peace organization at the United Nations. Ferrer is a wachumero (San Pedrista) in the Peruvian lineage of Rubén Orellana and Victoria Hughes and has studied entheogenic shamanism for more than two decades. He was born in Barcelona, Spain.

Muriel Haas is a trauma informed somatic practitioner and sexuality coach. She empowers individuals and groups to reclaim and own their pleasure, peace and power by supporting them to connect with their sexual energy and the wisdom of the body.

Through somatic tools, bodywork, nervous system work, tantric practices, erotic hypnosis and various methods to cultivate self awareness and erotic aliveness, Muriel supports her clients on their journey from contraction to expansion and into their fullest expression.

 “A woman connected to her pussy and the wisdom of her body is a woman in her power”

Italian by birth and a former civil engineer, after exploring the globe travelling, a burnout, and a long history of short intense dragging relationships, she experienced a spiritual awakening while living in Brazil at 26. A few years later, in 2018, she moved to Barcelona, becoming an Expert in NLP Coaching, completing the level 2 of the SAT program on the Enneagram of Personality by Claudio Naranjo, and finally pursuing a 3-year master’s in Integral Transpersonal Psychology. 

Meanwhile, after the last painful break-up, she embarked on a year-long celibate journey, that led her to explore sexuality from the perspectives of Neo-Tantra, Somatic Sexuality, The Art of Temple (ISTA), and Embodied Spirituality, developing her own sexual practice and approach to intimacy. 

Eliane is the founder of Spicy Spirit, a project to guide curious humans in the process of (re)learning how to create “intimacy” with themselves and others. Combining the wisdom of transpersonal psychology and sexuality, she offers private sessions to support people to thrive, through challenges in life and sexuality. Additionally, she facilitates workshops and retreats in Spain and Italy. She truly believes that “Consciousness is Sexy”.