The Mindful Coping Podcast: Recent Episodes
Mindful Coping Skills For The Real World
Jeff Krisman has over 20 years of experience in practicing a type of Mindfulness practice called Mindful Coping, which provides practitioners with an ongoing and increasing ability to cope more effectively with the chaos, uncertainty, and constant change that we experience in our lives. He has found this particular type of practice to be highly effective in helping people to cultivate the ability to be more present and to be more calm in quickly changing conditions, to develop a calmer and more focused mind while out in the world dealing with all kinds of situations, and to become more "comfortable with being uncomfortable.” His greatest value that he can offer others is that he shares what he has struggled with in a very constructive, real, and open way and how Mindful Coping practice has helped him continue to develop his coping skills and how it can help others to cultivate a greater quality of life and more meaningful and satisfying relationships with others.This practice really helps us to internalize and understand that we take all of our previous baggage and past hurts and trauma into every encounter with others and how that affects our interactions with them and that real, positive, and meaningful change is possible. For more information about Mindful Coping practice, please feel free to email Jeff at mindfulcopingpodcast@gmail.com
Akiyla McQueen is the co-founder of Supreme Essence, a multidimensional sanctuary for spiritual initiation, embodied wisdom, and soul-aligned leadership. Known as a medicine woman, master teacher, and holistic engineer, Akiyla bridges ancient healing arts with modern transformation tools to help individuals awaken their gifts, reclaim their voice, and remember their sacred role in this lifetime.
She is the creator and lead facilitator of several groundbreaking certification pathways, including Intuitive Counseling, Vibrational Medicine, Way of the Dragon, & Discipleship of Enlightenment. Each offering is designed to activate deeper remembrance, spiritual sovereignty, and heart-centered mastery guiding students into alignment with their soul’s mission.
Akiyla is a certified raw vegan chef and nutritional healer, a Reiki Master, plant medicine facilitator, and sound therapist who bridges ancient technologies with modern embodiment. As a holistic engineer and energy technician, she is devoted to restoring sacred systems—within the body, the earth, and the collective field.
Through retreats, sacred ceremonies, elemental initiations, and mentorship, Akiyla weaves together the threads of sound healing, shamanic practice, esoteric psychology, channeling, and quantum embodiment. Her work is rooted in remembrance: of who we are, why we came, and what we’re meant to build for the generations to come.
https://www.supremeessencepfw.com
Genine Howard is an extraordinary transformational leader who embarked on a remarkable journey from magazine publishing to guiding others in building successful businesses. With a unique approach, she merges the profound wisdom of her inner feminine essence with astute masculine strategies to deliver transformative results.
Drawing upon her wealth of experience, Genine empowers individuals to unlock their true potential and build thriving businesses. Her teachings go beyond traditional methods, incorporating deep inner wisdom and intuition to create a harmonious blend of feminine energy and strategic thinking.
With Genine as your guide, you'll discover the power of embracing both your intuitive feminine nature and the practical masculine elements of business. By integrating these aspects, you will gain invaluable insights, develop sustainable strategies, and unlock the doors to profound personal and professional growth.
Genine Howard is a trailblazer in bridging the gap between inner wisdom and strategic business-building. Through her guidance, you'll learn to harness the transformative power within you, creating a path to success that is both aligned with your feminine essence and grounded in smart, practical strategies. Get ready to embark on a transformative journey that will revolutionize your approach to business and lead you to unparalleled success.
www.empress-empires.com
Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) is an American public speaker, author, and activist. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.
Eisenstein's work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation", and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing". Much of his work draws on ideas from Eastern philosophy, the spiritual teachings of various indigenous peoples, and New Age themes.
https://charleseisenstein.org
Their book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond (HeartWisdom LLC, April 5, 2022), shares their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing.
They are sharing their story now to help heal the shame that they have carried as survivors of trauma, and to contribute to healing the hearts of others who have struggled in similar ways. To them healing is not about changing, or becoming someone "different" or "better"---it's about becoming more fully who they are: a spark of The Divine, connected to All, here to assist each other as our souls explore this existence and learn to love and live in peace.
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specializing in family studies, from the University of Michigan.
https://www.heartandsoulsisters.net
Alexandra is on a mission to raise the vibration of our collective consciousness. As an Energy Healer and Spiritual Advisor, she uses the tools of psychedelic medicine and integration, mindfulness practices such as meditation and breathwork, and the metaphysical practice of Reiki to help heal the mind, body, and soul. Through her self-healing journey to overcome developmental trauma and anxiety, along with a profound spiritual transformation, she was prepared and called to be a channel of healing for others. She embraces clients with compassionate understanding to help them tap into their higher selves and live more fulfilled lives.
Alexandra has worked with hundreds of clients in group and individual settings. Previously she was an Integration Guide at Mindbloom and the Director of Patient Experience at Wonder Sciences. She is double Reiki Master certified by the International Center for Reiki Training. Her other training includes a 400-hour mentorship with Shipibo Shamans, Fluence Introduction to Ketamine, Heart Coherence Healing, and Psychic and Medium Development. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, and has a B.A. in journalism.
In addition to her professional work, Alexandra is passionate about increasing access to holistic wellness and supporting BIPOC and marginalized communities. Her philanthropic endeavors include leading mindfulness workshops and leadership advising for Vista Del Mar, a non-profit providing trauma-informed care and mental health services to the most vulnerable children and families in Southern California. She believes that by healing ourselves and raising consciousness, we improve the wellbeing of the planet and all its inhabitants.
To connect with Alexandra, visit
healeralexandra.com
@healeralexandra on IG
Christine Marie is a Ceremonial Medicine Woman who specializes in holding safe and sacred spaces for healing and transformation through plant spirit facilitation, shamanic reiki healing, and spoken-word sound journeying. Additionally, she has a Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) and is a published author who has years of experience in helping men and women heal from C-PTSD, physical ailments, toxic relationships, and disempowerment.
Two years into her nursing field, she realized the limitations that western medicine had to offer in treating the root cause of emotional and physical disease. As she began to heal herself through holistic modalities and plant medicine, she felt the call to bridge the gap between western and holistic health by opening up her own private practice.
Her history in western medicine combined with her knowledge in alternative therapies offers you the experience of feeling safe and sovereign in your freedom of self-expression and healing.
Christine Marie's personal survivorship from abuse, neglect and body violation deeply shifted when she started to reclaim her voice and power while working within non-ordinary states of consciousness. She has made it her life's mission to support you in discovering emotional, physical, and spiritual wholeness and well-being.
www.christinemarieheals.com
www.instagram.com/christinemarieheals
Annie Ellicott is a jazz vocalist, songwriter and interdisciplinary artist. In recent years, she has expanded her creativity through acting, voice over, audio book narration, video production, album production, stagecraft, and performance art. Ellicott has acquired a substantial fan base from her voiceover work as both a character actor and narrator for Soundbooth Theater Audiobooks, and has toured the United States and Europe, performing both traditional jazz and original compositions.
Ellicott’s stage power arises from her sustained drive. A disciplined performer, Ellicott has performed some 300 shows in the past 5 years, before crowds as wide-ranging as the annual Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park to Caveau de la Huchette in Paris. She’s also a recurring guest vocalist with Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra at both The Rockwell Table and Stage in Los Angeles, as well as Feinstein’s At The Nikko in San Francisco. Ellicott appeared with Goldblum and his ensemble in San Francisco at Sketch Fest 2016, 2017, 2018 and at the famed Glastonbury Festival in London in 2019.
Susi Amendola ERYT500 & C-IAYT created Yoga Now in 1983, and has taught weekly Yoga classes and trained thousands of Yoga teachers both locally and nationally for over 40 years.
With her expertise in both the ancient practices of Himalayan Hatha Yoga as well as within the western medical world, Susi’s teachings and classes are unlike anything else you will find. She recently published her first book: The Centered Heart!
As the National Director and Senior Trainer of Stress Management for Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, Susi served for more than 30 years in the program for reversing heart disease without drugs or surgery by including Yoga as part of a multi-dimensional approach to healing. She traveled extensively to train and mentor hospital teams in delivering this intervention covered by Medicare under the guidelines of Intensive Cardiac Rehab.
Susi has been an esteemed guest speaker and presenter at many conferences, businesses, and symposiums on health and wellness. She has also published hundreds of articles through Ornish Lifestyle Medicine on the uses and benefits of Yoga.
I was born an artist and have been one my entire life. I am passionate about creating, exploring, and experiencing life and how it affects others. Life is a natural cycle and we have a chance to leave behind our story and our legacy. The first time in my life that my hands hit a brush, there was an explosion of emotions that manifested. There was this rush that I can't really put into words, but it's found in my art. Since then I have never put it down.
Art is embedded into my life and the experience of life. I am on a journey that includes all of my children, my wife, and all of the interactions in life. My family travels the world with me and we get to experience a vast variety of people, cultures, and places.
My children were born into art so it is a part of who they are. I love finding people who are authentic in what they believe, what they do, and question the world around them. The world is full of inspiration around us and we take the time to appreciate life, we can create something captivating.
Life is a journey that is to be interpreted and experienced in oneself. Life is always moving like a river and evolving to the rocks around it. I have evolved into the place I am in life by following my path and embracing my soul. I get to take my life experiences and create art on my journey, and that I am thankful for.
https://www.joshstoutgallery.com
This is a space for the exploration of awakening, integration and embodiment, it’s a space that supports a deepening of Self. I don’t separate between spiritual or non-spiritual, all is included. It’s just LIFE and exploring what it means to be human, what it means to be alive, what it means to suffer, and what it is to accept all into the embrace of our experience. Understanding what awakening is, what spirituality is and what they both are not – brings these lofty ideals of ‘enlightenment’ back down to lived reality in each and every moment. Learning what it means to transcend and include all that we are, all that we experience, into the broader context of open-awareness.
For me what I offer here isn’t therapy and it’s not about the acquisition of more knowledge. It’s about the direct experience of Self using the tool of spiritual discussion & conversation (Satsang), and supported on a deeper level with Divine Light Transmissions. It’s about a meeting of our shared humanity, and our shared divinity and as such I don’t place myself higher than you, different than you, more than you. I don’t claim to have all or even any of the answers. I’m here to support this conversation of “What is the nature of reality? What is the nature of Self?” as a mentor, a teacher, a guide, an energy healer, and a spiritual midwife of sorts – to walk hand in hand with you on this beautiful, messy journey of Self discovery, as Self meeting Self. To discover the light Being that we are at the heart of all existence.
We are all figuring out life as best we can. A lot of the people I meet along the way are looking to others to give them answers. I encourage each and every one of you who happen upon this website to look into your own direct experience, use your discernment, listen to what others have to say and mark it against your own internal compass and intuition. Drop all your judgements about what you think you know and take a careful look, take a look prior to your assumptions, I encourage you to do so earnestly. See if whatever they (or I) are pointing to stands up to scrutiny, does it point back to your own truth? But don’t take my word for it…. go looking for yourself!
To connect with Imogen:
Website: beyondimogen.com
Email: beyondimogen@gmail.com
Podcast: endofseeking.substack.com
YouTube: youtube.com/beyondimogen
Facebook: facebook.com/beyondimogen
Instagram: instagram.com/beyondimogen
Liz Dueck is a Nature Artist, Art Educator, Trail Guide, and the co-curator of “Along the Cimarron”. She primarily works in oil painting, charcoal and natural materials. Her creative practices are all based on exploration and connection. Along with displaying her work in galleries and curating exhibitions, she regularly leads Art Hikes in the Tulsa and Sand Springs area. Dueck’s passion lies in interchangeably connecting art, nature and people together.
Dueck graduated with a BFA in Studio Art, a Teaching Certification in Art and a minor in Art History from Oklahoma State University in 2017. She worked for OSU's Art Department in her time there as a student as well as upon graduation as the Education Coordinator of the Prairie Arts Center. She now teaches art at the Tulsa Boys’ Home, volunteers as a Trail Guide at the Keystone Ancient Forest leading monthly Art Hikes and resides in the forests of Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
To connect with Liz, visit
https://www.lizdueck.com/
https://www.instagram.com/lizdueckart/
Kai has a unique gift that allows her to transmit the energy of awakening to open and willing spiritual seekers.
She was introduced to the kundalini shaktipat tradition in 1994 when she was 27 years old. Her kundalini was awakened by a shaktipat master and within a few months she was in full manifestation of the Divine Mother.
She has since undergone a series of dramatic awakenings that have prepared her to work with others. As a result of working with her, many people report having dramatic life changes, spiritually and in their everyday lives.
Read more
https://www.kaishanti.com
Instagram @angeloflightmeditation
Branjae is the personification of Black American Music. She is an artist, activist, dancer, singer, and actress. She asks “why not” through her music, challenging listeners to embrace their authentic selves. Her lyrical depth, energetic theatrical performances, and out of the box genre fluidity are as unique as the personas she embodies.
Having previously performed at the legendary Apollo Theater, BOK Center, Cain’s Ballroom and more, Branjae’s fearless and energetic showcase, encourages elevated consciousness by connecting with her audiences for the soul purpose of creating unity and harmony. Born in the city of Motown and rooted in the city of The Gap Band, artist Branjae has established herself as a full-bodied, entertainer; singing, dancing, and acting her way into the hearts of audiences across the globe.
Her voice has been likened to artists like Lauryn Hill, India Arie and Nina Simone; while her stage presence is influenced by Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, and Freddie Mercury. PREVIOUS SUPPORT INCLUDES LIZZO, THUNDERCAT, TANK AND THE BANGAS, BRIAN MCKNIGHT, THE YING YANG TWINS, FISHBONE, OHIO PLAYERS, RC AND THE GRITS, AND THE LATE WAYMAN TISDALE
Accolades Include:
WINNER - BEST FEMALE ARTISTBLACK WALL STREET MUSIC AWARDS
3X WINNER - BEST FEMALE ARTIST, ARTIST OF THE YEAR, RECORD OF THE YEARTULSA VYBEZ AWARDS
WINNER - JIMMY LAFAVE SONG WRITING CONTEST
NOMINEE - BEST MUSIC VIDEOINDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS
5X NOMINEE - TULSA MUSIC AWARDS
Her short film projects “Street Light” & “Free Facts” have gained International recognition including exclusive features for Billboard Magazine & AfroPunk; and screenings in TORONTO, MANCHESTER, PARIS, LONDON, AMSTERDAM, BERLIN, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES AND AUSTIN
To connect with Branjae, visit
https://www.branjaemusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/BranjaeMusic/
https://www.instagram.com/branjaemusic/
https://www.youtube.com/user/branjae
There is a strange, mysterious beauty to how things don’t work out as planned.
Things don’t get done.
things sometimes stay on our to do list forever.
intentions or goals sometimes are never fulfilled.
things get forgotten about
plans fall through.
People disappoint us.
we disappoint ourselves.
our expectations dont get met.
projects sometimes are left unstarted or abandoned half-finished
People aren’t who we think they are.
we aren’t who we think we are
Things don’t satisfy us the way that we expect them to.
the experiences we seek
don’t bring us the happiness we had hoped for
What we expect to happen doesn’t.
what we fear sometimes does come to pass
What we hope for doesnt materialize.
the meaning we strive for vanishes like a thief in the night
Can I learn to laugh at the ridiculousness of my belief that everything I expect to happen will or won’t?
how can I know?
Can I learn to see the beauty in what lies unfinished or what is never even started?
Can I finally open my eyes fully to see that what is complete is just a small fraction of what exists in the Universe?
Grace Bubeck is a psychologist (MSc), philosopher (PhD), and certified massage therapist by work history and professional training. In 1999, she left a first career in academia at the London School of Economics to become a body-mind therapist in private practice and a personal development and meditation teacher. She offers in person therapy, counseling, and workshops, as well as online non-dual spiritual events and group programs.
http://www.gracebubeck.com/about.html
When I am finally able to “see” that there is so much more to it All than the things that I feel like I have to get done,
when I no longer have an agenda to push out into the world,
when I no longer need to make anything happen,
when there is no longer really anything to do other than what comes naturally in each moment,
when I no longer need to worry about where I am going in life,
when it all begins to feel like nothing more than just a series of moments unfolding in time,
when I am not afraid to be in a place where I exist outside of time but not afraid to return back here and fully inhabit this particular human incarnation,
when it’s no longer about my personal will,
when it’s really no longer about how I feel,
when my personality and perspective is finally seen to be just another drop in a much larger Ocean,
when I am ok with just flowing with it All as it happens and when it happens,
then I am just simply here along with everything else at the center of it All.
Spiritual guide and author, Shakti is known internationally as one of the most authentic and profound voices in contemporary spirituality. Presenting the message of Advaita and non-dual Tantra within a contemporary framework, Shakti offers, with compassion and great clarity, an inner technology for dissolving the contraction of suffering that traditionally accompanies each of our lives. Her invitation is to come to the space of inner peace and unconditional love which resides at the heart of us all.
Her key teachings are the love for transcendence, or spiritual awakening, followed by its deep integration, into everyday living, so that each moment can be met as a precious opportunity for spiritual growth. Her students are left with the joy of an open heart and an authentic sense of freedom within the recognition of our being as one with everything.
https://www.shakticaterinamaggi.com
Things get really interesting when I get to a point where there is nothing that can be extracted or collected from any particular experience.
Somewhere along the journey I learned that when I want or need something, it’s like a “bottomless pit” and it’s never, ever enough because that’s the way the game works.
My predicament is that sooner or later, I am always going to “hit the wall” and there is nothing left whatsoever in yet another zero sum game that I am trying to win.
When the point of no return is reached, the saddest thing is to wake up and find myself still grinding away trying to take away something from nothing as it just simply cannot be done.
What’s in front of me isn’t what I am trying to make it be; it’s just what it is, and it really doesn’t require my input, and stands on its own.
The most liberating realization is to finally see that there is joy in Nothing as there really is something there, but it is fleeting and quickly comes into existence and then quickly disappears and cannot be amassed and set aside for later.
Life has really begun to happen for me after it’s all already been played out and all of the illusions have been shattered and the infrastructure of delusion has been dismantled, and all that remains is what’s really happening, right here, right now, without any need for me to “curate” it.
Melissa Moore Ph.D. is the steward of North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. She was the founding Director of the Felton Institute for Research and Training in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes.
Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and in four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her dog and husband.
Melissa recently published The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology; find out more about the book
here: https://thediamondswithinus.org
To learn more about Melissa and about Karuna Training, visit
https://karunatraining.com
When I get still physically and/or mentally, there is a deeper sense that my mind is contantly “under construction”…….thought forms turning into building blocks of beliefs and fuel for the fire of emotional reactions.
At some point, it feels like these thoughts and beliefs become their own “infrastructure.”
There has been a freeing discovery that I don’t have to “buy the building” or “live in it.”
Whether I “live in it” or not, the construction project unceasingly goes on, but it gets easier to find peace and harmony amidst all of the noise as I practice not giving in to the need to “own the building.” It took years to recognize that “moving somewhere else” doesn’t really work as this “construction project” goes on everywhere that I go.
At the same time, there is also an “active demolition” of this infrastructure as thoughts and the energy that fuels them simply move through and come and go as long as I am not in the way of that natural process of creation and destruction.
It has taken a long time for me to realize that I don’t have to own these thoughts and internal reactions as they really aren’t mine at a deeper level and all part of the energy moving through something much more vast than me.
It’s just all part of the dance of life, and it’s so much less personal than I ever dreamed possible.
Louise is a researcher, coach & intuitive artist, stone whisperer, and earth energy worker (PhD, MSc, PGDipCEIG, BA, INLPTA NLP, AAMET EFT, VTCT, Reiki Master)
She supports and empowers individuals and organisations to return to heart and reconnect to life. We do this by putting you back in the driving seat of your own life – guiding you to the wisdom and knowledge that resides your own heart, and giving you the confidence to bring forward this new understanding in everyday life.
https://www.heartsenseresearch.co.uk
Woke up this morning feeling time rushing away from me
wind relentlessly blowing outside
Why do i resist the present moment when it leads to eternity with me and without me, all at the same time?
Why do i feel like i am moving so slow
time is rushing by so fast
where is it that I really need to go?
what is it that i really need to do?
Can I just simply feel what I feel, however it feels, without believing anything about it or even that it is real beyond what is in my mind and how I am reacting to it ?
What I feel and think is simply the weather that passes constantly and changes into something else .
Nicole Peltier has been teaching her eclectic, musically motivated, creative yoga classes for over 25 years to all ages and levels. Nicole draws a lively following of teens and young people who are inspired by her young, fresh attitude and easy to follow instruction.
Being "mature" also makes Nicole an ideal teacher who inspires older students to let down their hair and rock without reservation. Tulsa's first yoga studio was opened and operated for over 20 years by Nicole and her partner. She is considered, by many, the OG of Yoga in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is wildly passionate, energetic and inspirational. She is a true motivator. She is known as a powerful leader within the yoga community. She offers exceptional yoga retreats.
Raven Yoga Retreats encompass sacred spiritual practices, mindful living techniques, healing modalities, holistic health and yoga for beginners as well as seasoned practitioner in a tranquil environment. Her powerful delivery in yoga classes is called "an experience" by her students. She focuses on the energy yoga arouses when combined with music which is part of how she connects the students to joy, movement and childlike freedom.
Also, since Nicole's discovery into her own recovery, she has developed her own 'Raven Yoga for Freedom', (Trademarked in 2016) which addresses the issue of addiction, fear and emotional blocks. Nicole also leads a non-denominational Sunday Yoga Service with gospel and worship that she calls "All Rise Yoga Service". Nicole studied at Mount Madonna Center in Santa Cruz in 2000, and has studied extensively to hone her craft.
She spent 2022 studying Shamanism with a local shaman and incorporates shamanic practices into her classes. Nicole is a festival favorite presenting at Internationally renowned yoga festivals. Yoga on the Mountain (4 yrs), Fayetteville Yoga Fest (4 yrs), Telluride Yoga Fest (3 yrs), Yoga Farm Fest Shreveport (3 yrs), Wild West Yoga Fest (2 yrs.), Drishti Beats (2023), Little Rock Yoga Fest (2023), Serenity Fest - Durango (2022, 2023), OKC Yoga Fest (2018), I AM Yoga Fest (4 yrs), Big Om Yoga Fest (2 yrs).
Nicole shines at yoga retreats being a top presenter at Big Om Retreat (13 seasons), Dazen Collective (8 retreats) & Connect & Evolve (4 retreats). She has several modules she offers for yoga teacher training. She teaches Cueing, Voice Control and Flow Tactics to budding new yoga instructors. She continues to travel all over the world hosting yoga classes, retreats and ceremonial offerings.
Dashama is a life and business strategist, happiness expert, author, speaker, media producer and teacher. She has practiced hatha yoga since childhood and is now one of a rising generation of young yoga instructors who incorporate life coaching skills in their teaching.
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a Creativity and Communication Consultant, and an Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples, families, and groups in Santa Monica, California. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind® Training Institute, a leading-edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in core creativity, mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and mindfulness meditation.
For more than forty-four years, Alexander has been a trainer of healthcare professionals in North America, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Australia. As a Mindfulness and Zen Buddhist practitioner, he specializes in utilizing mindfulness meditation in his professional and corporate work to help people transform their lives by accessing the mind states that open the portal to their core creativity.
Alexander is a leading pioneer in the fields of Mindfulness Based Mind-Body Therapies, Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Ericksonian Mind-Body Therapies, Holistic Psychology, and Integrative and Behavioral Medicine. He is a long-time extension faculty member of the UCLA Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entertainment, a lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Pepperdine Universities.
Alexander received his SEP Certificate from the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute in Boulder Colorado. He consulted with and received treatment from Milton H Erickson MD. He personally trained with Ernest Rossi and Steven Gilligan in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as well as with Daniel P. Brown of the Harvard Medical Cambridge Hospital professional training’s seminars in hypnosis and hypno-analysis. He trained with and was certified by the Los Angeles Gestalt Therapy Institute and with Erving and Miriam Polster PhD of the Gestalt Training Center of La Jolla. He also received training and supervision in Contemporary Gestalt and Family Therapies, Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, Relational and Object Relations Therapies.
Dr. Ronald Alexander, PhD is a leading Creativity and Communication Coach, International Clinical Trainer, Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private practice in Santa Monica, California. He is the originator of the OpenMind Training® Institute, a leading edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. His unique method combines ancient wisdom teachings with Leadership Coaching and Core Creativity into a comprehensive integrated, behaviorally effective mind-body program. This system combines techniques that support strategies of personal, clinical, and corporate excellence and growth.
Alexander’s extensive training includes core creativity, conflict management, Gestalt therapy, leadership and organizational development, and vision and strategic planning. He pioneered the early values and vision-based models for current day leadership and professional coaching. He specializes in Mind-Body therapies and has been studying and teaching Mindfulness Meditation, Creative Visualization and Transpersonal Psychology since 1970.
Alexander studied with and was influenced by noted leaders in these fields such as Ken Blanchard, Werner Erhard, Warren Bennis, Umberto Materana and Francesco Variela, and was one of the grandfathers of coaching along with Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield.
To learn more about Dr. Ron and his work, visit
https://ronaldalexander.com
Victoria Angel Heart M.Ed is a mindfulness meditation guide, sacred musician and intuitive channel. Her life's work is to be a conduit of love for people to realize themselves as love personified.
Zoe gave up her house and her teaching job as a linguist, to fully live her life as a dance. She lives where she works or where people welcome her. Traveling and speaking many languages seem to be part of that dance. As she doesn’t have any thoughts about who she is and who she should be, she completely surrenders to the present moment. The present moment is her only permanent companion, her beloved traveling guide, and biggest inspiration in working with people.
“It is my wish to inspire people to live their life in the light of the present moment, to transcend the level of the mind and its endless thoughts, and remember who they truly are.”
Zoe mostly draws from her own direct spiritual experience. She is also inspired by Advaita Vedanta (non-duality), Sufism (the ultimate reality is Love) and Tantrism (masculine and feminine energy come together in oneness). She writes articles in two Dutch magazines* and shares her inspiration in the newsletters you find on this website.
In 2010 Zoe had her first opening. One night she woke up bursting out laughing. ‘Living as God!’ she said. She realized that believing her thoughts was her only problem. ‘If I don’t believe my thoughts, I become totally available for Life/God to live through this body …’ The next morning she started writing and two weeks later she finished the book Living as God. It is still available in Dutch and in English.** Nobody’s Dance seems to be the sequel to Living as God. “Back then there was a lot of mental clarity, now there is a much deeper experience of that reality that is Love.”
“When we become unattached to our stories, past and future and other fantasies, we become transparent. We remember our true nature and become available for life to dance through us. Our life becomes a Nobody’s Dance.”
Zoe is a citizen of Belgium but the world is her home. Zoe offers private sessions in person when possible. She also works through online private sessions. The energy doesn’t care about distance. She is fluent in Dutch, English and French, and also uses Italian and German to talk to people.
For more information about Zoe, visit https://www.zoejoncheere.com
Lisa Piccirillo almost gave up on songwriting, but The Muse wouldn’t let her. The inspiration for her latest record came to her as a vision: the silhouette of a woman, backlit by the sun, alongside the word RADIATE. Fueled by this idea and the desire to reclaim her creative identity, Lisa devoted herself to daily songwriting sessions at sunrise and the new record was born. An unapologetically loud follow-up to her mellow and folky 2008 debut (momentum), RADIATE chronicles Lisa’s vast emotional landscape with her signature blend of vulnerable songwriting and powerhouse vocals. Find her at the links below and on all major streaming platforms.
Website: https://www.lisapmusic.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisapiccirillo
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@lisapmusic
Radiate Record: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/lisapiccirillo/radiate-2
DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives, bridging personal and collective awakening in an age of global change. She is an engaged Buddhist teacher, spiritual activist, author, eco-dharma educator, and facilitator of The Work That Reconnects, a field created by Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy for transforming our love and pain for our world into compassionate action.
Eden teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She has practiced meditation for 30 years and trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center, a silent Zen monastery in the Sierra foothills. She has been teaching for over 20 years.
Eden’s teaching emphasizes relational presence, acknowledging the personal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, mystical, and global impacts of embodied dharma. She has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and spiritual teachers to those practicing or teaching secular mindfulness, to concerned citizens, activists, leaders, and change agents, to parents, schools, inner city youth, nonprofits, corporations, and people who are incarcerated.
Eden taught for many years with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, and has been collaborating with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers since 2012, on the topics of Regenerative Leadership, Women’s Leadership, and Sacred Activism. She is also a member of the national Eco-Dharma Advisory Committee of Buddhist teachers and leaders in the eco-dharma movement.
Eden has a special gift for facilitating mindful inquiry and fierce compassion, and bridging personal, ancestral, and collective healing. Weaving dharma with her embodiment of animism, deep ecology, shadow work, somatic awareness, ancestral healing, and conscious movement/dance, she helps people release limiting beliefs and collective biases that have been passed down over generations. She draws upon her own experience of navigating loss, illness, and trauma, guiding people to embrace the mystery and celebrate the value and alchemy of light and darkness as teachers of love.
Having lived in or taught about sustainable communities and organic gardening/permaculture for decades, Eden weaves the essential wisdom of nature into everything she teaches. She currently resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, originally Cherokee land, with her husband Mark. She offers retreats, workshops, and consultations nationally and internationally, integrating presence and partnership with nature.
Eden feels that the most important aspect of being a teacher is continually being a student. She continually immerses herself in trainings and retreats, recognizing direct experience as our truest guide. She works closely with mentor Pam Weiss, author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism, to deepen her embodiment of Soto Zen Buddhism in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi.
Jessi Sands is a multidisciplinary artist who uses different mediums such as painting, ceramics, and mixed media to explore how the intersectionality of their multiracial identity influences their roles as an Indigenous parent, queer person, and land steward.
Jessi grew up in Oklahoma on the Cherokee reservation and on their Mvskoke
reservation where they currently live in Tulsa, OK. They received their Associates of Arts Degree from Tulsa Community College in 2021. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with minors in American Indian Studies, Pre-Art Therapy, and Art History from Oklahoma State University in 2024.
While attending OSU they received several scholarships, the most notable being the Dana, Lisa, and Chris Tiger Scholarship and the Jackson Narcomey Rising Artist Scholarship.
Currently, Jessi is working towards receiving their MA in Art Therapy/Counseling and Ecotherapy from Southwestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Their career goal is to continue as a studio artist while creating spaces for healing as an art therapist.
https://www.milkycreates.com
Instagram @milky.creates
Mark works with people to help them connect their inner and outer universe to uncover the wonder and awe of being in every moment.
As an astrophysicist and Zen teacher and ordained Zen monk, he offers a unique method of embodied practice based on science and research, which will encourage people to find a deep connection with the cosmos.
In 2019, he gave up his life of teaching courses and workshops in yoga, mindfulness and Zen to move with his wife to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic for a two-year adventure that involved writing this book
In his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, he stresses that by bringing awareness and kindness to these relationships will naturally shift them into something much broader and more inclusive. The result is a helpful book with a positive and helpful message: we can take a new perspective on the people who cause us pain.
To learn more about Mark and his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, visit
https://markwestmoquette.co.uk
Born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, Anne Bennett is an alternative singer/songwriter whose haunting, melancholic vocals soar over dark melodies concerning death, love, heaven and hell, and are often influenced by her days living in the infamous Witch City.
Her music explores the deepest corners of the human experience, from the tender complexities of love to the inevitable reality of death, where she weaves melodies that echo with raw emotion and delicate intensity.
Drawing inspiration from her personal battle with depression, Bennett's lyrics are a powerful reflection of vulnerability and resilience. Each song is an intimate journey into themes of heartache, longing, and the shadows we all face. Her voice, described as both captivating and otherworldly, effortlessly pulls listeners into a realm where beauty and sorrow coexist.
Website: www.IAmAnneBennett.co
Instagram: https://instagram.com/annebennettofficial
Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of ten books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. His work has appeared in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as dozens of other publications. In addition, Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent more than thirty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development.
Mr. Robinson’s first book, “The Experience of God,” included interviews with such notable people as the late Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Jonathan’s second book, “The Little Book of Big Questions,” became a New York Times bestseller, as did his book “Communication Miracles for Couples.” Mr. Robinson’s other books include: Instant Insight; Real Wealth; Shortcuts to Bliss; Shortcuts to Success, The Complete Idiots Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality, and Find Happiness Now.
Jonathan speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Microsoft, Dell, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and FedEx/Kinko’s. In his public talks and workshops, Jonathan is known for providing his audiences with powerful and immediately useful information in a fun and entertaining manner.
**To learn more about Jonathan and his work, visit
https://findinghappiness.com
To learn more about his latest book, The Enlightenment Project: How I Went From Depressed to Blessed, and You Can Too, visit
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/260334**
Akasha J. Smith, PhD is the founder of School of Awakening which offers The Professional Intuitive Healer Certification Program and Transformational Retreats in Bali and Costa Rica. She’s been Teaching, facilitating Intuitive Healing sessions, Transpersonal Counseling and Past Life Regressions for people around the world for more than 20 years. She also offers Akashic Records Readings and Channeled Awakening Transmissions.
One of her favorite parts about the work is watching people’s hearts, bodies, minds and souls open to the connection and lives they’ve been so deeply longing for. When someone is ready and really shows up, true healing simply happens. With that can come a freedom unlike anything else that is absolutely beautiful to witness…another human shining.
Akasha’s Soul Purpose is to Help People Remember and Be Who they Truly Are. She does this through teaching, healing and creative expression. She is Deeply Passionate about Teaching Intuitive People, even if they Doubt their Abilities, how to Become Professional Healers, Heal Themselves and Awaken. Akasha has taught everything from Human Development Psychology to Creativity Enhancement and Dance to How to Connect with your Spirit Guides.
She taught Mindfulness Meditation in Naropa University’s Graduate Transpersonal and Contemplative Psychology Counseling Programs. Akasha researched Passionate Engagement for her Doctorate in East West Psychology at The California Institute of Integral Studies. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology with specializations in Teaching, Education & Research and Creative Expression. Akasha graduated from Naropa University with a Bachelor’s degree in Contemplative Psychology and minors in Traditional Eastern and Healing Arts and Improvisational Dance.
She also trained in The Clairvoyant Program at Psychic Horizons Institute and The Colorado School of Transpersonal Counseling and Hypnotherapy where she became an internationally certified hypnotherapist. She completed her yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India and has studied traditional dance in Bali, Thailand, Hawaii and Spain.
Akasha is a best-selling contributing author of Activate Your Life and just finished contributing to a 2nd book on Awakening Experiences and their impact on daily life. She was the co-author of a Transformation from Trauma study which was published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, The International Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.
When Akasha isn’t helping people Become Counselors and Healers and Leading Retreats, she’s Creating Lightcode Art, Writing Poetry or Traveling the World Solo studying Dance, Healing and Yoga.
https://www.schoolofawakenedliving.com/
I sat down at Artspace at Untitled for an incredibly deep and meaningful conversation with the members of the OKC based fusion band Local Man Ruins Everything: Jay Gleason, Byron "Chopz" Collins, Eric Harris, and Adam Ledbetter.
It is one of those conversations that totally captures the essence of a group of musicians creating and expressing at higher level of Consciousness.
Sharla is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, producer, and transformational sound healer. Raised in a musical family, she began playing violin at 8, writing her own music by 14, and experienced a profound activation at 19 that instantly unlocked her ability to play piano. Over the years, Sharla has expanded her talents to include guitar, hammered dulcimer, and music production, crafting deeply evocative compositions that awaken the Spirit within and inspire listeners to connect to Love.
I am beyond grateful for my incredible family of four boys. Each of them bring their own unique light: my youngest is a kind soul with a love for football, my 16-year-old is an exceptionally gifted pianist with plans to join the Air Force, and our two older boys are finding their way as young adults, carving out their own paths and enjoying life.
My husband and I share a deep love for music and God—he’s also a songwriter and musician, and together we dream of retiring him from his corporate role so we can fully devote ourselves to writing, singing, traveling, and sharing our callings with the world. They are my biggest supporters, and I couldn’t be more proud to call them mine
To connect with Jessica, visit
https://www.thebroodalist.com
Instagram
@thebroodalist
breath@thebroodalist.com
Essence is no newcomer to the herbal world, in fact she made her first foray into herbalism at a young age, having been introduced to a plethora of herbs and plants by her grandmother. Little did she know then that those moments would lead to a passion being ignited in her to one day birth her own brand.
Her newest endeavor, UnEarthed Botanicals is a culmination of the impact that both of her grandmother’s lives had on hers. One offering the knowledge and love for alternative health options, and the other, a focused interest in the gynecological field, and all things women's health.
Shamika has spent many years cultivating and improving her own health holistically, and has continually sought to sharpen her knowledge in the area of women’s healthcare. She’s attended college to become a gynecologist, but in her last year at university she came to the startling realization that the industry she was about to begin working in was operating from a completely different philosophy, and standard of care that she believed in, and so months away from graduating, she left and began to pursue her desire to help people in a more natural and less harmful way.
She began to arm herself with knowledge on how to care for the person as a whole, and not merely by symptoms, and symptom suppression, but how it is that she could bring about wholeness in the total woman. This led her down the path of studying a myriad of systems and therapeutic practices to effectively address the many challenges that may face women in their body.
Over the years, she has worked with many women in various capacities, not limited to, birth work, post partum care, fertility, fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cyst, and other health complications. Essence has found it a great pleasure to have assisted so many women in her work as a holistic health advocate, and she looks forward to assisting you on your health journey as well. Blessings.
www.unearthedbotanicals.com
Happy Is Here is not only the name of my practice, but it is a reality I would like to help create for you. As your Trauma Informed Coach, my priority is to a safe, compassionate, empowering space where you can explore and work through your experiences at your own pace. You will find that my approach is grounded in empathy and respect. I will support you in discovering your inner strength and resilience.
Happy Is Here LLC
918-509-0002
hereisherellc@gmail.com
Cushing, OK. 74023
To connect with Earth Love:
"On my journey, I’ve discovered that Healing is the highest form of human love.” – Earth Love is grounded in fully embodying the abundance of Love while supporting others on a path to connecting with their Inner Healer.
Engaged in a deep spiritual and healing practice of her own, her aspirations are firmly rooted in serving others with a deep sense of compassion, aiming to uplift the collective consciousness. A practitioner and student of the yogic philosophy for 7 years, she studied traditional Hatha Yoga in Thailand with the school of Yoga Samaadhi, obtaining a 500 hour RYT Certification.
She continues to practice and study multiple yoga styles regularly. Earth's most recent training is in Integrative Breathwork where she had the privilege of learning from the esteemed Millana Snow.
Integrative Breathwork is a healing modality that aims to return us to experiencing who we truly are. A practice that allows the releasing of layers & stories that keep us from embodying our true nature and authentic Self.
Earth is also actively studying Holotropic breathwork with the Stan Grof Transpersonal Training school, The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter, and trauma informed care. She is currently a digital nomad, traveling full time since 2019 and has lived in 4 different countries.
connect2earth.love@gmail.com
Instagram: @__earth_love
Yolanda Neals-Kindred, now known spiritually as Oriola Esuleke, is a Holistic Healing Curator, Author, and Social Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. She started her career under the tutelage of Iyanla Vanzant and has since made significant strides in holistic healing and community empowerment. As MhoganiPearl, she co-authored "Dear Yvette: Shattered Fairytales," reflecting her journey of self-love and overcoming childhood abuse. Yolanda's efforts in addressing trauma and ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) gained national recognition during the Obama Administration.
Known for her honest and relatable approach, she has become an inspiration, especially in urban communities. Facing challenges as a military veteran, including sexual trauma, homelessness and single parenthood, she founded The Kindred Healing Center in Atlanta, a wellness center serving urban and veteran communities.
Yolanda is dedicated to creating sacred healing spaces and promoting holistic healthcare for personal development and professional empowerment.
Oriola is married to Dr. Rhonda Kindred and they share 2 adult children and 4 grandchildren. They are also proud owners of The Kindred Healing Center which is a 6,000 sq ft wellness center in the City of Atlanta.
You can learn more about The Kindred Healing Center at www.KindredHealingCenter.com or by calling 470-771-0563.
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Bhogananda lives a full spiritual life and her goal is to completely know God in all facets in manifestation.
She is the co founder of Shakti Ananda Academy, a spiritual online school for women - www.shaktianandacademy.com
She also offers one-to-one coaching sessions for women and couples, yoga classes, tantra workshops, tantric massage courses and women circles all over the world.
https://www.bhogananda.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bhogananda
bhogananda@protonmail.com
Akiyla McQueen is the co-founder of Supreme Essence, a multidimensional sanctuary for spiritual initiation, embodied wisdom, and soul-aligned leadership. Known as a medicine woman, master teacher, and holistic engineer, Akiyla bridges ancient healing arts with modern transformation tools to help individuals awaken their gifts, reclaim their voice, and remember their sacred role in this lifetime.
She is the creator and lead facilitator of several groundbreaking certification pathways, including Intuitive Counseling, Vibrational Medicine, Way of the Dragon, & Discipleship of Enlightenment. Each offering is designed to activate deeper remembrance, spiritual sovereignty, and heart-centered mastery guiding students into alignment with their soul’s mission.
Akiyla is a certified raw vegan chef and nutritional healer, a Reiki Master, plant medicine facilitator, and sound therapist who bridges ancient technologies with modern embodiment. As a holistic engineer and energy technician, she is devoted to restoring sacred systems—within the body, the earth, and the collective field.
Through retreats, sacred ceremonies, elemental initiations, and mentorship, Akiyla weaves together the threads of sound healing, shamanic practice, esoteric psychology, channeling, and quantum embodiment. Her work is rooted in remembrance: of who we are, why we came, and what we’re meant to build for the generations to come.
https://www.supremeessencepfw.com
Amanda Tweed is British. She spent many years addicted to drugs. Due to her addiction she committed crime to fund her addiction which led her down a dark path to destruction and despair.
Amanda spent 13 years of going in and out of prison for shoplifting offences. Amanda has over 50 convictions for theft related crimes and her last prison sentence was in October 2010 to January 2011.
After leaving prison in January 2011, Amanda was sent to a supported accommodation type hostel. She settled in her room and went to bed, fell asleep and when she woke up the following morning, every negative limitation vanished. Amanda was self realised as the psychological mind fell away leaving her in the state of blissful Christ consciousness.
https://www.amandatweed.com
amanda.amandatweed@gmail.com
For the work she does in relation to mental health well-being the website is: https://www.redflagwellbeing.co.uk.
amanda.redflag@gmail.co.uk
Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) is an American public speaker, author, and activist. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.
Eisenstein's work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-consumerism, interdependence, and how myth and narrative influence culture. According to Eisenstein, global culture is immersed in a destructive "story of separation", and one of the main goals of his work is to present an alternative "story of interbeing". Much of his work draws on ideas from Eastern philosophy, the spiritual teachings of various indigenous peoples, and New Age themes.
https://charleseisenstein.org
Their book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond (HeartWisdom LLC, April 5, 2022), shares their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing.
They are sharing their story now to help heal the shame that they have carried as survivors of trauma, and to contribute to healing the hearts of others who have struggled in similar ways. To them healing is not about changing, or becoming someone "different" or "better"---it's about becoming more fully who they are: a spark of The Divine, connected to All, here to assist each other as our souls explore this existence and learn to love and live in peace.
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specializing in family studies, from the University of Michigan.
https://www.heartandsoulsisters.net
Genine Howard is an extraordinary transformational leader who embarked on a remarkable journey from magazine publishing to guiding others in building successful businesses. With a unique approach, she merges the profound wisdom of her inner feminine essence with astute masculine strategies to deliver transformative results.
Drawing upon her wealth of experience, Genine empowers individuals to unlock their true potential and build thriving businesses. Her teachings go beyond traditional methods, incorporating deep inner wisdom and intuition to create a harmonious blend of feminine energy and strategic thinking.
With Genine as your guide, you'll discover the power of embracing both your intuitive feminine nature and the practical masculine elements of business. By integrating these aspects, you will gain invaluable insights, develop sustainable strategies, and unlock the doors to profound personal and professional growth.
Genine Howard is a trailblazer in bridging the gap between inner wisdom and strategic business-building. Through her guidance, you'll learn to harness the transformative power within you, creating a path to success that is both aligned with your feminine essence and grounded in smart, practical strategies. Get ready to embark on a transformative journey that will revolutionize your approach to business and lead you to unparalleled success.
www.empress-empires.com
https://www.instagram.com/genine_howard
Alexandra is on a mission to raise the vibration of our collective consciousness. As an Energy Healer and Spiritual Advisor, she uses the tools of psychedelic medicine and integration, mindfulness practices such as meditation and breathwork, and the metaphysical practice of Reiki to help heal the mind, body, and soul. Through her self-healing journey to overcome developmental trauma and anxiety, along with a profound spiritual transformation, she was prepared and called to be a channel of healing for others. She embraces clients with compassionate understanding to help them tap into their higher selves and live more fulfilled lives.
Alexandra has worked with hundreds of clients in group and individual settings. Previously she was an Integration Guide at Mindbloom and the Director of Patient Experience at Wonder Sciences. She is double Reiki Master certified by the International Center for Reiki Training. Her other training includes a 400-hour mentorship with Shipibo Shamans, Fluence Introduction to Ketamine, Heart Coherence Healing, and Psychic and Medium Development. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, and has a B.A. in journalism.
In addition to her professional work, Alexandra is passionate about increasing access to holistic wellness and supporting BIPOC and marginalized communities. Her philanthropic endeavors include leading mindfulness workshops and leadership advising for Vista Del Mar, a non-profit providing trauma-informed care and mental health services to the most vulnerable children and families in Southern California. She believes that by healing ourselves and raising consciousness, we improve the wellbeing of the planet and all its inhabitants.
To connect with Alexandra, visit
healeralexandra.com
@healeralexandra on IG
Annie Ellicott is a jazz vocalist, songwriter and interdisciplinary artist. In recent years, she has expanded her creativity through acting, voice over, audio book narration, video production, album production, stagecraft, and performance art. Ellicott has acquired a substantial fan base from her voiceover work as both a character actor and narrator for Soundbooth Theater Audiobooks, and has toured the United States and Europe, performing both traditional jazz and original compositions.
Ellicott’s stage power arises from her sustained drive. A disciplined performer, Ellicott has performed some 300 shows in the past 5 years, before crowds as wide-ranging as the annual Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate Park to Caveau de la Huchette in Paris. She’s also a recurring guest vocalist with Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra at both The Rockwell Table and Stage in Los Angeles, as well as Feinstein’s At The Nikko in San Francisco. Ellicott appeared with Goldblum and his ensemble in San Francisco at Sketch Fest 2016, 2017, 2018 and at the famed Glastonbury Festival in London in 2019.
Christine Marie is a Ceremonial Medicine Woman who specializes in holding safe and sacred spaces for healing and transformation through plant spirit facilitation, shamanic reiki healing, and spoken-word sound journeying. Additionally, she has a Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) and is a published author who has years of experience in helping men and women heal from C-PTSD, physical ailments, toxic relationships, and disempowerment.
Two years into her nursing field, she realized the limitations that western medicine had to offer in treating the root cause of emotional and physical disease. As she began to heal herself through holistic modalities and plant medicine, she felt the call to bridge the gap between western and holistic health by opening up her own private practice.
Her history in western medicine combined with her knowledge in alternative therapies offers you the experience of feeling safe and sovereign in your freedom of self-expression and healing.
Christine Marie's personal survivorship from abuse, neglect and body violation deeply shifted when she started to reclaim her voice and power while working within non-ordinary states of consciousness. She has made it her life's mission to support you in discovering emotional, physical, and spiritual wholeness and well-being.
www.christinemarieheals.com
www.instagram.com/christinemarieheals
This is a space for the exploration of awakening, integration and embodiment, it’s a space that supports a deepening of Self. I don’t separate between spiritual or non-spiritual, all is included. It’s just LIFE and exploring what it means to be human, what it means to be alive, what it means to suffer, and what it is to accept all into the embrace of our experience. Understanding what awakening is, what spirituality is and what they both are not – brings these lofty ideals of ‘enlightenment’ back down to lived reality in each and every moment. Learning what it means to transcend and include all that we are, all that we experience, into the broader context of open-awareness.
For me what I offer here isn’t therapy and it’s not about the acquisition of more knowledge. It’s about the direct experience of Self using the tool of spiritual discussion & conversation (Satsang), and supported on a deeper level with Divine Light Transmissions. It’s about a meeting of our shared humanity, and our shared divinity and as such I don’t place myself higher than you, different than you, more than you. I don’t claim to have all or even any of the answers. I’m here to support this conversation of “What is the nature of reality? What is the nature of Self?” as a mentor, a teacher, a guide, an energy healer, and a spiritual midwife of sorts – to walk hand in hand with you on this beautiful, messy journey of Self discovery, as Self meeting Self. To discover the light Being that we are at the heart of all existence.
We are all figuring out life as best we can. A lot of the people I meet along the way are looking to others to give them answers. I encourage each and every one of you who happen upon this website to look into your own direct experience, use your discernment, listen to what others have to say and mark it against your own internal compass and intuition. Drop all your judgements about what you think you know and take a careful look, take a look prior to your assumptions, I encourage you to do so earnestly. See if whatever they (or I) are pointing to stands up to scrutiny, does it point back to your own truth? But don’t take my word for it…. go looking for yourself!
To connect with Imogen:
Website: beyondimogen.com
Email: beyondimogen@gmail.com
Podcast: endofseeking.substack.com
YouTube: youtube.com/beyondimogen
Facebook: facebook.com/beyondimogen
Instagram: instagram.com/beyondimogen
I was born an artist and have been one my entire life. I am passionate about creating, exploring, and experiencing life and how it affects others. Life is a natural cycle and we have a chance to leave behind our story and our legacy. The first time in my life that my hands hit a brush, there was an explosion of emotions that manifested. There was this rush that I can't really put into words, but it's found in my art. Since then I have never put it down.
Art is embedded into my life and the experience of life. I am on a journey that includes all of my children, my wife, and all of the interactions in life. My family travels the world with me and we get to experience a vast variety of people, cultures, and places.
My children were born into art so it is a part of who they are. I love finding people who are authentic in what they believe, what they do, and question the world around them. The world is full of inspiration around us and we take the time to appreciate life, we can create something captivating.
Life is a journey that is to be interpreted and experienced in oneself. Life is always moving like a river and evolving to the rocks around it. I have evolved into the place I am in life by following my path and embracing my soul. I get to take my life experiences and create art on my journey, and that I am thankful for.
https://www.joshstoutgallery.com
Kai has a unique gift that allows her to transmit the energy of awakening to open and willing spiritual seekers.
She was introduced to the kundalini shaktipat tradition in 1994 when she was 27 years old. Her kundalini was awakened by a shaktipat master and within a few months she was in full manifestation of the Divine Mother.
She has since undergone a series of dramatic awakenings that have prepared her to work with others. As a result of working with her, many people report having dramatic life changes, spiritually and in their everyday lives.
Read more
https://www.kaishanti.com
Instagram @angeloflightmeditation
Susi Amendola ERYT500 & C-IAYT created Yoga Now in 1983, and has taught weekly Yoga classes and trained thousands of Yoga teachers both locally and nationally for over 40 years!
With her expertise in both the ancient practices of Himalayan Hatha Yoga as well as within the western medical world, Susi’s teachings and classes are unlike anything else you will find. She recently published her first book: The Centered Heart!
As the National Director and Senior Trainer of Stress Management for Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, Susi served for more than 30 years in the program for reversing heart disease without drugs or surgery by including Yoga as part of a multi-dimensional approach to healing. She traveled extensively to train and mentor hospital teams in delivering this intervention covered by Medicare under the guidelines of Intensive Cardiac Rehab.
Susi has been an esteemed guest speaker and presenter at many conferences, businesses, and symposiums on health and wellness. She has also published hundreds of articles through Ornish Lifestyle Medicine on the uses and benefits of Yoga.
Spiritual guide and author, Shakti is known internationally as one of the most authentic and profound voices in contemporary spirituality. Presenting the message of Advaita and non-dual Tantra within a contemporary framework, Shakti offers, with compassion and great clarity, an inner technology for dissolving the contraction of suffering that traditionally accompanies each of our lives. Her invitation is to come to the space of inner peace and unconditional love which resides at the heart of us all.
Her key teachings are the love for transcendence, or spiritual awakening, followed by its deep integration, into everyday living, so that each moment can be met as a precious opportunity for spiritual growth. Her students are left with the joy of an open heart and an authentic sense of freedom within the recognition of our being as one with everything.
https://www.shakticaterinamaggi.com
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a Creativity and Communication Consultant, and an Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples, families, and groups in Santa Monica, California. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind® Training Institute, a leading-edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in core creativity, mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and mindfulness meditation.
For more than forty-four years, Alexander has been a trainer of healthcare professionals in North America, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Australia. As a Mindfulness and Zen Buddhist practitioner, he specializes in utilizing mindfulness meditation in his professional and corporate work to help people transform their lives by accessing the mind states that open the portal to their core creativity.
Alexander is a leading pioneer in the fields of Mindfulness Based Mind-Body Therapies, Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Ericksonian Mind-Body Therapies, Holistic Psychology, and Integrative and Behavioral Medicine. He is a long-time extension faculty member of the UCLA Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entertainment, a lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Pepperdine Universities.
Alexander received his SEP Certificate from the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute in Boulder Colorado. He consulted with and received treatment from Milton H Erickson MD. He personally trained with Ernest Rossi and Steven Gilligan in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as well as with Daniel P. Brown of the Harvard Medical Cambridge Hospital professional training’s seminars in hypnosis and hypno-analysis. He trained with and was certified by the Los Angeles Gestalt Therapy Institute and with Erving and Miriam Polster PhD of the Gestalt Training Center of La Jolla. He also received training and supervision in Contemporary Gestalt and Family Therapies, Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, Relational and Object Relations Therapies.
Dr. Ronald Alexander, PhD is a leading Creativity and Communication Coach, International Clinical Trainer, Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private practice in Santa Monica, California. He is the originator of the OpenMind Training® Institute, a leading edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. His unique method combines ancient wisdom teachings with Leadership Coaching and Core Creativity into a comprehensive integrated, behaviorally effective mind-body program. This system combines techniques that support strategies of personal, clinical, and corporate excellence and growth.
Alexander’s extensive training includes core creativity, conflict management, Gestalt therapy, leadership and organizational development, and vision and strategic planning. He pioneered the early values and vision-based models for current day leadership and professional coaching. He specializes in Mind-Body therapies and has been studying and teaching Mindfulness Meditation, Creative Visualization and Transpersonal Psychology since 1970.
Alexander studied with and was influenced by noted leaders in these fields such as Ken Blanchard, Werner Erhard, Warren Bennis, Umberto Materana and Francesco Variela, and was one of the grandfathers of coaching along with Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield.
To learn more about Dr. Ron and his work, visit
https://ronaldalexander.com
Melissa Moore Ph.D. is the steward of North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. She was the founding Director of the Felton Institute for Research and Training in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes.
Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and in four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her dog and husband.
Melissa recently published The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology; find out more about the book
here: https://thediamondswithinus.org
To learn more about Melissa and about Karuna Training, visit
https://karunatraining.com
Louise is a researcher, coach & intuitive artist, stone whisperer, and earth energy worker (PhD, MSc, PGDipCEIG, BA, INLPTA NLP, AAMET EFT, VTCT, Reiki Master)
She supports and empowers individuals and organisations to return to heart and reconnect to life. We do this by putting you back in the driving seat of your own life – guiding you to the wisdom and knowledge that resides your own heart, and giving you the confidence to bring forward this new understanding in everyday life.
https://www.heartsenseresearch.co.uk
Dashama is a life and business strategist, happiness expert, author, speaker, media producer and teacher. She has practiced hatha yoga since childhood and is now one of a rising generation of young yoga instructors who incorporate life coaching skills in their teaching
Nicole Peltier has been teaching her eclectic, musically motivated, creative yoga classes for over 25 years to all ages and levels. Nicole draws a lively following of teens and young people who are inspired by her young, fresh attitude and easy to follow instruction.
Being "mature" also makes Nicole an ideal teacher who inspires older students to let down their hair and rock without reservation. Tulsa's first yoga studio was opened and operated for over 20 years by Nicole and her partner. She is considered, by many, the OG of Yoga in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is wildly passionate, energetic and inspirational. She is a true motivator. She is known as a powerful leader within the yoga community. She offers exceptional yoga retreats.
Raven Yoga Retreats encompass sacred spiritual practices, mindful living techniques, healing modalities, holistic health and yoga for beginners as well as seasoned practitioner in a tranquil environment. Her powerful delivery in yoga classes is called "an experience" by her students. She focuses on the energy yoga arouses when combined with music which is part of how she connects the students to joy, movement and childlike freedom.
Also, since Nicole's discovery into her own recovery, she has developed her own 'Raven Yoga for Freedom', (Trademarked in 2016) which addresses the issue of addiction, fear and emotional blocks. Nicole also leads a non-denominational Sunday Yoga Service with gospel and worship that she calls "All Rise Yoga Service". Nicole studied at Mount Madonna Center in Santa Cruz in 2000, and has studied extensively to hone her craft.
She spent 2022 studying Shamanism with a local shaman and incorporates shamanic practices into her classes. Nicole is a festival favorite presenting at Internationally renowned yoga festivals. Yoga on the Mountain (4 yrs), Fayetteville Yoga Fest (4 yrs), Telluride Yoga Fest (3 yrs), Yoga Farm Fest Shreveport (3 yrs), Wild West Yoga Fest (2 yrs.), Drishti Beats (2023), Little Rock Yoga Fest (2023), Serenity Fest - Durango (2022, 2023), OKC Yoga Fest (2018), I AM Yoga Fest (4 yrs), Big Om Yoga Fest (2 yrs).
Nicole shines at yoga retreats being a top presenter at Big Om Retreat (13 seasons), Dazen Collective (8 retreats) & Connect & Evolve (4 retreats). She has several modules she offers for yoga teacher training. She teaches Cueing, Voice Control and Flow Tactics to budding new yoga instructors. She continues to travel all over the world hosting yoga classes, retreats and ceremonial offerings.
Victoria Angel Heart M.Ed is a mindfulness meditation guide, sacred musician and intuitive channel. Her life's work is to be a conduit of love for people to realize themselves as love personified.
Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of ten books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. His work has appeared in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as dozens of other publications. In addition, Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent more than thirty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development.
Mr. Robinson’s first book, “The Experience of God,” included interviews with such notable people as the late Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Jonathan’s second book, “The Little Book of Big Questions,” became a New York Times bestseller, as did his book “Communication Miracles for Couples.” Mr. Robinson’s other books include: Instant Insight; Real Wealth; Shortcuts to Bliss; Shortcuts to Success, The Complete Idiots Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality, and Find Happiness Now.
Jonathan speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Microsoft, Dell, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and FedEx/Kinko’s. In his public talks and workshops, Jonathan is known for providing his audiences with powerful and immediately useful information in a fun and entertaining manner.
**To learn more about Jonathan and his work, visit
https://findinghappiness.com
To learn more about his latest book, The Enlightenment Project: How I Went From Depressed to Blessed, and You Can Too, visit
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/260334**
Zoe gave up her house and her teaching job as a linguist, to fully live her life as a dance. She lives where she works or where people welcome her. Traveling and speaking many languages seem to be part of that dance. As she doesn’t have any thoughts about who she is and who she should be, she completely surrenders to the present moment. The present moment is her only permanent companion, her beloved traveling guide, and biggest inspiration in working with people.
“It is my wish to inspire people to live their life in the light of the present moment, to transcend the level of the mind and its endless thoughts, and remember who they truly are.”
Zoe mostly draws from her own direct spiritual experience. She is also inspired by Advaita Vedanta (non-duality), Sufism (the ultimate reality is Love) and Tantrism (masculine and feminine energy come together in oneness). She writes articles in two Dutch magazines* and shares her inspiration in the newsletters you find on this website.
In 2010 Zoe had her first opening. One night she woke up bursting out laughing. ‘Living as God!’ she said. She realized that believing her thoughts was her only problem. ‘If I don’t believe my thoughts, I become totally available for Life/God to live through this body …’ The next morning she started writing and two weeks later she finished the book Living as God. It is still available in Dutch and in English.** Nobody’s Dance seems to be the sequel to Living as God. “Back then there was a lot of mental clarity, now there is a much deeper experience of that reality that is Love.”
“When we become unattached to our stories, past and future and other fantasies, we become transparent. We remember our true nature and become available for life to dance through us. Our life becomes a Nobody’s Dance.”
Zoe is a citizen of Belgium but the world is her home. Zoe offers private sessions in person when possible. She also works through online private sessions. The energy doesn’t care about distance. She is fluent in Dutch, English and French, and also uses Italian and German to talk to people.
For more information about Zoe, visit https://www.zoejoncheere.com
Find Zoe’s YouTube channel here.
DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives, bridging personal and collective awakening in an age of global change. She is an engaged Buddhist teacher, spiritual activist, author, eco-dharma educator, and facilitator of The Work That Reconnects, a field created by Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy for transforming our love and pain for our world into compassionate action.
Eden teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world. She has practiced meditation for 30 years and trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center, a silent Zen monastery in the Sierra foothills. She has been teaching for over 20 years.
Eden’s teaching emphasizes relational presence, acknowledging the personal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, mystical, and global impacts of embodied dharma. She has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and spiritual teachers to those practicing or teaching secular mindfulness, to concerned citizens, activists, leaders, and change agents, to parents, schools, inner city youth, nonprofits, corporations, and people who are incarcerated.
Eden taught for many years with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, and has been collaborating with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers since 2012, on the topics of Regenerative Leadership, Women’s Leadership, and Sacred Activism. She is also a member of the national Eco-Dharma Advisory Committee of Buddhist teachers and leaders in the eco-dharma movement.
Eden has a special gift for facilitating mindful inquiry and fierce compassion, and bridging personal, ancestral, and collective healing. Weaving dharma with her embodiment of animism, deep ecology, shadow work, somatic awareness, ancestral healing, and conscious movement/dance, she helps people release limiting beliefs and collective biases that have been passed down over generations. She draws upon her own experience of navigating loss, illness, and trauma, guiding people to embrace the mystery and celebrate the value and alchemy of light and darkness as teachers of love.
Having lived in or taught about sustainable communities and organic gardening/permaculture for decades, Eden weaves the essential wisdom of nature into everything she teaches. She currently resides in the mountains of western North Carolina, originally Cherokee land, with her husband Mark. She offers retreats, workshops, and consultations nationally and internationally, integrating presence and partnership with nature.
Eden feels that the most important aspect of being a teacher is continually being a student. She continually immerses herself in trainings and retreats, recognizing direct experience as our truest guide. She works closely with mentor Pam Weiss, author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism, to deepen her embodiment of Soto Zen Buddhism in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi.
Lauren Friedman, Founder and CEO, LFE by It Seemed Like A Good Idea Time Enterprises LLC, an umbrella brand focused on Complex Trauma – so pervasive and so obvious that it’s hiding in plain sight from professionals AND persons living in perennial chaos. A Pediatric Complex Trauma Nonprofit to launch.
Lauren, a prolific 20-year AdTech (Advertising & Technology) veteran, experienced almost four decades of disparate somatic responses to trauma without being properly diagnosed. Lauren has been being treated for Adrenal Fatigue/High-Functioning Complex PTSD since December 2021 after "living" in Survival Mode unknowingly from under the age of two thru 39.
Ironically, Lauren was born with a natural ability to connect with others, while being incredibly disconnected from herself. A walking picture of Complex Trauma – and once you see life through the lens of trauma, you can’t unsee it.
Through Lauren’s transformative, jaw-dropping, can’t make this sh*t up, navigating and healing lifelong Complex Trauma and Sobriety Spectrum™ journey, her soul’s purpose and mission on this planet became clear.
Now Lauren (LFE) is Championing the HOW-ARE U HEALING™ Revolution as a trauma-informed connector and storyteller. Breaking stereotypes, barriers to entry and baffling with brilliance on a global scale, by helping humans find connection, inspiration, education and support.
**IG @the_LFExperience
YT @the-LFE**
To learn more about Mark and his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, visit
https://markwestmoquette.co.uk
Mark works with people to help them connect their inner and outer universe to uncover the wonder and awe of being in every moment.
As an astrophysicist and Zen teacher and ordained Zen monk, he offers a unique method of embodied practice based on science and research, which will encourage people to find a deep connection with the cosmos.
In 2019, he gave up his life of teaching courses and workshops in yoga, mindfulness and Zen to move with his wife to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic for a two-year adventure that involved writing this book
In his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, he stresses that by bringing awareness and kindness to these relationships will naturally shift them into something much broader and more inclusive. The result is a helpful book with a positive and helpful message: we can take a new perspective on the people who cause us pain.
Dr. Kamilah Majied, MSW, PhD, is a contemplative inclusivity and equity consultant, mental health therapist, clinical educator, researcher, and internationally engaged consultant on building inclusivity and equity using meditative practices. She is Professor of Social Work at California State University, Monterey Bay, where she teaches clinical practice to graduate students employing psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness-based, and artistic approaches to well-being.
She also teaches research methods, social and organizational policy analysis, and community organizing through a social justice lens. Before CSUMB, she taught for 15 years at Howard University. She serves as the Diversity and Inclusivity Consultant for the Contemplative Coping During COVID-19 Research Project at the University of California Davis Center for Mind and Brain. Kamilah gave opening remarks at the first White House Conference of Buddhist Leaders on Climate Change and Racial Justice, where she facilitated a dialogue on ending racism amongst the internationally represented Buddhist leadership.
She is the author of Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living (Sounds True, 2024), and has authored many articles and chapters, including in the second edition of Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: “Contemplative Practices for Assessing and Eliminating Racism in Psychotherapy.”
Website: https://www.kamilahmajied.com
Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/dr.kamilahmajied/ https://www.facebook.com/kamilah.majied
Upcoming Retreat: "Embodying Joy: Black Wisdom Traditions of Liberation and Healing" at Esalen, Big Sur, CA, Feb. 3-7, 2025: https://www.esalen.org/workshops/black-wisdom-traditions-of-liberation-and-healing-020325
Book: https://www.soundstrue.com/products/joyfully-just-1
In an instant, my whole life changed. Everything shifted. Nothing made sense, yet everything was clear. Many of us are driven and propelled by the events that happen to us, instead of taking those events and rising above to an even better place. Bills must be paid, so we focus on how to make money rather than honing in on our true purpose. I feel eternally blessed for my wake up call…
Within 48 hours, I found out that cancer had been removed from my body and was “no longer there” – before I could even process “beating” such a terrible disease, my mother was taken from this earth.
It was then that I knew that I was put here for something bigger, something greater than myself.
My vision is to transform your life through REdefining the connection between your mind, body, soul, and space, reimagining the way we live worldwide. Whether that be through your yoga practice or through connecting your space to your mind, body, and soul, I am here to support you on your journey.
My background starts in the arts and interior design, and I have been practicing yoga for over 15 years. My love and appreciation for its beauty and joy that it brings to my life grows every day. I offer a unique, artistic and comprehensive approach to the practice that encourages students to view challenges from alternate perspectives, and to live their lives to the fullest potential!
I have always been drawn to working with and supporting people. Being able to have a positive impact on how someone goes about their day, week or even life is what keeps me going. Yoga has changed my life both on and off the mat. I would be honored to work with you, and look forward to speaking with you soon.
From My Heart To Yours,
MAJA RE
Upcoming events:Retreats: https://majarebornyoga.com/retreats/
Trainings: https://majarebornyoga.com/trainings/
Private Sessions: https://majarebornyoga.com/private-sessions/
Public Classes: https://majarebornyoga.com/public-yoga-classes-orange-count
Website:https://majarebornyoga.com/
Social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maja_reborn_yo
Akasha J. Smith, PhD is the founder of School of Awakening which offers The Professional Intuitive Healer Certification Program and Transformational Retreats in Bali and Costa Rica. She’s been Teaching, facilitating Intuitive Healing sessions, Transpersonal Counseling and Past Life Regressions for people around the world for more than 20 years. She also offers Akashic Records Readings and Channeled Awakening Transmissions.
One of her favorite parts about the work is watching people’s hearts, bodies, minds and souls open to the connection and lives they’ve been so deeply longing for. When someone is ready and really shows up, true healing simply happens. With that can come a freedom unlike anything else that is absolutely beautiful to witness…another human shining.
Akasha’s Soul Purpose is to Help People Remember and Be Who they Truly Are. She does this through teaching, healing and creative expression. She is Deeply Passionate about Teaching Intuitive People, even if they Doubt their Abilities, how to Become Professional Healers, Heal Themselves and Awaken. Akasha has taught everything from Human Development Psychology to Creativity Enhancement and Dance to How to Connect with your Spirit Guides.
She taught Mindfulness Meditation in Naropa University’s Graduate Transpersonal and Contemplative Psychology Counseling Programs. Akasha researched Passionate Engagement for her Doctorate in East West Psychology at The California Institute of Integral Studies. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology with specializations in Teaching, Education & Research and Creative Expression. Akasha graduated from Naropa University with a Bachelor’s degree in Contemplative Psychology and minors in Traditional Eastern and Healing Arts and Improvisational Dance. She also trained in The Clairvoyant Program at Psychic Horizons Institute and The Colorado School of Transpersonal Counseling and Hypnotherapy where she became an internationally certified hypnotherapist. She completed her yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India and has studied traditional dance in Bali, Thailand, Hawaii and Spain.
Akasha is a best-selling contributing author of Activate Your Life and just finished contributing to a 2nd book on Awakening Experiences and their impact on daily life. She was the co-author of a Transformation from Trauma study which was published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, The International Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.
When Akasha isn’t helping people Become Counselors and Healers and Leading Retreats, she’s Creating Lightcode Art, Writing Poetry or Traveling the World Solo studying Dance, Healing and Yoga.
You can contact her at https://www.schoolofawakenedliving.com/
I sat down at Artspace at Untitled for an incredibly deep and meaningful conversation with the members of the OKC based fusion band Local Man Ruins Everything: Jay Gleason, Byron "Chopz" Collins, Eric Harris, and Adam Ledbetter.
It is one of those conversations that totally captures the essence of a group of musicians at higher level of Consciousness.
As a young and curious individual, I've always felt an innate connection to the metaphysical realm. Growing up, I was drawn to the mysteries of the universe and the human experience, and as I entered adulthood, I began to explore these interests in earnest. Over the past 5+ years, I've embarked on a profound spiritual journey, delving deep into the realms of consciousness, energy work, and personal growth. Through this journey, I've discovered the incredible power of the human spirit and the boundless potential that lies within each and every one of us.
My passion is now centered around helping others awaken to their own inner wisdom and heal from the depths of their being. I believe that every person has the capacity for profound transformation and growth, and I'm committed to providing a safe, non-judgmental space for individuals to explore their own path to self-discovery. Whether it's through meditation, energy healing, or simply offering a listening ear, my intention is to support others in unlocking their full potential and living a life that is authentic, meaningful, and fulfilling."
At At Mystic Palms Healing, our mission is to create a sacred space where individuals can embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing. We believe that every person has the power to tap into their inner strength and resilience, and we are dedicated to guiding you along the way.
Through the ancient art of Reiki and other forms of energetic healing, we help individuals release emotional blockages, quiet the mind, and awaken their full potential. Our holistic approach combines gentle, non-invasive techniques with compassion and empathy to help you cultivate a deeper connection with yourself, others, and the world around you.
Whether you're seeking relief from physical or emotional pain, or simply looking for a path to greater spiritual awareness, we are here to support you every step of the way. At At Mystic Palms Healing, we're committed to helping you find balance, harmony, and peace in body, mind, and spirit and to have a helping hand to heal.
https://www.mysticpalmshealing.com
https://www.instagram.com/mysticpalmshealing
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Maria Teresa Pratico-Swanson is a woman walking the journey of life guided by the healing power of love. Maria is a practicing master shamanic healer and under the brand Emotional Musings, she conducts healing sessions in person and long distance all over the world. The poetry she channels is meant to inspire others on their own personal healing journeys and stands as a testimony of truth by her motto, "Triumphing over Trauma".
Ms. Pratico has successfully overcome trauma and abuse, an addiction to drugs and alcohol and an eating disorder. She speaks to audiences of all ages and backgrounds as a spoken word artist and a motivational speaker. Her work in personal development and self-help can serve anyone on the spiritual path to a higher consciousness and enlightenment of the heart and soul.
Maria is well versed in holistic health and understands the importance of obtaining and maintaining the mind, body and spirit connection.
Please go to https://emotionalmusings.com to explore her writing and healing services.
Natalia is dedicated to creating transformative and empowering experiences, creating a container to help heal and harmonize mind, body, and soul. With a rich background in both psychology (PhD in Applied Psychology) and physical movement (certified NASM Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor), she brings a holistic approach to her offerings.
As the founder of Align45 LLC, Natalia provides a diverse range of in-person & online healing modalities, including Master-level Usui and Crystal Reiki, sound baths, Yoga Nidra, guided meditation, cacao ceremonies, and immersive retreats. Her practices are designed to foster deep healing and personal growth. Through her integrative approach, Natalia is committed to supporting her clients in achieving profound well-being and inner peace.
WEBSITE: https://www.align-45.com/
YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/@align45?si=2jpQVHpeGMh0pjaf
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/natalia_martin_align45/
Lynsey Scott, LCSW, is an Energy Intuitive and Healing Practitioner dedicated to helping individuals reconnect with their True Self. With over 15 years of experience in clinical social work and personal healing, Lynsey offers a trauma-informed, heart-centered approach to spiritual guidance and energy healing. Her goal is to support clients in finding balance, clarity, and their soul’s purpose, no matter where they are on their path. Join Lynsey in exploring how you can align with your Highest Truth and embrace your journey with confidence.
Visit LynseyEnergy.com to learn more and book a session.
Follow Lynsey on Instagram for insights and guidance: @lynseyenergy
Explore her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LynseyEnergy
Happy Is Here is not only the name of my practice, but it is a reality I would like to help create for you. As your Trauma Informed Coach, my priority is to a safe, compassionate, empowering space where you can explore and work through your experiences at your own pace. You will find that my approach is grounded in empathy and respect. I will support you in discovering your inner strength and resilience. Thank you for trusting me. Let's get happy together!
Happy Is Here LLC
918-509-0002
hereisherellc@gmail.com
Cushing, OK. 74023
Jia Johnson is a somatic mind body coach, intuitive energy healer, shaman, creative educator, and social justice entrepreneur. She is the passionate founder and CEO of Freedom Dream Collective, LLC, a dynamic coaching and consulting firm dedicated to fostering the holistic wellbeing of mission driven individuals, communities and organizations.
In recent years, she served as the founding director of the Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education (SBI) at McCormick Theological Seminary, a higher education in jail program. She also served as an SBI adjunct, facilitating courses and workshops at the intersection of personal and social transformation at the Cook County Department of Corrections.
Jia holds a Master of Arts in Public Ministry from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is a certified coach, shamanic Reiki practitioner, grief tender, intuitive counselor and training to be a meditation practitioner and nusta paqo (shaman) of the Apaz family lineage of the Qero Nation in Cusco, Peru.
https://www.freedomdreamcollective.com Instagram @freedomdreamcoach
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jia-johnson/
www.whatgrandmasaid.lovewww.unearthedbotanicals.com
@essencetheherbalist on all social media platforms
Interested in working with Gina? www.ginagratza.com
Follow her on Instagram @gina.gratza
Gina Gratza is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has spent over a decade supporting individuals, couples, and families through the complexities of trauma, fractured relationships, and personal transformation. She specializes in psychedelic-assisted facilitation, deeply influenced by her work with individuals navigating trauma and eating disorders.
Gina is certified in MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is also a ketamine-assisted therapist, trained by the Polaris Insight Center.
Gina helped launch the first legal Oregon psilocybin facilitator training school, InnerTrek, and served as Lead Educator and Program Coordinator. Gina is also engaged in psychedelic research with the Social Neuroscience and Psychotherapy Lab as a research study therapist supporting veterans with PTSD.
Gina launched a new practice this year centered on women’s empowerment. With a variety of group offerings online and in-person, Gina aims to create a community of women who can come together, grow, and heal in the connection. Her practice also supports those navigating and exploring psychedelic spaces. Gina is a seeker, a playful dancer, an embodied woman, and a poet. She continuously moves toward her authentic Self and loves engaging others interested in this dance.
To connect with Alison:
www.embodymylife.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embody_life/
Alison Rothman MA CYT, is a Body-Centered Holistic Coach, Emotional Doula, Guide, Mentor, and Transformational Retreat and Group Facilitator with nearly 30 of years of study and experience in somatic healing arts and therapies, yoga and meditation, authentic embodiment practices, and holistic healing channels.
Through her extensive studies, practices, and experiences she provides clients and students with the ability to tap into their innate inner resource, release debilitating life patterns, reclaim their body, mind, heart, and soul connection so as to access their true selves empowering them to live life awake, embodied, and in alignment. In addition to her one-on-one work she facilitates retreats and events, runs women’s groups (both virtual and in person), writes, and speaks sharing wisdom from the front lines of this human life. She lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with her partner and teenage son.
To connect with Earth Love:
connect2earth.love@gmail.com
Instagram: @__earth_love
"On my journey, I’ve discovered that Healing is the highest form of human love.” – Earth Love is grounded in fully embodying the abundance of Love while supporting others on a path to connecting with their Inner Healer.
Engaged in a deep spiritual and healing practice of her own, her aspirations are firmly rooted in serving others with a deep sense of compassion, aiming to uplift the collective consciousness. A practitioner and student of the yogic philosophy for 7 years, she studied traditional Hatha Yoga in Thailand with the school of Yoga Samaadhi, obtaining a 500 hour RYT Certification.
She continues to practice and study multiple yoga styles regularly. Earth's most recent training is in Integrative Breathwork where she had the privilege of learning from the esteemed Millana Snow.
Integrative Breathwork is a healing modality that aims to return us to experiencing who we truly are. A practice that allows the releasing of layers & stories that keep us from embodying our true nature and authentic Self.
Earth is also actively studying Holotropic breathwork with the Stan Grof Transpersonal Training school, The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter, and trauma informed care. She is currently a digital nomad, traveling full time since 2019 and has lived in 4 different countries.
To connect with Rekhit Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet:https://www.rasekhihealing.comRekhit Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet is the Author of many books including Ra Sekhi Kemetic Reiki Level 1 & Kemetic Reiki Level 2, Sekhmet Rising, the newest addition Healing Ritual Magic & many more. She has also written articles for three other books: Sistah Vegan, Natural Dread of Atlanta, and Magical Calabash. Rekhit Kajara is a Heal Thyself Ambassador of Wellness, Medicine Woman, Priestess, Community Activist, Afrikan Holistic Health Consultant, Spiritual Warrior, Sacred Woman, Educator, Mother, Tree hugger and Nature lover who has dedicated her life to promote health, wellness and natural living to our community. Rekhit Kajara has been practicing and teaching womb wellness and energy healing for over 15 years. She is a natural healer as well as a teacher of all ages for over 20 years sharing lessons in health, wellness, women's health, black history, yoga, and metaphysical sciences. She is also an artist and entrepreneur, who has traveled the US sharing her handmade jewels for over 20 years. Mut Kajara Nebthet was raised in Chicago. She healed herself intuitively at the age of 16 using a technique which is called reiki. She received a Bachelor of Social Science from Florida State in 1993. During her time in college she committed herself in working to uplift Black people. She started her own business Nia Designs, in 1991, for which she made and sold jewelry at festivals and to stores on the East Coast and Midwest. She taught in African centered schools between 1993 and 2000. During this time she taught a variety of subjects including health, physical education, black history, Swahili, entrepreneurship, math, science, yoga, as well as arts and crafts to children of all ages. Mut Kajara was attuned as a Reiki master in 2000 and was initiated as a general initiate into the mysteries of the Akan in 2000. She also began to facilitate Sacred Woman gateway in 2000. She trained over 100 women in Sacred Woman circles and retreats between (the years of)2000 and 2012. She became the Heal Thyself Ambassador of Wellness as well as a certified fasting and detoxing therapist in 2006. She received certification as a Wholistic health practitioner from Dr. Llaila Afrika in 2006. In 2007 she was assigned to teach energy healing to our community and begin teaching Kemetic Reiki classes in Chicago. This journey led to Ra Sekhi Arts Temple being founded in 2007. She was initiated as a priestess of Sango, Yemaya and Oya in 2008. She has worshipped with Christians, Jehovah’s Witness, Hebrews, Muslims, Rastafarians, Buddhists, Wiccans, Native Americans, Akan, Yoruba, Vodun, and NGE and has come to one conclusion. All spiritual systems teach people to live right, the names serve to divide us. Ra Sekhi classes are open to those of African descent no matter what spiritual system they follow.
To connect with Amanda:
https://www.amandatweed.com
amanda.amandatweed@gmail.com
For the work she does in relation to mental health well-being the website is: https://www.redflagwellbeing.co.uk.
amanda.redflag@gmail.co.uk
Amanda offers:
One-to-one sessions
Online courses in relation to self-realization
Toolkits from her toolbox which contains over 26 years of spiritual and practical tools I found very useful on this pathless path.
Tailored well-being packages for adults who may be going through a period of mental health challenges.
To connect with Bhogananda:
https://www.bhogananda.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bhogananda
bho
gananda@protonmail.com
Bhogananda lives a full spiritual life and her goal is to completely know God in all His facets in manifestation.
She is the co founder of Shakti Ananda Academy, a spiritual online school for women - www.shaktianandacademy.com
She also offers one-to-one coaching sessions for women and couples, yoga classes, tantra workshops, tantric massage courses and women circles all over the world.
To connect with Meghan:
salon website: www.alainn.org
instagram + tiktok: @alainnsalon
Bio
I’m a Libra who finds inspiration through music and art. I truly believe that music sets the tone and have curated an eclectic mix from the Talking Heads to Arcade Fire. You’ll find cool artwork throughout the salon from my many adventures. Every picture has a story.
I love hearing about your fur babies for I bring my pup Casey to the salon. I also have Milo "the fat cat" and Maisey "the baby" kitten who happily stay home. You’ll also hear me mention my two sisters and 3 nephews from time to time. Family rocks!
Certified as a Reiki Master and Embeautyment Practitioner, I’m a huge self care advocate. I practice yoga, meditation and tarot cards. I believe in gratitude lists, mindfulness, acupuncture, massage and will talk to you about all the things.
I feel truly grateful to be my own boss and do what I love every day. I love inspiring my clients and bringing out their inner beauty. I incorporate Reiki into all of my services. I like to call it hair therapy ;)
To connect with Genine, visit
www.empress-empires.com
https://www.instagram.com/genine_howard
Genine Howard is an extraordinary transformational leader who embarked on a remarkable journey from magazine publishing to guiding others in building successful businesses. With a unique approach, she merges the profound wisdom of her inner feminine essence with astute masculine strategies to deliver transformative results.
Drawing upon her wealth of experience, Genine empowers individuals to unlock their true potential and build thriving businesses. Her teachings go beyond traditional methods, incorporating deep inner wisdom and intuition to create a harmonious blend of feminine energy and strategic thinking.
With Genine as your guide, you'll discover the power of embracing both your intuitive feminine nature and the practical masculine elements of business. By integrating these aspects, you will gain invaluable insights, develop sustainable strategies, and unlock the doors to profound personal and professional growth.
Genine Howard is a trailblazer in bridging the gap between inner wisdom and strategic business-building. Through her guidance, you'll learn to harness the transformative power within you, creating a path to success that is both aligned with your feminine essence and grounded in smart, practical strategies. Get ready to embark on a transformative journey that will revolutionize your approach to business and lead you to unparalleled success.
Amanda Boekhout aka DIVINEFEM is an artist, yogi, mama, friend, lover, sister, frequency enthusiast, and universal traveler. She creates artwork and experiences as offerings to the divine. Her artwork, symbols, movement, and mindfulness practices serve to activate the divinity within. She has been a practicing artist for over 20 years and continues to explore, experiment, and find surprises with her work!
Amanda has a Masters of Fine Art from Florida State University (2012) and has seven years of experience teaching art at the college level. She is certified in Soul Painting mentorship and offers several magical workshops, retreats, and online courses merging creativity and connection to bliss. She is also a certified yoga instructor and offers weekly intuitive flow classes to her community.
For updates about upcoming courses, workshops, sales, musings, passion projects, and frequency please join her mailing list here.
To see everyday art and inspiration, find Amanda on Instagram.
To connect with Alexandra, visit
healeralexandra.com
@healeralexandra on IG
Alexandra is on a mission to raise the vibration of our collective consciousness. As an Energy Healer and Spiritual Advisor, she uses the tools of psychedelic medicine and integration, mindfulness practices such as meditation and breathwork, and the metaphysical practice of Reiki to help heal the mind, body, and soul. Through her self-healing journey to overcome developmental trauma and anxiety, along with a profound spiritual transformation, she was prepared and called to be a channel of healing for others. She embraces clients with compassionate understanding to help them tap into their higher selves and live more fulfilled lives.
Alexandra has worked with hundreds of clients in group and individual settings. Previously she was an Integration Guide at Mindbloom and the Director of Patient Experience at Wonder Sciences. She is double Reiki Master certified by the International Center for Reiki Training. Her other training includes a 400-hour mentorship with Shipibo Shamans, Fluence Introduction to Ketamine, Heart Coherence Healing, and Psychic and Medium Development. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, and has a B.A. in journalism.
In addition to her professional work, Alexandra is passionate about increasing access to holistic wellness and supporting BIPOC and marginalized communities. Her philanthropic endeavors include leading mindfulness workshops and leadership advising for Vista Del Mar, a non-profit providing trauma-informed care and mental health services to the most vulnerable children and families in Southern California. She believes that by healing ourselves and raising consciousness, we improve the wellbeing of the planet and all its inhabitants.
To connect with Imogen, visit
Website: beyondimogen.com
Email: beyondimogen@gmail.com
Podcast: endofseeking.substack.com
YouTube: youtube.com/beyondimogen
Facebook: facebook.com/beyondimogen
Instagram: instagram.com/beyondimogen
Yolanda Neals-Kindred, now known spiritually as Oriola Esuleke, is a Holistic Healing Curator, Author, and Social Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. She started her career under the tutelage of Iyanla Vanzant and has since made significant strides in holistic healing and community empowerment. As MhoganiPearl, she co-authored "Dear Yvette: Shattered Fairytales," reflecting her journey of self-love and overcoming childhood abuse. Yolanda's efforts in addressing trauma and ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) gained national recognition during the Obama Administration.
Known for her honest and relatable approach, she has become an inspiration, especially in urban communities. Facing challenges as a military veteran, including sexual trauma, homelessness and single parenthood, she founded The Kindred Healing Center in Atlanta, a wellness center serving urban and veteran communities.
Yolanda is dedicated to creating sacred healing spaces and promoting holistic healthcare for personal development and professional empowerment.
Oriola is married to Dr. Rhonda Kindred and they share 2 adult children and 4 grandchildren. They are also proud owners of The Kindred Healing Center which is a 6,000 sq ft wellness center in the City of Atlanta.
You can learn more about The Kindred Healing Center at www.KindredHealingCenter.com or by calling 470-771-0563.
To connect with Jolie, visit
https://www.jolienan.com
https://www.instagram.com/jolienan.coach
About Jolie
When I was 49 years old, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Within the same year I lost my dad to cancer, became an empty nester, and felt completely lost on how to move forward. After fighting anxiety for most of my adult life, this perfect storm sent me steeply over the edge.
The unbearable stress forced me to look beyond my typical coping mechanisms, invest in help, and try to reconnect with the strength I used to have within me.
I tried talk therapy and anti-anxiety medication, but the results didn’t last. I dabbled in traditional meditation as a desperate attempt to self-soothe, and though it wasn’t a perfect solution, I could feel a small shift begin. I was healing, slowly, and found energy to keep exploring.
After lots of research and lots of attempts, I eventually found a sustainable solution that worked while feeling wonderful: Mantra Meditation. I came to realize that none of the previous modalities were impactful because the FOUNDATION of Mantra Meditation and a regulated nervous system were missing.
This daily meditation practice with somatic exercises infused throughout the day allows me to calm my body and quiet my mind within minutes, no matter the circumstances. I feel more myself than ever, and after years of chronic worry, my future now feels exciting and bright.
Mantra Meditation and somatic practices transformed my life so completely, I’m committed to sharing the power of these practices with other women to unlock the same transformation within you.
To connect with Kai Shanti, visit
https://www.kaishanti.com/
Instagram @angeloflightmeditation
To connect with Christine Marie, visit
www.christinemarieheals.com
www.instagram.com/christinemarieheals
Christine Marie is a Ceremonial Medicine Woman who specializes in holding safe and sacred spaces for healing and transformation through plant spirit facilitation, shamanic reiki healing, and spoken-word sound journeying. Additionally, she has a Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) and is a published author who has years of experience in helping men and women heal from C-PTSD, physical ailments, toxic relationships, and disempowerment.
Two years into her nursing field, she realized the limitations that western medicine had to offer in treating the root cause of emotional and physical disease. As she began to heal herself through holistic modalities and plant medicine, she felt the call to bridge the gap between western and holistic health by opening up her own private practice.
Her history in western medicine combined with her knowledge in alternative therapies offers you the experience of feeling safe and sovereign in your freedom of self-expression and healing.
Christine Marie's personal survivorship from abuse, neglect and body violation deeply shifted when she started to reclaim her voice and power while working within non-ordinary states of consciousness. She has made it her life's mission to support you in discovering emotional, physical, and spiritual wholeness and well-being.
To learn more about Ronni and Jennie and their work, visit
https://www.heartandsoulsisters.net
Their book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond (HeartWisdom LLC, April 5, 2022), shares their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing.
They are sharing their story now to help heal the shame that they have carried as survivors of trauma, and to contribute to healing the hearts of others who have struggled in similar ways. To them healing is not about changing, or becoming someone "different" or "better"---it's about becoming more fully who they are: a spark of The Divine, connected to All, here to assist each other as our souls explore this existence and learn to love and live in peace.
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specializing in family studies, from the University of Michigan.
Jennie Weaver received her degree from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in family practice and mental health.
To connect with Magdalena, visit
https://magdalenasabatino.com
https://www.instagram.com/magdalena.sabatino/
A link to my book, Hardship and Bliss: Reflections for Mothers Who Seek Connection
Magdalena Sabatino is an artist, holistic counselor and creative guide. After
many years of searching, she has finally arrived at the sweet spot, where
two of her biggest passions for creativity and healing meet, unite, and
constantly enrich each other.
As a young woman, she had an insatiable thirst for understanding why we
are the way we are, which propelled her onto an educational journey in
human psychology and personal growth. It started in Warsaw, Poland,
where she entered her Master’s degree in Psychology and ended in
Newport, Rhode Island, where she earned her Master’s degree in Holistic
Counseling from Salve Regina University.
As an artist, she follows her intuitive urges and tries to focus more on the
creative experience rather than the final product. Her art practice is also
her meditative and spiritual practice, during which she attempts to connect
to something bigger than herself. As she lets go of control, takes risks on
canvas, and trusts the creative process, her pieces emerge into what they
wish to become. Usually, into whimsical, colorful, intuitive, and abstract
images inspired by nature and feminine energy.
As a counselor, she guides her clients back to their holistic wellness. She
helps them understand that they are multidimensional beings with layers of
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects to themselves. The
foundation of her work is healing the wounded inner child and assisting her
clients in recognizing how this wounding affected their lives. She believes
that wholeness is not cutting off a portion of one’s being, but it is the
integration of all aspects of oneself, even the broken, imperfect ones, that
creates a true, whole human being.
It is her absolute pleasure to gather people together for transformative
experiences. She enjoys creating workshops and retreats during which
participants have a chance to reconnect with their creativity and heal their
wounded parts along the way. She is in the process of creating her first
online course “Emotional processing through art journaling”.
To connect with Jessica, visit
https://www.thebroodalist.com
Instagram
@thebroodalist
breath@thebroodalist.com
To learn more about Susi's new book, The Centered Heart, that will be released April 2nd,
visit YourCenteredHeart.com
Susi Amendola, author of “The Centered Heart: Evidence-Based Mind Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health” is an Internationally Certified Yoga Therapist who brings over 40 years of experience utilizing Yoga and lifestyle practices to help others heal.
In 1983 she founded Yoga Now in Omaha, Nebraska where she currently teaches classes and directs the annual 200-Hour Yoga Certification program. Susi has developed yoga-based stress management programs for schools, businesses, and hospitals throughout the country.
Presently, Susi is a National Senior Trainer of Stress Management for the prestigious Ornish Lifestyle Medicine program for reversing heart disease. The program includes Yoga as part of a multi-dimensional approach to healing, and is covered by Medicare under the guidelines of Intensive Cardiac Rehab. Susi has contributed over 150 articles to Ornish Living Magazine , an online publication to support those who are making lifestyle changes to improve their health and well-being, with an audience of over a million subscribers.
With her expertise in both the ancient practices of Yoga and the medical world, Susi’s teachings and classes are unlike anything else you will find. Her teaching style is heart-centered, nurturing, practical, and empowering. She continues to practice, teach and inspire others to listen deeply to the healer within.
To learn more about Susi's new book, The Centered Heart, that will be released April 2nd,
visit YourCenteredHeart.com
Susi Amendola, author of “The Centered Heart: Evidence-Based Mind Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health” is an Internationally Certified Yoga Therapist who brings over 40 years of experience utilizing Yoga and lifestyle practices to help others heal.
In 1983 she founded Yoga Now in Omaha, Nebraska where she currently teaches classes and directs the annual 200-Hour Yoga Certification program. Susi has developed yoga-based stress management programs for schools, businesses, and hospitals throughout the country.
Presently, Susi is a National Senior Trainer of Stress Management for the prestigious Ornish Lifestyle Medicine program for reversing heart disease. The program includes Yoga as part of a multi-dimensional approach to healing, and is covered by Medicare under the guidelines of Intensive Cardiac Rehab. Susi has contributed over 150 articles to Ornish Living Magazine , an online publication to support those who are making lifestyle changes to improve their health and well-being, with an audience of over a million subscribers.
With her expertise in both the ancient practices of Yoga and the medical world, Susi’s teachings and classes are unlike anything else you will find. Her teaching style is heart-centered, nurturing, practical, and empowering. She continues to practice, teach and inspire others to listen deeply to the healer within.
To learn more about Jonathan and his work, visit
https://findinghappiness.com
To learn more about his latest book, The Enlightenment Project: How I Went From Depressed to Blessed, and You Can Too, visit
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/260334
Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of ten books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. His work has appeared in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as dozens of other publications. In addition, Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent more than thirty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development.
Mr. Robinson’s first book, “The Experience of God,” included interviews with such notable people as the late Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Jonathan’s second book, “The Little Book of Big Questions,” became a New York Times bestseller, as did his book “Communication Miracles for Couples.” Mr. Robinson’s other books include: Instant Insight; Real Wealth; Shortcuts to Bliss; Shortcuts to Success, The Complete Idiots Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality, and Find Happiness Now.
Jonathan speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Microsoft, Dell, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and FedEx/Kinko’s. In his public talks and workshops, Jonathan is known for providing his audiences with powerful and immediately useful information in a fun and entertaining manner.
The Mindful Evolution Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/themindfulevolution
Free Workshop: January 2nd 5pm MST (replay will be available)
https://www.leahdrew.com/awareness-seeker-workshop
Website: https://www.leahdrew.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mindbodywithleah
For more information about Zoe, visit https://www.zoejoncheere.com
Find Zoe’s YouTube channel here.
Zoe gave up her house and her teaching job as a linguist, to fully live her life as a dance. She lives where she works or where people welcome her. Traveling and speaking many languages seem to be part of that dance. As she doesn’t have any thoughts about who she is and who she should be, she completely surrenders to the present moment. The present moment is her only permanent companion, her beloved traveling guide, and biggest inspiration in working with people.
“It is my wish to inspire people to live their life in the light of the present moment, to transcend the level of the mind and its endless thoughts, and remember who they truly are.”
Zoe mostly draws from her own direct spiritual experience. She is also inspired by Advaita Vedanta (non-duality), Sufism (the ultimate reality is Love) and Tantrism (masculine and feminine energy come together in oneness). She writes articles in two Dutch magazines* and shares her inspiration in the newsletters you find on this website.
In 2010 Zoe had her first opening. One night she woke up bursting out laughing. ‘Living as God!’ she said. She realized that believing her thoughts was her only problem. ‘If I don’t believe my thoughts, I become totally available for Life/God to live through this body …’ The next morning she started writing and two weeks later she finished the book Living as God. It is still available in Dutch and in English.** Nobody’s Dance seems to be the sequel to Living as God. “Back then there was a lot of mental clarity, now there is a much deeper experience of that reality that is Love.”
“When we become unattached to our stories, past and future and other fantasies, we become transparent. We remember our true nature and become available for life to dance through us. Our life becomes a Nobody’s Dance.”
Zoe is a citizen of Belgium but the world is her home. Zoe offers private sessions in person when possible. She also works through online private sessions. The energy doesn’t care about distance. She is fluent in Dutch, English and French, and also uses Italian and German to talk to people.
- The magazines she writes articles for are Inzicht and Vruchtbare Aarde.
**Ed.Samsara (Amsterdam)
A hint........it's not me creating the space.....instead, the space gets created on it's own as I continue to practice paying attention to what I am thinking and reacting however I am reacting.
About Christy:
Hey, I’m Christy Freddo, owner of Best Life Mindset.
I would love to help you completely transform your life using strategies I personally used with great success!
In 2011, in a span of six months, I freed myself from the gilded cage that was my high-paying, glamorous but horribly toxic corporate job that everyone envied, left a decade old abusive marriage to a seemingly charming man everyone loved and finally admitted to myself I was an alcoholic and got sober after 20 years of hardcore drinking.
Within two years, I had my own profitable business that allowed me to financially continue the lifestyle I had with my corporate job, had met a wonderful, kind man who I would later blend a beautiful family with and had permanently swapped cocktails for yoga without ever looking back.
It’s my heart’s greatest desire to help others create their best life, too! Join me!
For your free “Create Your Best Life” ebook, go to:
https://keap.app/contact-us/6430519435464693
To download your free “Reinvention Roadmap” guided workbook, go to:Bestlifemindset.com
Follow us on socials for tips and inspiration :
Facebook: Best Life Mindset
Instagram: @best.life.mindset
Questions: Contact Christy directly at Christy@bestlifemindset.com
About Christy:
Hey, I’m Christy Freddo, owner of Best Life Mindset.
I would love to help you completely transform your life using strategies I personally used with great success!
In 2011, in a span of six months, I freed myself from the gilded cage that was my high-paying, glamorous but horribly toxic corporate job that everyone envied, left a decade old abusive marriage to a seemingly charming man everyone loved and finally admitted to myself I was an alcoholic and got sober after 20 years of hardcore drinking.
Within two years, I had my own profitable business that allowed me to financially continue the lifestyle I had with my corporate job, had met a wonderful, kind man who I would later blend a beautiful family with and had permanently swapped cocktails for yoga without ever looking back.
It’s my heart’s greatest desire to help others create their best life, too! Join me!
For your free “Create Your Best Life” ebook, go to:
https://keap.app/contact-us/6430519435464693
To download your free “Reinvention Roadmap” guided workbook, go to:Bestlifemindset.com
Follow us on socials for tips and inspiration :
Facebook: Best Life Mindset
Instagram: @best.life.mindset
Questions: Contact Christy directly at Christy@bestlifemindset.com
To learn more about Whitney and her work and to peruse her online studio, visit
https://whitneyfreyastudio.com
Her book, Rise Above, Free Your Mind One Brush Stroke at a Time is now available at amazon.com
Whitney Freya provides practical tools and practices that help people learn to live as a Life Artist and free their minds from beliefs about limitations and scarcity so that they can create more in their lives that light them up from the inside out.
Angie Hooper is the founder of Happy at Law and creator of The Forgiveness Path and the Happy at Life HABIT. She shows her clients how to break free from being stuck in a "grudge loop" through the step-by-step process of forgiveness. She teaches executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and leaders how to find their confidence, break free from the "suck it up buttercup" burnout cycle, and burnout-proof their businesses and careers.
Angie is a founding contributor to the Onest Network. Her show, The Leadership HABIT can be found on the Onest Network, streaming on Roku and Fire TV. She graduated from SMU Dedman School of Law and the UTA honors program, licensed to practice law in Oklahoma and Texas, and is a Certified Professional Coach, a COR.E Performance Dynamics Specialist, and an ICF-certified coach.
https://angiehooper.com/apply to book a free intro coaching call to see if it's a fit to work with Angie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angie-hooper-jd-cpc/
https://www.pinterest.com/angiehoopercoaching/
https://www.instagram.com/angiehoopercoaching/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/angiehoopercoaching/
https://www.facebook.com/happyatlife/
To connect with Michael and to learn more about Casa Galactica, visit
www.casagalactica.com
To learn more about their 10-Day Ayahuasca Healing & Evolution Retreats, visitwww.casagalactica.com/ayahuasca-retreats-pisac-peru
Michael Thornhill, is co-founder of Casa Galactica in Peru. Michael is a trauma-informed plant spirit healer, professional channel and non-dual teacher. Recovering from addiction, trauma and abuse have been a big part of Michael's own healing journey. He now dedicates his life to helping others heal themselves.
Casa Galactica offer Ayahuasca Healing and Evolution Retreats, online private sessions and group programs for dedicated inner-truth seekers and multidimensional healers.
To learn more about Dr. Rogers and her work, visit
https://korumindfulness.org/about/team
To learn more about Koru Mindfulness, visit
https://korumindfulness.org
To learn more about her books, visit
https://korumindfulness.org/the-mindful-twenty-something-life-skills-to-handle-stress-everything-else/
https://korumindfulness.org/about-the-book/
To learn more about Nanci and her work with Collaborative Divorce and promoting peaceful divorce practices, visit
https://nancismithlaw.com
To learn more about her book, Untangling Your Marriage, visithttps://nancismithlaw.com/book
To learn more about Jessica and her life journey, visit
Instagram @mytruth.mystory
facebook @mytruth.mystory
tiktok @mytruth.mystory
To connect with Jessica directly
email: mytruth.mystory.contact@gmail.com
To learn more about Jessica and her life journey, visit
Instagram @mytruth.mystory
facebook @mytruth.mystory
tiktok @mytruth.mystory
To connect with Jessica directly
email: mytruth.mystory.contact@gmail.com
To learn more about Beth, her life journey, and her work, visit
https://bethbell.me
To learn more about Beth's recently released book, visitAngels, Herpes and Psychedelics: Unraveling the Mind to Unveil IllusionsTo listen to a free reading by Beth of the first 2 chapters of the book, visit https://bethbell.me/about
ABOUT BETH
A rising sales star turned marketing executive, Beth Bell spent more than 16 years leading strategic brand planning and more for the pharmaceutical industry. But somewhere between C-level meetings and marketplace assessments,
Beth began listening more closely to the world around — and within — her. What she heard led her eventually to ditch her corporate life to pursue her life’s purpose of “pollinating the planet with love.”
As her inward journey deepened, Beth became known as the “Flower Whisperer” and forged new paths — first as an entrepreneur designing silver jewelry in Bali, then as a radio/TV show host and author. Additionally, she’s a multi-dimensional advisor for CEOs and psychedelic pharmaceutical companies. Beth currently lives in America with her rescue dog, Lily.
To learn more about Dr. Ron and his work, visit
https://ronaldalexander.com
To learn more about Dr. Ron's recently released book, Core Creativity: The Mindful Way To Unlock Your Creative Self, visit
https://ronaldalexander.com/core-creativity
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a Creativity and Communication Consultant, and an Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples, families, and groups in Santa Monica, California. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind® Training Institute, a leading-edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in core creativity, mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and mindfulness meditation. For more than forty-four years, Alexander has been a trainer of healthcare professionals in North America, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Australia. As a Mindfulness and Zen Buddhist practitioner, he specializes in utilizing mindfulness meditation in his professional and corporate work to help people transform their lives by accessing the mind states that open the portal to their core creativity.
Alexander is a leading pioneer in the fields of Mindfulness Based Mind-Body Therapies, Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Ericksonian Mind-Body Therapies, Holistic Psychology, and Integrative and Behavioral Medicine. He is a long-time extension faculty member of the UCLA Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entertainment, a lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Pepperdine Universities.
Alexander received his SEP Certificate from the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute in Boulder Colorado. He consulted with and received treatment from Milton H Erickson MD. He personally trained with Ernest Rossi and Steven Gilligan in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as well as with Daniel P. Brown of the Harvard Medical Cambridge Hospital professional training’s seminars in hypnosis and hypno-analysis. He trained with and was certified by the Los Angeles Gestalt Therapy Institute and with Erving and Miriam Polster PhD of the Gestalt Training Center of La Jolla. He also received training and supervision in Contemporary Gestalt and Family Therapies, Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, Relational and Object Relations Therapies.
Dr. Ronald Alexander, PhD is a leading Creativity and Communication Coach, International Clinical Trainer, Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private practice in Santa Monica, California. He is the originator of the OpenMind Training® Institute, a leading edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. His unique method combines ancient wisdom teachings with Leadership Coaching and Core Creativity into a comprehensive integrated, behaviorally effective mind-body program. This system combines techniques that support strategies of personal, clinical, and corporate excellence and growth.
Alexander’s extensive training includes core creativity, conflict management, Gestalt therapy, leadership and organizational development, and vision and strategic planning. He pioneered the early values and vision-based models for current day leadership and professional coaching. He specializes in Mind-Body therapies and has been studying and teaching Mindfulness Meditation, Creative Visualization and Transpersonal Psychology since 1970.
Alexander studied with and was influenced by noted leaders in these fields such as Ken Blanchard, Werner Erhard, Warren Bennis, Umberto Materana and Francesco Variela, and was one of the grandfathers of coaching along with Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield.
To learn more about Nina and her work, visit
https://www.ninasimons.com
To learn more about Bioneers, visit
https://bioneers.org
To learn more about her newest book, Nature, Culture, And The Sacred: A Woman Listens For Leadership, visit
https://www.ninasimons.com/writing
Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Bioneers is a nonprofit that uses media, convening, and connecting to lift up visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges, using a whole-system approach.
Nina is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences, and festivals, and co-facilitates transformative workshops and retreats for women that share practices for regenerative leadership through relational mindfulness.
Throughout her remarkable career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, orientation, and more to create conditions for mutual learning and leadership development. She produces and speaks at large-scale events to work intimately to help small, diverse groups of women leaders knit together to strengthen each other’s work pursuing intersectional healing and ecological justice.
Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth and is a member of the Women Donors Network, Confluence Philanthropy, and Edge Funders. 2017, Nina was a recipient of the Goi Peace Award, presented annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world. Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.
Her prior work includes President at Seeds of Change, which she helped grow into an emerging national brand in less than five years by using innovative approaches to public relations and community-based marketing. At Odwalla, as Director of Strategic Marketing, she grew consumer loyalty while guiding teams nationwide just after their IPO.
Nina studied Theater Arts and Psychology at Cornell University. In addition to writing the first and second editions of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership (Green Fire Press), Nina co-edited 2010’s Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart (Park Street Press), which explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth through the prism of more than 30 essays from successful women leaders.
To learn more about Melissa and about Karuna Training, visit
https://karunatraining.com
Melissa Moore Ph.D. Steward of the North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. She was the founding Director of the Felton Institute for Research and Training in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes.
Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and in four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her dog and husband.
Melissa recently published The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology; find out more about the book
here: https://thediamondswithinus.org
To learn more about Nathaniel and his work, visit
www.yourmeaninginlife.com
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Nathanael Garrett Novosel is a professional researcher and advisor with over 20 years of experience studying individual and group behavior. Over that time, he has researched psychology, evolutionary biology, organizational best practices, leadership decision making, business, technology, finance, and philosophy to understand how the world as we know it works and why.
Nathanael spent much of his career using the insights from this research to help the world’s leading executives solve their most pressing organizational challenges and create their strategic plans. Noticing the common drivers of success in all areas of life, he decided to devote his research, problem-solving, and advisory skills to helping people live the best lives possible.
To learn more about Rachel and her work, visit
https://www.drrachelallyn.com
To learn more about her book, The Pleasure Is All Yours
https://www.thepleasureisallyoursbook.com
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Rachel Allyn, PhD has been a licensed holistic psychologist for 20 years specializing in mind-body medicine, relationships, and intimacy issues. She helps individuals and couples cope with their mood, life transitions, and all types of relationship challenges.
As a certified yoga teacher, Dr. Allyn incorporates the body into her sessions at times and leads therapeutic mind-body workshops and retreats. She recently released a book called, The Pleasure Is All Yours: Reclaim Your Body's Bliss and Reignite Your Passion for Life. The book is based on the same topic as her 2019 TEDx talk focusing on her method of "bodyfulness," which integrates mindfulness, movement to release stress and trauma stuck in the body, and reclaiming healing healthy pleasures within a repressed, over-worked culture.
Her motto is “Pleasure to the People!”
When she’s not spreading this message, you can find her skiing, surfing, or singing karaoke.
To learn more about Ronni and Jennie and their work, visit
https://www.heartandsoulsisters.net
Their new book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond (HeartWisdom LLC, April 5, 2022), shares their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing.
They are sharing their story now to help heal the shame that they have carried as survivors of trauma, and to contribute to healing the hearts of others who have struggled in similar ways. To them healing is not about changing, or becoming someone "different" or "better"---it's about becoming more fully who they are: a spark of The Divine, connected to All, here to assist each other as our souls explore this existence and learn to love and live in peace.
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specializing in family studies, from the University of Michigan.
Jennie Weaver received her degree from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in family practice and mental health.
To request video file in order to see the Tao calligraphy and the notes that Dr. Sha shares, please email consciouspodcastlabs@gmail.com
Master Zhi Gang Sha is a Tao grandmaster, healer, teacher, and author of 30 books, including 11 New York Times bestsellers and several others on the bestseller lists of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon. He has an MD degree in Western medicine from China and is also a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Master Sha has combined the essence of Western medicine with ancient wisdom to create Soul Mind Body Medicine®, Master Sha’s Soul Healing®, and Tao teachings to help humanity. He is a grandmaster of several Asian arts and in 2002 was named Qigong Master of the Year at the Fourth World Congress on Qigong.
With the creation of Tao Calligraphy, he received the highest honors a Chinese calligrapher can receive, being appointed to the position of National Chinese Calligrapher Master as well as Honorable Researcher Professor by the State Ethnic Academy of Painting in Beijing, China.
For more information, visit www.tappingthesource.org
"Tapping the Source" is an online science and spirituality summit premiering on July 16 that will be held quarterly for the remainder of 2022 and beyondQuarterly Held Event Targeting Spirituality and Science Will Help People Navigate Unprecedented Challenges of 2022As millions of Americans continue to grapple with strife in their daily lives caused by a continuing global pandemic, a looming economic recession, lingering social injustices, upsetting political upheavals, and heartbreaking events including deadly mass shootings and fighting in Europe unseen since World War II, a diverse cross section of the world's leading spiritual and wellness icons, humanitarians, philanthropists, philosophers and physicists are launching a series of events to raise awareness about the science of spirituality and help people navigate the unprecedented challenges of 2022.
Responding to an overwhelming need for mental health and wellbeing, and as millions of people are meditating and seeking inner peace, "Tapping The Source" will offer conversations with experts sharing their original discoveries and insights about the science of spirituality. With their own unique perspectives, each panelist will explain how every person has the power to transform their own reality and also have a dramatic impact on the world. This is a rare chance to expand the public's understanding of complex sciences and connect with deeper, underlying sources of life.
100% of proceeds of all future online event will support The Chopra Foundation, The Love Peace Harmony Foundation, and the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, a range of community-serving non-profits established by the program speakers.
Tapping the Source is an initiative by Universal Soul Service Corp.
To learn more about Deborah, visit
https://www.deborahedentull.com
Her newest book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown, is available for pre-order and will be released by Shambhala Publications in September 2022.
DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives, bridging personal and collective awakening in an age of global change. She is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author, and sustainability educator, who teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world.. She trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Eden has lived in sustainable communities and as an organic gardener/farmer for decades and celebrates the essential wisdom of nature .
Eden’s teaching emphasizes the spiritual, interpersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, and global impacts of engaged awareness practice. She has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and people wanting to cultivate more compassion in their lives, to concerned citizens and activists, parents, schools, corporations,, inner city youth and people who are incarcerated.
Eden has a special gift for facilitating mindful inquiry, fierce compassion, and relational intelligence. She weaves dharma with her embodiment of animism, deep ecology, shadow work, and conscious movement/dance, to help people release limiting beliefs and collective biases that have been passed down over generations. She draws upon her own experience of navigating loss, illness, and trauma, guiding people to embrace the mystery and celebrate the value and alchemy of light and darkness as teachers of love.
Eden also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy for transforming our pain and love for our world into compassionate action, and teaches with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She offers experiential trainings in deep listening, relational intelligence, regenerative leadership, spiritual activism, and the deep-feminine.
Eden grew up in a family of activists and artists. She has been an advocate for social justice and ecological sustainability throughout her life. After college, before becoming a Zen monastic at the age of 26, she worked for an international non-profit focused on cultural and biological diversity and the building of local economies, while also helping to create organic gardens in low-income communities.
She has been an organic gardener and farmer for decades, a visionary urban ecology project in the Arizona desert; the Zen Buddhist monastery where she trained; and in urban gardens in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. She is certified in Permaculture Design and Bio-Intensive Organic Gardening.
Eden’s work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Tricycle, Yogi Times, Shambhala Times, The Shift Network, and The Ecologist. Eden has also been teaching for UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center since 2012. She has been collaborating with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and Cultivating Women’s Leadership, since 2012, on the topics of Relational Mindfulness: Regenerating Ourselves and Our World, and Women’s Leadership.
To learn more about Jonathan and his work, visit
https://findinghappiness.com
To learn more about his latest book, The Enlightenment Project: How I Went From Depressed to Blessed, and You Can Too, visit
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/260334
Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of ten books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. His work has appeared in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as dozens of other publications. In addition, Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent more than thirty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development.
Mr. Robinson’s first book, “The Experience of God,” included interviews with such notable people as the late Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Jonathan’s second book, “The Little Book of Big Questions,” became a New York Times bestseller, as did his book “Communication Miracles for Couples.” Mr. Robinson’s other books include: Instant Insight; Real Wealth; Shortcuts to Bliss; Shortcuts to Success, The Complete Idiots Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality, and Find Happiness Now.
Jonathan speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Microsoft, Dell, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and FedEx/Kinko’s. In his public talks and workshops, Jonathan is known for providing his audiences with powerful and immediately useful information in a fun and entertaining manner.
Jeff sits down with Lorraine Goldbloom from VortexHealing® to hear about her upcoming Finding Presence Series, which will be available starting on June 30th on the resources page of her website as each video is produced.
An “issue” is anything that keeps us out of being present on every level. In this video series, Lorraine will examine how our issues show up in our system, how they hold us, and what it means to be free from them. The discovery of what issues are keeping us stuck and distracted, and how they manifest, is the first step in finding freedom from them.
The Finding Presence Series is an ongoing sequence of videos and articles that focus on the exploration of universal issues. Each segment examines a different issue, and every live event offers a healing to support the process of letting go of what keeps us in the experience of separation.
To learn more about Lorraine and her work, visit
https://lorrainegoldbloom.com
To learn more about the upcoming VortexHealing® foundational virtual training program on August 4-8th, visit
https://www.lorrainegoldbloom.com/foundational
For more information about VortexHealing®:
https://www.vortexhealing.org
Jennifer Fraser is a best-selling author and award-winning educator, has a PhD in Comparative Literature. Her online courses and workshops provide dynamic lessons in the impact neuroscience has on personal development and culture change.
Her previous book, Teaching Bullies: Zero Tolerance on the Court or in the Classroom (Motion Press, Aug. 8, 2015), explores what happens when the bully is a teacher or coach.
Her new book, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health (Prometheus Books, April 1, 2022), delves into how bullying affects the brain and how the brain can heal.
Learn more at bulliedbrain.com
To learn more about Chip and his work, visit
https://www.gnupharma.com
"God has always given us the cures. The cures are in Nature. There are keys which unlock this Knowledge. The endocannabinoid system is a big key.
Spice up your life®"
Chip Paul
Chief Innovator
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About GnuPharma
GnuPharma is a research, development, and manufacturing company specializing in modulating the endocannabinoid system with both hemp and non-cannabis plants.
About Chip
Chip Paul is a classically trained mathematician who has spent his career asking WHY. Chip spent over 10 years in corporate work in companies such as Southwestern Bell Corp, Phillips Petroleum Corp, and Williams Communications.
After leaving corp life, Chip started his entrepreneurial career. In 2014 Chip and his wife Cynthia successfully exited a Tulsa based senior assistance company and began to build GnuPharma. GnuPharma was built around Chip's theory of human function under the endocannabinoid system.
In 2015 Chip began building herbal formulations which impacted the endocannabinoid system to alter disease states and improve health. Chip patented these ideas and holds the first issued patent on predictably manipulating the endocannabinoid system for medical benefit without cannabis.
Further Chip holds intellectual property for the first endocannabinoid diagnostic test which is currently being developed. Chip works and collaborates with major Universities and continues to write for additional intellectual property.
To learn more about Tevia and about White Tiger Qigong, visit
https://whitetigerqigong.com
Tevia Feng is the Master Instructor and founder of White Tiger Qigong.
Born with chronic illness and suffering, he began practicing martial arts, qigong and meditation at the age of 7 to heal himself. Tevia Feng was a qigong student of Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming in the early 2000s and credits master Yang for putting him on a path of synthesizing qigong with modern sports therapy and medical research.
As a student of qigong, he journeyed all around China and the world seeking the greatest masters including northwestern part of Hubei, Beijing and Southern China, where he met and trained extensively with several true qigong masters. Throughout his journey, he has met many qigong masters around the world, acquiring rare skills, from unique breathing techniques and exercises to delving into the heart of qi energy. Each master has shaped the Qigong training he teaches today.
He has since been published featured articles in the largest qigong magazine in the world. He has self-published three books on qigong and has books translated into multiple languages. He has been named one of the top 3 qigong masters in Indonesia.
As the master instructor of White Tiger Qigong, he has taught over 4,000 students from around the world, in countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the US. White Tiger has almost 60,000 members. He has worked closely with terminally ill individuals to professional athletes, ballet dancers, the North American Muay Thai champion, the 2019 female Karate world champion, martial arts champions, yoga instructors, hedge fund managers, political figures, military elite, UHNWI, circus performers, health care professionals, psychologists, medical doctors and more.
Through White Tiger Qigong, his mission is to open the pathway for people to ignite transformation and maximize potential, scaling across communities to create a global movement for a shift in consciousness and promote global healing.
A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Internal Martial Arts
Tevia Feng has lived and traveled throughout China from Beijing to Taiwan studying in various martial art forms including rare forms of Martial Qigong, Medical Qigong, Xuan Wu Quan, Xing Yi Quan. and Taiji Quan
Various styles of Baguazhang including Wudangshan Baguazhang, Bagua Lian Huan Zhang, Yin Baguazhang, Cheng Bagua, Emei Shan Bagua and more.
While in China he also studied at multiple Taoist monasteries and temples. He learned additional martial art forms with various masters, hermits and Taoist masters studying:
Golden Elixir Qigong
White Tiger/ Green Dragon Breath
5 Element Qigong
Medical Qigong
8 Trigram Qigong
Traditional Microcosmic Orbit
Esoteric Baguazhang
Primordial Breath
Various Forms of Nei Dan (Internal Alchemy)
5 Animal Qigong (Hua Tuo)
Tevia Feng has trained with these Masters of Qigong and Internal Martial Arts
Tevia Feng has since studied with a variety of masters including, but not limited to:
Daoist Abbot Luo Pin Cho of the Tian Ji Dao Sect (Wuyi Mountain, China)
Daoist Abbot Xu Zhong of the Zhi Zhi An Temple (Wuyi Mountain, China)
Luo Jin Hua of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)
Mao Jing Song of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)
Master Yuan Xiu Gang of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)
Dr. Ming Wu (20th Generation Fengyang Taoist Chinese Medicine and Qigong)
Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (USA)
Master Chen Si Xing of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)
Master Kenneth Cohen (USA)
Master Zhang Yuxuan (Beijing, China)
Master Li Chun Ling (Beijing, China)
Master Mantak Chia (Thailand)
Master Edy Suwita (Sumatra, Indonesia)
The legendary Udo Erasmus is the co-founder of Udo’s Choice line, which can be found in Whole Foods and other health food stores worldwide. Udo designed the machinery for making oils with health in mind and pioneered flax oil, a billion-dollar industry.
However, Udo walked a difficult path to become the man he is today.
Being a child of war, Udo’s life began with intense struggle. As an adult, he got pesticide poisoning in 1980, leaving doctors at a loss regarding treatment. Deciding to take his health into his own hands, Udo began researching, and his discoveries led him to a passion for finding the answers to life’s big questions which would hopefully one day bring him and the world peace.
Today, Udo is an acclaimed speaker and author of many books, including the best-selling Fats That Heal Fats That Kill, which has sold over 250,000 copies. He teaches at events hosted by Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra, has keynoted an international brain health conference, and has traveled to over 30 countries to conduct thousands of live presentations, media interviews, and staff trainings impacting more than 25,000,000 lives with his message on oils, health, peace, nature, and human nature. Udo has an extensive education in biochemistry, genetics, biology, and nutrition, including a master’s degree in counseling psychology.
To learn more about Jessie and her life journey and work, visit
https://jessiekanzer.com
To learn more about her book, Don't Just Sit There, Do Nothing, visithttps://jessiekanzer.com/#pre-order
Jessie was born in the Soviet Union as Asya Bronfman
A descendant of Holocaust survivors living in a communal apartment with four households, one toilet, and a rickety old bathtub in the middle of the kitchen. Her family sought asylum in the U.S., and after awaiting their fate in Austria and Italy, they finally made it to Brooklyn in 1989.
As an 8-year-old refugee who only spoke Russian, Jessie (or “Asya” then) yearned to fit in. She changed her name and much about herself. Later though, she experienced depression, an eating disorder, and all sorts of existential problems. She pursued Hollywood fame, men, and the American Dream, but always fell short.
Until she stopped.
With the help of the Tao Te Ching she rediscovered herself and her innate power, and she learned to chill. Her book, Don’t Just Sit There, DO NOTHING, will help others do the same.
“An honest, magnificent journey of courage and insight. The unveiling of light in a way that illuminates the light in each of us. I think you will find a hero in this book. And that hero is you.” —Laura Day, NYT bestselling author of Practical Intuition and The Circle
Jessie lives with her husband and daughters in Dobbs Ferry, NY. She considers herself an expert in Doing Nothing.
PAOLA KNECHT is a certified leadership, transformational, and self-development coach. Offering insights from 15 years of work in leading-edge global corporations, including Viatris and Syngenta, Knecht is dedicated to helping people transform their professional and personal lives. She is the founder of My Mindpower Coaching & Consulting and author of the new book The Success Mindset: Take Back the Leadership of Your Mind(November 8, 2021). Learn more at my-mindpower.com.
To learn more about Jaime and her book, Sunroofs and Shoeboxes, visit
https://thesweetlife.co
https://www.instagram.com/jaimeleemathews
Jaime L. Mathews is the author of Sunroofs and Shoeboxes, a collection of the little nuggets of wisdom she has found in the little things of everyday life. Educated as a journalist and a holistic health educator, Jaime has had an eclectic career path that gave her the tool kit to become a mother. The journey of writing Sunroofs and Shoeboxes prepared Jaime for motherhood and helped her find the little nuggets of happiness when she was in the throes of having twin newborns. Jaime, her husband, and their five children live on a farm in California.
To learn more about Rosie and her work, visit
https://www.rosiemankes.net
To learn more about Rosie's book, Find Your Joy and Run With It, visit
https://www.rosiemankes.net/book
Rosie Mankes is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of Find Your Joy and Run With It, a heartwarming memoir about overcoming her second battle with cancer, the transitioning of her mother into an assisted living facility, and the unexpected loss of her brother, all within one year. Rosie’s recovery from these major challenges inspired her to become a life coach, in order to help people pull through significant adversity and life challenges. Rosie is a resident of New Jersey, where she lives with her husband. She is the mother of two grown sons.
To learn more about Tony and the Noesis Project, visit
https://noesisproject.com
About TonyTony graduated from the William Penn Charter School, in Philadelphia. He then continued his education at Lake Forest College, in Chicago, Il.
A Liberal Arts education ignited Tony’s interest in existential philosophy. Existential thought is deductive at its core. It demands that Tony, and now, the entire human species, views the world through a starkly realistic lens.
Tony started his professional career in relationship-based sales, eventually becoming the top producer with ADT National Accounts.
In 2000, Tony reinvented his career, earning his licenses as a Registered Investment Advisor with PNC Investments, and later, with the Royal Bank of Canada.
Tony’s passion today is centered on the growth of Noēsis, to create a worldwide network of education, to understand the totality of evolutionary influence on modern behavior, to enable the arrival of the human species into a sustainable future.
Tony raised his family in Eagleville, Pa. He names his two children, Matthew and Jack, as being his greatest achievement.
About Noesis
Noēsis is a Non-Profit Organization, Dedicated to Helping the Human Species to Achieve Sustainability.
A helpless and exhausted Humanity has suddenly arrived to a place that feels far less promising than we were taught to expect.
The human species, all eight billion of us together, senses a gathering storm. Noēsis was formed to help the human race achieve sustainability, by exposing the evolutionary motivators that combine to influence all modern behavior. Ancient messages continue to haunt the human mind.
The only way to get ourselves under control is to determine how we lost control. We have a key that was never available–the evolutionary data that will allow self-discovery for the entire human species.
We Are Educators.Our mission is to identify and describe the machine-like action of evolutionary relics inside all of us, against which we are largely powerless in the modern day. To bring them into view will open a window to human sustainability.
To learn more about Lara and her new book, Caged, visit
https://www.larasabanosh.com
Lara Sabanosh, the author of Caged, has dedicated her life to helping others. Beginning in her youth as a volunteer and continuing through her career, she has made it a priority to aid individuals in finding and meeting their emotional, educational, or professional goals. From counseling children and families to facilitating civilian and military members in social and educational leadership—as Director for Fleet and Family Services at GTMO—she has been blessed with assisting others in the journey of becoming their best selves. Lara has completed coursework for two doctorates with a focus on research, evaluation, and clinical psychology and a master's in general psychology from Walden University. Through her career, she has found solace and joy in her civil service—the main driver in sharing her experience of Caged.
Lara has since retired from civil service and private sector roles and her new goal is to continue to help others through the written word. She hopes that by sharing her story, she will give voice to the topics of domestic abuse and the broken system that desperately needs repair.
Regardless of her struggles, one thing has been constant throughout Lara’s journey: the pride, respect, and unconditional love that she has for her two exceptionally intelligent daughters who have overcome the same trauma and challenges described within the pages of Caged. They have used the experiences to help forge who they are—strong and independent women—and move forward in life. These remarkable young ladies are in the process of completing their educational journeys and advancing into their careers, as they too, look to help others in their diametrically different fields of study.
Lara now spends her time in Pensacola, Florida with her loving family, dogs, and grand puppies. She’s learning to move forward with hope that one day, she will no longer be caged by her past, and will be free to fly forward unburdened.
Sallyanne Pisk has worked in health for 30 years as a practitioner, researcher and manager. She is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, mindfulness practitioner and author. For the past 10 years she has been devoted to helping women transform their eating mindset and relationship with food.
Over her career she has presented at health conferences and participated in over 200 radio interviews, including talkback. She is a health and wellbeing presenter for the new Feisty, Fabulous & 50+ community radio program and podcast.
Sallyanne founded Eating for You, an online business, to help women reclaim themselves and their lives through mindful eating and living. The Eating for You approach is based on scientific research, Eastern nutrition and Sallyanne’s own experiences of transitioning from dieting to mindful eating herself, as she realised that healthy eating wasn’t meant to be so hard. Sallyanne has a private community of over 2000 members.
The Emotional Eating Triggers Checklist
The 'Emotional Eating Triggers Checklist' has evolved from Sallyanne's near daily conversations with women about their eating habits. It has been responsible for giving women a new understanding of their biggest barriers to changing the way they eat. And most importantly how to transform the negative voice inside their heads into one that is supportive of their health and wellbeing goals. It really is about identifying one of these self-sabotaging voices and putting an alternative in place. These triggers are the same for men too.
Link
eatingchecklist.com
Websiteeatingforyou.com.au
To learn more about Mark and his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, visit
https://markwestmoquette.co.uk
Mark works with people to help them connect their inner and outer universe to uncover the wonder and awe of being in every moment.
As an astrophysicist and Zen teacher and ordained Zen monk, he offers a unique method of embodied practice based on science and research, which will encourage people to find a deep connection with the cosmos.
In 2019, he gave up his life of teaching courses and workshops in yoga, mindfulness and Zen to move with his wife to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic for a two-year adventure that involved writing this book
In his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, he stresses that by bringing awareness and kindness to these relationships will naturally shift them into something much broader and more inclusive. The result is a helpful book with a positive and helpful message: we can take a new perspective on the people who cause us pain.
To learn more about Leonard and his work, visit
https://americanmeditation.org
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMeditationInstitute
https://www.instagram.com/american_meditation_institute
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjgf9zM53NRo80FnMzbV9g
To learn more about Leonard's new book, YOUR CONSCIENCE: The Key to Unlock Limitless Wisdom and Creativity and Solve All of Life’s Challenges visit
https://americanmeditation.org/your-conscience
Each of us knows how it feels to make the right choice. The true choice. When our outer actions reflect our inner wisdom, we feel positive, energized, creative, loving, and fulfilled. So why do we sometimes ignore that wisdom and make bad decisions? The problem lies in our mind…and the solution lies there too.
Your Conscience, a new book by AMI Founder Leonard Perlmutter, helps us understand how to train the mind to make choices that lead to the kind of life we want to live. This short, powerful handbook teaches that we already have everything we need to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life. We must simply learn a few tools to access our own unlimited wisdom and creativity.
LEONARD PERLMUTTER (Ram Lev) is the founder and director of the American Meditation Institute in Averill Park, NY and is the originator of National Conscience Month. He studied in Rishikesh, India under Swami Rama of the Himalayas whose lab studies at the Menninger Institute demonstrated that blood pressure, heart rate and the autonomic nervous system can be voluntarily controlled. Leonard has presented informative Yoga Science and meditation workshops at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Kaiser Permanente, The New York Times Forum on Yoga, the Commonwealth Club of California, the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the Washington University Medical School, the University of Colorado Medical School, the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Association of Graduates, the Albany Medical College, and Berkshire Medical Center and has served on the faculties of the New England Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine and the International Himalayan Yoga Teachers Association. He is the author and editor of Transformation: The Journal of Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body Medicine and his Heart and Science of Yoga® course curriculum has been certified by the Albany Medical College, the American Medical Association, and the American Nurses Association for continuing medical education credit.
Shelly Tygielski is the author of Sit Down to Rise Upand founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. Her work has been featured by over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times,andthe Washington Post. A trauma-mindfulness teacher and a Garrison Institute Fellow, she has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful.org and teaches self-care and resilience at organizations around the world.
Visit her online at http://www.shellytygielski.com.
Link to her book’s product page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608687449
Shelly's social media links:
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ABOUT HER NEW BOOK
The practice of mindfulness is most often touted for its profound mind, body, and spirit benefits. In Sit Down to Rise Up, self-care activist Shelly Tygielski shows that mindfulness can also be a powerful tool for spurring transformative collective action.
“The premise of this book,” Shelly states, “is fairly simple: When we are interconnected, when one of us heals, we all heal.”
Organized in three sections—Me, We, and Us—SIT DOWN TO RISE UP sheds light on:
Why self-care — a commitment to taking an active role in safeguarding our mental and physical wellness — isn’t self-centered but truly a selfless act — and ways to expand our view of the “self” to include our family, community, human beings across the globe, and the natural world.
How we are each born with a sense of agency — the ability to rise up, assert ourselves, and become an agent for social change, regardless of our circumstances — and ways to uncover and nurture that seed within us.
Why positive thinking as a consistent habit is downright impossible — and how to find simple, unconditional happiness that is not in opposition to negative experiences through conscious action and connection with others
Why self-care — a commitment to taking an active role in safeguarding our mental and physical wellness — isn’t self-centered but truly a selfless act — and ways to expand our view of the “self” to include our family, community, human beings across the globe, and the natural world
The power of showing up, taking baby steps, and making incremental change — and an arsenal of tools to help anyone create circles of influence for serving others and doing good, sparking a ripple effect that continues to reverberate and inspire people of all types everywhere.
Why we urgently need to extinguish the stigma attached to asking for help and support the concept and reality of equity, how to set up your own mutual aid network…and more.
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Jeff sits down with mindfulness and communications skills coach Brett Hill to hear about his work with clients, about how he discovered Mindfulness practice, and how he has evolved as a human being since discovering the benefits of the practice.
He also reflects deeply about how he created a unique coaching practice blending mindfulness and communication skills and how this has impacted his life and those that he works with in several beneficial ways.
**To learn more about Brett and the unique coaching experience that he offers that blends Mindfulness and communications skills, please visit
https://www.languageofmindfulness.com/
To receive a Free PDF on 8 Ways you can be more mindful in virtual meetings and to sign up for his email list, please visit
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In college, Brett decided that limits of what we can achieve and the quality of our lives is dependent on our ability to communicate well. His degree in interpersonal communication combined nicely with his fascination for technology leading to a career as a technical story-teller, author, blogger, and speaker for companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and others.
But he wanted to go much deeper, so he sought out the best he could find. He has had the good fortune to study Hakomi somatic psychotherapy with the founder – Ron Kurtz, Matrix Leadership group dynamics with the founder – Amina Knowlan, and meditation with the late Audle Allison.
He taught meditation for several years and founded the Quest Institute in Dallas. Other influences include martial arts, contact improvisation, and training with Gabrielle Roth
As a result of this unique background, he has come to believe there no faster way to improve your communications and the quality of your life than being mindful during conversation. The Language of Mindfulness is the distillation of many years of work and inspired a TEDx talk (2021), the book and class in development.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/0tR1VUFjuto
Jeff sits down with Pam Savino to hear about what her work with clients means to her at a very deep level, about formative moments in her life journey, and some important and inspiring lessons that she has learned along the way.
To learn about Pam and her coaching work with clients, visit
https://liveauthentically.today/
Pam founded Live Authentically to help others learn to find their voice, speak their truth and live authentically. As they go through the transformative events of life, she helps them find their truths and the inner strength to live them fully. She helps people see learning and knowledge in their challenges.
She encourages her clients to let go of the ideas that are holding them back. She coaches them away from behaviors based on fear and doubt, instills a healthy level of self-confidence and love, as well as a spiritual understanding of our world.
Pam believes that every person is important and valuable, and everyone deserves to live their best and most fulfilled life. Live Authentically is dedicated to helping others find their own happiness, on their terms. There is no judgment.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/eAwUMCM_sHQ
Jeff sits down with Dashama to hear about her dharma, about her work to bring healing and increased wellness to people all over the world, and about her awakening and spiritual Journey.
She shares deeply about her evolution and how her life has unfolded since the beginning.
To learn more about Dashama and to sign up for her free self-love and yoga mini course including meditation, yoga practice, and EFT for gratitude and forgiveness, visit https://www.dashama.org/Dashama has impacted hundreds of millions of lives globally with her message of healing, happiness, oneness, love & flow. Since 2005 she has produced hundreds of videos, multiple best selling online courses, 32 instructional DVDs, written 5 books, lead international retreats, teacher trainings and events serving the growing demand for her high quality educational material in the meditation, yoga, health & wellness segment.
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Jeff sits down with teacher and healer Nischala Joy Devi as she shares very deeply about her practice, her Journey, and some very formative lessons that she has learned along the way through living her life and working with her students.
She offers a very nourishing and enlightening perspective that is so incredibly timely during this global crisis.
To learn more about Nischala and her work and teachings, please visithttps://www.abundantwellbeing.com/productsbynischalajoydevi/
NISCHALA JOY DEVI is a masterful teacher and healer. For many years she has been highly respected as an international advocate for her innovative way of expressing Yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth and complete healing. Her dynamic delivery and deep inner conviction empower each individual, allowing the teachings to expand beyond boundaries and limitations of any one tradition enabling her to touch people’s hearts.
She was graced to spend over 25 years as a monastic disciple with the world-renowned Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidanandaji, receiving his direct guidance and teachings. She also was blessed with teachings from great Yoga masters in US, India and worldwide.
Originally trained in Western medicine, she began to blend western medicine with Yoga, offered her expertise in developing the yoga portion of The Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, and co-founded the award-winning Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Her book “The Healing Path of Yoga,” and her Abundant WellBeing Audio Series expresses these teachings.
With her knowledge of yoga and her experience in assisting those with life-threatening diseases (particularly people with heart disease and cancer), she created Yoga of the Heart®, a training and certification program for Yoga teachers and health professionals designed to adapt Yoga practices to the special needs of that population.
She is now dedicated to bringing the Feminine back into spirituality and the scriptures, in her book, The Secret Power of Yoga, a woman’s guide to the heart and spirit of the Yoga Sutras and Secret Power of Yoga Audiobook Nautilus Book Silver Award Winner!
Her two newest books are available on Amazon.com
THE NAMASTE EFFECT: Expressing Universal Love through the Chakras
MEDITATION IN THE YOGA TRADITIONFor more information, also visit
Facebook.com\Nischala Joy Devi
Twitter.com\nischaladevi
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Jeff sits down with Kerri Lake as she shares very deeply and very compellingly about her life journey, key turning points along the way, and about some incredibly life-changing, Consciousness-altering, and empowering lessons that she has learned about the importance of connection and presence.
She speaks very candidly regarding what she has learned about connection and presence from working with animals over the years and how that has illuminated why she is here to work with people as well.
To learn more about Kerri and her work, visitwww.kerrilake.com
Kerri is masterful in many ways. Utilizing her own innate gifts and abilities, she integrates wisdom, guidance and communication from every realm of consciousness to assist and accelerate your own integration, starting right where you are. She helps people and animals of all species know the sense of living in harmony and clarity.
Her two published books offer a view into the formation of tools, awareness and the courage it has taken to walk through life without compromise. Kerri has blazed a new trail on the road to freedom from limitations and conditioning. On this trail, all species are welcome and integrate through frequencies of communication. The greatest gift she can give to you is her own purity of expression, sharing her own journey, to help you see that if she can do it...so can you.
Full video of this episode available on Inspiring Conversations Podcast Channel On Youtube Or at https://youtu.be/3EmmNAw2OWE
When I was a child
I daydreamed all the time about a present moment that didn't exist and that never came to pass.
When I was a teenager
I daydreamed about a future
that existed only in my mind and that never came to fruition.
When I was an adult
I gave up daydreaming and yearned constantly for "something else"
I truly believed that there could be and would be a life
outside of the place that I felt trapped in
A life that would bring fulfillment and happiness that I imagined and really believed was possible.
When my ego and identity was finally shattered
When what I believed was "I" "died"
I finally woke up from the dream
I finally saw through the illusion.
Once I was awake
I could finally accept the death
I could finally accept and embrace the death of all of my illusions and delusions.
Once I left my "illusion body" behind
I could finally embrace and live in the here and now
I could live in the present moment
A present moment that contains nothing other than what is and that leads to nothing other than other present moments.
Once I let go of it all
I could truly see what remained
I could truly see that this is all there is
I could see that what happens next is what happens next
I could see that what happens next has nothing to do with what we want to happen next
I could see that what happens next will most likely not bring the fulfillment we seek
I could see that all there really is to do is to live fully in each moment as it happens and to live fully within any joy and pain that arises.
Once my eyes were opened
I could embrace all of the emptiness that used to sadden and scare me
I could see the dark void that anything that happened arose from
I could see the emptiness that anything happened eventually returned to
I could allow myself to look right into the void and not be afraid
I could finally live within that emptiness and know that searching for and craving any of the things that I wanted as a child, teenager, or an adult were no longer necessary
I could finally live not needing "something else"
I could finally live amidst what actually is and actually be sustained by it
I could finally die completely immersed in the "this is all that there is.
In this episode, Justin and Jeff talk about fear, uncertainty, and resistance to change and how these emotions are related to emotional blocks and the unconscious mind.
They also visit about the benefits of cultivating a more disciplined mind and integrating our inner work between the body and mind and how these practices can further empower us to cope more effectively and to embrace these things that happen in our lives.
For more information about Justin and Peaceful Mind Edu, contact him at justin@visionarystatus.com and on instagram at @peacefulmindedu or at @justinconsciousness
In this episode, Jeff more fully explores about the benefits of being aware of how our minds can sometimes get lost in "wondering what's next" instead of just being present in each moment at work. He digs deeper into the subject of how in the world of work (and in our lives away from work), it can be very tempting to be envisioning and thinking about one or more steps ahead of where we are in the process and how that can cause us much unneeded suffering and can distract us from doing our best in the present moment. He reflects on situations in his life where he has experienced the temptation to harbor expectations for things to go a certain way in business and in personal relationships and how sometimes, disappointments, setbacks, or challenges in one area of life can affect the other. He also acknowledges how engaging in this behavior (sometimes mindlessly) has affected relationships with business associates, colleagues, friends, and family and how being more mindful of how we "bring ourselves into" encounters with people that we meet for the first time can allow us to cultivate healthier relationships overall and feel more centered, more at peace, and more open and genuine in our interactions with others. He brings it all together by speaking about how just simply being aware of how our minds are "going there" without being hard on ourselves can eventually lead to change as "in the moment awareness" while being fully engaged in life is a key benefit of ongoing mindfulness practice.
In this episode, Jeff takes a deeper look at working with various "habits of mind" and how mindfulness practice can help. He shares some stories from his life to illustrate how these various habits of mind can cause a considerable amount of unnecessary suffering for ourselves and for others around us unless we practice being more aware of how we are reacting internally to what we are feeling and we believe about what is happening to us in any given moment.. He brings it all together by explaining how sustained mindfulness practice can sharpen our awareness of what is going on in our minds and can "shine a light" on these "habits of mind" that we may have been unaware of previously so that we can begin to openly question them and loosen our grip on them..
Jeff talks about how mindfulness practice has changed his perspective on the importance of connecting with others in a more genuine way despite dealing with chronic depression and being naturally introverted and inclined to isolating himself sometimes. He shares stories about how his practice has enabled him to more deeply understand what goes on in his mind when he is in the company of others and why he aims for a life of balance between meaningful and enriching time spent with others and time spent in solitude. He reflects on how he has found profound healing in learning how to be with others in a way that allows him to be more "present in the moment" with them.
Jeff reflects about a very powerful example of effective coping that he experienced recently. He explains how what he witnessed taught him that sometimes, when things are extraordinarily difficult, we have to resort to stronger ways of coping and how it takes practice in order to "weather the storm" without self-destructing emotionally. He revisits how mindfulness practice can prepare us to more effectively deal with challenging situations and how being more aware of what is happening in our minds and our habitual reactions to what is going on around us and how it helps us to be able to have the energy and strength to cope in a different way when that is what's needed in order to keep living life. He wraps it up by explaining that the most effective thing we can do in any given situation is to cope and how we see so many examples in nature of this type of behavior.
Jeff talks about how sometimes we feel empty, dissatisfied, or anxious about how things are in some moments and how we can fear times when it seems like "this is all that there is" and what will happen next and what if things never change and we find ourselves stuck there. He discusses how one of the greatest realizations along the spiritual journey was that life has a way of being what one of his teachers call "extraordinarily ordinary." He explores how our society is quite overstimulated and how it can make it difficult to sit with the "ordinariness" of our life experiences when we find ourselves "wanting something more" and/or "wanting something different." It can become a habit to live a life of constant dissatisfaction and consistently searching for the next "dopamine hit," and it takes practice to more deeply immerse ourselves in the richness of what is, right here, right now. Ultimately, we can find a deeply meaningful life when we stop the search and as we learn to be more at home where we find ourselves and not craving or needing anything else or anything different.
Jeff talks about what is referred to as experiencing the "meditative witness and how it is beyond what is theoretical and how it is something that cannot be understood intellectually but can only be experienced. He shares about experiencing this "meditative witness" during a difficult period in his life and what he has learned from it and how it has changed his life and practice. He goes on to explain how this is something that happens on its own and how it is futile to see this as a goal to achieve or as "something to do." The only thing that we really can do is to continue to practice and to be open to this happening if and when it's supposed to.
Jeff talks about the importance of not getting caught up and mired in just the fine details of what we are struggling with or what is causing us pain as it is also very important to pause and take a look at the "bigger picture" of our lives, where we are, and where we are headed. He explains why it is so easy for us to lose touch with the "here and now" and remain "inside our own heads" as it is so natural for us to do so when we are suffering because we are human and prone to paying the most attention to what is right in front of us and what is capturing our attention the most at any given time. He elaborates on the importance of widening out the lens that we see our lives with and taking some time to remember that we are really part of something much larger and how that can help us keep our perspective when times are tough.
Jeff talks about one of the most difficult "emotional hooks," which is the role of the victim. He explains how all of the "emotional hooks" all work the same in that they entice us into taking on a role or an identity that is not really who we are. He then talks further about the various lenses that we can choose to look at our lives through that actually cause us to see things how we think that they are instead of how they really are. What is amazing about this unconscious and sometimes conscious behavior is that we can sometimes choose to go on "hunting expeditions" and to look for trouble that really isn't there by convincing ourselves that someone is saying something or doing something that is hurtful or disrespectful to us. Jeff reminds us that this is what our mindfulness practice is all about.....we must practice daily to cultivate the awareness that is necessary to "catch ourselves in the act of" behaving this way so that we can wake up from the trance, come back to the present moment, and let go of how we are deluding ourselves about what we think is happening in order to stop the suffering of others and ourselves. In the end, we actually find out who we really are when we stop telling ourselves who we are and what we think is happening to us.
Jeff talks about the different types of feelings that can cause us distress, fear, and anxiety and how instead of trying to analyze what caused them and instead of trying to avoid them, it is much more beneficial to let ourselves just feel these feelings and then release them. He acknowledges that there are many effective ways to heal from this, but it's up to each person to figure out what works best for them as everyone is different. He makes the point that if there is any "endgame" at all in the spiritual and mindful life, it is about utilizing mindfulness practice to be able to more effectively open ourselves up to be more vulnerable to these feelings and to further develop our ability to cope with them on a moment-to-moment basis. We are reminded that when we consistently practice mindfulness, we can rest assured that we have the tools available to more effectively "sit with" and deal with feelings that disquieten and unsettle us.
Jeff talks about going through a recent loss and about realizing that he was causing additional suffering for himself by harboring hopes and expectations for how things would go even after he had already accepted that loss was imminent. He elaborates on how it is so human for us to continue to cling to hopes and expectations for things to "go our way" when they clearly already aren't and how we can bring on more suffering for ourselves by resisting, denying, and fighting "what is" when things are tough. He speaks of a sort of "silent bargaining" going on in his head when he was in the midst of the struggle and how we suffer so much more when we cling to our own visions of what we think is best and our hopes for finding a shortcut around the inevitable pain of loss, disappointment, disillusionment, and confusion instead of just flowing with what is, fully embracing it, and mindfully coping, even if it is painful and not what we want for ourselves or for others.
Jeff talks about how we have a choice in the way that we interpret our own suffering and the suffering of others and about how we can learn to stand outside our own thoughts and feelings about what is happening. This "different perspective" of the pain and difficulties that befall us can actually open up new doors for us to more deeply experience what is truly happening in each moment and can help us to "wake up from the trance" of what we are believing when we are hurting in different ways. He shares how some of the Buddhist masters pointed to different ways in which we can "lighten our grip" on clinging to our own narratives and stories about why we are suffering and how that can free us from the "cycle of constant suffering" and to begin to more deeply embrace our human-ness and the sometimes difficult, unsatisfactory, and transient nature of life.
Jeff talks about how mindfulness meditation doesn't just happen "on the cushion" in a formal practice....it can happen anytime that we are living life and dealing with our everyday challenges. He talks about how the whole idea of mindfulness practice is to allow us to be more aware of when we get caught up in reactions and in taking our thoughts and feelings too seriously and to return to the here and now once we gain awareness that we are doing so. We are presented with all kinds of unique and interesting opportunities to "wake up" and to lovingly and gently "catch ourselves in the act" of all kinds of mind states throughout each and every day, and there is no need to wait to practice until we are sitting quietly.
Jeff explores where the work really is in our practice and why he continues to engage in it daily.....it's not something that can be worked on for awhile and that can be internalized without the need to do the work daily. It's about continuing to practice letting go of the need to believe everything that we are thinking and feeling about the present, past, and future as there are ongoing challenges that can occur and that can “trip us up” every day. He talks more in-depth about how mindfulness practice can help us to stand outside of ourselves when we take our feelings seriously, to catch ourselves in the act of believing what we are thinking or feeling, and to begin to learn to more effectively question these things. He introduces the starting point of inquiry practice, which is the question, "is this really true.....is what I am thinking or feeling really true?' He speaks about how one of his teachers used the phrase, "all is well' and how it helped him to "wake up" when he got lost in the trance of fear and other negative emotions. Hearing and repeating this phrase helps him more deeply understand that much of the suffering that we are subjected to actually originates within our own minds and how easily it is to be distracted by our own self-inflicted pain to the point that we actually can't see that all is really well at all.
Jeff presents an analogy to help explain what mindfulness actually looks like in the moment as we are dealing with life internally and/or externally. He presents a powerful visual representation of what it looks like when you imagine two screens with different "programming" The first screen shows what is going on inside your mind in response to external and internal stimuli (Screen A), which does not always reflect a true representation of what is going on as it can be distorted by what we are thinking, what we are feeling, how we might be responding unconsciously due to past events, and how we are reacting to what we think is happening. The other screen is like a "closed circuit camera" that just shows exactly what is happening in each moment and reflects what we can actually see when we aren't caught in the trance of our own thinking, our conscious and unconscious emotions, and our reactions to what is taking place.(Screen B) It can be really helpful to utilize this analogy when thinking about the benefits of mindfulness practice as you more deeply appreciate the difference between what you see on Screen A and on Screen B while "in the moment" in real life. By practicing and internalizing this lesson, you can learn to "catch yourself in the act" of focusing on Screen A and then consciously choosing to shift your attention to Screen B while not judging yourself and while being kind and gentle to yourself as we are all human and prone to forgetting which screen it is most healthy for us to focus on.
Jeff speaks about the importance of utilizing the techniques of mindfulness practice when finding oneself in a stressful situation. He reviews some of the ways in which we can "catch ourselves in the act" of losing touch with what is really going on and how we can "mindfully back out of the trance" of believing any unpleasant emotions.