Jane Wolf Frances is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. She is the author of Oh My God! We’re Parenting Our Parents: How to Transform this Remarkable Challenge into a Journey of Love. Drawing on her personal experience with her own parents, her expertise as a psychotherapist and her previous background as …
Debashish Banerji is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of South Asian Philosophy and Culture and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Prior to this, he taught at the University of Philosophical Research, Pasadena City College, UCLA and the University of California, Irvine. An expert on Sri Aurobindo and art …
Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassin (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and a teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. His popular memoir, The Journey Home, traces his search for spiritual truth from teenage alienation in Chicago to Europe, the Middle East and finally India, where he discovered his path and met his guru, …
Paul John Roach is a native of Wales, UK. He has BA and MA degrees in English from Oxford University and a postgraduate degree in Education from the University of Wales. He has been the minister at Unity of Fort Worth in Texas since his 1988 ordination from Unity Ministerial School in Kansas City, Missouri. …
Robert A. Jonas, M.T.S., Ed.D., is the founder and director of The Empty Bell, a contemplative sanctuary in Northampton, MA, with a special emphasis on the Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the arts. An author, musician and retreat leader, Dr. Jonas is a Carmelite Christian who has also received spiritual formation with Buddhist teachers. He is a …
Reverend Dr. Guibord is the founder and president of The Guibord Center – Religion Inside Out, whose purpose is “to explore and uphold the experience and presence of the Holy that transforms the world.” She previously served as Officer of Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns for The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. We spoke of the …
Bob Roth is the Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity which has brought meditation to over 500,000 inner-city youth in underserved schools in 35 countries, to veterans and their families who suffer from post-traumatic stress, and women and children who are survivors of domestic violence. A teacher of Transcendental Meditation for …
Dr. G. William Barnard, is a Professor of Religious Studies and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. His primary teaching and research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, religion and the social sciences; contemporary spirituality, religion and healing; and consciousness studies. He is currently researching the Santo Daime tradition, a syncretistic, …
Dr. Jeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since earning his doctorate from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000. He is the author of A Vision for Hinduism; Jainism: An Introduction; The Historical Dictionary of Hinduism; and the forthcoming Indian …
Mirabai writes, speaks and leads retreats on the interspiritual teachings of the mystics. She is known for her revolutionary translations of John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and Julian of Norwich. We spoke about her work, her life and her insightful and heartbreaking new memoir, Caravan of No Despair. Learn more about Mirabai Starr …
Dr. Joseph Prabhu is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and occasional Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. An interfaith and peace activist, he is editor or author of numerous scholarly books, most recently Raimon Panikkar as a Modern Spiritual Master and the forthcoming Liberating Gandhi: Community, Empire …
Glen Fullmer is the director of the Office of Communications at the Bahá’í National Center. Prior to his current position, he served Bahá’í institutions in the communications arena since 1999, at the Bahá’í World Centre, the Bahá’í World News Service and the Bahá’í Office of External Affairs. Born in Costa Rica, he holds a Master’s …
Anthony P. Bossis, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, where he and colleagues are conducting government approved clinical research with the hallucinogenic compound psilocybin. He is director of palliative care research, co-principal investigator, and a session guide for a study of the effects …
His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda is a traditional Vedic monk of the Giri monastic order. He hails from Himalayan lineages known for their combination of sagely scholarship and Nath yogic practices. A yogi, mystic and a scholar, he was chosen as the Head of Mission in the West on behalf of his Monastic Council and was …
Carin Gorrell has been Editor in Chief of Yoga Journal since December, 2013. Prior to that she was the features director of Self magazine, the health editor at Redbook and a senior editor at First for Women and Psychology Today. She has directed a cover-to-cover redesign of Yoga Journal, creating new departments and columns to …
Adam Bucko is a spiritual activist and co-author of Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation and The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living. He grew up in Poland during the totalitarian regime and emigrated to America at age 17. His search for a meaningful life led him to monasteries in …
Nahid Angha, Ph. D., is the co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism (IAS), founder of the International Sufi Women Organization and the executive editor of Sufism: An Inquiry. An internationally published scholar with over fifteen books, she has lectured at the UN, the Smithsonian Institution, the Compassion Conference, UNESCO and many other …
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati was raised in Hollywood, California, graduated from Stanford University, and was completing her PhD in 1996 when she went to live permanently at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. She was ordained into the order of Sanyas (monastic renunciation) in 2000 by His Holiness Swami Chidanand Saraswati. As President of the Divine …
Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri), D.Litt is a Vedic teacher and translator, trained in the fields of Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology. He is the author of more than forty books published in twenty languages worldwide and serves as director of the American Institute of Vedic Studies. In 2015 he was the first …
Jennifer Hollis is a music-thanatologist and the author of Music at the End of Life: Easing the Pain and Preparing the Passage. The former president of the Music-Thanatology Association International, she has a masters degree from Harvard Divinity School and works with the palliative care service at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. Her article “Songs …
Richard Miller, Ph.D., is the Founder, Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors of the Integrative Restoration Institute. A clinical psychologist, researcher, scholar and spiritual teacher, he is devoted to integrating the nondual teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism with Western psychology. Richard the co-founder of the International Association of Yoga …
Saniel Bonder is the founder of the Waking Down in Mutuality teachings and recently launched Human Sun Institute and The White-Hot Yoga of the Heart with his wife and teaching partner Linda Groves-Bonder. He has helped hundreds achieve unshakable spiritual awakeness amid the stresses of everyday living. His books include Healing the Spirit/Matter Split and …
Dr. Joe Dispenza is a scientist, teacher and lecturer who draws on findings from neuroscience and quantum physics to help people heal illness and enjoy more fulfilled and happy lives. He has been invited to speak in more than 27 countries on six continents, educating thousands of people on how to re-wire their brains and …
Russell Simmons co-founded Def Jam Recordings in 1984, creating the foundation for the musical and cultural revolution known as hip hop. He went on to form the Rush Communications empire, which included a clothing company, film and television production, a management company, a magazine and an advertising agency. Not satisfied by being an entertainment legend …
Wah! has been making music for the yoga world for 25 years and has published books on yoga and healing. She teaches women’s leadership training, sound healing workshops, yoga teacher training, and her popular Healing Concerts have been performed in planetariums, theaters and other venues. An innovator in her field, she brings a deep understanding …
Loch is an educator, a licensed psychotherapist and a nondual meditation teacher based in New York. The author of Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness, which was chosen one of the 10 Best Books of 2015 by Spirituality and Health Magazine, he founded the non-profit Open-Hearted Awareness Institute and is collaborating …
Pamela Miles is an international Reiki master and integrative health consultant. Many years of meditation and yoga study informs her understanding of Reiki as a nondual spiritual practice that gives an easy entry into inner spaciousness. The author of the award-winning book REIKI: A Comprehensive Guide, she has pioneered the integration of Reiki practice in conventional …
Marianne is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher, electrifying speaker and author, whose eleven books include six N.Y. Times bestsellers, most famously A Return to Love. As she has been interviewed by Oprah, Charlie Rose and other media luminaries, we are honored that she would join us for a conversation about the intersection of spirituality and …
Sadhguru is a mystic, philanthropist, author and spiritual teacher. His non-profit Isha Foundation has large centers in India and the US and offers yoga teachings and various social and community development programs throughout the world. We spoke about the spiritual experience that led to his work, the nature and content of his Inner Engineering programs …
Paul is publisher and editor of The Interfaith Observer (TIO), a monthly internet magazine promoting healthy interfaith culture. Prior to that he was the founding executive director of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio; sat on United Religions Initiative’s original Board of Directors; was a trustee of the North American Interfaith Network (NAIN) and served …
John is the founder of the pioneering transformational marketing and PR firm, The Visioneering Group, whose mission is “Linking spirit, vision and progressive values with compassionate communication to promote a positive and sustainable future.” He has represented foremost spiritual teachers, authors, thought leaders and performers. With Eckhart Tolle and Jim Carrey, John established the Global …
Dr. Sovatsky is a long-time psychotherapist and expert on kundalini yogi, who codirected the Ram Dass Prison Ashram Project in 1977 and received the first federal grants to use yoga with incarcerated youth and the homeless mentally ill in 1978. The former president of the US Association for Transpersonal Psychology and a faculty member at …
Chogyal Rinpoche was born in Nepal in 1985. At the age of five, he entered into monastic life at Rumtek Monastery, founded by the 16th Karmapa. He earned a Khenpo degree in Buddhist Philosophy and spent many years studying meditation and Vajrayana ritual practice. Today, he travels the world teaching Buddhist philosophy and meditation and …