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Lori maintains a private practice teaching people
Tantra for over ten years and has been leading workshops in Tantra
for fifteen years. She is also an anti-aging specialist. She has helped
many couples and individual women overcome a wide variety of difficulties
with their sexuality. She helps people expand their ability to
communicate with their partners, feel compassion and understanding
for each other, and experience profound levels of Tantric connection.
Lori was introduced to Compassionate Communication in 1999 and has been teaching it in California, Hawaii and New York. She has been instrumental in bringing NVC to the Hawaiian islands.
Private Practice
Announcement:
I am maintaining my private practice to work with a limited number
of couples and women using Tantra, communication work, hypnotherapy
and Sexual Energetics. I can be of particular assistance to couples
who wish to:
- Enhance their lovemaking with the use of
Tantra and Sexual Energetics
- Expand passion in their lovemaking using
Sexual Energetics
- Learn how to channel sexual energy and to
meditate with it, using Sexual Energetics
- Learn how to integrate Tantric ritual into
their lovemaking
- Greatly enhance their ability to communicate
with each other in both sexual and non sexual situations
- Bring more Spirit and Love into their lovemaking
and into their relationship in general
- If you and your partner are wishing to grow
in these particular ways, feel free to call me at
415-435-2583. We can then talk and design a short course together
to help you accomplish your goals.
If you and your partner are wishing to grow in these particular ways, feel free to call Lori at
415-435-2583. She will talk with you and design a short course together to help you accomplish your goals. And if you are a woman seeking to enhance your experience of your own sexuality and your ability to communicate with a partner about your sexual needs, feel free to call me as well, and we'll talk about a program to help you expand in both of these areas.
And if you are a woman seeking to enhance
your experience of your own sexuality and your ability to communicate
with a partner about your sexual needs, feel free to call me as
well, and we'll talk about a program to help you expand in both
of these areas.
Listen to Lori's interview with COL teacher and internet radio host, Francesca Gentillé, at PersonalLifeMedia.com.
You can also hear Lori and Scott Catamas interviewed about Compassionate Communication at PersonalLifeMedia.com by internet radio host, Patti Taylor, PhD.
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Christiane Michaels, M.A. is an Ordained Priestess of the Lyceum of Sophia. Her work is devoted to spreading The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, especially as it is mirrored in A Course In Miracles. She has been a student of A Course In Miracles for over 10 years. She lectures around the country, teaching from these two texts.
In 2001, Christy (as everyone knows her) was first introduced to a new story about Mary Magdalene. She became passionate about Magdalene and has traveled to England, Scotland and France studying and visiting many of the sacred sites devoted to Mary Magdalene.
It was while visiting the sacred sites devoted to Mary that she discovered why Magdalene felt so alive to her. She had unmistakable signs along the way that one might call synchronicities. However there were too many meaningful coincidences with the same sign and it appeared that Mary was really present and was encouraging Christy to assist in spreading her Gospel.
She now offers a monthly evening series as an exploration into the mysteries of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. This a rich evening of deep resonant journey into the concepts outlined in the Gospel plus experiential ritual that allows one to deepen and integrate the concepts into the heart. Sweet with music, chanting, prayers this is a magical night not to be missed.
Christy also honors Mother Mary, as she had a profound and miraculous healing from the waters of the spring of the home of Mother Mary in Turkey, and is deeply grateful to Her for the end of her suffering.
Currently Christy works as the manager of Sunrise Center, helping to develop programs and events that support a sustainable future. Our mission is to create a balance between the Divine male and female energies, creating sustainable relationships based on compassion, while moving towards living in a sustainable world. Currently the world is not sustainable.
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He is a gifted, certified hypnotherapist, N.L.P. practitioner and life coach. He is passionate about offering tools for self-empowerment so that people can learn to be more response-able; i.e., make better conscious choices to life situations, instead of being reactive to them, or feeling like a victim.
Phil was one of the first Sylva Mind Control Instructors in the Sixties. Over the past thirty-five years, he has been been involved in human growth potential, Yoga, Martial Arts, and studying and teaching Tantra, Meditation, NVC (aka Compassionate Communication), and other models of communication.
Phil has a private practice in Marin County and is available for groups, couples and singles. For an appointment with Phil call 415-203-8277.
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Ritch Davidson began
his study of Tantra with Celebrations of Love in 1986. He quickly
developed a strong connection with the teachings, the teachers
and the COL community and has been a regular participant and contributor
since that time. Since 2000, he has been Sunrise Center's Senior Junior Executive
Assistant in Charge of Something Sometimes Office Guy.
He absolutely relishes the daily opportunities to serve and to
be in connection with the larger COL community via his role there,
be it answering phones, sending e-mail announcements, graphic
designing flyers and newsletters, or creating pages and maintaining this Celebrations of Love website.
Ritch has been studying Compassioante Communication (Nonviolent Communication)
since 2002 and in 2005 completed the nine-day International
Intensive Training (IIT) led by NVC founder, Marshall M. Rosenberg,
PhD and other NVC certified trainers, including Robert Gonzales
(see his bio in this section). In 2007 he completed Robert Gonzales' week-long training on the Embodied Spirituality of NVC. Ritch has been
co-teaching Growing More Loving with Compassionate Communication with Lori Grace Star, co-facilitating COL's Practice Groups and Conflict Improv evenings with Lori, Phil, Christy and others since 2005.
Ritch has been one of the Core Teaching Team
members at COL's residential weekend workshops, (Celebrating
Intimacy: Into the Heart of Love and Opening
to Love, for example) as well as various other classes and events, including our 2007 Sacred Puja Ritual for Friends and Lovers.
Additionally, Ritch is the Senior Vice
Emperor of Playfair, Inc., an international consulting company
that offers keynote presentations, management seminars and playfulness
trainings to over 100,000 people every year. He is an innovator
in the design and presentation of programs that focus on the value
and impact of humor in team building, stress management, and living
a healthier worklife. Additionally, he helped conduct research for Playfair Emperor, Matt Weinstein's, best selling
business book, Managing to Have Fun (Simon & Schuster,
1997).
Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Ritch graduated
from Kiddie Haven Nursery School in 1955. He has a B.A. in Psychology
and an M.A. in Humanities and completed a four-year training program
in organizational development consulting. Ritch is a published
photographer and each summer since 1979 he travels to Oregon for a five-day
river rafting trip to which he has pledged to continue every year
for the rest of his life.
Ritch can be reached
personally at: Ritch@playfair.com or through Celebrations of Love at 415-924-5483 and info@celebrationsoflove.com.
Please also visit him on Playfair's website: www.Playfair.com where you can send a friend a Standing Ovation!
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Katrina Vaillancourt has been a student of Tantra for more than ten years and finds it a very enriching part of her intimate life. She deeply enjoys creating sacred space with her Beloved and has learned how to run sexual energy through her body through her study of Sexual Energetics and Mantak Chia's meditation work. She is a devotional singer, ecstatic dancer, healer and artist.
Katrina has been studying and practicing Compassionate Communication for more than five years. She uses Compassionate Communication to keep her communications clear with all other people in her life, including her teenage son.
She is also a creator of a vast array of amazing Tantric art and is the creator of the Heart Centered Communication card set, a communication tool that supports and trains your emotional intelligence, ability to resolve conflict, and ability to transform any upset in to opportunity. The cards and guided exercises are based on the principles of Non-Violent Communication, transformation, and universal spirituality. Check out her cards and art work at www.giftofmyheart.com
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 Donny Regalmuto has provided musical support for dancesTantric pujas for the last twenty years and has worked with Sophia and other recording artist as a producer and musician to create some wonderful Tantric music. He has studied the work of Margo Anand, Lori Grace Star and Mantak Chia and has been integrating this work into his intimate relationships for many years. He is highly versed in Compassionate Communication and consitantly integrating it into Tantric practice. He is the developer of "The Lover's Language".
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Francesca Gentillé is an initiated shaman in four traditions, clinical sexologist, empowered aging specialist, and relationship counselor. She is the popular internet radio host of Sex: Tantra & Kama Sutra and co-author of the award-winning sex & relationship book The Marriage of Sex & Spirit.
Francesca is the co-director of the Integrative Arts Institute, and the founder of The Sacred Courtesan School of Feminine Mystique and Power. She is the creator of the village model of Shamanic Soul Coaching reclaiming the treasures of spirit lost in the dark of trauma.
Francesca offers presentations, coaching & workshops on:
- Conscious Flirting
- Romantic, Passionate and Sensual Living
- Empowered Aging for Women of All Ages
- Tantra: Extraordinary Loving for Everyday
People
- LifeLong Romance for Couples
- Revitalizing Harmony and Sensuality for Busy
Women
- Reclaiming the Goddesses of Love & the
Way of Beauty for Women
- Sacred Sensual Dance:The Art of Intimacy
for Women & Men.
To contact Francesca Gentillé:
Phone: 510-759-3839.
E-mail address: info@LifeDanceCenter.com
Articles, E-group, and Testimonials. Calendar available at: www.LifeDanceCenter.com
Podcast/Internet Radio Show: http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/225-sex-tantra-kama-sutra
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internet Radio Show: http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/225-sex-tantra-kama-sutra
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~ Certified Watsu Instructor
~ Certified Watsu and Massage Therapist
Gabriele began studying Watsu and Massage
at Harbin Hot Springs in 1988 with Harold Dull the creator of
Watsu and returned in 1993 to continue her studies, adding different
modalities and styles of teachers at Harbin.
She is now a Watsu therapist and instructor.
Over the years she has been part of over 1500
hrs. of classes in Harbin
Hot Springs, both as a student and an assistant and has been the
staff
Aquatic Bodyworker during workshops in Harbin.
Her home is in Marin County, where she maintains
an Aquatic Bodytherapy practice.
Gabriele Shuchi's sessions are filled with with graceful movements
to
deeply nurture one's sense of completeness and harmony with existence.
She integrates stretching, Massage and Shiatsu, as well as poetic
movements and moments of flowing silence.
"Receiving a session you will feel deeply
relaxed, rejuvenated and
experience an increased awareness and flexibility in body, mind
and
soul."
"Gabriele is a superb artist, an inspired
Watsuer- no doubt."
Gabriele Shuchi has a rich background in various
therapies. Born in Germany she began traveling in her teens and
explored the mysteries of India, where she exposed herself to
the Eastern and Western approach to Meditation and healing modalities.
In the last 20 years she has experienced the
works of:
| • Osho |
• Arjana Brunswiler |
| • Poonjaji |
• Alexander Georgeakopoulos |
| • Paul Lowe |
• Jahara |
| • Alan Cohen |
• Minakshi |
| • Gabriele Roth |
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| • Harold Dull |
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and participated in:
| • Zen Meditation |
• Nonviolent Communication |
| • Mystic Rose |
• Awakening the Goddess |
| • Tantra |
• Reiki |
| • Primal Therapy |
• Massage |
| • Neo Reichian Breathwork |
• Watsu |
| • Tibetan Healing Intensive |
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| • Miracle of Love Intensive |
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Currently she combines her practice as a Aquatic & Massage
Therapist and her passion of guiding visitors through the natural wonders
and
cities of the Western USA.
She travels with and accompanies groups throughout
the year.
Her love for dancing, nurturing and love for
tender healing has brought
her to understand the healing powers of Aquatic Bodytherapy. Her
deeply
poetic soul finds itself expressed in the beauty of movement in
water,
in holding another human being to guide and allow a profound sense
of
peace and oneness with existence.
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Scott Catamas has devoted his adult life
to consciousness, communication and education. For fifteen years, he
was the founder and president of a successful multi-media company
that reached millions of children & teenagers with socially
responsible messages. During this time, he wrote and/or produced
over 100 original stage & television shows on a wide variety
of subjects. Scott won multiple Emmy awards for his PBS television
shows, and also produced informational/educational programming
for HBO, Showtime, NBC, FOX, and other national outlets. Scott
co-founded an Exploration Arts Camp at Jane Fonda's ranch in Santa
Barbara, that successfully transformed the lives of thousands
of young people.
In the year 2000, Scott was introduced to NVC
by Lori Grace. He has embraced NVC as a lifelong practice, and
has been actively studying and facilitating NVC. Scott has produced
video and DVD projects for Dr. Marshall Rosenberg (the founder
of NVC), and most recently with Robert Gonzales (a popular NVC
teacher). Scott also facilitates classes, workshops and practice
groups in the area of Compassionate Communication, which includes
his understanding of NVC. His workshops have been well attended
throughout the Hawaiian Islands, Southern and Northern California,
and several other states.
In 2005, Scott was invited as a guest to the
University of Onenessin India, where he was trained in the art
of giving "Deeksha". This energy transmission helps
people to relax their mind, open their heart and move into higher
states of consciousness. Scott appreciates the non-denominational
nature of both NVC & Deeksha, while recognizing both as profound
& practical paths to spiritual awakening.
In January of 2007, Scott and Lori Grace were invited to become part of Al Gore's Climate Project Presenters team. They attended a private training in Nashville with Mr. Gore and several leading scientists and researchers, and 200 other Environmental activists and leaders. During this time, they learned all about the dramatic effects of climate change. Since becoming an official "Climate Project Presenter", Scott has given presentations at conferences, conventions, fairs, high schools and colleges. He was the Keynote Speaker at the L.A. Conscious Living Expo, and has also co-moderated several panels on Global Warming with Lori.
Learn more about Scott at www.LoveCoachScott.com
Listen to his weekly Compassionate Communication show every Monday at 3 PST on Unity.fm. All shows are saved in the archives and available for free downloading.
Contact Scott at SC@LoveCoachScott.com
or call him at 415-336-1276
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Since 1978, Sophia has produced ten luscious,
inspiring recordings for healing, meditation, massage, love/tantric
ecstasy, life transitions and rituals. Her latest, Chakra Healing
Chants, invokes the Goddess in her many glorious forms.
This powerful and hauntingly beautiful extended
musical journey features exquisite arrangements virtuoso accompanists
and guest soloists. Creating a deep and sacred tapestry of sound
on which Sophia's golden voice soars and seduces. You can learn
more and hear music samples at www.songhealer.com.
Testimonial
"Sophia continues to bring
a magic to the world of music, sense and soul. She wraps us in
a refined mystery of beauty. No matter your musical tastes, this
is a splendid journey through East and West, voice and heart."
—Don Campbell, Author of The
Mozart Effect and The
Roar of Silence.
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 Pnina Zoharah
Pnina Zoharah, Healer and a spiritual teacher, uses her clairvoyant abilities, her wisdom and powerful tools to facilitate her clients in their healing and transformation. Pnina’s specialty is in women’s intuition and sexuality. Her love of nature and her special connection to dolphins and whales enable her to assist others to connect to their Higher Self, empower and bring forward their light, joy and love, as well as manifest their dreams in all aspects of life.
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Celestine "Golden Dove" Star, D.Div, CHT,
 Alchemical Hypnotherapist, Founder of Temple of Light, has successfully offered her powerful, transformative knowledge of Life, Love Health, Healing and the Mysteries to hundreds of people. She is an Ordained Priestess in the Fellowship of Isis.
Celestine began her life as a Magickal child born into a modern Occult Family. A Near Death Experience at 6 yrs. enhanced Celestine’s connection and knowledge of dimensions beyond our Earthly Plane. “Beings of Light”, as she calls the Heavenly Guides who have been with her since her journey into the afterlife, giving divine guidance to assist Celestine in her service to Humanity and our Earth.
Celestine draws upon her great wealth of studies and life experiences such as the healing arts, including Eastern Philosophies I-Ching, Fung Shui, Tibetan Buddhist meditations and the healing yoga arts. Her abilities and knowledge of the Spirit World is rich with potential to give guidance for those passing or have already pasted over.
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 Lynne Michelson, LCSW, CPCC taught Relationship Success Training for Singles to coaches at the Relationship Coaching Institute for four years and has worked with hundreds of clients. She has witnessed wonderful relationships after people participated in her programs and courses.
Lynne is trained as a psychotherapist, relationship coach, and spiritual guide, working on a soul level for the highest actualizations for those she loves serving.
For more information, visit her website (www.sacredrelationships.info).
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Nancy Grace is the principal of Creative Home Makeovers. She understands the importance of living in harmony with your home and offers her services in the San Francisco bay area.
With over 15 years experience in furniture sales, layout and room design Nancy possesses a keen intuitive sense about color, space and room arrangement. Her Feng Shui Your Way service is unique as she honors the traditions of Feng Shui with you as the expert.
In her role as a redesign specialist, Nancy works in cooperation with her clients to produce co-created results. She has numerous creative resources available to her and can handle any size project.
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March 2, 1946 - June 15, 2004
Robert Frey, MA, was an exceptional group
leader, therapist, psychic and author with twenty-five years of extensive
background in Tantra, holistic health, hypnosis, counseling, relationship
work, rebirthing, bodywork, psychic healing, Tai Chi, vision quest
and shamanism.
Robert created many inspirational songs and
Sufi circle dances and produced five albums, including the CD
"Opening to Love". He is the on-camera host on the best-selling
video "Ancient Secrets of Sexual Ecstasy". He drew
from Hindu, Tibetan, Kriya, Taoist Chinese, Sufi, Western Psychology,
and Breathwork. He led hundreds of events, seminars, and retreats
and presented at conferences.
Robert was a naturally gifted healer, counselor,
and coach facilitating powerful healing sessions for individuals
and couples in person and via phone sessions. He was known for
his special ability to create safety and a loving, spiritual atmosphere
for clients and students while inviting and guiding them through
limiting blind spots into clarity, self-esteem, relationship harmony,
and personal power. His sessions and classes have permanently
enhanced thousands of lives.
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