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A Life of Healing, Creativity & Connection

Lisa Starr is a Holistic Healing Arts Practitioner, artist, ceremonialist, shamanic guide, and educator with more than 20 years of experience exploring the relationship between healing, creativity, nature, and spiritual practice.

At the heart of Lisa’s work is a simple yet profound belief: we are deeply connected to the Earth, to one another, and to the patterns and rhythms of life that surround us. Her path has been one of continually discovering ways to experience, understand, and share that connection.

The Medicine of the Drum

Drum making has been a central part of Lisa’s personal journey and artistic expression. Working with natural materials and the ancient process of creating a drum became much more than an artistic practice—it became a pathway into ritual, rhythm, patterns, and connection with the natural world.

Through the drum, Lisa discovered a tangible way to explore the relationship between sound, intention, ceremony, and personal transformation. Her work with sacred instruments continues to bring together artistry and spiritual practice, honoring the drum as both a creative expression and a tool for connection.

Earth Wisdom & Ceremony

As a Minister of the Quero Apache tradition, Lisa serves as a ceremonialist, shamanic guide, and guardian. Her teachings draw upon the wisdom of ritual and ceremony while weaving together Earth Magic, mindfulness, shamanic practice, and Ecopsychology.

Lisa’s approach is grounded in the understanding that healing can emerge through relationship—with ourselves, with the Earth, with community, and with the unseen dimensions of life. She invites people to slow down, become present, listen deeply, and develop practices that reconnect them with their own inner wisdom and the natural world.

Her work encourages people to bring the principles of Earth wisdom and sacred practice into everyday life—not simply as ideas, but as lived experience.

Bonita Domes: Living with the Earth

From 2010–2020, Lisa was the owner-builder of Bonita Domes, an earthbag dome home, retreat, and creative sanctuary in Joshua Tree, California.

Lisa designed and built the structures using SuperAdobe technology, working directly with the earth on which they stand. Rooted in the principles of earth architecture and sacred geometry, Bonita Domes became an expression of her commitment to sustainable living, creativity, and the healing relationship between people and place.

Building with the Earth transformed Lisa’s understanding of what it means to create a home. The experience deepened her appreciation for geology, natural materials, sustainability, and the intelligence of working in harmony with the environment.

Bonita Domes became more than a place to live. It was a place to gather, create, retreat, learn, and experience a closer relationship with nature.

A Practice of Many Paths

Lisa’s life and work have been shaped by many forms of learning and practice. Her background encompasses holistic healing arts, homeopathy, yoga, Thai massage, clinical nutrition, meditation, traditional ceremony, and Earth-centered practices, as well as extensive experience as an accomplished natural builder.

Her ongoing personal practices include meditation in the Tantric Buddhist tradition, yoga, hiking, ceramics, and shamanic practice. Rather than existing as separate disciplines, these practices inform one another and contribute to Lisa’s embodied approach to healing and creativity.

She believes that wisdom is not only something we learn—it is something we experience through our bodies, our relationships, our creative expression, and our connection with the living world.