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.

Juergen Bamberger is a Gyrotonic® master trainer who has been educating and certifying instructors worldwide for more than 25 years. Originally a professional dancer with a degree in dance education, Juergen has studied many modalities of movement arts, bodywork, and human anatomy.

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Julia is a tender-hearted, trauma-sensitive yoga teacher. Her modalities include somatic healing, tarot reading, and photography. She weaves ritual, narrative, and body-based awareness together to help others move through their suffering and into a richer, more balanced life.

Julie Baker Chouteau, is a psychotherapist specializing in the cultivation of authenticity, navigating life transitions, and trauma recovery. She works with creative process as an expression of one’s inner landscape. She has a private practice in Sausalito, California.

Julie Holland, MD, is a psychiatrist and author of Weekends at Bellevue and Moody Bitches; editor of The Pot Book and Ecstasy: The Complete Guide; and medical monitor for clinical studies of cannabis and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of PTSD in veterans.

Julie Murphy, MA, LMFT, is a professor, author, international Hakomi trainer, and somatic psychotherapist. With a background in anthropology, contemplative psychology, attachment theory, Buddhism, and poetry, Julie has developed numerous programs that integrate cutting-edge research with humanistic and contemplative approaches.

Dr. Julie Von is a holistic doctor, author, and speaker specializing in fertility. Dr. Von began her career apprenticing with healers, shamans, and doctors around the world. Her acclaimed book, Spiritual Fertility, is the benchmark text on the link between trauma and conception.

Julieanna Hever, RD, CPT, is a registered dietitian and the host of the talk show series What Would Julieanna Do? Author of The Vegiterranean Diet and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition, her work has appeared widely on television and other media. She has a private practice in Los Angeles, California.

June Gruber, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University and director of the Positive Emotion and Psychopathology Laboratory. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who has authored more than 60 journals and articles and received several early career awards from the APA, SRP, and NARSAD.

Justin Boreta is a member of The Glitch Mob, a beat-driven electronic group that has been touring for more than a decade performing around the world at festivals including: Coachella, Burning Man, Lollapolooza, Reading & Leeds and Bonnaroo. Boreta has collaborated with the spiritual teacher Ram Dass and Alan Watts on guided meditations and was recently nominated for a 2021 Grammy for Best New Age Album.

Justin Michael Williams is a transformational voice bringing people together across divides with a multigenerational message of hope, empowerment, and unity. He is an award-winning speaker and teacher, a Grammy-nominated recording artist, and the author of the groundbreaking book Stay Woke.

Justin Milano is the Founder and CEO of Abroad, an organization on a mission to improve the human condition at work. Justin has been an entrepreneur for more than 15 years and an executive coach for more than a decade. He spent five years researching the minds of leaders and bringing executives on soul-searching quests to wisdom cultures to discover greater purpose, meaning, and impact.

Justin Stein received his PhD from the University of Toronto and is a scholar of Japanese religion who has extensively researched Reiki history. He teaches Asian Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia.

Jyoti Ma is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher. She has devoted her life to bringing unity to the planet by facilitating the development of alliances between individuals who are the guardians of indigenous culture and traditional medicine ways. Through this work, collaborative relationships with organizations that are focused on economic, social and environmental solutions have developed, creatively addressing the global challenges of our times.

Kai Harper is a native Big Sur local, a graduate of Esalen’s Gazebo School and UC, Santa Barbara, with a degree in psychology. A past resident director at UCSB, he has served at Esalen as a grounds and garden land steward, practicing relational agriculture and cultivating the inner and outer landscapes of life.

Kamara McAndrews, LMFT, DAACS, is a psychotherapist with an expertise in sex, marriage, and intimacy issues. She also is an AASECT licensed sex therapist.

Kamilah Majied, MSW, PhD, is a Buddhist mental health therapist, clinical educator, researcher, and an internationally-engaged consultant on building inclusivity and equity using meditative practices, as well as a professor of social work at California State University, Monterey Bay. She has engaged her Buddhist practice for over forty years, leading colloquia, workshops, retreats, and meditation sessions globally on experiencing wonder, humor, and insight through transforming oppressive patterns and deepening relationships. She is the author of numerous scholarly and secular articles and a contributor to Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation & Freedom. Her latest book is Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living (Sounds True, 2024).

Kamini Desai is the author of Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep, and creator and education director of the Amrit Method Yoga Nidra curriculum. Kamini lectures and trains internationally, uniquely combining Eastern philosophy with Western psychology and science.

Karen Axelrod, MA, CST-D, CMT, is a certified somatic therapist specializing in CranioSacral Therapy. She teaches CST internationally for the Upledger Institute and maintains a private practice in Redondo Beach, California. Her passion is helping clients connect to inner resources necessary for healing body, mind, and spirit.

Karen Cook is an acupuncturist with more than 25 years of experience in the movement arts. She has been teaching yoga since 1997, influenced by Thomas Fortel Yoga and SpectorDance. Her love of movement is her joy and invites all to open to their divine light.

Karen Ely is the founding director of A Woman’s Way, one of the country’s premiere women’s retreat programs, and the author of Daring to Dream: Reflections on the Year I Found Myself, A Retreat of My Own, Breathing Space, and A Safe Place to Stand.

Karen Nelson is the co-founder and executive director of Writing By Writers, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a rigorous and compassionate environment to learn the art of reading and writing from accomplished authors.

Kari Bernardi, the Super Natural Chef, is the owner of Super Natural Foods Company and co-director of Living Light International. For over 30 years, Kari has shared her culinary expertise to help people thrive on a plant-based diet.

Karishma Darby is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in the Sierra Foothills, California. Her passion is awakening consciousness within and in relationship with others. She facilitates workshops, active and silent mediation, and relationally centered psychotherapy groups.

Karla McLaren, MEd, is an award-winning author, researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens new pathways into self-awareness and healthy empathy. She is the author of The Art of Empathy.

Kata Kálmán is a mindfulness trainer and coach with multinational clients including Audi, Wendy's, Coca Cola, and GE. Her work has led her to the most prevalent disorders of our times: depression and anxiety. Kata practices Thich Nhat Hanh’s Buddhist mindfulness-based tradition.

Katchie Ananda is an internationally recognized yoga and dharma teacher whose leadership in yoga and social change prompted Yoga Journal to name her one of five top yoga teachers making change in the world.

Kate Flore, MPH, OTR, CMP, is a somatic and bodywork practitioner, educator, and Gestalt facilitator. She is co-founder of TensegrityU, a scholarship-based practitioner education program weaving the teachings of movement and body sciences with Rolf Structural Integration, the Feldenkrais Method, and Gestalt Relational Process into contemporary trainings.

Kate MacKinnon is a diplomat-certified CranioSacral Therapist through the Upledger Institute, and a licensed physical therapist in California and the United Kingdom. She is a passionate advocate of CranioSacral therapy and of the importance of healthy touch.

Kate Munger has devoted herself to creating non-hierarchical, collaborative models for singing, community building, and fellowship since 1973. She founded the first of 160 Threshold Choirs, an organization for those who sing in service at the bedsides of people who are dying.

Katharina Sophia Volz is a medical researcher and entrepreneur. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of OccamzRazor, a start-up in San Francisco that looks to identify cures for Parkinson's Disease using machine learning.

Katherine Woodward Thomas is author of the New York Times bestseller, Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and the national bestseller, Calling in “The One:” 7 Weeks to Attract the Love Of Your Life. She is a licensed psychotherapist and has taught hundreds of thousands to find greater happiness in love.

Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, is an inspiring educator, innovator, and practitioner in the field of integrative and holistic nutrition, and education director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s nutrition trainings.

Kathlyn (Katie) Hendricks, PhD, BC-DMT, is an evolutionary catalyst and contextual disruptor who creates transformational collaboration around the world. A pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving, she has coauthored 12 books with Gay Hendricks, including Conscious Loving, At the Speed of Life, and Ever After.

Katie Hafner is the author of the memoir, Mother Daughter Me, which was featured by the New York Times and Oprah. Hafner was on staff at the New York Times for more than a decade, and she is the author of five previous books.

Katy Butler is the author of Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. Her award-winning personal essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Best American Essays, and Best Buddhist Writing.

E. Kay Trimberger, PhD, is professor emerita of Women’s & Gender Studies at Sonoma State University and author of The New Single Woman. She is an ever single woman and single mother, who has taught classes on single women and written articles and blogs on singleness.

Keith Edward Cantú is an academic, musician, and polyglot with a deep professional and personal interest in South Asian religion and spirituality. He has extensively researched and directly engaged Baul Fakiri, Tamil Śaiva, and other tantric currents over the course of eleven years, and also has a personal and professional interest in esotericism more broadly.

Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and author of The Blind Spot Effect. She has created mindfulness programs for UN humanitarians and veterans with PTSD, and directed a teacher training for Google. She has worked with the United Nations Foundation, Search Inside Yourself Institute, and the Integrative Restoration Institute, and is the founding advisor for the Simple Habit meditation app.

Ken Dychtwald is a long-time Esalen lover, a gerontologist, psychologist, educator, author, lecturer, consultant and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Age Wave and has been a leading thinker on aging-related issues since 1974.

Ken Koles is an acupuncturist who developed the use of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) and Oriental medicine in private practice and as an instructor with The Cleveland Healing Arts Institute. He studied Oriental medicine in Japan, China, and Taiwan, and has studied CST since 1979.

Kenn Chase, founder of Integral Way Tai Chi™, has taught Yang-style tai chi since 1969. He is a certified Feldenkrais practitioner and integrates Awareness through Movement® into his unique teaching approach. Teaching locally and internationally, he consults with corporations, hospitals, and privately.

Ken Cohen, M.A., is a world-renowned qigong and tai chi grandmaster. A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he is the author of The Way of Qigong and winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Energy Medicine.

Kerena Gordhamer Saltzman, LCSW, is a leadership coach and licensed psychotherapist. She has presented at Wisdom 2.0, Omega Institute, and IEEE Leadership for Women. She teaches relational skills with her husband, Ben Saltzman.

Kerri Kelly is the founder of CTZNWELL, a movement to mobilize the well-being community into a powerful force for change. Her work was sparked on 9/11, when she lost her fireman step-dad in the towers. She discovered the power of mindfulness, not just as a tool for personal healing, but as a catalyst for collective change. She has been teaching yoga since 2004.

Kerry D’Ambrogio is a lecturer, author, physical therapist, osteopath, and board-certified acupuncture physician. He is the president and director of Therapeutic Systems, Inc. (TSI). TSI is an internationally known seminar company as well as a treatment center.

Kes Harper is a native Big Sur local, a graduate of Esalen’s Gazebo School, and recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz. He studied technology management at university and is passionate to learn and explore his interests in technology, entrepreneurship, team building, and everything beyond.

Kevin Dockery, MFA, is an artist and teacher of the Feldenkrais Method and contact improvisation. His teachings are informed by his pursuit of the question: How can we come alive to the moment through movement? He teaches workshops internationally and is on the faculty of TensegrityU in Nevada City, CA.

Kia Miller is a Kundalini yoga teacher who has an ability to translate the subtle teachings of Kundalini in a highly accessible way. Kia’s study of yoga began when she was 15. She is also certified in Hatha yoga and teaches workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings throughout the world.

Kim Krans is an artist, author, and the creator of the New York Times bestseller, The Wild Unknown Tarot. She teaches events and workshops that activate the forces of creativity and radical transformation through creative practices, meditation, and movement.

Kim Mooney has worked for more than two decades in the field of dying, death, and grief, with hospices; families; and spiritual, medical, caregiver, and mental health communities. She provides practical and emotional guidance on navigating grief and loss personally and professionally.

Kimberly Gilbey, PhD, is an executive coach, strategy consultant, and organizational anthropologist working with individuals and organizations to realize their fullest potential. She has previously served as a business professor and supported executives within Fortune 100 companies, private universities, and global nonprofit organizations.

Kirtaniyas is a global collective of kirtan musicians, producers, and dancers. Since 2009 they have toured internationally, infusing the ancient tradition of kirtan with youthful spirit and energy. Kirtaniyas combines melodious electronic dance music and subsonic bass with the call and response singing of ancient Sanskrit mantras, accompanied by live acoustic instruments.

Kirti Srivastava builds connections between the arts and healing to provide a holistic approach to honoring the whole being in all areas of life in order to heal, grow, and expand.

Konda Mason is co-founder and CEO of Hub Oakland, a co-working space connecting socially engaged changemakers and social entrepreneurs to bring their projects to life. A human equity advocate, certified Kripalu yoga instructor, and meditation teacher, Konda’s work is driven by the vision of realizing in her lifetime a genuinely just and sustainable world.

Krista Bremer is the author of A Tender Struggle: Story of a Marriage and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere.

Kristi Funk, MD, board-certified breast cancer surgeon, best-selling author, and co-founder of the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills, and has helped thousands of women through breast cancer treatment, including celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Sheryl Crow.