SENDERA

Deanna has spent her career as a high-impact sales leader, known for helping companies scale through complex growth phases. She’s led global teams, closed 7-figure enterprise deals, and played a key role on an executive team navigating M&A - always with a focus on connection, clarity, and momentum.  But last year marked a turning point.  She attended two back-to-back retreats at the Modern Elder Academy that reshaped the way she viewed her work and her life. The first, "Navigating Transitions", offered space to pause and reset. The second, "Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career", lit the spark for what came next — a reinvention rooted not just in experience, but in intention.  Sendera was born from that journey.  Now splitting her time between the mountains of Colorado and the sea cliffs of Baja, Deanna lives off-grid, travels often, and curates meaningful experiences for women in transition. She’s building a new kind of path — one that blends leadership with soul, adventure with grounding, and ambition with ease.  She believes reinvention doesn’t start with a plan — it starts with a question: What’s calling me now?

Michele is a living example of what it means to break the rules around age, movement, and what’s possible. With nearly 1,000 hours of training in Hatha, Power Flow, and Somatic Release Yoga — and countless workshops, retreats, and meditation intensives under her belt — she brings a grounded yet adventurous spirit to every practice.

Her mantra: Our body is our home for a lifetime. And she teaches from that truth — encouraging women to build a relationship with their body that supports freedom of movement and ultimately igniting a real sense of mind /body connection..

Yoga and travel are her twin passions (she never leaves home without her mat). She’s practiced in the deserts of Oman, on the beaches of Spain, and in a treehouse deep in the Panamanian jungle. A mother of three, Michele and her husband untied the ropes of conventional life over a decade ago and spent seven years cruising  from England through the Mediterranean to Turkey. Mexico through Central America,and finally through the Panama canal.  Eventually swapping their yacht for motorcycles, to ride across 22 countries including Oman, Jordan,the heart of Bagdhad, Iraq, and Iran, to name a few. Most recently, she completed a motorcycle tour across Africa. Her love of empowering women to just say YES! To forging new paths outside their comfort zones.

Michele brings a strong, steady presence to Sendera. Her sessions are an invitation to come home to yourself — to move, release, reflect, and reconnect with your own inner wisdom.

Shaman Saul (Saul Kuperstein) brings a rich multicultural heritage and decades of experience to his spiritual work. Born in Mexico City to a Mexican mother and a Jewish father, Saul was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household – an upbringing that meant he “always lived in multiple worlds and realities at the same time”​. From a young age, he was sensitive to unseen energies and experienced psychic “nudges” and premonitions that ultimately guided him toward a shamanic path​.  Committed to honoring these gifts, Saul embarked on intensive spiritual training about 25 years ago and has been a practicing shaman ever since​. He even apprenticed in the West African Yoruba tradition – becoming a Yoruban-trained shaman – which further deepened his connection to ancestral wisdom​.

Saul’s professional background is as diverse as his spiritual one. In addition to his shamanic calling, he spent years as a designer and entrepreneur, skills which have “charmed and enlightened MEAers for seven years now” in his role at Modern Elder Academy​. This blend of business acumen and spiritual depth makes Saul uniquely adept at bridging the modern world with ancient wisdom. He is equally at home designing creative solutions in the material world as he is guiding soul-searching rituals on a mountaintop at dawn. This authenticity in living between worlds adds to his credibility – Saul remains grounded and approachable even as he works with mystical realms.