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 ...

Ruud is an EDL minister, and a spiritual counselor, teacher and workshop leader with 30 years of international and intercultural experience. He became a Trustee for the Emissaries in October 2018. He is a co-creator and facilitator in the EDL educational programs and a senior facilitator for the Primal Spirituality courses. In his counseling work, he is a guide for the voyager in the inner landscape, walking next to the client to face and heal primal wounds caused by past experiences, and ...

Diane Williams says she was inspired to start the Source of Synergy Foundation to support the awakening of the human spirit and to help accelerate the combustion of synergy so that together we can tap into the infinite source of unified consciousness, creativity and potential and, as a result, become a greater collective force for positive change. She became chairperson of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns in New York and co-created the Sacred Place at the UN World S...

Lisa Wimberger is the founder of Neurosculpting®, a fusion of brain science and mindfulness. She created the modality and process to save her own life. After decades of having occasional seizures, during which she sometimes could not breathe and had no pulse, Lisa committed herself to finding a modality that would help her target an unknown trigger for this condition and rehearse a new script so that she could circumvent another episode. It is the culmination of over thirty years of meditation...

George Carroll is a high-energy and high-content speaker, corporate trainer, author and event leader. He has an engaging and motivational style combined with actionable tips and laugh-out-loud sense of humor to help people to be inspired and ready to tackle challenges in the workplace and in personal life. George was guided to the personal development industry in 2005, when he began to discover the tools he needed to achieve personal and professional goals. He began attending workshops and sem...

Nirodha first dove into the human potential movement in 1982. He became involved in group work in 1991, for many years as participant, then eventually moving into the role of facilitator. He has worked extensively with Tantra, Primal, and more recently in the fields of trauma, attachment, and substance abuse. He first came to the Path of Love in 1999 and has been its organizer in the USA since 2002. "This work has given me a medium, support, and the inspiration for my personal inner journey. ...

Christina Pearson grew up suffering terribly from both hair pulling and skin picking. At the age of 33, discovering she was not alone, she set out to contact other sufferers, create resources and stimulate scientific research. In 1990, she founded the Trichotillomania Learning Center, now known as the TLC Foundation for BFRBs (body-focused repetitive behaviors). Leaving TLC in early 2013, she turned her attention toward what she calls “Phase 2” of her service to the BFRB Community, establish...

Jeff Foster studied astrophysics at Cambridge University. Jeff holds meetings, retreats and private one-to-one sessions around the world, gently but directly pointing people back to the deep acceptance inherent in the present moment. His teaching is simple. He helps people discover who they really are, beyond all thoughts and judgments about themselves, even in the midst of the stress and struggle of modern-day living and intimate relationships. His style is direct and uncompromising and yet ful...

Matt Licata is a psychotherapist, writer, and teacher, based in Boulder, Colorado. He is the author of "The Path is Everywhere: Uncovering the Jewels Hidden Within You," an exploration of his journey and work in depth psychotherapy, contemplative spirituality, and the poetic imagination. He incorporates Western, developmental theory, depth psychological, as well as contemplative, meditative, and mindfulness-based approaches to transformation and healing. Over the past 25 years, he has trained ex...

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...

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...

Courtney Bohlman is one of our talented teachers, facilitators, and coaches in our Full Self Emergence internship Program. She has been on the faculty of this program for three years, after first completing the program herself. Her other roles at Sunrise Ranch include but are not limited to: recruiter, childcare provider, yoga teacher, and member of the Sunrise Council. Courtney is a very artistic person, using different forms of artistic expression to share what she is experiencing within h...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gary Goodhue is a student and teacher of consciousness and creation. Living and working at Sunrise Ranch, he serves as associate faculty for the Full Self Emergence and Primal Spirituality programs. He supports healthy relationships and conflict resolution as a Restorative Circle facilitator and Unitive Justice trainer for Northern Colorado. As a wordsmith, he enjoys teaching, public speaking and performing his original high-vibrational spoken-word poetry. His focus is on bringing deep prin...

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 ...

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....

Phil Richardson 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 40 years of commitment to his spiritual path and the training he has undergone in spiritual education, attunement and emotional work has equipped him well as a mentor, facilitator and teacher. H...

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, the UK and the USA. Her interests include ancest...

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...

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....

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...

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. In October 2018, she became a Trustee of Emissaries of Divine Light. 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 ...