Get to know the team behind EarthBeat
Our Hosts
Our Lovely Friends and Local Land Stewards
Julie Baumlisberger
Land Owner • MC • Facilitator •
Marketing Team • Logistics Team
Barefoot and free-spirited lover of life, teacher, gardener and guide. Always exploring the edge of mental and physical resilience.
Together with her husband Ralph, she loves creating and supporting community, through various events and workshops, including breathwork, drumming, cold plunging and good old fashioned pot luck dinners.
Ralph Baumlisberger
Land Owner • Facilitator
Lifelong farmer and practical environmentalist, with wannabe spiritual connections.
I appreciate the skills of our EarthBeat community and I think networking is the way forward. Having fun and learning new skills with like minded people sounds like a win/win for me!
Our Land
Cedar Woods on Station
223227 Station St, Amaranth, ON
For the past 40 years, Julie and Ralph have cultivated and called this land “home”.
They built their house, planted trees and created gardens, grew organic food, raised their family and now are building community here.
Any changes to the landscape have been shaped in flowing harmony with Nature, instead of working against it. Preserving the environment for the abundance of diverse native and cultured plants, that are home to the many species of birds and critters that live here.
The beautiful gardens, cedar forest with ample trails and resting spots are enjoyed not only by the Baumlisberger family, but by friends and guests who are invited to visit.
The Bhadra Collective
Meet the passionate individuals who bring EarthBeat’s vision to life.
Brent Rowan
Volunteer Team – Sound Maker – Space Holder
Professional musician • Community Builder
Helping the world listen with music and improvisation.
For me, EarthBeat is a way to connect and share knowledge about the best practices for achieving a fulfilling soul journey through our human bodies. With so many toxic influences in all aspects of our environments, understanding how to best nourish our mind, body, and spirit through a connection to the earth is fundamental to our journey.
Dennis Gaumond
Main Stage Coordinator • Sound Maker • Facilitator
Artist • Nature Lover • Dreamer • Grandpa
‘It’s so hard these days to see through all the smoke and mirrors, which is why it’s more important than ever to nurture communities based on love, understanding and freedom.
EarthBeat will provide us with a great opportunity for like-minded, like-hearted souls to come together.
Fyl Bennett
Sound Guy
Sound Maker • Sound Shaper• Bass Guy • Musical Raconteur and Sound Tech.
and Sound Tech.
There are moments when time, space, and people intersect in ways that when you look back you say to yourself, “Wow, being there nourished my soul.”
To me, EarthBeat is one of those space-time assemblages; it offers a welcoming ensemble of collaborative light-workers and sound magicians who are committed to building a community that I am very excited to be part of.
Connect with Fyl on social media to find out about his upcoming live performances with the plethora of bands he plays with.
Gary Diggins
MC • Facilitator • Space Holder • Sound Maker
Visionary • Wordsmith • Soundworker
I love sound, word, and silence. I deliver soul food through soundwork. I brew books, blogs, and blessings. I walk silently through forest paths ensouled by the hush.
I envision EarthBeat as a space to create wellness, kindness, and connectedness.
Find Gary’s music via the Spotify link below.
Tom Wolf
Activities Team • Sound Maker • Facilitator
Exploring creativity can be done by oneself or in a group setting. Tom enjoys life most doing either. Making music or crafting things from wood, iron or concrete are all in his wheelhouse.
EarthBeat offers an opportunity to explore some of these in a community setting. Anticipating a weekend filled with music, drumming, dancing, learning and growing. EarthBeat, here we come!
The Bhadra Collective
Wellness Strategist
The Bhadra Collective is composed of seasoned musicians who explore contrasts: electric and eclectic, world music with a danceable energy, familiar songs re-imagined, plus contemporary music that borrows from tradition. The word ‘Bhadra’ is a Sanskrit adjective meaning ‘blessed, fortunate, prosperous, happy and loving.’ The Collective strives to project these qualities in their lyrical content, infectious rhythms, and playful performances. They are dedicated to engaging an audience in interactive exchanges – everything from call- response sing-alongs to moving to the beat. Their sound has been described as quirky and catchy. The Bhadra Collective draws upon their love of music-making as a community experience. Be prepared to become part of the band.
The Main Team
Meet the passionate individuals who bring EarthBeat’s vision to life.
Akiiraa (Charissa) Wolfsong
Facilitator • Space Holder •
Sound Maker
Activities Team • Logistics Team • Community Experience Team
Ceremonialist • Sound Weaver •
Intuitive Guide
I carry deep gratitude for the ancient teachings and land-based lineages that shape my practice. Through sound, ritual, and community co-creation, I help others remember their inherent belonging and capacity to heal. As a vocalist and wellness facilitator, I hold space for transformation rooted in joy, ancestral wisdom, and Earth reverence.
EarthBeat offers a sacred moment to be nourished by the land, the elements, and one another as we journey together in rhythm and renewal
Find me @
Fireside Gentle Jam • FRI • 1030-1130
Expressive Dance + Movement
• SAT • 330-430
Alli Kennedy
Facilitator • Marketing Team •
Logistics Team
Gardener Farmer • Wellness Advocate
I’m Alli Kennedy, and you can normally find me over on Instagram sharing about year round gardening, healthy living and being a mama of two wild-hearted boys. I’m so looking forward to EarthBeat because I believe magic happens when people gather with intention. Whether it’s barefoot dancing, deep conversations, or co-creating something beautiful, I’m here for all of it.
Find me @
Garden Tours • SAT• Lunch
Garden Tours • SUN• Lunch
Barbara Dametto
Facilitator • Artisan • Space Holder • Sound Maker • Activities Team
Yogini • Dancer • VisualArtist •
Nature Enthuisiast
Barbara Dametto is a yogini, sound practitioner, dancer, visual artist and nature enthusiast. She is excited to be collaborating with the Earth Beat team to birth art, beauty, consciousness and new paradigms.
Find me @
Morning Yoga • SAT • 9am
Forest Art • SAT • 130pm
Forest Art • SUN • 1245pm
Conscious Dance • SUN • 2pm
Courtney Howlett
Space Holder • Facilitator
Activities Team • Marketing Team • Logistics Team
Osteopath • Somatic Coach •
Holistic Educator • Community Builder
Through awareness, breath, movement, functional learning , I help others to understand and dialogue with their capacity to self-heal and regulate.
I believe in Nature. I also believe that we live in a time of distraction and disconnection from ourselves, each other and from Nature, which has left so many unwell mentally, physically and energetically.
EarthBeat is an opportunity to tune into the antenna that is your body. Come develop practical tools for health, cultivate your rhythm, connect with your community and be present with it all.
Find me @
Somatics • SAT • 9am
Somatics • SUN • 9am
Nervous System Tools • SUN • 2pm
Enza Gaumond
Activities Team • Facilitator
Movement Guide • Reiki Practitioner
I love to tap into the beauty of the soul through creative movement expression, dance, drama and literature…having had over 30 years of teaching experience in these areas. I work with Reiki as a healing modality and inspire others through embodied practices like yoga and Qi Gong.
Coming together in community allows each of us to immerse in the profound truth that we are all one with creation. And in this place of Oneness, we welcome each other, we celebrate, move, dance, play & create space to nourish the seeds of peace, love and joy within ourselves and the world at large. We awaken to the hidden beauty and holiness that surrounds us.
Find me @
Qi Gong • SAT • 9am
Expressive Dance + Movement
• SAT • 330-430pm
Partner Play Yoga • SUN • 2pm
Michelle Racine
Volunteer Cooridnator • Logistics Team
Community Experience Team
Tree Hugger • Wellness Sharer
Holistic Event
Little bit farm girl, little bit city girl. Lover of all things outdoors, tree hugger and forever mesmerized by the moon and stars.
Passionate about EarthBeat for so many reasons, but it’s the connection, the community and the vision to be a part of something larger than my own world. I can’t wait to learn from everyone! Also, who doesn’t want to hug trees in the cedar forest!
Find me @
Here, there and everywhere!
Nicole Lalonde
Artisan Coordinator • Facilitator
Dancer • Artist • Urban Farmer
Nicole is a retired massage therapist with over 20 years of experience and training in Middle Eastern dance styles, Bellydance Fusion, Dance Therapeutics, Homeopathic Medicine and Doula services.
She currently works as an upcycling artist under her business The Holistic Goddess. In addition, Nicole along with her family, run both an urban permaculture farm and a 1 acre rural plot providing regenerative foods, teas, salves and more to the community.
Find me @
Expressive Dance + Movement
• SAT • 330-430
Sandy Kimpel
Community Experience Team
Truth Seeker • Nature Lover
Hi lovely souls. I am on this journey of life like you. I am a seeker of truth and I strive to be the best version of self and through this, gratefully nature provides a sanctuary for my heart.
I am honoure to be a part of EarthBeat and the vision of The Bhadra souls and Julie and Ralph. And I am excited to experience our EarthBeat weekend journey together!
Find me @
Front Gate, Info Desk