MORE ABOUT EFD FOUNDERS,CARA & BURT

Burt studied meditation & martial arts; pursued his own emotional & spiritual recovery (from co-dependency through AA, SAA, therapy & coaching); trained for marathons, cycled to work, played Ultimate frisbee & enjoyed being in his physical body. He was a computer programmer by night & a life liver by day.

He was also capable of changing the brake pads on his car and soldering his own quad drones together that he would fly for fun. Burt enjoyed the Hero's journey in storytelling; he was a comic book fan as well as an aficionado of super hero films.

 After growing up as a minority in small town, USA, & spending a decade in a marriage in which he was the emotional punching bag, Burt's sensitive soul found the lessons it needed for optimum evolution as a Man on planet Earth.

Cara is also spiritual seeker who has spent her life studying dance & embodiment. Leaving performance & the stage behind, Cara embraced embodiment & dance as a guiding philosophy for a grace-filled life full of connection & meaning. 

In 2011, Cara was seeking transformation when Burt stepped into her life. Rooting their instantaneous connection in friendship, they spent 18 months developing emotional intimacy before becoming lovers. Soon after, a baby followed - Cara's first, and Burt's third (roughly). 

Living 24/7 in deep, emotional intimacy with Burt, Cara was confronted with her own trauma & conditioning in which she moved more from an unconscious operating system steeped in fear. E.g: She had: a deep fear of intimacy; a superiority complex; a know-it-all attitude; a lack of empathy; a quickness to defensiveness; & harsh judgement of herself & others. 

Life with Burt, & his subsequent death, gave Cara the immeasurable gifts of greater compassion for herself, more empathy for others, an ability to stay in her heart in challenging moments & more, as well as an unshakeable resolve to live with LOVE as her true north.

Their experiences together of: building a family; early childhood; miscarriages; co-running a community house where they also ran a cooperative of parents with their young children; navigating & surviving a 4th stage cancer diagnosis; downsizing their southern California life & heading south of the border to world-school their son: then death; have filled Cara with a hard-earned wisdom that she enjoys sharing.

She looks forward to sharing this work with YOU, & she knows that Burt is elated to see his legacy come to fruition.