PRESENTER HIGHLIGHTS

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The 28th International Conference on Shamanism

Stephanie Taylor

Stephanie Taylor is a physician in private wellness practice in Carmel, California. Before entering medical school, she completed a Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialization in Behavioral Genetics. She spent one year as a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota Department of Psychology, which developed the Auke Tellegen Absorption Scale. She is a teacher of Tai Chi and has trained in Aikido and Medical QiGong. She has devoted her career to integrating otherwise disparate and different domains, and this is reflected in her subtle integration of shamanism and medical practice.

Marguerite Rigoglioso

Marguerite Rigoglioso, pioneering author and underworld journeyer, discusses shamanic experiences leading her to confront the depths of negativity within herself in this and other lifetimes (an ongoing process!).– intelligently honoring the negative/difficult forces as integral to all of existence.

She is a scholar focused on the feminine in the ancient Mediterranean world. Her pioneering books The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece and Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity provide evidence for the existence of historical priestesshoods dedicated to miraculous conception.. She teaches on women and religion at Dominican University, CIIS, and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. M.A. and Ph.D., religion/humanities, California Institute of Integral Studies; A.B., psychology, Vassar College. Visit http://cultofdivinebirth.com.

 

Stanley Krippner

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. is professor of psychology and humanistic studies at Saybrook University, San Francisco. In 2008 he gave the First Ruth-Inge Heinze Memorial Lecture at this series of conferences. He is the co-author of Extraordinary Dreams, Healing States, and Personal Mythology

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Website: www.stanleykrippner.weebly.com

 

Baby Garroux

Baby Garroux’s initiative name is “Oyonanda”, the wind. She is founder and manager OROYA, a shamanic organization near São Paulo, Brazil. She has16 groups in various countries and divides her time between Brazil and the rest of the world. Members come to OROYA from all over the world to recieve shamanic work and be initiated by Baby. She is also a published writer and performer with deep roots in her native Brazil, where she began her work with the spiritual practice of Umbanda.

 

Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa

Mandaza is a Bantu Shaman and Peacemaker from Zimbabwe. He was born a Svikiro (in Shona, his native tongue) - a carrier of many earth and water spirits, and a Mohndoro - one who is in constant prayer on behalf of others. As a vessel of the spirits, Mandaza receives visions and dreams, makes offerings, performs healing rituals, and serves as a messenger for the Ancient Ones. He lives in Zimbabwe and travels internationally as a Peacemaker.

Sha Sha Higby

Sha Sha Higby started out making dolls and pursued the art of puppetry and sculpture in her early years.

She had a great opportunity for one year in Japan in 1971, observing the art of Noh Mask and theater and then received a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship.

ShaSha says of her work ”Performance is the discovery of things as they happen at that moment for the first time. Nothing is rehearsed. The variable elements that are brought to each performance are painstakingly assembled."

 

Dr Alex Feng

Dr. Alex Feng, founded the first major Taoist Center in the Bay Area. A unique place to cultivate spiritual and physical well-being, Zhi Dao Guan is translated as “the view of the ultimate path”. Dr. Alex Feng, a renown Taoist Master believes that by offering a setting for the teaching and practice of Taoist precepts, internal Chinese martial arts and healing with traditional Chinese medical practices, such as acupuncture, qi gong, acupressure, herbology and tui na, participants have the opportunity to learn more about one of China’s least understood but most important cultural phenomena: the Taoist tradition.

Sifu Fong Ha

Just as the bud of a flower contains within it the innate form of the perfect flower, so do we all contain within ourselves the innate form of our own perfection. Under the proper conditions of sun, water, and nutrients, the bud unfolds to reveal the flower. Likewise under the proper conditions of our practice, that which is perfect within us – physically, mentally, and spiritually – begins to unfold.

Sifu Fong Ha has been practicing Chinese internal arts since his childhood and has studied with many renowned teachers. He began his studies of Yang-style Taijiquan in 1953 with Tung Ying-chieh, and continued with Yang Sau-chung, the eldest son of Yang Cheng-fu.Fong’s exploration then led into the realm of I Ch’uan. One of the few I Ch’uan teachers in the West, Fong Ha is well known for his power, graciousness, and cosmopolitan charm. With humor and insight, he encourages students to be true to themselves, to recognize their inner strengths, develop at their own pace, and actualize their potentials.He directs the Integral Chuan Institute in Berkeley, California and teaches nationally and internationally. He is the author of Yiquan and the Nature of Energy: The fine art of doing nothing and achieving everything(Berkeley: Summerhouse Publications, 1996). He also produced the video, Stillness in Movement: The Practice of T’ai Chi Chuan with Master Fong Ha (Vision Arts Video, 1996).

 

Phillip Moffitt

At the peak of his career, former CEO and Editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Phillip Moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. He subsequently founded the Life Balance Institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Phillip is a co-guiding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the author of Dancing with Life. Phillip has studied with Rishyogi Premvarni for the past 10 years and is currently writing a book based on Premvarni’s teachings of the nine bodies.