Shai Lavie, MA, MFT, is a certified Hakomi therapist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner with  private practice in San Rafael, California. Shai teaches mindfulness-centered psychotherapy through the Hakomi Institute of California, the Marin Mindfulness Institute, and as an adjunct professor at Sofia University.

Shama Viola (Manuala Terraluna) is a citizen of Damanhur, the Italian social/spiritual community dedicated to conscious living, esoteric tradition and a practical approach to sacredness. She has been living there for 17 years. She travels the world to share Damanhur's message through group courses and individual readings.

Shamini Jain, PhD, is a psychologist, scientist and social profit leader.  Her two-time award-winning book from Sounds True, “Healing Ourselves”, is available at bookstores worldwide.  Shamini is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI), which forwards the science and practice of healing.  She integrates knowledge and wisdom from scientific research, East Indian spiritual practices, and vocal empowerment to teach others how they can best heal themselves and live joyful, meaningful lives.

Shannon Algeo (he/him), MA, RYT, is a psychotherapist, researcher, poet, teacher, deep relaxation/Yoga Nidra facilitator, and the author of Trust Your Truth.

Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer and international teacher. Her work focuses on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of our native myths, fairy tales, and folk traditions to the personal, social, and environmental problems we face today.

Shauna Shapiro, PhD is a best-selling author, professor, and clinical psychologist. She is an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. Dr. Shapiro has published over 150 papers and three critically-acclaimed books. Her TEDx Talk, What You Practice Grows Stronger, has been viewed over 2.5 million times.

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Shelly Tygielski is a humanitarian, trauma-informed mindfulness teacher, author, and activist. She is the founder of Pandemic of Love, a global organization that was recognized by CNN Heroes, and the author of the award-winning book, Sit Down to Rise Up.

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Sheva Carr is an Oriental medicine doctor, CEO of HeartAmbassadors, and co-VP of UN Peace Messenger Organization Pathways To Peace . She speaks globally on the heart’s power in relationships, health, performance, creativity, contribution, legacy, social change, and building a global culture of peace.

Shiva Rea, MA, is a movement alchemist, global Prana Vinyasa teacher, yogadventurer, wave rider and founder of Samudra Global School for Living Yoga, Yoga Alchemy Online, and Yoga Energy Activism for a green energy future for all.

Sianna Sherman (she/her) has been a celebrated international yoga teacher for three decades. She is the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL. As a gifted storyteller, she awakens the imagination through the language of the soul.

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Siegmar Gerken, PhD, ECP, is part of the teaching faculty at JFK University and formerly at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. He teaches at universities and private institutes worldwide on the interconnectedness of psychosomatic processes as they manifest on the levels of body, emotions, mind, will, and consciousness.

Sienna Creasy is a Prana Vinyasa yoga instructor who studied with Shiva Rea for more than a decade. Sienna creates an experience of movement that integrates fierce embodiment with the energy of Jamaica, where she resides. A former U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, reciprocity is integral to her being.

Sil Reynolds, RN, is a nurse practitioner and therapist who has worked with women and girls for 30 years with a focus on sane solutions to healing issues with body and food. She is a graduate of BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership training and co-authored Mothering & Daughtering with her daughter Eliza.

Silvia Guersenzvaig is an international instructor of Esalen Massage. Inspired by the wisdom of nature, she has developed a practice of aligning presence and quality of touch. Her background includes multiple years on the Esalen® Massage staff, somatic healing, energy kinesiology, Polarity and Trager, and much more.

Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, is a Grammy®-nominated musician and vocal artist. She is the creator of the Sound, Voice, and Music in the Healing Arts certificate program at California Institute for Integral Studies. She also founded the Vox Mundi School to teach and preserve indigenous musical traditions.

Simon Moyes is a certified Zen teacher in the Soto Zen Lineage of Suzuki Roshi and was a Zen monk for five years. His passion is bringing the wisdom of the Zen tradition into contemporary culture through mindfulness and emotional intelligence. He has worked with Google and the United Nations.

Sita Devi's passion for traveling and being in service has taken her on tour teaching and chanting at events all over the globe. She teaches a variety of yoga, movement, and dance modalities. It is her dream to make Bhakti something that anyone can do, without limitation, expectation, discrimination, or judgement.

With an MD and background in neuroscience and behavior change, Siva Mohan presents a unique East-West Mind-Body version of Ayurveda. She guides her audience to individualized wellness lifestyles with tools and approaches from Ayurveda, emotional wellness, and functional medicine.

Born in the Republic of Sakha in Arctic Siberia, Snow Raven was three years old when she started to learn the language of birds and animals. An initiate in the shamanic lore of her homeland, she fuses the traditional Sakha sound with electronic expression, her voice and presence true instruments of healing and wonder.

UC Berkeley Professor Sonia Katyal’s award-winning scholarly work focuses on the intersection of technology, intellectual property and civil rights (including anti-discrimination, privacy and freedom of speech). Her current projects focus on the intersection between internet access and civil/human rights, with a special emphasis on the right to information, artificial intelligence and discrimination, trademarks and advertising, source code and the impact of trade secrecy, and a variety of projects on the intersection between gender and the commons. As a member of the university-wide Haas LGBT Cluster, Professor Katyal also works on matters regarding law, gender, and sexuality.

Sophie Beach is the executive editor of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website. She previously served as senior research associate for Asia at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based press freedom organization. Her writing about China appears in the Los Angeles Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, The Nation, and elsewhere.

Soren Gordhamer is the founder of Wisdom 2.0, which holds events exploring mindfulness and technology. He has written several books, walked for a year through various countries, and has taught mindfulness to incarcerated youth, trauma workers in Rwanda, and companies.

Sparrow has published poems in the New Yorker and the New York Times, and he’s the author of America: A Prophecy — The Sparrow Reader. He lives with his wife, Violet, in a doublewide trailer in Phoenicia, New York.

Sravana Borkataky-Varma, PhD, is a historian, educator, and social entrepreneur. As a historian, she studies Indian religions focusing on esoteric rituals and gender, particularly in Hindu Śākta (Goddess) Tantra traditions. As an educator, she is an instructional assistant professor at the University of Houston. At present, she is a Center for the Study of World Religions fellow at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University.

Stacia Butterfield is a certified Holotropic Breathwork® practitioner with 15 years of dedicated service and close work with Stanislav Grof, the originator of Holotropic Breathwork and a pioneering psychedelic researcher. She has also been a senior staff member coordinating, facilitating, and teaching residential training retreats across the US for many years.

Stacie Blanke, part of Esalen Institute's programs team and a Bloomtree Wellness facilitator, inspires creativity and connection. As an improvisation facilitator and certified yoga instructor (RYT-200), she guides diverse individuals in playful self-discovery.

Stan Gerome, LMT, CST-D, is an Advanced Therapy 1 and SomatoEmotional Release 1 and 2 Certified instructor with The Upledger Institute. He maintains a private practice in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, which he established in 1984. He has been a CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release practitioner since 1986.

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, author, PACT developer, and co-founder of the PACT Institute. Dr. Tatkin teaches at UCLA, maintains a private practice in Southern California and leads programs internationally. He is the author of We Do, Wired for Love, Wired for Dating, and others.

Stanislav Grof, MD, is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience researching non-ordinary states of consciousness. He was chief of psychiatric research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, and scholar-in-residence at Esalen. Currently he is professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Stella Resnick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA, who specializes in couples and sex therapy. She studied Gestalt therapy with founders Fritz and Laura Perls and Psychodrama with co-founder Zerka Moreno. She trains and supervises therapists and has created Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST), a sex therapy training that she offers on Zoom. She has written three books. Her latest book is Body-to-Body Intimacy: Transformation Through Love, Sex and Neurobiology.

Stephan Hausner applies systemic constellation work in the field of illness and health. He has worked, lectured, and trained in more than 60 countries and is dedicated to exploring the profound healing potential of systemic constellation work for individuals, couples, families, and organizations.

Stephen Mosblech is a meditation teacher and multidisciplinary artist with intensive training in vipassana, Zen, and Tibetan Buddhist mystical traditions. He has taught mindfulness at Deer Park Institute in India and New Life Foundation in Thailand. His performance work has been staged in New York, Germany, Sweden, and Japan.

Stephen Sideroff is a clinical psychologist and peak performance consultant in Santa Monica, California, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA’s School of Medicine, and director of Moonview Sanctuary. He also founded the Stress Strategies Center at Santa Monica Hospital.

Steve Almond is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. His work has been published in Best American Short Stories, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Steve Edelman, BA Yale, JD, has had many careers, including workshop creator, television anchor, and business entrepreneur. Blending his media, workshop, and personal life-change experiences, he developed Unfinished Business to help others navigate the journey to deep satisfaction.

Steven Hickman, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and associate clinical professor in the UC San Diego Department of Family Medicine & Public Health. He is the executive director and director of professional training of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and the founding director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. He has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for 17 years and has trained teachers of MBSR and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Steve is an MSC teacher trainer and leads MSC intensives and workshops around the world.

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of the award-winning public radio show, To the Best of Our Knowledge. He has reported for NPR and written for Salon, Slate, the Huffington Post, and Nautilus. His book is Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science.

Steve Sorkin, PhD, is a psychologist who worked with R.D. Laing and the Philadelphia Association for several years. He has provided a range of clinical services; held several faculty positions; served as a graduate school president and dean, and as associate executive director of the American Psychological Association.

Steve Van Zandt has been a workshop presenter for more than 40 years, a K-6 classroom teacher, and is currently the Principal of San Mateo Outdoor Education. At Esalen, he co-leads a summer family workshop with the Banana Slug String Band.

Steven Harper is a wilderness leader, author, personal and organizational facilitator, and Big Sur resident. A student of meditation since 1972, he weaves Buddhist psychology, mindfulness practices, and neuropsychology into his work. He is a long-time student and facilitator of Gestalt Practice in the tradition of Esalen’s co-founder, Richard Price.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author of The Rise of Superman and co-founder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His articles have appeared widely, including in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Wired, and Forbes.

For over four decades, Stewart Cubley has pioneered a way of integrative and creative living through the practice of process painting. His method is one of respectful questioning, inviting you to extend yourself into new areas of thought and feeling.

Stuart Mangrum is a longtime co-conspirator and writing partner of Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey. Stuart was a pioneer settler of Black Rock City, and has been active in the community for 25 years. He currently serves as Burning Man’s Education Director.

Sunshine Zerda holds numerous RYT certifications, and she has created multiple integrative offerings that combine vinyasa, pilates, high-intensity interval training, bodyweight movements, and sound healing practices. 

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Susan Anderson is a psychotherapist with 30 years of research and clinical experience working with the victims of abandonment trauma and loss. Founder of “Abandonment Recovery,” her books include Journey from Abandonment to Healing, Taming Your Outer Child, Black Swan: 12 Lessons of Abandonment Recovery, and Abandonment Recovery Workbook.

Susan Aposhyan has been teaching and practicing meditation for 45 years. She is the author of Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development and Body-Mind Psychotherapy. Susan trains professionals in her Body-Mind Psychotherapy, integrating science with healing and meditative experience.

Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, is a contemplative scientist, a mindfulness teacher, and the author of A Future We Can Love: Effective Approaches to the Climate Crisis that Begin with Us. She is the former president of the Mind & Life Institute.

Susan Bernstein helps people navigate transitions by integrating their embodied intelligence. Her transformational approaches blend left-brain logic honed over 20 years in corporate America with right-brain creative movement gleaned from pioneering research in mind-body psychology.

Susan Burns is a Skoll awardee and co-founder of Global Footprint Network. She is currently leading the U.S. expansion of the Poverty Stoplight, a mobile technology that empowers families to be the architects of their own living conditions.

Susan Collin Marks, Search for Common Ground's Peace Ambassador, is an international peacemaker, teacher, healer, counselor, author, and recipient of multiple honors. She combines fierce pragmatism with a deep sense of our common humanity and spirituality.

Susan Fisher, MA, MBA, is the co-founder, teacher, guide, and speaker of 9 Energies. Since 2012, Susan has worked with thousands of people to identify and deepen the access to each person’s unique activation center. Susan is the author of 9 Energies - Practices for Presence.

Susan Harper has been teaching and contributing to Continuum since 1975. She is the developer of Body of Relating Training, inspired by the teachings of Chris Price's Gestalt Awareness Practice, and she co-developed Portals of Perception with Hubert Godard.

Susan Hauser founded Now Power Yoga, a diverse multi-modality studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Susan credits yoga with getting her through raising her two sons after her husband passed away from cancer. She shares her passion for yoga through teaching.

Susan Morgan, MSN, RN, CS, is a couples psychotherapist in private practice and a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She emphasizes body awareness and empathy in her teaching, and has co-led retreats with William Morgan since 1999.

Susan C. Steiner OTR/L, CST-D, has an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She is a 1979 graduate in occupational therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. As an occupational therapist, Susan has worked professionally with school pediatric programs in Rhode Island. She has been affiliated with the Upledger Institute International since 1989 and has been an instructor for CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release II since 1994.

Suzanne Scurlock is the author of Reclaiming Your Body and Full Body Presence, a CranioSacral therapy instructor for the Upledger Institute since 1987, and creator of the Healing From the Core® curriculum. She specializes in conscious awareness and its relationship to the healing process and has taught at Esalen since 1994.