Andrew Dahl-Bredine is the co-founder of the Gila Circle Way Project. Having grown up in Silver City, NM, he traveled all over the world, learned various languages, spiritual, and musical traditions, and has spent the last 5 years living, studying and practicing the ways of the Old People; traditional and commonly shared human ancestral lifeways, skills, and cultural practices associated with land-based (and usually hunter-gatherer) peoples. He has worked as a teacher, a professional musician, youth mentor, and jack-of-all-trades. He now makes his home in the high desert where he grew up, in the Silver City/Gila area of southwestern New Mexico. He hopes to continue deepening his understanding and connection with wild nature, continue growing as a human being, and eventually be part of a clan-style circle of people who live in close contact with their wild relatives. Andrew enjoys sharing his love of nature with children and adults, as well as his love of music and rhythm.
Lexa Jobe also co-founder of the Gila Circle Way Project, grew up in El Paso, TX, and on a ranch in west Texas. Always drawn to the outdoors, she has spent many moons out under the stars, including a 5 week wilderness immersion experience in northern Wisconsin, and a year of living on the Gila River close to the wild valley without electricity. She has a special love for plants, crafting with buckskin, and especially loves to dance!
Doug Simons is a healer and plant medicine person who has lived over 20 years outside on the breast of the Mother Earth, learning and connecting with the plants and animals of many areas, though specifically the Gila area. He has many years experience packing in the wilderness with his good friends the burros. His special connection and ability to communicate with plants gives his understanding and way with natural healing a depth rarely seen in this time. Doug has shared his insight and experience with plants through workshops across the Southwest in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Utah, and New Mexico. He is an honored friend and contributor to the Gila Circle Way Project, and touches everyone he meets through his workshops and classes.
Graceful Fawn, daughter of Lexa and Andrew, loves to run, jump, and at age 2 already knows more plants than either Lexa or Andrew did at the age of 20. Her favorite things to do are pick and eat berries, pick and eat prickly pear fruit, pick and eat nuts, pick and eat any other kind of fruit, pick and pull-apart (or eat!) flowers, and flop down face-first on the bed and laugh.
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