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Michelle Zarrin

Michelle Zarrin is the founder of The Mindfulness Expo. A long time meditator, the world of mindfulness is one that is very dear to her. She is also the author of “From My Heart to Yours: Based on a True Story.” She has also been featured in Forbes, Bustle and LAist.com.

Carla Garcia

Carla is a therapist and chronic pain coach specializing in mind-body healing and brain rewiring for chronic pain. She combines neuroscience with holistic practices to help individuals rewire their brains, calm their nervous systems, and overcome chronic symptoms. Her mission is to empower people to reconnect with their bodies, find relief, and heal on a deeper level.

Alura Williams

Alura Williams, MSN RN PHN NC-BC is a Registered Nurse and Board Certified Nurse Coach that specializes in community/public health, health education, disease prevention, and lifestyle behavior modification to manage chronic disease. With her experience in intensive care, emergency, cardiac, and medical units of hospitals, Alura understands that achieving wellness requires a collaborative approach that emphasizes our own unique characteristics and lifestyles. Her passion is helping adults achieve clarity in navigating transitional stages of their life and take control of their chronic medical diagnoses. With scientifically proven, evidence-based interventions, she supports clients' personal goals and provides them with tools to achieve their ideal health and wellness.

Dr. Jenn Au

Dr. Jenn Au is the founder of I Am Home Holistic Wellness and a passionate guide for highly sensitive individuals seeking to transform their relationship with chronic pain, stress, anxiety, and trauma. As a doctor of physical therapy, somatic hypnotherapist, and holistic bodyworker, Dr. Jenn combines her diverse expertise to help clients return to a place of internal safety, belonging, authenticity, and self-love.
Through a holistic approach that integrates mind, body, and spirit, Dr. Jenn offers personalized one-on-one sessions in somatic hypnotherapy and bodywork, as well as transformative programs like the Coming Home Program and Mindful Integrative Chronic Pain Program. These programs empower clients to release stress and trauma from the body, access subconscious wisdom, and ultimately reconnect with their true selves.
Dr. Jenn’s work centers on facilitating deep inner transformation. Her clients embark on a journey to reduce anxiety, foster emotional freedom, and cultivate a positive relationship with themselves. By guiding them to embrace authenticity, Dr. Jenn helps clients create more fulfilling relationships—whether with themselves, loved ones, or at work—leading to a profound shift in how they engage with the world.
In her practice, Dr. Jenn incorporates a variety of therapeutic modalities, including hypnosis, guided imagery, somatic experiencing, meditation, and retreats. These tools help clients tap into their inner resources, gain clarity, and develop lasting resilience. Her focus on mind-body awareness and self-compassion equips clients with practical techniques to manage stress, set healthy boundaries, and align with their highest values. Dr. Jenn’s approach is not just about addressing immediate emotional and physical challenges but about encouraging lasting, meaningful change that supports clients in leading joyful, purposeful lives.

Erin Simone

I'm Erin, a holistic, plant-based chef turned health empowerment strategist obsessed with health and wellness. I have dealt with sugar addiction, binge eating, debilitating pain, depression, digestive issues and chronic Lyme disease. However, these hurdles have proven to be my greatest gift as they prepared me to support you in achieving body-mind synergy. I have used my classical training from Le Cordon Bleu as a foundation for creating fresh, vibrant nutraceutical meals for high-powered clientele. There is nothing I am more passionate about than showing you how sensational plant-based food can make you look and feel!

Mayra Rath

Mayra Rath Is a leader in the Past Life Regression Therapy modality, having regressed thousands of global clients, over the last 25 years. Her Hypnosis practice, Soul Signs Hypnosis is in Los Angeles, where she conducts both in-person and online remote sessions globally. In her practice she offers Past Life regression Therapy, QHHT Hypnosis and Life Between Lives Hypnosis.
Past Life Regression Therapy has gained a reputation for its incredible healing abilities. It can offer insights and benefits such as resolving emotional or physical issues, clearing fears, releasing trauma, resolving karmic relationships and understanding recurring patterns or behaviors that are limiting you today.
You can enjoy listening to her sessions on her social media @SoulSignsHypnosis and her PODCAST *Past Lives with Mayra Rath* on your favorite podcast platform.

Ragan Thomson

Ragan Thomson is a transformational spiritual teacher, healer, and founder of an integrative coaching practice devoted to guiding individuals toward a soul-centered, mindful way of life. With over 20 years of experience, she blends ancient wisdom and modern insights to help others connect with their authentic selves, empowering them to release past patterns and embrace self-compassion. Driven by a mission to heal the collective, Ragan inspires profound growth, fostering unity and purpose in service to the greater good.

Samantha Saldivar

Samantha (E-RYT® 500, YACEP®) has been teaching Yoga since 2016, she has over 1,000 hours of Yoga education, including, Relax and Renew® Level 1 and 2 Certifications with Judith Hanson Lasater. With her background in the relaxing and introspective Yoga
lineages, Samantha teaches from a place of deep empathy. She believes the greatest gift we can give our students is our radical presence and compassion. In addition to teaching Restorative and Yin Yoga, Samantha is a Sacred Rest Advocate and Educator. She believes as a society we are exhausted, sleepwalking through life, and in desperate need of a reconnection to deep Sacred Rest. Her work is rooted in releasing our conditioned beliefs of rest as laziness, so we can embrace rest as our connection to divinity, source, love, compassion, healing, and happiness. Samantha believes we are so much more than what we do for a living, which is why she wants to share with you she is an aspiring homesteader, animal lover, amateur chef, born spiritualist, creator and manifestor, nap queen, voracious reader, and budding textile artist. She loves working with her hands and finding beauty in everyday life.

Tesha Smith

Tesha Smith is a certified Breath Work, Tai-Chi, Sound Bath and Yoga Teacher and has been helping others be well for over 8 years. She has been featured in the LA TImes as one of the top Soundbaths, been a keynote speaker twice at the Mindfulness Expo and has several Fortune 500 clients including Savage Fenty, Fabletics, The US Federal Reserve Bank, Liquid IV, L’Oréal , Black Women for Wellness Collective and more.
With a degree in Psychology her love for the human psyche, the mind and ancient healing practices inform her teachings and techniques. She found meditation when she started experiencing feelings of anxiety and depression. She searched for ways to feel better and was able to heal herself and others with the power of movement and sound.
Helping change a person’s sadness to happiness brings her so much joy, and using her gifts to change the frequency of the world - one person at a time - is what matters most to her.

John McNab

John McNab has practiced Transmission Meditation three times weekly for the past 32 years. He is a student of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings since the early 1980s.

Sandra Duarte

At 19, while pursuing my biomedical engineering degree, I faced a life-altering challenge when I was hospitalized due to blood clots. This experience was a wake-up call, prompting me to recognize the critical importance of prioritizing my health. Grateful for a second chance, I began a journey of learning and self-improvement, blending my scientific background with a deep interest in holistic health. Over the past six years, I have gained extensive knowledge in disease prevention, self-care, and wellness, grounding my approach in science while embracing natural, holistic practices. Today, I share my insights through lectures and speaking engagements at health, wellness, and yoga retreats, where I empower others to take charge of their well-being with strategies backed by both scientific research and holistic principles. My mission is to educate and inspire others to live healthier, more balanced lives, bridging the gap between modern science and holistic wellness - an often neglected subject in our current pharmaceutical-dominated world.

Uri Moon Priestess

Uri is a highly intuitive channel and a skilled clinical hypnotherapist who has received certifications in various modalities such as RTT, past-life regression, breath-work, and CHEK holistic lifestyle practices. She is also a Universal Tao Instructor and ceremonialist. Her heart-opening sessions and ceremonies help individuals access divine wisdom from their past, the astral realm, and multi-dimensional space, guiding them towards healing.
After feeling unfulfilled as a fashion consultant in Los Angeles, Uri asked God to reveal her true calling. During a deep meditation 15 years ago, she had a profound spiritual encounter with God that transported her physical body and soul to another dimension. In this otherworldly space, angels and demons fought for her soul's rebirth. Guided to help others heal, Uri pursued the study of various holistic health modalities, became a CHEK holistic health practitioner, and began working with natural elements, herbs, superfoods, tapping into the subconscious mind, and ancient healing techniques. She has traveled to sacred sites, including the Amazon rainforest and the High Andes, in search of peace and discovered that the most powerful way of achieving deep healing is through reprogramming the subconscious mind, healing from past wounds, and participating in celestial ceremonies.
Uri spent the last three years heavily practicing in Sedona, working with individuals and couples who traveled from all over the world to seek healing. Now located in Los Angeles, she continues to help more people through group workshops and ceremonies.

Gaia Mariani

Gaia is driven by a passion for personal growth. After facing intense burnout as a construction engineer, she followed her calling to become a certified yoga therapist, sound healer, and mentor, specializing in turning stress into strength.
Living and breathing the principles she teaches, Gaia's own journey is a testament to the transformative power of resilience

Tammy Gibson

Tammy is a dynamic and inspiring speaker dedicated to empowering individuals to build resilience, embrace joy, and thrive in all aspects of life. A former fashion blogger turned personal growth advocate, Tammy transformed her life after overcoming a 4-month hospital stay, limb loss, and serious health complications due to COVID-19. Her journey of perseverance and grace has become a powerful message of triumph and transformation. Now, Tammy shares actionable strategies that combine mindfulness, resilience, and joy to help others navigate challenges, achieve balance, and lead a more fulfilling, mindful life.

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Shaman Isabella Stoloff

I began my Shaman path in 2006 and since that time have been assisting my clients in creating a high vibrational life for themselves and their families. As an empath, I understand what it means to be sensitive to the energy around me. Using a variety of ancient healing techniques from the Andes mountains and Amazon jungle, I am able to help you let go of the past so you can learn to trust your intuition and follow your path. Chakra balancing, Soul retrieval along with spiritual mentoring as well as house blessings and ceremonies are included in my healing work. Guiding my clients on spiritual journeys/tours to connect with the Chakras associated with the planet brings me much joy.
I look forward to assisting you in growing your spiritually, and feeling confident in your being.
“I humbly understand that spirit works through me to assist you in remembering your light. I find that assisting others in raising their vibration is key to the evolution of the planet. I am grateful for all of my experiences and enjoy teaching others to do the same. Gratitude is one of the highest vibrational words we have.”
~Shaman Isabella

Ritu Tiki from Sadhguru's Isha Foundation

My name is Ritu Tiku and I am a volunteer with Isha Foundation, an international, non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating human well-being. Founded by Sadhguru, a yogi, mystic and visionary. Isha Foundation has been offering tools for well-being from the yogic sciences to people from all walks of life for over 4 decades.

Yoga Instructors

Nicole Turner

Nicole Turner is an international Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP) with 2000+ hours of teaching and 1000+ hours of certifications and trainings from the US, Australia and Indonesia in various wellness modalities. She is deeply passionate about helping people feel better, let go of thoughts, words, actions and sensations that are not serving, so they can come back to what they were born as... a divine light of creation filled with happiness, freedom and love. When this happens, she believes all living things, including this planet will benefit. She specializes in private and corporate wellness supporting individuals and groups, and collaborates with other experts that are on a mission to make this world a better place.

Susan Foxley

Life & Empowerment Coach | Holistic Health Practitioner | Reiki Master Teacher | E-RYT Susan Foxley is a Certified Life Coach and life-long yoga instructor who has helped thousands of people live healthier and happier lives. She's also an author, TV show host "Mind/Body with Susan Foxley" public speaker. Learn more at SusanFoxley.com or FoxleyFitness.com

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Samantha Saldivar

Samantha (E-RYT® 500, YACEP®) has been teaching Yoga since 2016, she has over 1,000 hours of Yoga education, including, Relax and Renew® Level 1 and 2 Certifications with Judith Hanson Lasater. With her background in the relaxing and introspective Yoga
lineages, Samantha teaches from a place of deep empathy. She believes the greatest gift we can give our students is our radical presence and compassion. In addition to teaching Restorative and Yin Yoga, Samantha is a Sacred Rest Advocate and Educator. She believes as a society we are exhausted, sleepwalking through life, and in desperate need of a reconnection to deep Sacred Rest. Her work is rooted in releasing our conditioned beliefs of rest as laziness, so we can embrace rest as our connection to divinity, source, love, compassion, healing, and happiness. Samantha believes we are so much more than what we do for a living, which is why she wants to share with you she is an aspiring homesteader, animal lover, amateur chef, born spiritualist, creator and manifestor, nap queen, voracious reader, and budding textile artist. She loves working with her hands and finding beauty in everyday life.

Tesha Smith

Tesha Smith is a certified Breath Work, Tai-Chi, Sound Bath and Yoga Teacher and has been helping others be well for over 8 years. She has been featured in the LA TImes as one of the top Soundbaths, been a keynote speaker twice at the Mindfulness Expo and has several Fortune 500 clients including Savage Fenty, Fabletics, The US Federal Reserve Bank, Liquid IV, L’Oréal , Black Women for Wellness Collective and more.
With a degree in Psychology her love for the human psyche, the mind and ancient healing practices inform her teachings and techniques. She found meditation when she started experiencing feelings of anxiety and depression. She searched for ways to feel better and was able to heal herself and others with the power of movement and sound.
Helping change a person’s sadness to happiness brings her so much joy, and using her gifts to change the frequency of the world - one person at a time - is what matters most to her.

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