Ralph White is co-founder of the New York Open Center. He is the author of the memoir, The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning and has organized events on  consciousness and social change over four decades.

Ramesh Srinivasan is a professor in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments at UCLA. He’s the founder of the university-wide Digital Cultures Lab, which explores the meaning of technology, author of Beyond the Valley – How Innovators around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow, Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World, and co-author of After the Internet. He has held fellowships at MIT Media Lab and has been a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Design and Department of Visual and Environmental Design at Harvard University. He writes regularly about issues associated with AI and ethics, is a regular speaker for TEDx Talks, and makes appearances in the national media.

Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, educator, and public speaker. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of two books, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016) and Queer Forms (2022), both published by NYU Press. 

Raoul Goldberg, MD, is a South African integrative and participatory medical doctor and psychotherapist. He is an international speaker, workshop facilitator, researcher, and author with a special interest in self-empowerment and self-transformation. His latest book is Addictive Behaviour: The Struggle for Freedom.

Raphael Cushnir is a leading voice in the world of emotional connection and present moment awareness. He has authored six books, lectures worldwide, and he coaches individuals, couples, and organizations.

Raquel Santiago is a somatics and mindfulness expert known for decoding the Anthropocene through dance performances and instruction while inspiring personal and collective regeneration. Her BioResilience somatic method helps individuals turn ecoanxiety into personal transformation and embodied action.

Rebecca Anders is a thing-maker based in Oakland, California. Her works are metal and mixed media sculpture, ranging from hand-held to 40 feet tall. She has contributed large-scale sculpture to Burning Man since 1999, and has created and shown monumental interactive installations in the U.S. and internationally.

Rebecca Crotts is the former Senior Director of People & Culture at PayPal and now the Global Head of Talent Development and DEI at Rubrik. As a business-minded people leader and executive coach, Rebecca has been scaling leaders and culture for two decades.

Rebecca Katz is a nationally recognized culinary translator and expert on the role of food and flavor in supporting health. She is the author of five healthy cookbooks: Clean Soups, One Bite at a Time, The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, The Longevity Kitchen, and The Healthy Mind Cookbook. Founder and director of the Healing Kitchens Institute at Commonweal in Bolinas, California, she is dedicated to connecting the dots between food, big flavor, and vibrant health.

Rene Henery, PhD, is an ecologist and artist who holds a joint position with the University of Nevada, Reno, Global Water Center and the nonprofit Trout Unlimited. Rene’s work embraces water, diversity, connectivity and equity as pathways to resilient ecosystems and communities.

Renee Jennings, MA MSW LCSW, is a somatic and Gestalt therapist/trainer, energy practitioner, meditation teacher, mentor/consultant, and writer with more than 25 years in the healing arts. She is especially interested in the integration of mysticism and embodiment in daily life and professional practice. Renee is Gestalt Cleveland faculty.

Dr. Renee Lertzman marries the worlds of academia and practice by translating psychological and social science research insights into clear, applied, and profound tools for organizations around the world, seeking to engage diverse populations, communities and individuals around environmental work and climate action.

Renée Peterson Trudeau is an internationally recognized life balance coach/speaker, author of three life balance titles including the award-winning The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal, and president of Career Strategists. Passionate about teaching women the art/science of self-renewal and how to connect with their wise selves, Renée has been creating transformational retreats for women for more than 20 years.

Bodhi is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Sufi Sam and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway IntoLight, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community presentations and trainings since 2006 in the fields of awakened living and dying and the care of the dying.

Rhonda V. Magee, JD, MA, is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, and a nationally acclaimed speaker on mindfulness and social justice. She is an expert on mindful teaching and learning, race and law, and professional identity development.

Rich Fernandez, PhD, teaches mindfulness, wisdom, and the science of well-being for everyday life and work. Rich is CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, co-founder of Wisdom Labs, and was the head of global executive education at Google. He is a trained psychologist, author, and longtime mindfulness practitioner and teacher.

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Richard Schwartz, PhD, is a systemic family therapist and an academic. Dr. Schwartz developed the Internal Family Systems model (IFS) and founded the Center for Self Leadership. A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published five books and more than 50 articles about IFS.

Richard Tarnas is professor of psychology and cultural history at CIIS. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind and Cosmos and Psyche, winner of the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network.

Rick Brown is executive director for the Institute for Relationship Therapy and was executive director for Harville Hendrix's Institute. He lectures and gives workshops across the country. He has been married since 1976.

Rick Doblin, PhD, is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. His professional goal is to become a legally licensed psychedelic therapist.

Rick Hanson, PhD, is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. He’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.

Rik Isensee, LCSW, practices psychotherapy in San Francisco, California. He is the author of three self-help books for gay men, plus the mindfulness guide, Shift Your Mood. He is an accredited mindfulness teacher through The Mindfulness Training Institute.

Risa Kaparo, PhD, author of Awakening Somatic Intelligence, teaches Somatic Learning®, the evidence-based method she developed, internationally, from MIT to China’s Dalian Medical School. She practices somatic-psychotherapy in the California Bay Area and elsewhere.

Rob Faust is a maskmaker/performer/director who speaks, performs, and teaches worldwide. Rob designs and creates all the masks he uses onstage. Rob’s work is featured in the book Mask Makers and Their Craft, An Illustrated Worldwide Study.

Rob is co-founder of Thievery Corporation, known for their electronic-infused modifications of dub, trip hop, reggae, and bossa nova. Rob blends musical influences from the past and future, melding modern electronic beats, global grooves and other worldly rhythms into a fiery mixture of mystical and spirited sound.

Rob wilks is a full-time bodywork practitioner. He is a faculty member with Esalen Institute Healing Arts Department, teaching all levels of Esalen® Massage. He has taught massage and bodywork in Indonesia, China, and Italy, as well as experiential leadership education in the U.S. and Eastern Europe.

Robert Browning is HeartMath’s master trainer and health care director as well as a director for Pathways to Peace. For more than 20 years, he’s trained 8,000 individuals in heart-based living. He leads programs at Stanford, UCLA, Brigham & Women’s (Harvard’s teaching hospital), and Kaiser Permanente.

Robert Fisher, MFT, is an international Hakomi trainer, adjunct professor at CIIS and JFK Universities, and author of Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples. He is the lead instructor of the Certificate Program at CIIS for Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy and a keynote speaker at national psychotherapy conferences.

Robert MacPhee is the author of the book Living a Values Based Life and the former director of training for Jack Canfield. He is a true expert in experiential learning, peak performance, and effective leadership. 

Robert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism. His many books include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates, The Secret History of Dreaming and Sidewalk Oracles. He leads popular online courses for The Shift Network.

Robert Peng is a qigong master and teacher who has trained 150,000 students throughout the world. From the age of 8, he apprenticed under Xiao Yao. The distillation of his training is reflected in The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and the Wisdom book and CD/DVD series.

Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum, PhD, is entrusted as a lay Zen teacher by Sojun Roshi, and a senior teacher of Dayan Qigong authorized by Master Hui Liu. He has 30 years of experience as a neuropsychologist and psychotherapist. His most recent book is Walking the Way: 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching.

Robert Sheeler, MD, is in private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. Former editor of the Mayo Clinic Health Letter, he is a taiji and qi gong practitioner who has spoken extensively on a variety of topics at conferences on conventional, integrative, and functional medicine.

Robert Walter, Joseph Campbell's editor for a decade, and previous president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and a poet/playwright with several decades of experience as group leader, teacher, publisher and theatrical producer/director/designer.

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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris obtained his PhD in Psychopharmacology from the University of Bristol and an MA in Psychoanalysis from Brunel University. At his current post at the Imperial College London, Robin designed human brain imaging studies with LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and DMT. His areas of research also include a clinical trial of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, an ongoing trial comparing psilocybin with escitalopram for major depressive disorder and a multimodal imaging study in healthy volunteers receiving psilocybin for the first time. Robin founded and heads the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial, the first of its kind in the world. He holds an honorary position with the University of Oxford.

Robin Fann Costanzo is a senior instructor who uses her background in dance and yoga to inform her practice. Robin specializes in trauma resolution and applies that to her practice.

Robin Stern, PhD, is the associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She is a licensed psychoanalyst, educator, and author of The Gaslight Effect. Robin is co-developer of RULER, an emotional intelligence program that has transformed the lives of over a million children and adults in schools worldwide.

Robin Wilner is a master yoga teacher, certified holistic nutritionist, and co-founder of Spellbound Yoga. She devotes her lifestyle and teachings to healing with food and yoga as medicine, drawing from Ayurvedic principles and her vast studies over the past decade. (E-RYT500, YACEP, MS Holistic Nutrition).

Robyn Scherr is a diplomat-certified CranioSacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute, and a certified massage therapist in California. Robyn is dedicated to making CST and the efficacy of educated, noninvasive touch understandable and accessible to both therapists and clients.

Rodney Waters is a Jungian Analyst and graduate of the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP Zurich). His areas of interest include music, gender, creativity, and tattoos. He has been a professional pianist for 40 years.

Roger Jahnke, OMD, has dedicated his professional life to sharing the healing traditions of China. He is the director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, in Santa Barbara, CalifORNIA, and author of The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi.

Dr. Roger Kuhn is a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigiqueer somacultural sex therapist, sexuality educator, writer, activist, and musician. Roger’s work explores the concepts of decolonizing and unsettling sexuality and focuses on the way culture impacts and informs our bodily experiences. He is a community organizer of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit powwow and a board member of the Two-Spirit & Native LGBTQ+ Center for Equity. His first book, Somacultural Liberation, is available in both paperback and audio. His music can be streamed on all digital platforms.

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja (pronoun: hir) is a feminine/masculine Woman of Color; an ancestral/intergenerational/inherited family trauma liberation scholar; a tenured full professor of sociology, women and gender studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, Indigenous and decolonial studies, and grief studies; and an interfaith and cross-cultural urban Akashic and Shamanic practitioner.

Rolf Gates conducts Vinyasa teacher trainings and programs internationally. His work has been widely featured in television and in print. As a former U.S. Army Ranger and social worker, Rolf brings his eclectic background to his teaching and his life. He is the author of Meditations from the Mat.

Roma Hammel, PhD is an embodiment-meditation teacher from Los Altos, CalifORNIA. Certified by Judith Blackstone in Realization Process, by Russel Delman in Embodied Life Mentorship, and deeply engaged in philosophy, meditation, and qigong, Roma guides people into an embodied spiritual awakening.

Ron Ames is a filmmaker, meditation teacher, and certified Life Balance strategist. He is a senior teacher at InsightLA in Santa Monica, CA. Ron trained at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and InsightLA as a dharma teacher and secular mindfulness teacher.

Since training with Phillip Moffitt and becoming a certified Life Balance strategist, Ron has been leading workshops and working with private clients and companies to build their capacity to make skillful changes.

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, is a psychologist and author of the award-winning book Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want. He lectures and facilitates workshops nationally.

Ronald Alexander, PhD, is the director of the Open Mind Training Institute and leads trainings internationally in mindfulness, mind-body therapies, and transformational leadership. He is the author of Wise Mind Open Mind.

Rosemary Garrison began her study of yoga in the traditional Ashtanga style, then expanded into Vinyasa. She teaches a strong flow, emphasizing breath, alignment, and, ultimately, the cultivation of energy and awareness. Rosemary leads annual retreats and trainings around the world.

Rosemary O’Connor is a Hazelden author and a certified professional and addiction coach. With more than 17 years of personal and professional experience, she has helped thousands of people recover from addiction and rebuild rewarding lives.

Rosie Lila writes and speaks on how to increase human engagement through inclusion, diversity, and collaboration. She is the creator and host of the show What Comes Now, and founder of the infrastructure investment firm Lumera. Rosie worked with the Burning Man Project for three and a half years supporting areas around culture, production, and public relations including coaching public speaking.

Roxan McDonald dedicates herself to helping people find their voice both on the page and in their lives. She is the author of two self-help decks published by Knock Knock Inc. She teaches writing throughout the Monterey Bay area and leads international retreats.

Roxann Burroughs is a certified facilitator with more than 28 years of experience doing The Work of Byron Katie for inquiry and stress reduction.

Ruediger Dahlke, MD, is the founder of Transformative Medicine, author of 60 books, and trainer of thousands of doctors, psychologists, and laypeople in Europe. He leads the Certificate in Transformative Medicine, a year-long program offered by the Center for a New Mainstream.

Rupert Spira is the author of The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience and Presence volumes I and II. For 20 years, he studied the teachings of Ouspensky, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Shankaracharya, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Adams, until he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, in 2004.

Russ Hudson is one of the top teachers and developers of the Enneagram system in the world today. He is the co-author, with Don Richard Riso, of several books, including The Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types.