Aranyani
was born in the woods of east Texas to two meditation teachers, Robert and Angela Notestine. From the very beginning, she was raised to understand how meditation, chant, and ritual played a part in the human experience, specifically when it came to addressing disease and disorder. For 20 years, Aranyani and her younger brother witnessed as their parents ran large ayurvedic retreats aimed at helping participants overcome stress and tackle disease at the source.
In 2011, Aranyani graduated with History Honors from Pacific Union College with a bachelor’s degree in Social Science. She began a 10 year long nonprofit management career on the central coast of California, first working with large volunteer groups to support low income families, and then switching into behavioral health. In the last years of her career as a nonprofit executive, Aranyani managed the fund development program for a local rehabilitation center in Salinas, CA - raising over $4 million in funding for substance abuse recovery.
In 2020, during the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic, Aranyani decided that it was time to dive back into her roots of natural medicine, and thus ended her nonprofit career. She began teaching herbal workshops and conducting wellness sessions in her garden. Her LLC was called Adara Collective; Adara being the Sanskrit word for Love, Respect, and Honor.
Aranyani moved to North Carolina in late 2020 to work on her own 18 acre landscaping project. With the help of some key individuals she was able to transform raw woods into an off grid camping sanctuary.
Aranyani then operated as a somatic practitioner at her own retreat and then her herb farm in Lenoir, NC. She first began by blending herbal teas and tinctures for clients across the US and conducting phone sessions. She then became certified in Usui Reiki, and pursued a certification in Sound Healing via the 40 hour program through Vicki Gould.
Aranyani met her husband David in 2022 and have since been living and working together to support client needs and the land they live on. David is a certified yoga instructor, and they have often blended yoga and sound healing together in their weekly classes.
They also farm together, first working on their 1 acre farm in Lenoir, then moving on to a 3 acre hobby farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2023. Before leaving NC they completely renovated an old Appalachian cabin and supported a shamanic retreat with landscaping and forest farming.
Since moving to Santa Fe in 2025, Aranyani & David are rebranding Adara Collective to “Living Temple”, an homage to their last name and the concept that each of us is a walking, living temple.
David
Is a jazzy fella, born and raised in Northern Virginia. He’s an avid lover of music, and a helping sort at heart. He has over five years of gardening experience and he loves to make art, often trying express things that are not so often expressed. He loves to think and explore the imagination, a place he says “can be dangerous”. He is fascinated with the miraculous mystery of life, and that any of us can exist at all.
David has had an interesting life that has led him through depression, anxiety and trauma. He doesn’t dwell on the past, but yearns to help others who may feel like he had.
This has led him to become certified in Yoga, Usui Reiki, and continually explore the mind for origins and cures to thought forms that cause disease.
David dabbles in Eastern philosophy, Taoism and Zen Buddhism they’ve helped him through the rougher parts of his life, he feels the philosophies are scientific in their thinking, having seen what they say play out in real life.
He loves his wife and partner in all things, and is grateful for each day he gets to spend with her.