Entries by

Dawn Petter

Dawn Petter

Dawn Petter

Dawn Petter is a clinical herbalist and flower essence practitioner who teaches the art of plant-based healing and how to use herbal medicine within everyday life. Trained at the Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism, Delta Gardens and Findhorn Essences, Dawn works around the world and specifically in NYC teaching classes and leading herb walks at The New York Botanic Gardens, The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, The New York Hall of Science, 92Y, Brooklyn Grange, Brooklyn Brainery and the Rudolf Steiner School, among others. Dawn is also the creator of Petalune Herbals, a resource for handcrafted herbal skincare and luxury botanical products, and has extensive studies in quantum healing.

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


John Lloyd

John Lloyd

John Lloyd is a Creative Geometry Teacher who has been studying sacred geometry for more than 25 years. In the past he has studied with Keith Critchlow, Michael Schneider and John Michell and taught at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors and Omega Institute. John received his BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, and his paintings, which are often set in places where two worlds meet, have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the Northeast and in Europe. 

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


Daisy Lee

Daisy Lee

Daisy Lee

Daisy Lee is the founder of Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong, which she created after years of study to target women’s health concerns and support holistic self-care and self-healing of menstrual and hormonal imbalances, breast and uterine tumors/cysts, fibrocystic breast disease, emotional ups and downs, menopausal symptoms and memory loss. She is certified as a Level III Advanced Qigong Instructor and Clinical Practitioner by the National Qigong Association of America, as well as being a past board member of the International Qigong Science Association in Beijing. With more than 20 years of teaching around the world in 13+ countries, Daisy has certified hundreds of female Qigong instructors and been an online instructor with the Shift Network. In 2020, Daisy will be opening the Radiant Lotus Retreat Center in Isabela, Puerto Rico, with her partner, Mark Roule.

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg is a central figure in the field of meditation and a world-renowned teacher and author. She is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness. Acclaimed for her down-to-earth teaching style, Sharon offers a secular, modern approach to Buddhist teachings, making them instantly accessible.

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


Michael J. Gelb

Michael Gelb

Michael J. Gelb

Michael J. Gelb is the author of 17 books including the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci and More Balls Than Hands: Juggling Your Way to Success by Learning to Love Your Mistakes. Michael’s books have been translated into 25 languages and have sold more than 1 million copies. Michael worked his way through graduate school as a professional juggler and performed with Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


Amy Cunningham

Amy Cunningham

Amy Cunningham was a magazine writer until 2007 when her elderly father’s memorial service got her interested in helping folks plan more meaningful end-of-life services. When she’s not directing funerals, she writes a funeral planning blog called TheInspiredFuneral.com. She believes that a good funeral can send everyone in attendance out the door with an altered view of what life’s all about, and the beginnings of a plan for moving forward.

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


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).

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


Brian Harris

Brian Harris

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. 

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG


Marco Dolce

Marco Dolce

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.

UPCOMING PROGRAM

MORE UPCOMING PROGRAMS


FROM THE BLOG