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Joy
E. Butler has degrees in psychology, education and literature.
She is a counselor, facilitator, and business consultant working
with a variety of tools; ritual, movement, bodywork, storytelling,
and intuitive communication. Her essential creativity continually
leads her to explore new territory, using that exploration as an
ingredient in her work.
She is a resident at Manzanita
Village. You can contact her directly at 760-782-3604
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Tabitha Fronk is an art
therapist and artist with an extensive background in teaching and
working with adults and children in many different contexts and from
diverse backgrounds, including work with, abused children in residential
care, the chronically mentally ill, young adults in college, trauma
survivors, terminally ill children and adults, pre-school etc. She
practices the Dharma with Ordinary Dharma and will be co-facilitating
retreats at Manzanita Village as well as working with some of the
new programs sponsored by the Five Changes Foundation.
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Sifu
Koré Grate is head instructor at Feminist
Eclectic Martial Arts (F.E.M.A.) in Minneapolis since 1988.
She began her involvement in the martial arts at age 16. She received
her first black belt from Dr. Alex Feng of Wu
Tao Kuan in Berkeley, California, in 1991. She started
training with him in 1981.
She has also
studies with Coleen Cragen of Hand to Hand Kajunkenbo in Oakland,
California, and Sensei Annie Elman of the Center for Non-Violence
and Education (BWMA), in Brooklyn, New York.
She was on the
original board of the Pacific
Association of Women Martial Artists (PAWMA) and has chaired
the National Women's
Martial Arts Federation (NWMAF) Steering Committee. She is also
involved with the Association
of Women Marital Arts Instructors (AWMAI). She teaches regularly
at the annual training camps of all three organizations.
Koré has taught
Martial Arts and Self-Defense/Empowerment workshops and seminars
to thousands of women, children, men, teens, seniors, and differently-abled
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Chad
Hamrin has been a yoga practitioner since the early 1970s,
studying Iyengar, Viniyoga, Ashtanga and Kundalini yoga styles as
well as the Martial Arts. He has taught Yoga for 28 years and also
holds a black belt in Karate. He is a skilled body worker with extensive
experience in Polarity Therapy, Reiki, Jin-Shin Do and Deep Tissue
Massage. His teaching brings together aspects of all these elements;
resulting in a style which emphases investigative awareness of the
body, flow, mindfulness and breath--leading students naturally into
a deep insightful practice.
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Scott
Kelman, now resident in Portland, Oregon, is a recipient
of the Los Angeles Weekly's Special Career Achievement Award and
L.A. Theater's most prestigious honor, The Margaret Hartford Award
- "for unwavering commitment to innovative theater for L.A; that
is unashamedly experimental and unapologetically political." His
workshops have inspired countless artists, performers, as well as
many others from all walks of life, who have sought to access an
bring more creativity to into their work and life. His unique exercises
and technique of body, mindfulness and the creative process are
an exquisite compliment to formal mindfulness training. The
Kelman Group (a group in the U.K. working with Scott's approach
to Performance and Theater) |
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Susan
Moon was is a writer, poet, author of The Life and
Times of Tofu Roshi, and the editor of Turning Wheel,
the quarterly journal of The Buddhist Peace Fellowship. She has
received an NEA grant for fiction writing and has been teaching
writing workshops for many years. She is a Dharma student at the
San Francisco Zen Center, and was a student of Suzuki Roshi. |
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Donald
Rothberg has practiced Insight Meditation since 1976.
He has written and taught widely on socially engaged Buddhism, meditation,
and contemporary spirituality, and has been an organizer, teacher,
and board member for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship since 1989. He
is on the faculty of the Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco,
where he is the Director of an interfaith program on “Socially Engaged
Spirituality: Developing Compassionate Leadership.” He currently
leads two ongoing meditation groups and teaches classes and retreats
in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide. He is a co-editor
of ReVision: Journal of Consciousness and Transformation,
the co-editor (with Sean Kelly) of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations
with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers , and is currently writing
a book on the principles and practices of socially engaged Buddhism.
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Masakazu Tazaki Sensei has studied the martial
arts for more than 40 years. He has been a student of Nishio Sensei
for over 39 years in both Aikido and Iaido. He has taught Aikido
and Iaido in the United States and Mexico for the past 20 years.
He is the only direct student of Nishio Sensei teaching outside
of Japan today. Tazaki Sensei is affiliated with Aikikai Foundation
International, in Tokyo, Japan and also with Aikido Seishinkai USA
Web site for Masakazu Tazaki Sensei International
Sosho Shinrenbukai Federation |
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Elise
Turen, M.A., has 20 years experience as a counselor and
educator in the field of Human Sexuality and Chemical Dependency.
She came to this work early in her life while observing and questioning
the strict binary codes of gender and their limiting effects on
people’s hearts, souls and psyches. She has worked with individuals,
couples, and families coping with Chemical Abuse, Eating Disorders,
Gender Identity, and Sexual Abuse. Her experience in the field of
Gender Identity has allowed her to explore and integrate alternative
methods of healing for her clients with Hypnotherapy, Stress Management,
and holistic forms of therapeutic interventions. She has a deep
reverence for the process of helping those seeking their authentic
selves, along with a sense of humor and the need for light-hearted
play in one's life. |
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Diana Winston is the founder of the BASE program,
America's first socially engaged Buddhist training program. She
has practiced Insight Meditation since 1989 and recently spent a
year as a Buddhist nun in Burma. She teaches meditation to adults
and teens in India and America and now serves as the associate director
of the BPF in Berkeley, California. Her forthcoming book about Buddhism,
Wide Awake , is written for teens. |
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