Jennifer Derryberry Mann
August 11, 2010
Jennifer Derryberry Mann, freelance writer, editor, and yoga teacher, is passionate about birth, babies, and new (and not-so-new) mamas. Jenni believes in the power of a happy birth story to give families a mindful, healthy beginning. As a writer and editor, she loves covering pregnancy, postnatal care, early parenting, and mind/body care for women and their families. As a certified Forrest Yoga and Yoga Bonding Instructor, Jenni helps women navigate the transition to motherhood. She loves teaching expectant mamas, then meeting their babies on the mat in a shared yoga practice, and ultimately helping women create new connections to their core values, core beliefs, and core muscles. Jenni, her husband, Scotty, and their two daughters, Anabel and Alia, make their home in Athens, Georgia. Visit JenniferDerryberry.com or mamahhh.com (forthcoming) for more birth stories and mama mind/body care.
Debra Snyder, PhD
June 14, 2010
Debra J. Snyder, PhD, is a writer, speaker and intuitive consultant. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology, and is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner offering instruction on Intuitive Parenting in private sessions, classes and seminars throughout the country. Debra’s published doctoral dissertation, Spiritual Healing and the Special Needs Child, explores research available in the growing field of energy medicine and its application to disabled children.
She has been featured in publications, broadcasts, and websites such as Exceptional Parent, Psychology Today, and The Huffington Post. Snyder has been a featured speaker at a variety of energy healing, holistic health, and parenting conferences and groups, including the Total Wellness Expo and the Maine Center for Spiritual Enrichment.
Snyder is the author of Intuitive Parenting: Listening to the Wisdom of Your Heart (Atria Books/Beyond Words, May 2010).
Patty Harpenau
May 19, 2010
Patty Harpenau is a well-known painter and life coach, a Deepak Chopra teacher, and the founder of the Life Foundation in the Netherlands. She studied mystical Judaism and Kabbalah in Jerusalem, and the story in The Life Codes is based on her time there. She lives in Holland.
Corinne McLaughlin
March 2, 2010
Corinne McLaughlin is co-author of Spiritual Politics and Builders of the Dawn. She is the executive director of the Center for Visionary Leadership, based in California and North Carolina, and a co-founder of Sirius, a spiritual and ecological community in Massachusetts. Corinne coordinated a national Task Force on Sustainable Communities for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development and served on the adjunct faculty of the American University and the University of Massachusetts. A Fellow of the World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation, she has taught courses on spiritual development and social change with her husband, Gordon Davidson, for more than 30 years in the United States and Europe. They have been interviewed for more than 130 newspapers, magazines and radio and television shows, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Boston Globe, NBC TV, and Fox News. Corinne lives in the San Francisco area and enjoys hiking, swimming and appreciating the silence in quiet, beautiful places in nature.
Gordon Davidson is the president of the Center for Visionary Leadership and a co-founder of Sirius Community, and he has served as the founding director of the Social Investment Forum and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres). Through Soulight Consulting, he serves as a consultant and personal coach in spiritual growth, leadership, conflict resolution and individual and group decision-making and has worked closely with many corporate, government and nonprofit leaders and organizations. Gordon is co-author of Spiritual Politics and Builders of the Dawn and is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation. He has taught courses on meditation, leadership and spiritual development for more than 30 years in the United States and Europe. He expresses his creative nature through gardening, photography, and painting and his well-developed sense of cosmic humor.
Ainslie Macleod
March 2, 2010
For more than a decade, Ainslie MacLeod has used his talents as a psychic to explore the soul and its effects on human beliefs and behavior for more than a decade. The author of The Instruction, Ainslie was a featured teacher on Oprah’s Soul Series on Oprah XM Radio. Currently, he teaches at the Omega Institute and The Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, he currently lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where, from his office on a tranquil island, he offers psychic guidance to clients worldwide.
Catalyst Publicity is proud to be working with Sounds True and Ainslie on the promotion of his upcoming title The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives to Realize Your Soul’s Potential (Sounds True, April 28, 2010).
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Tricia McCannon
December 18, 2009
Tricia McCannon is a writer, teacher, and speaker about various facets of the world’s mystery religions. She has been a guest on more than 150 national TV and radio shows, including the popular series Sightings, Unsolved Mysteries, and Strange Universe. She lives in Georgia.
Title currently being promoted:
Jesus: The Explosive History of the 30 Lost Years and the Ancient Mystery Religions (Hampton Roads, March 2010)
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Kami Gray
October 26, 2009
Kami Gray is a Portland based TV and Film Wardrobe Stylist with a Ph. D. (Pretty Hot in Denim). She has worked with Hollywood stars like Patty Duke, Shannen Doherty, Amy Smart, John Corbett, and Jenny McCarthy. Her creations have appeared in commercials for Toyota, Nike, Discover Card, and other major companies and in television shows such as House, Veronica Mars, and Hell’s Kitchen. Visit her online at http://www.thedenimdiet.com.
Deborah Schoeberlein
August 3, 2009
Deborah Schoeberlein has more than twenty years experience teaching students in grades five through twelve, developing curricular materials, providing professional development for teachers, and pursuing freelance journalism. She is a recognized leader in developing the field of contemplative education. She lives in Basalt, Colorado.
Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness is her second book.
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Jaimal Yogis
March 4, 2009
Jaimal Yogis is an award-winning journalist and photographer who spends a good deal of his spare time surfing and traveling the globe. He has a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Hawai’i and an Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University in New York City. He has written for numerous publications, including: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Star, The Surfer’s Journal, Transworld Surf, Beliefnet, Tricycle, Yoga Journal, The Utne Reader and San Francisco Magazine. He recently finished his first book, a memoir of surf travels called Saltwater Buddha (out May, 2009) and lives on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach with his girlfriend Siri.
Velcrow Ripper
February 18, 2009
Multiple award-winning documentaryfilmmaker, writer and sound designer, Velcrow Ripper garnered international attention with his feature-length doc ScaredSacred that won the 2005 Best Documentary Genie Award (the Canadian Academy Awards) as well as a Special Jury Prize at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, and selected as one of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2004.
In his more than thirty films, he has explored some of the most important issues of our time. His films include; Iran the Crisis, In the Company of Fear, a documentary on non-violent resistance to the ‘dirty war’ in Colombia; the Golden Gate Award winning doc Open Season,about bear hunters and the activists who protest the hunt; and the multiple award-winning feature documentary, Bones of the Forest examining the struggle to save the ancient forests of British Columbia (winner of the 1996 Best of the Festival Award- Hot Docs Festival, 1996 Genie award for Best Feature Doc).
In sound design, he has garnered awards on the feature docs The Corporation, and A Place Called Chiapas, and was the sound designer on the multiple award-winning feature film Eve and the Fire Horse that won a Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Ripper is a graduate of Concordia University, and was a co-founder of the Gulf Island Film and Television School (GIFTS). He was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and has serves as an instructor at the prestigious Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver, as well as the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto.
He lives and works on Toronto Island.
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