❀ Gwendolyn Ren Hashimoto Oswald ❀

Gwendolyn (she/they) is a guide and a gatherer, a healer and a companion, a writer and a ceremonialist, a mentor and a teacher.  A facilitator of emergent space. Tending the liminal. Saying “yes” to the mystery.

These primordial ways of connection are in service of a life that is steeped in appreciation and attention. Beauty - as a lens, not a hierarchy. A feeling, not an object.

Bringing an amalgamation of intuition, study, and experience to her work, she is guided by the spirit of healing to skillfully craft practices that shift the habitual to the holistic. Her offerings bespeak the Japanese philosophy of ichi go ichi e, that each moment, each encounter, be highly treasured and markedly its own. 

Shaped by her childhood in the Ojai Valley and her mother’s garden, she identifies as a mixed-ancestry Japanese American; a granddaughter of the land of the Rising Sun and also a granddaughter of early European settler colonizers. Residing on the wooded shore of what is now known as Cleveland, Ohio, she acknowledges that wherever we are in this country we are on indigenous land.

Gwendolyn chooses to soothe, honor, and bridge the dualities of this wild life with intention, reparative action, and deep relationship.

She lives and serves by the mantra as-much-ease-as-possible. 

I am / You are / a giving of thanks