Our Team
Our team includes therapeutic practitioners, medicine holders, and spiritual practitioners, each bringing years of experience and unique perspective to our community. Each gathering is supported by a novel constellation of UNIUN team members. Meet us below.
Our Team
Our team includes therapeutic practitioners, medicine holders, and spiritual practitioners, each bringing years of experience and unique perspective to our community. Each gathering is supported by a novel constellation of UNIUN team members. Meet us below.
FOUNDER, CEREMONIALIST
Niko Whitefeather
Niko Whitefeather, a father, husband, brother, and ceremonialist, is deeply immersed in the realms of plant medicine and sacred traditions. With over 15 years of experience working with psilocybin and a decade of holding space in plant medicine realms, Niko considers it a great blessing to walk alongside others on their journeys of personal growth and healing.
His path as a ceremonialist began amidst a deep sense of confusion and pain from a young age, evolving into a clear sense of purpose and service through the use of sacred medicines and earth-based traditions. Niko’s healing journey led him from an in-patient treatment program in Oregon, through South and Central America, where plant medicine ceremonies and indigenous practices catalyzed monumental transformations, sparking a significant shift in his consciousness and igniting his dedication to service and healing.
For the past decade, Niko has been deeply engaged in mediumistic Afro-Brazilian traditions, studying, healing, and developing himself while growing in his responsibilities to assist and hold the space for others. Through this sacred journey, he has learned from elders and under the supervision of his mentors deepened his understanding of spiritual practices including energetic healing and prayer.
Transitioning to offering therapeutic spaces and healing sessions full-time in 2021, Niko has had the privilege of holding space for well over 200 individuals across the Americas, providing support and guidance through organizations like Psychedelic Passage, legal entheogenic churches, and his independent practice.
Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy through the Ecstatic Mysticism program at AWE Institute, Niko is learning at the intersection of transpersonal psychology and indigenous wisdom. Influenced by lineages such as the Santo Daime, Umbanda, and Spiritism, his approach to healing and transformation is enriched by a deep study of the unseen.
Niko's approach to holding space is rooted in compassion, the autonomy of the participant, and the belief that every symptom, whether emotional, physical, or spiritual, signifies a healing process already underway. His guiding question is, "What is blossoming in this moment?" With a grounded heart and deep faith, Niko creates a space of calm and openness, gently coaxing individuals to embrace the truth of their potential. He sees his role as holding space for each person's innate capacity to transform themselves, fostering an environment of open receptivity to the potential in each moment. Each day Niko seeks to bridge heaven and earth within himself first, then sincerely extends that sacred connection to each of the people he serves.
Find Niko’s individual offerings at Niko Whitefeather, and on instagram at @niko.whitefeather.
Hilary Rappaport
Hilary Rappaport is honored and grateful to be weaving this web of community. She is a licensed psilocybin facilitator and an intuitive counselor in Portland, Oregon and is the first artist-in-residence at the Portland Grief House. In her practice, she is humbly committed to holding space for grief of all kinds, not limited to the death of a person, but honoring and being present with the various losses that we experience throughout our lives; including the loss of relationships, homes, jobs, dreams, and more. Her own work with psilocybin came from deeply feeling the loss of a parent and she also feels called to help others moving through the heartbreak, confusion and magic that this kind of loss can bring. Her practice is rooted in reverence for the mushrooms and for the indigenous people who have worked with this medicine for time and millennia. She makes beeswax candles, and is trained as a death doula, community herbalist, and somatic practitioner and weaves these callings into her practice as requested. She loves singing, dancing, and wandering the woods with her 5lb dog named Olive.
Learn more about working with Hilary by scheduling a free consultation here.
Hart Dasteel
Hart is a psychedelic integration coach and ceremonialist, offering guidance for healing from trauma, ancestral wounding, attachment ruptures, and disconnection from one’s authentic self and the Earth. Hart has experience working with a unique synthesis of psychedelic integration modalities within a safe, intentional container, supporting his clients in alchemizing the most powerful experiences of their lives into a new version of everyday reality. Hart holds a B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology and is a licensed massage therapist with advanced certification in several modalities. He has trained extensively in “Emotional Freedom Technique”, as well as various forms of breathwork including SOMA Breath. Hart completed a year-long intensive through Shiri Godassi’s Psychedelic School, where he is certified as a psychedelic integration coach. Hart holds a holistically trauma informed integration practice, working closely with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic attachment techniques.
Personally, Hart’s interests and passions revolve around a consistent rhythm of daily life primarily focused on parenting, working with clients, healing/spiritual practices (yoga, breathwork, EFT, and more), a weekly men’s circle with dear brothers, and family gatherings. Playing with his children is a Number One priority, allowing any tense layers to shed and making room for his inner child to come out and have fun!
Find Hart’s individual offerings at Entheo Genesis, and on instagram at @hart.medicine and @alchemyofbrotherhood.
Cecelia Sun
Cecelia supports UNIUN with both outward-facing and behind-the-scenes endeavors, including social media, website management and design, administrative support, and holding space in various capacities. Cecelia came to the threshold of psychedelic-assisted healing after a period of profound mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dis-ease that was unaided by modern western paradigms of healing. Her experiences working with entheogens opened the door to deep wellness, with the support of somatic practices, creative expression, energy healing, expansive nutrition, and community. With humility and gratitude, she embraces the opportunity to walk alongside others as they find their own path through periods of shadow and light.
Cecelia is devoted to the creation of a peaceful world in which we all remember how to tend to ourselves, one another, and the earth with gentleness. Her primary work is as a healthcare provider, companioning families through postpartum and early childhood. She also offers website design for creatives and holistic wellness businesses. Cecelia is a poet, song carrier, and artist. She is a loving wife, daughter, granddaughter, and sister. She engages in an ongoing study of healing through expanded states of consciousness, both individually and in collective spaces.
Find Cecelia’s design offerings at Cecelia Sun Design.
After facilitating over thousands of transformational Breathwork sessions, I felt called to continue my work in altered states of consciousness by becoming a Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator in the state of Oregon. I graduated Innertrek in December 2023. I am delighted by the inherent wisdom of the natural world, and view psilocybin as a loving tool and teacher on the path to wholeness. I believe breathwork and psilocybin are a brilliant pair for true transformation.
My education is currently being enriched by studying Somatic Experiencing - a 3 year program - by Peter Levine to deepen my body of knowledge in Somatics and the nervous system. I’m a continual student of Zen Buddhism and enjoy immersing myself in long meditation retreats a few times a year. I am certified in the healing arts of Reiki 1 & 2.
Find Tasha’s offerings of breathwork, space holding, and more at Tasha Stewart.
Tasha Stewart
I am a deeply feeling, watery Cancer, who loves nurturing and holding space for others. I delight in the single tear as it glides down a client’s face, I sit by rivers often, I am a constant student of life; kinesthetic by nature, I move through the world by feeling and direct experiencing. I am in awe of emotions, and the full spectrum of the human experience. I have chosen the work that I do because of a desire for depth, connection and transformational journeys - both inside and out.
I received a Bachelors of Public Health: Health Promotion and Health Behavior at Oregon State University in 2013. I studied as a medical intern within South African hospitals, emergency settings and rural maternity clinics. This sparked a curiosity to extend my exploration of the external world and travel. From 2013 - 2018 I worked as a Flight Attendant and a vegan chef and first mate on a 66 foot sailboat. I’ve crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean by boat and air many times. I am well versed in holding space for explorative journeys for large groups of people. I have a calm, gentle, compassionate presence. I then followed the desire to facilitate deep inner journeys for others. I moved to Portland, Oregon at the end of 2018 and dove into a coaching certification program. Then I trained with Clarity Breathwork in Costa Rica as a way to work directly with the bodymind and nervous system in February of 2020. I recently finished a year long graduate level course for Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Matè to further my studies in trauma, psychotherapy, and learning how to unearth and get free from the unconscious dynamics that run our lives.
Niko Whitefeather
FOUNDER, CEREMONIALIST
Niko Whitefeather, a father, husband, brother, and ceremonialist, is deeply immersed in the realms of plant medicine and sacred traditions. With over 15 years of experience working with psilocybin and a decade of holding space in plant medicine realms, Niko considers it a great blessing to walk alongside others on their journeys of personal growth and healing.
His path as a ceremonialist began amidst a deep sense of confusion and pain from a young age, evolving into a clear sense of purpose and service through the use of sacred medicines and earth-based traditions. Niko’s healing journey led him from an in-patient treatment program in Oregon, through South and Central America, where plant medicine ceremonies and indigenous practices catalyzed monumental transformations, sparking a significant shift in his consciousness and igniting his dedication to service and healing.
For the past decade, Niko has been deeply engaged in mediumistic Afro-Brazilian traditions, studying, healing, and developing himself while growing in his responsibilities to assist and hold the space for others. Through this sacred journey, he has learned from elders and under the supervision of his mentors deepened his understanding of spiritual practices including energetic healing and prayer.
Transitioning to offering therapeutic spaces and healing sessions full-time in 2021, Niko has had the privilege of holding space for well over 200 individuals across the Americas, providing support and guidance through organizations like Psychedelic Passage, legal entheogenic churches, and his independent practice.
Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy through the Ecstatic Mysticism program at AWE Institute, Niko is learning at the intersection of transpersonal psychology and indigenous wisdom. Influenced by lineages such as the Santo Daime, Umbanda, and Spiritism, his approach to healing and transformation is enriched by a deep study of the unseen.
Niko's approach to holding space is rooted in compassion, the autonomy of the participant, and the belief that every symptom, whether emotional, physical, or spiritual, signifies a healing process already underway. His guiding question is, "What is blossoming in this moment?" With a grounded heart and deep faith, Niko creates a space of calm and openness, gently coaxing individuals to embrace the truth of their potential. He sees his role as holding space for each person's innate capacity to transform themselves, fostering an environment of open receptivity to the potential in each moment. Each day Niko seeks to bridge heaven and earth within himself first, then sincerely extends that sacred connection to each of the people he serves.
Find Niko’s individual offerings at North Star Council, and on Instagram at @niko.whitefeather.
Hilary Rappaport
Hilary Rappaport is honored and grateful to be weaving this web of community. She is a licensed psilocybin facilitator and an intuitive counselor in Portland, Oregon and is the first artist-in-residence at the Portland Grief House. In her practice, she is humbly committed to holding space for grief of all kinds, not limited to the death of a person, but honoring and being present with the various losses that we experience throughout our lives; including the loss of relationships, homes, jobs, dreams, and more. Her own work with psilocybin came from deeply feeling the loss of a parent and she also feels called to help others moving through the heartbreak, confusion and magic that this kind of loss can bring. Her practice is rooted in reverence for the mushrooms and for the indigenous people who have worked with this medicine for time and millennia. She makes beeswax candles, and is trained as a death doula, community herbalist, and somatic practitioner and weaves these callings into her practice as requested. She loves singing, dancing, and wandering the woods with her 5lb dog named Olive.
Learn more about working with Hilary by scheduling a free consultation here.
Hart Dasteel
Hart is a psychedelic integration coach and ceremonialist, offering guidance for healing from trauma, ancestral wounding, attachment ruptures, and disconnection from one’s authentic self and the Earth. Hart has experience working with a unique synthesis of psychedelic integration modalities within a safe, intentional container, supporting his clients in alchemizing the most powerful experiences of their lives into a new version of everyday reality. Hart holds a B.A. in Transpersonal Psychology and is a licensed massage therapist with advanced certification in several modalities. He has trained extensively in Emotional Freedom Technique, as well as various forms of breathwork including SOMA Breath. Hart completed a year-long intensive through Shiri Godassi’s Psychedelic School, where he is certified as a psychedelic integration coach. Hart holds a holistically trauma informed integration practice, working closely with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic attachment techniques.
Personally, Hart’s interests and passions revolve around a consistent rhythm of daily life primarily focused on parenting, working with clients, healing/spiritual practices (yoga, breathwork, EFT, and more), a weekly men’s circle with dear brothers, and family gatherings. Playing with his children is a Number One priority, allowing any tense layers to shed and making room for his inner child to come out and have fun!
Find Hart’s individual offerings at Entheo Genesis, and on Instagram at @hart.medicine and @alchemyofbrotherhood.
Cecelia Sun
Cecelia supports UNIUN with both outward-facing and behind-the-scenes endeavors, including social media, website management and design, administrative support, and holding space in various capacities. Cecelia came to the threshold of psychedelic-assisted healing after a period of profound mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dis-ease that was unaided by modern western paradigms of healing. Her experiences working with entheogens opened the door to deep wellness, with the support of somatic practices, creative expression, energy healing, expansive nutrition, and community. With humility and gratitude, she embraces the opportunity to walk alongside others as they find their own path through periods of shadow and light.
Cecelia is devoted to the creation of a peaceful world in which we all remember how to tend to ourselves, one another, and the earth with gentleness. Her primary work is as a healthcare provider, companioning families through postpartum and early childhood. She also offers website design for creatives and holistic wellness businesses. Cecelia is a poet, song carrier, and artist. She is a loving wife, daughter, granddaughter, and sister. She engages in an ongoing study of healing through expanded states of consciousness, both individually and in collective spaces.
Find Cecelia’s offerings at Cecelia Sun Design.
Tasha Stewart
I am a deeply feeling, watery Cancer, who loves nurturing and holding space for others. I delight in the single tear as it glides down a client’s face, I sit by rivers often, I am a constant student of life; kinesthetic by nature, I move through the world by feeling and direct experiencing. I am in awe of emotions, and the full spectrum of the human experience. I have chosen the work that I do because of a desire for depth, connection and transformational journeys - both inside and out.
I received a Bachelors of Public Health: Health Promotion and Health Behavior at Oregon State University in 2013. I studied as a medical intern within South African hospitals, emergency settings and rural maternity clinics. This sparked a curiosity to extend my exploration of the external world and travel. From 2013 - 2018 I worked as a Flight Attendant and a vegan chef and first mate on a 66 foot sailboat. I’ve crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean by boat and air many times. I am well versed in holding space for explorative journeys for large groups of people. I have a calm, gentle, compassionate presence. I then followed the desire to facilitate deep inner journeys for others. I moved to Portland, Oregon at the end of 2018 and dove into a coaching certification program. Then I trained with Clarity Breathwork in Costa Rica as a way to work directly with the bodymind and nervous system in February of 2020. I recently finished a year long graduate level course for Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Matè to further my studies in trauma, psychotherapy, and learning how to unearth and get free from the unconscious dynamics that run our lives. After facilitating over thousands of transformational Breathwork sessions, I felt called to continue my work in altered states of consciousness by becoming a Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator in the state of Oregon. I graduated Innertrek in December 2023. I am delighted by the inherent wisdom of the natural world, and view psilocybin as a loving tool and teacher on the path to wholeness. I believe breathwork and psilocybin are a brilliant pair for true transformation.
My education is currently being enriched by studying Somatic Experiencing - a 3 year program - by Peter Levine to deepen my body of knowledge in Somatics and the nervous system. I’m a continual student of Zen Buddhism and enjoy immersing myself in long meditation retreats a few times a year. I am certified in the healing arts of Reiki 1 & 2.
Find Tasha’s offerings of breathwork, space holding, and more at Tasha Stewart.
Interested in collaborating with UNIUN?
We welcome those who are interested in collaborating to offer retreats, workshops, events, and classes. Feel free to reach out via our contact page to share about yourself and your offerings.
Interested in collaborating?
We welcome those who are interested in collaborating to offer retreats, workshops, events, and classes. Feel free to reach out via our contact page to share about yourself and your offerings.