Andrzej (pronounced: Anjay) is a Spiritual Life Coach, Meditation teacher, Clarity Breathwork Practitioner/Trainer and Aquatic Bodyworker with extensive training and certifications in Watsu, Waterdance, Healing Dance as well as Esalen, Thai, Swedish, Tantsu, Self-healing and Movement Education. In his twenties, Andrzej had a near death experience that was his first spritual awakening. Since then Andrzej has been travelling extensively, has lived in India and Africa, and has spent a lot of time in meditation, silent retreats and embraced various spiritual practices. His main passion is learning to live an awakened life and to share it with others. He enjoys in-depth study and practice of self-inquiry and meditation as a path of liberation. Andrzej lives now at Spirit Springs Mountain Retreat where he leads spiritual retreats. You can find out more about Andrzej, his breathwork and aquatic bodywork practice at: www.fluidbreath.com and www.claritybreathwork.com.
Ashanna has been involved in the healing arts for the past 20 years supporting the process of transformation, healing and creative expression in numerous groups and individuals. She is a Clarity Breathwork Practitioner and Trainer, Reiki Master, Teacher of the Awakening Your Light Body Training, Hypnotherapist and Intuitive Counselor. With studies from New York University and California Institute of Integral Studies, Ashanna has a passion for supporting others in their deepest embodiment of truth and creative healing expression. You can find out more about Ashanna and her Clarity Breathwork™ practice and other retreats and workshops at: www.breatheinlove.com.
Other Practitioners
Yvana Puharich serves as a guide into wholeness of being—through spiritual, emotional, mental, nutritional or dietary support. Drawing from a rich and varied array of personal life experience and training, she has the capacity to feel and hear beyond the periphery of outer circumstances and story into a deeper sense of truth. Yvana offers "Essential Touch," heartful bodywork that facilitates relaxing into essence. Her work is influenced by a variety of energy and spiritual healing modalities, Esalen massage certification, as well as aquatic bodywork. She also provides a joyful presence in raw food preparation.
Deidre Sommers was raised within a Sufi community and by a family of healers. From a very early age, she discovered the power of love and our innate capacity to heal and awaken to our true nature. Deidre is the founder of Alchemy of the Heart, a sanctuary for conscious evolution in Calistoga, Ca. since 2002. Deidre's mission and passion in life is being a visionary and steward of evolution. She is a certified Biodynamic practitioner and teacher of Biodynamic Cranial Touch through the Dynamic Stillness School. She is also a certified massage therapist as well as an ordained minister in professional practice in the U.S. and Europe since 1989. More about Deidre at: www.alchemyoftheheart.com.
Satya Marga is an international yoga teacher who inspires people to discover who they really are as embodied spirits and live creatively from that space. She is known for her charisma and depth of understanding of body, heart and spirit. Her primary yoga training was with Jivamukti and Standing Wave. She is founder of the Yoga Program at Harbin Hot Springs, and is featured in the DVD's Ecstatic Yoga and Tantric Yoga for Lovers. Satya studied dance at The London Contemporary Dance School and on Africa’s Ivory Coast. Her primary interest is to help students discover the power and pleasure of incarnation, and to use their bodies as the vehicle for awakening.
Jim Gilkeson, B.A., C.M.T, C.S.T. is a creative bodywork therapist, teacher of energy healing, and the author of A Pilgrim in Your Body: Energy Healing and Spiritual Process (iUniverse) and Energy Healing: A Pathway to Inner Growth (Marlowe & Co.), which the "father of bio-feedback," Elmer Green, Ph.D., called "the best book I've seen on this subject." A former brother in a semi-monastic spiritual order, Jim was a co-founder of the Institute for Healing Studies. In his private healing practice, Jim combines subtle energy therapy with cranio-sacral work and therapeutic massage. His background in meditation and spiritual practice and his love for experiential learning have made him keenly attentive to the developmental and initiatory dimensions of bodywork and energy healing. More about Jim at www.jimgilkeson.com.
Derek Albertsen offers ayurveda consultations and treatments. He grew up in the US, Africa and Europe and speaks English, French and Spanish. After a traditional career in law, he was drawn to hypnotherapy as a healing modality that considered the subtle aspects of being. While he tremendously enjoyed the one-on-one consultations of hypnotherapy, he was drawn to Ayurveda's "devotional approach to medicine" and to Ayurveda's holistic inclusion of the physical and spiritual aspects of being as well as the mental-emotional focus of hypnotherapy. Derek Albertsen is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico having trained with the pre-eminent Ayurvedic scholar and teacher Dr. Vasant Lad.