Kay has lived the bulk of her life in cities, near concrete, communing with people of all ages and demographics. The forests, deserts and rivers were for vacations, seasonal work and weekends. She is looking for a change. Kay was a youth worker and social worker for over 10 years before she decided to start her own business as a yoga and mindfulness teacher. Some of her experiences included planning, implementing and coordinating an after school program in West Oakland for 3 years before managing multiple sites, facilitating workshops for youth with physical and mental disabilities in Santiago, Chile, working as a clinical social worker for an HIV clinic in Santa Fe, NM and most recently becoming a Certified Counselor in WA to work with families with open Child Protective Cases. Her newest project has been the creation of Bending the Bars, which provides yoga and mindfulness to the incarcerated, and TRUST, a mindfulness based program for at risk youth in The Gorge. Kay wants to combine her love for yoga with her strong organizational skills and ability to work with a wide range of folks towards creating this center. She is most looking forward to creating an economy based on creativity and space for inquiry and eating from her own garden.  For more information visit her website at www.ignitechange.biz

Scott was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He grew up escaping the city for the hills whenever possible, and at eighteen he began raft guiding (from which he’s never quite recovered to be a respectable citizen).  He spent his twenties doing outdoor education and guiding throughout the West,. This work was an ongoing study in temporary, mobile community building, and he has long been looking forward to the time when he could commit himself to a more permanent communal venture.  Over the last decade, he has been working and learning as a builder as well. The ways that the processes of communally creating and using structures and systems of daily living can contribute to individual and community well-being are of great interest to him. You can see his building website at www.bubbabuild.biz.  For the last five years, Scott has been wandering down the Buddhist path, and he is interested in weaving this tradition into the fabric of Bubbawood (this should be easy, since mindfulness is SO hot right now!).  He plays guitar and a little banjo and tries to sing in key and mostly just wants more people around to jam with. If he had the time to do a residency right now, he would write an album of folks songs that would try to be sad and funny at the same time, like life.