Faculty

Day Schildkret’s visually stunning, earth-based art reconnects us to our intrinsic healing relationship with nature, impermanence, and everyday ritual.

Dr. Marilyn Schlitz is an award-winning social scientist, writer, teacher, and filmmaker. She is a professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University and president emeritus at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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Lori Schwanbeck weaves her passion for nature into her work as a mindfulness teacher, retreat leader, and Hakomi certified psychotherapist who teaches mindfulness-based emotional intelligence programs internationally.

Sianna Sherman has been a celebrated international yoga teacher for three decades. She is the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL.

Janet Stone teaches in San Francisco and leads retreats internationally, blending a wealth of knowledge and yoga experience to create a unique, vigorous yet sumptuous approach to Vinyasa yoga.

Didier Sylvain is an executive coach, artist, and facilitator of life alignment who applies his training in adaptive leadership, psychosomatics, and the healing arts to inspire transformative change.

Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, author, activist and sustainability educator. She bridges personal awakening with collective transformation.

Anne Van de Water is a certified life coach, health and wellness teacher, and inspirational spiritual guide. She helps huge-hearted change makers cultivate True Self Mastery to authentically live, love, lead and thrive.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, consultant, public speaker, and author. She co-wrote Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life.

Julie Von is a holistic doctor, author, and speaker specializing in fertility. Her acclaimed book, Spiritual Fertility, is the benchmark text on the link between trauma and conception.

John Vosler is a senior teacher at the Amrit Yoga Institute and teaches internationally, leading trainings and retreats on the profound healing benefits of the ancient meditation practice of Yoga Nidra.

As an author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter, Darnell approaches writing with an enormous amount of tenderness and audacity, teaching others to do the same.

Since 1984, Ellen Watson has studied, practiced, and taught Esalen® Massage & Bodywork both at Esalen and Internationally. In 2016, she was inducted into the World Massage Hall of Fame.

Justin Michael Williams works at the intersection of social justice, mindfulness, and personal growth — with a touch of music that brings it all to life — empowering people with practical tools for transformation.

Marques Wyatt is a seminal pioneer and one of the most respected DJs in the United States. Founder of the long-running institution for dance music, DEEP-LA, his selections stir emotion and turn dance floors into intimate rituals.