Thomas Matus, PhD, has been a monk at New Camaldoli Hermitage since 1962. As a teacher of comparative mysticism, he is the co-author of Yoga and the Jesus Prayer and Belonging to the Universe with Fritjof Capra and Brother David Steindl-Rast.

Thomas Michael Fortel is a long-time yoga practitioner/teacher, influenced by the Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara styles of Hatha yoga, and drawing from his devotional experience in Bhakti yoga. He travels widely, sharing his love for yoga.

Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of a memoir, seven novels -- including The Space Between Us and Everybody's Son -- and a children's book, When I Carried You in My Belly. A recipient of the Nieman fellowship to Harvard, she is the Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

Tias Little synthesizes classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, anatomy, massage, and trauma healing. He has studied B.K.S Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga systems, and is a long-time student of the meditative arts and Buddhism. He is the author of The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, and Yoga of the Subtle Body.

Timothy J. Beyer, PhD, is a psychologist and co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, California. In practice for more than 16 years, his passion lies in helping others clarify and achieve their personal goals and realize their best life.

Tino Plank, MA, MSN, RN, is a nurse educator working in end-of-life care with a background in grief counseling. Tino has degrees in nursing and multicultural spirituality, has taught postgraduate nursing courses, and is the co-developer of the Healthy Empathy® program.

Todd Norian, E-RYT 500, is the founder of Ashaya Yoga®. Todd combines precise, therapeutic alignment with heart while holding the intention to awaken others to their true nature – unlimited joy.

Todd Williams has practiced and taught Zero Balancing for nearly two decades under the guidance of Dr. Fritz Smith. He is also a dance artist and movement educator, as well as a lifelong yoga and meditation practitioner.

Tom Birmingham is an award-winning artist, writer, photographer, and teacher. In 2009, he and his wife, Erin Lee Gafill, were honored as Champions of the Arts by the Arts Council for Monterey County and the United States Congress for their community arts and education work in Big Sur. He is the founder of 26 Letter Press, a boutique publisher.

Little Bear is the Tribal Chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County. He is a traditional cultural resource specialist, Tribal Archeology Monitor, and Wildland Consultant. Little Bear has a deep history at the Esalen Institute, a sacred site for the Esselen, and has led a lifetime of retreats centering around initiation, ritual and ceremony between humans and their relationship between each other, land and Spirit. 

Tom Myers directs Anatomy Trains, which runs continuing education classes for manual therapists and movement educators worldwide. He is the author of Anatomy Trains and co-author of Fascial Release for Structural Balance. Tom studied with Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has practiced integrative bodywork since 1975.

Tomas Prietto, CFR, CST, is one of the longstanding creative forces in the Cortical Field Re-Education® community. He has spent the past two decades studying a variety of modalities, including Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Tai Ji, and Integrated Awareness®.

Tommy Rosen is a Vinyasa and Kundalini yoga teacher who focuses on yoga for addiction recovery. His blogs and articles have appeared in LA Yoga, the Huffington Post, Mind Body Online, and The Daily Love. Tommy’s first book is Recovery 2.0.

Toni Bergins, MEd has helped thousands of people break out of their boxes and move into new stories through embodied practice and emotional empowerment. As the creator of JourneyDance™ transformational movement, Toni leads people back home to their body. As a performer and singer/songwriter, Toni inspires people to find their authentic voice.

Toni Cupal began teaching yoga in 2009 and intensively studying intuitive healing since 2012. Toni enjoys weaving elements of healing into her yoga classes to create an authentic experience of body, breath, and energy for each person in the room. 

Tony Holmes (aka The Love Warrior) is a transformational guide and creator of Pleasure Alchemy, which blends sacred sexuality, somatic healing, and emotional alchemy to awaken embodied liberation, radical self-love, and the power of pleasure as a path to wholeness.

Tony Khalife is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, percussionist, yogi, teacher, Vedic scholar and priest, and messenger of love and peace. He has been performing and teaching for more than 30 years, blending a lifelong search for musical truth into all forms of world music.

Tonya Abernathy is passionate about community healing work and voice embodiment. She is also a professional singer and has toured with Taina Asili and Climbing Poetree. She feel specifically called to work in collective grief settings. She has a trauma-informed, social justice, and cultural awareness approach and is committed to supporting her BIPOC communities.

Tosha Silver is the author of Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead and Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender. She founded the online school Living Outrageous Openness: Think Like a Goddess. She teaches internationally and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tracee Stanley shares a sacred alchemy of practices that include Yoga Nidra, self-inquiry, meditation, and asana that are sourced from the traditions of the Himalayan Masters. Her offerings are designed to empower, activate creativity and clarity, and connect students to their innate radiance and power.

Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD, has served as the director of various philanthropic family foundations over three decades. In addition to her leadership roles, she has been involved at the ground level of humanitarian efforts worldwide. Tracey is co-founder of the PACT Institute.

Tracey Noseworthy is passionately dedicated to the teaching of yoga. She was named “Most Distinguished Teacher” at the 2017 Victoria Yoga Conference, and has over 25 years of experience in health and fitness. Tracey lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and inspires students around the world with workshops, retreats, and online classes.

Tracy Lease, yoga therapist and director of Full Life Yoga Studio in Grass Valley, California, empowers each unique student to move toward optimal health and happiness. Tracy has spent 20 years joyfully guiding students in movement and mindfulness practices.

Trina Wyatt is the Founder/CEO of Conscious Good, a community-driven conscious media platform, Trina has long believed that visual stories have the power to transform individuals, and thereby the world. In addition to launching the Tribeca Film Festival, Trina has held senior positions with Gaia, Prana Studios, Intrepid Pictures, and Film Independent, among others.

Trudy Goodman, PhD, is one of the pioneers in Eastern and Western psychology, holding a graduate degree in developmental psychology from Harvard. Founding teacher at InsightLA and the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Boston, she has taught Zen and vipassana/mindfulness internationally for 40 years.

Ty Powers cofounded The Insight Yoga Institute and has practiced yoga since 1987. Ty practices Buddhism under the guidance of Dzogchen teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche, as well as Ajahn Amaro. Ty has taught at Spirit Rock and the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe.

Udim Isang addresses trauma’s physical manifestations from emotional, mental, and spiritual sources. They promote holistic healing and engage in community wellness initiatives. They bridge the gap between evidence-based practice and traditional healing methods, promoting well-being and community interconnectedness.

Ulrika Engman explores the world with passion and leads transformative Barefoot Luxury Yoga Journeys worldwide. Certified in the Halprin Life/Art process and Anusara Yoga, she blends movement with yoga, breath with music, and nature's wisdom with philosophy into potent practices for a well-lived life.

Vanessa Inn is a highly sought-after personal and professional guide who works with a variety of clients, from entrepreneurs to award-winning artists to leaders on a world stage. Her Modern Elder Academy course "Leading from your Essence" is exceptionally popular.

Vanessa Stone is a teacher, mentor, and founder of the Amala Foundation, which unites youth from all walks of life and inspires them to grow as individuals and as leaders in service to humanity. Her deepest inspiration is to cultivate visionaries and mentor heart-centered global leaders.

Vernon Bush is a singer/songwriter, recording artist, musical director, and educator who has taught the power of reclaiming your voice through singing for more than 20 years to individuals around the world. He also is a featured vocalist at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, California.

Vicki Topp is a senior practitioner and instructor of Esalen Massage® and somatic bodywork. She teaches workshops and training groups internationally, and is a registered Movement Therapist and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering.

Victor is an Erotic ReWilder, somatic (body-centered) sexuality educator, mentor, and coach. He is dedicated to supporting people in reclaiming their erotic sovereignty and removing any self-imposed, internalized, or socially imposed obstacles that interfere with the expression of their bodily erotic brilliance.

Victoria Chase, RN, has been a clinical nurse and health educator for more than 35 years. She teaches in medical and community-based settings, and she integrates alternative healing methods into traditional venues. She has practiced and taught tai chi and stress management with her husband Kenn Chase since 1981.

Vignesh Swaminathan, LAc, is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a meditation teacher with intensive training in the Zen, vipassana, and Christian mystical traditions. He practices acupuncture in Berkeley, California, and teaches mindfulness at New York University.

Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of numerous books and short stories, including Sacred Games and most recently, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty. He was an executive producer on the international hit Netflix adaptation of Sacred Games. He teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley.

Vince has been teaching the Diamond Approach for the past 22 years and has been a student for 34 years. He leads ongoing Diamond Approach groups in California, The Netherlands and Ireland as well as individuals. He is married with two children.

Vincent Martinez Grieco (previously Vinn Arjuna Martí) melds philosophy, deep body awareness and unique dance to create a conscious awareness of body and soul. A master of movement ritual, he supports his students in listening to their bodies as a pathway to understanding their inner critics and inhibitions. Arjuna created Soul Motion Conscious Dance Practice.

Vinny Ferraro is a leader in the field of mindfulness specifically working with educators and incarcerated populations. He’s been empowered and teaches in the Buddhist insight tradition, leading a weekly sangha in San Francisco since 2004. His open hearted teachings have touched many. And he doesn’t like talking about himself in the third person.

Vipin Thekk founded Parenting Changemakers and co-founded the Wellbeing Project, an initiative to support social entrepreneurs to create well-being in their personal and professional lives. He is also a director at Ashoka, where he leads Changemaker School Districts in working to integrate empathy and changemaking skills in the district’s mindset, curriculum, systems, and culture.

Vivien Sansour is an artist, storyteller, researcher, and conservationist who uses images, sketches, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for seed conservation and the protection of agrobiodiversity as a cultural/political act. She founded the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and her art has been showcased internationally.

Wade Davis is a Colombian-Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants.

Wallace J. Nichols, MEM, PhD, is an innovative, silo-busting, entrepreneurial scientist, movement maker, renowned marine biologist, voracious Earth and idea explorer, wild water advocate, best-selling author of Blue Mind, sought-after lecturer, and fun-loving dad. He also likes turtles (a lot).

Dr. Warren Farrell has taught couples’ communication nationwide for the past 30 years. His “Role Mate to Soul Mate” course also appears as an online video and will be published as a book in July, 2024. 

Dr. Farrell was chosen by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders. See www.warrenfarrell.com.

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The Web of Change Board of Directors uses a highly participative model to produce a conference that supports participants in evolving. Board members are leaders in some of the nation’s most progressive organizations: technology and engagements experts at ACLU, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Greenpeace, and digital campaigners at organizations like Digital Democracy and 18MillionRising.org.

Wendy Palmer holds a sixth-degree black belt in aikido and has practiced mindfulness for more than 40 years. She is the founder of Leadership Embodiment and works with organizations and leads groups in Africa, Europe, Canada, and the U.S.

Wes Nisker is a Buddhist meditation teacher, radio commentator, and performer. His books include Essential Crazy Wisdom, Buddha’s Nature, and Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! Wes teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. He founded and co-edits the journal Inquiring Mind.

Wes Jackson is president emeritus of The Land Institute, which he co-founded in Salina, Kansas in 1976 after establishing one of the country’s first environmental studies programs in California. He is the author of New Roots for Agriculture, Consulting the Genius of the Place, and Nature as Measure.

Will Kabat-Zinn brings mindfulness and meditation to diverse populations, from neuroscientists to incarcerated youth. He co-developed a mindfulness curriculum for parents at UCSF. He leads retreats at Spirit Rock and at meditation centers around the country. He is a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council.

Willa Blythe Baker, PhD, is a meditation teacher, a Buddhist scholar, and the author of The Wakeful Body and other books. She is the founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship and its retreat center, Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, in Springfield, New Hampshire.

William Donius was a left brainer for most of his life. Twenty-five years ago, however, he discovered how to tap into his right brain, and it revolutionized his life. Bill is a New York Times best-selling author and ideation facilitator.

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William Keepin, PhD, is a founding director of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International, which has organized over 100 trainings for transformational healing between women and men on six continents. He is a physicist and transpersonal psychologist, and author most recently of Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science, and a Universal Path of Divine Love.

William Padilla-Brown is a Multidisciplinary Citizen Scientist practicing social science, mycology, phycology, and molecular biology. William founded and is the current CEO of MycoSymbiotics, a permaculture research and production business based in Central Pennsylvania focused on innovative practical applied biological science.

Wilma Wyss is an award-winning mosaic artist whose work features unusual materials and nuanced colors and textures. Wilma designed Esalen’s mosaic mural in the Lodge’s restroom foyer, which was created in a workshop.

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WisdomWomen is a place where we are beginning to bring a new vision – a society co-existing in harmony as people and planet – into form. In our membership community, we support one another in birthing our visions and practice embodying our wisdom through radical co-creation. Our convening team encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and expertise, but most importantly holds devotion to our collective vision of a thriving world.