Devaa & Elayne – Soulful Women: Sacred Practices

Devaa & Elayne, Anodea Judith, Angeles Arrien, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ariel Spilsbury – Soulful Women: Sacred Practices

Check it out: Devaa & Elayne – Soulful Women: Sacred Practices

Featuring Inspiring Women Summit founder Devaa Haley Mitchell, Co-Founder of the Soulful Women program Elayne Kalila Doughty PLUS Barbara Marx Hubbard, Angeles Arrien, Anodea Judith and Ariel Spilsbury

Are you called to join the powerful wave of awakening women around the world? If so, read on as you’ll want to be part of this training. It will support you in the following ways:
Being more grounded and present for whatever shows-up in life
Having greater patience with those around you
Feeling juicier and more connected to your passion and creativity
Getting more focused, so you accomplish a lot with your limited time
Restoring that twinkle in your eye and laughing more easily
Being calm, instead of fearful, in the face of challenging situations
Getting deeply connected with an amazing community of Soulful Women from around the world
Having a deeper sense of intimacy with your loved ones
Embodying the frequency of love every moment, so you can transform the world through your love and service
If you already know you’re meant to be part of this course, you can go ahead and sign up now by clicking the orange button below!

Dear Sisters,

It’s been a pleasure and a joy to connect with you in our public calls and courses. The electricity that comes from connecting with thousands of awakening women around the world is amazing. Clearly, something historic is underway as we reclaim our true gifts and full potential to create a global network of soulful sisters.

We’ve asked you to let us know how we can best support you in your spiritual unfolding – and we deeply thank those of you who’ve shared with us. This Soulful Women Sacred Practices Course is our response to YOUR needs, and we’re so excited to share the details with you.

Our Sacred Practices Course will give you greater intimacy and deeper support than ever before. It will be a Sacred Sisterhood that comes together to share our profound soulful selves. While many of us have been spiritually lonely in the past, the Soulful Women community offers belonging and a place that you can call “home.” Together, we’ll co-create a space to share our sacred gifts with each other, be affirmed, acknowledged and validated, and fuel our passionate projects in the world – as well as experience lots of joy and laughter along the way!

In our fast-paced culture of sound bites and multi-tasking, we women often end up feeling depleted and undernourished. The Sacred Practices Course is a place where your cup will be filled until it’s OVERFLOWING. Our virtual temple offers a space of compassion, spaciousness and depth. In this shared temple, we will make space to really see each other and express our lived experiences. We will witness each other’s journey and hold each other accountable to our own greatest potential.

And while we celebrate the virtual ways we have connected through time and space, we know the power of women gathering together, face to face, in sacred circle. So we are including a live retreat, FREE, as part of this offering – in order to more fully share this embodied journey with you. It’s our true joy to really SEE you, celebrate together, laugh together, cry together and commune together in ceremony, music, poetry and dance.

We are ecstatic to deepen in connection with you and support you in the rich unfolding of your radiant, sacred self. The wave is building – join us and let’s ride it together!

With love,
Devaa & Elayne

More About the Soulful Women Sacred Practices Course
Many of us know in our hearts that we are spiritual beings in a material world. Historically, we came together as women in sacred circles. We know of cultures where the sacred feminine was revered – where the mystery of our existence was a key inquiry, and where sacred practices and tools were passed down from one generation to another.

This lineage has been broken, but not forgotten. Many of us are ready to reclaim our lineages, to activate our wisdom and to re-member what we already “know.” And we are ready to be in a community of sacred sisters in order to be supported and remain connected to our knowing.

Throughout history mystical women often lived cloistered lives dedicated to silence, prayer and meditation. In contrast, today’s sacred woman is being asked to live a thoroughly modern life while simultaneously cultivating her Divine connection. We are being asked to look beyond the veils of a “normal” reality that has us believe in a world of limitations and separation. We are being asked to offer the essence of our being as a gift of inspiration, so that we can transform the world through our love and our service. And we are being called to actually embody the Sacred, to become a walking frequency of love in every moment.

So, how do we actually live in this way?

One of the first steps is to become deeply grounded in spiritual practice. As we yearn to be of greater service, to experience more joy, to find greater meaning, and to deliver more impact, we need to deepen our Sacred Practices that support us, and have a community that holds us.

There are many ways we can access a deeper connection with Spirit. So it’s time for us to truly come together to share these Sacred Practices in an ongoing supportive community. So we can continue to transform our own lives and have the deepest impact on our communities. We know that we can no longer do this alone. We, as women, are most supported by being in heartfelt, supportive and rich sister circles.

Together, Devaa and Elayne have touched and inspired thousands of women through their work as facilitators of sacred women circles. With a combined 28 years of experience leading transformative groups and guiding clients in 1-1 sessions, Devaa and Elayne draw from their rich expertise: As a psychotherapist, Elayne brings broad experience in creating a healing space and helping clients work through trauma. And as a minister with a business background, Devaa combines deep spiritual insight with a grounded ability to support women in manifesting their true purpose.

Women in their courses often comment how much Devaa and Elayne embody the teachings and show up as vulnerable, authentic and skillful facilitators. They have been successful in creating intimacy and sacred space on a virtual platform as well as being highly accessible to participants via regular interaction on the community site.

Course Details
Each week we will meet in our virtual temple on Wednesdays, starting March 23rd, from 5-7pm Pacific. Our sessions will typically include a blend of presentation, sacred practice, soul sharing, Q&A and smaller group processes that will be led either by Devaa or Elayne, or both of us. Throughout the course, you will receive suggested readings, handouts, video clips and potential art projects to facilitate your learning. We’ll also have several phenomenal guest speakers to take you even deeper into a related topic.

In addition to our weekly calls, we will meet in person for our four-day retreat in June. This immersion weekend will be a chance to significantly deepen our work together and get to know one other in a very intimate and celebratory way.

Practice is More Potent in Community!
In our most recent courses many women told us they had felt somewhat alone in this journey of finding and expressing their radiant, soulful, spiritual selves. Over and over, women have shared their yearning to be fully supported by a community of sisters who are practicing together.

So when you join our Soulful Women Community, you are plugging into a global sisterhood of amazing women who are showing up for each other in our depth, in our authenticity, in our vulnerability and in our greatness! We know that when we come together in a sacred sisterhood that everything in our lives is supported — our inner being, our relationships and our projects in the world.

A recent course participant, Erin Rassmusen, says this about the sisterhood created through our courses:

The deep sisterhood collective is not just nice to have in my life, but it’s really very necessary to help support me as I take steps forward in doing my “big thing” that I am here to do! As I am moving more out “into the world,” I am recognizing that I really need to maintain this strong, deep, core– this field we have been creating together — so that I am really supported by and able to source from deep on the inside.

As women, we will connect through time and space across the planet over the phone (and possibly video, too!), as well as have our live gathering time to fully lock-in our experiences. We will weave our intentions and dreams together through our ongoing, private community site. In short, we are making magic together!

We would venture to say, if you’re still reading, that you know YOU are part of our community. This is YOUR tribe and YOUR destiny, and we’re here to help you stand fully in your soulful, feminine and radiant self.
What You’ll Remember: Course Overview
Practice 1: Cultivating Empty Presence
Empty presence is the core practice for a soulful connection to your own inner “gnosis” of knowing. To begin, you will learn essential practices that support you in dropping out of your mind and into the mystery, cultivating a place of stillness in this “womb of silence.” This practice of receptivity and openness is fundamental to the Gnostic lineage of this wisdom school and is the foundation on which all other practices are built.
Each one of us is like a tuning fork, resonating at a particular frequency. As we deepen in this practice, you will know how to cultivate coherency and resonance in yourself, so that you become like a “tool,” opening yourself to deep healing and greater-than-imagined possibilities to emerge. By becoming a tool of resonance we are also able to be of greater service to our families and our communities.
Practice 2: Working with Sacred Tools
Wisdom traditions throughout the world use certain tools in order to help anchor spiritual ritual. In this next practice, you will receive specific tools that will guide you to bring your sacred life into your everyday life. These tools have symbolic and metaphoric qualities that, when used in meditation, activate a portal into your inner knowing. In addition, you will:

Learn to use your body as a tool to connect to the Divine
Understand how to embody and activate the ancient symbols of the cauldron, the chalice, and the sword within your own being
Another practice we will cultivate and hone together is learning to master time, a particularly potent skill needed in our hurried and stressed-out culture. You will become a “Magician of Time” and learn to move beyond the linear clock. You will practice how to slow time down, how to take yourself out of time and how to free yourself from being a slave to time. This is a radical and evolutionary practice!
Practice 3: Activating and Toning Your Intuitive Muscles
You are blessed with incredible gifts, and you have access to a wise and direct knowing that is so far beyond your ordinary thinking mind. For many of us, we haven’t known exactly how to develop, cultivate and nourish our intuition. It’s been trained out or us, or seen as being unreliable, too flaky or not to be trusted. The only way to develop your intuition is through this dedicated practice in which you will:

Learn to fully embody your intuition as a force of healing and wisdom in your everyday life
Experience the various ways that Spirit communicates with you (through sight, sound, felt sense and more)
Converse directly with Source to access your inner wisdom and gain clarity on your Divine purpose
Practice 4: Co-creating with the Powerful Moon Cycles & Elements
Do you know where the moon is in her phase right now? Do you feel the ebb and flow of the ocean in your body? Do you know the best times to plant seeds for your hopes and desires, when to harvest, when to celebrate what has been grown and then when to lie fallow? We each have rhythms that are deeply encoded within us, within nature and within our larger sphere. And we are intimately connected to this cycle of life as it pulses through our very bodies. This practice will empower you to connect with the moon and the earth cycles, so you can tune into a deeper level of knowing. You will also:

Learn how to set your intentions, cultivate them and bring them to manifestation in alignment with the phases of the moon
Deepen your understanding of life cycles, yearly cycles, menstrual cycles and daily cycles, and harness their power for your own life
Learn to work in harmony with earth, air, fire and water and use their “magic” to assist you in all your endeavors
Practice 5: Listening to your Body Wisdom
How well do you know your body? Are you able to read its signs and symptoms to understand what it needs? When you start to deeply listen to your body, you can access your deepest inner knowing to transform how you live your life. Your wisdom is housed in the temple of your body. And too often we ignore that “felt” wisdom by pushing ourselves too hard, not resting when we’re tired, or not doing things to rejuvenate. In this core sacred practice, you will learn to listen to your body wisdom as well as:

Gain powerful practices to know how to dialogue with your body and decode what it’s saying to you, thereby increasing your energy and vibrancy
Work with your menstrual cycle as a powerful access point for body wisdom and greater health
Tune into the language of nourishment and food that your body really needs
Practice 6: Diving Deep with Dreamwork
Your dreams are one of the most profound ways you can create a connection to your innermost essence. Every night when you enter into REM sleep you also enter into an altered state of consciousness, one where you are privy to the most intimate workings of your inner life. In the dream world your own personal language of symbol, imagery and metaphor comes to life. And when you join inside the container of a sacred sisterhood, your dreams can not only have important significance to you, individually, but also for the collective. In this practice, you will learn to:

Access, decode and apply the wisdom of your dreams to your daily life as well as deepen the connection between the multiple realms of your consciousness
Gain the ability to understand and decode dreams that have collective importance and bearing
Practice 7: Savoring Sacred Sound
Sound is one of the most direct ways you can create a sense of harmony and coherency both in yourself and in others. Sound is used within every culture to invoke and celebrate the divine, to heal and soothe, to create sacred space and to cleanse and renew. It’s perhaps one of the most powerful tools you can learn to use on a daily basis. In this practice, you will:

Learn to use sound and mantras to create sacred ceremonial space
Discover how to use the sound of your own voice to heal yourself and others
Master using sound to create coherency and harmony in your life
Practice 8: Living as a Modern-Day Mystic
There is an urgent and profound challenge we face at this point in our evolution: we are all being called to walk in our everyday lives with a wise mind and an awakened heart. Spiritual practice is not something you do once or twice a day; it takes moment-to-moment awareness to be a fully embodied, heart-awakened woman. In our closing practice, you will learn to live and breathe your soulful life, integrating the sacred tools and practices on a daily basis. Every time you make the choice towards inviting in a soulful moment, every time you acknowledge the sacred, you are co-creating new possibilities for yourself, your family and your community. You will be empowered to:

Create sacred moments throughout your day and infuse the profane world with the beauty of spirit
Become skilled at carving out daily time to invite co-creation with the Divine
4 BONUS WORKSHOPS (by telephone, 2 hours each)
Accessing Higher Guidance for the Planetary Birth Ahead
with Barbara Marx-Hubbard – Saturday, March 26th

We sit at a very critical time in human history. As we approach 2012, we are all preparing, in one way or another, for a planetary birth into a new era. But how do we best prepare for what is ahead? One key skill is being able to access and take action on our higher guidance.

In this 2-hour experiential workshop, you will:

Learn how to fully access and listen to inner guidance. Receiving this source of wisdom will deepen your own process of transformation and awakening.
Know how to best act upon the evolutionary guidance you receive. Learning how to trust and put into motion this guidance is central to the journey of metamorphosis.
Enjoy a highly experiential session in which you will spontaneously access this ability within yourself and within other participants.
Psychological Implications of Symbols: The Wisdom of the Tarot with Angeles Arrien – Monday, April 4th

Angeles Arrien will speak about most ancient maps of psychological symbols, the Tarot, and will explore these universal symbols as a map of consciousness. Tarot symbols reveal and reflect back possible experiences we can encounter personally and professionally in our life. She will explore the meaning and significance of how these ancient and cross-cultural symbols function as internal and external mirrors for the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical levels of consciousness. This program is helpful for personal work and anyone in counseling, coaching, teaching, management, and service professions.

In this 2-hour session you will:

Explore the universal archetypes in the Tarot, and the ways that these archetypes can be used for self-understanding
Understand the power of symbols and the ways they impact our daily life
Be enchanted and delighted by stories from one of the most respected elders of our day!
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Embodying Your Mythic Story with Ariel Spilsbury – Monday, May 16th

If all the world’s a stage and you are but a player upon it, then what is your particular role or heroine’s journey? Join Ariel as she walks you through the archetypes of humanity and helps you identify the Mythic Story of your own life. Archetypes are the structures through which the mythic dimensions of self play themselves out. Archetypes such as the Fool, the King, the Great Mother, the Priest/ess and the Magician have existed in many cultures across time. They primarily serve to assist us in looking at our lives from a much larger and spiritually expansive perspective than our ordinary day-to-day view of the self. When you embody your Mythic Story, you gain clarity and incredible perspective on the choices you have for your life. Experiencing the living embodiment of your Mythic Story is the most exciting journey one can choose to enter into! Together we will deepen in this exciting terrain.

In this 2-hour workshop you will:

Discover ways to step into the mythic Big Story of your life
Identify the patterns that keep you in the repetitive loop of the “small story
Find what mythic archetype you most strongly relate to and resonate with
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7 Wonders of the Soul: Harnessing the Power of the Chakras with Anodea Judith – Monday, June 6th

Chakras are the sacred centers that carry us on our journey toward greater awareness and aliveness. The word chakra is Sanskrit for wheel or disk and signifies one of seven basic energy centers in the body that correspond to nerve ganglia branching out from the spinal column, as well as states of consciousness, developmental stages of life, archetypal elements, body functions, colors, sounds and much, much more. Together they form a profound formula for wholeness and a template for transformation. As the architecture of the soul, the chakras provide an important map for our wholeness and transformation, both personally and globally. And as an ancient spiritual system, they show the path to enlightenment and integration.

In this 2-hour workshop, you will learn:

Simple practices for bringing your chakras into better alignment, so you feel energized all day long
Fast and easy methods for grounding your energy, so you feel less overwhelmed and more present in your life
How to diagnose excess and deficiency in each chakra, so you can bring your body into greater ease and balance
How to open the Inner Temple to deeply access your core self
BONUS OFFER:
Free Ticket to our Embraced by Love Retreat (food and lodging not included)
Imagine…

Being embraced by a circle of sisters from a place of love and heartfelt acceptance
Being received into the center of a delicate rose – its petals gently caressing you into a felt sense of beauty
Being welcomed into the garden of Aphrodite’s unconditional love
Joining with other soulful women in a place where you are deeply seen and invited to discover and offer your deepest gifts
Singing, laughing, dancing and celebrating with women from around the globe
We invite you to take time out of your busy life, unplug and immerse yourself in sacred beauty and soul nourishment. Come, refuel and renew yourself as we create a space for the Goddess in each of us to wake up and stretch out in the sun!

It’s challenging in our everyday lives to truly walk the path of beauty and to feed ourselves regularly. So many other things compete for our attention and take priority.

Our four-day oasis in Aphrodite’s Garden will give you the break you deserve – it’s a special, sacred time for you to be adored, pampered, received and adorned as the beautiful woman that you are. Your senses will be re-awakened as you come alive to your fullness, and you will receive lavish, loving attention that can only happen in a sacred sister circle.

The retreat is co-led by Devaa and Elayne who have guided hundreds of women on awakening journeys. In their care, you will be filled up, nurtured and exalted by the Goddess of Love herself. And after four days, you will leave with a deep embodiment of living your life as love and an immersive experience of the Goddess of Love within you.

The Embraced by Love Retreat takes place during the Summer Solstice, when nature invites us to be in full bloom, to be radiant, to be fully opened to the love-light in our own being. What better way to nourish yourself than to be Embraced by Love this summer in beautiful California?

Experience being fully loved, cherished and adored
Authentically connect with a soulful, supportive and safe community of conscious women
Awaken your greatest expression of passion, pleasure and sensuality
Allow yourself to be deeply seen within a loving circle where you can freely give your soul gifts
Remove blockages to your energy flow and greater balance in your life
Heal your own beauty wounds, in a supportive circle of sisters
Learn simple practices that will nourish you year-round
Receive a mythic make-over, drawing out your epic attributes
Free up your body through yoga, singing and sacred dance
Delight your inner epicure with exquisite, delectable food
Nourish your being in a beautiful and serene natural setting
Revel in a spacious schedule and an abundant generosity of spirit
Leave feeling inspired and celebrated with specific tools to forever nourish your Feminine Spirit
For full details on the retreat, please see www.embracedbylove.com
What You’ll Receive:
Thirteen 90-minute Class Sessions, including interactive exercises on the phone plus question and answer time
Four Bonus Workshops with Guest Faculty (Barbara Marx Hubbard, Angeles Arrien, Ariel Spilsbury and Anodea Judith)
Thirteen 30-minute small group sessions to connect with and empower each other, after the main class sessions (optional)
Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)
PDF transcripts for each class session
Participation in a private online community with course facilitators and other course participants
Free ticket to our 4-day Embraced by Love live retreat (food and lodging are not included)

Dive Even Deeper with the Sacred Embrace Inner Circle
We know there’s a group of you who are really ready to take your transformation to the next level. You are called to truly embody a bigger, brighter, more meaningful life, and to be part of the awakening and re-membering of a global sacred sisterhood.

This is a special opportunity for you to deepen your own journey with more personalized attention and coaching, as well as our undivided attention on you and your process. For those who want to engage with us on a deeper level, we’ve developed the Sacred Embrace Inner Circle to accompany the Sacred Practices course.

The Sacred Embrace Circle is for you if you feel the destiny call of this work and the yearning to be more deeply held inside the sacred temple we are co-creating. This Circle is for you if you know that you feel a sense of “coming home” and are ready to increase your commitment to yourself and the awakening sacred sisterhood that’s integral to who you are.

The Sacred Embrace Inner Circle includes:

Small group coaching sessions after each weekly call, so we can more deeply support you to integrate the material and apply it to your own life.
Four one-on-one personal coaching and mentoring sessions where we can totally focus on you alone. We will fully support you to step into an even more inspired, meaningful life and make your highest, deepest impact. And with the different skills we (Elayne and Devaa) both offer, you will have 2 private sessions with each of us.
A member of our Inner Circle private email list, so we can all be in instant communication with each other about our unfolding process – and offer one another our ongoing wisdom and support. You will not only have the support of us as facilitators, but you will also benefit from the deep wisdom and life experience of the other women in the Inner Circle.
Special Bonus:

Private VIP dinner at the Embraced by Love Retreat. Hosted by Devaa and Elayne, this is an opportunity to be in the Sacred Embrace Circle LIVE and be bathed in an extra special dose of Aphrodite’s love!

Course Faculty

Rev. Devaa Haley Mitchell is the Founder of the Inspiring Women Summit and Co-Founder of the Soulful Women programs. She is a core part of the teaching faculty at the Shift Network and is an expert in women’s awakening and leadership. She also works as a spiritual guide with ongoing programs through the organization she founded, Radiant Essence Services (www.radiantessence.com).

Devaa was ordained as an interfaith minister by the Chaplaincy Institute and also received a BA in Anthropology with Honors and an MA in International Development from Stanford University. She was awarded a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and was also one of 26 contributors to a book called Radical Spirit, which focuses on Gen-X spiritual perspectives. A core part of Devaa’s path includes sacred music. Her debut album called “Sacred Alchemy” honors 13 aspects of the divine feminine is due out in the late Spring 2011. See www.devaa.com for downloads of her music.

Devaa also served as the Director of Member Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), an organization bridging science and spirituality. Previously, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the Full Circle Fund, dedicated to building a new generation of civic leaders. Devaa also worked as an Associate Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group where she offered management advice to Fortune 500 Companies.

Elayne Kalila Doughty MA, MFT, founder of Planet Breathe (www.planetbreathe.com) Co-Founder of the Soulful Women Program (www.soulfulwomen.com) is a Psychotherapist, Creative Arts therapist, Trauma Healing/Addictions Specialist, and Women’s Empowerment expert. She has worked as in the field of Women’s recovery, discovery and awakening for the last 20 years and has loved every minute of it!

Elayne has created diverse program’s such as: “The SAFE Embrace” Seven Steps to Healing Trauma for women, and The Soul Spa Experience- Nourishing the Heart of Your Being, a guided meditation series to support women to awaken into their greater than imagined possibilities through soul renewal and replenishment.

Currently Elayne is working with Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues) and her foundation, www.VDay.org on co-creating the design and implementation of The Trauma Healing and Leadership Empowerment Program at the City of Joy in Bukavu, Congo. This transformational program will seed women leaders at a grass roots level throughout the Congo.
Elayne has a private practice seeing in person clients in the Bay Area, and global clients via the
internet. She is also a sought after teacher and speaker in the field of, Trauma Healing, Addictions Recovery and Women’s Empowerment.

Ariel Spilsbury is a planetary priestess of the Goddess. Her passion is participating in the conscious evolution of this planet and all its inhabitants. This takes the form of traveling to share the wisdom of the Divine Feminine around the globe, which she has done for over thirty years. She has devoted her life to the conscious awakening of all beings. This she has offered through writing, teaching, sacred theater presentations, creating a metaphysical store, conferences, consciousness events, lectures, seminars, starting a metaphysical newspaper, moon circles for women, spiritual counseling and maintaining a temple for the Goddess for twenty five years.

Ariel is a cheerleader for consciousness, ceremonialist and consciousness initiator. She presently offers spiritual counseling service and various workshops with the intention of planetary awakening. She offers Initiation into the Mysteries of the Divine Feminine, Mayan Initiations, Divine Child Workshops and a sound and light technology called crystal singing. Ariel magnetizes sacred circles of light around the planet to bring people together in divine communion, love and remembrance. The present focus of her awareness is grounding a Living Mystery School, priestess training and sound and light temple on Earth called The Sanctuary of the Open Heart www.heartchalice.org . Her ongoing passion at present is being a Faerie Godmother and in so doing being a planetary Joy Generator!

For more information on Ariel, please see her website at www.holographicgoddess.com

Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution. She is founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

She is currently the producer and narrator of an award-winning, DVD series entitled “Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.” Through the Foundation for Conscious Evolution she developed the Gateway to Conscious Evolution, a global educational curriculum enrolling participants in the developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a “Peace Room” as sophisticated as our war room, to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world. As a citizen diplomat in the former Soviet Union during the 1980s she co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new form of conferencing called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence.

Barbara’s books include: The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the Future; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth –An Evolutionary Interpretation of the New Testament; Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential and Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence.

Angeles Arrien is an anthropologist, educator, and a consultant to the medical, academic, and corporate communities worldwide. She has taught at the University of California, California Institute of Integral Studies, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the Alaya Institute, and is the founder of the Angeles Arrien Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research.

She is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Tarot Handbook (Arcus Publishers 1987), Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes and How to Use Them ((Putnam Publishing Group 1998), The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary (HarperSanFrancisco 1993), The Nine Muses: A Mythological Path to Creativity (Tarcher/Putnam 2000), and The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom (Sounds True 2005). To learn more about the work of Angeles Arrien go to www.angelesarrien.com

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is a best-selling author, international workshop presenter, psychologist, yoga teacher, philosopher, and evolutionary activist, whose passion is awakening humanity to its amazing potential before we throw it all away. Ordained as a priestess in 1985, she served in the Church of All Worlds for 20 years, as president and founder of its teaching organization, Lifeways, which led to her research in ancient history, mythology, and Goddess traditions. Since her first book on the chakras (Wheels of Life, 1987) became a classic, her many books have been translated into 16 languages and spawned the birth of her current organization, Sacred Centers.

Having spent two decades as a somatic psychotherapist working with individuals, Anodea left her practice to teach worldwide and address the issues that affect us all. Her latest book, Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love charts our social evolution to the current time and won two literary awards for best book on social change and mind-body-spirit. She also produced an award-winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, which has traveled the world in 7 languages, delighting audiences everywhere.