Journey: Sakha
Travel in indigenous Siberia & beyond.
Our Team.
Laura Perlin, co-founder
Laura brings her experience as a teacher, healing arts practitioner, wilderness guide, and ritualist to her work as co-founder and guide for Journey: Sakha.
She lives most of the year in San Francisco, California (land of the indigenous Ramaytush Ohlone people) where she teaches and maintains a private practice rooted in tarot, divination, ancestral reclamation, and the esoteric healing arts.
Her ancestral connection to Sakha Republic draws her to spend as much time as she can here, drawing in inspiration, knowledge, and sustenance from the land & the spirits. Beyond guiding trips and developing as a ritualist and healing arts practitioner, her projects in Sakha Republic including writing, translation, cultural history, and slow but steady improvement in her indigenous Sakha language.
As the English speaker of Journey Sakha, Laura guides all trips, registers participants, and creates website & social media content.
Journey Sakha is an expression of her deepest passion & soul calling, and reflects the culmination of years of experience as a teacher and a guide of wild places. She is honored to share the spiritual & cultural wealth and vast, wild beauty of Sakha Republic with you.
Dmitry Dmitreev, co-founder
Dmitry is a native of Sakha Republic (Yakutia). He is a practitioner of techniques aimed at achieving nirvana. He has degrees in ecology and law. He enjoys travel within Russia, and being in relationship with the interesting people of Sakha Republic.
Dmitry speaks his indigenous language fluently.
Our Mission.
Preserving earth-based, animist, and shamanic sacred traditions.
We believe that indigenous spiritual traditions are precious, and their wisdom is much needed for the survival & adaptation of the human people. We support shamans, ritualists, & traditional healers through culturally appropriate meaningful exchange.
Learning through experiential cultural immersion.
To really be impacted by a place, one cannot merely gaze out at it from a window. We value curiosity & authentic engagement, and celebrate the joys & challenges of cross-cultural exchange. We accept the journey as open-ended & mysterious.
Honoring the cultural & spiritual wealth of indigenous communities.
We value indigenous languages, foods, stories, & songs. We strive to preserve that which is threatened by globalization. We seek to promote ways of living that are in deep intimacy & harmony with humans, animals, plants, minerals, & non-corporeal beings.
Modelling slow travel, openness, and deep listening.
We believe in the potential of travel to transform. To expose aspects of the human experience that had previously been invisible. To bring assumptions & habits into focus. And to have the humility & vulnerability to adapt & evolve. We invite you to join us in deep connection.
Sharing the transformative potential of intimate relationship with land.
Modernity has robbed many people of an intimate relationship with place. We seek to restore the ability to connect directly to land as a human birthright and an urgent intervention for the troubles wrought by human abuses. We honor earth as divine teacher.
Catalyzing personal & collective growth & healing.
Travel can be a crucible for learning resilience, adaptability, & creative problem solving. Add in transpersonal states and the energetic charge of sacred sites, and the journey becomes an initiation. May you maximize your human potential & offer your gifts to the world.