Founder, Creative Facilitator, Mentor, Educator, Guide:
Jessica Rubin (Yepeth Perla) is a naturalist, earth-tender, mentor, wilderness first responder, licensed educator, canoe instructor, herbalist, & Kohenet with a Masters in Environmental Studies. She has 18 years of Torah journeying, ethical rewilding, and wilderness guiding experience in various bioregions, ecosystems, and communities. She walks a deeply rooted Jewish path which bridges the spectrum from traditional to renewal. She helped co-found Living Tree Alliance, a Jewish intentional community in Vermont. She founded and nurtures an ecological resilience service called Mycoevolve. She is dedicated to ecological rehabilitation, wildlife conservation, decolonization, cultural revolution, ancestral revitilization, and planetary healing.
Jessica Rubin (Yepeth Perla) is a naturalist, earth-tender, mentor, wilderness first responder, licensed educator, canoe instructor, herbalist, & Kohenet with a Masters in Environmental Studies. She has 18 years of Torah journeying, ethical rewilding, and wilderness guiding experience in various bioregions, ecosystems, and communities. She walks a deeply rooted Jewish path which bridges the spectrum from traditional to renewal. She helped co-found Living Tree Alliance, a Jewish intentional community in Vermont. She founded and nurtures an ecological resilience service called Mycoevolve. She is dedicated to ecological rehabilitation, wildlife conservation, decolonization, cultural revolution, ancestral revitilization, and planetary healing.
Mentor, Educator
Karen Pettinelli lives in Bethany CT, and has just received her Masters of Social Work while working as a Wilderness Mentor and Yoga Instructor. Karen was raised going to Bi-Cultural, a Jewish private day school, and has deep personal connections to Judaism and other earth-based traditions. In Karen’s work as a Wilderness Mentor she guides youth in discovering their connection to nature and their ancestral and cultural roots. Karen is in cohort Zayin of the Kohenet Institute, and is involved with other earth-based Jewish programs such as Moishe House, Living Lifecycles, and Living Tree Alliance.
Karen Pettinelli lives in Bethany CT, and has just received her Masters of Social Work while working as a Wilderness Mentor and Yoga Instructor. Karen was raised going to Bi-Cultural, a Jewish private day school, and has deep personal connections to Judaism and other earth-based traditions. In Karen’s work as a Wilderness Mentor she guides youth in discovering their connection to nature and their ancestral and cultural roots. Karen is in cohort Zayin of the Kohenet Institute, and is involved with other earth-based Jewish programs such as Moishe House, Living Lifecycles, and Living Tree Alliance.
Mentor, Educator
Elliot Cluba is a naturalist, wilderness awareness and primitive skills educator, fasting and detoxification consultant, herbalist, and life long martial artist. Judaism found Elliot 8 years ago, while living at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center with Rabbi Gabriel Cousins M.D. After experiencing a deep resonation with the teachings of the Torah, and the Essenes through Rabbi Cousins' Essene Order of Light, he and his wife converted while still pregnant with their first child. They live with their two daughters in Hinesburg, VT. His passion as a teacher is to connect the student with themselves, their surroundings, and their tradition through the mundane and ceremonial aspects of daily living. He walks a devoted path of Judaism as a connector trail between the earthly and unseen realms.
Contact info: herbsandarrowsvt@gmail.com 802-393-3067
Elliot Cluba is a naturalist, wilderness awareness and primitive skills educator, fasting and detoxification consultant, herbalist, and life long martial artist. Judaism found Elliot 8 years ago, while living at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center with Rabbi Gabriel Cousins M.D. After experiencing a deep resonation with the teachings of the Torah, and the Essenes through Rabbi Cousins' Essene Order of Light, he and his wife converted while still pregnant with their first child. They live with their two daughters in Hinesburg, VT. His passion as a teacher is to connect the student with themselves, their surroundings, and their tradition through the mundane and ceremonial aspects of daily living. He walks a devoted path of Judaism as a connector trail between the earthly and unseen realms.
Contact info: herbsandarrowsvt@gmail.com 802-393-3067