Dr. Kamilah Majied is a mental health therapist, clinical academician, and internationally engaged consultant on inclusivity and contemplative pedagogy and practice. Drawing from her decades of contemplative Buddhist practice, clinical training, and social justice leadership, Dr. Majied engages practitioners in experiencing wonder, humor, and insight through transforming oppressive patterns and deepening relationships.

Kamini Desai is the author of Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep, and creator and education director of the Amrit Method Yoga Nidra curriculum. Kamini lectures and trains internationally, uniquely combining Eastern philosophy with Western psychology and science.

Karen Axelrod, MA, CST-D, CMT, is a certified somatic therapist specializing in CranioSacral Therapy. She teaches CST internationally for the Upledger Institute and maintains a private practice in Redondo Beach, California. Her passion is helping clients connect to inner resources necessary for healing body, mind, and spirit.

Karen Cook is an acupuncturist with more than 25 years of experience in the movement arts. She has been teaching yoga since 1997, influenced by Thomas Fortel Yoga and SpectorDance. Her love of movement is her joy and invites all to open to their divine light.

Karen Ely is the founding director of A Woman’s Way, one of the country’s premiere women’s retreat programs, and the author of Daring to Dream: Reflections on the Year I Found Myself, A Retreat of My Own, Breathing Space, and A Safe Place to Stand.

Karen Nelson is the co-founder and executive director of Writing By Writers, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a rigorous and compassionate environment to learn the art of reading and writing from accomplished authors.

Kari Bernardi, the Super Natural Chef, is the owner of Super Natural Foods Company and co-director of Living Light International. For over 30 years, Kari has shared her culinary expertise to help people thrive on a plant-based diet.

Karishma Darby is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Sierra Foothills, California. Her passion is awakening consciousness within and in relationship with others. She facilitates workshops, active and silent mediation, and relationally centered psychotherapy groups.

Karla McLaren, MEd, is an award-winning author, researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens new pathways into self-awareness and healthy empathy. She is the author of The Art of Empathy.

Kata Kálmán is a mindfulness trainer and coach with multinational clients including Audi, Wendy's, Coca Cola, and GE. Her work has led her to the most prevalent disorders of our times: depression and anxiety. Kata practices Thich Nhat Hanh’s Buddhist mindfulness-based tradition.

Katchie Ananda is an internationally recognized yoga and dharma teacher whose leadership in yoga and social change prompted Yoga Journal to name her one of five top yoga teachers making change in the world.

Kate Flore, MPH, OTR, CMP, is a somatic and bodywork practitioner, educator, and Gestalt facilitator. She is co-founder of TensegrityU, a scholarship-based practitioner education program weaving the teachings of movement and body sciences with Rolf Structural Integration, the Feldenkrais Method, and Gestalt Relational Process into contemporary trainings.

Kate MacKinnon is a diplomat-certified CranioSacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute, and a licensed physical therapist in California and the United Kingdom. She is a passionate advocate of CranioSacral therapy and of the importance of healthy touch.

Kate Munger has devoted herself to creating non-hierarchical, collaborative models for singing, community building, and fellowship since 1973. She founded the first of 160 Threshold Choirs, an organization for those who sing in service at the bedsides of people who are dying.

Katharina Sophia Volz is a medical researcher and entrepreneur. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of OccamzRazor, a start-up in San Francisco that looks to identify cures for Parkinson's Disease using machine learning.

Katherine Woodward Thomas is author of the New York Times bestseller, Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and the national bestseller, Calling in “The One:” 7 Weeks to Attract the Love Of Your Life. She is a licensed psychotherapist and has taught hundreds of thousands to find greater happiness in love.

Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, is an inspiring educator, innovator, and practitioner in the field of integrative and holistic nutrition, and education director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s nutrition trainings.

Kathlyn (Katie) Hendricks, PhD, BC-DMT, is an evolutionary catalyst and contextual disruptor who creates transformational collaboration around the world. A pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving, she has coauthored 12 books with Gay Hendricks, including Conscious Loving, At the Speed of Life, and Ever After.

Katie Hafner is the author of the memoir, Mother Daughter Me, which was featured by the New York Times and Oprah. Hafner was on staff at the New York Times for more than a decade, and she is the author of five previous books.

Katy Butler is the author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. Her award-winning personal essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Best American Essays, and Best Buddhist Writing.

E. Kay Trimberger, PhD, is professor emerita of Women’s & Gender Studies at Sonoma State University and author of The New Single Woman. She is an ever single woman and single mother, who has taught classes on single women and written articles and blogs on singleness.

Keith Edward Cantú is an academic, musician, and polyglot with a deep professional and personal interest in South Asian religion and spirituality. He has extensively researched and directly engaged Baul Fakiri, Tamil Śaiva, and other tantric currents over the course of eleven years, and also has a personal and professional interest in esotericism more broadly.

Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and author of The Blind Spot Effect. She has created mindfulness programs for UN humanitarians and veterans with PTSD, and directed a teacher training for Google. She has worked with the United Nations Foundation, Search Inside Yourself Institute, and the Integrative Restoration Institute, and is the founding advisor for the Simple Habit meditation app.

Ken Dychtwald is a long-time Esalen lover, a gerontologist, psychologist, educator, author, lecturer, consultant and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Age Wave and has been a leading thinker on aging-related issues since 1974.

Ken Koles is an acupuncturist who developed the use of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) and Oriental medicine in private practice and as an instructor with The Cleveland Healing Arts Institute. He studied Oriental medicine in Japan, China, and Taiwan, and has studied CST since 1979.

Kenn Chase, founder of Integral Way Tai Chi™, has taught Yang-style tai chi since 1969. He is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and integrates Awareness through Movement® into his unique teaching approach. Teaching locally and internationally, he consults with corporations, hospitals, and privately.

Ken Cohen, M.A., is a world-renowned qigong and tai chi grandmaster. A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he is the author of The Way of Qigong and winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Energy Medicine.

Kerena Gordhamer Saltzman, LCSW, is a leadership coach and licensed psychotherapist. She has presented at Wisdom 2.0, Omega Institute, and IEEE Leadership for Women. She teaches relational skills with her husband, Ben Saltzman.

Kerri Kelly is the founder of CTZNWELL, a movement to mobilize the well-being community into a powerful force for change. Her work was sparked on 9/11, when she lost her fireman step-dad in the towers. She discovered the power of mindfulness, not just as a tool for personal healing, but as a catalyst for collective change. She has been teaching yoga since 2004.

Kerry D’Ambrogio is a lecturer, author, physical therapist, osteopath, and board-certified acupuncture physician. He is the president and director of Therapeutic Systems, Inc. (TSI). TSI is an internationally known seminar company as well as a treatment center.

Kes Harper is a native Big Sur local, a graduate of Esalen’s Gazebo School, and recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz. He studied technology management at university and is passionate to learn and explore his interests in technology, entrepreneurship, team building, and everything beyond.

Kevin Dockery, MFA, is an artist and teacher of the Feldenkrais Method and contact improvisation. His teachings are informed by his pursuit of the question: How can we come alive to the moment through movement? He teaches workshops internationally and is on the faculty of TensegrityU in Nevada City, CA.

Kia Miller is a Kundalini yoga teacher who has an ability to translate the subtle teachings of Kundalini in a highly accessible way. Kia’s study of yoga began when she was 15. She is also certified in Hatha yoga and teaches workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings throughout the world.

Kim Krans is an artist, author, and the creator of the New York Times bestseller, The Wild Unknown Tarot. She teaches events and workshops that activate the forces of creativity and radical transformation through creative practices, meditation, and movement.

Kim Mooney has worked for more than two decades in the field of dying, death, and grief, with hospices; families; and spiritual, medical, caregiver, and mental health communities. She provides practical and emotional guidance on navigating grief and loss personally and professionally.

Kimberly Gilbey, PhD, is an executive coach, strategy consultant, and organizational anthropologist working with individuals and organizations to realize their fullest potential. She has previously served as a business professor and supported executives within Fortune 100 companies, private universities, and global nonprofit organizations.

Kirtaniyas is a global collective of kirtan musicians, producers, and dancers. Since 2009 they have toured internationally, infusing the ancient tradition of kirtan with youthful spirit and energy. Kirtaniyas combines melodious electronic dance music and subsonic bass with the call and response singing of ancient Sanskrit mantras, accompanied by live acoustic instruments.

Kirti Srivastava builds connections between the arts and healing to provide a holistic approach to honoring the whole being in all areas of life in order to heal, grow, and expand.

Konda Mason is co-founder and CEO of Hub Oakland, a co-working space connecting socially engaged changemakers and social entrepreneurs to bring their projects to life. A human equity advocate, certified Kripalu yoga instructor, and meditation teacher, Konda’s work is driven by the vision of realizing in her lifetime a genuinely just and sustainable world.

Krista Bremer is the author of A Tender Struggle: Story of a Marriage and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere.

Kristi Funk, MD, board-certified breast cancer surgeon, best-selling author, and co-founder of the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills, and has helped thousands of women through breast cancer treatment, including celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Sheryl Crow.

Kristi Henricksen Perry completed Phillip Moffitt’s Life Balance Strategist Training in 2022. In her work as a Certified Strategist, she draws on professional wisdom from decades of business management as well as deep personal experience from being the mother of two young adults and 25+ years of marriage.

Kristi Panik, MD, is chief of psychiatric services of the University Student Health Services at UC Berkeley.

Kristin Hodson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. She is founder and executive director of The Healing Group mental health clinic in Salt Lake City and co-author of Real Intimacy: A Couples Guide for Genuine, Healthy Sexuality.

Kristin Neff, PhD, is an associate professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneering researcher into the psychological health benefits of self-compassion. She is the author of Self-Compassion and Self-Compassion: Step-by-Step, and is featured in the book and documentary The Horse Boy.

Kyla Pearce teaches yoga, meditation, and mindfulness to people with brain injuries, caregivers, and health professionals through her work with the LoveYourBrain Foundation. Kyla is passionate about empowering people to become more active participants in their healing process through self-inquiry practices.

LaVerne McLeod is a Workshop Facilitator; Author-Corn Hollow and The Crossroads of Social and Climate Justice; Educator-teacher, counselor; TEDx presenter; Esalen Faculty; Big Sur Community Volunteer; Environmentalist as co-chairs Big Sur Advocates for a Green Environment; holds a Master’s Degree.

Lama Drimed offers awareness teachings from Great Perfection/Dzogchen and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism. His Tibetan teacher, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, recognized Lama Drimed as his lineage holder in 1995. His vision is to open dialogues that include current discoveries and the ancient tantric arts.

Lama Palden Drolma was authorized as a Buddhist lama in 1985 after completing the traditional three-year-long retreat. She has been teaching ever since. She also is a licensed psychotherapist, and believes that the spiritual path is most effective when mind, body, and psyche are integrated.

Lamara Heartwell is a body intelligence expert who inspires people to claim their bodies as an essential source of intelligence, power, and pleasure. She is the founder of Santa Barbara Dance Tribe, holds a coaching certification from the Hendricks Institute, and completed counseling training from the Interchange Institute.

Lansing Barrett Gresham, founder of Integrated Awareness, is a teacher, healer, philosopher, and visionary able to beautifully transmit the possibilities of human experience. His inspirations were Moshe Feldenkrais, John Upledger, Jean Pierre Barral, Fritz Smith, June D’Estelle, and Milton Erickson.

Lara Zilibowitz is an internationally touring yoga teacher and artist with a passion for creative expression through the body. She offers a fluid and dynamic teaching style delivered with heartfelt poetic prose, as well as cosmic creativity and mandala art.

Laraaji is a visionary musician, composer, and mystic. Having emerged as a pioneering figure in ambient and new age music after a chance encounter with producer Brian Eno in the 70s, his music transcends conventional boundaries, seamlessly merging ambient textures with cosmic vibrations, creating an immersive and deeply introspective sonic journey.

Larry Payne was named one of America's most respected yoga teachers by The Los Angeles Times. He is coauthor of Yoga for Dummies and Yoga Therapy & Integrative Medicine. He leads programs at Loyola Marymount University.

Laura Davis is the author of seven groundbreaking books, including The Courage to Heal and her award-winning memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars. Laura loves creating supportive, intimate writing communities online, in person, and on international writing adventures.

New York Times-bestselling author Laura Day has spent nearly four decades helping individuals, organizations, and companies harness and develop their innate intuitive abilities to create profound change. Newsweek says “When business people need a crystal ball, they turn to consultant Laura Day, the ‘intuitionist.’” The Independent dubbed her “The Psychic of Wall Street.” A-list Hollywood stars and Wall Street executives praise her ability to predict future events – including the 2008 recession and the COVID market dip – with astounding accuracy.

Laura’s work has helped demystify intuition and bring it into the mainstream. In her workshops and presentations, she demonstrates the practical, verifiable, and sometimes astonishing uses of intuition in the fields of business, science, medicine, and personal growth. Laura has trained thousands of people and companies to use their brains, perceptions, and “sixth sense” in effective ways to  actualize their goals. She is the author of six bestselling books: Practical Intuition, Practical Intuition in Love, Practical Intuition in Success, The Circle, Welcome to Your Crisis, and How to Rule the World from Your Couch.

Laura has been featured in publications that include Newsweek, New York magazine, The Independent, Bottom Line, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Stella, Forbes, Vulture, Tatler, and People.

She has appeared on numerous TV networks and programs, including CNN, Fox News, Good Morning America, The View, Extra, BBC News, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Laura’s newest work engages intuition in reconstructing the “ego” of individuals, communities and companies to engineer effective change.

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Laura Inserra is a multi-instrumentalist, sound therapist, and teacher from Sicily. After more than 30 years of studies and practice of music and different wisdom lineages, she developed Resonant Healing Therapy using sound as a tool for personal transformation, healing, and self-awareness.