Most practitioners are available for all retreats, some of them may require advanced scheduling.
Anjay is a Spiritual Life Coach, Yoga and 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, Movement Education, Anahatha Yoga and Taoist Chi Gong. In his twenties, Anjay had a near death experience that was his first spritual awakening. Since then Anjay 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. You can find out more about Anjay, his breathwork and aquatic bodywork practice at: www.fluidbreath.com and www.claritybreathwork.com.
Yvana Puharich offers Personal Transformation support. She integrates her studies of Personal and Spiritual Growth Work, with in-depth experiential understanding of human nature to attune to each individual’s personal process. Yvana has been inspired throughout her life by consciousness evolution, as well as by a determined quest for personal liberation. She has lived and traveled internationally, exploring the many facets of existence. Yvana provides guidance and mentoring towards living one’s true potential. She offers support in releasing limiting thoughts and behavioral structures, as well as an understanding of the underlying dynamics of the subconscious mind, as a means for self-empowerment. Personal Transformation sessions may include Intuitive Counseling, Breathwork Facilitation, Freedom Tapping, and Reiki Essence Touch. Yvana’s presence is gentle, compassionate, clear and direct.
Ghania Dawn Joia is an intuitive healer with an integrative approach to healing. She calls her work "Solelation". Solelation is a body of work that has taken over 30 years to develop. The focus of the work is to unlock and release physical, energetic and emotional traumas as well as stuck patterns that create toxicity, pain, discomfort and stress in the body. Even after one session clients report that they feel relief from chronic pain, physically and emotionally lighter, deeply relaxed and happier. Which in turn, allows a person deeper access to their heart and soul and able to connect their everyday life with Heart Consciousness. Ghania's work is a mix and integrates Foot Reflexology, Sound, Ortho-Bionomy, Inner Landscape, Cranial Sacral, Breath Work, Nutrition, and Counseling.
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.
Constance Hart, founder of Conscious Colors & Color Aromas, is an internationally-recognized color therapist and the pioneer of color aromatherapy in the U.S. She is a color intuitive with over 20 years experience in the healing arts. More information at: www.consciouscolors.com.
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.
Scott Catamas is considered to be a Master Coach and Teacher of Compassionate Communication. Scott started teaching in 2002, and has led hundreds of classes and workshops throughout the U.S. During this time, he has become a popular teacher and his events continue to expand. He has recently been invited to teach throughout Europe and Asia. Working as a Coach and Teacher has become Scott's full time occupation. He has privately coached over 200 singles, couples, families and small businesses. His classes, workshops and private coaching has changed the lives of thousands throughout the U.S. and Europe. Scott embodies Compassion in his work, private life and volunteer service. When he is at home in Middletown, CA he is available for private sessions at Sacred Springs. More about Scott at www.lovecoachscott.com.
Alaya Babineau has been passionately devoted to conscious touch and embodiment for over 22 years and has practiced professionally since 1989. A certified practitioner in Massage Therapy and Biodynamic Cranial Touch, she blends these two modalities, bringing conscious touch to her private session as well as her current workshops in Cleansing, Yoga and Bodywork Retreats at Harbin Hot Springs. Alaya's ardent desire for embodied living, blended with a deep curiosity as to the many ways Source expresses through us, inspires her ongoing evolution as a practitioner/teacher inspired by Continuum Movement, silent sitting, aquatic bodywork and being in nature. Find out more about Alaya at: www.expressionsofsource.com.
Brian Tierney is a nationally certified massage therapist who has been working for the last twelve years to integrate multiple streams of psychosomatic healing practice. Diversity is the key principle behind the effectiveness of Brian's work as he has practiced many different bodymind disciplines over the years ranging from the light neurological and bioenergetic work such as Craniosacral Therapy to deeply structural forms such as the Rolf Method of Structural Integration. As a bodyworker and massage therapist Brian works with the client to gently and powerfully release structural armoring, helping to augment the potency and vitality of the body. As a coach, breathwork facilitator, and Psychotherapist-in-training, Brian uses sensibilities developed as a clinical bodyworker to inform his support of psychological process. A Ph.D. student in Somatic Psychology, Brian continues to place himself at the cutting edge of integrative health care. For more about Brian, visit the New Renaissance Bodywork website: www.nrintegratedtherapies.com.