Staff
Founder, Director, Teacher ~ Patti Hamsa Lutke
New Earth Cyber School is a new expression of my passion to teach, guide and mentor children and young people. I have been teaching children for over 30 years and recently received the guidance to help harvest and prepare the new kids for the new earth. It is my intention to be an instrument in support of the new children through this work.
I have taught children of all grade levels K – 12 in public schools, private prep schools, on-line schools and as a private consultant. I have worked in thea area of Special Education where I have been a Resource Specialist as well as an Intervention and Reading Specialist. In addition to teaching, I received coaching accreditation from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and have designed and lead adult workshops for an international non-profit for many years. I have been on my own spiritual journey for 30 years, studying yoga, meditation, healing, shamanism and esoteric knowledge.
In my years teaching in the public school system I have seen children learn that they are not okay. Their self esteem and beautiful spirits do not seem to get the support and nourishment they need to retain their happy, free attitude toward life. I see children in grade 2 with anxiety about school and I see gifts being shut down. This is why I want to start a school that addresses the spiritual and social emotional aspects of children and youth. Connecting them to their inner being at a young age and teaching them the social emotional skills to navigate life will enable them to retain that spirit.
- BA Psychology - San Jose State
- MA Education - Santa Clara University
- California Special Education and Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials
- Certified Life Coach (CTI)
- Shaman in the Incan Qero Tradition
Teacher Ages 14-22 ~ Shane Rilling
Hi my name is Shane Rilling. I am a dad, teacher, student, musician, surfer, skater, biologist, and world traveler. I love animals, nature, kids and learning.
I graduated magna cum laude from USD with a degree in Biology and minors in Spanish, Psychology and Philosophy. I have over seven years experience tutoring from 1st grade to college level, and am professionally trained in SAT prep, and test taking skills.
I have developed and taught an alternative PE program called Good Energy at Oak Grove, and Happy Valley schools. This course unites ancient energy arts with surfing skating, and other nature movement arts.
I have studied extensively in the areas of nutrition, energy, and positive thinking. I honestly believe the potential is untapped. I have a feeling that if we open our minds, our hearts and our eyes to really see each student and their unique gifts and meet them, this new generation will radically change our ideas of what a human being is capable of.
Teacher Ages 5 - 8 ~ Gabriella Goldklang
Gabriella has a profound love and deep connection to the magical wonders that Mother Nature provides and is passionate about working with children especially while being outdoors.
Gabriella began dancing as soon as she could walk. She was a company member for ten years of the Atlanta Dance Studio and began teaching dance to children at inner city schools and after school day care programs. She has also been a camp counselor for several years and has been blessed to help raise her beautiful five-year-old sister and seven-year-old brother.
Gabriella has studied dance with a focus on contemporary and creative movement. She has taught creative sacred movement classes to children and families by guiding her students to connect with their deeper selves, allowing them to intuitively follow their hearts by moving to the way their own body wants to explore and move to rhythms of music from all around the world. Gabriella is passionate about teaching imaginative adventure movement. In a fun, safe, and nurturing environment, young children will explore different ways of expressing the Self through intuitive movement.
Gabriella studied Psychology and English at The University of Colorado in Boulder. Her discoveries led her to pursue studies in Child Development, Environmental Awareness, and Aboriginal Indigenous Culture at the University of Wollongong in Australia.
This past year, Gabriella completed her 200-hour level intensive six-week yoga teacher training course, studying Hatha yoga with Sivananda in Rishikesh, India. While in India, she lived at a rural school and home to over fifty children and taught creative movement and yoga to children between the ages of five and eighteen. She also helped start an organic garden teaching the children about gardening and plants, guiding nature walks, meditations and creative writing.
Gabriella feels that children need a place where they can simply be, feeling safe and nourished, and free to fully express themselves. She refers to herself as a guide rather than as a teacher or instructor, encouraging children to stay connected to nature and supporting their natural flow of creativity.
“Immersing ourselves and simply being in the vast beauty of nature and natural creativity go hand in hand; one cannot exist without the other.”
“The young child is free of fear; children are born without any fear. If the society can help and support them to remain without fear, can help them to climb the trees and the mountains, and swim the oceans and the rivers, if the society can help them in every possible way to become adventurers, adventurers of the unknown, and if the society can create a great inquiry instead of giving them dead beliefs, then the children will turn into great lovers, lovers of life.”
-Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh