Tom Kimmel's beautiful and deeply insightful songs have long inspired all of us connected with Yoga for the Emotional Body, and Tom's message is reaching an ever growing international audience. Tom is also a gifted healer trained in the Alaya Process method who has often volunteered his time to teach, perform and assist at our workshops and professional trainings.
Nashvillians are blessed to have Hilary Lindsay offering classes for the serious and irreverent yoga student. She is a dynamic and colorful teacher with a unique approach that has become known as Rebel Yoga. In addition to outstanding yoga instruction, she also teaches dance classes accompanied by live percussion.
If Gray Bear Lodge doesn't come to mind when you think of the premier yoga retreat center in the southeastern U.S., it soon will. This haven for stretch junkies has served up Southern-style helpings of yoga and mind-body programs for the past five years. Weekend intensives ranging from Rodney Yee's advanced workshop to "Yoga, Drumming, and Yardsales" insure there is something for anyone looking to reconnect to body, spirit, and nature.
The Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University is the hub of campus activities on women, gender equity, and feminism. The center offers lectures, workshops and special events on topics ranging from feminist songwriting to career options for women graduates. Recently Linda Manning, in her role as director of the center, secured a major grant to provide assistance to victims of domestic violence in the Nashville community.
Longtime friend, David Yarian, an outstanding psychotherapist and educator, has launched a website loaded with useful information on tantra. He has also compiled a great selection of books on mental health and personal growth at www.Books4Selfhelp.com.
Anne is a spiritual director in private practice in Austin, Texas, and is
also a Vice President at the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin.
She draws upon her lively intellect, great heart, and emotional depth to provide the sacred space necessary for directees to discover and engage the Divine.
Don Americo Yabar is a poet, teacher, and mystic in the Andean tradition. For Americo, the core of life and wholeness lies in the experience of salka--"undomesticated energy." We organize journeys to Americo's native Peru where we receive his teachings and experience some of Peru's most beautiful and sacred sites.
At Salka Wasi, 2009
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Tobi Fishel, Ph.D., is a spirited and highly creative healer and teacher. In her role as the Director of Psychological Services at the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health, she brings a holistic perspective and a human touch to the Center’s mission of providing care for those with challenging medical conditions. Both heartful and discriminating, she gleans the best of the integrative therapies and brings them to life in her health psychology practice. The guiding principle in her work is encouraging a deepening relationship with the innate gifts of one’s own soul.
Reta at Salka Wasi, Peru 2005 (photo by Kenneth Robinson)
Special Thanks to...
Thomas Huffman and Reta Lawler, the founders of Alaya Process. These two great souls are dear friends, teachers, and guides who have generously given of themselves to lead many of us toward true freedom and joy.
