About Us
Our Mission
For us, walking in beauty is not only about caring for the land, but also about creating beauty within our community, through service, ceremony, training, and the weaving of relationships. Wherever we have lived we have sought to leave a footprint of beauty upon our Sacred Mother Earth, feeding her with our love, creativity and reverence.
It is our ethos and responsibility to tend every space with reverence, leaving it better than we found it. This is the love we offer: to nurture the earth beneath us and the hearts around us, no matter how large or small the environment. In this way, the mission of beauty becomes both our path and our gift — a living imprint on the land and in the souls we encounter.
The Beauty Way Song
Sung by Martyn John Taylor
Codes we live by
In our community, we honour a path rooted in ancient wisdom, where values are not just spoken but lived. Inspired by the Seven Grandfather Teachings; love, respect, courage, honesty, humility, wisdom, and loyalty—we walk a path that also weaves in the living values most needed in our time.
These include grace, forgiveness, healing, community, prayer, gratitude and service. Each is a sacred compass, a guidepost of the heart, helping us to remember who we are and how we are to walk with one another on this Earth.
These teachings are not separate; they form a circle of unity, wholeness, and becoming.
Michelle and Gordon have been walking this transformational healing path together for the past thirteen years.
During this time, they have been in service to their local community; from organic garden feeding schemes supporting the most vulnerable children and elders in the townships, to hosting and facilitating intercultural ceremonies, youth gatherings, and community circles for those wishing to learn and walk this sacred path together.
Michelle Reid
Michelle is a mother, a sister, a friend, a wife, a student, and a teacher. At 55 years old, she is blessed with a radiant 22-year-old daughter, a devoted and supportive husband, and a surrounding circle of cherished family, spirit family, and community.
Michelle is an ordained minister of the Church of the Earth and is trained in sacred ceremonial practices rooted in the Native American traditions of the Okanogan/Tsalagi lineages. Her life took a profound turn when she met her beloved Native American grandmother and elder, whose arrival on South African soil more than a decade ago opened a gateway of remembrance, healing, reconnection, and sacred responsibility.
Before this path revealed itself, Michelle had danced the dance of life in all its extremes; joy and sorrow, love and loss, wild freedom and deep wounding. Yet one of the greatest gifts she has received is the ability to alchemize her trauma into joy, and her wounding into offerings of service. This alchemy has become the heartbeat of her medicine.
After completing her training, Michelle was invited by her community to begin sharing the teachings, and her medicine bundle was blessed by her elder to do so. What began as a personal journey of healing opened into a calling she never anticipated, to step into the role of teacher and guide. She often says she could never have imagined this path as her destiny, yet it has unfolded as a natural extension of her devotion to Spirit and to community.
Major shifts marked her journey, especially in 2012, when she answered the call to leave behind the 9–5 paradigm and walk fully in service to Spirit. Having undergone many personal initiations, Michelle knows that true growth happens beyond the comfort zone. She continues to walk the good Red Road with new teachers and guides, deepening her practice and expanding her understanding.
One of her favourite teachings, from Maya Angelou, reminds her daily: “We do our best, when we know better, we do better.” With this humility, she continues to seek new ways of elevation, learning, and service to her community.
“We are the Medicine, and the Medicine is LOVE, and LOVE is coming together in unity.” Michelle, Great Mother Eagle Song
Gordon Aeschliman
Gordon’s life journey has carried him across more than 45 countries, where his heart has been deeply moved by the human paradox of beauty and brokenness. From war zones to refugee camps, rainforests to deserts, and the depths of the ocean, he has borne witness to both the light and shadow of our shared humanity. His soul has always gravitated toward “the least of these,” holding space for the overlooked and unheard.
He believes we often underestimate our capacity to be graceful, strong, kind, and resolute in a world longing for love and meaning.
At 67 years of age, Gordon is blessed with four beloved children, eleven magical grandchildren, a soul partner he cherishes deeply, and a rich circle of family and friends. His heart overflows with gratitude.
He has been trained through the veil by his ancestors, Running Deer and Morning Dew, to carry the sacred peace pipe. Jaguar has walked with him for nearly six decades, and along the way, he has been mentored by human angels who have placed a sacred demand on his soul.
Though he has written more words than he can count and wandered many detours, the dust gathered beneath his feet has become part of his prayer. He now walks into the meaning of his medicine name—Eagle Heart Peace Walker—and invites others to journey beside him, as we walk each other home to love… to beauty.
“We came to this earth to be LOVE, in such a time as this.” Gordon, EagleHeart PeaceWaker