2012 Authors Return to top of page
Arjuna Ardagh José Argüelles, Ph.D. Gregg Braden Carl Johan Calleman, Ph.D. Gill Edwards Jean Houston, Ph.D. Barbara Marx Hubbard Janosh John Major Jenkins Lawrence E. Joseph John Lamb Las...
Rachel Carlton Abrams Return to top of page
Rachel Carlton Abrams, MD, is a family practice physician specializing in holistic medicine. A student of Mantak Chia for 20 years, she has co-authored three books on Taoist sexuality with her husband...
Patricia Aburdene Return to top of page
Patricia Aburdene is one of the world's leading social forecasters and co-author of four Megatrends books with John Naisbitt—including the New York Times bestseller Megatrends 2000. She is a highly...
Jeanne Achterberg Return to top of page
Jeanne Achterberg, PhD (1942–2012) Dr. Achterberg was a scientist who received international recognition for her pioneering research in medicine and psychology. A faculty member for 11 years at Sout...
Salima Adelstein Return to top of page
Maxine Salima Adelstein M.Ed., D.D., helps people to discover and embody the deep truth of their beauty and essence through her work as a healer and teacher. Ms. Adelstein is Dean of Education, chair...
Adyashanti Return to top of page
Adyashanti began teaching in 1996 after a series of transformative spiritual awakenings, at the request of his Zen teacher with whom he had been studying for 14 years. Adyashanti's teachings have been...
Stephen Aizenstat Return to top of page
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the chancellor and founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 ye...
Susan Albers Return to top of page
Susan Albers, PsyD, is a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic specializing in relationship and weight issues. She has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show and her work has been featured in O, the Oprah Magazin...
Mark Albion Return to top of page
Mark Albion is a social entrepreneur. He has cofounded six start-ups, including Net Impact (formerly called Students for Responsible Business), is the creator of the Making a Life Worldwide newsletter...
Eben Alexander Return to top of page
Eben Alexander III, MD, a renowned academic neurosurgeon, spent 55 years honing his scientific world view, until a rare illness left him in a coma. Seven days later, he awoke from a transcendental nea...
Jorge Alfano Return to top of page
A sought after musician, producer, and sound healer, Jorge has played with artists such as Astor Piazzolla, Mercedes Sosa, Richie Havens, Glen Velez, Paul Horn, Steven Halpern, and many others. An ord...
Lama Tsultrim Allione Return to top of page
Lama Tsultrim Allione is an author, an internationally known Buddhist teacher, and the founder of Tara Mandala, a mountain retreat center on 700 acres south of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Lama Tsultrim...
A.H. Almaas Return to top of page
A.H. Almaas is the pen name of A. Hameed Ali who has written more than 14 books including his most recent The Unfolding Now. In 1976, he founded the Ridhwan School, an organization with members in Nor...
Margot Anand Return to top of page
Margot Anand is a student of world mystical practices, particularly the role of sexuality in sacred traditions. Her bestselling book The Art of Sexual Ecstasy helped introduce Western readers to the s...
Shri Anandi Ma Return to top of page
Shri Anandi Ma is a meditation and yoga teacher with students and disciples in India, Europe, and North America. She is the spiritual heir of the legendary teacher Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandasji, who...
Ted Andrews Return to top of page
Ted Andrews (1952-2009) Ted Andrews was an internationally recognized author, teacher, mystic, and master storyteller in the shamanic tradition. He is the author of over 35 books, including the bests...
Jack Angelo Return to top of page
Jack Angelo has been a teacher, writer, and healer in the fields of energy medicine and natural spirituality since the mid-1980s. Since then he has developed Distant Healing—a comprehensive heali...
Nguyen Anh-Huong Return to top of page
Nguyen Anh-Huong is one of the first students ordained as a dharma teacher by Thich Nhat Hanh. She has taught Mindfulness Practices across the U.S. since 1988....
Arjuna Ardagh Return to top of page
Arjuna Ardagh is the founder of the Living Essence Foundation in Nevada City, California, a non-profit organization dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life. He...
Kimba Arem Return to top of page
Kimba Arem is an international recording artist whose eight CDs include Peace Journey and Creation's Overtone. Classically trained in piano and flute, she holds a BS in molecular and cellular biology,...
Jose Arguelles Return to top of page
José Argüelles 1939-2011 José Argüelles was an author, artist, and educator who founded Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time. As one of the originators of the Earth Day conce...
Father Carl Arico Return to top of page
Father Carl Arico is a founding member and the current vice president of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. Father Arico has practiced Centering Prayer since 1975 and taught the prayer since 1978. He is kno...
Karen Armstrong Return to top of page
Karen Armstrong is a freelance writer who lives in London. Her bestselling tell-all book Through the Narrow Gate details the seven years that she served as a Roman Catholic nun. Today she lectures on...
Angeles Arrien Return to top of page
Angeles Arrien is a teacher, author, and cultural anthropologist. She received her master's degree from the University of California – Berkeley, and her doctorate from the California Institute for I...
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Return to top of page
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki is director of The Servants of the Light School in England, and has taught thousands of students in the esoteric path. A third generation occultist, she is author of 17 books,...
Thomas Ashley-Farrand Return to top of page
Thomas Ashley-Farrand (1940 - 2010) Thomas Ashley-Farrand was one of the West’s foremost authorities of Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras. He was recognized for his flawless mastery of mantra pr...
Atlantic Arts Ensemble Return to top of page
The Atlantic Arts Ensemble is a group of musicians, music therapists, researchers, teachers and sound healers. They are led by Dr. Joseph Nagler, a musician and music therapist who has been featured o...
Nicolai Bachman Return to top of page
Nicolai Bachman has been teaching Sanskrit, ayurveda, chanting, and yoga-related topics for over ten years. He studied extensively at the American Sanskrit Institute, VagYoga Institute in India, the A...
Christina Baldwin Return to top of page
Christina Baldwin is an author, educator, speaker, and retreat leader. She is known for her groundbreaking work in the fields of personal writing, group process, and spirituality. With author, Ann Lin...
Coleman Barks Return to top of page
Coleman Barks is a leading scholar and translator of the 13th-century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. In addition to publishing two books of his own poetry (The Juice and Gourd Seed), Barks has publis...
Sondra Barrett Return to top of page
Sondra Barrett, PhD, is a medical scientist and teacher who earned her degree in biochemistry from the University of Illinois Medical School followed by post-doctoral training in immunology and hemato...
Richard Bartlett Return to top of page
Richard Bartlett, D.C., N.D., holds a doctorate in chiropractic and a degree in naturopathy from Bastyr University. After discovering his own extraordinary healing capabilities, Bartlett created Matri...
Edward W. Bastian Return to top of page
Edward W. Bastian, PhD, is a Buddhist scholar and teacher and was executive producer for a series of award-winning BBC and PBS programs about religion and three films about Tibetan Buddhism for the Na...
Stephen Batchelor Return to top of page
Stephen Batchelor was trained as a monk in the Tibetan and Korean Zen traditions, and currently serves as Director of Studies at Sharpham College in Devon, England. He has authored Alone with Others;...
Peter Baumann Return to top of page
Peter Baumann began his career as a member of the internationally acclaimed 1970s band Tangerine Dream and later founded the Private Music record label. Instead of being derailed by early fame and for...
Sera Beak Return to top of page
Sera Beak is a Harvard-trained scholar of comparative world religions who spent years traveling the world studying spirituality with Sufi dervishes, Tibetan monks, Croatian mystics, shamans, and more....
Charlotte Joko Beck Return to top of page
Charlotte Joko Beck (1917–2011) taught Zen to students around the world. A truly influential and widely admired teacher, she was the founder of the Zen Center in San Diego, which she ran for mor...
Don Beck Return to top of page
Don Beck, Ph.D. co-founded the National Values Institute and is CEO of the Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc.He has used Spiral Dynamics for over thirty years to find solutions to real problems, including ov...
Martha Beck Return to top of page
Martha Beck is a monthly columnist at O: The Oprah Magazine. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Diet (Crown, 2003), Finding Your Own North Star (Three Rivers Press, 2001), and Exp...
Michael Bernard Beckwith Return to top of page
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a transdenominational community in Los Angeles. He is the founder of the University of Trans...
Alessandra Belloni Return to top of page
Alessandra Belloni is a singer, percussionist, dancer, and actress who stands as one of the most important voices of traditional southern Italian music and dance today. For her mastery of musical styl...
Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Regina Laudis Return to top of page
Regina Laudis is a monastery of contemplative Benedictine women living in union with the Roman Catholic Church and following the Rule of St. Benedict according to the Primitive Observance. Founded in...
William Bengston Return to top of page
William Bengston, PhD, is a professor of sociology at St. Joseph's College in New York and author of The Energy Cure. In his early 20s, he received hands-on healing that ended his chronic back pain. A...
Steve Bhaerman Return to top of page
Steve Bhaerman is an author, educator, syndicated columnist, and workshop leader best known for his alter-ego, the “cosmic comic” Swami Beyondananda. He is author of four books and cofounder of Pa...
Tessa Bielecki Return to top of page
Tessa Bielecki is Mother Abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a Carmelite community with hermitages in Colorado, Nova Scotia, and Ireland. She studied for a career in international relations at Tri...
Beryl Bender Birch Return to top of page
Beryl Bender Birch is the bestselling author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga; she is also one of the most popular yoga teachers in the United States. With degrees in philosophy and c...
Judith Blackstone Return to top of page
Judith Blackstone, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychotherapist in New York and an innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality who has shared the Realization Process with students across the US sin...
Peter Block Return to top of page
Peter Block is a cofounder of the New School for Managing and founding partner of the training firm Designed Learning Inc. For more than 25 years, he has consulted to businesses, schools, and governme...
Bodhipaksa Return to top of page
Bodhipaksa was born Graeme Stephen in Scotland, and currently lives and teaches in New Hampshire. He is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been practicing within the Friends of the Western Buddhist...
Father Murray Bodo Return to top of page
Murray Bodo, O.F.M is a Franciscan priest, associate professor, and writer-in-residence at Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky. He is the author of A Retreat with Francis and Clare of Assis...
Jean Shinoda Bolen Return to top of page
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. An internationally renowned lecturer and workshop leader, she is autho...
Sylvia Boorstein Return to top of page
Sylvia Boorstein is an author, grandmother, a cofounding teacher of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachu...
Joan Borysenko Return to top of page
Joan Borysenko, PhD, is a cancer cell biologist, a licensed psychologist, and a yoga and meditation instructor. A cofounder and former director of the Mind/Body Clinic at New England Deaconess Hospita...
Cynthia Bourgeault Return to top of page
Modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader,Cynthia Bourgeault divides her time between solitude at her seaside hermitage in Maine, anda demanding schedule tr...
Tara Brach Return to top of page
Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975, as well as leading Buddhist meditation retreats at centers throughout North America. She is a clinical psychologist, the founder of...
Gregg Braden Return to top of page
Gregg Braden is a New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality. For more than two decades, he has immersed himself in researching gl...
Brené Brown Return to top of page
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work who has spent the past 10 years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and sham...
Byron Brown Return to top of page
Byron Brown has been a Ridhwan teacher since 1990. He leads groups, works with individuals, and trains teachers of the Diamond Approach in the Ridhwan School. He has taught workshops on the superego a...
Tommy Brunjes Return to top of page
Tommy Brunjes, also known as Tommy Be, is a highly acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, composer, and master of the frame drum and world percussion instruments. He has collaborated with platinum-selling a...
William Buhlman Return to top of page
William Buhlman has researched over 16,000 cases of the out-of-body phenomenon in 42 countries, as well as having his own personal explorations for four decades. He teaches workshops and lectures on t...
Vidyamala Burch Return to top of page
Vidyamala Burch has suffered from chronic back pain for more than 30 years due to congenital weakness, a car accident, and multiple surgeries. She is a cofounder of the well-respected Breathworks orga...
Rachel Cahn Return to top of page
Rachel Cahn, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO. She is particularly interested in the ways in which we can change the quality of our lives and restore our innate sense of...
Julia Cameron Return to top of page
Julia Cameron is the author of the national bestselling book, The Artist's Way. An award winning writer and director, she has created feature films, movies of the week and episodic television, six ful...
Don Campbell Return to top of page
Don Campbell (1947–2012) Don Campbell was respected internationally for his work as a teacher and researcher in the fields of music, sound, health, and learning. Often described as a man who has lis...
Jack Canfield Return to top of page
Jack Canfield is the founder and co-creator of the New York Times number-one best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which currently has 43 titles and 75 million copies in print in over 33 lang...
Mariana Caplan Return to top of page
Mariana Caplan, PhD, received degrees in cultural anthropology, counseling psychology, and contemporary spirituality. However, she attributes the majority of her education and inspiration to years of...
Valerie Carpenter Return to top of page
Valerie Carpenter is the founding director of The Vestibule Center for Sound Healing and cofounder of the Bay Area Sound Healing Alliance. She is a Sound Healing practitioner with certifications from...
Caroline W. Casey Return to top of page
Caroline W. Casey is a visionary activist-astrologer whose unique fusion of astrology, compassionate social activism, esoteric spiritual traditions, and humor is known to audiences internationally. Sh...
Jamie Catto Return to top of page
Jamie Catto is the creative catalyst behind the global philosophy, music, and film project 1 Giant Leap and a founding member of dance music super-group Faithless, whose greatest hits album was the fa...
Gael Chiarella Return to top of page
Gael Chiarella Alba, RYT, began a professional study of yoga, meditation, and alternative medicine in 1978. Her work is based on the eight limbs of yoga, a study that led her to found the Yokibics® I...
Ann Marie Chiasson Return to top of page
Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, is Canadian Board Certified in family practice. She has a private integrative and energy medicine practice in Tucson, Arizona, where she offers consultations, treatments,semina...
Pema Chödrön Return to top of page
Ani Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught...
Deepak Chopra Return to top of page
Deepak Chopra is an endocrinologist specializing in internal medicine, and the former chief of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital. Known best for his national best-selling books, Quantum Heali...
Christopher of the Wolves Return to top of page
Christopher of the Wolves has played his unique music in 20 countries around the world, where he learned much about the healing powers of music. Author photo © Christopher Ranck 2010...
Alan Clements Return to top of page
Alan Clements is an author, activist, performing artist, former Buddhist monk, and one of the West’s foremost nonsectarian dharma teachers. He is also a leading authority on Burma’s nonviolent str...
Master Stephen Co Return to top of page
Master Stephen Co is a personal student of Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui and one of only two Certified Master Pranic Healers in the world. He is a senior instructor at the World Pranic Healing Organization...
Ken Cohen Return to top of page
Ken Cohen, M.A. (www.kennethcohen.com), is a renowned qigong master, health educator, and winner of the Lifetime Achievement award in energy medicine. A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he is the...
Tom Colletti Return to top of page
Tom Colletti is a multi-faceted music producer, percussionist and the founder of Fire Productionz, LLC in New York City. He earned a degree in the field of Audio Engineering from the Institute of Audi...
Nancy Connor Return to top of page
Nancy Connor is the founder of Ringing Rocks Foundation, an organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of healing practices and spiritual traditions. A successful entrepreneur, she s...
John Consemulder Return to top of page
John Consemulder is an international composer, writer, record producer, and live artist. He has more than fifty international releases on labels such as Soma, Sony, and Warner Brothers, and most recen...
Rabbi David A. Cooper Return to top of page
Rabbi David A. Cooper has been called one of today's leading teachers of Jewish meditation.He is an active student of the world's great spiritual traditions and is the author of many books, including...
Stephen Cope Return to top of page
Stephen Cope is the director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living, the largest yoga research institute in the Western world—with a team of scientists affiliated with major medical schoo...
Lionel Corbett Return to top of page
Lionel Corbett is a professor of depth psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche and many professional articl...
Seane Corn Return to top of page
Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher who has been featured in over 50 different print and broadcast media including The Today Show. An active humanitarian, Seane is the national yo...
Judith Cornell Return to top of page
Judith Cornell, PhD, (1941–2010) was an internationally acclaimed speaker, seminar and retreat leader, and researcher who served as assistant professor of transpersonal psychology at Holos Universit...
Dee Coulter Return to top of page
Dee Coulter, EdD, is a nationally recognized neuroscience educator with a master's degree in special education from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in neurological studies and holistic educ...
Raphael Cushnir Return to top of page
Raphael Cushnir is a leading voice in the world of emotional connection and present moment awareness. He has shared his unique approach to personal and professional development with millions of reader...
Cyndi Dale Return to top of page
Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, intuitive healer, and visionary. She is president of Life Systems Services, a corporation that offers intuitive-based healing, destiny coachi...
David Darling Return to top of page
"Maverick cellist” is the phrase most often assigned to Grammy-nominated artist David Darling, but it hardly captures the richness, diversity, breadth, and sense of humor of a man who literally rede...
Krishna Das Return to top of page
Krishna Das is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and cofounder of the Triloka world music label. His albums include Live on Earth (Triloka, 2000), Pilgrim Heart (Triloka, 1999), and One Tr...
Lama Surya Das Return to top of page
Lama Surya Das is one of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. For over 30 years, he has studied with the great spiritual masters of Tibet, India,...
Ram Dass Return to top of page
Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr.Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research unti...
Dastan Ensemble Return to top of page
Dastan Ensemble is a meeting of four of Iran's most accomplished and daring performers of classical Persian music. While each member of this extraordinary ensemble is an acknowledged master of the cla...
Nan De Grove Return to top of page
Nan de Grove has taught astrology in the United States and Europe since 1980. She is the author of the forthcoming book Beauty and the Beast: Chiron and the Dark Lover....
Maneesh de Moor Return to top of page
Maneesh de Moor lives and works in Amsterdam. An accomplished keyboardist, composer, and producer, de Moor has collaborated with Deva Premal, Praful, and Prem Joshua, and specializes in the crossover...
Marjorie de Muynck Return to top of page
Marjorie de Muynck, M. Mus., MSOM, Hon.,Creator of Ohm TherapeuticsNovember 25, 1952 – January 25, 2011 Born into a musical family, Marjorie de Muynck's interest in tuning forks, sound, and vib...
David Deida Return to top of page
David Deida is internationally renowned for his revolutionary insights into mens and womens consciousness and his commitment to deepening genuine spiritual and sexual practice. His books are published...
Michael Brant DeMaria Return to top of page
Michael Brant DeMaria, PhD, is a psychologist and multiaward winning composer. A Grammy® nominee who has played on stage with world-renowned poets and musicians, he first recognized the healing poten...
Tryshe Dhevney Return to top of page
Tryshe Dhevney is a recording artist, authority in the field of vocal sound healing, and author of SOUNDShifting: Your Personal Guide to Self-Healing with Sound. She teaches sound healing and chakra t...
Joe Dominguez Return to top of page
The late Joe Dominguez was born in Spanish Harlem, and worked for ten years on Wall Street as a financial analyst. He retired at age 30 in 1969, and spent the rest of his life teaching people how to a...
Wendy Doniger Return to top of page
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and the translator of numerous Sanskrit texts including the Rig Veda, Laws...
Larry Dossey Return to top of page
Larry Dossey, M.D is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the synergy of physical health and spiritual awareness. Decorated for valor as a battalion surgeon in the Vietnam War, Dr....
Neil Douglas-Klotz Return to top of page
Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD, (Saadi Shakur Chishti) is a world-renowned scholar in religious studies, spirituality, and psychology. Living in Edinburgh, Scotland, he directs the Edinburgh Institute for A...
Danny Dreyer Return to top of page
Danny Dreyer, a running coach and nationally ranked ultramarathoner, has more than 30 years of running experience. He is a student of renowned T’ai Chi master George Xu and has been published in Run...
Katherine Dreyer Return to top of page
Katherine Dreyer combines 25 years in the health and fitness publishing industry with nearly 20 years of studying Eastern philosophy and practices. From 1991–1995, she was president of New Hope Comm...
Wayne Dyer Return to top of page
Wayne Dyer, PhD, is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development. He is the author of over 30 books, has created many audio programs and videos, and has appeared on...
Donna Eden Return to top of page
Donna Eden is the author of Energy Medicine (Putnam Publishing Group, 1998). She has treated over 10,000 individual clients and has taught hundreds of classes, speaking to standing-room-only audiences...
Lawrence Edwards Return to top of page
Dr. Lawrence Edwards is the president of The Kundalini Research Network, as well as the founder of a Kundalini support website,kundalinisupport.org. He is the founder and director of the Anam Cara Fou...
Christopher Eickmann Return to top of page
Christopher Eickmann is an accomplished composer, producer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist. He specializes in creating music for film, live events, and other contemporary media through the fusio...
Hamza El Din Return to top of page
Hamza El Din - One of the first African musicians to gain widespread international recognition, Hamza El Din (1929-2006) is considered the father of modern Nubian music. Emigrating to the United State...
Jonathan Ellerby Return to top of page
Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D.,is author of Return to the Sacred and spiritual program director for the renowned Canyon Ranch Health Resorts. He holds a doctoral degree in comparative religion and has spent...
Kim Eng Return to top of page
Kim Eng is a counselor and spiritual teacher whose “Presence Through Movement” workshops focus on the integration of mind, body, and spirit. As Eckhart Tolle’s teaching partner, she has helped t...
Mark Epstein Return to top of page
Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist in private practice. He is a contributing editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and has been a student of Buddhist meditation for the past 25 years. Mark Epstein is th...
Clarissa Pinkola Estés Return to top of page
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD, is an internationally recognized scholar, award-winning poet, diplomate senior Jungian psychoanalyst, and cantadora (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition). I...
Jean Fain Return to top of page
Jean Fain is a writer, licensed psychotherapist, and teaching associate in psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School). She has dedicated her work to helpi...
Don Farber Return to top of page
Don Farber has photographed His Holiness the Dalai Lama for over 25 years. His photographs have appeared in Life and Time magazines, and have been featured on the covers of many books including The Ar...
David Feinstein Return to top of page
David Feinstein, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and the director of the Energy Medicine Institute in Ashland, Oregon. Dr. Feinstein has taught at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Anti...
Peter Fenner Return to top of page
Peter Fenner, PhD, studied as a monk for nine years with many notable Buddhist lamas, including Thubten Yeshe and Sogyal Rinpoche. He is founder of the Center for Timeless Wisdom, and author of numero...
Mark Fenton Return to top of page
Mark Fenton is the internationally recognized host of PBS's America's Walking. A former U.S. national racewalking champion and editor-at-large of Walking magazine, he is the author of The Complete Gui...
Georg Feuerstein Return to top of page
Georg Feuerstein (1947-2012) Georg Feuerstein was born in Germany shortly after World War II, and conducted his postgraduate research in Indian philosophy at the University of Durham in England. He...
Nancy Fierro Return to top of page
Nancy Fierro is a noted pianist, recording artist and educator. She has written articles for Pianoforte News and is also the author of the book Hildegard of Bingen and Her Vision of the Feminine....
Alan Finger Return to top of page
Yogiraj Alan Finger began studying yoga in South Africa at the age of 16 with his father, Kavi Yogiraj Mani Finger, as well as with renowned swamis of the last century. Alan's father studied both at h...
James Finley Return to top of page
James Finley left home at the age of 18 for the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative. He later earned degrees from the University of Akron, Saint Joh...
Lynne Finney Return to top of page
Lynne Finney is a psychotherapist specializing in childhood trauma. In her early forties, Finney learned how to retrieve and heal her own experiences of sexual abuse, and has since devoted her life to...
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Return to top of page
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone is an author and founding rabbi of the Jewish Renewal Community of Boulder, Colorado. She teaches and lectures widely on Jewish practices and is the author of With Roots in Heav...
Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler Return to top of page
Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler is a founding member and current president of Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. She found the convergence of her Christian background and her Buddhist contemplative experience in th...
Alex Forster Return to top of page
Alex Forster is an audiovisual adventurer who travels the world to capture and produce rich soundscapes that cross boundaries and fuse traditional acoustic and progressive electronic styles. Author p...
Leigh Fortson Return to top of page
Leigh Fortson has coauthored and edited numerous books about health, nutrition, and alternative medicine. She spent decades learning about and practicing healthy lifestyle habits and was shocked to fi...
Jeff Foster Return to top of page
Jeff Foster shares from his own awakened experience a way out of seeking fulfillment in the future and into the acceptance of “all this, here and now.” He studied astrophysics at Cambridge Univers...
Sudhir Jonathan Foust Return to top of page
Jonathan Foust, MA, is a senior teacher and former president of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the largest yoga center in North America. Jonathan has studied numerous approaches to meditation fro...
Jonathan Foust Return to top of page
Jonathan Foust, MA is a senior teacher and former president of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. A workshop and retreat leader for more than 20 years, he has been featured in The New York Times, The...
Matthew Fox Return to top of page
Matthew Fox (b. 1940) is an internationally acclaimed theologian who was a member of the Dominican Order for 34 years. He holds a doctorate, summa cum laude, in the History and Theology of Spiritualit...
Sharon Franquemont Return to top of page
Sharon Franquemont is among the pioneers who established a graduate program in intuition at John F. Kennedy University. For more than 25 years, she has taught individuals, couples, and organizations h...
Richard Freeman Return to top of page
Richard Freeman has studied and lived for nearly nine years in India and Asia, and is an avid student of both Western and Eastern philosophy, as well as Sanskrit. He incorporates various traditions in...
David Frenette Return to top of page
David Frenette is a leader and senior teacher in the Centering Prayer movement, and a friend and advisor of Father Thomas Keating for 30 years. He co-created and co-led a contemplative retreat communi...
Michael Reed Gach Return to top of page
Michael Reed Gach, Ph.D is the Founder and Director of The Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, California, and the creator of the Acu-Yoga system. He received his B.A. in Social Relations from Immacula...
China Galland Return to top of page
China Galland is the award-winning author of The Bond Between Women, Longing for Darkness, and Women in the Wilderness. She is currently a research associate at the Graduate Theological Union’s Cent...
Ashok Gangadean Return to top of page
Ashok Gangadean, Ph.D. is professor and chairman of philosophy at Haverford College where he has pioneered global philosophy during the past 40 years. He is author of three books, including Meditati...
Gangaji Return to top of page
Gangaji is an American-born spiritual teacher dedicated to sharing the path of freedom through simple and direct self-inquiry, as taught by the legendary sage Sri Ramana Maharshi of India. In 1990, Ga...
Barbara Ganim Return to top of page
Barbara Ganim is an expressive arts educator and certified holistic health counselor, a published writer, and artist. She is an assistant professor of holistic counseling and expressive arts at Salve...
Shakti Gawain Return to top of page
Shakti Gawain is the bestselling author of Creative Visualization, Living in the Light, The Path of Transformation, Creating True Prosperity, Developing Intuition, and several other books. Her books h...
Mitchell Gaynor Return to top of page
Mitchell Gaynor, MD, is a board-certified medical oncologist, internist, and hematologist. He is also a best-selling author, and has published numerous books, including Nurture Nature Nurture Health:...
Michael J. Gelb Return to top of page
Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. He leads seminars for major organizations including Nike...
Richard Gerber Return to top of page
Richard Gerber (1954-2007) Richard Gerber, MD, received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine and devoted his life to furthering research and clinical applications in the...
Lee Glickstein Return to top of page
Lee Glickstein lived with excruciating stage fright for more than 40 years before discovering the principles of “Transformational Speaking,” an entirely unique approach to public speaking that he...
Natalie Goldberg Return to top of page
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Jonathan Goldman Return to top of page
Jonathan Goldman is an internationally acclaimed master teacher in sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. His books and recordings include Healing Sounds and the award-winning Chakra C...
Joseph Goldstein Return to top of page
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Daniel Goleman Return to top of page
Daniel Goleman, PhD, covered the brain and behavioral sciences at the New York Times for 12 years. He is cofounder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learnings. His books include...
Chloë Goodchild Return to top of page
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Lion Goodman Return to top of page
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James S. Gordon Return to top of page
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David Grand Return to top of page
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Henry Grayson Return to top of page
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Alex Grey Return to top of page
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Stanislav Grof Return to top of page
Stanislav Grof, MD, received his doctorate in medicine from the Charles University School of Medicine in Prague and his doctorate in the philosophy of medicine from the Czechoslovakian Academy of Scie...
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River Guerguerian is a multi-percussionist, composer, and educator who has been inspiring audiences with his ecstatic and versatile percussion for over 25 years. Whether playing with world-class symph...
Steven Gurgevich Return to top of page
Steven Gurgevich, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in behavioral and mind-body medicine. He is a faculty member at the University of Arizona's College of Medicine, where he teaches mind-body medi...
Carol Gurney Return to top of page
Carol Gurney is one of the foremost animal communicators in the world and the first to offer a fully comprehensive training program. She has appeared on many television and radio programs and is the a...
Joan Halifax Return to top of page
Joan Halifax, Ph.D an anthropologist, Buddhist teacher, and writer, has worked with dying people since 1970. She has been on the faculties of Columbia University, the University of Miami School of Med...
Steven Halpern Return to top of page
Steven Halpern stands at the leading edge of the growing public understanding of the relationship between music, body, mind, and spirit. An award-winning composer, recording artist, and producer, Stev...
Judith Handelsman Return to top of page
Judith Handelsman, M.A. is an author and teacher who has written professionally for the past 20 years. A former gardening columnist for Vogue magazine and New Age Journal, she also created daily garde...
Rick Hanson Return to top of page
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Michael Harner Return to top of page
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Steven Harrison Return to top of page
Steven Harrison is a student and teacher of the nature of consciousness. He has traveled extensively and studied a wide variety of meditation and spiritual practices. Harrison is the author of Doing N...
Andrew Harvey Return to top of page
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James Hollis Return to top of page
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Bob Holroyd Return to top of page
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James C. Hunter Return to top of page
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David Hykes Return to top of page
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Mark Hyman Return to top of page
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Will Johnson Return to top of page
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Rev. Deborah L. Johnson Return to top of page
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Robert A. Johnson Return to top of page
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Peter Kater Return to top of page
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Father Thomas Keating Return to top of page
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Bradford Keeney Return to top of page
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Sally Kempton Return to top of page
Sally Kempton has been studying and teaching the wisdom of yoga for 40 years. A highly regarded teacher of meditation and spiritual philosophy, she writes the popular Yoga Journal column “Wisdom.”...
David Daniel Kennedy Return to top of page
David Daniel Kennedy is founder of the Complete Reality Institute which provides advanced Feng Shui training. He is also a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and the mentor to many professional Fen...
Brent Kessel Return to top of page
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Jeff Klein Return to top of page
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Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught worldwide since 1974. He is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West...
Gary Kraftsow Return to top of page
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J. Krishnamurti Return to top of page
J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) Krishnamurti was a world-renowned spiritual teacher whose lectures and writings have inspired thousands. He wrote more than 70 books, including This Light in Oneself, Fir...
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) outlined the five stages of grief — denial, rage, bargaining, depression, and acceptance — in her groundbreaking book, On Death and Dying. Since her first public...
Jakusho Kwong-roshi Return to top of page
Jakusho Kwong was born in Santa Rosa in 1935 and began studying Zen with Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, in 1960. He received ordination at San Francisco Zen Center in 1970,...
Stephen LaBerge Return to top of page
Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. laid the groundwork for his pioneering breakthroughs in lucid dreaming research two decades ago while obtaining his Ph.D. in psychophysiology at Stanford University. Since then...
David LaChapelle Return to top of page
David La Chapelle (1952 - 2009) David La Chapelle was a writer, bard, and research associate for the Institute of Noetic Sciences. A healer for 25 years, he taught at Naropa University and led count...
Vasant Lad Return to top of page
Vasant Lad is a native of India who has been a practitioner and professor of Ayurvedic medicine for more than 20 years. He served as Medical Director of the Ayurveda Hospital in Pune, India for three...
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Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle to liberate Tibet while advocating...
Anne Lamott Return to top of page
Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels including, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart (the sequel to Rosie), as well as five bestselling books of no...
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Linda Lantieri is an internationally known expert in social and emotional learning, conflict resolution, and crisis intervention with 40 years of experience in the field of education. She is the direc...
Laraaji Return to top of page
Laraaji (Edward Larry Gordon) has been a pioneer in using music for relaxation and exploring higher states of consciousness. He is a musician and teacher who performs and leads workshops international...
Lawrence Le Shan Return to top of page
Lawrence LeShan, PhD, is a pioneering researcher into consciousness and the mind-body approach to coping with cancer. His research at Trafalgar Hospital and as chief of the Department of Psychology at...
Lani Leary Return to top of page
Lani Leary, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, teacher, and caregiver. Dr. Leary received her Ph.D. from George Mason University, where she also taught as an adjunct professor. She was drawn to her work as a...
Cyndi Lee Return to top of page
Cyndi Lee is the founder of the OM Yoga Center, with branches in New York City and East Hampton, New York. Cyndi teaches classes, teacher training, and special workshops at both OM studios as well as...
Riley Lee Return to top of page
Riley Lee is the recipient of two of the most venerated lineages of traditional shakuhachi, traceable back to the Zen komusô, or “priests of nothingness.” He is the first non-Japanese to attain t...
Joshua Leeds Return to top of page
Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher, music producer, and educator. He is one of few published authorities in the emerging field of psychoacoustics-the study of the effect of music and sound on the huma...
Ben Leinbach Return to top of page
Ben Leinbach is a producer, engineer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has been making records with Jai Uttal for over a decade. His production and engineering work spans the musical spectrum f...
Harriet Lerner Return to top of page
Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., nationally renowned clinical psychologist, is the author of many books and audio tapes including the New York Times bestseller, The Dance of Anger, and most recently, The Dance...
Elizabeth Lesser Return to top of page
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Ondrea Levine Return to top of page
Ondrea Levine has counseled the dying and their loved ones for more than 30 years, and has been a codirector of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Project. The Levines are the authors of Embracing the Belov...
Peter A. Levine Return to top of page
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Stephen Levine Return to top of page
Stephen Levine is a poet and teacher of guided meditation healing techniques. He and his wife and spiritual partner, Ondrea, have counseled the dying and their loved ones for more than 30 years. Steph...
Dennis Lewis Return to top of page
Dennis Lewis earned a degree in the philosophy of religion before working as a computer programmer/analyst, book editor, and public relations executive. After leaving the corporate world, he studied a...
Life In Balance Return to top of page
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) John Daido Loori, Roshi, was the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York. He was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism...
Meg Lundstrom Return to top of page
Meg Lundstrom is an author and magazine writer who has written for Redbook, BusinessWeek and Woman’s World on self-development, health, entrepreneurship, and the human search for meaning. She discov...
John Mackey Return to top of page
John Mackey opened his first market in 1978 with a $45,000 investment and a dedication to providing healthier food choices to customers. He co-founded Whole Foods Market in 1980,which has appeared in...
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For more than a decade, Ainslie MacLeod has used his talents as a psychic to explore the soul and its effects on human beliefs and behavior. Collaborating with elevated spirit guides, he developed th...
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John Major Jenkins Return to top of page
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Joseph Marshall III Return to top of page
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Mario Martinez Return to top of page
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Robert Augustus Masters Return to top of page
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Kelly McGonigal Return to top of page
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Terence McKenna Return to top of page
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Karla McLaren Return to top of page
Empath Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions has taken her through the healing of her own childhood trauma, i...
Stevin McNamara Return to top of page
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Lynne McTaggart Return to top of page
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Michael Meade Return to top of page
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona Return to top of page
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD is certified in family practice, geriatrics, and psychiatry, and has worked for years in rural emergency medicine. He is a core faculty in the clinical psychology program a...
Richard Mendius Return to top of page
Richard Mendius, MD, is a neurologist and co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. He trained at UCLA as an epileptologist and neurobehaviorist. He has been on...
Thomas Merton Return to top of page
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Sabrina Mesko Return to top of page
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Deena Metzger Return to top of page
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Richard Miller Return to top of page
Richard Miller, PhD, is a master of yoga and meditation who holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. Recognized as a leading authority on the practice of Yoga Nidra, he has founded and cofounded seve...
William C. Miller Return to top of page
William C. Miller is the author of Flash of Brilliance, Quantum Quality, and The Creative Edge. He has been the senior consultant for innovation management at SRI International and is cofounder of the...
John P. Milton Return to top of page
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Aine Minogue Return to top of page
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Thomas Moore Return to top of page
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David Morehouse Return to top of page
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Robert Moss Return to top of page
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Wayne Muller Return to top of page
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Melanie Murphy Return to top of page
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Susan Muto Return to top of page
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Caroline Myss Return to top of page
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An internationally known pioneer in the field of sound and transformation of consciousness, Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, has cultivated a voice that transports listeners into the heart of devotion. Her vo...
Valerie Naranjo Return to top of page
Valerie Dee Naranjo is a percussionist, vocalist, and composer known for her pioneering efforts in West African keyboard percussion music. She plays percussion for NBC's Saturday Night Live Band, and...
Helen Nearing Return to top of page
Helen Nearing (1904–1995) was a champion of human rights, vegetarianism, meditation, and the joys of simple living. With her husband, Scott, she coauthored the book Living the Good Life, which spark...
Kristin Neff Return to top of page
Kristin Neff, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of Self-Compassion (Morrow, 2011). She has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1997, and has co...
Mark Nepo Return to top of page
Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 35 years. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, he has published 13 books and recorded eight audi...
Andrew Newberg Return to top of page
Andrew Newberg, M.D. is an associate professor of radiology and psychiatry and an adjunct assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Center for Spi...
Karen Newell Return to top of page
Karen Newell is co-founder of Sacred Acoustics™, a company that creates brain entrainment audio meditations combining digital frequencies, sacred instruments, sounds of nature and human vocals t...
Paul Newham Return to top of page
Paul Newham is director of the London Voice Centre. He is the founder of Voice Movement Therapy, ™ which grew out of his work with handicapped children and adults. He has also worked with actors and...
Thich Nhat Hanh Return to top of page
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen master in the Vietnamese tradition, scholar, poet, and peace activist. He is the founder of the Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon and has taught at Columbia University an...
Maoshing Ni Return to top of page
Maoshing Ni, Ph.D., D.O.M., ABAAHP is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. He is cofounder of Yo San University in Los Angeles, and directs the Longevity and Healthy Aging program at the Tao of W...
Deirdre Ní Chinnéide Return to top of page
Deirdre Ní Chinnéide (DEAR-druh Nay Kuh-NAY-dee) has sung extensively in both Irish and English as a vocalist with Mo Run Search, a traditional Irish group. She has performed at Celtic festivals in...
Noirin Ni Riain Return to top of page
Nóirín Ní Riain, a teacher and scholar of Irish music, has enchanted the world with her angelic voice. As a young girl growing up in County Cork, Nóirín learned over 1,000 traditional songs direc...
Christiane Northrup Return to top of page
Christiane Northrup, MD, a board-certified ob/gyn, is a visionary pioneer, beloved authority in women's health and wellness, and the author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Women's Bod...
John O'Donohue Return to top of page
John O'Donohue (1956-2008) In early January 2008, the Sounds True family was deeply saddened by the loss of the Irish poet-philosopher John O'Donohue. John was a one-of-a-kind force of nature: a geni...
Jim Oliver Return to top of page
Emmy award-winning performer, educator, and composer, Jim Oliver has been creating music for massage and healing for over 30 years. Jim's recordings are the result of researching the most nurturing an...
Erin Olivo Return to top of page
Erin Olivo, PhD, MPH is an assistant clinical professor of medical psychology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the former director of the Columbia Integrative Medi...
One Return to top of page
One is an ensemble of musicians dedicated to the art of devotional music. Yantra de Vilder (pictured center) has a master’s degree in contemporary music and 20 years’ experience producing live eve...
One at Last Return to top of page
One at Last was founded by Jaya Lakshmi, Deva Priyo, and Om in Maui under the name of Lost at Last in 1996, and moved to San Francisco in 1998, rising quickly to become one of the hottest alternative...
Judith Orloff Return to top of page
Judith Orloff, MD, is a leading voice in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, and intuitive development. An assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA, her bestselling books include Emotional F...
Paul Overman Return to top of page
Paul Overman, PhD, is a psychologist and dream expert with more than 30 years of experience developing guided imagery and meditation processes for relaxation, inner healing, and peak performance. Paul...
Elaine Pagels Return to top of page
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...
Helen Palmer Return to top of page
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 o...
Parker J. Palmer Return to top of page
Parker J. Palmer is a writer, speaker and activist, as well as founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal. His wisdom has reached millions worldwide through his eight books, includ...
Laurel Parnell Return to top of page
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...
Pathaan Return to top of page
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...
Dileepji Pathak Return to top of page
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 stat...
Russill Paul Return to top of page
A native of Chennai, South India, Russill Paul began playing stringed instruments from the age of four. In his teens, he was already playing music professionally. Although he was born and brought up i...
Robert Peng Return to top of page
Robert Peng is an internationally renowned qigong master capable of generating healing energy through his hands with power equal to a potent electrical charge. He has used his extraordinary ability to...
John Perkins Return to top of page
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 ind...
Candace Pert Return to top of page
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 opiat...
Jan Phillips Return to top of page
Jan Phillips is an evolutionary artist, author, workshop director and social activist. She is the cofounder and executive director of the Livingkindness Foundation, a global network of grassroots phil...
Maggie Phillips Return to top of page
Maggie Phillips, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in pain and the author of Healing the Divided Self, Finding the Energy to Heal and Reversing Chronic Pain. Author photo © Anita Schriver Liste...
Chantal Pierrat Return to top of page
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...
Daniel Pinchbeck Return to top of page
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 he...
Jeff Pincus Return to top of page
Jeff Pincus, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO. He specializes in working with couples who are eager to create a committed and transformative relationship. He has over 20 ye...
Andrea Polard Return to top of page
Andrea F. Polard, PsyD, is a German-born author and clinical psychologist with an extensive background in psychodynamic therapies, meditation, and Ericksonian mind-body work. Now practicing at the Los...
H.W.L. Poonja Return to top of page
H.W.L Poonja (1910-1997) became a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi in 1944. He worked, held satsangs, and supported the many members of his extended family until his retirement in 1966. Papaji lived in...
Deva Premal Return to top of page
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 wit...
Priyo Return to top of page
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 reg...
William Lee Rand Return to top of page
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,...
Srikumar S. Rao Return to top of page
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...
Reginald A. Ray Return to top of page
Reginald A. Ray, Ph.D., brings us four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as a special gift for applying ancient wisdom to the unique prob...
Shiva Rea Return to top of page
Shiva Rea teaches vinyasa flow yoga worldwide. She has studied many forms of yoga and dance in India, Africa, Nepal, Jamaica, and Bali. She is a well-known contributor to Yoga Journal and holds an MA...
Layne Redmond Return to top of page
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...
Lou Reed Return to top of page
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 so...
Rachel Naomi Remen Return to top of page
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, T...
Gary Renard Return to top of page
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 so...
Elyse Resch Return to top of page
Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., is a Fellow of the American Dietetic Association and a certified child and adolescent obesity expert. Her private practice focuses on eating disorders and intuitive...
David Reynolds Return to top of page
David Reynolds, PhD, is the leading authority on Japanese psychotherapy in the United States today. He has taught on the faculties of UCLA, the USC School of Medicine, and the University of Houston. D...
Sil Reynolds Return to top of page
Sil Reynolds, RN is a therapist in private practice specializing in family medicine, women’s health, and eating disorders. A graduate of Brown University and Pace University Graduate School of Nursi...
Eliza Reynolds Return to top of page
Eliza Reynolds currently attends Brown University, where she is studying developmental and social psychology, gender studies, political science, dance, and nonfiction writing. Along with a small and d...
Adam Rhine Return to top of page
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...
Matthieu Ricard Return to top of page
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...
Cheryl Richardson Return to top of page
Cheryl Richardson is an author, professional speaker, and former tax advisor. She is the co-creator of the Body and Soul conferences sponsored by New Age magazine, and the former vice-chairman of Inte...
Stan Richardson Return to top of page
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...
Sogyal Rinpoche Return to top of page
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 1...
Vicki Robin Return to top of page
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 lectu...
Eric B. Robins Return to top of page
Eric B. Robins, MD, is a board-certified urologist and surgeon in private practice and affiliated with a major hospital in Los Angeles. He received his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 198...
Lorin Roche Return to top of page
Lorin Roche signed up for a research project on the physiology of meditation in 1968 when he was eighteen years old and has been a meditator ever since. He teaches a form of practice that he calls Ins...
Vimala Rodgers Return to top of page
Vimala Rodgers is an educator, handwriting expert, and motivational speaker, as well as the director of The International Institute of Handwriting Studies in Sacramento, California. For more informati...
Diana Rogers Return to top of page
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 Indi...
Richard Rohr Return to top of page
Richard Rohr, OFM, is a Franciscan priest and international speaker who has been featured on NPR and with Dr. Mehmet Oz on Oprah Radio™. He is the founding director of the Center for Action and Cont...
Marshall Rosenberg Return to top of page
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 psycholo...
Carolyn Ross Return to top of page
Carolyn Ross, MD, MPH, is a pioneer in using integrative medicine in eating disorders, addictions, and obesity with an emphasis on healing food and body-image issues. A clinical assistant professor at...
Mick Rossi Return to top of page
Mick Rossi is an internationally celebrated pianist, composer, percussionist, conductor, and arranger. He is both a pianist and percussionist for the renowned Philip Glass ensemble. Mick is known for...
Martin L. Rossman Return to top of page
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 Gu...
Gabrielle Roth Return to top of page
Gabrielle Roth (1941-2012) A bestselling author, movement innovator, and music/theatre director, Gabrielle Roth led workshops and retreats that joined the currents of world music and theater with the...
Geneen Roth Return to top of page
Geneen Roth is a writer and teacher whose work focuses on using addiction as a path to the inner universe. She has written bestselling books and is a frequent guest on national radio and television sh...
Jack Rourke Return to top of page
Jack Rourke has astounded civilians and law enforcement by remotely detecting verifiable facts he could not possibly know. Dubbed world-renowned by AOL's Celebrity News, his predictions have been dist...
Peter Russell Return to top of page
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 ni...
Father Thomas Ryan Return to top of page
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 includ...
G. S. Sachdev Return to top of page
G. S. Sachdev is recognized worldwide as a master of the Indian bamboo flute, or bansuri. One of the premier performers on this traditional instrument, Sachdev has performed worldwide for over 45 year...
Sharon Salzberg Return to top of page
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 t...
Nouk Sanchez Return to top of page
Tomas Vieira and Nouk Sanchez co-authored the bestseller Take Me To Truth: Undoing the Ego. Before Tomas’ passing in December 2010, the teaching couple spoke around the world helping to translate th...
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi Return to top of page
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is founder and director of the Spiritual Eldering Project and the P'nai Or Religious Fellowship in Philadelphia. Rabbi Shachter was a professor of religion at the Univer...
Friedemann Schaub Return to top of page
Friedemann Schaub, MD, PhD, is a physician specializing in cardiology and molecular biologist who has helped thousands of people to overcome fear and anxiety with his breakthrough and empowerment prog...
Daniela Schenker Return to top of page
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...
David Schnarch Return to top of page
David Schnarch, PhD, directs the Marriage and Family Health Center of Evergreen, Colorado. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, a certified sex therapist, a clinical member of the American Associat...
Meir Schneider Return to top of page
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;...
Nicki Scully Return to top of page
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 hold...
Ruby Seastone Return to top of page
Ruby Seastone, PhD, is a transformational artist, teacher of art process, and transpersonal psychotherapist in private practice. After receiving her fine arts degree from the University of London, Sea...
Zindel Segal Return to top of page
Zindel Segal, PhD, is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy in the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and head of the Cognitive Therapy Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Me...
Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin Return to top of page
Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin studied shakuhachi in Kyoto, Japan, with Kurahashi Yodo Sensei. Upon returning to New York in 1978, Nyogetsu was awarded the rank of Shi-han (Master), for his efforts to spread...
Eva Selhub Return to top of page
Eva M. Selhub, MD, a passionate, articulate advocate of mind-body medicine, enjoys a flourishing career as a speaker, teacher, and media spokesperson. She has also had clinical success treating patien...
Peter Senge Return to top of page
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...
Shamans Dream Return to top of page
Shaman's Dream is a group of musicians, artists, and producers dedicated to creating peace and unity through music, dance, and ritual art. Their Los Angeles-based, monthly ritual concert event, ZEN DA...
Deb Shapiro Return to top of page
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...
Rabbi Rami Shapiro Return to top of page
Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award winning author of over two dozen nonfiction books, whose poems and short stories has been anthologized in over a dozen volumes, and whose prayers are used in prayer book...
Norm Shealy Return to top of page
C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, is president of Holos Institutes of Health, Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to research, education, and clinical services in holistic health. A neurosurgeon trained a...
Spencer Sherman Return to top of page
Spencer Sherman, MBA, who was named one of the top wealth advisors in the US, is cofounder of Abacus Wealth Partners. He is a workshop leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of The Cure for M...
Jason Shulman Return to top of page
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...
Bernie Siegel Return to top of page
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 Yal...
Daniel J. Siegel Return to top of page
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...
Gary Small Return to top of page
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...
Huston Smith Return to top of page
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...
Sobonfu Somé Return to top of page
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...
Lisa Spector Return to top of page
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 agi...
Swami Srinivasananda Return to top of page
Swami Srinivasananda was born in California in 1952. In 1969, he took his first yoga class, and during the following years the practice and philosophy became more and more integrated into his daily li...
Tina L. Staley Return to top of page
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 c...
Starhawk Return to top of page
Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern Goddess religion and earth-based spirituality. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the...
Mirabai Starr Return to top of page
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 T...
David Steindl-Rast Return to top of page
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 1,500-year-old Benedictine monas...
Christine Stevens Return to top of page
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 includi...
Bronwen Stiene Return to top of page
Bronwen Stiene founded Australia's International House of Reiki with her husband Frans Stiene, and teaches the system of Reiki in Asia, North America, and Europe. A student of the Japanese lineage of...
Jeff Strong Return to top of page
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 d...
Michael W. Taft Return to top of page
Michael W. Taft is a serious student of evolution and the capacities of the human brain. A professional researcher and writer for more than two decades, Taft is fascinated by what neuroscience, biolog...
Stan Tatkin Return to top of page
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, and author who integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, and current therapies. He directs training programs throughout North America and globally...
Susan Taylor Return to top of page
Susan Taylor is a nationally recognized biochemist, medical consultant, teacher, and author. Dr. Taylor holds a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in nutritional biochem...
John Teasdale Return to top of page
John Teasdale, PhD, has held senior research appointments in the department of psychiatry at the University of Oxford and in the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Author photo © Be...
Temple Return to top of page
Danya Uriel - Reportedly found singing to her "angel friends" at age two, Danya grew up surrounded by her musical family in the mountains of Colorado. She has been composing devotional music for as...
The Denma Translation Group Return to top of page
The Denma Translation Group is led by Kidder Smith and James Gimian. Smith directs the Asian Studies Department at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Gimian is publisher of Shambhala Sun magazine an...
Alex Theory Return to top of page
Alex Theory co-organized the 2007 World Sound Healing Conference and the September 2007 Global Om project. He draws upon his extensive training in psychology, shamanic practice, and music production t...
Jeffrey Thompson Return to top of page
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson began experimenting with sound and its effects on the body and brain in 1981 at his Holistic Health Center in Virginia. His experiments involved using exact sound frequencies to m...
Mark Thornton Return to top of page
Mark Thornton is the world's first executive meditation coach. Trained as an investment banker, he was interim Chief Operating Officer for JP Morgan in London. A student and practitioner of medita...
Howard Thurman Return to top of page
Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was a philosopher, theologian, educator, reformer, and author of more than 20 books, including Jesus and the Disinherited and The Inward Journey. He championed Gandhi's non-...
Robert Thurman Return to top of page
Robert Thurman currently teaches at Columbia University and holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in America. He received Upasika ordination in 1964 and Vajracharya ordination...
Bruce Tift Return to top of page
Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT has been in private practice since 1979, has taught at Naropa University for 25 years, and has given presentations in the US, Mexico, and Japan. A practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhi...
Gioia Timpanelli Return to top of page
Gioia Timpanelli is an early and central figure to the storytelling revival. She has been performing for more than thirty years for audiences of all ages. Her book Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of...
Colin Tipping Return to top of page
Colin Tipping was born in England and taught at London University before immigrating to the United States in 1984. With his wife JoAnn, he co founded the Georgia Cancer Help Program and Together-We-He...
Eckhart Tolle Return to top of page
Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine, a profound inner transformation radically changed th...
Evelyn Tribole Return to top of page
Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D., is an award-winning dietitian with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California, specializing in eating disorders. She was the nutrition expert for Good Mor...
Lynne Twist Return to top of page
Lynne Twist is a global activist, author, and teacher, who has devoted her life to sustainability and economic integrity. An original staff member of The Hunger Project, she is author of The Soul of M...
Sun Tzu Return to top of page
The warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu composed The Art of War during the Warring States period of ancient China, which lasted from the fifth to the third century B.C.E....
Jai Uttal Return to top of page
Jai Uttal is a pioneer in the world music community. His eclectic east-meets-west sound has put his music at the forefront of the world fusion movement. Jai Uttal's musical roots embrace a rich variet...
Iyanla Vanzant Return to top of page
Iyanla Vanzant has more than 8 million books in print. She is the author of five New York Times bestsellers including Yesterday I Cried (Fireside, 2000), One Day My Soul Just Opened Up (Fireside, 1998...
Vargo Return to top of page
Vargo is a project between singer Stephanie Hundertmark and producer/musician Ansgar Üffink. Based in Hamburg, Vargo enjoy the honor of being the first German act featured on the Cafe del Mar series....
Various Artists Return to top of page
Sounds True strives to preserve the essential "living wisdom" of each author, artist, or spiritual teacher we publish....
Various Authors Return to top of page
Sounds True strives to preserve the essential "living wisdom" of each author, artist, or spiritual teacher we publish....
Various Presenters Return to top of page
Confirmed 2013 Wake Up Festival Presenters include Adyashanti Ann Marie Chiasson Anne Lamott David Feinstein David Frenette David Whyte Donna Eden Jack Kornfield Jeff Pincus Jeff Foster J...
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Return to top of page
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee was born in London in 1953, and has followed the Naqshbandi Sufi path since the age of 19, after meeting Irina Tweedie, author of Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Trainin...
Glen Velez Return to top of page
Glen Velez is an internationally recognized master drummer, composer, scholar, and teacher who has merged his background in Western percussion with the study of frame drum performance styles. In creat...
Tomas Vieira Return to top of page
Tomas Vieira and Nouk Sanchez co-authored the bestseller Take Me To Truth: Undoing the Ego. Before Tomas’ passing in December 2010, the teaching couple spoke around the world helping to translate th...
Susan Wagner Return to top of page
Susan Wagner, DVM, MS, of Columbus, Ohio, is a respected veterinary neurologist and a pioneer in the area of human–animal bond.She is an active public speaker and adjunct faculty at the Ohio State U...
Wah! Return to top of page
Before “yoga” was a household word, Wah! was creating hip, gritty, trendy music that set the scene for what was to become a new genre: yoga music. She has developed a large and dedicated following...
Russel Walder Return to top of page
Russel Walder is a Grammy® nominee and multi-platinum selling artist who has performed throughout the world. At age 19 he was signed to the Windham Hill label and went on to record for Narada and Rea...
Alice Walker Return to top of page
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1983, Alice Walker is recognized as one of the major writers of our time. Her novels include The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Meridia...
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Return to top of page
Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute, is an acclaimed author as well as a highly respected and beloved teacher to students throughout the United States,...
Alan Watts Return to top of page
Alan Watts (1915–1973) For spiritual seekers of many generations, Alan Watts earned a reputation as one of the most accessible—and entertaining—interpreters of Eastern philosophy in...
Andrew Weil Return to top of page
Andrew Weil, MD, is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. He is founder and dir...
John Welwood Return to top of page
John Welwood, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher, and author. He trained in existential psychology and worked closely with Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago, where he...
Hank Wesselman Return to top of page
Hank Wesselman, PhD, is a paleoanthropologist and shamanic teacher who has worked with noted anthropologists investigating the mysteries of human origins in Africa. His books include Visionseeker, Spi...
Tim Wheater Return to top of page
Tim Wheater is a flautist, composer, performer, and teacher. His multidimensional talent has enabled him to work with diverse groups such as major symphony orchestras, the popular rock band The Euryth...
David Whyte Return to top of page
David Whyte grew up among the hills and valleys of Yorkshire, England. A captivating speaker with a compelling blend of poetry and insightful commentary, David Whyte is one of the few poets to take hi...
Ken Wilber Return to top of page
Ken Wilber is one of the most influential and widely read American philosophers of our time. His writing has been translated into more than 20 languages. Ken Wilber is the author of many books, includ...
Terry Tempest Williams Return to top of page
Terry Tempest Williams is an award winning writer known for her lyrical prose and an environmental activist. Her books include Refuge(Vintage, 1992), Leap (Vintage, 2001), and The Open Space of Democr...
Mark Williams Return to top of page
Mark Williams, PhD, is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford and Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, and co-author with Drs. Segal and Teasdale of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therap...
Sarajane Williams Return to top of page
Sarajane Williams is a professional harpist and composer with over 35 years of experience in the healing arts, and founder of Vibroacoustic Harp Therapy® (VAHT). Her therapeutic music is widely used...
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Robert Anton Wilson, Ph.D. is a prolific writer, philosopher, and futurist. After receiving his degree in electrical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnical, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from H...
Fred Alan Wolf Return to top of page
Dr. Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. He was featured in the groundbreaking film, What the Bleep Do We Know? and has writ...
Stephen Wolinsky Return to top of page
Stephen Wolinsky began his clinical practice in 1974 as a Gestalt and Reichian therapist and trainer. In 1977 he journeyed to India to study meditation for nearly six years. He has trained in classica...
Marion Woodman Return to top of page
Marion Woodman is a writer, international teacher and workshop leader, and Jungian analyst. With over a half-million books in print, she is one of the most widely read authors on analytical and femini...
Roger Woolger Return to top of page
Roger Woolger, PhD (1944-2011) Trained at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Roger Woolger was a Jungian analyst, past-life therapist, and professional lecturer with degrees in psychology, religion,...
Wyoma Return to top of page
Wyoma has been teaching and performing the dances of Africa and the African diaspora for more than twenty years. She received a degree in dance from The Naropa Institute and has studied with Baba Olat...
Savina Yannatou Return to top of page
From the fertile landscape of the Mediterranean rim comes this evocative new offering of songs from Savina Yannatou, one of the region’s most stellar voices today. Yannatou has been hailed throughou...
YofiYah Return to top of page
YofiYah is the founder of Hebrew, or Kabbalistic, Kirtan, an ecstatic practice based on the chanting of sacred Hebrew texts and Names of God. She is the creator of Vocal Discovery, a unique method for...
Shinzen Young Return to top of page
Shinzen Young became fascinated with Asian culture while a teenager in Los Angeles. Later he enrolled in a PhD program in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Eventually, he went to Asia a...
Marcia Yudkin Return to top of page
Marcia Yudkin, PhD, began her writing career at the New York Times in 1981, and is recognized today as a leading creative marketing expert. The author of 11 books, she holds three Ivy League degrees i...
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Rabbi David Zeller is a pioneer in Jewish spirituality and psychology, and an internationally known teacher, counselor, and singer. Rabbi Zeller is the founder and director of the Network of Conscious...
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