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Speakers from 2001 Altered States Conference
The 2001 conference was a wonderful success, especially being the first conference of this series, with over 400 participants representing countries all over the globe. We wish to thank everyone, especially the presenters without whom this conference could never have happened.
Click here to see the list of organizations who sponsored the 2001 conference.
Speakers from 2002 Altered States Conference
The 2002 conference was another success, the last conference of this series, with over 340 participants representing countries all over the globe. We wish to again thank everyone, especially the presenters without whom these conferences could never have happened.
Click here to see the list of organizations who sponsored the 2002 conference.
Speakers from
2004 Enlightenment Conference
This
conference was a great success, with
over 350 participants representing countries all over the globe.
We wish to again thank everyone, especially the presenters without
whom these conferences could never have happened.
Click
here
to see the list of organizations who sponsored this conference
Speakers from
2005 Enlightenment Conference
This
conference was a great success, with
over 500 participants representing countries all over the globe.
We wish to again thank everyone, especially the presenters without
whom these conferences could never have happened.
Click
here
to see the list of organizations who sponsored this conference
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Presenters and Presentations from the 2001 Conference:
Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist, President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, author, The Revelation, Conscious Evolution and others
In 2001:
Keynote: Gateway to Our Conscious Evolution
Workshop: Going Through the Gateway: Key Steps in Our Emergence as Universal Humans
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Charles Tart, PhD, editor, Scientists' Transcendent Experiences, author, Altered States of Consciousness, Waking Up, Living the Mindful Life and 10 other books
In 2001:
Workshop: A Taste of Mindfulness in Real Life
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Victor Sanchez, anti-anthropologist from Mexico, author, The Teachings of Don Carlos and The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul
In 2001:
Keynote: The Transformative Power of the Other Side of Consciousness
Workshop: The Secret of the Feathered Serpent
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Margot Anand, author, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality, Sexual Magic Meditations and many other books
In 2001:
Keynote: From Orgasm to Ecstasy: Love is the Gateway to Altered States of Consciousness
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Huston Smith, PhD, author, The World’s Religions, Cleansing the Doors of Perception, The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals, Forgotten Truth: The Primordial Tradition, One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church; and many other books
In 2001:
Workshop: Can Entheogenic Mystical Experiences Be Accepted as True?
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Stanley Krippner, PhD, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, Saybrook Institute, author, Spiritual Dimensions of Healing: From Tribal Shamanism to Contemporary Health Care, Human Possibilities, Realms of Healing, The Mythic Path and 17 other books, former Director, Dream Laboratory at Maimonides Medical Center
In 2001:
Workshop 1: Spiritual Dimensions of the Ayahuasca Experience
Workshop 2: Shamanism, Dreams and Drugs
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Dmitri Spivak, PhD Psycholinguistics, PhD Psychology, PhD Economics, senior researcher, Russian Academy of Science Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Department of Science and Theology, author, Altered States of Mass Consciousness, Linguistics of Altered States of Consciousness, Language under Altered States of Consciousness and others
In 2001:
Workshop: Gender-Specific Altered States of Consciousness
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Laura Huxley, PhD, author, This Timeless Moment, describing life with her husband, Aldous Huxley, Fellow, International Academy of Medical Preventics, founder, Children: Our Ultimate Investment
In 2001:
Workshop: One Example of Visionary Common Sense
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Steven Halpern, PhD Music Psychology, composer, recording artist, author, Sound Health, Sound Matters and Sound, Stress and Inner Peace
In 2001:
Workshop: Psycho-Active Sounds: A Multi-Cultural Approach to Altered States of Consciousness
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Kay Cordell Whitaker, PhD, author, The Reluctant Shaman and Sacred Link
In 2001:
Workshop: The Humpty Dumpty Trajectory: Cracking Open Consciousness
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Adnan Sarhan, Sufi Master in Naqshabandi, Qadiri, Rafai and Melevi Orders, founder, Sufi Foundation of America, master drummer, Whirling Dervish, dancer, author, Dance Your Way to Spirit
In 2001:
Workshop: Sufi Methods to Alter Consciousness and Put You in the Moment
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Metta Zetty, editor, Awakening Into Awareness: Reflections on Reality and the Experience of Realization
In 2001:
Workshop: The Miracle of Ordinary Awareness
Workshop: Directly Discover Your Natural State
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Arthur Deikman, author, MD, author, The Observing Self: Mysticism and Psychotherapy, and The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior and Personal Freedom
In 2001:
Workshop: Service as an Altered State
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Onye Onyemaechi, MBA, Nigerian master drummer and dance performer, Director of Igbote Center for the Performing and Healing Arts
In 2001:
Workshop: Awakening to the Soul: Spiritual Practices of the Ancient Ministry
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: The Healing Rhythm Experience
Workshop: Spiritual Communications
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Belinda Gore, PhD, author, Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook, Vice President, Cuyamungue Institute
In 2001
Workshop: Ecstatic Body Postures: A Doorway to Non-Ordinary Reality
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Tina de Souza, Ialorixa Brazilian Priestess of Umbanda, clinical psychotherapist, trance medium, healer
In 2001
Workshop: Trance and Altered States of Consciousness
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Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow), Picuris Pueblo master storyteller, author, Being and Vibration, Tracks of Dancing Light, Ceremonies of the Living Spirit and others
In 2001
Workshop: Being and Vibration
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Bruce Eisner, author, Ecstasy: The MDMA Story, Founder, Mindware Catalog, editor, Island Views, Founder, The Mind Media Life-Enhancement Network
In 2001
Workshop 1: Workshop: MDMA and Human Nature
Workshop 2: The History and Future of LSD
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Luis Eduardo Luna, PhD Anthropology, author, Ayahuasca Visions and Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Amazon
In 2001
Workshop: The Ayahuasca Experience in a Controlled, Non-Shamanic, Non-Religious Setting
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Sabrina Mesko, DH, author, Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands, creator, Mudras: Gestures of Power video
In 2001
Workshop: Healing Mudras: Ancient Healing Hand Gestures
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ShantiMayi, founder, Terre de Sacha Ashram France, founder, Ganesh Foundation, Mahayana Chan (nondual Buddhism) teacher
In 2001
Workshop: Impermanance, Emptiness and Possibility
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Marc Ian Barasch, author, The Healing Path, Remarkable Recovery, Healing Dreams, editor, Natural Health, editor, Psychology Today, producer, The Roswell Incident, Dreamers, Disturbance and Future Visions, composer, musician
In 2001
Workshop: Healing Dreams: A Window into Nonlocal Mind
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Hanniah Morgan, Certified Reiki master, breath work teacher
In 2001
Workshop: Breathecstasy: Using Breath and Music to Achieve an Altered State of Consciousness
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Matthew Cross, producer, An Introduction to Resonance Therapy
In 2001
Workshop: The Resonance Effect: Spiritual Technology for Individual, Ecosystem and Planetary Restoration
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Dan Moonhawk Alford, PhD, professor of linguistics, California Institute of Integral Studies, originator of "Quantum Linguistics," convener of The Language of Spirituality dialogues originated by the late David Bohm and Leroy Little Bear
In 2001
Workshop: Alternative States of Language and Consciousness
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Maboud & Tara Andrea Swierkosz, Mentor Teachers Guild, Dances of Universal Peace
In 2001:
Special Evening Event; The Dances of Universal Peace
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Eric Kaufman, certified hypnotherapist, mindfulness and meditation teacher
In 2001:
Morning Activities: Guided Morning Meditation
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Ed Katzenburger, minister, Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator
In 2001:
Special Evening Event: Labyrinth; Replica of Chartres Cathedral Labyrinth
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Valerie Gremillion, PhD, neuroscientist, researcher, neurochemistry of attention and consciousness
In 2001
Workshop: Entheogens, Altered States and Evolution of Human Consciousness
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Ken Eagle Feather, author, A Toltec Path, Traveling with Power and Tracking Freedom
In 2001
Workshop: An Energy-Body Approach to Altered States
Workshop: Experiencing an Altered State
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Jacotte Chollet, founder, Institute for Development and Expansion of Consciousness (France), researcher, multidimensional music and its effects on consciousness
In 2001
Workshop: Experiential Journey into Altered States of Consciousness Induced by Resonance with Multidimensional Music
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Prasad, Satsang teacher
In 2001
Workshop: Come Out of the Closet as God
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Cork Kallen, JD, Certified Master Firewalk Instructor, former personal injury attorney
In 2001
Special Evening Event: The Firewalk Experience
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Irene Lamberti, DC, producer and host, Aerobic Prayer PBS television series, producer, Dances of the Soul documentary, author, Spirit in Action
In 2001
Workshop: Can Entheogenic Mystical Experiences Be Accepted as True? |
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Skip Atwater, Research Director, The Monroe Institute, former Operations and Training Officer, U.S. Military Remote Viewing Program
In 2001
Workshop: Using Induced Focused States for Exploring Spiritual Domains
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David Cumes, MD, Sangoma Zulu medicine man, author, The Spirit of Healing: Venture into the Wilderness to Rediscover the Healing Force, founder, Inward Bound Healing Journeys travel company
In 2001
Workshop: Peak and Transcendent Experiences in Nature and How to Facilitate Them
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Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondananda), comedian, author, Driving Your Own Karma and When You See A Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth
In 2001
Workshop: Humor as an Altered State
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Arjuna Nick Ardagh, founder, Living Essence Foundation, author, Relaxing into Clear Seeing and How About Now?
In 2001
Workshop 1: Cocreative Spirituality
Workshop 2: The End of Seeking
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Deborah Davis, LAc, licensed acupuncturist, clinical hypnotherapist, massage therapist, herbalist, ethnobotanist, medical intuitive, qigong instructor, video producer, The Spirit of Qi Gong, editor, Healing Retreats and Spas magazine
In 2001:
Morning Activities: Qi Gong
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Russell Targ, former senior research physicist, Stanford Research Institute, coauthor, Mind Race, Mind-Reach, The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World and Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing
In 2001
Workshop: Remote Viewing, Spiritual Healing and Expanded Awareness
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Toni Bergins, cofounder, DramaWorks Interactive Business Theater, Kripalu DansKinetics instructor
In 2001
Workshop: Awakening Energy Through Movement, Awakening Heart Through Song
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Presenters and Presentations from the 2002 Conference:
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Hank Wesselman, PhD, research paleoanthropologist, author, Visionseeker, Spiritwalker and Medicinemaker
Keynote: The Master Game: Awakening The Evolutionary Sleepers
In 2002:
Workshop: The Sacred Garden
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Brooke Medicine Eagle, ceremonial leader, songwriter, descendent of Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, ecologist, author, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing, Dancing Awake the Drum, The Last Ghost Dance and others
In 2002:
Workshop: Lodge of the Dreamers
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Isaac Shapiro, author, It Happens By Itself and Outbreak of Peace, satsang facilitator in Australia, South Africa, Europe and U.S
In 2002:.
Workshop: Truth In Your Own Experience
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Victor Sanchez, anti-anthropologist from Mexico, author, The Teachings of Don Carlos, Toltecs of the New Millennium and The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your Soul
In 2002:
Keynote: Kinam: Balancing Duality: New Pathways for Enhancing Awareness
Workshop: Kinam: Balancing Duality: Experience New Pathways for Enhancing Awareness
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John Mack, MD, founder, Center for Psychology and Social Change, author, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, Passport to the Cosmos and others, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
In 2002:
Keynote: Anomalous Experience and the Transformation of Consciousness
Workshop: Anomalous Experience and Self Transformation
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John Hagelin, PhD, Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, Natural Law Party candidate for President of the United States of America
In 2002:
Keynote: The Neurophysiology of Consciousness: Scientific Discovery of Higher States of Consciousness
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Warren Grossman, PhD Psychology, healer, author, To Be Healed By The Earth
In 2002:
Workshop: Love: The Ultimate Alteration of Consciousness
Workshop: The Earth to Heart Connection: Life from Head to Toe
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Gay Luce, PhD, founder, Nine Gates Mystery School
In 2002:
Workshop: Shifting Personal Presence and Consciousness: Using the Magic of a Coherent Energy Field (with Ilona Ireland)
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Ken Eagle Feather, author, A Toltec Path, Traveling with Power and Tracking Freedom
In 2002:
Workshop: Bioenergy, Healing and Enlightenment
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Buryl Payne, PhD, author, Getting There Without Drugs: Theories and Techniques for Altering Consciousness, Love and Sex without Conflict, The Body Magnetic, Magnetic Healing and others, inventor, founder, Psycho Physics Lab
In 2002:
Workshop: Brain Hemispheric Synchronization: A Step Toward Telepathic Training
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Ralph Metzner, PhD Psychology, author, The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
In 2002:
Workshop: Shamanic Divination and Visionary Experience
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Linda Jean Shepherd, PhD Biochemistry, author, Lifting the Veil, The Feminine Face of Science
In 2002:
Workshop: Paying Attention: Cultivating The Skill of Observation
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Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD Parapsychology, President, Intuition Network, host, PBS series Thinking Allowed, author, The PK Man, The Roots of Consciousness: Exploration Through History, Science and Experience
In 2002:
Workshop: Mind Over Matter: Psychokinetic Weather Control
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Helen Stewart, PhD, President, University of Metaphysical Studies, ESP researcher
In 2002:
Workshop: A Typology of Altered States: From Trauma to Ecstatic Experience (with Don Wismer)
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Richard Kimball, PhD Cross-Cultural Psychology, Shaman in Zimbabwe Shona Ng’ganga tradition, Director, Hsi Lai Buddhist Psychology and Counseling Research Center, Shamanism researcher in China, Peru, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, India and Zimbabwe
In 2002:
Workshop: Southern African Shamanism for the 21st Century: What We Can Learn from Our True Heart
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Ilona Ireland, Director, Nine Gates Mystery School
In 2002:
Workshop: Shifting Personal Presence and Consciousness: Using the Magic of a Coherent Energy Field (with Gay Luce)
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Peter Gorman, ethnopharmacology researcher, botanical specimen collector with the Matses, Irula, Ticuna, Jibaro, Lancandon, Shipibo, Auchino, Bora, Yagua and other tribal cultures, playwright, editor-in-chief, High Times Magazine, writer and adventurer
In 2002:
Workshop: The Unexpected Healing Power of Ayahuasca
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Joyce Hawkes, PhD Biophysics, author, The Nature of Healing, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
In 2002:
Workshop: Bali and Beyond: Navigating Trance States for Healing
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Jonathan Robinson, author, Shortcuts to Bliss, The Little Book of Big Questions, Real Wealth and many other books
In 2002:
Workshop: Shortcuts to Bliss: How to Induce Profound Altered States in Under Twenty Minutes
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Deborah Milton, PhD, certified instructor, Ecstatic Body Postures, multimedia artist
In 2002:
Workshop: Experiencing the Tree of Life Cosmology Through Ecstatic Body Postures (with Carol-Lynne Toleno)
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Arjuna Ardagh, founder, Living Essence Foundation, author, Relaxing into Clear Seeing and How About Now?
In 2002:
Workshop: Radical Awakening in the Snap of a Finger
Workshop: Practical Tools for Living in the Finger Snap
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Karin Thron, MD, Women’s Health Services, alternative healing modalities and spiritual aspects of healing
In 2002:
Special Sessions: The Joy of Creativity (with Gale Litvak)
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Don Wismer, Chairman, University of Metaphysical Studies, former Pastor, pioneer in treatment of Dissociative Disorders
In 2002:
Workshop: A Typology of Altered States: From Trauma to Ecstatic Experience (with Helen Stewart)
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Kristin Madden, author, Shamanic Guide to Death and Dying, The Book of Shamanic Healing and others, Director, Ardantane School of Shamanic Arts, tutor, Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, former raptor biologist and environmental chemist, certified hypnotist, deathwalker
In 2002:
Workshop: Spirit Guidance Through Shamanic Journey
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Cork Kallen, JD, Certified Master Firewalk Instructor, former personal injury attorney
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: The FireWalk Experience
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Wilbert Alix, TranceDance instructor
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: TranceDance: Entering Our Body/Mind Consciousness
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Carol-Lynne Toleno, DC, instructor, Ecstatic Trance
In 2002:
Workshop: Experiencing the Tree of Life Cosmology Through Ecstatic Body Postures (with Deborah Milton)
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Montserrat Auso, founder, El Sol Institute, leads intensive leadership and transformational workshops around the world
In 2002:
Workshop: Energy and Brain Symmetry
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Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondananda) comedian, author, Driving Your Own Karma and When You See A Sacred Cow, Milk It For All It’s Worth
In 2002:
Workshop: Humor as an Altered State
Special Evening Event: Wake Up Laughing
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Deborah May, Tai Chi Chih and Seijaku instructor
In 2002:
Morning Session: Tai Chi
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Alorah Lavender, Kripalu Yoga instructor, massage therapist
In 2002:
Morning Session: Yoga: Inviting Body Awareness
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Gale Litvak, designer, weaver and creative arts teacher
In 2002:
Special Sessions: The Joy of Creativity (with Karin Thron)
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Tara Andrea Swierkosz, Dances of Universal Peace instructor
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace
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Maboud Swierkosz, Dances of Universal Peace instructor
In 2002:
Special Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace
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2005
Presenters
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Margot
Anand
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Margot
Anand, full
bio
Author, The
Art of Sexual Ecstasy, The Path of Sacred Sexuality,
Sexual Magic Meditations
and many other books.
Keynote: The Yin and Yang of Sexual Energy
Workshop: The Sacred Union of Yin and Yang
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Barry
& Joyce Vissell
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Barry
Vissell MD & Joyce Vissell,
RN, full
bio
Author,
The Shared Heart, Models of Love,
Risk To Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom
and Meant To Be
Founders, Shared Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing
consciousness to all relationships
Keynote: The Shared Heart
Workshop: Sexuality, Relationship and Spirituality
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Richard
Moss |
Richard
Moss, MD,
full
bio
Spiritual teacher and visionary thinker inspiring changes of consciousness.
Author, The I That is We, How Shall I Live,
The Second Miracle and others.
Keynote: Presence Is The Turn-On
Workshop: Where Do We Go When We Are Not Here? The Distance
from the Other Is the Distance from Ourselves |
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Isaac
Shapiro
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Isaac
Shapiro, full
bio Author,
It Happens By Itself and Outbreak of Peace,
satsang facilitator
Workshop: Embodying Truth
Workshop: Knowing Yourself
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Peter
Levine |
Peter
Levine, PhD, full
bio Author,
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, and Sexual Healing:
Transforming the Sacred Wound
Founder, Foundation for Human Enrichment Keynote:
Sexual Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound Workshop:
Body-Centered Awareness in Healing of Sexual Trauma |
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Wilbert
Alix
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Wilbert
Alix, full
bio
Contemporary
healer, teacher of progressive psychology,
neo-shamanic studies. Prominent in the emerging science
of Body-Centered Psychology. Master Trance Dance facilitator.
Evening Event: TranceDance Ritual Workshop:
Rite of Passage - The 12 Mystical Stages of our Spiritual and Physical
Evolution
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Sandra
Ingerman |
Sandra
Ingerman. full
bio
Author, Soul Retrieval, Welcome Home, A
Fall to Grace, Shamanic Journeying, and Medicine
for the Earth
Workshop: Experiencing The Shamanic Journey
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Lewis
Mehl-Madrona |
Lewis
Mehl-Madrona MD,
PhD, full
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