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Hannah-Leigh Bull started as a Yoga teacher, running an ashram before turning to premedical and language studies. She worked as a translator in the U.S. and Europe and later as a graduate instructor and advisor, and writer and project manager in business. In the 1980s and 1990s, she focused more of her attention on the healing arts, earth and human regeneration, and diversity in human, plant, and animal communities.
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed K-12 School Counselor, and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families to maintain balance between the laughter and seriousness within themselves and their relationships and communities. In addition to her work at the ranchito, she works as a family therapist at the Synergy Holistic Healing Center in the local village of El Rito. Synergy is a collaboration of private practitioners of holistic healing interested in integrating the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of well being into the primary care of individuals and families.
Other experiences resulted in advanced degrees in Intercultural Communication, Translation, and Counseling Psychology, research in interspecies communication, and long-term community living. She has lived and traveled extensively abroad, which has contributed to her commitment to the promotion of cultural traditions in harmony with the universal values of respect for all creatures and the dignity of all life.
Her current focus is the collaboration of llamas and humans in family and child therapy, healing, and education in self-care and nurturing, and she is now developing programs that draw adults and children to the ranch for self-directed learning and experiences and directed work and play with the llamas, plant life, and other creatures that inhabit Llama Deara.
the LlamasThe llamas keep a "heads-up" attitude towards their interactions with other staff and visitors, while exhibiting their own unique characteristics. |
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Resident Scientist EmeritusDylan Spaulding is a New Mexico native and a recent graduate of Brown University where he received his Bachelor's degree in Physics. He now works at Los Alamos National Laboratories with the Milagro astrophysics group, studying phenomena as distant as supernovae remnants and gamma-ray bursts. Dylan has been involved in outdoor education since high school and, most recently, was a natural science teacher for the Maria Mitchell Association on the island of Nantucket. |
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SecurityThe spirit of the resident guard cat, Spaulding, keeps a watchful eye on all ranch happenings, while subtly modeling the advantages of relaxation therapy. |
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