Archives for April 2012

Terry Patten Integral Spiritual Practice founder, Terry Patten, is a vital, leading voice in the fields of integral evolutionary practice, leadership, and spirituality. He speaks and consults internationally, inspiring, challenging, and connecting leaders and institutions worldwide. A community-builder, entrepreneur, and author of four books, Terry has worked for over three decades as a philosopher, activist, coach, and teacher, helping leaders embody higher consciousness in practical actions that transform complex systems. He is the author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and … [Read more...]

Tara Brach Tara Brach, Ph. D., is founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and a co-founder and guiding teacher of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute. She offers Buddhist meditation workshops and retreats at centers in the United States and Canada. A clinical psychologist, she teaches extensively on the use of meditation practices in promoting emotional healing and spiritual awakening. Dr. Brach is the author of Radical Acceptance- Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha (Bantam, 2003,) and the upcoming book True Refuge- Three Gateways to a Fearless Heart (Bantam, 2013.) Website: www.tarabrach.com Sounds … [Read more...]

Tami Simon Publisher, CEO, and Founder of Sounds True In 1985, at the age of 22, Tami Simon founded Sounds True, a multimedia publishing company dedicated to disseminating spiritual wisdom. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Sounds True has published more than 800 audio, video, music, and book titles along with online courses and events. A two-time winner of the Inc 500 award as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America, Sounds True is widely recognized as a pioneer in providing life-changing, practical tools that accelerate spiritual awakening and personal transformation. In addition to being the publisher and CEO of Sounds True, Tami hosts a free weekly … [Read more...]

Tama Kieves Tama Kieves is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School who left her law practice to write and help others live their calling. She is the bestselling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love and the upcoming Inspired and Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work (Tarcher/Penguin) and has been featured on Oprah radio. A sought-after speaker and career and success coach, she has helped thousands world-wide to discover, launch, and thrive in the life, calling and businesses of their dreams. She is on the faculty of the Omega Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga, and has presented at TEDx and at Canyon Ranch and has often appeared in the … [Read more...]

Seane Corn Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher known for her impassioned activism and inspirational style of teaching. A strong and articulate voice for social change, she started her activism work by creating the yoga program for L.A. shelter "Children of the Night." Since 2006, her work has been focused on training leaders of activism through her co-founded organization Off the Mat, Into the World® and bringing awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Over the last 20 years of her career, Seane has been featured in magazines, Oprah.com, The Huffington Post, numerous radio programs such as NPR, and four self-authored dvd programs, and in 2005, was named the … [Read more...]

Sam Keen Sam Keen was, in his words, “over-educated at Harvard and Princeton” and was a professor of philosophy and religion at “various legitimate institutions” and a contributing editor of Psychology Today for 20 years before becoming a free-lance thinker, lecturer, seminar leader and consultant. He is the author of a baker’s dozen books, and a co-producer of an award winning PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy. His work was the subject of a 60 minute PBS special Bill Moyers–Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen. When not writing or traveling around the world lecturing and doing seminars on a wide range of topics on which he claims he is “not necessarily an expert but a … [Read more...]

Sally Kempton Sally Kempton has been teaching spiritual wisdom for nearly 40 years. She is known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. She teaches teleclasses, retreats, and workshops, appearing at conference centers such as Esalen and Kripalu. Sally is the author of Meditation for the Love of It,” which Spirituality and Health magazine called “the meditation book your heart wants you to read." She writes a regular column, “Wisdom” for Yoga Journal, as well as a column called “Meditation for Life” on the Internet religious site, Patheos.com. A former swami in a … [Read more...]

Roger Housden Roger Housden has published nineteen books, including the best-selling Ten Poems series of reflections on poetry, the novella Chasing Rumi, and four books on travel and pilgrimage. Intimately personal, his work weaves his outer life with his inner world. He writes that All my books, whatever the subject - poetry, art, a journey through India or Iran - share a common aim: to inspire myself and others to question the way we live, encouraging us, before we die, to live into the best that we are. Roger's work has been featured many times in The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Crown Books published his most recent book, Ten Poems … [Read more...]

Reggie Ray Dr. Reginald "Reggie" Ray brings us four decades of study and intensive meditation practice within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as well as a special gift for applying it to the unique problems, inspirations, and spiritual imperatives of modern people. He currently resides in Boulder, CO where he is Spiritual Director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the practice lineage he embodied. Website: www.dharmaocean.org/default/index.cfm Sounds True: www.soundstrue.com/authors/Reginald_A_Ray   … [Read more...]

Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt Harville Hendrix, Ph. D. is a clinical pastoral counselor with over 40 years of experience as a therapist, educator, clinical trainer, author, public lecturer and has received many awards for his work with couples. He and his wife Helen LaKelly Hunt co-created Imago Relationship Therapy, a therapy for couples now practiced by over 2000 certified therapists in 30 countries. This global network of Imago therapists is overseen by Imago relationships International, where Harville is a leading voice on the board and within the international faculty. He and Helen have authored nine books on intimate relationships and parenting, including … [Read more...]