Teachers
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Sally Kempton, formerly known as Swami Durgananda, is recognized as a powerful meditation guide and as a spiritual teacher who integrates yogic philosophy with daily life. She is the author of The Heart of Meditation, and writes the popular Wisdom column for Yoga Journal. A teacher in the tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism Sally conducts conducts workshops and retreats on applied philosophy and meditation. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community and is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004.
Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni's teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni's path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches.
Sofia Diaz is a hatha yoga master, a lineage holder in the Balasaraswati lineage of South Indian temple arts and a recipient of numerous meditation empowerments in both Tibetan and Shakta Tantric traditions . She turns the body wisdom practices she is empowered in into accessible teachings and practices for the modern western mind. Being an inspired woman practitioner, the rigors of her practice have resulted in great clarity and expertise in the domain of Feminine Spiritual practice, which she has been generously teaching for 27 years. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
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Kelly Sosan Bearer is the CEO of iEvolve: Global Practice Community. She is a Curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. Previously, Kelly worked for Integral Institute from 2003-2008 and has been a student of Integral theory and practice for over a decade. Kelly is an ordained Zen Monk and studies with Zen Master Genpo Roshi. She is a published author in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. She completed her graduate studies at Naropa University with her Master's in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology.
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Arjuna Ardagh is an awakening coach, writer, teacher and public speaker. He is the author of seven books and many audio and video products, including the 2005 bestseller The Translucent Revolution, and his most recent book Leap Before You Look. He is the Founder of the Living Essence Foundation, in Nevada City, CA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the awakening of consciousness within the context of ordinary life.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens is an author and one of the world's foremost authorities on living food nutrition, holistic lifestyle and complementary medicine. He is Founder/director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona, and the Culture of Life online community.
Rabbi Avram Davis, Ph.D. is the founder of Chochmat HaLev, Center of Jewish Spirituality, an active congregation serving over 250 households in the San Francisco, East Bay area. He is also the co-founder of the Jewish Arts and Culture School. He has written books on Jewish mysticism and meditation.
John Dupuy is the founder of Integral Recovery, a revolutionary model for the treatment of drug addiction and alcoholism that uses the AQAL map, developed by Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute, and a lifelong Integral Recovery Practice as its core healing modality. John’s Integral Recovery Practice, while based on the pioneering work of George Leonard and Michael Murphy and their Integral Transformative Practice as well as Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute’s Integral Life Practice, includes powerful new techniques and technologies specifically designed to rapidly heal those suffering from addiction.
John Forman OblSB, is a postulant for Holy Orders preparing for ordination to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion. He is also a Benedictine oblate of Mt. Angel Abbey and a Eucharistic minister. John has served as an advisor or consultant to numerous religious communities and organizations as well as to individual ordained, professed, and lay men and women. John is also a contributor to Integral Christian Ministry studies and the Managing Partner of Integral Development Associates
Jonathan Gustin, MFT is the founder of the Integral Awakening Center of San Francisco, where he teaches meditation, finding your life’s purpose and integral practice. He is an instructor at Kaiser Permanente where he teaches Mind/Body Medicine and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Jonathan has been practicing integral mentoring, purpose guiding and psychotherapy with individuals and couples for 15 years. He is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice with offices in San Francisco and San Rafael. Jonathan is also the founder of Green Sangha, a spiritually engaged environmental activist organization.
Craig Hamilton is an author and teacher working to articulate the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution. For 13 years, he lived and worked under the guidance of EnlightenNext founder and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen, and served as the Senior Editor of What is Enlightenment? magazine.
John Kesler is an attorney, consultant, lecturer and facilitator. He is also a high priest of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) and has held many offices in the lay ministry of that church. He has also been certified by Genpo Roshi as a Big Mind facilitator. John was one of the first people certified as a big mind process facilitator. He combined the big mind process with insights from integral theory, his own spiritual tradition and other Eastern and Western influences, and a unique practice emerged which John now shares called “integral polarity practice”. IPP is grounded in the foundational perspective that everything that manifests, manifests in polarities in the context of evolutionary and involutionary currents that one can learn to embrace. The practice also explores the interrelationships and interpenetrations of the erotic and the ethical, and the masculine and the feminine. The purpose of IPP is to achieve greater awareness, compassion, presence, integration and growth, and fuller expression of one’s unique self as a complement to any other spiritual or integral life practice.
Miles Kessleris a teacher of Aikido (5th Dan, Aikikai), Vipassana meditation and Integral Practice. His passion for development has led him to Integral theory and how it applies to the evolution of consciousness and culture.As an Aikido student of the late Morihiro Saito Sensei, Miles lived in Japan and trained at the Iwama dojo for a total of 8 years, including serving for one year as Iwama dojo "uchi-deshi" (live-in apprentice). Under Saito Sensei’s guidance Miles began teaching Aikido while in Japan, founding the “Mito International Aikido Club”, and instructing at the Ibaraki Social Welfare Center from 1994 to 1997.In 2007 Miles founded the N.G.O. “Aikido Without Borders”, an integrally informed non-profit that brings the practice of aikido to disadvantaged communities in Israeli and Palestine. AWB has on-going adults, women’s and children’s projects in Jaffa and the occupied West Bank communities of Ramallah and Bethlehem.
Mary Lanier, MA is an emerging spiritual teacher. There have been several stages in Mary's unfolding path. She began her path as a leader in the fundementalist Christain Church movement where her husband was a minister. In the role of Minister wife, she taught, co- led the chruch community, led prayer meetings, and initiated spiritual and social action projects in the context of the church. She teaches women's empowerment, shamanic wisdom, and market place skills grounded in a larger spiritual and moral context.
Terry Patten is a Certified Integral Coach and a co-author of the book Integral Life Practice. He has worked for many years with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute. He is committed to serving the emergence of Integral consciousness—by writing and educating, and by helping conscious individuals and organizations negotiate extraordinary transitions.
Brad Satkin, MFT, holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Reed College and an M.A. in Psychology, with a specialization in Somatics, from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Brad has over 15 years of professional clinical experience counseling individuals, families, and groups, as well as, supervising, and training interns. His private psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area caters to a culturally diverse clientele ranging from corporate executives and healthcare providers, to inner-city school teachers and at-risk adolescents.
Vidyuddeva is a Zen Priest, Biblical Mystic and Tantric Evolutionary whose teachings cultivate three unique expressions of enlightenment: Suchness, Spirit, and Self-Story. In partnership with Stagen Institute, he guides business leaders in the discipline of sculpting the passionate purpose of their lives into the art of joyfully being freely and fully alive. He is pioneering new integral methodologies engaging our shared humanity in the recognition that God’s glory is the human being fully alive. He is a core faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.
Rabbi Gershon Winkler is a charismatic teacher who has devoted much of the past two decades to writing and teaching about the lesser-promulgated wisdoms of Judaism and to Hebraic scriptural interpretation. He is the founder of the Walking Stick Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recovery and preservation of indigenous Hebrew spirituality. He is also an author of fourteen books on Jewish law, lore, mysticism and theology.
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Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson is the founder of High Road for Human Rights Advocacy Project and served as Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT from 2000-2008, hosting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Before serving as Mayor, he was listed in Best Lawyers in America, served as Chair of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section, and was Editor-in Chief of Voir Dire legal journal. He has received numerous awards for his human rights, government reform and environmental advocacy efforts.
Stephen Cohen is a highly regarded expert in media and media relations who has a broad background in handling high profile cases as a journalist and as a crisis manager. He has operated ,as a senior news executive, many of the most prestigious and largest local newsrooms in the United States. While at CBS, he was the news director of both WCBS TV and KCBS TV, later he served as Vice President and General manager of WCAU TV in Philadelphia. Throughout those years, he mentored, hired and guided the careers of many of today’s best know electronic journalists. He holds three degrees,including a B.S. in Education, a Master’s in Modern History, and an M.A. in Journalism. He is the recipient of numerous journalism awards including EMMY’s for excellence in television journalism.
Manifesting the fullest expression of your professional or personal desires is what motivates James. As a Certified Integral Coach James Baye integrates over twenty years of experience from the fields of paramedics, nursing, system design, event production and transpersonal development. He is a board member and coach for Drishti: Centre for Integral Action, and an active cardiac surgical nurse. Through his involvement in athletics, yogic arts, and spiritual discipline James brings a comprehensive integration of rigor and intuition to his work. His depth of focus, presence, creativity and compassion allow him to meet each client fully in what truly matters.
Lynne is a devoted student of Ken Wilber's Integral theory and incorporated it into her life for 14 years by herself prior to having any contact with other Integral folks. She also utilized it when studying and practicing matrimonial and criminal law, and when teaching high school for many years. When she finally met Wilber and associates in 2003, he asked her to come work with him, which she did, until 2006. Lynne's accomplishments cover a wide range of her interests. Her community work has been honored by the White House, appeared in People Magazine, ABC News with Peter Jennings, and she received a special commendation from the New Jersey State Legislature for her work in democracy education. She has created a variety of curricula through the Integral model including such themes as student activism leadership, project management skills for workplace readiness, and Jewish educators.
Nicole Fegley is a co-curator of Integral Life Spiritual Center and Integral Spiritual Experience. A former restaurant owner, she has worked for Integral Institute and Integral Life for the past 4 years and is currently
studying in the Integral Coaching Canada certification program. She is a writer and the co-owner of Core Integral, Inc, dedicated to comprehensive and accessible training in Integral Theory and Application.
Clint Fuhs is a teacher, writer, workshop facilitator, and coach specializing in integral theory and practice. He is a senior student of Ken Wilber who has studied and applied the integral approach for over ten years. After six years of working in curriculum and operations at Integral Institute and Integral Life, Clint is now the founder and CEO of Core Integral, Inc. Dedicated to ensuring the integrity of a comprehensive and engaged integral understanding, Core Integral works in partnership with Ken Wilber and Integral Life.
Dr. Cindylou Golin is a life coach with years of training and experience in the field of personal growth. She contributed to the creation of Ken Wilber’s Integral Life Practice seminars as well as the Integral Life Practice Starter Kit. She offers a coaching program through The Standard Spa Hotel in Miami Beach, working with clients locally and over the phone. Cindylou teaches Integral Life Practice in the Integral Theory graduate program at JFKU. She has served as faculty with Integral Institute seminars and has written on the topic of ILP.
Jason Harler is the General Manager and part of the original visionary force behind The Standard Spa Hotel located in Miami Beach, Florida, home of The Standard Center for Integral Living. The Standard is a holistic hideaway designed for teachers and students alike as an integrally inspired oasis, a great place to explore all your contours through our various types of programming or simply a respite from busy lives.
Rob McNamara is working with iEvolve, an emerging integral spiritual practice community spear headed by Diane Hamilton, Marc Gafni, Sofia Diaz and Sally Kempton. He is one of the leading figures cutting the path for a men’s integral practice community. Rob is also collaborating with integral visionary John Dupuy in his Integral Recovery movement. He is the VP of Operations for Integral Recovery. Rob’s contributions within the business sector includes the Stagen Leadership Institute where Rob has helped develop and deploy integrally informed executive curriculum for senior executives. Rob also spent 5 years as the Senior Integral Consultant and Human Performance Specialist for Phillips Performance Nutrition.
Derik Mills is the founder of yogaglo.com, the first website to offer the experience of being in live yoga classes at home or on the go. After completing degrees in chemistry, psychology, masters in business, years of living in various countries and a successful technology related business, he created Yogaglo based on the principle that despite all of our different perspectives, the yoga process is something we all have in common. Derik is focused on using the internet as a vehicle to spread this message through integrative spiritual and wellness practices, academically robust lectures, community support, philanthropic service and inspiring interviews.
Kris Nelson is founder and principal at Krama Consulting and Development: process driven organization development and business strategy. Kris is also a spiritual teacher who lives and teaches in Los Angeles, and has taught both nationally and internationally. Kris has distilled over 20 years of practice in eastern and western traditions and has applied his insights and understanding to modern, urban living, offering a life based, integral world-centric perspective of awakening.
Kristen Ulmer was an American pioneer of the Extreme Sports revolution. Starting in the early 90's as a mogul specialist on the US Ski Team, she decided to leave the team to pursue a career jumping off cliffs for cameras and skiing you-fall-you-die ski descents around the world. Kristen also became a popular speaker, Television show host and sports journalist—writing for some of the most prestigious American sports magazines and scoring monthly columns in 4 different ski publications around the world. Jules Older, editor in chief of Ski Press—the largest ski magazine in the world—has said, "In my professional opinion, Kristen is the best ski writer in North America."
Dennis Wittrock, M.A. is the co-founder and CEO of Integrales Forum. What began in 1998 with a seminar on Ken Wilber in the Blackforest, hosted by Edith Zundel (Ken mentions her in his book Grace and Grit, where she supported Ken and Treya during Treya’s cancer treatment in Bonn, Germany) is now an impressive structure of 20 regional integral salons (almost in every major German city), as well as strong groups in Austria and Switzerland.