WHAT I DO

Abrah Dresdale, MA (she/her)—often called a force of nature—is a healing arts practitioner, breathworker, leadership coach, and academic educator. She facilitates changemakers in reclaiming  their wholeness and intrinsic power through somatic healing practices paired with regenerative leadership frameworks. As a longtime ritual leader and life cycle initiation guide, Abrah is well-versed in the terrain of disruption and re-organization, a signature of this time on the planet.

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HEALING WITH THE BODY

She believes change necessarily anchors in and from the body. As such Abrah is trained in Integral Breath Therapy, Family Constellations, somatic-based Peer Counseling, and cross-cultural Anti-Oppression Work to help clients clear unconscious patterns that no longer serve.

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The transmutation of ancestral trauma is precisely the alchemy needed for

our deepest gems to shine forth.

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​EMBODIED IN MAKING CHANGE

As a professional changemaker who has catalyzed systems change for over two decades,  Abrah guides clients from the depth of her organizational and institutional leadership experience. Since 2011, Abrah has been Faculty for the Sustainable Food and Farming Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and she taught for 7 years at Omega Institute’s Center for Sustainable Living. She founded two nationally acclaimed academic food justice programs—Farm and Food Systems Program at Greenfield Community College and the Jail-to-Farm-to-College & Employment Program in Massachusetts’ Franklin County Jail. 

 

Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, Abrah helped to initiate numerous networks focused on systemic change, from local food sovereignty projects to bioregional climate justice efforts to a national prison food justice movement. In 2017, she cofounded Regenerate Change, her organizational home for consulting and teaching social regeneration with a national team of changemaking consultants. Since resigning as Director in 2023, Abrah now coordinates their Regenerative Leadership Coaching Program and works directly with high powered professional changemakers to design their lives and leadership impact. 

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INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING & GENERATIONAL HEALING
As a cultural artist dedicated to personal, collective, and ancestral healing, Abrah is well versed in crisis and trauma recovery. She has devoted her international studies to generational healing projects near to her heart as:

• A David Bird Ecological Design Fellow ‘13 to Tamil Nadu, India to design for ecosystem resilience as a response to post-colonial deforestation effects

• An Alum '15 of Encounter: Transforming Conflict through Face-to-Face Understanding in the West Bank, to bear witness to the experiences of Palestinian leaders

• A Professional Fellow ‘16 to Rwanda in the Africa Conflict Transformation Program, where she studied cultural methods for healing from genocide and epigenetic trauma

 

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CREDENTIALS

Abrah holds a Master’s in Arts in Sustainable Landscape Design (2010) from the Conway School and a Bachelors in Arts in Psychology (2004) from the State University of New York at New Paltz, along with two years of undergraduate coursework in Sociology and Visual Arts at Wesleyan University. She is trained in Integral Breath Therapy (Barcelona, Spain 2025) and Family Constellations Facilitation (Branford, CT, 2019-2020). She has studied the Science of Breathwork and Ice Baths at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and Decolonizing Breathwork with Inspire Breathwork. She is the is the author of Regenerative Design for Changemakers: A Social Permaculture Guide (2021), a mama to one kiddo and a kitty, a novice printmaker, and lives in occupied Pocumtuck Territory, known as Western Massachusetts. Download my complete CV here.​​

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