Katherine Woodward Thomas is author of the New York Times bestseller, Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and the national bestseller, Calling in "The One:" 7 Weeks to Attract the Love Of Your Life. She is a licensed psychotherapist and has taught hundreds of thousands to find greater happiness in love.
www.KatherineWoodwardThomas.com
Kate Munger
Kate Munger has devoted herself to creating non-hierarchical, collaborative models for singing, community building and fellowship since 1973. She founded the first of 160 Threshold Choirs, an organization for those who sing in service at the bedsides of people who are dying. www.thresholdchoir.org
Kate MacKinnon
Kate Mackinnon is a diplomat-certified CranioSacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute, and a licensed physical therapist in California and the United Kingdom. She is a passionate advocate of CranioSacral therapy and of the importance of healthy touch.
www.kmackinnon.com
Katchie Ananda
Katchie Ananda is an internationally recognized yoga and dharma teacher whose leadership in yoga and social change prompted Yoga Journal to name her one of five top yoga teachers making change in the world. Email Me www.katchieananda.com
Katalin Kálmán
Kata Kálmán is a mindfulness trainer and coach with multinational clients including Audi, Wendy's, Coca Cola, and GE. Her work has led her to the most prevalent disorders of our times: depression and anxiety. Kata practices Thich Nhat Hanh's Buddhist mindfulness-based tradition.
Karla McLaren
Karla McLaren, MEd, is an award-winning author, researcher and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most "negative" emotions and opens new pathways into self-awareness and healthy empathy. She is the author of The Art of Empathy. Email Me KarlaMcLaren.com
Karishma Darby
Karishma Darby is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Sierra Foothills, Calif. Her passion is awakening consciousness within and in relationship with others. She facilitates workshops, active and silent mediation, and relationally centered psychotherapy groups.
www.relationalsomatics.com
Karen Ely
Karen Ely is the founding director of A Woman's Way, one of the country's premiere women's retreat programs, and the author of Daring to Dream: Reflections on the Year I Found Myself, A Retreat of My Own, Breathing Space, and A Safe Place to Stand (forthcoming).
www.sedonawomensinstitute.com
Karen Cook
Karen Cook is an acupuncturist with more than 25 years of experience in the movement arts. She has been teaching Yoga since 1997, influenced by Thomas Fortel Yoga and SpectorDance. Her love of movement is her joy and invites all to open to their divine light.
www.cookswellness.com
Karen Axelrod
Karen Axelrod, MA, CST-D, CMT, is a certified somatic therapist specializing in CranioSacral Therapy. She teaches CST internationally for the Upledger Institute and maintains a private practice in Redondo Beach, Calif. Her passion is helping clients connect to inner resources necessary for healing body, mind and spirit.
Email Me www.karenaxelrod.com
Kamini Desai
Kamini Desai is the author of Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep, and creator and education director of the Amrit Method Yoga Nidra curriculum. Kamini lectures and trains internationally, uniquely combining Eastern philosophy with Western psychology and science.
www.kaminidesai.com
Kamara McAndrews
Kamara McAndrews, LMFT, DAACS, is a psychotherapist with an expertise in sex, marriage, and intimacy issues. She also is an AASECT licensed sex therapist.
www.kamaratherapy.com
Kai Harper
Kai Harper is a native Big Sur local, a graduate of Esalen's Gazebo School and UC, Santa Barbara, with a degree in psychology. A past resident director at UCSB, he currently works at Esalen as a grounds and garden land steward, practicing relational agriculture cultivating the inner and outer landscapes of life.
June Gruber
June Gruber, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who has authored more than 60 journals and articles and received several early career awards from the APA, SRP, and NARSAD.
Julieanna Hever
Julieanna Hever, RD, CPT, is a registered dietitian and the host of the talk show series What Would Julieanna Do? Author of The Vegiterranean Diet and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition, her work has appeared widely on television and other media. She has a private practice in Los Angeles, Calif.
www.plantbaseddietitian.com
Julie Murphy, MA, LMFT, is a professor, author, international Hakomi trainer, and somatic psychotherapist. With a background in anthropology, contemplative psychology, attachment theory, Buddhism, and poetry, Julie has developed numerous programs that integrate cutting-edge research with humanistic and contemplative approaches.
Julie Holland
Julie Holland, MD, is a psychiatrist and author of Weekends at Bellevue and Moody Bitches, editor of The Pot Book, and Ecstasy: The Complete Guide, and medical monitor for clinical studies of cannabis or MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of PTSD in veterans.
Julie Baker Chouteau
Julie Baker Chouteau is a psychotherapist specializing in empowerment of the individual's authentic voice, recovery from substance abuse and navigation of life transitions. She works with creative process as an expression of one's inner landscape. She has a private practice in Marin County, Calif.
Juergen Bamberger
Juergen Bamberger is a Gyrotonic® master trainer who has been educating and certifying instructors worldwide for more than 25 years. Originally a professional dancer with a degree in dance education, Juergen has studied many modalities of movement arts, bodywork, and human anatomy.
www.juergenbamberger.com
Judith Orloff, MD, is the New York Times best-selling author of The Empath's Survival Guide and Thriving as an Empath. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath and is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, O, the Oprah Magazine and the New York Times. Email Me www.drjudithorloff.com
Judith Hemming
Judith Hemming practices and teaches Constellations worldwide. She has developed and taught applications of the systemic approach in family, educational, and organizational contexts. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and the director of Moving Constellations in the United Kingdom.
www.movingconstellations.com
Joyce Vissell
Joyce Vissell is a nurse/psychotherapist who, with her husband Barry, founded the Shared Heart Foundation in 1982 dedicated to changing the world one heart at a time. Together they write a syndicated column for 80 periodicals worldwide. www.sharedheart.org
Joyce Thompson is the author of six novels, two collections of stories and a memoir, Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu. She has taught writing in public schools, extension, and MFA programs, had a play produced, and owns a tech marketing business.
Joyce Catlett
Joyce Catlett, MA, has collaborated with Dr. Robert Firestone in writing 13 books including Fear of Intimacy; Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion; The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships, and The Self Under Siege. She is co-producer of Glendon Associations 45 training video programs.
www.glendon.org
Jovinna Chan
Jovinna Chan, E-RYT 500, YACEP, in recent years co-founded Shakti Initiation Yoga Leadership School and A Wild Life Sanctuary™. She served as the assistant dean, 200-and 500-hour teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga and is a certified Soul Motion™ and LetYourYogaDance Teacher. Jovinna is a co-founder of Pranotthan School of Yoga and leads transformational programs around the world. Email Me www.jovinna.com
Josie Weaver
Josie Weaver teaches qigong, yoga, and tai chi. She is a senior trainer at the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, and through her own energy healing practice she helps clients manage conditions such as Parkinson's, Ehlers Dahnlos Syndrome, and chronic pain.
Jordan Allen leads Circling Europe in America. Jordan created CirclingAnywhere.com, which makes Circling accessible daily around the world, and he's the author of A Beautiful Apocalypse, a zombie adventure inspired by integral theory. Email Me www.circlingeurope.com
Jonathan Horan
Jonathan Horan is Gabrielle Roth's son and closest collaborator. He is on the core faculty of her international institute, The Moving Center. Jonathan has been immersed in the 5Rhythms® practice throughout his life and continues to be a key catalyst in its evolution.
www.5rhythms.com
Jonathan Goldman is an acupuncture, energy medicine, and spiritual healing practitioner. He is principle director at the Essential Light Institute, developer of Transformational Energy Healing, and the originator of the Chakra Map method of observing and helping the Human Energy Vehicle.
www.essentiallight.org
John Vosler
John Vosler is a senior teacher at the Amrit Yoga Institute who leads Yoga Nidra certification programs, and an iRest teacher certified by the Integrative Restoration Institute. He teaches internationally, leading trainings and retreats on the profound healing benefits of the ancient meditation practice of Yoga Nidra.
www.johnvosler.com
John Thompson co-founded Circling Europe and has helped define and evolve both Circling and Surrendered Leadership. He trains Circling leaders worldwide. He formerly was an elite tennis coach specializing in psychology and founded a program to help street children in India.
www.circlingeurope.com
Johnsmith has been writing heartfelt songs for more than 30 years. He has won national awards and contests, was a staff songwriter in Nashville and has recorded eight CDs. He's taught songwriting workshops nationwide, and has been featured on NPR's New Dimensions.
www.johnsmithmusic.com
John Robbins is author of Diet for a New America and many other bestsellers, founder of EarthSave International, and one of the most popular bloggers on the Huffington Post. He is a recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, and dozens of other honors.
www.johnrobbins.info
John Prendergast
John J. Prendergast, PhD, is the author of In Touch, a nondual spiritual teacher, practicing psychotherapist, and retired adjunct professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also the senior editor of The Sacred Mirror and Listening from the Heart of Silence.
www.listeningfromsilence.com
John Perkins, is a leading authority on shamanism and transformation, advisor to the UN, World Bank, CEOs, and many governments, and New York Times best-selling author of 9 books including Shapeshifting and The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He teaches internationally, co-founded The Pachamama Alliance, and founded DreamChange.
www.johnperkins.org
John Marks
John Marks founded Search for Common Ground, a peace-building NGO with offices in 35 countries. He was a best-selling, award-winning author, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, a U.S. Senate aide, a Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship and an Ashoka Senior Fellow.
www.sfcg.org
John Forsyth
John P. Forsyth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, professor, and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at SUNY Albany. He is an author, speaker and trainer, and leads ACT workshops worldwide.
Email Me www.drjohnforsyth.com
John Brehm
John Brehm is the author of two award-winning books of poems, Help Is on the Way and Sea of Faith. He is also the associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and the editor of the anthology The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches for the Literary Arts and Mountain Writers Series in Portland and for the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.
www.johnbrehm.net
Johanna Holloman
Johanna Holloman is a German-born clinical psychologist, Diamond Approach® teacher and certified Esalen Massage and Deep Bodywork instructor. She teaches internationally. She is a yoga teacher (E-RYT 500) and created the Esalen in-house yoga training program.
Joe Wilkins
Joe Wilkins is the author of the memoir The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing up on the Big Dry and two books of poetry. His third full-length collection, When We Were Birds, was recently named a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He directs the creative-writing program at Linfield College.
joewilkins.org
Joe Cavanaugh
Joseph Cavanaugh is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Sierra foothills and a psychology instructor at a local community college. He has facilitated personal-growth workshops throughout California for the past 45 years.
Jody Greene
Jody Greene has been practicing Zen Buddhism and yoga since 2001, and has taught yoga and meditation both privately and at Yoga Tree in San Francisco, Esalen Institute and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
JoAnne Chartrand-Benz
JoAnne Chartrand-Benz has been a European-trained somatic psychology educator since 1979. Her specialty is in somatic, transpersonal, relational psychology, and trauma work. She teaches Family Constellation trainings. She is a Somatic Experience practitioner, a student of the Diamond Approach, and co-author of Love and Belonging.
JoAnna Hardy
Joanna Claassen Ferraro
Joanna Claassen Ferraro has been an outdoor and early childhood educator since 2000. She runs Early Ecology, an outdoor educational program for children and families in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a former director of Esalen Institute's Gazebo School Park. Joanna is inspired by the natural world, human kindness and the power of play.