ALASKA

ENTHEOGENIC

AWARENESS

COUNCIL

Regina is a from Holy Cross, Alaska, an Athabaskan village located on the Yukon river. She grew up in rural Alaska where her mother, Marie Demientieff, worked as both a traditional counselor and substance abuse counselor. In the spring of 2007, Regina traveled to Peru where she was introduced to the world of shamanic healing. Inspired by her experience, she moved to Peru in 2009 where she spent three years training with indigenous curanderos in the Amazon rainforest.

Regina has a deep reverence and respect for the Shipibo-Conibo tribe and resonates strongly with their healing practices. She has organized and facilitated many healing retreats in Peru and is passionate about sharing the wonders of entheogenic plant medicine with the world.

Regina works as an indigenous rights advocate and political organizer in Alaska. She has a BA in psychology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in political psychology at Arizona State University.

Betsi is a life coach and integration specialist in Anchorage, Alaska. Her professional background includes science communication, wilderness guiding, and community development. She first learned about entheogens in an immersive course with Dennis McKenna and Kathleen Harrison in 2010, and later had her own awakening experiences, first at Burning Man and later in Peru at an Ayahuasca retreat center, where she was in service for several months. She is dedicated to creating containers, both one-on-one and in groups, where people can heal and grow.

Deenaalee, (They/Them) is Deg Xit’an Dene and Sugpiaq from the villages of Gitr’ingithchagg (Anvik) and Qinuyang (South Naknek), Alaska. Descended from Rivers, the Ocean and named after the great northern Mountain, Deenaalee seeks to ground their work in regenerative economies, food sovereignty and security, circumpolar geopolitics, and plant medicine in the lessons these being teach us; to flow and find grace through daily rapids and meandering; to find depth, breadth and pleasure in the vastness of our interspecies being; and to hold space for the multiplicity of life we interact with through time while deeply rooted to place.

In 2022, Deenaalee visited Peru for the first time to sit with La Medicina under the guidance of Shipibo Curanderos. Their experience with entheogens has led to their sobriety and investment of plant medicine as a path toward addiction recovery and reconnection with the land. Deenaalee is currently working toward building access to ceremony and strengthening the ties between northern and southern traditional healing modalities. They find their joy in spending time working with their hands mending fishing nets and tanning hides, and feasting in community with traditional foods that were gathered, harvested, and grown locally.