Maureen Murdock is a psychotherapist, educator and author, who teaches writing at UCLA. Along with her classic children’s guided imagery book, Spinning Inward, she has written The Heroine’s Journey, Fathers’ Daughters and Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory. She teaches memoir writing, to adults and children. She is also a prolific art photographer, whose work is widely exhibited.

Michael Reed Gach, Ph.D is the Founder and Director of The Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, California, and the creator of the Acu-Yoga system, which combines yoga stretches with gentle pressure on various key acupressure points, geared for specific ailments or conditions. In addition to training others in his techniques at his school, he’s written several books The Bum Back Book; Greater Energy at Your Fingertips; Acupressure's Potent Points; and Arthritis Relief at Your Fingertips.

Nancy Klein combines twenty years of teaching with the lessons learned from her own experiences with cancer in developing resources for children facing serious illnesses. Nancy offers a way for parents and other support people to actively participate in a child’s recovery. As a speaker and educator, Ms. Klein’s teaching covers the full spectrum from elementary school to university classes.

Peter A. Levine, PhD is the creator of Somatic Experiencing®, a fast-spreading, highly effective, body-based technique that helps heal trauma and other conditions normally are resistant to the normal, “talk therapy” approaches. He holds a Ph.D. in medical and biological physics from the University of California-Berkeley and a Ph.D. in psychology from International University. He has researched the psychology and physiology of trauma for over 35 years, and is a true innovator in the field, training hundreds of counselors and therapists in his groundbreaking techniques at his Foundation for Human Enrichment. He has a particular interest in healing childhood sexual abuse, and is the author of Waking the Tiger.

Robert Miller is a Doctor of Naturopathy and a Certified Acupuncturist, in addition to being an experienced audio engineer and successful founder of his Tree of Life Ministries in Ephrata, PA, where he consults with clients on a mind, body and spirit approach to wellness.

Roger Klein has worked as a therapist, psychologist (in private practice) and school psychologist since 1975. He currently works part-time as a school psychologist for the Watertown (WI) Unified School District, and operates a private practice that works with children and adults in one-to-one and group settings. Dr. Klein has presented workshops and seminars to more than 60 groups on the local, regional and national levels.

Roxanne Daleo, Ph.D. is a health educator and the founding director of MindWorks for Children. Trained in relaxation and stress reduction techniques at Harvard Medical School's, Division of Behavioral Medicine, her work is based on extensive experience with children and adults. She has produced audio-visual programs for patient education, health promotion, and creative arts therapies and has developed play therapy programs for the chronic and terminally ill. She conducts stress management workshops for professionals and develops health promotion programs for educators and health care practitioners.

Shinzhen Young, PhD is an American born meditation teacher who was ordained as a Buddhist monk at Mt. Koya, Japan. After several years of training in various Asian monasteries he became interested in the scientific study of meditative states and worked at the Princeton Biofeedback Institute. He is the co-founder, with Shirley Fenton, of the Vipassana Support Institute, which trains meditation facilitators to create a network to support meditation practice. His teachings emphasize the benefits of meditation in daily life. He has written articles and produced audio recordings on Vipassana meditation.

Susan Piver Browne is the founder and creative director of Padma Media. She is a producer, author, and marketing specialist who has worked in the entertainment industry for 14 years. Piver Browne believes that the consumer of spirituality materials has matured past merely reading about meditation, yoga, prayer and faith to wanting to weave such practices into daily life. She finds, authors and produces exquisitely attuned, impecable materials that provide practical, uplifting tools to aid in this effort.One of her most recent CD-Book Offerings is Joyful Mind.