The Story of Casa Comadres

Comadre

[koh-mah-dreh] noun 

1. A close female friend 

2. A midwife 

3. The mother of your godchild, or your child’s godmother

Casa Comadres has been incubating for almost a decade. Kristin and Lauren first met as wild seekers, in Berkeley, California. Their immediate connection and allyship began birthing expansive experiences and circles of inclusive human connection within weeks of meeting each other.

Through childbirth, the endings and beginnings of marriages, shamanic apprenticeship, trips to the Peruvian Amazon and other sacred places, Lauren and Kristin have repeatedly come back to the vision of an energetic container that can hold big and diverse transformation work for people focused on building a better world. With bustling individual private practices, and the planet’s movement into a more overt sea change, the time has finally arrived to bring Casa Comadres into the material world. 


Casa Comadres is a container that acknowledges that we are all godparents and midwives of this Earth. In short, we are stewards. At this dynamic moment in human history, so many of us are feeling a deep and embodied call to bring our unbounded gifts and skills into the light, in service of all Life.

Casa Comadres’
Co-Founding Stewards

  • … is a visionary conduit, a polymath, and a teacher of teachers. Her work as a spiritual wayshower has been followed by tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. With diverse training and experience in shamanic practice, energy healing, herbalism, and various global cosmological traditions through time, Kristin has guided over 500 people through potent initiation experiences and coached dozens through seasons-long whole person, whole life transformation through her high-touch mentorship containers.

    Her skill in translating complex aspects of mysticism into accessible 21st Century scientific language has made her sought after by founders, physicians, and philanthropists alike.

    Kristin is a direct descendant of Mapuche healers and a bilingual Spanish speaker raised on the Texas-Mexico border by ex-Mormon missionary parents. Her pedagogical orientation extends from her work in Religious Studies at Naropa University, decades of Buddhist practice, a 7 year apprenticeship in Amazonian curanderismo/vegetalismo, years as a multidisciplinary artist, and her teaching on Experimentalism at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

    In all of her endeavors, Kristin is motivated to use her build as multidimensional conduit to activate leaders in creating entirely new systems of power that center personhood beyond what seems possible within current social, economic, and political constructs.

  • … is an activator and builder serving at the intersection of psychedelics and conscious leadership. With a BA in Political Science from Yale University and a Dartmouth MBA, Lauren has examined how public and private sectors may convene for social progress. She carries deep expertise in systems of finance, business strategy, and entrepreneurship. She has shaped billions of dollars in dozens of Wall Street transactions, and has launched and led multiple enduring 500+ person scale social enterprise ventures in agriculture, hospitality, transformational coaching, and public policy.

    Lauren is a certified Reiki master with grounding in wisdom traditions that include Yogic and Tibetan Buddhist practice and South American shamanic traditions. Serving as a bridge between spiritual consciousness and on-earth leadership, Lauren has guided over 250 leaders through transformative awakening experiences across spiritual and psychosomatic dimensions of growth.

    As a queer single mother, Lauren is uncompromisingly oriented toward reshaping leadership paradigms and economic systems to drive equity and planetary wellbeing. She serves as Board President of Deva Collective, a nonprofit reimagining women’s health through integrative psychedelic practices and research.