Catherine Ingram is an international dharma teacher with communities in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Since 1992 she has led Dharma Dialogues, which are public events that focus on directing awareness toward greater wellbeing in an ethical and happy life. Catherine also leads numerous silent retreats each year in conjunction with Dharma Dialogues. She is president of Living Dharma, an educational non-profit organization founded in 1995. Catherine has been the subject of numerous print, television, and radio interviews and is included in several anthologies about teachers in the west. A former journalist specializing in issues of consciousness and activism, Catherine Ingram is the author of two books of nonfiction, which are published in numerous languages: In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual/Social Activists (Parallax Press, 1990) and Passionate Presence: Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness (Penguin Putnam, 2003); and one novel, A Crack in Everything (Diamond Books, 2006). Over a fifteen-year period beginning in 1982, Catherine published approximately 100 articles on issues of consciousness and activism and served on the editorial staffs of New Age Journal, East West Journal, and Yoga Journal. For four years she wrote the Life Advice column for Alternatives Magazine based in Oregon. TOPICS: How to know when you are out of alignment with with your true self + How to create the habit of silence + How death can be our alley and inspire us to savor our lives more + How to cultivate passionate presence + How to create a truly nourishing and authentic life.
Sara Gottfried, MD is a natural hormone expert, Harvard-educated physician, keynote speaker and author of The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2013). For the past 20 years, Dr. Gottfried has been dedicated to helping women feel at home in their bodies with natural hormone balancing. She is is regularly featured in magazines such as O Magazine, Glamour, and Yoga Journal, and TV including The Ricki Lake Show and 20/20. TOPICS: What you need to know about how to decrease stress + Why gut health is so important for feeling happy and resilient + How to find the ideal nutrition plan for you + Why epigenetics is so vital for your well-being and longevity + How do detox properly.
Cindy Joseph was born in 1951. She was a make up artist for 27 years and was sought after as a model at 49 yrs of age in 1999. Cindy has had a thriving modeling career since, represented by Ford Models Inc. Cindy launched Boom! by Cindy Joseph in 2010, which is the first pro-age cosmetic line consisting of organic skin care and parred down cosmetics for realistic beauty. She also has a weekly video blog, Saturday's with Cindy, which is posted on Experience Life Magazine/Just Cindy as well as www.boombycindyjoseph.com, she speaks about matters that matter to women from self esteem and aging, to hair, skin care, diet. exercise, group living and more. TOPICS: Why you you get better as you age. Pro Age Revolution!! + Best beauty tips (hints happiness, pleasure + joy :) + Why your mirrors are a bad idea when it comes to your looks + How to let your natural radiance shine + Why pleasure is so vital to feeling and looking beautiful.
Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life, the award-winning healthy-living magazine that reaches more than 3.2 million people nationwide. An engaging public speaker and vibrant media presence, Pilar writes, speaks and presents widely on topics related to healthy, happy, authentic living. She appears regularly on a variety of radio and TV shows, and has been a guest on Dr. Oz’s Oprah & Friends radio program. She presents regularly at national conferences and retreat centers. In addition to her widely read column for Experience Life, she writes regularly for The Huffington Post and is the author of a chapbook, Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World, from which these 10 Revolutionary Truths are excerpted. TOPICS: Why you should eat A LOT more fat! + How to love and appreciate your body more + How to add more ritual in your life + What to do with cravings + Why your pace and rhythm is so vital to your health and happiness.
Lisa Schrader, the Founder of Awakening Shakti, has impacted the lives of thousands of people over the past 10 years as a sacred sexuality workshop leader, author, speaker and coach. Her work has been featured on Oprah, Oxygen and VH1. She is the author of Kama Sutra 52: A Year's Worth of the Best Positions for Passion and Pleasure from Quiver Books. She has a private coaching practice supporting clients worldwide and is certified through the International Coach Federation. TOPICS: How to attract what you want rather than making it happen + How to use your feminine gifts in every day life + How to honor your natural cycles and rhythms + Why self-care is vital for you feeling juicy and alive + How to be a vessel for the divine feminine/shakti.
Darya Pino Rose, Ph.D is a blogger, neuroscientist, and author. She is known as the founder of the blog Summer Tomato, and as a health & food contributor to The Huffington Post and other publications. In 2011, TIME named Rose's weblog, Summer Tomato, one of "50 Websites That Make the Web Great." She is the author of the book "Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting," published by HarperOne in May, 2013. She is currently working on a new book on the effect of dieting on happiness, emotional satisfaction, and pregnancy. Rose received a Ph.D in neurology from University of California, San Francisco in 2011 and currently resides in San Francisco, California. TOPICS: Why diets don't work + How to deal with cravings + Why you should stop doing cleanses and starving yourself to be at your ideal weight + What you need to know about creating healthy habits (and make them last) + How to eat amazingly delicious food every day and even enjoy yummy dessert.
Sheri Winston offers empowering, enlightening erotic education for everyone as a teacher of Wholistic Sexuality. She’s an award-winning author & founder of the Center for the Intimate Arts, and has a background as a nurse-midwife, gynecology practitioner, registered nurse, holistic healer, doula & massage therapist. TOPICS: How to communicate and create boundaries in intimate relationships + How masculine (yang) + feminine (yin) energies are wired and how they show up in our bodies + How to be more flirty and create more games in your sexual life + How to keep love life juicy and succulent even after years of being together + 4 languages of touch and why they are vital for relationship health.
Cynthia Occelli dropped out of school in the ninth grade, became a single Mom living on-welfare at nineteen. She then went onto Law school and graduated in the top 3% of the class-- a feat most people thought impossible as a high school drop out. In her book, Resurrecting Venus: Embrace Your Feminine Power, Cynthia tells of the tremendous challenges and tragedies she experienced and how women are gifted with the power to overcome challenges and create the lives they deeply desire. Visit Cynthia's blog at http://CynthiaOccelli.com TOPICS: How to create a beautiful life and live your truth, passion and purpose + Why it's important to not settle for less than you desire + How to own your worth + How to work with self-doubt, criticism and fear+ How to feel divinely feminine.
Tami has advanced training in multiple bodywork techniques, including certification in Maya Abdominal Massage and Infant Body Psychotherapy/Birth Trauma Resolution. She received her Masters from Pacific University and her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and sons. TOPICS: How to move through creative blocks and resistance + How to tap into the creative field to manifest your dreams + Why linear pathways aren’t ideal for the feminine + Why tending to your body, home and family are vital for feeling nourished + How to create more rituals and connect with spirit more in day to day life.
Geneen Roth is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God. She has appeared on many national television shows including: The Oprah Show, 20/20, The NBC Nightly News, The View, CBS Early Show, The Dr.Oz Show, and Good Morning America. Articles about Geneen and her work have appeared in numerous publications including: O: The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Time, Elle, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has written monthly columns in Good Housekeeping Magazine and Prevention Magazine. Geneen is the author of nine books, including bestsellers Lost and Found and When Food Is Love. TOPICS: How food can be one of our greatest teachers + How to stop dieting and shaming/punishing yourself with food + How to learn to be kind and respect your body and what you need to eat to feel your best + How to experience being enough and dealing with your critical voice + How to use learn to be and sit with discomfort and pain.
Sue Ann Gleason is a food lover, food writer, food-based healer and heart-centered marketing strategist. Founder of Conscious Bites Nutrition and the Well Nourished Woman, she inspires women to trust their intuition, unravel their food stories and rewrite their nourishment script. She has been featured in Oprah and Runner’s World Magazines and numerous online publications. Sue Ann shares her expertise through online programs and in one-on-one sessions via telephone or SKYPE. Her signature online program, the Well-Nourished Woman Inner Circle, runs twice a year for three months, a truly exquisite online experience for women who are ready to take back their plates, one luscious bite at a time. When not working with clients, she can be found sampling exotic chocolates or building broccoli forests in her mashed potatoes. TOPICS: How to love what you eat + How to trust your intuition and unravel your food story + Why pleasure is so important for true nourishment + Learn a different approach to finding your ideal body weight + How to transform your relationship with food, stop dieting, & start nurturing yourself.
Renée Peterson Trudeau is an internationally-recognized life balance teacher/speaker and president of Career Strategists. Raised by spiritual seekers, Renée is the oldest of seven Montessori-inspired children. Growing up in Northern California, she attended a yoga school based on the teachings of Parmahansa Yogananada, rode horses bareback and hiked in the vast wilderness of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and learned stained glass window-making and philosophy from the Bhagavad-Gita. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies like IBM and Ernst and Young and national women's organizations/conferences and nonprofits. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, US News and World Report, Good Housekeeping, Mothering, Yogi Times and more. She is the author of the award-winning The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life and Nurturing the Soul of Your Family: 10 Ways to Reconnect and Find Peace in Everyday Life (2013). Thousands of women in more than ten countries are facilitating and participating in Personal Renewal Groups based on her award-winning work. Renée is on the faculty of Kripalu Center for Yoga & Wellness and she speaks and leads life balance workshops/retreats for corporations, conferences and organizations worldwide. She lives in Austin with her husband and 11 year-old son. Visit www.ReneeTrudeau.com and www.CareerStrategists.net.t.
Dr. Elsbeth Meuth is the co-author of Sexual Enlightenment: How to Create Lasting Fulfillment in Life, Love and Intimacy. She has assisted thousands of women, couples, and singles in rekindling and expanding their love and relationships over the past decade. Co-founder and director of the TantraNova Institute in Chicago, she is an internationally renowned workshop leader,relationship and intimacy coach, and a certified Tantra Yoga teacher. She and her partner, Freddy Zental Weaver, produced the bestselling DVD Series Creating Intimacy & Love and were featured on Showtime’s documentary series Sexual Healing and the Emmy Award-winning NBC show Starting Over. Their retreats and workshops have been acclaimed throughout the USA, North America, and Australia. Several times a year, the couple leads programs at Esalen in Big Sur, California, and at Kripalu, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where they are on the faculty. Elsbeth and Freddy Zental also lead couples’ retreats for CEOs and their spouses through the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and have received the highest recognition for their work. Elsbeth Meuth, Ed.D., was born and raised in Germany and has been developing her career over the past 40 years in the United States and Europe. As a management consultant and executive coach at Business Design Associates she worked with clients in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She holds a doctorate in education and a master’s degree in music. Elsbeth resides with her beloved, life and business partner in Chicago. www.TantraNova.com TOPICS: How to awaken your feminine energy + Why sexual life force is beneficial for your creativity + How to integrate sexuality and spirituality + How to trust your sexual center + Practices to increase your sensuality and self-love.
Tami has advanced training in multiple bodywork techniques, including certification in Maya Abdominal Massage and Infant Body Psychotherapy/Birth Trauma Resolution. She received her Masters from Pacific University and her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and sons. TOPICS: How to reclaim your wild feminine + What to do with shame + Why pelvic bowl health is vital for radiance and happiness + How to listen to your root for guidance + Why simple daily practices are important for juiciness and connection + Why our root is such a powerful container for pleasure.