Our Teachers

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

Rudolf Steiner

Join our Team:

Heart Song is seeking a Lead Grades Educator to administer first through eighth grade programming four days a week and help grow Waldorf education in the Columbia River Gorge. 

 

Meet Our Team

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Lead: Early Childhood

Stephanie Seliga-Soulseed (She/her)

My goal is to holistically support families in the deep and profound work of raising the next generation—from pre-conception through early childhood. In addition to being a preschool teacher, I am a certified Innate Post-Partum Care provider, community organizer, full-time mother and general farm hand.

I approach my role as teacher first as a student. My formal and continued training is through the Michael Institute in Portland, Oregon. I come to this pedagogy with a BA in Philosophy, a minor in women’s studies, indigenous teachings, and a physiological understanding of human development from pre-conception through early childhood. My work is founded on building a rhythm of life in alignment with the earth, the childrens’ own ancestry and the traditions of the land on which we walk. My ancestry is English, Irish, German, French, Dutch and Cree.

Lead: Grades

My name is Ariel Corwin and I'm a lifetime resident of Washington. I have found great joy and inspiration playing outdoors and deep immersion into the natural world. I love hiking, Mt. biking and snowboarding as well as foraging and deepening my knowledge of our local flora and fauna. Botany has been an interest of mine since I was a young child and I look forward to bringing my love of plants to my students.

I first was introduced to Waldorf schools as a child and immediately fell in love. That experience had a lasting impact on me and has expanded into my adult life. In 2014 I began my formal training as a Waldorf Teacher at Sound Circle Center in Seattle, Wa. While attending Sound Circle I worked at the Olympia Waldorf School for three years. After graduating from teacher training in 2017, I studied kinesiology at Evergreen State College. I designed and built my tiny house, this has been the biggest project I have undertaken to date and I'm so proud of it. In 2018 I moved my tiny home to White Salmon and I'm overjoyed to be serving my community by educating its youth with a full and open heart. 

 
 
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Lead: Adventure Fridays

Michael Seliga-Soulseed (he/him)I

I grew up among the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, coming to the NW to study at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning's Community and Environmental Planning Program. After working for several farms in Washington State, and I founded Cascadia Edible Landscapes, a Design-Build landscape company that focuses on integrating edible plants into all urban, suburban, and rural spaces. My desire to balance food infrastructure for people of all incomes led him to co-found Just Garden (Project), with his lovely wife in 2010. Just Garden built over 100 gardens for lower income individuals and communities that would have otherwise been left out of the joys of growing and sharing food.

At Heart Song School I coordinate the Friday adventure days as an open learning space. Feel free to contact me if you would like to bring food production to your own back (or front) yard.

Assistant: Grades

Crystal Luster (She/Her)

I love nature, children, and animals especially, horses. My first career spanned twenty years in the healthcare field as a Radiologic Technologist and Medical Assistant. Motherhood provided me with the motivation to follow my original calling to work with children in nature. My first foray into outdoor education arose with the coming of my second child. I was a Tinkergarten facilitator in White Salmon. Additionally, I hold certificates in teaching Imagination Yoga and Street Yoga. These are specifically geared to children and at-risk youth respectively.

I have worked with children of all ages from preschoolers to teenagers while perusing these certifications and volunteering at Next Door. In 2019, I met Stephanie and Waldorf Education. Since I have been immersed in a BEAUTIFUL blending of my deepest loves--nature and children and the wonders of life here on Earth.