Facilitators & Artists
Caitlin Rose Kenney
Caitlin Rose is the founder and vision keeper of Threshold Project. She is an activist for supporting local farms and is dedicated to building community around local food systems and regenerative land practices.
Caitlin Rose has been teaching Yoga and Mindfulness since 2011 and is sought after for her expertise in Yin Yoga. She weaves 5 Element Philosophy, Chinese Meridian Theory, ecopsychology and poetry into her offerings. She is reknowned for her Seasonal Attunement workshops and pop-up classes on farms.
She is a student of Five Element Acupuncture and a folklore beekeeper.
Brittany Smith Cochran
Brittany supports Threshold Project’s programming, event production and development.
She began teaching Yoga in 2013 and has been certified in Yoga therapy, Yoga for Veterans, Yoga for PTSD, and Yoga for eating disorders. She has curated several international wellness retreats and enjoys marrying her love for adventure with the therapeutic effects of mindfulness practices. She continually expands her education repertoire of the healing arts
Brittany is a ceremonial drummer and loves all things mystical, magical, and mysterious. She is a habitual dreamer, and a ravenous student of metaphysics.
She is a dedicated volunteer for the Colorado Pet Pantry and loves spending time with her wonderful husband, Andrew Cochran, and two dogs, Roo and Jag.
April Tierney
April Tierney is a poet, craftswoman, mother, and lover of stories. She is the author of three full length collections of poetry, as well as the co-author of a chapbook and photographic anthology. Her work follows threads of ecopoetics, myth, culture, and lineage, and has been featured in The Wayfarer Magazine, Orion, and Real Ground Journal, among other publications.
April often melds her poetry with artists from different mediums. She has worked alongside musicians, vocalists, photographers, painters, dancers, essayists, and storytellers.
She has spent her whole life at the feet of the great Rocky Mountains; a rugged and increasingly dry landscape that has claimed her heart and given grit to her writing. She lives outside of Lyons, Colorado in the Territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapaho Peoples with her husband, young daughter, mischievous dog, and wide web of kin.
Livia Shapiro
Livia Shapiro is a mama, mover and mentor dedicated to fostering our individual and collective sense of wholeness and deep okayness through movement, expression and grounded self reflection.
She teaches embodiment through Yoga and the Movement Experiment and is is known for facilitating environments that are rich with clarity, nuance, humor, and discovery that allow people to feel deeply held while free to explore themselves fully.
As a Somatic Psychotherapist Livia works holistically, helping women reorient and repair their nervous systems to live more vibrantly and powerfully. She assists in processes of trauma healing, navigating the threshold journey of motherhood, and supporting the emergence of authentic desire and healthy impulses.
Livia holds a Masters of Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and is the author of The Somatic Therapy Workbook.
Sydney Leto
Sydney is pursuing her Master’s Degree in Mindfulness Based Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University.
Her winding journey to Naropa, and Boulder, included several years of serving food at farm-to-table restaurants, leading hiking and biking trips around the United States, reporting on agriculture as a freelance journalist, and working on organic farms.
As a therapist-in-training, Sydney feels most passionate about the relationship between mental health, meaning making and the natural world, and attributes much of her own healing to getting her hands in the dirt and growing food.
Sydney has also been teaching Yoga since 2015. Through sharing her practice of movement, meditation, and writing, Sydney aims to help others realign, heal and identify how to lead their most inspired lives.
Alex Bernat
Alex Bernat is the initiating author of Make Money Better. They are non-binary, and use they/them pronouns. Alex is an educator, an empowerment mentor, a harpist, a volunteer coordinator fighting hunger through food banking, and - accidentally - an economist.
Make Money Better proposes a new class of digital assets - Regenerative Currencies - that represent social and ecological well-being. This publicly licensed manuscript outlines systemic ways to use such assets to meet basic needs without cost - and without causing inflation - while still appropriately paying producers and providers. This model also makes it possible to associate the longevity and supply of a Regenerative Currency with real conditions through various mechanisms, making it financially beneficial for stakeholders to cultivate social and ecological well-being.
Julia Horn
Julia Horn was reared in North Carolina where the rich flora and fauna of the Appalachian forest informed her down to the bone. She has travelled around the world as a dancer, student, and then teacher, studying at the feet of yogic masters from here to something like Timbuktu.
When her father contracted cancer, her personal practice and teaching began to take a turn. She experienced first hand, the grounding and healing that was available through Yoga, became certified in working with cancer patients and those facing end of life transitions, and went on to study extensively in the therapeutic arena.
Julia's diverse performance background, small mountain-town upbringing, and unfolding life as rambler and curious investigator, infuse her teaching, coaching, and performance with a rich, artistic, patient, and nature-driven vision that inspires students of all levels.
Bry Kring
Certified Nurse-Midwife Bry Kring with The Birth Center of Boulder received a master’s degree in nurse-midwifery and a post-master’s as a family nurse practitioner from Vanderbilt University.
Bry is native to Boulder, CO. She has trained as a midwife in the United States and in Latin America. Her first introduction to the birthing world came in 2011 as an intern at a birth center on the border of Juarez, Mexico. Bry followed this with a live-in internship at a rural birth center in the highlands of Guatemala, run by traditional Mayan midwives.
Bry is also a Yoga teacher and has foundational training in Hatha Yoga, and more intensive training and mentorship in Earth Ways Yoga. Earth Ways Yoga is a system rooted in three layers of traditional wisdom: Yoga, 5 Element Philosophy, and Nature.
In her free time, Bry is a watercolorist, writer and loves being in nature, teaching Yoga, riding her motorcycle and getting her hands dirty in the garden.