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Lorimer Moseley
Lorimer Moseley
Lorimer Moseley, AO, DSc, PhD, FAAHMS, FACP, HonFFPMANZCA, is Director of IIMPACT in Health at the University of South Australia and founder/CEO of the non-profit initiative Pain Revolution. A pain scientist, clinician and educator, he has published 350 research articles and five books. His contribution to the fields of pain science, management and education has been honored by governments and prestigious professional societies in 13 countries, including Australia’s most prestigious prize for medical and health innovation, the American Pain Society’s Prize for Public Service and the inaugural Clinical Science Prize from the International Association for the Study of Pain. He was judged the ‘Field Leader, Pain and Pain Management’ in the recent Australian Research Awards and in 2020 was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of ‘distinguished service to Australia and to humanity at large’.
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Tor Wager
Tor Wager
Tor Wager, PhD, the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, served as an Assistant (2004-2008) and Associate Professor (2009) at Columbia University, and as Associate (2010-2014) and Full Professor (2014-2019) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since 2004, he has directed the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, devoted to work on the neurophysiology of affective processes—pain, emotion, stress and empathy—and how they are shaped by cognitive and social influences. Professor Wager and his lab are also dedicated to developing analysis methods for functional neuro-imaging and sharing ideas, tools and scientific data with the scientific community and public.
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Jasmine Yohai
Jasmine Yohai
Jasmine Yohai-Rifkin, MA is an expressive arts therapist who has been instrumental in running the somatic aspects of the workshop. She is currently working with a non-profit in Oakland, CA helping house the homeless.
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Babs Yohai
Babs Yohai
Babs Yohai, an alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute and a professional tap dancer who fuses African rhythms with Balinese mask theatre, has joined Drs. David Hanscom and Fred Luskin and her daughter Jasmine Yohai in many workshop retreats at the Omega Institute as well as on the West Coast with her ongoing work in neuroplasticity for those who suffer from chronic pain.
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Alberto Villoldo
Alberto Villoldo
Alberto Villoldo, PhD, a medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for more than 25 years, is the founder of the Four Winds Society, which trains modern shamans in the practice of energy medicine. He also directs the Center for Energy Medicine in Chile, where he investigates and practices the “neuroscience of enlightenment.”
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James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker
James W. Pennebaker, PhD is the Regents Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. An internationally recognized, award-winning social psychologist whose domains of inquiry include: natural language use, group dynamics, personality, the power of expressive writing, linguistics, clinical and cognitive psychology, communications, medicine and computer science, he is the author or editor of 12 books and over 300 articles.
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Bruce H. Lipton
Bruce H. Lipton
Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., cell biologist and lecturer, is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Bruce was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and later performed groundbreaking stem cell research at Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of The Biology of Belief, The Honeymoon Effect, and co- author with Steve Bhaerman of Spontaneous Evolution. Bruce received the 2009 prestigious Goi Peace Award (Japan) in honor of his scientific contribution to world harmony. For more information visit www.brucelipton.com
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Peter Levine
Peter Levine
Peter Levine, PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma that he developed over the past 50 years, is the founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute: Foundation for Human Enrichment, a world-wide organization committed to training professionals in somatic based trauma care. Currently President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, dedicated to community outreach and Post-Advanced Somatic Experiencing® trainings, his work has been taught to 30,000+ therapists in some 42 countries.
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