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are known internationally as the TWIN TEAM. Born in Austria,
Barbara and Angelika are world record endurance athletes,
public speakers, counselors, mothers and all around inspirational
individuals. Angelica Castaneda is the Gold medal winner of
the ESPN Extreme Games- Adventure competition; Angelika has
been featured in eighteen underwater documentaries. She's
the World record holder Triple Ironman-45 hour continuous
swims, bike, and run in Grenoble, France and the World champion
of the Ironman in Hawaii. She holds a Bachelors of Art, and
is fluent in Spanish, English, German and Italian. Barbara
Warren, Ph.D. provides counseling on achieving excellence
in life and sports and is a World Champion Long Distance Triathlon;
second place Triple Ironman in France 51 hours continuous
swim, bike and run. Five time All American in Triathlon. Barbara
has a Doctorate in Psychology and speaks German, Italian,
Spanish and Italian.
is an inspirational author and artist and holds
a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology. Seven years ago
she decided to combine all of her interests and skills into
one: To create something that could make a difference in the
lives of others.
is the author of the bestseller I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name and also
various collections of poetry. In theatre, she produced, directed
and starred in Cabaret for Freedom at New York's Village
Gate. She has received honorary degrees from Smith, Mills
and Lawrence University.
is an author, healer, teacher and physicist who
has devoted more than 25 years to researching and exploring
the Human Energy Field. She holds a Master's Degree in Atmospheric
Physics and worked as a research scientist at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center. She is also a graduate of the Institute
of Core Energetics and a Senior Pathwork Helper. Ms. Brennan's
pioneering first book, HANDS OF LIGHT: A Guide to Healing
Through the Human Energy Field is a landmark work on spiritual
healing. It has been published in 17 languages and has nearly
a million copies. In addition to lecturing worldwide, Barbara
Brennan is the founder and president of the Barbara Brennan
School of Healing.
Since founding Elan Organic Coffees in
1989, Karen Cebreros has strived to supply the finest organic
coffees available while maintaining an equitable partnership
between consumers, farmers, and the environment. As a pioneer
developer and broker of certified organic green coffee, Elan
Organic Coffees not only supports farmers through fair trade,
but is also committed to preserving the environment. Her corporate
philosophy, integrity and accomplishments are truly remarkable.
developed the concepts for Present Moment Awareness
and the PMA System over the course of many years after retiring
from the computer security industry. His work is a distillation
of personal research and experience in psychology, philosophy,
spirituality and meditation. Duncan has based his work on
the principle that a moment of it, once passed, can never
be reclaimed.
began his career in 1974 at the Sabbathday Lake,
Maine, Shaker Community Herb Department - America's oldest
herb business, dating to 1799. There he established three
acres of production gardens and managed 1700 acres for the
commercial harvest of botanicals.
For over twenty-four
years, Steven Foster has served as a medicinal and aromatic
plant specialist, writer, lecturer, and photographer as well
as an international commercial consultant to commercial growers,
researchers, and others in the medicinal and aromatic industries.
Foster has over 690 photo - illustrated articles in popular,
trade, and scientific journals. He serves as Editor of the
Herbs for Health Supplement in The Herb Companion, Associate
Editor for Herbalgram, the Business of Herbs, and the Journal
of Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants. He is the author of
eleven books and several book chapters. He makes his Home
in the Arkansas Ozarks.
is a pioneer in the field of personal growth and
consciousness. Her many bestselling books including Creative
Visualization have sold more than six million copies in
thirty languages worldwide. For more than twenty years, Shakti
has lead workshops internationally, and has facilitated thousands
of individuals in developing greater awareness, balance, and
wholeness in their lives. She has appeared on such nationally
syndicated shows as Oprah!, Good Morning America, Sonya Live,
The Larry King Show, The Leeza Show, America's Talking and
New Dimensions Radio, and she has recently been featured in
Cosmopolitan, New Woman, New Age Journal, Body Mind & Spirit
and Time Magazine. Shakti was co-founder of New World Library
along with Marc Allen. Shakti and her husband, Jim Burns,
also co-founded Nataraj Publishing Company, which New World
Library acquired in 1998. Shakti Gawain lives with her husband
in Marin County, California and Kauai, Hawaii.
trained at Dartmouth Medical School and
Tufts Medical Center. She is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist
with over twenty yearsof clinical and medical teaching experience.
As past president of the American Holistic Medical Association,
and current Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology through the University of Vermont College of Medicine
Program at Maine Medical Center, she appreciates the need
for partnership between the best of conventional and complementary
medicines. Dr. Northrup is author of The New York Times
bestselling book Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, editor
of the monthly newsletter Health Wisdom for Women,
and host of four successful public television specials. Her
work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today
Show, The View and Good Morning America. She and her family
live in Maine.
is an international lecturer and workshop
leader on the interrelationships of medicine, intuition, and
spirituality. Dr Orloff is a board-certified psychiatrist
and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institute, St. John's Hospital and Cedars
Sinai Medical Center. She has been featured on CNN, PBS, ABC
News and NPR, and in USA Today, Self, New Age Journal and
elsewhere. She lives outside Los Angeles, California.
along with Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., is
author of Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People
are Changing the World. In their book they describe three
competing American subcultures, one of which began only forty
years ago. Dubbed the "Cultural Creatives" Ray and
Anderson go on to explain the emergence of this group, itís
values and characteristics, as well as how all three subcultures
interact, differ and shape our country. Paul Ray was educated
at Yale and the University of Michigan, where he was an associate
professor. He has headed major research projects and has published
numerous articles on values and social change. Sherry Ruth
Anderson, Ph.D. was educated at Goucher College at the University
of Toronto, where she was an associate professor. She is co-author
of the bestseller, Feminine Faces of God.
, wise woman, teacher, and author, is the founder
and director of the Wise Woman Teaching Center near Woodstock,
New York. Weed teaches the Wise Woman Tradition of healing
using simple herbs, tales of wisdom, and a keen knowledge
of the ways of the Earth. Her books include Wise Woman Herbal
for the Childbearing Year, Healing Wise, Menopausal Years,
The Wise Woman Way, and her most recent book, Breast
Cancer? Breast Health!
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