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Awaken Somatic Intelligence
Teaches us how to awaken the potential of the body-mind and to use that untapped potential to create a healthy, vibrant, and graceful aging process free of pain, injury, suffering, and confusion.
Provides simple, easy to learn practices that can be applied “anytime, anywhere” to live more mindfully, effectively, and joyously.
Takes daily practice beyond the meditation cushion or yoga mat and supports the integration and stabilization of non-dual consciousness and optimal cognitive, emotional and physiological functioning into a new way of living with ever-greater freedom and aliveness.

As a young adult, Dr. Risa Kaparo successfully healed herself from a painful and life-threatening illness. The discoveries she made during her ordeal prompted her to eventually create a methodology to transform pain, stress, trauma and aging into wellness, embodied mindfulness and vital longevity. This system called Somatic Learning – was developed during three decades of research, clinical practice and training of health care practitioners and involves simple practices that take only a few minutes a day, yet promote highly beneficial and lasting changes in the brain and the whole body, reorienting a person toward ever greater freedom, joy and aliveness.

To learn more about Risa click here http://www.awakeningsomaticintelligence.com.

Priscilla Warner graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked in Boston and New York as an advertising art director. Priscilla co-authored The New York Times bestselling memoir The Faith Club then toured the country for three years, popping Klonopin while she spoke to thousands of Americans in churches, synagogues, mosques, community centers and schools, on an extended book tour. Finally, in the skies over Oklahoma, she vowed to find her inner monk, and began meditating her way from panic to peace. The result is LEARNING TO BREATHE My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life. Priscilla lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband of 30+ years.

Finnish and French born, Michelle Karén holds a master's degree in philosophy as well as a diploma from the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London. She was selected to be the Astrologer to the Stars at the 78th Academy Awards in Hollywood. She is the author of 5 books in French, English and Finnish on astrology, living food nutrition, yoga and spiritual novels. She is also a red belt in Tae Kwon Do, a certified yoga teacher and volunteers with Free Arts for Abused children in L.A. where she now resides. She is also a shaman trained by the indigenous Q'eros in Peru where she has lived many months, and the indigenous Arhuacos in the sacred mountain of the Sierra Nevada in Colombia. She travels the world with her special Master cat Rafayel, offering seminars and conferences. She has clients in over 54 countries on all 5 continents.

Suzanne Taylor, Producer/Director of What on Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery has been involved with films since she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa c** laude from NYU. She was an actress and is a fine arts post-impressionist painter and an accomplished chef who authored The Anybody Can Make It, Everybody Will Love It Cookbook.

Suzanne is the founder of Mighty Companions, a non-profit dedicated to consciousness expansion. She writes a blog, Making Sense of These Times (http://TheConversation.org) discussing how consciousness might evolve and how instrumental the crop circle phenomenon could be in that regard. She is now involved with producing a Ted X event. Ask her about this! (details were not known upon this writing, April 3, 2012 by Suzanna Gratz)

Her first film CROP CIRCLES: Quest for Truth received the Audience Award in 2003 at the UFO Congress Film Festival and What on Earth? received the 2009 EBE Award for Best Feature Documentary.

To learn more about Suzanne click here http://www.cropcirclemovie.com/

NLP trainer and life coach. He is the founder of the American Alliance of Hypnotists and American University of NLP. He has over 4,000 self-help recordings and is the author of 22 books on hypnosis. He is currently pursuing his doctorate degree in education at Georgia Southern.

To learn more about Steve click here www.SteveGJones.com.

Jean Adrienne is a coach, author, talk radio host and the developer of InnerSpeak, a tool to clear away old programs, beliefs and wounds from the past so that you can create the reality you desire and deserve on a clean slate. She graduated from Florida State University with a degree in psychology, and teaches her world globally.

To learn more about Jean go to www.JeanAdrienne.com.

Macy Bishop is an Oregon native and met her husband Preston 21 years ago. They were High School Sweethearts. They are blessed to have a 5 year old son named Maxwell & 3 year old daughter Vivienne. Macy is a Jill of all trades and enjoys learning new things, most recently for fun she did 6 months of cake classes and then switched gears by completing CERT training and a Radio Technician license. She is an Ambassador for Pay It Forward and worked directly with the Governor’s Office for Oregon to become the first state this year to make the proclamation of April 26th Pay It forward Day.

Connie Gorrell’s ‘working girl’ career began as a registered nurse. She made the entrepreneurial jump into business quite by accident and found success through her wisdom and experiences, resonating with other women who have made the leap to finding success through adversity, whether personally or professionally. These are the women on the front lines of everyday life, using their instincts, passions, and women who spend every possible waking hour dedicated to improving the lives of their families and those they love.

Recognized as a visionary leader, social entrepreneur, inspirational speaker and gifted writer, Amber Chand is a global woman with roots in India, Africa, Europe and America.
Amber’s mission to celebrate women as a force for peace and prosperity has shaped her eloquent and compassionate global voice. She is the Founder of the Women’s Peace Collection and Co-Founder of Prosperity Candle, companies that support enterprising women in places like Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Haiti.

She discovered gardening the same year she attended her first retreat at Insight Meditation Society in 1977. She has a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch University New England, with a concentration in Mindfulness. In 1999, she became a Vermont Master Gardener, and she is also a Master Composter.