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Experts in the Dr. Weil Tradition Sebastian Beckwith
Sebastian Beckwith is a ranking American tea authority based in New York City where he is an owner of tea importer/distributor In Pursuit of Tea. This expertise has led to presentations at the China Institute, tastings at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, presentations with Dr. Andrew Weil at Columbia University, and educational seminars for Slow Food and other organizations. Read an interview with Sebastian Beckwith. | Dan Bornstein
With extensive experience in both sports medicine and fitness, Dan Bornstein is one of the nation's most sought-after personal trainers - and is Dr. Weil's personal trainer. Through a combination of practical experience in strength training and Yoga, and advanced study of biomechanics and functional anatomy, Dan uses a unique blend of education, communication and motivation to develop programs designed to empower clients to improve their health. Visit his Web site at www.isfitness.com. Read an interview with Dan Bornstein. | Lynne Bundesen
Lynne Bundesen is the author of One Prayer at a Time: A Day to Day Path to Spiritual Growth. A three-time recipient of the Religion in Media Angel Award for her syndicated column on religion, Lynne was adjunct professor at the Boston Theological Institute, the consortium of nine Boston area Divinity Schools. Read an interview with Lynne Bundesen. Read an article about Lynne's new book The Feminine Spirit: Recapturing the Heart of Scripture. | Sara Davison
When her life fell apart in her fifties, Sara Davidson, a New York Times best-selling author and lifelong friend of Dr. Weil, set out on a passionate quest to learn how to do the next years well. In Leap! What Will We Do with the Rest of our Lives? she reports on her own experience and that of 150 others, including icons such as Dr. Weil, Carly Simon, Tom Hayden, Ram Dass and Bebe Moore Campbell. She finds that everyone - no matter how much wealth or achievement they've attained - must go through "the narrows"(the transition to the next part of life). Among the topics she explores are: How does a high-powered person learn to walk down the ladder gracefully? How can women continue to be sensual and not touch-deprived? How do you roll with change - the single most important factor in whether you suffer or have joy in the years ahead? How can we arrange to grow old with our friends? For more information please visit her Web site. Read an interview with Sara Davidson. | Bill Douglas
Bill Douglas' work as Founder of the international health education event World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day (www.worldtaichiday.org) was recognized by the U.N. World Health Organization and governors of many states. Bill is the presenter/author of the internationally best selling T'ai Chi DVD "Anthology of T'ai Chi & Qigong: The Prescription for the Future," and book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & Qigong (Alpha - Penguin Putnam 3rd edition, 2005), and a contributing writer in Chi Kung: Energy for Life (Harper Collins, 2002). He's been a T'ai Chi/Qigong source for The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, The South China Morning Post, The New York Times, Russia's Omsk Daily News, and The San Francisco Chronicle. As director of SMARTaichi.com, a stress management consulting firm, Bill has been commissioned by many of the world's top corporations including Hallmark Cards Inc. and Sprint Corporation. Bill is a strong supporter of Dr.Weil's work and recommends Dr. Weil's book "Spontaneous Healing" in his best selling T'ai Chi book. Read an interview with Bill Douglas. | Rachael Freed
After she was introduced to the ethical will in the early 1990s, Rachael Freed created Women's Legacies, developed a teaching model for adult learners and wrote Women's Lives, Women's Legacies, Passing Your Beliefs and Blessings to Future Generations. She is also the author of The Legacy Circle Facilitator's Guide, and The Women's Legacies Workbook for the Busy Woman (A Step by Step Guide for Creating a Spiritual-Ethical Will in 2 Hours or Less. Her passion for legacy comes from her intuitive knowing that her personal experience reflects women's universal yearning to belong, to be known, to be remembered, and to have her life make a difference. For more information, visit her Web site at Women's Lives, Women's Legacies. Read an article about Rachael Freed's work. | Joy Kettler Gurgevich
Joy Gurgevich is the creator and director of The Joy of Food. She received her degree in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Arizona, where she is nutritional consultant to Dr. Andrew Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine. She is a specialist in nutrition from prenatal through senior years and addresses weight reduction and optimum athletic performance. Mrs. Gurgevich has practical suggestions for shopping guidelines, buying organic, vegetarian options and kitchen and pantry stocking. Read an interview Joy Gurgevich. | Dr. Steven Gurgevich
Dr.Steven Gurgevich is a member of the faculty at the University of Arizona's College of Medicine, where he teaches mind/body medicine to physicians at Dr. Andrew Weil's Program In Integrative Medicine. He is a faculty member of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and he also trains physicians at the Pediatric Complementary and Alternative Medicine Center at the University of Arizona. His private practice, Behavioral Medicine, Ltd., began its 30th year in 2004. Dr. Weil says of Dr. Gurgevich: "Steve Gurgevich is an effective and compassionate teacher and practitioner of hypnotherapy, someone who really understands how to take advantage of the mind/body connection to promote health and healing." Read an interview with Dr. Gurgevich. See an excerpt of his new book. | Taejoon Lee
A 7th Dan Black Sash in the Korean martial and healing art of Hwa Rang Do, Taejoon Lee is the modern bearer of an ancient tradition of Hwarang Knights, who were scholar-warriors, who helped unify the Korean peninsula for a millenium. The eldest son of the founder of the Art, Chief Master Lee has spent nearly four decades training students in this devastatingly effective yet beautiful art. The goal is to gain self-mastery of one's body, but more important is achieving physical, mental, and spiritual balance under a strong ethical code.
A personal friend of Dr. Weil's for almost twenty years, Lee guides individuals to surrender their fears and strengthen their whole selves through martial discipline, in order to flourish as a human being. He teaches by example and follows a warrior's path, which fully comprehends life's fragility and transience, but therein finds the self-awareness crucial to living a worthy life. You can visit his Web site at: www.hwarangdo.net. Read an interview Taejoon Lee. | Joshua Leeds Joshua Leeds is a music producer, sound researcher, and educator residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in the field of psychoacoustics - the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system. He is the author of The Power of Sound (Healing Arts Press, 2001) and Sonic Alchemy (InnerSong Press, 1997). His articles have appeared in numerous American and European magazine publications.
Joshua's discography includes Easy to Sleep DVD (2006), the Essential Sound Series: Music for Healing & Wellness (2006), The Listening Program (2000), and The Sound Health Series (1999). Recent releases with Dr. Andrew Weil include Relax & De-Stress (2006), Increase Vitality (2006), Sound Body, Sound Mind: Music for Healing (1998), and 8 Meditations for Optimum Health (1997). Joshua's psychoacoustically-designed soundtracks are used in clinics, classrooms, offices, and homes around the world.
He teaches the therapeutic applications of music and sound to musicians, healthcare and education professionals in Europe, Asia, and North America. Joshua is the founder of Sound-Remedies.com, an online resource for psychoacoustically-oriented research, music, books, and videos.
For more information about recordings, publications, and appearances by Joshua Leeds, please visit his Web site at www.ThePowerOfSound.com. | Richard Leider
Ranked by Forbes as one of the "Top 5" most respected coaches in America, Richard is a best-selling author with over thirty years experience in coaching people to live and work on purpose. Founder and Chairman of The Inventure Group, a coaching and consulting firm that helps people discover the power of purpose, he is an internationally recognized coach who works with many leading organizations such as 3M, Boeing, Caterpillar, Ameriprise Financial, Pfizer, The American Leadership Forum and Habitat for Humanity. As a workshop leader, he has taught over 100,000 executives from 50 corporations worldwide.
He is the author of seven books, including three best-sellers, and his work has been translated into 17 languages. As a commentator on retirement and vital aging, Richard appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today, and on television and public radio.
A Nationally Certified Master Career Counselor, Richard holds a Master's Degree in Counseling and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota Carlson School's Executive Development Center. A pioneer in the field of coaching, Richard?s work received recognition from the Bush Foundation, from which he was awarded a Bush Fellowship to study "the power of purpose." Believing passionately that each of us is born with a purpose, he is dedicated to helping people to live on purpose. Read an interview with Richard Leider. | Dr. Michael Menke
Dr. Michael Menke is the first chiropractor appointed to the faculty of the Program in Integrative Medicine founded by Dr. Andrew Weil in 1994. Dr. Menke is also an author, teacher, and researcher. He has worked to integrate manual medicine into healthcare systems, and he has published many articles on the subject. Dr. Menke also researches and works closely with medical physicians to provide patient care. Read an interview with Dr. Menke. | Monica Myklebust, M.D.
Monica Myklebust, M.D. is director of the University of Michigan Integrative Medicine Clinical Services in Ann Arbor. She is an Integrative Medicine consultant who offers care to adult individuals seeking fresh and comprehensive approaches to medical challenges and to optimal health. Her conventional training in Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic established a solid foundation for her further fellowship training in Integrative Medicine under Dr. Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine. Guiding people through the maze of choices in healthcare using the tools of compassion, evidence, and experience is one of Dr. Myklebust's goals. Communication with all providers of care is a priority, as is coordination of services. The weaving of science, culture, community and health has played a central role in her personal and professional development. For more information, see University of Michigan Integrative Medicine and Body Gratitude. Read an essay by Dr. Myklebust. | Jace Mortensen
Jace Mortensen was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 9, 1973. He graduated from Emerson College with a degree in Writing, Literature and Publishing in 1999. He began working as the gardener's assistant at Dr. Weil's Ranch in 2000. He left in May of 2001 to teach English in China and returned to work at the ranch in January of 2002. Six months later he left again, working first on archaeological digs and then as a rigger and stage hand in the theater. He turned a blind eye to his wanderlust and returned to the X9 Ranch as the head gardener in August of 2003 where he has remained ever since. Jace is a self-taught gardener who has been guided, mentored and sometimes scolded by Dr. Weil. Read Jace's articles in the Gardening section. | Dr. Rubin Naiman
Dr. Rubin Naiman is a psychologist and author who specializes in integrative sleep and dream medicine, which he approaches from both a scientific and a spiritual perspective. He serves as clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine, directed by Dr. Andrew Weil. Dr. Naiman founded the sleep health program at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, where he also maintains a private practice, which offers sleep consultations to people worldwide. Dr. Naiman is the author of "The Sleep Advisor: Professional Help for Your Sleep Problems," a unique software program designed to assess and address sleep problems. He is also the author of Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming and Awakening, a groundbreaking book about night consciousness.
For more information about Dr. Naiman's work and publications, please visit his Web site at DrNaiman.com. Read an interview with Dr. Naiman. | Dr. Judith Orloff, M.D.
Judith Orloff, M.D., is a psychiatrist and intuitive, and author of the new book Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love. She is also author of the bestsellers Guide to Intuitive Healing: Five Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness and Second Sight. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, has a private practice in Los Angeles, and is an international workshop leader on the interrelationship of intuition, energy, and medicine. For more information on Dr. Orloff's books and lecture schedule visit her Web site. Read an interview with Dr. Orloff. | Susan Piver
Susan Piver is a New York Times bestselling author of The Hard Questions series and the founder of Padma Media, a publishing company that creates special book packages around themes of engaged spirituality. She is frequently featured in the media, including appearances on the Oprah show, the TODAY show, CNN, and in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Money, and others. Susan is working on a new book about Buddhism and meditation, to be published by St. Martin's Press in 2007.
She has worked with Dr. Weil to create two CDs about meditation, Eight Meditations for Optimum Health, and Sound Body, Sound Mind. Read an interview with Susan Piver. Read an article by Susan on The Health Benefits of Meditaion. | Michael Roland
Michael Roland is the chief clinician at Energy Oasis, a natural healing clinic in Tucson, Arizona. With a master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, he has studied in PRC China and Taiwan and has participated in Chinese medicine research with the National Institutes of Health. He has worked as clinician, preceptor, editor and consultant to Dr. Andrew Weil's Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He is also a clinical lecturer for the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Michael’s new qigong DVD,"Relax and Revitalize with Michael Roland" is now available for sale. Michael is in private practice in Tucson, Arizona. Read an interview with Michael Roland. | Martin L. Rossman, M.D., Dipl. Ac.
Dr. Marty Rossman is a pioneer in integrative medicine, combining acupuncture, nutrition, bodywork and mind/body medicine into his medical practice in Mill Valley, California since 1972. His work with guided imagery as a healing tool is internationally acclaimed, and the Academy for Guided Imagery, which he co-founded, has taught these methods to thousands of health professionals, including the Fellows at the Uinversity of Arizona Integrative Medicine program. Dr. Rossman is on the clinical faculty at the University of California at San Francisco Medical School, and is the author of Guided Imagery for Self-Healing, and Fighting Cancer from Within, two book and CD sets that teach people to use their mind/body connection to support health and healing, as well as numerous book chapters and CDs on the subject. He is also a popular keynote speaker and workshop leader. Visit Dr. Rossman's Web site. Read an interview with Dr. Rossman. | Rebekah Rotstein
Rebekah Rotstein is a New York City-based Pilates instructor who integrates functional anatomy and biomechanics principles into mind-body exercise. Her education began in the sports medicine department of Smith College working as a student athletic trainer after chronic injuries ended her ballet career. She trained at the Kane School of Core Integration in New York where she is now a member of the teacher training faculty and leads courses in Special Populations. Her focus is on post-injury recovery and neuromuscular reeducation. Rebekah is the founder of Incorporating Movement, through which she is hired to educate personal trainers and movement specialists and to teach workshops in the U.S and abroad. Rebekah also donates her time lecturing at New York Hospital (Cornell University) and Mt. Sinai Hospital. Visit Rebekah Rotstein's Web site. Read an article by Rebekah. |
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