ABOUT US

The Black Diamond Collective offers seasonal Earth Wisdom ceremonies, rituals, and gatherings for the modern world, guiding seekers back to their most authentic selves. In community we create sacred spaces of revolutionary consciousness.

“We birth the beloved community by becoming the beloved community” - Valarie Kaur

Who We Are

 

Natalie Orozco

Natalie is a feminine strategic consultant working cross-culturally with organizations and individuals who are ready to do the work it takes to lead themselves and the world into balance. She is here to give life to intuitive, emotionally-intelligent leadership.

A bridge between the western and spiritual worlds, she measures social impact and solves strategic, operational, and implementation challenges. She is also a sanctioned Ceremony Guide by the Keeper of the Delicate Lodge Teachings and is a trained coach, death doula, and circle facilitator. She uses her gifts to create transformational systems, processes, and experiences. Natalie believes when people practice growing relationships deeply to themselves and the planet—they create a life of self-alignment and positive impact for us all. Natalie lives in Nisenan Territories, present-day Sacramento, California. She enjoys spending time in nature, creating ceremonies, and advocating for our planet and underserved communities. Follow her on Instagram and LinkedIn.

Alex Holiday

Alex Holiday is a lifelong student of nature, movement and transformational practices. Alex has logged over a thousand hours of yoga teaching where she is passionate about creating accessible pathways for everyone and every body.   Her teaching is rooted in the principles that if you change your energy you change your mind, and that the entire universe resides within you. Alex’s meets students where they are at, reminding them to drop judgment while approaching practice with love and humor.

Her knowledge is grounded in the teachings of Tantra, Ayurveda, and the Earth Wisdom teachings of the Delicate Lodge. Alex has spent the last 15 years in deep study of nature, medicine wheels, and the old paths of healing. She is an Ayurvedic health coach, yoga teacher, sanctioned ceremonial guide, wife of an adorable husband, cooker of delicious things and expert joy maker.  Follow her on Instagram or catch her latest yoga class.

 OUR STORY

Advocacy Origins

Our friendship began in 2008 when the 2 of us worked as grass roots organizers, running various youth programs at a Domestic Violence Family Resource Center in Santa Cruz, California. In our early days, we learned the power of circles, the resilience of the human spirit, and found our passion to support change and growth in our communities.

Individual Journeys

By 2010, we were in the next chapter of our lives. Alex was teaching in Thailand, and began her yoga teacher and Ayurveda journey training on an Ashram in India. Natalie moved to Massachusetts to study policy and psychology at Harvard.

Soul Sisters are Born

We stayed in touch, mostly because we loved each other so much, but also because we were training to become Council Guides in an Earth Wisdom Medicine tradition called the Teachings of the Delicate Lodge. Council Guides are entrusted with a sacred process, to access the universal energies of life, a council, to make a life-birthing and life-regenerative decisions.

We trained in this tradition for over a decade together. The teachings took us deep into our inner world to understand how we became who we were and what needed to be healed within while also re-connecting us to the truth that we are interwoven with all of life, everything we can see and can’t. We became sanctioned to take these teaching to the world as we see fit. During this time, we also all sun danced in the Delicate Lodge Tradition - offering ourselves to pray for life in the highest ceremony of our tradition— on the summer solstice.

Over the last 14 years, we have stayed close and gotten closer. We have weathered jobs, break ups, deaths, births, starting businesses, moves, weddings, and marriages. Always knowing our friendship is one of our greatest gifts.

Showing Up In Service

Now in the midst of this epic transformational time, we are here, offering our gifts and our friendship to the world in all the ways we can. We believe that we are all the one’s we’ve been waiting for.

Starting the Black Diamond Collective as a spiritually-aligned business together, is a long held dream come true. We come from a vast community of phenomenal spiritually connected people. We thank our friends, mentors, teachers, and all of life for this incredible opportunity to be of service to our community in a way that we love.

OUR VALUES

  • We Thrive. We take care of ourselves to show up as our best selves for you.

  • We Receive. We make money for our space holding and creations.

  • We Dream Big. We are here for it all and will stretch ourselves in leadership.

  • We Lead with Love. For ourselves, each other, and our people.

  • We honor the Feminine. We create from being, resting, and pleasure.

  • We work with great people. Our clients and partners inspire the hell out of us.

  • We access joy, laughter, and play.

  • We Give Back. Our 10% promise ensures every sale gives back to the earth and the first nation people that carry earth wisdom while seeking sovereignty.

  • We Pray with the Earth. We offer our gratitude, prayers, and beauty through ceremonies and rituals by listening to Her and all her children.

  • We engage in anti-oppressive work. We are committed to breaking down systems of oppression and power imbalances in every offering. We recognize disenfranchisement across our current systems, and hold space from an intersectional lense.