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Elaine Pagels, Ph.D. is an acclaimed scholar, lecturer, professor of religion at Princeton University in New Jersey; and author of The Gnostic Gospels (Vintage, 1989) and the Pulitzer-nominated Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Random House, 2003)....
Helen Palmer was introduced to the Enneagram by Claudio Naranjo in the late 1960s. Since that time she has become pre-eminent in the field of Enneagram studies. A teacher of psychology, she has made original contributions to our understanding of how meditation and awareness training relate to the...
Parker J. Palmer is founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage and Renewal (CourageRenewal.org). Author of seven books—including A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, and The Courage to Teach—he holds a PhD in sociology from...
Laurel Parnell, Ph.D is one of the world's leading experts on EMDR. A clinical psychologist, she has trained thousands in EMDR in her international workshops. Dr. Parnell is the author of Transforming Trauma: EMDR, EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children, and A Therapist's...
Pathaan is one of the very few UK-based DJs to have truly crossed the dance/world divide. Pathaan's history is steeped in dance culture-a stance that is reflected in his popular left-field reviews for DJ magazine, and his numerous appearances in London, Ibiza, Italy, Madrid, Barcelona, Brazil,...
Shri Anandi Ma is the spiritual heir of the great Indian saint known as Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandasji, a master of kundalini yoga. When she was a young girl, Shri Anandi Ma experienced very deep states of meditation. Finally, while worshipping the Divine Mother, Shri Anandi Ma...
John Perkins has lived and worked with shamans throughout the world since 1968, was awarded the title Yachak (Elder Shapeshifter) by the Circle of Quechua Yachaks and the mission to help transform industrial cultures, has taught at universities on four continents and, along with the shamans,...
Candace Pert, Ph.D. is a research professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pert is best known for her discovery of opiate receptors in the brain. She was a featured expert in the highly acclaimed Bill Moyers PBS...
Michael Phillips is a management consultant who, as a vice president of the Bank of California, was a key developer of MasterCard. His book The Seven Laws of Money has been a bestseller for more than 25 years. Michael Phillips' more recent books include Honest Business and Simple...
Chantal Pierrat has received the NIA White Belt certification, and teaches Soul Sweat at the Alchemy of Movement Studio and RallySport Health and Fitness in Boulder, Colorado. Her classes reflect her extensive background and education in ballet, jazz, modern dance, and yoga, as well as her innate...
Daniel Pinchbeck is an author and journalist whose feature articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone,and Esquire, among others. His first book,Breaking Open the Head, was heralded as the most significant work on psychedelic experimentation...
Deva Premal has released 14 albums with her partner, Miten. She is a classically trained singer and musician known around the globe for her serene, sacred chants. Raised in a German home permeated with Eastern spirituality, Deva Premal was chanting the Gayatri Mantra by age...
Born in Sicily of opera singer parents, musical virtuoso Priyo has spent his whole life exploring the traditions and frontiers of music.Founder of the bands Gypsy Moon and One at Last, he has been regularly packing the floors of dance clubs in Hawaii, Australia, and all across the West Coast.A...
William Lee Rand is one of the world's foremost Reiki practitioners and teachers. He is founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training, has 25 years experience practicing Reiki, is publisher and editor of the Reiki News Magazine, is author of Reiki: The Healing...
Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D. is the Louis and Johanna Vorzimer Professor of Marketing at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. He also serves as an adjunct professor at London Business School and a visiting professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of...
Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D. brings us four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan tradition as well as a special gift for applying it to the unique problems, inspirations, and spiritual imperatives of modern people. He teaches within the dharma and...
Layne Redmond is an acclaimed drummer, composer, author, mythologist, and a lifelong student of yoga.Redmond teaches workshops and performs internationally, specializing in the small, hand-held frame drums played primarily in the ancient Mediterranean world. She is the author of When the...
Lou Reed is a singer, songwriter, poet, and photographer who remains one of the most influential figures in rock music, noted for his many groundbreaking albums with The Velvet Underground and as a solo artist. A Grammy® winner and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Lou Reed...
Dr.Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the earliest pioneers of mind/body health. She is Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and Director of the UCSF course, The Healer's Art. She is Co-founder and Medical Director of the Commonwealth Cancer Help...
Gary Renard is the best-selling author of The Disappearance of the Universe. He serves on the faculty of Omega Institute, and his workshops on A Course in Miracles are conducted around the world to sold-out audiences....
Elyse Resch is a Fellow of the American Dietetic Association and a certified child and adolescent obesity expert. Her private practice focuses oneating disorders and intuitive eating....
Adam Rhine began his artistic life as a doodler. Choosing to become an artist at age eleven, he soon mastered the covert art of doodling in school, a practice that he has perfected as an adult. All of his Judaica works began as tiny ballpoint sketches, usually on Post-its™,...
Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and has authored several books, including The Monk and the Philosopher and The Quantum and the Lotus. He is a major participant in the research collaboration between cognitive scientists and Buddhist practitioners, spearheaded by the Dalai Lama and...
Cheryl Richardson is an author, professional speaker, and former tax advisor. She is the cocreator of the Body and Soul conferences sponsored by New Age magazine, and the former vice-chairman of Interface, an international holistic education center. Her first book is Take Time for Your...
Stan Richardson has studied the Japanese flute for over twenty years and travels extensively as a practitioner and teacher of the shakuhachi flute as meditation. He has recorded with the Turtle Creek Chorale and tours regularly around the United States. He has also performed throughout Japan with...
Sogyal Rinpoche was born in Tibet, and trained by several revered masters of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. Beginning in 1971 he studied Comparative Religion at Cambridge University in England. Since 1974 he has devoted himself to bringing the blessings of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Sogyal...
Vicki Robin is co-author of the national bestseller Your Money or Your Life with the late Joe Dominguez. Called the prophet of “consumption downsizers” by the New York Times, Vicki has lectured worldwide and appeared in various print and broadcast media...
Diana Rogers is a compelling kirtan singer who takes you on a musical journey with her evocative chanting. She has been singing all her life: Gregorian chants, early Renaissance music, opera, and Indian devotional singing, and has studied vocal music with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Pran...
Marshall Rosenberg has initiated peace programs in war torn areas including Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Serbia, Croatia, and Ireland. A clinical psychologist, he is the founder and director of educational services for the Center...
Martin L. Rossman, M.D. is a physician and acupuncturist who has practiced holistic medicine for over 30 years. He is cofounder of the Academy for Guided Imagery and the author of the award-winning Guided Imagery for Self-Healing and Fighting Cancer from Within....
Gabrielle Roth is a best-selling author, movement innovator, and music/theatre director. Her workshops and retreats join the currents of world music and theater with the ancient pulse of shamanism. The work of Gabrielle Roth has been featured in Yoga Journal, Self, Science of Mind, Shape, Elle,...
Geneen Roth is best known for her many books, including When Food Is Love; Feeding the Hungry Heart; Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating; Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating;and Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment.She founded the...
Peter Russell earned his master's degree in computer science form Cambridge University, and trained as a meditation teacher in India under the guidance of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He is the author of nine books including The Global Brain, From Science to God, and...
Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP, a catholic priest and certified Kripalu yoga teacher, coordinates ecumenical and inter-religious relations for the paulist community in the U.S. and Canada. His nine books include Reclaiming the Body in Christian Spirituality; The Sacred Art of Fasting; Four...
Sharon Salzberg, a student of Buddhism since 1971, has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Influenced by her more than twenty-five years of study with Burmese, Indian, and Tibetan teachers, she teaches intensive awareness practice (vipassana or...
Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira are living proof of the power of A Course in Miracles to completely transform our lives. A teaching couple and the authors of Take Me to Truth, Nouk and Tomas specialize in translating the wisdom of the Course into a practical...
Daniela Schenker has been a student of Asian traditions for more than twenty years, and has traveled extensively throughout the world to trace the history and modern worship of Kuan Yin. She works as an astrologer, Feng Shui consultant, and holistic lifestyle advisor....
David Schnarch, Ph.D. directs the Marriage and Family Health Center of Evergreen, Colorado. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, a certified sex therapist, and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Schnarch is the author of Passionate Marriage,...
Meir Schneider Ph.D, L.M.T. is an internationally known therapist and teacher, and the founder of the School for Self-Healing in San Francisco. Meir is the author of Self-Healing: My Life and Vision; the coauthor of the Handbook of Self-Healing, both international bestsellers, and...
Nicki Scully has been teaching the shamanic arts and Egyptian mysteries since 1983. She is author of five books, including Alchemical Healing, and co-author of The Anubis Oracle. She is a lineage holder in the Hermetic Tradition of Thoth, a priestess of...
Peter Senge, Ph.D. is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management; founding chairperson of the SoL (Society of Organizational Living), a global network of individuals and organizations working together for systemic change; the author of the widely acclaimed The...
Deb Shapiro has trained extensively in various schools of bodywork, Buddhist meditation, and Jungian psychology in both England and America. She has been teaching both bodymind therapy and meditation with her husband, Ed Shapiro, for the past 20 years. Their books include The Bodymind Workbook,...
C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, is president of Holos Institutes of Health, Inc., a non-profit organization devoted to research, education, and clinical services in holistic health. A neurosurgeon trained at Massachusetts General Hospital after medical school at Duke University, he...
Jason Shulman is one of the world's leading teachers of personal healing and spiritual awakening, a rare combination of a modern Kabbalist who has also received Buddhist Dharma transmission. He is the founder of A Society of Souls, a school based in New Jersey that is...
Bernie Siegel, M.D., is a physician, professor, and bestselling author. Since 1962, Dr. Siegel has served as a surgeon in private practice, and is also a clinical assistant professor of surgery at Yale University Medical School. His group therapy work with Exceptional Cancer Patients over the past...
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, currently serves as the director of the Mindsight Institute and co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Siegel is the author of The Mindful Brain and Parenting from the Inside...
Gary Small, M.D. is the director of the UCLA Memory and Aging Research Center. For his work in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease and brain aging, Scientific American magazine named him "one of the world's top 50 innovators in science and technology." His work has been featured in...
Through his landmark books and documentary films, Huston Smith has opened the eyes of the world to the invisible geometry that shapes human spirituality. Born in China over 80 years ago to missionary parents, Huston Smith served briefly as a pastor in the mid-west. Since the 1950s, he has held...
Sobonfu Somé is an author, teacher, and leading authority on African women's spirituality in the West who has traveled extensively throughout Europe and North America conducting workshops. Her books are The Spirit of Intimacy, Welcoming Spirit Home, and Falling Out of Grace:...
Lisa Spector is a graduate of The Juilliard School.She has won first prizes in prestigious national piano competitions, and performs concert tours internationally. A lifetime dog-lover involved in agility training and competition, she has served as a volunteer puppy raiser for Guide Dogs for the...
Tina L. Staley, LCSW, MSW, is director of Pathfinders at Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center. She cofounded the Pathfinder program in Aspen, Colorado, an organization dedicated to empowering cancer patients and their families to rediscover their inner strengths and take...
Mirabai Starr teaches philosophy and world religions at the University of New Mexico, and is the author of new translations of Dark Night of the Soul by John of the Cross and The Interior Castle and The Book of My Life by Teresa of Avila. She lives in Taos....
Brother David Steindl-Rast was born in Vienna, Austria and holds a PhD from the Psychological Institute at the University of Vienna. After 12 years of training in the 1500-year-old Benedictine monastic tradition, Brother David received permission to practice Zen with Buddhist...
As director of Music Therapy and Wellness Programs at Remo Drum Company and through her own company UpBeat Drum Circles, Christine has led music and wellness seminars internationally in places including Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, England, and the USA. For more about Christine, visit her...
Jeff Strong is the founder and director of REI Institute, whose pioneering rhythm-based therapy is used in thousands of homes, schools, and institutions worldwide. His work has been presented in two documentaries, several books, numerous scientific journals, and at dozens of...
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