Shelley Astrof is from Montreal, Canada. She has her Master of Education degree from McGill University, Canada; Doctor of Meditation from Vishwa Unnyayan Samsad, India; Certificate of Advanced Studies in Yog Science, Vedant Philosophy, and the Theory and Practice of Meditation from the International Meditation Institute, India. In addition she was awarded Peace Pioneer from the International Meditation Institute.

She taught elementary school in both the public and private sectors of Montreal and ran a small school in India. During her time at McGill University she worked on numerous research projects as well as teaching off-campus B.Ed. courses in the James Bay Region of Northern Quebec. In addition she worked as a tutor on film sets for child actors.

In the many years she spent studying and teaching meditation and Vedant philosophy, one of her main hobbies was collecting and writing insightful stories for children everywhere.

Her love for children, education, meditation and storytelling has been combined in this unique approach to teaching meditation to children.

Kathy Guidi is co-creator and kaitiaki (steward) of Birdsong Retreat & Sanctuary, a place for wellness and spiritual healing. She is a certified Shamanic Breathwork facilitator and Ordained Minister (through Venus Rising Association for Transformation), a Reiki Master, a retreat facilitator, caterer of plant-based nourishing kai (food), an earth honoring ritualist and apprentice in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Peru, a death-positive advocate, and a spiritual mentor.

She is an all-around WOW-girl (ways of wellness) seeking to optimize body, mind, and spirit. Since 2006, she and her husband have been living on a 10-acre slice of paradise in rural New Zealand. They currently organise and facilitate small boutique transformational wellness events focusing on shamanism and shamanic practices. She offers group shamanic breathwork sessions at retreats and co-facilitates quarterly women’s gatherings.

www.kathyguidi.com

www.birdsongretreat.nz

www.facebook.com/KathyGuidiWOW

Kathy has contributions to the following books:

Sacred Death: 25 Tools for Caregivers; Chapter 11 - Conscious Dying: Staying Present, Aligned, and Connected Together

Shamanic Breathwork: The Nature of Change; Chapter 10 - Make a Noise: Sounding, Toning, and Emoting to Release Fear, Grief and Rage

Shaman Heart: Turning Your Pain into Purpose; Chapter 9 - Mantra, Mudra, and More: Staying Connected to Your Higher Self During Times of Crisis

Shamanism: Personal Quests of Communion with Nature and Creation; Soul to Soul Siblings

Atlantis Wolf is a Shamanic Life Coach and workshop leader who collaborates with her spirit guides, power animals, and galactic dragons to support people seeking solutions to their chronic pain and mysterious medical conditions. Her joy is helping people discover their personal power by walking with them into their interior labyrinths, their dark castles, and their hidden stories.

Atlantis grew up on a single lane dirt road, sure her mother was an angel in human form, whistling to birds and asking the question: What am I supposed to do on Earth today? She continues to walk into the forest at sunrise in all weather to ask that question every day.

She holds dual degrees in Civil Engineering and English with a minor in Environmental Engineering. Atlantis has worked as a civil engineer, technical writer, business analyst, project manager, licensed massage therapist, certified Emotion Code practitioner, marketing consultant, and entrepreneur.

She is a Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator and Ordained Shamanic Minister from Venus Rising Association for Transformation. She is certified as a Reiki Master by William Lee Rand, Founder of the International Center for Reiki Training, and a certified Kinesio Tape Practitioner by Kinesio (Dr. Kenzo Kase), Corp.

She was spiritually asleep until events around her mother’s death awakened her gifts to see and communicate with spiritual beings and remember her past lives as an Egyptian healer, Toltec curandera and Ayurvedic traveling shaman. She is the Dragon Medicine Woman.

Atlantis Wolf is available for podcast interviews, speaking engagements, workshops, one-to-one sessions and Shamanic Breathwork journeys. For more information and list of services, visit https://www.atlantiswolf.com/

Email her at DragonMedicineWoman@gmail.com.

Atlantis contributed Chapter 5: Pierce the Veil to the Sacred Death collaborative book project. To see the video that accompanies her chapter, click here: https://youtu.be/1tvcIrjMahQ To see her interview about the Sacred Death book project, click here: https://youtu.be/Dd53L7FjtSA

Atlantis contributed Chapter 3: Awaken Your Inner Dragon to the Sacred Medicine collaborative book project. To see the video that accompanies her chapter, click here: https://youtu.be/u6mkhCzIZ_E To see her interview about the Sacred Medicine book project, click here: https://youtu.be/J8bw7byTHL0

Atlantis contributed Chapter 23: Disarm Your Fear: Complete Freedom In One Circular Breath to the Find Your Voice collaborative book project. To see the video that accompanies her chapter, click here: https://youtu.be/Pffk-o3o2Gc To see her interview about the Find Your Voice book project, click here: https://youtu.be/Z13vgsSAOwU

With a master’s degree in Strategic Communication and Leadership, Kelly brings data driven techniques leading to lasting change. Over the past 15 years, she has experience teaching on topics including self-care, leadership development, outcomes measurement, sensory processing related to anxiety, and sleep. Kelly is a holistic entrepreneur bringing a wealth of experience and fun science to inspire her clients. Most importantly, she’ll get you the best night of sleep ever!

Kelly is a poet, podcaster, speaker, channel, and sleep expert who will cultivate space for you to emerge from stress and overwhelm to lead and savor the life of your dreams. As an occupational therapist, Kelly has over 20 years of experience specializing in sensory integration techniques. Her background in occupational therapy provides a unique perspective on development and the human condition. She helps overwhelmed working moms light up the world by taking them from burned out to radiating joy. Check out The Mystic Nerd Squad Podcast podcast at https://www.beingwellwithkelly.com/podcast.

Brittani Frey is a Soul Whisperer, Conscious Creator, Death Doula and Intuitive Energy Healer. She greatly knows and understands the souls journey. Brittani is passionate about guiding others to living a beautiful life, reducing the fear and anxiety around death, and supporting others through their Sacred Death.

Brittani leads a very compassionate practice with her clients and has really enjoyed going deeper through her psychic and mediumship abilities, using meditation and soul speak tools. There is always opportunities to grow and expand in life.

She is a mother to two wonderful boys and married 10 years to her incredible husband. She enjoys camping and traveling with her family, making new memories, being outdoors, cooking, baking, reading, teaches at a local fitness center and hosts a multitude of classes, workshops and retreats.

To connect with Brittani:

website: www.healinglovelight.com

email: brittani@healinglovelight.com

Facebook Page: Brittani Frey Healing Love and Light

Instagram: bnf611

Lisa Karasek, Quantum Healer and Intuitive Practitioner. I'm dedicated and passionate about helping you work with the dynamics of your self relationship. www.LisaKarasek.com

James Kawainui is a Native Hawaiian Healer, Mentor, and Spiritual Strategist with family roots going back over 20 generations in Hawaii. His ancestors were the "shaman" of his culture and he brings that ancient wisdom into the work he does with people from all over the world. His awakening came over 22 years ago when he heard (for the first time) his Kūpuna (ancestors). "It's time to go home!" they said. He listened and walked away from a successful Corporate career in a multimillion dollar company and moved back to Hawaii. Since then his journey has been to understand his gifts on deeper and deeper levels as he does the same for everyone he works with. His clients come from all walks of life and from many parts of the globe.

James’ passion is helping people live pain-free, passion driven, purpose filled lives.

You can find James at: https://jameskawainui.com/

For a free 30 minute Mini-Healing Session you can reach him at:

https://www.ancientwisdom4u.com/ancientwisdom4u/

AVAILABLE FOR PODCAST INTERVIEWS - EarthAffirmations@gmail.com

Lisa A. Newton, M.Ed. is a lifelong special education and English as a second language educator. She has developed three virtual language arts curriculums and currently teaches in a public-school system. She uses her gifts as an intuitive and empath to fulfill her calling as a teacher. She believes that all people have gifts and spiritual powers that they just need to learn how to tap into them, and the key is the use of positive affirmations, learning from elders, and meditation journeying.

She is the owner of Earth Affirmations a metaphysical jewelry shop. She selects her stones and crystals by feeling the vibrations. She creates her metaphysical jewelry while in a meditative state and uses fine sterling silver to maximize the energetic connectivity. Her work is available at:

EarthAffirmations.com http://earthaffirmations.com/

The Black Crow Art Gallery in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Black Crow Gallery | Sandwich MA

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/EarthAffirmationsLisa/

Hemali V. Vora, MPT, is an expert holistic practitioner, intuitive energy healer, and a spiritual mentor. With over two decades of working in healthcare field as a physical therapist, she has helped, coached and guided hundreds of patients, and their families deal with chronic illnesses, disabilities, and personal traumas.

Hemali is an avid traveler and a lifelong learner. Her intuitive guidance, experiences and curiosity has led her to learn many modalities like Myofascial Release, Integrative Nutrition, Holy Fire & Karuna Reiki. Having gone through her own journey filled with immense grief, depression, traumas and health challenges, she taps into her abundant tool box and integrates in her work. Hemali empowers healthcare workers and caregivers to discover and embody their unique version of optimal mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health, allowing them to thrive and reach their greatest potential. She often speaks and is hosted at city and local government facilities on programs related to goal setting, nutrition and the importance of self-care to counter care-givers burn-outs, exhaustion, overwhelms and stress.

Hemali has taught all levels of Reiki courses to healthcare workers, caregivers and children to help them uncover their true gifts and talents. Her fascination with every aspect of life and death and dying inspired her to complete End of Life Doula training through the University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine. She provides comprehensive support, comfort and guidance to the dying clients and their families with end of life transitions, legacy projects, preparations and through bereavement process. She educates communities on the importance of advance care planning for end of life to achieve comfort and peace at the end of life. She hosts virtual and online Death Café’s, a space to talk about death and dying.

Through her energy and doula work, she has coached many caregivers who companioned their loved ones experiencing terminal illness and death. Hemali offers one-on-one & group sessions in her studio and/or virtually. She can be reached at www.hemalivora.com, www.facebook.com/coachhemali, www.instagram.com/_happy_heathy_u www.youtube.com/c/HealingCorner

Robin Friend is the founder and creatrix of Eleven Eleven Candles and More, LLC and Sacred Soul Work, LLC. She started her journey as a spiritual practitioner in 2018 when she began creating intention candles. Soon after she became a Master Intention Candle Artist while freely exploring her abilities. She has since become a reiki practitioner and has worked with spiritual leaders to further develop her gifts. She now serves as a healing artist, medium, and soul work priestess offering an array of products and services including interactive workshops, intention products, intuitive consultations, and sacred ceremonies.

Robin is often referred to as a “way shower” - a term used by indigenous cultures for those who lead simply by living an authentic life. Her goal is to provide a safe haven for souls while sharing ancient wisdom and spiritual practices to elevate our thinking, our actions, and our view of self within modern society to a higher level of consciousness. All are welcome to explore how to reset their reality by visiting www.eleven-eleven-candles.com. There is a safe haven that is ready to support your journey.

Melissa McGlone, C.H.T, is a Certified Colon Hydrotherapist, Advanced Practitioner of Health Through Nutrition, Exercise and Education, Fertility Coach and expert on detoxification of the body. With twenty years experience in the healing arts, Melissa has treated tens of thousands of clients from all over the world seeking her out to help them achieve optimal health.

Melissa’s healing journey began when she was diagnosed with chronic endometriosis and was deemed infertile. Her determination to heal the disease naturally led her to embarking on a 90-day raw food detoxification program. Shortly upon completing the program, Melissa became pregnant with her daughter Merrin, and two years later delivered her second child, Nicholas.

Her life’s work became a commitment to helping others heal, and she became certified in Colon Hydrotherapy through the Edgar Cayce/Reilly School of Massotherapy in Virginia Beach. She is currently advanced level certified through the International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy, and sat for their National Board.

She has since enhanced her practice with other forms of detox, nutritional consulting and intuitive readings. She recently launched her new product and fertility coaching business, The Goddess Mother Healing Box, wanting to share her miraculous healing story with others to inspire them that they too can heal.

www.goddessmotherhealing.com

www.vitalbodymind.com

Dr. Krupa Vora-Knarr is a Certified Radiant Child Yoga Instructor, Reiki practitioner (level 1 and 2), and Doctor of Pharmacy.

Krupa has been working as a Pharmacist for over 18 years and enjoys counseling her patients about medications, mindful breathing, yoga, and ayurvedic diet. She began practicing yoga and breathwork at a very young age in India. Krupa is passionate about introducing yoga and mindful breathing to children at an early age as it provides tools for practicing compassion, mindfulness, generosity, focus, confidence, strength, and flexibility. Her typical class leads you through a gentle warm-up and a combination of storytelling/adventure-themed creative movements followed by a heatbuilding sequence, a cool down to recharge relaxation, and finally meditation. During relaxation, Krupa uses a healing hand technique that she learned in Reiki to center and further relax young yogis and yoginis. She has been teaching children yoga with Create Calm since 2019 and is a volunteer yoga teacher at her son’s Sunday school. She is currently studying in a 200-hour yoga teacher training course. Visit Inspiredbreathyoga.com

Carol Dutton is the owner of Being You Energetically, LLC and an expert Subtle Energy Practitioner, Reiki Master, Crystal Grid Healer, and a trained IrigenicsTM Ancestral Eye Reader. As a non-denominational ordained minister, she also performs spiritual oil anointing.

Whichever modality you choose, her powerful sessions will immediately give you the unique and specific missing links to clearing the traumatic and ancestral patterns keeping you from living an extraordinary life.

While spending her working career in the corporate world, she started her journey into the holistic healing world to bring comfort to her husband who struggles with a rare muscle disease. Seeing the relief he felt after a session, Carol decided to offer the sessions to friends and family members. With their encouragement, she started offering sessions to others.

In January 2020 her corporate job was eliminated. This was the impetus for her to seriously consider opening her own business doing the work she loves. After educating herself on being a business owner, she founded Being You Energetically, LLC in January 2021.

She lives in rural Minnesota with her husband. Her hobbies include gardening, preserving food from her garden and farmers market, reading, fishing.

Singer, teacher, writer, sister, friend, mother, wife, and lover of life; Stephanie Urbina Jones brings her passion and experience in living a life of creative freedom to people all over the world. Jones has a passion for transformation and is a living example of not only dreaming but bringing those dreams to life. As an author in “Sacred Death” Jones shares her inspiring story of midwifing her grandmother to the other side, sharing how this experience changed her life and gave her the courage to live her dreams.

Whether she is writing a song, performing, or leading journeys of transformation as co-founder of Freedom Folk and Soul, a Transformational Community of the Healing Arts, Stephanie is truly following her heart and chiseling out her soul. She sees herself as a kind of midwife, guiding folks on their journey of self-discovery, healing, and transformation, empowering those who seek to live a life of passion, purpose, and personal freedom.

A true “walker between the worlds,” SUJ shares inspiration in music from her 9 albums including “Shaman Heart,” a transformational journey in song with audiences and fellow journeyers everywhere.

SUJ is a # 1 Billboard Country Music Songwriter traveling with her Honky Tonk Mariachis, sharing joy and her history-making “Country Music with Chili Peppers” all over the world.

www.FreedomFolkandSoul.org

www.StephanieUrbinaJones.com

Stephanie is available for Concerts, Speaking Engagements, Blogging, Podcasts, TV/ Online Interviews, Sacred Journey Breathwork and Cacao Ceremonies in Person or Online, Teachings and Training on the Medicine Wheel, Native American and Shamanic Studies, Reiki, Shamanic Counseling and Healing, Toltec Wisdom and Drum Circles. Stephanie Performs and Leads Journeys of Transformation in Mexico and all over the world.

Kendall is a dynamic Shamanic practitioner and trainer. She is devoted to educating the benefits of connecting us back to our Shamanic roots and heart power. Her powerful sessions and teachings wake us up from modern-day stress, illness, and disempowerment, empowering us to tap into our unique medicine to heal ourselves. She creates permission to unfold the shadow emotions you may deny, helping you let go and find clarity in your life, clearing your way back to happiness, and realigning a powerful wellness path ahead.

Being an Empath, Kendall learned that growing up in Western culture as an Empath and experiencing disconnection, pressure, and the exhaustion of modern society deeply affects both our emotional and mental health. Kendall began a wellness journey to reclaim both her spiritual and emotional wellbeing. Her ongoing journey to wellness fires her passion for helping others and creating a Tribe of Love, Compassion, and Realignment in Western Culture.

Kendall runs the successful private practice Heart Hive and is also a partner in Earth Retreats on the Gold Coast, Australia.

For more information regarding private Shamanic Sessions or Shamanic Training events, contact Kendall at www.hearthive.com.au or email info@hearthive.com.au

Follow Kendall:

https://www.facebook.com/kendallhearthive/

https://www.instagram.com/heart.hive/

https://www.facebook.com/earthretreats

https://www.instagram.com/earth_retreats/

Sherry Burns is a wife, mother, and an avid traveler, reader, and foodie. She was born in South Korea and moved to the States when her father’s tour of duty with the army was over. In terms of ethnicity, she is Korean, Hispanic, and Native American, topped off with a little European. She lives in Santa Fe, NM, with her husband and two ridiculous cats. In 2019, Sherry retired in as a director for a medical software company, working in product design and development.

Throughout her adult life, Sherry has been intrigued (some would say obsessed) with death and dying — the physical/biological process, cultural expression, and spiritual and emotional experiences. She is a hospice volunteer, supporting families and patients, and specifically sitting with patients whose family or friends are unable to be present as they transition.

Sherry became an end-of-life doula to empower people to create their own self-directed transition and accompany them on their journey. She completed her end-of-life doula training through the University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine.

Visit Sherry at https://sherryburns.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/sherryburns.eold.

Shabnam Hashemi, BSN, RN, comes with over 30 years of experience in Healthcare. She has a hybrid background in laboratory science, Public Health, nursing, and complimentary medicine. She currently works as a hospice nurse. She is working towards certification in Grief Counseling.

Her goal is to help others navigate through grief and trauma as well as release physical pain, which often has roots in emotional trauma. She utilizes her own life experiences as well as her studies and her gift of empathy to guide clients through their healing journey. Her expertise extends to helping families going through a death of a loved one and coping with loss. She offers her expertise in End-of-Life conversations, the dying process, as well as being at the bedside at the time of transition.

Shabnam is a Reiki Master/Teacher level practitioner, and practices Clinical Aromatherapy, Craniosacral therapy, Shamanic Healing, and Tong Ren.

Recently developed workshops include:

- Living with Grief and Loss – A multifaceted Journey (presented at Scripps Health care, and Sharps Memorial in San Diego CA)

- Walking your talk-Emerging from Burnout into Resilience through Self-care

- Ancient tools for modern times- Shamanic tools for everyday living

- Navigating Fear

You can contact her via email at: info@shabnamhashemi.com