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Nica Celly

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Expanded Practices in Art & Design
✨Understory II coming summer 2027
🌊The RISING TIDE - next cohort starts in March 2027! Apps open in January ⚓️

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My lane has always been on the small, independent business highway, supporting solopreneurs and organizations that serve people, the environment, and culture. It’s for this community that I have designed The RISING TIDE.

The RISING TIDE is an intimate 8-week working group for women solopreneurs designed to support vision, clarify focus, and build entrepreneurial flexibility in times of drastic change. Each week incorporates live consulting and shared learning, offering critical structure and support to weather this storm, and the next one.

We begin March 23, 2026 at 9am PST.

What I have learned over 25 years of independent entrepreneurship is that women-led businesses and initiatives naturally disrupt oppressive systems, and hold the power to transform our future into a healthier, more equitable, and equanimous one. I offer The RISING TIDE toward that end.

If you or someone you care about is spinning in their business right now and ready to jump ship, let’s recalibrate the path and move forward together. The portal is live, and applications are open for the maiden voyage.

I welcome any and all inquiries.

With steady resolve, and with love,
Nica by @nicacelly

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BAJA DREAMWORKS is pleased to introduce NICA CELLY, an expanded practice artist exploring consciousness through word and form. Her current work investigates the subtle architectures of attention through social and collaborative projects that activate breath and body as sites of discovery

She holds an MFA in textiles from California College of the Arts and a 1008-hour certification in yoga with Janet Stone. Residencies include the Jentel Foundation, Brush Creek, UCross, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center.

“Being with the arts community here in TS is unlike any residency, schooling, or expression
I have seen yet. We get to do most of our practices, pushing the edges of inquiry with the
Most open, receptive, and discerning community I have had the privilege of living with. I’m
Proud and humbled to be a part of this community. Gracias pro todo”

We are overjoyed to have NICA as part of the Baja Dreamworks community. Her enthusiasm and creativity is inspiring which makes her and her work a mirror of the creative spirit we seek to create and inspire at Baja Dreamworks.

DISCOVER MORE ABOUT NICA @nicacelly
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Join @freebird.bodywork & @nicacelly for an immersion into the subtle layers and connect with the #MoreThanHumanWorld.
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@ratnalingretreatcenter
August 21-23 by @nicacelly

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🌿 what is the understory 🌿

When @nicacelly and I first decided to collaborate, we had a general idea of what we wanted to offer. The creation of a portal, a way to call creativity and connection forward in a time that is increasingly antithetical to what will actually sustain us through These Times.

Landing on understory brought our desire into stunning relief. Ecologically speaking the understory is a place of emergence. It is a place protected by the high canopy, where nutrients cycle from decomposition to feed vibrant new growth. For us, the metaphors felt as rich and potent as the soil itself.

This is landscape we want to explore with you. In this place, subtle perception finds form. Through encounters with word, body and the More Than Human world, perception expands: from micro to macro, breath to landscape, individual to collective.

🌬️ pranayama
🧘 gentle yoga
✍️ creative writing
🌿 forest bathing

We invite you to discover and tend to your personal understory, there are no prerequisites - just an open curiosity and willingness to begin.

August 21-23, 2026
Ratna Ling Buddhist Retreat Centre
Cazadero, CA along the Sonoma Coast
2 hours north of San Francisco taken in Ratna Ling Retreat Center by @nicacelly

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Drop down, drop in, and sense into the subtle, and more-than-human experience with us this August. 🌿

In the understory, subtle perception finds form. Through encounters with word, body, and Nature, perception expands: from micro to macro, breath to landscape, and individual to collective.

Over three days and two nights, we will slow down to sense and reconnect with the fertile, unseen layers that sustain life both within and around us, restoring resilience and wonder in collaboration with the More Than Human World. 🌲

Jolene Beilstein and Nica Celly will offer breath, movement, and creative practices to explore somatic wholeness so that you may discover and tend to your personal understory.

This retreat is for those seeking a gentle, immersive, and creative experience. No prerequisites required, only an open curiosity and a willingness to begin. 🪶

August 21-23
Ratna Ling Buddhist Retreat Center
Cazadero, CA along the Sonoma Coast
2 hours north of San Francisco

🌿 Forest Bathing
🌬️ Pranayama
🧘 Slow Yoga
✍️ Creative Writing

Link to learn more and register in bio. #wildernessretreat #forestbathing #pranayama #creativeretreats #bayarearetreat taken in Ratna Ling Retreat Center by @nicacelly

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Drop down, drop in, and sense into the subtle, and more-than-human experience with us this August. 🌿

In the understory, subtle perception finds form. Through encounters with word, body, and Nature, perception expands: from micro to macro, breath to landscape, and individual to collective.

Over three days and two nights, we will slow down to sense and reconnect with the fertile, unseen layers that sustain life both within and around us, restoring resilience and wonder in collaboration with the More Than Human World. 🌲

Jolene Beilstein and Nica Celly will offer breath, movement, and creative practices to explore somatic wholeness so that you may discover and tend to your personal understory.

This retreat is for those seeking a gentle, immersive, and creative experience. No prerequisites required, only an open curiosity and a willingness to begin. 🪶

August 21-23
Ratna Ling Buddhist Retreat Center
Cazadero, CA along the Sonoma Coast
2 hours north of San Francisco

🌿 Forest Bathing
🌬️ Pranayama
🧘 Slow Yoga
✍️ Creative Writing

Link to learn more and register in bio. #wildernessretreat #forestbathing #pranayama #creativeretreats #bayarearetreat taken in Ratna Ling Retreat Center by @nicacelly

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Saturday May 16 @galeriaenriqueguerrero

The closing experience of Right of Passage.
Works by Anna Sorrentino, Brenda Barrera, and me…

I’ll be offering a performance at 6:15 sharpish.
Dress comfortably, and sit with us.

Gracias por todo
Nica by @nicacelly

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Join Nica Celly (@nicacelly)and Jolene Beilstein (@freebird.bodywork) for a 3-day retreat exploring

Body
Word
& Landscape

Sonoma coast in the redwoods
@ratnalingretreatcenter
August 21-23, 2026

in the Understory, subtle perception finds form.
Over three days and two nights we will slow down to Sense and reconnect with the fertile unseen layers that sustained both life within and around us, and to restore resilience and wonder in collaboration with the more than human world.

Forest Bathing
Pranayama
Creative Writing
Yin & Hatha Yoga

Dm with questions, learn more at link in bio
✨ taken in Ratna Ling Retreat Center by @nicacelly

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Understory:
A 3-day immersive retreat exploring body, word, and landscape…

A gentle, immersive retreat for those looking to step out of noise.

Through breath, movement, and time in the forest, we shift perception through key practices:

PRANAYAMA 🌊
MEDITATION 🦚
SLOW YOGA ✨
FOREST BATHING 🌿
CREATIVE WRITING 🖋️

August 21–23, 2026
Ratna Ling Retreat Center,
Cazadero CA on Sonoma Coast
In the redwoods

With Jolene Beilstein + Nica Celly

Early registration discount available thru April 22

Link in bio to learn more ✨ taken in Ratna Ling Retreat Center by @nicacelly

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Curious? Nicacelly.com/rising-tide

This is beyond accountability… this is about structure and flow.

The RISING TIDE is a curriculum-focused, facilitated working group with live consulting.

And everyone gets a turn in the hot seat.

Let’s generate the power of learning in the collective. This is the space where we keep steady, stay motivated, and grow as the world changes yet again.

Through eight weekly themes, we will navigate the bumpy waters to this moment that we have all been readying for: the rising tide of women’s wisdom not as an idea, but as realtime businesses, initiatives, and influence... from micro to macro.

We work on what matters most right now in your business practice: your vision, your pricing, your strategy, your systems, and your next move... creating fluidity and consistency in the process, and your business practice.

The format is simple, and the container is structured, with room to explore tributaries before and after every session (the room will open 15 minutes prior and stay open 15 minutes after). There will also be thoughtful and productive prompts and inquiries to consider in-between sessions.

Reach out with any questions (here for it), and/or apply via link in bio.

Con amor and soon,
Nica taken in Together by @nicacelly

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Flujo de vinyasa 🌀

Todos los niveles son bienvenidos a esta clase devocional de Hatha Vinyasa Flow que conecta la respiración, el movimiento y la quietud. Comenzamos con pranayama y nos expandimos con saludos constantes hacia el flujo creativo, para luego regresar al descanso con un cierre y una intención que nos enraízan.

Sabados 9 am

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Hatha vinyasa flow ✨

All levels are welcome to join this devotional Hatha Vinyasa flow class that bridges breath, movement, and stillness. We begin with pranayama and expand into steady salutations towards creative flow, and return to rest with grounding closure and intention.

Saturdays 9am

#hathaflow #cuatrovientostodossantos taken in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur by @nicacelly

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