David Karchere is an author, speaker, poet, workshop leader and foremost thought leader on Primal Spirituality worldwide. David has created and led programs for spiritual awakening and personal transformation for people around the globe. He leads Healing Chant workshops, and he has developed The Creative Field Project, a global network of small groups that m...

Jane Anetrini is a coach and teacher of Primal Spirituality and is the assistant spiritual director of Sunrise Ranch, a teaching and demonstration site for Primal Spirituality. She is the director of the Full Self Emergence program at Sunrise Ranch, a program designed to share the enlightened knowledge of the transformational process that frees people to be fully themselves. She is the co-creator and part of the senior faculty of an International Leadership program. Jane has traveled internat...

Ruth Buckingham is a teacher, facilitator and speaker, and her background in the theater enables her creativity to be embodied in the work she teaches. Her practical approach encourages people to discover the truth of themselves and bring the expression of that into their daily lives. Ruth travels extensively with her husband, Phil Richardson, facilitating workshops and giving talks in Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Norway, Netherlands, UK and the USA. Her interests include ancestry r...

Phil Richardson is one of seven Trustees of Emissaries of Divine Light and provides leadership and spiritual education internationally. With his wife, Ruth Buckingham, he coordinates Emissary activities in South Africa and the UK, spending time there, in the USA and other countries, assisting people to a greater awareness of their true potential. His more than 40years of commitment to his spiritual path and the training he has undergone in spiritual education, attunement and emotional work has...

Maureen Waller discovered, after searching for many years, that it is possible to transcend our human conditioning. True being and inherent leadership are in fact present within each one of us. Maureen has a passion for connecting with people and, through that connection, offers the gifts that she has received through the Emissary program. Maureen is a teacher of practical spirituality, a coach, and has a commitment to personal honesty no matter what....

Hugh Duff, one of the seven Emissaries of Divine Light Trustees, is a dowser and attunement practitioner. He is a teacher of Attunement Practitioner Certification classes and Right Use of Power workshops. He leads Transformation Groups, small circles of people who create supportive environments for personal life changes. As Regional Director with Emissaries of Divine Light, British Columbia, he offers spiritual guidance to people in their life journey. Hugh’s home base is Edenvale, a thriving ...

Uma came to Sunrise Ranch for the Full Self Emergence program several years ago, eager to learn the spiritual teachings and experience living in a successful spiritual community. She discovered a spirituality that resonated deeply with her own inner knowing, developed on a spiritual path of 45 years. She stayed on after the program ended and now teaches in the program. She brings more than 30 years of professional experience, including project management, software engineering and programming, a...

Marilyn Manderson teaches and practices Attunement, an energy medicine practice with a profound spiritual foundation. She is a member of the leadership team of the Emissary Attunement Guild, and offers Attunement mentoring and teaching in Kamloops, British Columbia, where she lives. Marilyn has lived a life of service as both a critical care and community nurse, a member of intentional community, and a spiritual teacher. Currently she is a Trustee of Emissaries of Divi...

Keahi Ewa serves as Director of Operations at Sunrise Ranch and Executive Assistant to the global spiritual network of Emissaries of Divine Light. She is a teacher and coach for the Primal Spirituality series and the Full Self Emergence program. Her passion is to shine a light of possibility on living a life of unconditional love through personal spiritual healing and knowing. She believes that, from this knowing, one can experience a full and fulfilling life. She enjoys sharing in hula...

Jonathan Goldman is an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Author of "Healing Sounds," he is director of the Sound Healers and president of Spirit Music, the original organization dedicated to the education and awareness of sound and music for healing. Spirit Music produces music for meditation, relaxation and self-transformation.

Jonathan has hosted the Healing Sounds Intensive at Sunrise Ranch every July for 20 years....

David Wheeler, musician and ethnomusicologist, entered the tutelage of shakuhachi master Junsuke Kawase III in 1977. He received his M.A. in musicology from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music in 1985. Since 1982, he has been performing, teaching, lecturing and writing about shakuhachi and Japanese music both in Japan and the U.S.

David specializes in the classical tradition, but performance activities cover the full range of music today from Japanese to Western and classical to th...

Michael Gaeta is a visionary teacher, practitioner and writer in the field of natural healthcare. Michael studied Attunement with Roger de Winton. He holds New York licenses in acupuncture, nutrition and massage therapy, and is a Doctor of Acupuncture in Rhode Island.

In 1990, Michael founded the Hands-On Health Wholistic Centers, a successful group practice in New York. He has appeared on the CBS "Early Show," "NBC News" and "WB11 News." He writes and lectures nationally on nutrition, her...

Patrick Padden, a graduate of Colorado State University, studied natural systems building design in Namibia and urban food forest implementation in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2007. In 2008, Patrick obtained his permaculture teacher’s certificate from Sandy Cruz and Becky Elder of the Permaculture Institute. Patrick received his design certificate from the International Permaculture Design Course in Harare, Zimbabwe, and attended the International Permaculture Convergence in Malawi in 2009....

The things most people struggle with—money, sex, love, truth, relationships—can become the doors which you, as Awareness, consciously pass through and bring higher meaning to. In this way, you evolve your consciousness and your forms, uniting the two halves of you: Form and Formlessness. You discover this is your true destiny, unveiling the real you with no beginning and no end.

Bernie, or B, is the originator of The Form—Reality Practice, a powerful movement practice and vehicle of ...

Ty Burhoe has been a disciple of the great tabla maestro, Ustad Zakir Hussain, since 1990. From that time forward, Ty has been wholly dedicated to music as a career and as a spiritual path. Ty is known for his inspired accompaniment and uplifting presence in both classical and in fusion settings. He is internationally recognized for being instrumental in creating unique collaborations that weave tabla with other world traditions. He has become well known not only for his talents as a tabla playe...

Steve Oda began his musical education at the age of seven, learning to play slide guitar and then jazz guitar. His love of creativity through musical expression led him to the classical music of North India and the sarode. His practice started earnestly with Ustad Aashish Khan in 1971, and then in 1973 he became a disciple of Aashish’s father, the legendary musician, Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, one of India’s treasures. Since then Steve has dedicated himself to fully learning this complex art fo...

Avery Ellis is an Ecological Designer with a whole-systems approach to life. Avery was raised in New Jersey, the Garden State, by a master gardener. He has always felt a kinship with nature and the natural processes.

Avery spent the past decade pursuing his passion for sustainability with experience ranging from permaculture design to natural-building practices, solar installation to biodynamic farming, ecological waste treatment to communication dynamics, and he loves to share his knowle...

Born and raised in Wisconsin, Tara Rae currently garden-farms on the Front Range of Colorado. She began studying permaculture in 2003, receiving her first certificate in 2010 and a Permaculture Teachers Certificate in 2012. Since then, she has received several Advanced Permaculture Design Certificates (2013-2015) and has studied under Sandy Cruz, Becky Elder, Peter Bane, Adam Brock, Jason Gerhardt, Eric Toensmeier, Brad Lancaster and Mark Shepard.

Tara teaches at her home as well as aroun...

Andrea Isaacs has been on the cutting edge in the field of emotional intelligence since the early 1990s, when she created EnneaMotion, an experiential approach to transforming “bad-feeling” feelings to “good-feeling” feelings. She has been interviewed on Oprah Radio, and her ongoing radio show gives her the opportunity to interview people in the field of psychology, spirituality, consciousness and well-being. Since 1994, she has been traveling the world teaching and coaching and has m...

Dr. Margaret Paul is the author or co-author of several best-selling books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me to Be Loved By You?" "Inner Bonding, Healing Your Aloneness," "The Healing Your Aloneness Workbook," "Do I Have To Give Up Me to Be Loved By My Kids?" and "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By God?" Her books have been distributed around the world and have been translated into eleven languages.

Margaret holds a Ph.D. in psychology and is a relationship expert, noted public s...

“From the first I AM SOURCE™ class that I took in February 2002, I realized that the questions that had always plagued me actually did have answers that were within my reach to discover. It was in that class that I realized the search for Truth was no longer a punchline of a joke, but something I was destined to explore. I was hooked, and this was the path that was right for me.”

With the predecessor class to STANDING IN THE LIGHT® Program, Lori Rock started her formal training to f...

Workshop leader Mary Kathleen Rose, BA, LMT, is a pioneer in the field of touch therapies for the elderly and the chronically ill. The developer of Comfort Touch®, she is an internationally known consultant for massage training and research in medical settings. She is the author of “Comfort Touch: Massage for the Elderly and the Ill” (LWW 2009) and DVD of the same title.

For more information, call 303-651-9375 or visit www.comforttouch.com....

Robert Gonzales’ work, Living Compassion, has emerged from a lifetime of inquiry into the intersection between spirituality and human communication. His influences include Dr. Marshall Rosenberg (founder of Nonviolent Communication), Stephen Schwartz (creator of Compassionate Self-Care) and other spiritual teachers.

Robert received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989 and was a practicing therapist for many years, offering individual and couples counseling. He met Marshall Rosenberg in...

Shar Lee began her Buddhist meditation and studies in 1964 at the Zen Buddhist Temple in Evanston, Illinois. She has studied Buddhism at the White Temple near the Boudhanath Stupa in Nepal with Chogye Trichen Rinpoche (Sakya Tradition), Tenga Rinpoche (Kagyu Tradition), and Choekyie Nyima Rinpoche (Nyingma/Kagyu Tradition). In the 1960s, Shar Lee studied yoga, Ayurveda, and massage therapy. She became a yoga teacher in 1966 and a massage therapist in 1967. Shar teaches Tibetan Cranial to many...

Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource® Educational Programs, Surfing The Creative® International Rites Of Passage Programs, and Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of young people through rites of passage, mentoring, and community support. She creates movement based cross-cultural educational opportunities focusing on the potential that is available at major life thresholds. Mapping the journey from trauma...

Tom Daly, Ph.D. is a personal and professional development coach with over 30 years' experience in guiding clients through transitions of all kinds. He walks his talk, having been a salesman for Procter and Gamble, a high school science teacher and counselor, a massage therapist and wholistic health educator, a seminar leader, essayist, psychotherapist, business owner, leadership and coach trainer. Tom specializes in coaching professionals, executives, and other leaders who are contemplating ...

Dmitri Bilgere is co-founder of Shadow Work Seminars and has been running deep process work since 1989. The author of "Gateways to God" and "Beyond the Blame Game: Creating Compassion and Ending the Sex War in Your Life," he has been leading the Inner King Training since 1994....

Having grown up with exchange students in his home and having studied abroad, Emanuel Kuntzelman knew well the tremendous value of student exchange. Thus, in 1985, he founded Center for Cultural Interchange (CCI) in cooperation with his parents. The program has grown from 7 students that first year to approximately 10,000 participants annually. After establishing CCI, Emanuel and his wife Laura Rose, founded the Fundacion por el Futuro in Spain. Other endeavors include work with Ibiza’s ecolo...

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called "the voice for conscious evolution..." by Deepak Chopra. She is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch’s book The Mother of Invention. And many would agree she is the global ambassador for conscious change. At her heart, Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary, a social innovator. She is an evolutionary thinker who believes that global change happens when we work collectively and selflessly for the greater good. She realizes that the lessons of evolution teach u...

Ron Pevny is founder and director of the Colorado-based Center for Conscious Eldering. He is a longtime rite-of-passage guide, certified Sage-ing® leader, and coordinator of the Conscious Aging Alliance. He is author of the book "Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace and Savor Your Next Chapter." Ron is dedicated to assisting people in negotiating life transitions and creating lives of purpose and passion....

Peter Nordeen is a builder by vocation—but by avocation, he is a Meher Baba historian, having studied Baba’s life and teachings for more than 40 years. Peter was a resident of Meherabad when many of Baba’s old disciples were still alive. From them he had the opportunity to glean many stories of life with the Master. In 2003, Peter wrote and produced the biographical documentary GOD IN HUMAN FORM: the Life and Work of Avatar Meher Baba. A few years later, he produced the mu...

Alima has been working in the field of transformation with herself and others for 30 years. She is passionate about awakening and seeks to embody authenticity and compassion in her life and her work with people. She is a founder and member of Shematrix and is a facilitator of The Gift – A Woman’s Rite to HerSelf and The Grail – A Hero’s quest to the Self, which are offered worldwide. She has trained in many different modalities and offers individual sessions as a therapist and a counselo...

Satyarthi Peloquin has been leading training programs for the last 34 years. He is the creator of the internationally known form of Body Therapy, Holistic Pain Healing, a psychosomatic and deep massage method that releases pain at its roots. He is a senior facilitator at the Learning Love Institute and has been leading workshops in Learning Love for the past 10 years.

For 12 years he has been a leader in the Path of Love and has been deeply involved with this work for 17 years. He has been t...

David Chernikoff began the study and practice of meditation in 1971 and started teaching insight meditation in 1988. He trained as a yoga teacher at the Integral Yoga Institute and completed the Community Dharma Leader program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. His teaching has been influenced by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Tibetan teachers he studied with during a 3-year stay in Nepal, and spiritual guides from other contemplative traditions, most notably...

Julia Butterfly Hill is best known as the young woman who spent 738 days living in the canopy of an ancient redwood tree, called Luna, to draw attention to the plight of ancient forests. Her courageous determination brought international attention to the redwoods as well as other environmental and social justice issues. The 1,000-year-old tree and a nearly three-acre buffer zone are now permanently protected. Her message of hope, empowerment, love and respect for all life has inspired people all...