Our Facilitators
Mandy Adams is the owner of Behind the Lids and a Certified Breathwork and Guided Meditation Facilitator. She leads Emotional Release Breathwork on Thursdays at 7pm, and co-leads Activate your Abundance with David Trotter every month. In addition to group classes, Mandy also facilitates private sessions, as well as corporate wellness events and retreats.
Mandy comes from a long career in television and radio advertising. She worked for ten years on the station side, and twelve years owning her own advertising agency. Mandy’s life was one of the many that were redirected through all the covid hoopla. After being an avid BTL attendee for two years, she was presented with an opportunity to acquire Behind the Lids in 2021 and has never looked back.
“The first time I stepped into Behind the Lids, I was in love. I came to everything they offered. This beautiful, healing, love filled community was exactly what I needed in my life. It was absolutely perfect. If someone would have told me then that I would eventually be the owner, I would have never believed it. Talk about magical!”
Zaire Black Co-leads the monthly event Power of Three. He is a breathwork facilitator who finds deep purpose in his healing work. Stemming from a creative background in music as well as a background in teaching and mentoring children he carries a deep ability to honor people where they are at in their healing journey and offer them safe space to go inward to learn more about themselves. Zaire is a graduate of David Elliot’s Healer Training and has also trained with Frankie Salazar, formally of Behind the Lids Costa Mesa. He has been able to culminate a unique ceremonial breath work style that allows people to feel energized, motivated and light as they release limiting beliefs and inner blocks to awareness all through the channel of the heart space. Honoring that each soul has their own journey, every breath work ceremony that Zaire holds is sacred and intimately personal to the individual. @zaireblack.focus
Nichole Ferro leads Embodied Breathwork every Wednesday at 6pm, as well as Women’s Breathwork and Guided Meditation every Wednesday at 730pm. Nichole also co-leads the monthly Power of Three event. She is a trauma informed Registered Yoga Teacher and Educator (E-RYT 500hr+), certified Womb Medicine Woman®, Psychosomatic Trauma Recovery Coach, Certified Holistic Health and Spiritual coach, Reiki Master and Women's Embodiment Mentor. Feeling aligned on her path has been a process of wounding and healing and it is through the various practices of deep healing where she continues to find her way home to herself. She is a practitioner of self-development and personal growth and has trained under renowned teachers all over the world. She guides others in healing practices such as: Shamanic Journeying, Soul Retrieval, Womb Healing, Menstrual Cycle Coaching, Ceremonies, Meditation, Breathwork, Energy Healing, Psychosomatic Therapy, Inner Child work, and yoga. Her passion is to help others in the recovery process, reconnect with themselves and the world while using their strengths to build a life they love living. www.nicholeanneferro.com
Fun Fact: “I LOVE to cook and feed people - it's the old Italian in me. I believe that everything on this earth has a consciousness, and I love creating relationships with all beings on this planet - so yes I talk to the birds, plants and trees.”
About BTL: ”I love that BTL has created a safe and authentic space for people to experience radical healing and deep connection to themselves and others.”
Natasha Davidson leads Breathing through the Chakras every-other Tuesday at 6pm. She is a B.E.S.T. Practitioner. Following the pull to live a more heart-rooted life, Natasha left the financial corporate world to pursue her passion for health and nutrition. When she dove deep into the root cause of healing, she discovered a technique in energy medicine that bridges both cutting-edge science and the wisdom of the Ancient World. This led her to a whole new life where she facilitates self-healing and teaches about the importance of the energy language that the body is trying to reveal. Through a gentle healing science called BioEnergetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.), Natasha is able to help others with their mental, emotional, and physical health by removing subconscious interference that’s keeping the body from healing. B.E.S.T. re-establishes the full healing potential of the body. Natasha works individually with clients as a B.E.S.T. practitioner, as well as in a group setting, teaching workshops on embodiment and empowerment. Natasha delights in being of service to humanity, helping guide others back to alignment with their true nature.
Stacy Pendleton leads two monthly experiences - Sanskrit Sound Bath and Around the Fire: An Evening of Oracle Readings and Sound Healing. She is a sound and energy healing facilitator, intuitive guide, and holistic voice teacher who has been been in practice since 2004. She has been teaching voice for the past 25 years. Stacy has studied with shamans from South India, West Africa, and the United States. In readings, coaching, and healing sessions, she supports you by working with Divine guidance, Angelic guidance, benevolent guides and teachers, and your benevolent ancestors to gain a bird’s eye view of any situation, assisting you in accessing your own guidance, inner wisdom, and Higher Self; amplifying your own Divine connection to reveal deeper truths, empowering you to move forward with enhanced perspective, focus and peace. Stacy has developed a healing modality fusing Sanskrit chanting, devotional singing, and intuitive toning with crystal singing bowls, buffalo drum, shamanic rattles, hands on healing, visualization, guided meditation, and aromatherapy. This modality aids in releasing past trauma and stored grief, relieving anxiety, removing obstacles to emotional and spiritual growth, restoring joy, and realigning you with the vibration of infinite possibility. In healing sessions and sound baths, Stacy assists in restoring your body, mind, spirit, energy field and emotions to a state of balance and harmony. www.stacypendleton.com
David Trotter Co-leads the monthly BTL event Activate your Abundance along with Mandy Adams. He is a coach, author, and speaker who is passionate about helping people rise above their greatest challenges in life and business. He is a former pastor who has produced and directed four feature films on important social issues, written a dozen books including his most recent entitled “Empowered to Rise”, and hosts Inspiration Rising, a personal development podcast with over 230 episodes. His next book entitled “Life Changing Conversations: Create the Life You Long For One Conversation at a Time” will be released January 2023.
”Behind the Lids is the soulful community that many of us have been longing for. Everyone is looking to heal, grow, and spread love.”
