Hayley, the artist behind Wild Mountain Weaves, designs and hand sews each glass-beaded earring with a needle and thread. Her work is based on the ancient practice of bead weaving, which is sacred to many different cultures across the world.

The design and practice is both meditative and creative for Hayley as she weaves each Japanese glass bead into unique and organic designs.  The handcrafted earrings take between 2-6 hours to complete, depending on size and complexity of the pattern.  When Hayley is not beading, she can be found caring for others, as a nurse, mom, stepmom, and dog-mom, or playing in nature.

D’Layne Benson is a registered nurse, board-certified nurse coach, and breathwork facilitator with over 20 years of experience in wellness and healthcare. She combines science-backed tools with somatic practices to guide clients through deep personal healing and lasting transformation.

D’Layne specializes in helping high-achieving, perfectionist, and people-pleasing women break out of self-sabotage and chronic overwhelm—so they can reclaim their energy, joy, and sense of purpose. Her work blends nervous system regulation, breathwork, and emotional resilience to create sustainable change from the inside out.

Clay is my primary medium and I have been obsessed with this wonderful material of the Earth since 1991. I love the process of transforming clay into hand-coiled and slab-built sculpture as well as throwing on the wheel. My sculptures often contain multiple segments that require installation experience. There is a storytelling quality that accompanies each sculpture and each design on my pottery and sculptures. I am influenced by the diversity of nature found in the Sawtooth Mountains and Idaho. I draw great inspiration from the environment surrounding my home and studio where I can interact with nature daily. My body of work has evolved from in depth exploration of the world of teapots, figurative work, pottery and the installations. The versatility of clay and its endless possibilities continually challenge me as an artist.

I am a mother, midwife and practitioner of traditional western herbalism. I love helping women embody their ancient and authentic rhythms and wisdom through the blood mysteries and rites of passage of birthing, mothering, and growing old. As an herbalist, I see that plant allies are here for each and every one of us, when we slow down enough to see them. I have been attending births, breastfeeding and postpartum in the west for thirty years. 

It all began in 1989...
Since then I have lived and experienced a lot of life here on earth. I like to think of myself as a wise old grandma who's stuck in a 35-year-old body, and wants to share the cliff notes to the lessons she has learned. I’m an only child craving community, a mama to two beautiful children, and I have a desire to share my journey to help women live their lives out loud.

certified Ayurvedic Counselor,  licensed (almost) clinical practitioner, herbalist, Waldorf educator, yogi, seeker, momma, friend.

Monique is a lifelong dancer and professional performance artist, and has been developing and teaching various movement modalities for nearly 20 years. With a degree in theatre and dance and long-standing yoga certification, she teaches both adult and children’s classes in everything from Classical Ballet and Barre Fitness, to Bellydance, devotional lyrical, and Hip-Hop. In Fall of 2025 she is opening a beautiful new boutique dance studio in historic Bellevue, Idaho to serve our greater valley a unique and eclectic avenue for dance arts.

For more information on our new studio,  upcoming classes, and performance opportunities, visit

www.seraphimmovement.com and enjoy free online offerings on Monique’s Youtube channel @moniquetrinityrose 

Lydia Missal is a LCPC, clinical supervisor, and EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Consultant with over two decades of experience in behavioral healthcare and healing arts. Her work spans outpatient behavioral healthcare, wilderness therapy, school-based and community mental health, women’s advocacy, and private practice. She has guided individuals and groups of all ages, from 12 to 82, through transformative, ceremonial and healing therapeutic experiences.

As the founder and owner of Flow State Psychotherapy, LLC, Lydia integrates flow theory into her clinical work, helping individuals and groups redefine how they process and integrate trauma and stress to live more meaningful lives. She is also trained as Community Resiliency Model (CRM) teacher, Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) therapist, and Ceremony and Rites of Passage Guide.

Lydia weaves together mindfulness practices, nature-based interventions, experiential and nature therapy, parts work, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and somatic psychology to create holistic healing experiences. She is also a yoga teacher and Reiki master, deepening her ability to support clients in mind-body integration. Beyond her practice, Lydia is dedicated to the wider counseling community and is Past President of the Idaho Counseling Association.

Jamie Truppi, MS, CNS is a functional nutritionist, edible educator, author, food writer and mama. Clinically, she helps people who are suffering from long-term effects of chronic stress (burnout, gut dysbiosis, hormone imbalances, toxic overload). She creating intentional food experiences that draw connections between self, others and the wisdom of Mother Earth. As a writer, her gifts are storytelling with authenticity, an insatiable quest for truth and opening doors for intuition, inquiry and inspiration.

In 2022, Jamie published her food memoir, “Clean Food, Messy Life: A food lover’s conscious journey back to self” and she currently writes a weekly column by the same title for 5B Gazette. Her food and nutrition writing and recipes have been featured in various publications from Sun Valley Magazine and Taste of Sun Valley to Edible Idaho and Cannabis for Dummies. For a decade, Jamie wrote the monthly column, “A Nutrition Mission” for Idaho Mountain Express.

You can purchase Clean Food, Messy Life locally at Iconoclast Books in Hailey.

Follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

Visit jamietruppinutrition.com for more information.

Tenaya is a mom of three, who has explored the joys of Waldorf education and the handwork practices that come with it. An artist from childhood, she has been needle felting for the last decade, from landscapes to gnomes to ornaments. Her kids nearly always join in; needle felting is not only fun, it’s addictive!

Tenaya studied Feng Shui for 15 years–the art & science of creating spaces that support the life you want to live–after earning her BA in Studio Art & Psychology. During that time, she worked as a store designer, drafting, designing & reworking interior commercial spaces, while taking night classes in Interior Design. Her work has culminated into a lifelong study of the Psychology of Space and how it affects us, in both positive and negative ways. Tenaya now primarily works with people who are remodeling or building, to ensure the interior space planning and design eliminate unintentional stressors that inevitably get built into our homes. Her goal is for everyone to live in spaces that more easily support an intentional life.

In Alison Higdon's 30 year creative career in the Wood River Valley she has costume designed for many local theaters, created window displays for businesses, taught art classes for SVMA, art directed for St. Thomas Playhouse, led private encaustic art classes,and taught many years of children's art camps in her studio and garden, as well as shown and sold her own artwork. She is now opening the doors of Dragonfly Studio, offering individual and group art processing sessions. This work acknowledges the deep healing capabilities of creative expression. Alison is very excited to share with the Circle Up sisters how art processing can help us to let go of limiting beliefs, allowing us to move towards being the best version of ourselves.