Naia Riley

Naia Riley is a legally ordained Priestess and Ceremonialist who has been teaching for the past 10 years. She loves working with people to help them find their inner voice and reconnect to their spiritual self. She supports her clients by using a combination of education, nutrition, movement, ceremony, and ritual. As an international teacher and performance artist, she offers embodiment practices that awaken the mind, body, and spirit.

Naia has trained extensively to provide trauma informed care and supported the development of an intensive outpatient program for people recovering from trauma – The Luminous Healing Center. Naia weaves her own stories of recovery and healing into her teachings, receiving rave reviews from clients praising her approach that combines empathy and humor with evidence-based knowledge. As a Priestess and Ceremonialist, she has trained for over 5 years in teaching Quimera Method, a ritual dance technique and performance art form that promotes healing through the medicine of movement. Naia utilizes these methods in her ceremonial workshops, as well as in her day job to help people heal from trauma and eating disorders.

Credentials & Certifications

• B.S. – Pre-Medical Nutrition Science

• M.A. Candidate – Family & Consumer Sciences

• Trauma-Informed Registered Dietitian Nutritionist

• Primary Researcher at San Francisco State University developing an experimental trial identifying novel trauma focused techniques for eating disorder patients to reduce food anxiety and improve nutritional status

• Legally ordained Priestess through the Temple of the Goddess Isis

• Quimera Method – Ritual Dance certification

Intentional Nutrition

• Founder of Rising Wellness RD – outpatient eating disorder treatment program

• Nutrition Program Coordinator at The Lotus Collaborative Eating Disorder Recovery Center

• “Intuitive Eating” – 6 week series at The Lotus Collaborative, San Francisco

• “Food as Medicine: Nutrition for Trauma Healing” – Two part series at The Luminous Healing Center, Santa Cruz

• “Cacao Ceremony” at Burning Man, Lake Atitlan, and The Center SF

• 10 Day “Embodiment Transformational Retreat” in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

 

Groups

• “Red Tent Sisterhood” – Monthly meetings at Sacred Awakenings Reiki studio

• “New Moon Serpent Ceremonies” at DA Dance Studio in Concord, CA

• “Meditation Mondays” – Weekly meditation group at Cal Poly, SLO

• “The Merry Hoopsters” – Weekly flow arts group at Cal Poly, SLO

• “Let’s Talk Sex” – Monthly sex education group at Cal Poly, SLO

• “Intuitive Eating” – 6 week series at The Lotus Collaborative, San Francisco

 

Workshop
Experience

Trauma & Sexuality

• Educator and Nutrition Program Coordinator at The Luminous Healing Center in Santa Cruz

• “Let’s Talk Sex: Embracing Your Sacred Sexuality” at Heart & SOUL-stice Festival

• “Intimacy Alchemy & Sacred Sexual Artistry” at Lucidity Festival

• “Healing from Trauma through Sacred Sexuality” at Burning Man

• “Let’s Talk Sex” – Monthly sex education group at Cal Poly, SLO

Movement Arts

• Performances of Ritual Dance in Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, India, Nepal, Scotland, England

• “The Alchemy of Movement” at The Center SF

• 10 Day “Embodiment Transformational Retreat” in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

• “Embrace the Dance of Your Heart” at Skyhigh Odditorium in Oakland

• “New Moon Serpent Ceremonies” at DA Dance Studio in Concord, CA

• “The Merry Hoopsters” – Weekly flow arts group at Cal Poly, SLO

• Private hula hooping lessons in San Luis Obispo

• Aerial Silks Lessons at Suspended Motion studio in San Luis Obispo

Past Events