Honoring my lineages and teachers

There are many people, lineages, and traditions who contributed to who I am through their presence in my life.
With love and gratitude, Rhonda

My parents Jewel and Bill
My grandparents Anna, Robert, Marjorie and Lee
My great-grandparents
My sister Paige
My two children
Many aunts, uncles, cousins, and extended family
My step-parents Kathy and Roger

My root lineages: English, Irish, Scottish, German and Cherokee  

First dance teacher Cindy Gray

Teachers: second-grade teacher Mrs. Turner, high-school English teacher, and drill team sponsor Mrs. Decker

Dance mentors Claude Thompson and Hama

First yoga teacher Erich Schiffmann

Spiritual teacher Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, Himalayan lineage of Sri Vidya initiate 2003

Nonviolent Communication trainer Susan Skye 

Mentor and teacher Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks

Spiritual teacher and mystic Thomas Hübl

Native American teacher Dr. Ruby Gibson

Headperson (Chief) Stephanie Jeffords, Ugvwiyuhi AniTali Tsisqua, Sac River and White River Bands, Cherokee Nation of Indians, Arkansas and Missouri 

Many other teachers, friends, colleagues and community. I am forever grateful for the guidance, support, companionship and learning I have been blessed to receive. 

"Though we may never find complete truth, the closer we come to it, the more clearly we see that we all love and worship this incredible planet we find ourselves inhabiting. We love and care for all species on it, including other human beings. Closer yet to the truth, we don’t know who or what we are without our connections with all other manifestations of life. We are essentially inseparable from the earth, from its creatures, and from each other. We are they and they are us, and when any one person, species, or ecosystem is impoverished, we are all impoverished. We have multitudes within us and we are interconnected with multitudes!"
~ Donella H. Meadows