Over many years of connection through practices of ancestral healing, I’ve experienced Nala to be conscientious, kind, and dedicated on her path of learning and service. She walks with a strong sense of care and compassion for those who are suffering and is tapped into the collective need for grieving and Earth reconnection. I can easefully recommend her services for ancestral healing, grieving, and coming back into relationship with land and lineage

—-Daniel Foor, founder and director at Ancestral Medicine

(re: ancestral healing for couples)

Thank you, so sooo deeply. We are both blessed and honored. Your guidance into these realms is precious and rare – and it is such a gift to have had the opportunity to delve into healing our ancestors, together!

One of the MOST powerful ceremonial sessions I’ve had – I’m humbled and the love is flowing!

I definitely feel the draw to go deeper and have your guidance in my work as a wailer.

—Lele Heartloom, White Salmon, OR
singer and healer, leleheartloom.com

It’s astonishing to me how you made possible ancestral work on the phone. When I first started using Foor’s book, I know I couldn’t do the journey alone, that I needed another to hold that container. But I am still stunned by how much happened in there. WOW.

Your guidance in that space is very special, very skilled. You let me listen and wait and internalize what I experienced in just the right way. Especially you asking me to really notice and embrace what happened in my body. You taking notes by hand was crucial for my recollection and remembrance. I love your little drawings!  The marigold seeds I dropped on my ritual walks around the perimeter of my house everyday have germinated in clumps here and there, which is a delight. 

Super grateful to you, as always, for your presence, your guidance, your Leo instincts and the container you hold and bulid for me to do this ancestral lineage repair. It is SO powerful.

—Julie Todd, Lawrence, MA

Nala, thank you for giving my inner voice credibility. You are a lifeboat, finally finding a path to me and rescuing me in my last push toward the end of my life. I am feeling at ease. So much love to you.  

——Kim Green, Bainbridge Island, WA

Big Gratitude for our time together yesterday. Parts and pieces and tidbits and strands have been weaving together and apart today as I navigate the human earthly experience. Amber resin found me early and the honeybees have been singing to me their songs of remembrance—redirecting me back to my heart.  Always. The sea-salt cold mermaid time was so cleansing — the light-on-water energy an infusion.

I am offering this healing inward and outward and am receiving the iridescence like a creature inside of a nacre-coated shell. Quietly radiating. Thank You for the many invitations of freedom and expression and exploration. I am continuing to pull taut and untangle, unkink, and simply hold the threads of connection.

—Rebecca Sorino, Santa Rosa, CA
Soul-Centric Healer, healatthewell.com

Nala Walla curates profoundly juicy and powerful ways by which we can gather meaningfully, make mirth and grief, play and rest, prayer and visioning.  This is not a programmed, pay-to-play event, but a community funded, community collaborated blessing by which those of us deeply committed to grief tending, edgework, verge walking, shadow dancing etc can come together and find sanctuary, comraderie, resonance and communal care, given and received to in gratitude and the prayer to sustain and uplift our good work.
Plus let’s not overlook the satisfying countermagic of coming together in this way over the standard holiday!”

—Epona Rose, Twisp, WA

Thank you for following my ancestor’s leads and helping me facilitate a funeral for my old self. The ritual of it all, the love and care you put into seeing me through it, and the grieving I was able to do is exactly what I needed. I am so glad I met you, because I never met anyone that is so open to expressing grief. It is the missing element and emotion that I need to express, and having you help facilitate this was incredibly helpful. You have said that grief needs community, and with you, I was able to get to places that I know I wound’t have been able to go by myself. Thank you for welcoming me and my grief, creating a non-judgemental environment, and hearing, seeing, and holding me and my people for all of it. I highly recommend you to anyone that is looking to explore and release their grief in a lovingly held, supportive container. I will definitely be back for more work. The ceremony you held for me felt like I scratched the surface and felt such relief, that my body, heart, and mind can’t wait to do more work with you.

—Kimiko Kawabori, Honolulu, HI

Thank you Nala! This is a fertile time for transformation, and I think few recognize it as an OPPORTUNITY rather than as “something bad that happens to us that we have to cope with.”  I have simultaneously felt tossed uncontrollably all over a stormy sea while at the same felt my inner shaman witness calmly and intentionally steering my way into and through that storm. You remind me of that shaman witness, guiding others through their storms. ❤️ I so appreciate the camaraderie, witnessing, and mirroring in that place.

I really appreciate you sharing that I am in a “Wisdom Seat” because of my proximity to a death, rather than my background tape saying that I am “too sensitive” or weak because I am “easily unhinged.” I love the new perspective that it is a strength rather than a weakness. And when I check in, the place I am in does seem so powerful. I am so connected to spirit!! It is truly amazing. I choose to reside in a culture that blesses and values that connected place. Thank you for all you do to sanctify, co-create, and raise this grief empowered culture into existence.

—Heather Harding, Port Townsend, WA

Ohhhhhh I am beyond inspired by the grief ritual. The depth that we reached still stirs inside me, it has been something I have been longing for most of my life – to share the explicit grief and purge in a circle with womxn… It felt like a dream come true. I am so grateful for the overall container, the witches involved and all the love and support and good spirit and heart in that room. I am very grateful for Nala and her anti-oppression lens and for the bringing of her full self to the circle as a participant with all of us as well as a mentor’ess. The location was extraordinary and every person present was such a gift.

—Alexandra Blakely, Seattle, WA

Having done grief work with Nala in several contexts over the course of several years, I believe she viscerally and intimately understands grief and the myriad forms it can take. She has seemingly apprenticed herself to grief itself, and, from what I have seen, she has surrendered to where it will take her, personally and in relation to her community. She has learned to weave a strong basket to help contain the grief and wild emotion of others, as it moves through them and seeps back into the earth to nourish us all. This work is so vital to our world and Nala approaches it with skill, passion, and humility.

—Alex Eisenberg, Chimacum, WA

Yes yes YES, Nala Walla! You tapped into so many facets of what it means to be living on this planet at this time. I thank you for this inspiration and call to live well, with intention, and in authentic connection to our blood, bones, grief, gratitude, and ancestral roots. You are a permissionary for many in honoring the blessings of body and place and our rights and duty to thriving in wellness.

Something is cracking open in me as a result of this work. I entered into it thinking it might be a good addition to some of the healing work I have been doing already. How do I say this? This grief is opening a stillness and power I didn’t know existed in me or in the world. I am crossing a threshold from one realm of living to the next. It’s almost as if prior to this, I wasn’t fully living. Thank you for the work you do Nala! Who would have thought that dying is the doorway into living?!

—Lea Falkenhagen, Port Townsend, WA

I don’t have words to express how the grief lodge impacted me or what a truly raw and authentic experience it was. The experience continues to wash over me and is settling in various parts of myself and life in some of the most unexpected ways. It feels like I finally gave a very lonely and shame riddled (previously) part of myself the attention it has needed — and deserves — for the first time in a compassionate, loving, and vulnerable way…as it should be. To be surrounded by such an incredible group of women and to expose the grief within all of us together was powerful. Thank you for creating the opportunity; holding the space; and facilitating such a safe, beautiful, real and healthy process. I look forward to continuing to love and express my grief and gratitude in community and togetherness.

—Alana Linderoth, Sequim, WA