About Micaiah
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Hello, my name is Micaiah (mi-KAI-uh). I’m delighted and honored to get to serve as a soul guide, healer, mentor, and ritualist for those on their path. What I offer in sessions is sourced in my profound love for and devotion to our world, my lifelong deep relationship with the lands of my upbringing, 15 years of dedicated contemplative practice and emotional wholing, years of wilderness immersions, soul work, and apprenticeships with my elders and mentors (see “Teachers & Influences” below).
At 19, I began training in Buddhist Monasticism and embodiment-based healing modalities. At 23, feeling called by the wilderness, I left the monastery to embark on a series of multi-month to year-long solo retreats in remote nature, that continued for the next 9 years.
My path of home-coming to the natural world and Spirit (Divine Mother, God, Universal Consciousness, Mystery…) has necessarily dove-tailed with my long path of coming back home into embodied presence and into a more thriving relationship with my emotions and soul.
Additionally, my journey through health crises has taught me much about self-love, healing from within, and has shaped me into a being who can deeply empathize with others.
I’m profoundly grateful for the path I’ve gotten to walk, and feel deeply honored for and also responsible to the relationships I’ve gotten to form with the lands that have held me through my life. I am called forth now to accompany and support others on their path of healing and homecoming.
Teachers & Influences
Teachers & Influences
My path and offerings have been inspired and supported by, along with many others, Carolyn Griffeth, Sobonfu Somé, Bill Plotkin, Joanna Macy, Tamarack Song, Ruth King, Laurence Cole, Tara Brach, Martín Prechtel, Pema Chodron, and Elizabeth Hamilton.
I currently serve as Relational Bridge to Earth & Soul on the team at Earthkeeper Wisdom School.
Identity Acknowledgment
Identity Acknowledgment
Through my mother, I descend from Ashkenazi Jewish peoples. Through my father, from peoples of present day Northern & Western Europe.
A central prayer of my life is to stand for and serve a world that honors and uplifts the inherent goodness, sacredness, and value of every being, of all races, genders, sexual orientations, economic classes, species, etc.
One aspect of embodying this prayer as a white, cis, & able-bodied presenting male, is dismantling from the inside-out white supremacy, cis-hetero-patriarchy, ableism and other forms of violence and oppression rampant in our world today.
I put this into practice through unearthing and questioning my blind spots, actively seeking to understand and empathize with the experience of those in other positionalities, uplifting people and communities of the global majority through contributions and service, and wholeheartedly welcoming feedback as I'm learning and growing.
Micaiah's Life Story
I trace my mystical path to the backpacking trip my father brought me on when I was 5 years-old in which he introduced me to the mountains that would become my life teachers and initiators.
My childhood was blessed with continuous access to food, water, shelter and other basic needs. I was deeply privileged to grow up on beautiful coastal lands with parents who encouraged nature connection. My upbringing also included significant trauma, which contributed to me becoming addicted to alcohol and heroin in my teens.
A big turning point came when I was 18, and at 19, I moved myself into a Buddhist temple in San Diego, CA and began intensive training in a blend of mindfulness meditation and embodiment-based psychology.
A year into this training, I began to see how disconnected I was from my body. Much of my waking life was driven by fear, self-loathing, and confused coping mechanisms of chronic busyness, people pleasing, and numbing out. Thankfully, the practices I was taught weren’t only about cultivating meditative states, but also centered on bringing wakeful and loving attention to the very patterns, core beliefs, and core pain that were leading me to flee embodied presence.
These practices became a central focus of my life for the next 8 years. At 20, I also began working with resettled refugees, the unhoused, and those on hospice in San Diego. Grief medicine became a central thread of my path.
In a Buddhist abbey in remote & pristine Cape Breton Island, Canada, visionary experiences in the woods re-awoke my childhood bond with nature and ignited in me an earnest resolve to shed western cultural conditioning and forge an authentic relationship with earth & Cosmos—to claim my authentic place in the Web of Life—and the unique gifts that are mine to give in service to the Web.
At 23, feeling called by the wilderness and my longing to deeply love and serve the world, I left the abbey to embark on a series of multi-month to year-long solo retreats in remote nature, which continued for the next 9 years. This sacred time, totaling over 3 years alone with the land in a rhythm of nature connection and inner cultivation, radically catalyzed my path.
I came to know degrees of connection with and devoted love for earth and this sacred life that I didn’t even know were possible for me. Through dreams and vision fasts, key elements of my soul were recovered. I found myself in a familial bond with the lands of my upbringing that is more intimate and vital than I can ever put words to. In between retreats, I worked as a live-in caregiver for two of my beloved niblings in their infancy, for elderly and differently-abled folx, and for animals and gardens.
My journey of wholeness and uncovering my authentic gifts has also been one of fire. I’ve journeyed through life-threatening wilderness crises, a decade of chronic back pain and digestive dis-ease, and hospitalization for malnutrition triggering weeks of hallucinations and encephalopathy, followed by months of insomnia and active suicidal ideations. With the help of good friends and mentors, these hardships eventually cracked me further open to intimacy with earth, deep-seated compassion for humanity, and ultimately to discovering my mystical gifts as a healer, soul guide and relational bridge to the land.
In the Winter of 2024 I emerged from a culminating 9-month solo rendezvous with the mountains. I celebrate that I have at last completed the initiatory journey of healing and soul discovery that began when I entered the temple in my teens. I am filled up with thanksgiving for my overwhelmingly blessed path. I also carry deep grief for what is unfolding in our world. I am deeply called in this life to hold space for our human family to thrive as we come into intimate relationship with our souls and the more-than-human-world, and to forge lives passionately in love with and devoted to Earth, Spirit and all Life. Through connection with the land, we are supported to uncover the unique treasures secreted in our souls and to wholeheartedly embody them in service to our people and these times.
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