Speakers

Alberto Villoldo

founder, The Four Winds Society, medical anthropologist, author, Shaman, Healer, Sage; Dance of the Four Winds and Island of the Sun

Pre-Conference All-Day Retreat: Introduction to Healing the Luminous Body

Keynote: Courageous Dreaming Workshop: The Shaman’s Way of Healing

Workshop: The Shaman's Way of Healing

Ohki Simine Forest

vision-holder and spiritual teacher of Canadian Mohawk descent, initiated by Mayan, Mongolian and Canadian shamans, teacher of a unified practice of ancient Native Medicine Wheel ways for over 25 years including guided meditations, journeys, drumming, breathing and movement practices

Keynote: 21st Century Shamanism: The Native Dream and Power of Earth

Workshop: STAR BUFFALO: Creating Shared Abundance for Our Times

David Cumes

author, The Spirit of Healing, Inner Passage and Africa in My Bones, born and raised in South Africa, exploring ancient African wisdom on healing, initiated as an African shaman (sangoma or inyanga) and their divining techniques, powerful rituals and plant medicines, researching altered states of consciousness induced by drumming and the diagnostic power of the "bones"

Workshop: Shaman and the Dream Time

Jorge Luis Delgado

trained by Kallawayas shamans in the lineage of the Amautas (the Wise Ones of the Andes), also trained with the Q’ero Elders, who are considered the last remaining descendents of the Incas, re-discoverer of Aramu Muru Doorway, an inter-dimensional portal near Lake Titicaca, founding member Brotherhood of the Solar Disc

Workshop: The Return to Joy

Sandra Ingerman

world-renowned teacher of shamanism, licensed therapist, author of Soul Retrieval; Welcome Home; A Fall to Grace; Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins; Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide, and How To Heal Toxic Thoughts

Workshop: Shamanism As A Way Of Life

Stanley Krippner

scholar in the field of parapsychology and consciousness studies, director, Center for Consciousness Studies, past president, Association for Humanistic Psychology, past president, Parapsychological Association, coauthor, Healing States; The Realms of Healing; Spiritual Dimensions of Healing: From Tribal Shamanism to Contemporary Health; Becoming Psychic: Spiritual Lessons for Focusing Your Hidden Abilities; Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them; The Mythic Path; Dreamworking: How to Use Your Dreams for Creative Problem-Solving; Future Science: Life Energies and the Physics of Paranormal Phenomena, editor, Dreamtime and Dreamwork: Decoding the Language of the Night and Dreamscaping: New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others

Workshop: The Inner Shaman of Dream Time

Kristin Madden

healer, deathwalker, author, The Book of Shamanic Healing, Shamanic Guide to Death and Dying, Magick, Mystery, and Medicine and other titles; Dean, Ardantane's School of Shamanic Studies, member Druid College of Healing, tutor, Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator, Certified Hypnotherapist

Workshop: Animal Allies: Magic, Mystery and Medicine

Medicine Story

(Manitonquat) Wampanoag elder, author, Ending Violent Crime, The Circle Way, The Children of the Morning Light and Return to Creation: A Survival Manual for Native and Natural People, ceremonial leader, editor, Heritage, Native liberation journal

Workshop: Forgotten Instructions: Healing the Human Situation on Earth

Tina de Souza

Tina de Souza

Brazilian Ialorixa Priestess of Umbanda, clinical psychotherapist, founder, Meta-Psychotherapy Process (integrates western psychotherapy with Afro-Brazilian energetic techniques) and Primary Unconscious Integrated System, trance medium, healer

Workshop: The Primary Unconscious Integrated System (P.U.I.S.) for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual balance

Evening Event: An Interactive Ceremonial Experience in the Tradition of Afro-Brazilian Umbanda: Gira

Ernesto Ortiz

Trance Dance facilitator, founder Journey To The Heart, began training at a very early age with Curanderos and Shamans in his native Mexico, creator of D.R.E.A.M Catcher (a structure used for healing that uses Sacred Geometry and Vibroacoustics), author, Mastering the Art of Relationship, Raw Emotions: Journey With the Beloved, and others

Workshop: Trance Dance and Tantric Shamanism

Evening Performance: Trance Dance: An Evening of Sacred Connection Through Primal Rhythms and Movement

Kahuna Harry Uhane Jim

healer, teacher, author, Wise Secrets of Aloha, from authentic Hawaiian lineage of traditional healers

Workshop: The Hawaiian Healing Mystery School and Lomi Lomi

Deborah Davis

author, Women’s Qigong for Health and Longevity, producer, instructional DVD, The Spirit of Qi Gong: Chinese Exercises for Longevity

Morning Classes Each Day: Qigong for Health and Longevity

Raven Hicks

Raven Hicks, fitness specialist, licensed athletic coach, taught martial arts for over twenty years, owner, Spirit Warriors Martial Arts Academy, creator, Fit Body/ Fit Mind

Morning Classes Each Day: Fit Body - Fit Mind

Philip H. Farber

author Meta-Magick, DVD producer, Magick for the 21st Century, Essential Meta-Magick and Meta-Magick Invocation, instructor, Maybe Logic Academy, Certified Hypnotist, licensed trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Workshop: Gods, Demons and Imaginary Friends (Whether You Believe in Them or Not)

Chalise Brooke Medicine Eagle

ceremonial leader, sacred ecologist, songwriter, author, Buffalo Woman Comes Singing and The Last Ghost Dance

Workshop: Making A Difference The Shaman’s Way

Speaker Name

Evening Event: Dances of Universal Peace

Barbara Tedlock

initiated shaman practicing within the ancient Mayan subtle energy system, Professor of Anthropology, granddaughter of Ojibwe woman shaman, author, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, editor of the Journal of Shamanic Practice.

Workshop: Mayan Dream Weavers of Time:  Solving the Mystery of 2012

Dennis Tedlock

daykeeper, Mayan system of divination, Research Professor of Anthropology, field researcher among the Zuni, Maya, Karaja and Mongols, author, Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller, Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya, Days From a Dream Almnac, Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice, Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and The Human Work, the Human Design: The First 2000 Years of Mayan Literature

Workshop: Mayan Dream Weavers of Time:  Solving the Mystery of 2012

Joe Miguez

artist, labyrinth builder, facilitator, teacher, change agent and author, nationally known as the Labyrinth Man

Evening Event: The Labyrinth Experience: A Walking Meditation