Rachel Ruach is a cultural midwife, ceremonialist, wilderness guide and mentor. She is dedicated to building community and revitalizing modern culture by awakening our earth-based roots. Holding a strong vision of honoring and protecting not only the natural world, but our children and elders, she has trained in wilderness survival and awareness, traditional mentoring techniques, community building, rites of passage, women’s wisdom, and the ceremonial arts for the last twelve years.

Rachel obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Religious Studies, and continued training for the next 15 years through training and graduating from programs with the organizations: the Regenerative Design Institute, the 8 Shields Nature Connection Community, Rites of Passage Vision Quest Guide Training, Women’s Red Tent, and Infinite Wild Wilderness Skills Immersion. Recently, some of Rachel’s endeavors have been running nature awareness youth programs in Sonoma County, spending 10 years of in-depth wilderness solo time, being brought through a journey of adulthood initiation, founding and directing Infinite Wild, and leading women’s cultural reclaiming and ancestral skills courses, holding maidenhood and adulthood rites of passage, and raising her own precious children.