President and CEO of Essence of Being, Inc. Burge Smith-Lyons has had morethan 34 years involved with the healing, learning and educational environment and has facilitated workshops for personal growth and corporate seminars since 1980. She specializes in helping people identify their "Bubble Talk" - subconscious negative self-talk that blocks them from achieving what they want in life. Burge is distinguished by the many modalities of learning she uses for personal growth and healing in her workshops. Her holistic mind-body-spirit approach includes conscious breathing, kinesiology, emotional release, energy release, psychotherapy, NLP, EFT, anger-release work, channeling and Super Learning, accelerated learning techniques that activate both the left and right brain. Burge is a motivational speaker and trainer, intuitive healer, family counselor and minister through the Universal Life Church and The Madonna Ministry. She is chairman and founder of the non-profit organization, The Healing Forest Foundation, Inc.