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Masaru Emoto
was born in Yokohama in July 1943. He is a graduate of the Yokohama Municipal University's department of humanities and sciences with a focus on International Relations. In 1986 he established the IHM Corporation in Tokyo. In October of 1992 he received certification from the Open International University as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine. Subsequently he was introduced to the concept of micro cluster water in the US and Magnetic Resonance Analysis technology. The quest thus began to discover the mystery of water. He undertook extensive research of water around the planet not so much as a scientific researcher but more from the perspective of an original thinker. At length he realized that it was in the frozen crystal form that water showed us its true nature through. He has gained worldwide acclaim through his groundbreaking research and discovery that water is deeply connected to our individual and collective consciousness. He is the author of the best-selling books Messages from Water, The Hidden Messages in Water, and The True Power of Water.

Jonathan Goldman
is a musician, writer, and teacher. He is an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Jonathan is the author of Healing Sounds; The Power of Harmonics; Shifting Frequencies and The Lost Chord. He has studied with masters of sound from both the scientific and spiritual traditions, including the Dalai Lama's Chanting Gyuto and Gyume Monks and has been empowered by the Chant Master of the Drepung Loseling Monastery to teach Tibetan Overtone Chanting.

Joshua Leeds
is a music producer, sound researcher, and educator. He specializes in the field of psychoacoustics - the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system. He is the author of The Power of Sound and Sonic Alchemy. Joshua's discography includes The Essential Sound Series, The Listening Program, The Sound Health Series, and Sound Body Sound Mind. Collaborators include Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, brainwave expert Anna Wise, and The Monroe Institute. Joshua teaches the therapeutic applications of music/sound at California Institute of Integral Studies and Globe Institute, and seminars internationally.

Dr. Patrick Flanagan
possesses a unique ability to reorganize key concepts from a variety of applied sciences to solve intractable problems. He is a futurist with deep encyclopedic knowledge of the applied sciences. A prolific inventor, Dr. Flanagan is credited with over 300 inventions and was named 1997 Scientist of the Year by the International Association for New Science. He also holds a patent pending on his process of manufacturing a delivery system for H- in living systems and industrial processes. Dr. Flanagan holds advanced degrees in nanotechnology, chemistry, bio-sciences and medicine.

Lisa Rafel
is a sound and energy educator, spiritual counselor, gifted intuitive, singer, harmonic overtone chanter, shamanic healer and a practitioner of Integrated Kabbalistic Healing. Her chanting, rooted in the tradition of vowels as the sacred language of God, has been called "music from before the languages divided" and engages the listener at the deepest levels. Lisa's international teaching program, "Resonate with the Soul,” encourages development of the psychic senses as well as personal transformation. Utilizing sound, body awareness and ancient wisdoms, Lisa’s classes teach multiple levels of self-awareness, and deepen one's relationship to courage and compassion. 

Dr. Jeffrey D. Thompson, D.C., B.F.A., C.N.S.T.
Diplomate is a physician, scientist, educator, musician, composer, and visionary. He is Director of the Center for Neuroacoustic Research in California, a world-class Center for cutting-edge research into the effects of sound in healing and consciousness. His pleasant, non-invasive, holistic modality - Bio-Tuning® - is a global tri-body healing, personal transformation, and awakening consciousness force. His vibro-acoustic-visual sound chair and table delivery systems and 60+ audio programs on CDs are used and sold globally, healing and transforming lives wherever used. Visit www.neuroacoustic.org for more information.

James Twyman
is an internationally renowned author, singer and “Peace Troubadour” who has a reputation for drawing millions of people together in prayer to influence events of world crisis. In 1995 he had an experience in the mountains of Croatia that led to his best-selling book “Emissary of Light,” called “the second coming of the Celestine Prophesy” by Variety Magazine. His six books have been translated into over a dozen languages, and his cd’s are distributed around the world. James has been invited by world leaders to countries like Iraq, Northern Ireland, Israel, South Africa and Serbia to offer his insights on peace and perform the “Peace Concert,” often while conflicts have raged in those countries. He has performed twice at the United Nations in New York, as well as the US Capitol and the US Pentagon. His peace projects, including the “Cloth of Many Colors,” have inspired millions of people around the world.

Tom Kenyon, M.A.
holds a Masters degree in Psychological Counseling with over twenty-five years of experience as a therapist. In 1983, he founded Acoustic Brain Research (ABR) to document the effects of sound and music on consciousness. His work with ABR grew out of his observation that sound and music could play dynamic roles in the process of psychological and spiritual exploration and integration. Over the next ten years he developed over thirty psychoacoustic programs in the areas of stress management, psychology, brain performance, creativity enhancement, intelligence increase, and psycho-immunology. He is the author of Brain States (New Leaf Publishing), a critically acclaimed guide to the brain's unused potentials, and Mind Thieves, a quantum suspense sci-fi novel. The current focus of his work is on the use of altered states of awareness as a means to access the more creative aspects of the brain/mind. He regularly teaches seminars and professional trainings in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Don Campbell
is a musician, teacher and researcher on the effects of sound and music on health, memory and consciousness. He has authored 17 books including The Mozart Effect and Harmony of Health. Don is the Director of Acoustic Activities for Aesthetic Audio Systems, which provides quality music to healthcare facilities. He is currently on the board of the American Music Research Center and Advisory Board of the Society of Arts in Healthcare.

Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D.
is Vice President of Research and Education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Senior Scientist at the Complementary Medicine Research Institute at the California Pacific Medical Center. She has published numerous articles on psi research and psychophysiology, cross cultural healing, consciousness studies, and creativity, has conducted research at Stanford University, Science Applications International Corporation, the Institute for Parapsychology, and the Mind Science Foundation, has taught at Trinity University, Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, and has lectured widely at sites including the United Nations and the Smithsonian Institution. She served as a congressionally appointed Advisory Member for the National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and is currently on the Editorial Board of Alternative Therapies and Advances in Mind Body Medicine, the Board of Trustees for the Esalen Institute and the Board of Directors for the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Steven Halpern
is the world’s leading composer and recording artist of music for relaxation, wellness and “sound health.” For over 30 years, he has pioneered and promoted the healing powers of music through his recordings, books, media appearances and workshops. In 1971, Halpern began his pioneering research exploring sound, consciousness and healing using brainwave biofeedback and Kirlian (aura) photography. Steven Halpern, Ph.D. is the author of Sound Health (Harper & Row, 1985), numerous articles and a syndicated monthly newsletter. Steven’s music has been heard on CBS’s 48 Hours, ABC’s 20/20, Oprah and John Bradshaw’s PBS-TV series, “Homecoming and Creating Love”. He has produced over 60 recordings in the Inner Peace® and Soundwave 2000™ Subliminal self-help series.

Stephen Kent
multi-instrumentalist & master didjeridu player, has played all over the world and collaborated with many renowned performers including, Airto Moreira, Zakir Hussain, Omar Sosa, Steve Roach, Paul Horn, Chirgilchin, Habib Koite, Zap Mama, among others. Last year he spent a day playing for the Dalai Lama in Stanford University. His group projects, including Trance Mission and Lights in a Fat City, form a large part of his extensive catalog of recordings and he has 5 solo CD's, the most recent being "Living Labyrinths" [Family Tree 2007]. Apart from his own musical journey Stephen is also involved with the promotion of World Music on radio, programming a weekly show on KPFA 94.1 FM in Northern California. www.stephenkent.net

Shiela Allen
Sheila Allen is a licensed occupational therapist with over twenty-five years clinical experience specializing in sensory processing and a longstanding appreciation for sound and music.  She holds a board certification in pediatrics and a MA in psychology from Teachers’ College, Columbia University. She is a co-founder and co-director of Pediatric Therapeutics, LLC, a children’s therapy center, and Integrated Soundwork, LLC a practice specializing in sound-based interventions, both located in Chatham, NJ.  Currently on both the faculty and development team of Advanced Brain Technologies, LLC, Ogden, UT, Sheila trains professionals internationally in the use of The Listening Program and participates in the development of music-based auditory stimulation programs.  She also serves on the advisory board of Vocal Images, NYC, a non-profit entity that promotes excellence in the performing arts and musical awareness.  Sheila has taught graduate courses as an adjunct instructor at The Bank Street School, NYC and has assisted with teaching craniosacral therapy courses for the Upledger Institute, Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Richard Feather Anderson
is one of the longest practicing geomancers in America, with over thirty years’ experience. He founded the first cross-cultural geomancy school in 1985. He has integrated his training in architecture, environmental psychology, Feng Shui, ecology, sacred geometry and ancient philosophies. Introduced to geomantic wisdom in childhood, he continued his studies in Feng Shui with Professor Lin Yun, in sacred architecture with Dr. Keith Critchlow, and in Earth Mysteries with the world’s leading experts. He employed sacred geometry to design the Chartres labyrinth replicas for San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and is the geomancy-feng shui consultant for Esalen Institute’s long range planning.

Joel Andrews
is a harpist, composer, author, and he was the pioneer music healer in America. He tours and presents concerts and workshops worldwide. Captivating international audiences with his exquisite music for over 30 years, he has produced 33 recordings, including collaborations with Paul Horn and the Paul Winter Consort. He was presented in Town Hall, New York, with critical acclaim and has soloed with the San Francisco Symphony under Arthur Fiedler. He has appeared at many conferences, including The World Symposium on Humanity in Amsterdam and The Body, Mind, Spirit Expo in London. Mr. Andrews has also recorded over 3,000 healing sessions for individual transformation and his CDs, tapes and writings, distributed world-wide, are used to support many modalities of therapy.

Robert Aviles
founded Music Research Technologies in 1997. Music Research Technologies is a respected organization that utilizes the study of Quantum Physics and Cymatics to produce a cutting edge technology called Harmonic Energy. This bio-information carrying system has shown to immediately organize and balance the energy fields of organic systems. His research has led him to create musical recordings that carry this beneficial Harmonic Energy technology. He is also the developer of the Harmony Cell which replicates the same balancing effects as the sonic formulas contained within his music. The Harmony Cell was developed to be worn upon the body 24/7. Robert continues to conduct research studies on the efficacy of his music as well as the latest energy field enhancement technology developed from his findings. He is expanding his research by working hand-in-hand with other health care practitioners, doctors, medical intuitives, and athletic industry researchers.

Dr. Fred Bell
Starting at the age of 14 Fred Bell worked for the U.S. government in a wide range of projects including nuclear energy, remote viewing, magnetic disintegration project (Philadelphia Experiment), and detection and tracking of extraterrestrial craft.  He then became internationally known as a contactee to a Pleiadean group of extraterrestrial humanoids whom were here to help the people on earth save themselves from their own destructive tendencies. Dr. Bell invented the Nuclear Receptor, the Andromedan Holographic Projector, X-1 Healing Machine, and has written several books and been the subject of several others. He has produced five musical albums with well known musicians such as Steven Halpern, George Winston, to name a few. Dr. Bell has currently developed holographic sound which puts in concert every cell and atom in the DNA helix. His new best-selling book Rays of Truth - Crystals of Light covers these various topics in-depth.

Peggy Black
is a 'Sacred Sound Salutarist, Spiritual Synergist, Transducer, Scribe', world traveler and lecturer, with thirty five years experience in the healing field. She is featured internationally in television, radio and print media. Peggy founded and co-created the International Sound Symposium 2002 and continues to create global Sound Pods. She transcribes the Morning Messages which are offered worldwide. Peggy presented at Women of Vision and Action in 1999 and Healing Our World Conference in 2003. She was a keynote presenter at the New England Sound Healing Institute 2004/2005. She offered sacred sounds for the Shamanic Journey tour in temples and the great pyramid in Egypt. The last seven years she has conducted the daily forum at Tom Kenyon's Sound Healer's Training. She founded and continues to create global community Sound Pods that empower and facilitate others to tone, chant and freely play with sound. These gatherings support the personal discovery of the power of sound vibrations on the physiology of the body/mind.

Zacciah Blackburn
is a sound healer trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures, and is practicing at The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies, in Ascutney, VT, where he has created a School of Sound Healing. Zacciah is Director of Education for the New England Sound Healing Research Institute (NESHRI,) a worldwide community of healing practitioners broadening the awareness of sound healing through networking, education, and scientific research. He is also co-founder of the World Sound Healing Organization, and the All One Now Network of organizations furthering world peace, healing, and transformation of human consciousness through simple ceremony, and live broadcasts of indigenous elders and leaders in the field of human consciousness, via the internet. www.thecenteroflight.net

Donna Carey, PhD, LAc
is co-founder of the International Institute of Harmonic Medicine and co-creator of the Acutonics® Healing System. She is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, sound healer, and educator. She was Clinical Dean of the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where she created and administered more than 14 profitable inter-disciplinary community clinics and integrated the Acutonics Healing System into mainstream clinical settings. A leader in the discovery, development and application of new healing technologies, Donna was awakened to the power of sound after a near death experience, where she heard the Music of the Spheres. She has been in practice for more than a decade, creatively integrating sound and energy medicine into her clinical work, teaching and writing. Donna is co-author of Acutonics: the Planets, from Galaxies to Cells and Acutonics: There's No Place Like Ohm, Sound Healing and Oriental Medicine and the Cosmic Mysteries.

Jan Cercone MA, RN, PHN.
is a Certified Music Practitioner. Jan sings Opera, sacred, classics, torch songs, and inspirational. Inspired by her training in the “Uncovering the Voice method,” she has created a new form of healing singing. She is a leader for the Music Care program at Palm Drive Hospital, provides bedside healing music for hospice patients, and gives inspirational workshops nationally about how music can be healing in institutional and private environments. Check out Musicforjoyandhealing.com

Amrita Cottrell
is a classically trained vocal musician, and has been involved in the areas of mind, body, and spirituality for over twenty years. Amrita studied theology and music at seminary twenty-five years ago. Amrita received her B.A. in Health Arts and Sciences from Goddard College in Vermont in 2001 as an independent scholar. She focused her studies on Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine. Amrita uses the crystal bowls, bells, chimes, drums and rattles along with her healing voice in working with individuals and groups. She is also the founder of the Healing Music Organization HealingMusic.org.

Mandara Cromwell - President, Cymatherapy® International
Entrenched with the love of Gregorian Chant as a child, Mandara continued on her sound journey after college, traveling to India to study Sanskrit chant, Bija mantras, and meditation. The next step of unfoldment came years later with the meeting of Peter Guy Manners in 2001.Manners, worked in collaboration with a group of scientists and medical doctors, for decades, formulating biosignatures and healing frequencies for each part of the body.  In the twilight of his life, Manners passed the baton to Cymatherapy® International in 2002.Mandara spearheads the launch of the newest evolution of Cymatherapy®, the Cyma®1000.  Generating specific sound frequencies to stimulate muscles, organs and bones to their natural state of resonance, the Cyma®1000 uses an internationally patent-pending delivery system combining sound and magnetics. Soon Cymatherapy® International will unveil the next evolution, combining sound, magnetics and light. Cymatherapy® International continues to research, develop and manufacture state-of-the-art healing sound applications, and conducts ongoing research using the Cyma®1000. Mandara presents this research to audiences around the world in layman’s terms using powerpoint slides.See via diagnostic ultrasound, EEG, MRI, thermography, and x-ray’s the phenomenal proof of healing with audible sound frequencies!

Maestro Curtis
MALS has a strong background in Jazz and Classical music and has three Bachelors Degrees: 1) Piano and Vocal Music, 2) Radio and TV Communications, and 3) Speech and Theatre; and, two Masters Degrees: 1) Music Theory/Orchestration and Arranging, and 2) Philosophy; and a Ph.D pending in Human and Organizational development (The Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California). Maestro has worked in the recording industry for over 30 years and has performed with such artist as Peabo Bryson, The Ojay‚s, George Benson, Phyllis Hyman and Lenny Williams and has played with The Count Basie Orchestra to name a few. He has produced Albums with Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire and is currently finishing his second album with his Jazz group Xpression under the Kalimba records label. He is also CEO of "Jazzy Boo" records where he is currently developing and producing artists in the area of, jazz, blues, Neo-Soul (R&B), new age, hip hop, rock, reggae, and gospel with emphasis on the San Francisco sound. Maestro has also developed and implemented a complete and comprehensive music therapy program funded by United Way for the elderly who suffer from Alzheimer’s and dementia. A college professor for over twenty years he now runs a private practice helping to inspire and cultivate young music thinkers.

Dorinne Davis, MA, CC-A, FAAA
Educational and Rehabilitative Audiologist, founder, The Davis Center for Hearing, Speech and Learning, associate, BioAcoustics Research, certified practitioner in Berard Auditory Integration Training, Tomatis, Fast ForWord Language, The Listening Program, Read-Spell-Comprehend, Samonas, Interactive Metronome, Earobics, Lipreading, Aural Rehabilitation and other sound-based therapies, author, Sound Bodies through Sound Therapy and Every Day a Miracle: Success Stories with Sound Therapy.

Master Zhi Gang Sha
is an extraordinary healer, advanced spiritual master and inspired teacher. He is an MD in China, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in China and Canada, the founder of the Institute of Soul Mind Body Medicine® and New York Times best-selling author of Soul Mind Body Medicine: A Complete Soul Healing System for Optimum Health and Vitality, which was the Award Winner in the Health: Alternative Medicine category of the Best Books 2006 National Book Awards. With Soul Mind Body Medicine®, Master Sha teaches the Four Power Techniques: Soul Power, Mind Power, Body Power and Sound Power which uses healing mantras and vibrational healing sounds for healing.

Estara
Estara is the developer of the Light Body Movement and Sound System, a revolutionary body/mind movement system combining movement and sound plus breath, meditation, and visualization. She has performed for the World Festival of Sacred Music, initiated by his holiness the Dalai, and the Jefferson Starship Peace Concert. Over two decades perfecting her personal practice and studying the latest technologies in sound, breath and energy healing, has led Estara to develop breakthrough techniques that vibrationally open up the body, release tensions and restore its natural flow of creative energy.

Don Estes
is the inventor of VibraSound‘ music therapy systems and founder of InnerSense, Inc., a company dedicated to the research and development of transformational technologies. Don is also an author, lecturer, music therapist, and sensory resonance engineer. He has also come up with a system for putting sound into water, and is currently producing Virtual Reality consciousness raising entertainment. www.vibrasound.com

Ellen Franklin, PhD
is co-founder of the International Institute of Harmonic Medicine, CEO of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, and President of Devachan Press. Ellen has directed efforts in human and organizational transformation, publishing and marketing. Her publishing company is dedicated to creating products that promote health, inner harmony and a deeper understanding of Sound Healing, Harmonic Medicine, and Energy Medicine. A Certified Practitioner and Teacher of the Acutonics System of Healing and Education, Ellen is currently at work on a new book and training program for Equine Acutonics.

David Gibson
is the Founder and Director of Globe Institute, instructor, Professional Recording Engineer and Producer. He has been studying esoteric systems of sound healing for over 15 years and has an in-depth understanding of the underlying physics of sound. David is also the author of the best selling book, “The Art of Mixing” that uses visuals to explain and show every style of mix in the world, which makes complex structures of mixes easily understandable. His second book, “The Art of Producing,” uses the visual framework for displaying sounds to explain Music Theory. Gibson is also the inventor of the Patented, “Virtual Mixer,” which uses 3D visuals of the mix to control mixing consoles and computerized mixers. He is currently working on a Virtual Reality system where you can step into an image of your own body and be able to place visuals inside the body in 3D. The visuals will then move sounds up and down in a Sound Table so you feel the sounds inside the body exactly where you are seeing the visuals

Gregory Hoag
is a scientist, artist and entrepreneur. He divided his time between science and art in college, graduating in 1970. Since then he has started and sold several different businesses in the area of light manufacturing of art objects. From 1985 to the present he has been involved with Metaforms, researching and designing tools that combine shape, color, electromagnetic frequencies, magnetics and many different materials to affect energetic shifts in environments for health and growth.

Janalea Hoffman
specializes in using a synthesis of music, relaxation and imagery for therapeutic purposes to allow for emotional and physical healing. The results of studying and working with the healing effects of music come through the compositions, providing you the needed relaxation. Janalea's primary interest lies in how music affects our bodies physiologically, and in developing specific techniques for using music to help lower heart rate and blood pressure and to help alleviate pain. She is known for developing the concepts of musical biofeedback, musical acupuncture, and music written at exactly 50 beats a minute. She has pioneered in the field and gone beyond just using music as background by developing specific therapeutic techniques. Her work has been featured in such publications as Prevention, Arthritis Today, and RN magazines, as well as in Rodale's book, New Choices in Natural Healing, and Delacorte's book, Superlearning 2000. Janalea focuses her work on teaching the healing powers of music through her company, Rhythmic Medicine, which she established in 1978.

Iasos
is a music creator, specializing in celestial music. His is also one of the original founders of "New Age Music", releasing his first such album 31 years ago.    His career has always been exploring the healing effects of sound, and for the last 3 years he has been keenly exploring the synergistic effects of coupling healing music with healing visuals   (ie: dvd).    Iasos has won grants in music composition, received many awards for his music and videos, and has done healing-workshops & multi-media concerts around the world.    His music has been used by NASA, Lazaris, Encyclopedia Britannica, Laserium, Hewlett Packard, and numerous hospitals and health practitioners.   His book "Sacred Sonic Tools"  (which includes an audio cd) is a "tool-box" of sounds specifically designed to give sound-practitioners many useful aligning tools in one portable package.

Sheri Kaplinski
is a synesthetic intuitive, who views the world through music. She composes music to aura's, em fields, or anything that has vibration or life force. She was educated in music beginning at the age of three, and has studied metaphysics since childhood, working with sacred geometry and alchemy, the works of Keeley, Plato's Cosmology, and the harmony laws of Pathagoras. Her music has been used by healers and therapists for meditation and relaxation, in hospitals and privately. She is also a hypnotherapist, and does music induction. Media work includes music for films, comercials, tv, and radio. Come Build A Rainbow, (music from the aura of Leo Buscaglia), is a work in progress, a children's video dedicated to healing through the arts. In a letter from Leo to Sheri in 1982, Leo said, "Keep building rainbows for the world".

Daniel Kobialka
is a world-renowned violinist who embraces both the classic and the avant-garde in his search to create sounds that enliven and heal. Dr. Bernie Siegel states, "I found years ago that music creates a healing environment and I find Kobialka's to be the best available." Daniel focuses on the concepts of the ancients- including Pythagoras. He creates music that surrounds and envelopes, that intensely and accurately elicits a soothing, joyful and enlivening response in the listener.

Richard H. Lee
is a professional engineer who has been researching the field of subtle energies for 18 years. Building on vibrational sound measurements of natural healers made in scientific laboratories in China, he has developed the science of Medical Infratonics.  By producing unpredictable signals in the infrasonic ranges of specific brain wave rhythms, Infratonic equipment relieves pain and accelerates recovery by breaking up traumatic cellular patterns that cause production of inflammatory chemicals. The two main intents of Infratonic signals are to increase cooperation between cells and to bridge between analytical consciousness and the rhythms of the heart. Mr. Lee is Director of CHI Institute in San Clemente, CA which has delivered more than 30,000 Infratonic devices to medical practitioners and pain sufferers around the world.

Amber Leiv
HHC,CMT - A practitioner in the holistic healing arts for over 10 years, Amber has extensive bodywork training including, cranial sacral balancing, vibrational massage, rebirthing and intuitive energy work. She holds certifications as a professional sound and voice teacher from the International Kaleo Sound Foundation. She is also certified in Bio-Tuning which was originated at the Neuroacoustic Research Foundation in Encinitas, California by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. Amber has a private practice in the Northern Bay Area.

Karl Maret, MD, M.Eng.
is a medical doctor who specializes in complementary and alternative medicine, nutritional and orthomolecular medicine, as well as the practice of Energy Medicine with special emphasis on Sound Healing modalities. He is the clinic director at the Tree of Health clinic in Aptos, California. Dr. Maret received his B.Sc. with Honors in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University in Canada and holds two Master’s degrees, one in Biomedical Engineering and one as a Doctor of Medicine, both from the University of Toronto in Canada. He completed a four-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California in San Diego. He also serves as president of the nonprofit, Dove Health Alliance, located in Aptos, California.

Randy Masters
has been a musician and educator in the science of music for many years. He has a unique understanding of harmonic mathematics, and teaches the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras and esoteric teachings. Randy is a composer, publisher, and multi-talented musician specializing in world music composition and performance. He taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was on the music faculty and an artist in residence for 10 years. He also taught seven years at San Jose State University. Randy has performed and arranged for many internationally known recording artists such as Tito Puente, Charlie Byrd, Hedzoleh Soundz, Lou Harrison and Solar Plexus.

Dr. Sandra Rose Michael
is using quantum physics, science and spirituality to shift consciousness and heal the planet.  She is the founder many healing systems including the EESystem, which generates multiple bio-active life enhancing energy fields, including “scalar waves” which can allow cell regeneration, pain relief, detoxification, and increased energy levels.

Karma Moffett
is an internationally respected artist known for his unique creative style expressed through music, oil painting, graphics, sculptings (in wood, stone, metal, and glass), hand-made musical instruments, and exquisite jewelry.Most of the music presented by his label "Padma Tapes" are Harmonic Journeys, designed to activate and harmonize the Chakra system, then dissolve the listener into the stillness of the Great Mystery. Karma's music features his exceptional set of twenty-four Tibetan Singing Bowls, Tibetan Longhorns, Hand Bells, Tingsha Cymbals, Conch Shells, Drums, and Bone Horn Trumpets. These were selected for their purity and clarity of sound, sublime sustained resonance, and their harmonic blending or pairing with the other bowls within the set. In addition to the recordings of his music, Karma has been performing up to three ceremonies per week at his studio in San Francisco. He has toured throughout the USA and Germany. Karma has been commissioned to perform at the Himalayan Fair for the past eight years, the Chinese Mood Festival, the Festival of Harps, Open Secret Bookstore, East West Bookstore, the Land of the Medicine Buddha, and has been featured at numerous Whole Life/Harmony Expos, weddings, birthday parties, and other celebrations. His distinctive sounds have also appeared in the films "Dragon" and "Deep Rising" and in a television special aired twice on Channel 7, KGO TV.

Thomas Morton
was awakened spiritually at a very early age and has been in service ever since. His life has been focused on healing the planet's energies. Thomas is also recognized as one of the world's leaders in the understanding and application of Sacred Geometry. He talks of how, since the beginning, through utilizing sacred geometry, we have created a vortex of energy or doorway to no-time and space. Upon entering that sacred space in meditation, we can access the deep silence, becoming empowered to recognize and not participate with  lower thought forms, therefore ascending in consciousness and being.

Dr. Gene R. Nelson
For the last 20 years, Dr. Nelson has been in practice using advanced bio-interactive technologies to assist clients in restoring energetic and physical balance in their lives.  Educated in Naturopathy, Chinese Energetic Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Dr. Nelson blends advanced bio-interactive technologies with proven ancient healing techniques to assess and balance the vibrational, multi-layered bio-body suit so that a client’s health and spiritual consciousness is expanded and sustained.

Margaret Ruby
author of The DNA of Healing, A Five-Step Process for Total Wellness and Abundance, draws her unique talent and insight from in-depth personal studies of transformation and human potential.  Her work as a coach, teacher, consultant and founder of an international seminar company, has changed the lives and hearts of many, giving them the gift of self healing and emotional freedom.  She blends the ancient art of healing with cutting-edge research in philosophy, physiology, biochemistry, and quantum physics.

Richard Rudis
is an American practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is the owner of the Illuminarium Convergence and BuddhistArtifacts.com  retail locations specializing in Sacred Eastern Artifacts and Dharma teachings. He has studied Eastern philosophy, both in the States and in Asia, for over twenty years. He leads groups to Tibet where he has previously taken refuge in the Buddha via His Holiness Karmapa and was given the name Sonam Dorje; (Meritorious Thunderbolt). He has been teaching, across the US,  Dharma/vibrational healing workshops with the Himalayan Sacred Sound Instruments and their healing potential  for over ten years. He is considered most Knowledgeable in this esoteric field and is part of the film STUPA produced by the University of Connecticut in Storrs.  He holds degrees in Fine Arts and English from the University of Connecticut. He is a recognized photographic artist having studied with notables in the field; Paul Capreonegro, William Parker and Ansel Adams. He has taught the ‘'Zen of Photography' at University of Connecticut at Bridgeport and Eastern Connecticut State, and has been guest lecturer at various schools across New England and in Montana.

Steve Satra
Steve Satra has been a designer of professional and consumer audio equipment for over 30 years, creating patented, award-winning products for many well-known companies. From the late eighties he has also been active in designing and producing alternative frequency based therapeutic devices utilizing sound, light, magnetics, and microcurrent electrical stimulation. Since acquiring his first bass guitar in 1967, he has been fascinated by the response of the human body to low frequency sound waves, which has led to researching the neuroscience of acoustically resonant structures of the body, and it’s effect on brain wave and ultradian biorhythms. He is currently an R&D consultant to companies in neuroscience and vibro-acoustictherapeutics. He exercises the other hemisphere of his brain by playing funky jazzy latin music (on bass, of course), as a practitioner of Reiki and Medical Qigong, and providing intuitive counseling via the insights of Evolutionary Astrology.

Molly Scott, Ed.D.LMHC
is a licensed psychotherapist, singer, educator, and poet with a doctoral degree is in consulting psychology, also trained in craniosacral therapy, EMDR, Equine Assisted therapy, and the Deep Story treatment for trauma. A pioneer in the use of embodied voice in treatment, Dr. Scott has led Creative Resonance therapy trainings for over thirty years in Europe, the US, and Canada. Her work creates a bridge between esoteric, shamanic, and mainstream clinical practice. She has a background in television and theater and has created a number of recordings of her own music. Currently an associate professor of Applied Psychology at Antioch University New England, she directs the Creative Resonance Institute, and maintains a therapy and mentoring practice in Western Massachusetts.

Christine Stevens
is a modern day troubadour who introduces people all over the world to musical expression in the form of drum circles. Through her company UpBeat Drum Circles, Christine offers programs for corporate teambuilding, diversity training, and personal growth seminars. A featured speaker, Christine is equally at home in the middle of a 1,000-person drum circle or on the podium addressing thousands of professionals. As Director of Music Therapy and Wellness Programs at Remo Drum Company, Christine has led music and wellness seminars in England, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.

Kris Thayer
As the founder of SongPeddler, Kris Thayer has directed the creation and implementation of the music discovery system that is unique to SongPeddler.com. With her expansive background in various aspects of Internet and media technologies, she has served as the technology leader for the company in addition to managing all aspects of the day to day operations. Kris has over 20 years' professional experience in music, multimedia, information technology, and education. As an entrepreneur, Kris founded and managed both a sound company and a recording studio. She has held various management and technology positions, including Information Technology Manager for a manufacturing company, before starting SongPeddler.

Alex Theory, Ph.D.
is director of the Sound Therapy Center at Globe Institute in San Francisco. He draws upon extensive training in psychology and psychoacoustic music production to research and integrate new modalities in sound therapy. Outside the therapy center, he is often found performing at conferences, festivals and retreats worldwide. His music has received international airplay on film, radio and television commercials, and he has published articles for numerous magazines. For more information please visit: www.mysticvibration.com

Billie M. Thompson, Ph.D.
is President of Sound Listening Corporation and an international leader in the field of listening training. She was trained by Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis and provided Tomatis Method Professional Training from 1986 through 2004. She and her husband, Dr. Kirk D. Thompson, are the creators of EnListenâ Sounds, a state of the art software technology that works on Windows XP and iPods. Dr. Thompson provides EnListenâ listening training programs directly to clients and Professional Training to Professionals who want to use EnListenâ programs in their work. Dr. Thompson was the founding President of the International Association of Registered Certified Tomatis Consultants. With Don Campbell, she created and co-facilitated Power of Sound Workshops for six years. She is a Certified Rubenfeld Synergist and integrates sound listening programs with body, mind, emotion, and spiritual breakthroughs. Since 1986, she has worked with over 6,500 families with Tomatis and EnListenâ programs, observing that 90% experience from adequate to extraordinary success in educational, career, personal, emotional, and/or spiritual areas. 

Christina Tourin
is a second-generation harpist who began playing harp at the age of four. She received Music and Education degrees from the University of Vermont (B.S.) and also studied harp at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and holds a music therapy degree from Arizona State University. As an International recording artist, she performs extensively both for live audiences, radio and television. She served as harpist for the Vermont Symphony, New Haven Symphony, and off-Broadway theater productions. Christina performed at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont - the home of the Sound of Music original family - for 17 years. She taught public school music for 20 years and after training at the Steiner Institute, taught in Waldorf schools in both Vermont and England. She is an active workshop organizer and has been instrumental in the revival of the folk harp since the early 1970's. In 1982 she founded the Scottish Harp Society of America and currently is the director and founder of the International Harp Therapy Program affiliated with San Diego Hospice. In addition, she is the founder of the World Harp Orchestra. As author of books, especially notable, Harp Therapy - A Cradle of Sound, her other activities include teaching music, performing and composing music. Her artistry can be heard on 14 CD recordings which are available from PlayHarp.com and Amazon.com.

Silvina Vergara
Passionately dedicated to the healing arts, Silvina specializes in sound work and movement.  She is holistic counselor, conscious guide, educator, singer, minister, dance instructor, and she incorporates dance, drama and movement composition to her training. She plays the singing crystal bowls and brings more than twenty years of experience in the areas of energy work, self development, movement and voice. Silvina  has had extensive training in performing arts, creative movement and metaphysics. Silvina holds a certification in sound healing and has completed a training in Sahuka, a synthesis on high Egyptian Alchemy, Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently a radio hostess in self awareness and spiritual growth for the Hispanic community. She is also working as a facilitator in stress management for San Francisco General Hospital for a special program for cancer patients. In her sessions she incorporates past life work, vibrational healing massage, breath and emotional work in order to facilitate a greater awareness of oneself, enhancing vitality and sense of well being. “Integrating these healing modalities is a reflection of my Healing Process, bringing a profound connection to my heart.”

Jeff Volk
Poet, producer and publisher, Jeff Volk, has been popularizing the science of Cymatics for over 20 years. In 1984 he produced a series of videos based on the pioneering experiments of Swiss scientist Dr. Hans Jenny, which scientifically demonstrated how audible sound creates harmonic, geometric patterns found in intricate life forms, and in the sacred art and architecture of the world's Great Traditions. In 1993, his video, Of Sound Mind and Body: Music and Vibrational Healing, won the Hartley Film Award through the Institute of Noetic Sciences. It’s phenomenal success inspired him to produce the International Sound Colloquium, which for six years, was the premier conference exploring the power of sacred sound and healing music. In 2001, he re-issued Jenny's long out-of-print Cymatics books as a single deluxe edition, and he has just published an English translation of Water Sound Images, the stunning work of contemporary German Cymatics researcher, Alexander Lauterwasser. He lectures and writes occasionally, about Cymatics and related topics. More information may be found at www.cymaticsource.com.

 

June Leslie Wieder, D.C., M.Th., B.Sc
is a chiropractor, massage therapist, and Trager practitioner. She has had a private practice in New York and currently has a practice in southern California. Her years of research on the resonant frequencies of the vertebrae created the basis for her new bone-toning vibrational therapy, which is described in her book, Song of the Spine, and an article, "Resonant Frequencies of the Spine," in the October-November 2006 issue of Massage and Bodywork. She maintains a popular website on structural therapy (www.drwieder.com) and a second website about her book (www.songofthespine.com

Debbie Rosas
has been a leader in the wellness industry since 1976 and a pioneer in field of movement.  In 1983 she and Carlos Rosas created the Nia Technique, an internationally acclaimed body-mind-spirit movement and lifestyle program. Debbie has been a speaker and presenter at many health and fitness conventions, such as IDEA World, The National Wellness Conference, Sound Healers Conference, and the Science of Consciousness Conference. With her business partner, Carlos, she has authored and produced nine Nia videos, a goddess meditation tape, and two books, including the latest, The Nia Technique: The High-Powered Energizing Workout That Gives You A New Body and A New Life, published in 2005 by Broadway Books. Nia is transformational exercise that offers greater comfort, pleasure, fun, passion, and results in a conscious and functional way that allow people from all walks of life an opportunity to discover the wisdom of their Body’s Way.  Debbie is a dynamic speaker, writer, artist, and poet, and is the mother of two children. 

Chris Deckker - www.earthdance.org
is the Founder of Earthdance International, and a renowned organizer of conscious and sustainable events worldwide. This year he is helping to organize a project called "30 Days of Peace" that will bring together the world’s leading Peace organizations in an effort to motivate people, particularly youth, to take positive action for Peace.