Rita Navarrete Perez & Toñita Gonzales

Rita Navarrete Perez & Toñita Gonzales

Rita Navarrete Perez and Toñita Gonzales, co-founders of the Mexican non-profit La Cultura Cura, are traditional curanderas (folk healers) who work internationally and specialize in sobadas (hands-on healing), limpias (energetic cleansing), Mayan acupuncture, platicas (heart-to-heart healing), temazcal (Meso-American sweat lodge) and medicinal plants. Toñita currently has her own practice, Tonantzin Traditional Healing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is the director of RAICES (Remembering Ancestors, Inspiring Community, Empowering Self), a collaboration of community education. She also practices in Mexico City at Temazcal Tonatiuh and School and Clinic La Cultura Cura, in Mataxhi, Mexico (an indigenous Otomi Community). They have shared their knowledge at the Smithsonian, Texas Holocaust Museum, Pacifica Clinics in Los Angeles and with many hospitals. Rita is a professor of traditional medicine at Centro de Desarollo Humano Hacia la Comunidad in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

She currently has her own practice Tonantzin Traditional Healing in Albuquerque, is the director of RAICES (remembering ancestors, inspiring community, empowering self), a collaborative of community education. She also practices in Mexico City at Temazcal Tonatiuh, and School/Clinic La Cultura Cura, in Mataxhi, Mexico (an indigenous Otomi Community).

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Brian Harris, the CEO and co-founder of MedRhythms, Inc., is a Board-Certified Music Therapist with specialized training in Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT). As one of only 250 people in the world who has received advanced training in this field, Harris was hired as the first NMT at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where, in 2015, he founded the clinical division of MedRhythms. Harris has presented his work at Harvard Medical School, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Alpert Medical School at Brown University, the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons and Stanford Medical Center. He currently lives in Portland, Maine. 

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Marco Dolce

Marco Dolce is a musician, sound healer, teacher and best-selling recording artist known as XUMANTRA. Internationally acclaimed for his work with authentic Tibetan singing bowls and gongs, Marco’s recordings are in use worldwide by yoga practitioners, alternative healers, meditators and spiritual seekers of all types. Marco has been hailed by critics as a modern pioneer and master of the contemporary uses of these miraculous instruments. Marco graduated from Rutgers University where he studied music theory with New York composer Philip Corner and jazz improvisation with the late, legendary guitarist Ted Dunbar. Afterwards, Marco spent many years as a journeyman gui­tarist, guitar teacher, songwriter and bandleader, performing con­tinually in local and European venues and producing and releasing numerous recordings along the way. Marco studied conga drumming and Afro-Cuban percussion at the Drummer’s Collective in New York City with Latin music great Bobby Sanabria.

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