Jennifer McChristian is an award-winning artist who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. In 1986, she moved to California, where she was an animation artist for Disney and Nickelodeon, among other studios. She has studied under Robert Blue, Karl Dempwolf, and Steve Huston, and leads painting and drawing workshops internationally.

Jennifer Ward is a certified Life Balance strategist who offers individual sessions and group programs on how to skillfully navigate life changes and cultivate well-being independent of conditions. She completed Phillip Moffitt’s Life Balance Strategist Training in 2018. 

In addition to teaching at Esalen Institute, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and 1440 Multiversity, Jennifer also leads programs and trainings offered by Life Balance Institute.

Jenny Pareno has been a member of the Esalen Massage staff since 2012. Her teaching style is influenced by her passion for athleticism, her desire to pass on the knowledge of her mentors, and her gift of touch.

Dr. Jenny Rooke is the founder and Managing Director of Genoa Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies innovating at the intersection of biology and technology. She previously served as a Senior Program Officer of the Global Health Discovery group at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jenny holds a Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University.

Jerome Front, LMFT, teaches at Pepperdine University and across the U.S., and has written about mindfulness, contemplative living, and mindful approaches to relationships. He leads retreats, clinical workshops, and corporate trainings, and has a private psychotherapy practice.

Jerry Kermode is a woodturning artist and teacher in Sebastopol, California. He is known as much for his sense of humor and friendly manner as for his ability with the chisel. He helps people understand the subtle nuances of cutting wood without fear or trepidation.

Jerónimo Calderón is an explorer of how to blend wellbeing with welldoing (Wellbeing Project), how to learn from nature to redefine sustainability (Amanitas) and how to build regenerative, living laboratories (Tierra Valiente). He is an author, speaker and lecturer working with unlikely allies from the United Nations to the World Economic Forum to Burning Man.

Blending 20 years of kitchen experience, a gift for facilitating connection and a passion for transformation, Jesse Bloom creates delicious experiences though his company, Sacred Kitchen. His food celebrates global flavors highlighting plant-based and bio-diverse dishes that celebrate a sustainable future.

Jessica Britt has been a student of A.H. Almass, founder of the Diamond Approach™, since 1977. A Diamond Approach™ teacher since 1985. Presently, she is a training director and leads ongoing groups in Europe and the US. In the ’80s, she was on the Gestalt staff of Esalen Institute, creating an integration of Reichian and Gestalt work. 

Jessica Fagan, MA, AMFT is an Expressive Arts AMFT who has been practicing and teaching bodywork and movement since 1994. She joined the Esalen® massage staff in 1997 where she was deeply influenced by the innovative forms of somatic and healing arts.

Jessica Gelson, MFT, is a therapist in private practice who helps people transform by engaging body, mind, and emotions. She promotes learning and growth by creating a safe and steady space that welcomes everything that clients may want to explore.

Jessica Graham is a meditation teacher, author, sex, relationship, spirituality guide, and filmmaker. She is contributing editor for the blog Deconstructing Yourself, co-founder of The Eastside Mindfulness Collective, founder of Wild Awakening, and author of Good Sex: Getting Off without Checking Out.

Jessica Kolbe is a senior teacher trainer for The Institute of Qigong and Tai Chi. Jessica leads classes, workshops, corporate wellness programs, certification trainings, and private healing sessions. She also produces an award-winning TV show, Qigong with Jessica Kolbe, which airs on TVSB and on-demand.

Jessica Wolk Benson, MFT, is a psychotherapist with extensive training and practice in experiential, attachment-based therapy. Her investigation into the reclamation of the divine feminine has brought about her unwavering commitment to restoring balance to the minds and hearts of humanity.

Jett Psaris, PhD, author of Undefended Love, Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis as a Spiritual Awakening, and Taking the Midlife Leap, teaches others to use intimate relationships and the midlife journey as catalysts for psycho/spiritual transformation. She has been teaching workshops about how to inhabit the full spectrum of one’s humanity since 1992.

Jiling Lin is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac), herbalist, and yoga teacher. Her integrative medical practice in Ventura, CA and holistic workshops, retreats, and writings empower thriving health and environmental stewardship in our bodies, communities, and world.

Jillian Pransky, C-IAYT, is the author of Deep Listening and an international presenter. A student of Pema Chödrön’s since 1998, she infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease. Jillian's offerings harmonize the body, mind, and spirit, with nature and the environment to create deeply integrative healing. 

Jim Benson is a certified SkyDancing Tantra teacher who has supported students and teachers-in-training internationally since 2003. A sex and intimacy coach for men, his programs include the Awakened Masculine Training and MultiOrgasmic Lover.

Jim Duffy is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF and is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, medical acupuncture and integrative medicine. He is an elected Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Jim Gallas has been teaching yoga and qigong with a sense of deepening silence and the lightness of laughter for over 30 years. He has had the great joy of teaching at Esalen since 1999. 

Jnana Gowan, a yoga instructor since 1999 and an “urban ceremonialist,” is the director of Powerhouse Education, a company dedicated to health and well-being. She integrates ceremony and ritual from the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (from Peru) into her teachings.

JoAnne Chartrand-Benz has been a European-trained somatic psychology educator since 1979. Her specialty is in somatic, transpersonal, relational psychology, and trauma work. She teaches Family Constellation trainings. She is a Somatic Experience practitioner, a student of the Diamond Approach, and co-author of Love and Belonging.

Joanna Claassen Ferraro has been an outdoor and early childhood educator since 2000. She runs Early Ecology, an outdoor educational program for children and families in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a former director of Esalen Institute’s Gazebo School Park. Joanna is inspired by the natural world, human kindness, and the power of play.

Jocelyn Gordon is the mother of two daughters. She is writing, Make Space For Baby – A Preconception Guidebook for the Modern Birthing Person. Called a “Yoga Rebel” by Yoga Journal, Jocelyn is also the creator of HoopYogini™, a practice merging movement and meditation.

Jodie Evans is a peace, environmental, women's rights, and social justice activist enhanced by entheogens for almost fifty years. Co-founder of CODEPINK and on the board of Rainforest Action Network, Institute for Policy Studies, and Drug Policy Alliance, she has also facilitated discussions on psychedelics at Drug Policy Alliance and Bioneers.

Jody Greene has been practicing Zen Buddhism and yoga since 2001, and has taught yoga and meditation both privately and at Yoga Tree in San Francisco, Esalen, and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

Joseph Cavanaugh is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Sierra foothills and a psychology instructor at a local community college. He has facilitated personal growth workshops throughout California for the past 45 years.

Joe Wilkins is the author of the memoir The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing up on the Big Dry and two books of poetry. His third full-length collection, When We Were Birds, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He directs the creative-writing program at Linfield College.

Joel Gruber earned his doctoral degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), specializing in Tibetan Buddhism and tantric studies. An award-winning teacher and author, he has drawn from his research to create “new gods,” a modernized mind/body training system that enables the working professional to access their inner divinity, and then become it.

Johanna Holloman is a German-born clinical psychologist and Diamond Approach® teacher. Her international teachings in Integrative Gestalt Coaching™, Integrative Somatic Practice™, Deep Bodywork®, Esalen Massage®, and Yoga focus on embodied presence and inner development through inquiry, breath and movement.

John Brehm is the author of two award-winning books of poems, Help Is on the Way and Sea of Faith. He is also the associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry and the editor of the anthology The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches for the Literary Arts and Mountain Writers Series in Portland and for the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.

John P. Forsyth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, professor, and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at SUNY Albany. He is an author, speaker, and trainer, and leads ACT workshops worldwide.

John Gray, PhD, is the author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the number one bestselling hardcover nonfiction book of the nineties. He is co-author (with Dr. Warren Farrell) of The Boy Crisis, in which he focuses on non-prescription-drug methods of preventing and reversing ADHD.

John Marks is the founder of Search for Common Ground, a peace-building NGO with offices in 30 countries. He is a best-selling author, a former Foreign Service Officer, a Skoll Awardee for Social Entrepreneurship, and an Ashoka Senior Fellow.

John Perkins, is a leading authority on shamanism and transformation; advisor to the UN, World Bank, CEOs, and many governments; and New York Times best-selling author of nine books including Shapeshifting and The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He teaches internationally, co-founded The Pachamama Alliance, and founded DreamChange.

John J. Prendergast, PhD, is the author of In Touch, a nondual spiritual teacher, a practicing psychotherapist, and ra etired adjunct professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also the senior editor of The Sacred Mirror and Listening from the Heart of Silence.

John Robbins is author of Diet for a New America and many other bestsellers, founder of EarthSave International, and one of the most popular bloggers on the Huffington Post. He is a recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, and dozens of other honors.

John Thompson co-founded Circling Europe and has helped define and evolve both Circling and Surrendered Leadership. He trains Circling leaders worldwide. He formerly was an elite tennis coach specializing in psychology and founded a program to help street children in India.

John Vosler is a senior teacher at the Amrit Yoga Institute who leads Yoga Nidra certification programs, and an iRest teacher certified by the Integrative Restoration Institute. He teaches internationally, leading trainings and retreats on the profound healing benefits of the ancient meditation practice of Yoga Nidra.

John W. Price Ph.D., LPC is a depth psychotherapist, podcast host of The Sacred Speaks, co-founder of The Center for the Healing Arts and Sciences, musician, and teacher.

Johnsmith has been writing heartfelt songs for more than 40 years. He has won national awards and contests, was a staff songwriter in Nashville and has recorded nine CDs. He's taught songwriting workshops nationwide, and has been featured on NPR's New Dimensions

Jonathan Gissel , MS, L.Ac, CST-D graduated Bastyr University in 2002. Since 2016, he has been a Certified Unwinding Meridians: Applying Acupuncture Principles to CST 1 Instructor and has helped develop course materials, such as the UMAC Menuing Chart and UMAC Chakra Chart.

Jonathan Goldman is an acupuncture, energy medicine, and spiritual healing practitioner. He is principle director at the Essential Light Institute, developer of Transformational Energy Healing, and the originator of the Chakra Map method of observing and helping the Human Energy Vehicle.

Jonathan Horan is Gabrielle Roth's son and closest collaborator. He is on the core faculty of her international institute, The Moving Center. Jonathan has been immersed in the 5Rhythms® practice throughout his life and continues to be a key catalyst in its evolution.

Jonathan Prescott is the founder of Wise Caregiving, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people become effective, sustainable and empathetic caregivers. Jonathan’s background includes hospice, cancer care, and hospital chaplaincy, and a spiritual practice as an ordained student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.

Jordan Allen leads Circling Europe in America. Jordan created CirclingAnywhere.com, which makes Circling accessible daily around the world, and he's the author of A Beautiful Apocalypse, a zombie adventure inspired by integral theory.

Joseph Machado is an Open Floor International faculty member, a somatic therapist, and a public high school teacher in San Francisco. Their commitment is to help people be themselves and resist the demands to conform that take away their ability to be the individuals they are.

Joe Perreta is an internationally renowned evidential psychic medium. He’s been featured on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.com and holds certification from the Forever Family Foundation. He has participated as a research medium in scientific studies at several universities.

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Josh Brahinsky, PhD, is a researcher at UC Berkeley teaches at UC Santa Cruz. His work links anthropological and neuroscientific methods to explore the ways contemplation invites and shapes sensory capacity and experience. He studies a variety of contemplative practices, including varieties of prayer and meditation, focused especially on the worship practices of charismatic evangelicals.

Josie Weaver teaches qigong, yoga, and tai chi. She is a senior trainer at the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, and through her own energy healing practice she helps clients manage conditions such as Parkinson’s, Ehlers Dahnlos Syndrome, and chronic pain.

Jovinna Chan, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is a trained personal transformational facilitator, yoga teacher trainer, conscious dance teacher, and performing artist. Through an alchemical combination of movement, spiritual inquiry, nature, and sound healing, she leads transformational programs around the world.

Joyce Catlett, MA, has collaborated with Dr. Robert Firestone in writing 13 books including Fear of Intimacy, Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion, The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships, and The Self Under Siege. She is co-producer of Glendon Associations 45 training video programs.

Joyce Thompson is the author of six novels, two collections of stories and a memoir, Sailing My Shoe to Timbuktu. She has taught writing in public schools, extension, and MFA programs; had a play produced; and owns a tech marketing business.

Q'ero Shamans don Juan and don Pascual are traveling from the high Andes to share the wisdom of the Q’ero, the Quechua-speaking Andean people of south-central Peru. The Q’ero preserve a sacred prophecy of a great change, or "pachacuti," in which the world would be turned right side up, harmony and order would be restored, and chaos and disorder ended.

Judith Hemming practices and teaches Constellations worldwide. She has developed and taught applications of the systemic approach in family, educational, and organizational contexts. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and the director of Moving Constellations in the United Kingdom.

Judith Orloff, MD, is the New York Times best-selling author of The Empath’s Survival Guide and Thriving as an Empath. Dr. Orloff is a psychiatrist, an empath and is on the UCLA psychiatric clinical faculty. Her work has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, O, the Oprah Magazine and the New York Times.

Judy Greenman is an international retreat leader, empowerment coach, and Cortical Field Re-Education® Trainer. For 25 years, she has taught individuals and groups around the world to access the miraculous intelligence of their nervous system for physical and emotional healing and personal growth.