Fireform Educator Collective

We are building a collective of strong, empowered, and skilled feminine educators, bolstering up one another to support the next generation of feminine-led, collaborative education.

Akasha Eden

Spirituality, Subversion, Neurodivergence, Womanism


Akasha (she/they) is a Leatherwoman, griot, and Leather community servant whose work blends spirituality, womanist wisdom, mental health advocacy, and academic rigor.

As International Ms. Leather 2026, 2026 Scholar-in-Residence for the Carter Johnson Library and Collection and Women of Drummer, Vice President of ONYX Pearls NY/NE, Northeast slave 2024, 2023 MAsT International Presenter of the Year, and author of Diary of a Leather Rope Bunny and The Dance of the Shadows, Akasha works tirelessly to arm the community with the power of knowledge.

Rooted in Black femme resilience, she teaches & presents in hopes of helping her community discover joy, embodiment, and systems navigation in Leather, BDSM, and WIITWD.

Ashlea Haney

Remembrance, Embodiment, Story

Ashlea (she/her) is a storykeeper, poet, divination doula, artist, and craftwitch.

Raised by a matriarchy of loud, unruly women who taught her that the crude, lewd, and obscene are sources of ancient feminine wisdom, rather than shame, Ashlea has always been called to the work of remembrance, with dance as a sacred pathway home. Over the last decade, her exploration of pole, floorwork, improvisation, and performance has become a study of desire, grief, pleasure, and transformation in the body.

Through play, somatic storytelling, and collective witnessing, she creates spaces for women to reconnect with sensation, authenticity, and their own wild knowing. For Ashlea, the body is both archive and oracle—holding the wisdom of where we have been and the map for where we are called to return.

Beth Poague

Beth (she/they) is a disability justice, accessibility, and inclusion educator. She is trained in restorative practices and conflict resolution, including circle-keeping, transformative mediation, and group facilitation.

Passionate about pleasure, desire, and embodied “no’s,” Beth is an active practitioner of the Wheel of Consent, and is training to become an official Facilitator with the School of Consent. She strives for warm, inclusive, vulnerable spaces, where everyone feels cared for.

With a Master’s degree in Social Justice Educational Studies, Beth is interested in somatics and co-regulation, neurodivergence and trauma, healing and connection, abolition, and collective care.

Embodiment, Consent, Disability Justice, Abolition

Fen


Fen (she/they) is a medical professional, educator, and leatherdyke.

She cut her teeth on emergency medicine in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, joining a FEMA deployment to support urban EMS systems overwhelmed by the virus. Alternating 24-hour shifts with her college finals, she discovered a passionate love for the adventure and rewards of emergency care in the streets.

As an experienced instructor of student EMTs, Fen branched out to teach their own community EMS class. First taught in a dungeon to an audience of pro-dommes looking to better understand risk and edgeplay, the class has now been taught everywhere from the HitMeUp loft, to friends’ living rooms.

Fen serves her community with fiery pride and passion, and is always on the lookout for the next opportunity to be of service to the city and people they love.

Medicine, Risk Management, Emergency Response

Katherine White

Katherine (she/her) is an integrative massage therapist, energy worker, and intuitive guide. With years spent mentoring women in somatic and mindfulness practices, Katherine is curious about the continual process of self-growth, self-perception, and the many paths taken in the journey of life.

As a community leader, Katherine aspires to create shared spaces for women of all ages to connect and support one another. She is driven by a passion for assisting women in discovering their hidden potential, and recognizing the unique gifts they possess.

Somatics, Empowerment, Women’s Care

Mária Osero

Psychology, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Liberation

Mária (she/her) is a licensed psychedelic facilitator, PhD student in Clinical Psychology, and practitioner of trauma-informed, somatic & person-centered care. Her work lives at the intersection of clinical precision and ancestral reverence, bridging the gap between Eastern, Western, and Indigenous ways of knowing.

Rooted in her diasporic lineage and shaped by years working in mental and medical healthcare, she is committed to cultivating containers that feel safe, inclusive, and affirming for members of diverse or historically marginalized communities.

Mária approaches facilitation as both personal healing and collective liberation, ensuring that each journey is held with integrity, cultural humility, and deep reciprocity.

Nova (she/her) is a Queer, poly, neurodivergent kink educator who loves to share her passion and extensive knowledge of her practices with people.

In her vanilla life, she works as a medical provider, having spent the last 8 years of her life providing care to patients. In her kink life, she is passionate about rope, power exchange relationships, and needle play. She’s been practicing rope since 2015, began educating 2019 and has presented at many rope conferences over the years. She is also one of the primary educators in her local community in their structured education series, Rope Study Group. Three years of experience as a Dungeon Monitor in two different BDSM dungeons gives her a competent understanding of most forms of play. She brings practical, hands-on knowledge and skills to her classes from her years of personal and professional experience.

Education, Passion, Connection

Nova

Rayn (she/her) is an inspired co-creator, space holder, seeker, and connector. As the Founder of Fireform, Rayn is interested in the interconnected power of the Feminine, and the relationship it has to our selves, our bodies, our pleasure, and the ways we move through the world.

With a background in harm reduction and drug education, Rayn’s exploration of risk awareness, informed decision-making, and body autonomy extends into her current practices. Rayn is an active member of the queer, kink, POC, and dance/rave communities, curious about the intersection of consent, mutual support, community care, and liberation in subversive spaces.

Rayn creates environments to connect and grow with one another, to feel a shared undercurrent of strength, and to embody free, loving, and open expression.

Empowerment, Embodiment, Shibari,

Rayn Nguyen

Sophia Rehmus

Psychoeducation, Community, Feminism

Sophia (she/her) is a feminist, mental health advocate, psychoeducator, and creative. Trained in trauma and narcissistic abuse treatment, Sophia is passionate about educating others on narcissism, patriarchy, and pathological love relationships—and how to use that knowledge to cultivate healthier self-awareness and intimate relationships. Sophia's work is firmly rooted in feminist pedagogy—she recently received her Master's degree in Women, Violence, and Conflict, where she wrote her dissertation on narcissism and gender.

When she isn't researching, writing about, or teaching psychology, Sophia is an avid traveler and explorer. She works with several organizations directing teen travel programs across the globe, and has completed two Fulbright grants.

In everything she does, Sophia strives to create an environment based on warmth, inspiration, and creativity. 

Tess Itura

Human Sexuality, Paradigms of Power, Relationality


Tess (she/they) is a community leader and educator exploring human sexuality, relational dynamics, and evolving paradigms of power. Through years of practice and facilitation within alternative sexuality communities—Kink, BDSM, LGBTQ+, ENM, and Sex Positive—her work centers how we engage with autonomy, authority, and connection in both intimate relationships and shared spaces.

Tess focuses on practical tools for embodied relating, including flexible communication frameworks, boundary setting, and negotiated structure.

As the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Gloss Group, Tess cultivates spaces where curiosity, accountability, and mutual care can coexist, approaching power as a living practice shaped through awareness, choice, and relationship.

Tiara Gaillard

Yoga, Embodiment, Transformation, Rites of Passage


Tiara (she/her) is a student of nature, yoga teacher, embodiment guide, and birth doula-in-training. Her passion lies in creating spaces where people can return to the wisdom of their bodies and the truth of their desires through movement, breath, presence, and embodied inquiry.

Deeply curious about the processes of transformation and becoming, she is drawn to the ways that listening to the body can uncover deeper layers of knowing and expand our sense of what’s possible.

Tiara is particularly drawn to the thresholds of birth, death, and rebirth that shape our lives, and to supporting people as they navigate these passages with greater trust, presence, and clarity.

Want to join our Collective?

Co-creation makes for strong communities. We want to learn from one another, grow together, and embolden feminine leadership.

We’re particularly interested in the following offerings:

  • Consent & empowerment education

  • Embodiment & somatics practices

  • Artistic expressions (visual, performance, interactive)

  • Sexual empowerment & kink offerings

  • Queer & gender identity exploration

  • Movement and dance classes

  • Women’s health & physical safety classes

  • Community share spaces

This list is not comprehensive! If you have something you’re passionate about, please reach out.