Tim Ryan’s journey to discovering mindfulness started long before he realized he was even on the path. Growing up in his hometown of Niles, Ohio, Tim’s first-generation Italian-American grandparents instilled in him the importance of values like kindness, generosity, warmth, compassion, and loyalty to family, church, community and country. Years later, when a high...
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Deborah Norris, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of The Mindfulness Center, is trained extensively in mind-body therapies, ranging from traditional medical and psychotherapeutic practices to holistic and integrative therapies and lifestyle practices. She has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in psychology/ psychopharmacology, and is Adjunct Professor and Psychologist-in-Residence in the Department of Psychology at...
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Hugh Byrne, PhD is a senior teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW). He has practiced meditation for more than twenty years and has taught mindfulness meditation since 2000. He is a graduate of the four-year Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society teacher training program led by Jack Kornfield and also teaches courses in...
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Master Yang studied for six years with three local teachers, (Wu Xiubao, Yuan Shiming, and Zhang Xitang before going away to Shanghai to attend the university. During the next few years, he met and studied with Gu Liuxin, Chen Zhaokui and Feng Zhiqiang, all top grandmasters of 1970-80s era Chen taiji in China. He...
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Diane Armstrong is a self-care advocate and the creative director of The Serenity Shoppe, a healing arts center located in Snow Hill, MD. Crediting her two incredibly wise children as her most influential teachers, Diane enjoys a thriving Reiki practice and teaches Reiki nationwide in informal settings, wellness centers, and hospitals
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Belinda Baer, founder of Wise Woman Ayurveda, is a certified Ayurvedic Consultant, Yoga Teacher and Ayurvedic Bodyworker. Experiencing the profound effects of the ancient healing tradition of Ayurveda has propelled her forward to share this common sense, life-changing information with others through education, consultations and bodywork. In 2011, she received her certification from the...
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Lauren Chelec Cafritz, TBF, IBF is the founder of ExperienceBreath.com. She is a DC-based professional Breathwork therapist who is passionate about helping people achieve optimal health, mental clarity and joy using the power of breath. She is trained and certified in Integrative Breathwork, Transformational Breathing tm and has studied many other breathing modalities. In addition...
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Kevin W. Chen, Ph.D., MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Chen is a NIH-funded investigator conducting survey research on adolescent substance use and dependence,...
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Master Faxiang Hou is a certified and highly accomplished Master of Medical QiGong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. As with the tradition of many great masters in qigong, his methods of healing Qigong, acupressure, and herbal medicine have been passed down to him through his family lineage for five generations. Mr. Hou began his training...
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Dr. Barbara Mai is Creative Director of HETU, Inc. (Healing Energy Therapies Unlimited) and has developed the ReiMoSoCo Method ©. Dr. Mai completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Georgetown University; Master’s degree in Nursing, specialty in Psychiatric/Mental Health
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Dr. Kogan graduated from Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. He continued medical training at the Internal and Social Medicine residency program at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. After completing medical residency he came to Washington, D.C. to do a fellowship in geriatrics. During his medical training, he also persued life long interest...
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Brenda Cobb founded the Living Foods Institute in Atlanta, Georgia in September 1999 just seven months after she was diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer. She refused the surgery and chemotherapy that her doctor recommended because she had seen her own family members and friends diagnosed with the same type of cancers try...
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Born in Taiwan, raised in Utah, and living now in Maryland, I have ranged just as widely in my interests: from an early interest in creative writing, on to allopathic medicine, into orthomolecular psychiatry, and onward to energy medicine. Life has been for me a mix of contrasting experiences, widely varied in perspective and...
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Ana Medina is a self-proclaimed personal growth junkie, and a certified Life Coach. She is also certified in Reiki, Pranic Healing, Journey Dance, Quantum Healing, Sound Healing, and Ho’oponopono. Ana is a musician who found the perfect marriage of her passions when she discovered Sound Healing. She plays ancient bowls from Nepal as well...
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Mark J. McClure, DDS, FAGD Doctor of Integrated Medicine Washington Consumers Checkbook “Top Dentist 2004″ Dr. McClure’s traditional degree is in Dentistry, received from the University of Maryland in 1973. In December 1998, he received his degree of Integrated Medical Doctor-Dentist (IMD-D), at Capital University of Integrative Medicine (CUIM). His interest and studies in...
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Maureane O’Shaugnessy
Holistic Practitioner
Empath/Medical Intuitive
AET (Allergy Elimination Technique),
ART (Autonomic Response Testing),
BE (Body Electronics),
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique),
EAV (Electro Dermal Screening) Practitioner
Detox Specialist
Iridologist
Maureane began...
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Sayer Ji is the founder and director of GreenMedInfo.com and an advisory board member at the National Health Federation, an international nonprofit, consumer-education, health-freedom organization. He co-authored the book Cancer Killers: The Cause Is The Cure, and is co-founder of EATomology: An Edible Philosophy of Food with Tania Melkonian.
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Dr. Larry Stoler is a clinical psychologist who practices Integrative Psychotherapy at WholeHealth Chicago, one of the country’s leading integrative medical centers. He has a social work degree and a doctorate in clinical psychology. In addition, he is an authority on Energy- Informed Psychology, integrative mind-body-spirit therapeutic methods that combines Western Psychology and Eastern...
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