Yulia Smagorinsky (they/them) is an organic community farmer, mentor, writer, parent, mindfulness meditation teacher and a facilitator for the Work that Reconnects.
Yulia is a passionate advocate of the rights of nature. As a co-founder and co-leader of Emergent Abundance Farming Collective, they are working toward social justice by sharing access to land, to knowledge, information, food and sources of healing.
Yulia is actively supporting the ability of people to grow their own food and to learn the skills to respectfully interact with the Earth. Yulia is dedicated to creating safe, trauma-sensitive platforms and pathways to hold space for others to heal, to listen deeply and to transform.
Education
Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training
Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness – David Treleaven
Certified Social and Ecological Permaculture Designer
Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program
Master of Science Agricultural Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim
Agricultural Systems and Groundwater Hydrology, Norsk Landbrukhogskolen, As, Norway
Bachelor of Science Agricultural Plant Science, University of Hohenheim
Affiliations
Work That Reconnects Network – Registered Facilitator
Spiral Journey International Facilitator Development Program – Administrator
Emergent Abundance Farming Collective – Co-Founder and Co-Director
Deep Times Journal – Published Author
Permaculture Women Magazine – Published Author