About the Presenters
Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises. She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher, with lifelong studies of healing, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality. She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She teaches across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Central America.
Author to many books, audio courses and an award winning DVD, she is best known for the chakra classic,Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System, considered to be the definitive work on the subject. Another classic is Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self. Her latest book, Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love, is the visionary work that inspired this conference. It charts the history of human development into our present crisis and necessary transformation, with an inspiring message of hope for our future.
On the more personal level, Anodea is a dynamic individual with many talents: teacher, healer, priestess, musician, artist, yogini, and co-heart. She is well-loved for her integration of mind, body, and spirit. She feels deeply concerned about the state of our world, in terms of ecology, ethics, politics, and religion. Feeling that individual and cultural transformation are intrinsically related, Anodea supports a path to empowerment and balance through the teaching of life-affirming paths of wisdom. This is achieved through a reclamation of our bodies and minds, the environment, and our connection to both Heaven and Earth. She is dedicated to healing our world and evolving human consciousness.
Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist (Marriage and Family Therapist). Since 1972 she has led individuals and groups on journeys into the realms of psyche and spirit, combining her extensive background in dance, yoga and other movement forms with her work in hypnotherapy and ritual, to assist people in being fully awake and conscious on their path through life. Former editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter, Selene’s writings include chapters in Walking in Two Worlds (Ed. Gilligan & Simon), The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook (Ed. Khalsa & Mijares), and co-authoring The Sevenfold Journey (with Anodea Judith). Selene and Anodea have been teaching together since 1985. She is currently psychological consultant for an online fitness community in addition to workshop teaching and individual coaching.
Lion Goodman is an Evocateur — one who evokes the best in others. He is the creator of The BeliefCloset Process, a life and business coach, published author, workshop leader, and entrepreneur, who has spent his life studying human consciousness and personal development. He has been President of the Goodman Group, a corporate executive consulting firm, for more than 25 years, a member of the World Business Academy, and an active agent in the men’s movement. He was a teacher of the Avatar Course, a belief management system, for six years, and now coaches individuals in life manifestation and personal choices and advises leaders in sustainable business. Click for or more information
Lynne Michelson, MSW, LCSW, CPCC While living in an intentional community in the US, Lynne was fortunate to study with some of the world’s eminent spiritual teachers. She has taught meditation, awakening practices and transformational psychology. Lynne has been a psychotherapist and relationship coach for over 15 years, a workshop facilitator, a national speaker, and has created several non-profits that bring community, service, and fun together. Lynne was Director of Marketing and before that Director of Training at the Relationship Coaching Institute. She is committed to helping her clients and group participants grow from an intrinsic place within them, a place of creativity, curiosity, and light.
Maria J. Garcia is the founder/director of Sacred Centers East, which is hosting this event, and provides a full chakra-inspired curriculum and coaching process. She is also co-founder of The Way Of The Butterfly – Sacred Passage from Girlhood to Young Womanhood. As a transformational coach, workshop leader and yoga teacher she is dedicated to facilitating personal development and transformation. She draws on her connection to the feminine creative principle and her experience with the chakra system as a map for a journey to wholeness.
Maria was born in Spain and raised in Buenos Aires. As a young woman in NYC she was introduced to yoga, meditation, macrobiotics, Bioenergetics, Science of Mind and many other transformative modalities. These studies marked the beginning of a thirty year journey in conscious living and service to humankind. Her background includes business, marketing, non-profit management and the arts. Maria began coaching 15 years ago. For 5 years she lived and worked at “Kripalu at Sumneytown”, a residential yoga and holistic health center where she served in many capacities including executive director. She has trained with many inspiring and powerful teachers including Anodea Judith, Lion Goodman and Selene Vega.
