Amy Weintraub, MFA, RYT
Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression, is a senior Kripalu Yoga teacher, certified by the Yoga Alliance as a professional yoga teacher. A dynamic and clear guide, she leads national workshops on yoga and depression, after having recovered from her own depression through daily yoga practice. She also writes regularly on the subject for Yoga Journal, Psychology Today and Yoga International. In addition, she has won numerous literary prizes for her short fiction. view products back to top

Andrew E. Schwartz
Andrew Schwartz is President of A.E.Schwartz & Associates, a management and employee consulting organization. He has written scores of training and development articles, maintains a private practice in hypnotherapy, and conducts workshops and training programs around the United States. view products back to top

Andrew Weil, MD
Dr. Andrew Weil is internationally recognized as a pioneer in integrative medicine. He founded and directs the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona's Health Sciences Center in Tucson. He is the author of nine books, including such bestsellers as Spontaneous Healing, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, and Eating Well for Optimum Health. In addition, he has a monthly consumer health newsletter, Self Healing. view products back to top

Barbara Biziou
Barbara Biziou is a teacher, audio and video producer and the author of The Joy of Ritual. She leads workshops on practical spirituality and how to create ritual to mark life transitions. Her company, Blue Lotus Productions creates beautiful and effective audio and video resources. view products back to top

Barbara Holtzman, MSW, LICSW
Barbara Holtzman, MSW, LICSW is the creator and director of Healing Into Wholeness in Wakefield, RI, a psycho-educational program for women struggling with body image, compulsive over-eating and/or dieting, self-esteem issues and perfectionism. In addition to developing her audio recordings and workbook, she also offers workshops, keynotes and training programs.
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Belleruth Naparstek, LISW
Belleruth Naparstek, LISW is a dedicated psychotherapist for over 30 years, is the creator of the Health Journeys series and the acquisitions editor for our catalog. A popular author and lecturer, she started out by making ad hoc tapes for her clients at her kitchen table. They took on a life of their own, and in 1990, she formed a business partnership with George Klein to produce and distribute them. Now there are scores of tapes and CD?s in English, and soon several will be released in Spanish as well. Here You can learn more about Belleruth. view products back to top

Bernie Siegel, MD
Bernie Siegel, M.D. is a best selling author and household word, who helped transform the way we deal with cancer. He originated Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP), a specific form of individual and group support that uses drawings, dreams, images and feelings to help people with lifestyle changes, empowerment and healing. A surgeon who graduated Cornell University Medical College, he wrote Love, Medicine & Miracles, Peace, Love & Healing, and How To Live Between Office Visits and Prescriptions For Living. view products back to top

Betty Mehling
Betty Mehling is a relaxation specialist who has a strong foundation in Jin Shin Jyutsu, an ancient eastern healing art. For more than 25 years, Betty has been teaching her westernized and simplified version of this effective art to individuals young and old alike. Betty has co-authored Relax! with Self-Therap/Ease, a self help acupressure book currently in its 12th printing and is also the producer of Magic Island, Relaxation for Kids. view products back to top

Bodhipaksa
Bodhipaksa is a Buddhist practitioner, author, and teacher. He is the founder of Wildmind (www.wildmind.org), an online meditation resource. Bodhipaksa has been practicing Buddhism since 1982, and has been a member of the Western Buddhist Order since 1993. His name means "Wings of Enlightenment." He lives in New Hampshire, where he teaches at Aryaloka Buddhist Center. view products back to top

Bryce Young, PhD
Bryce Young is known for his Peak Performance Training seminars, a key element in hundreds of college and university athletic training programs. A successful tennis coach and consultant, he serves as advisor to Prince Sports and is co-author of The Courtside Coach. He is featured on several of Linda LeClaire’s Visual Eyes audio training programs. view products back to top

O. Carl Simonton, MD
O. Carl Simonton, MD is an internationally acclaimed oncologist, author, and speaker who is best known for his pioneering insights and research in the field of psychosocial oncology. After having earned his medical degree from the University of Oregon Medical School, he completed a three-year residency in radiation oncology. It was during this time that Dr. Simonton developed a model of emotional support for the treatment of cancer patients and helped promote the idea that "visualization" could be a valuable aid for influencing the ability to survive cancer. view products back to top

Carolyn Daitch, PhD
Carolyn Daitch, PhD is a psychologist and Director of the Center For The Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She has over 25 years of clinical experience and currently divides her time between clinical practice, supervision, consultation and teaching. Dr. Daitch is a faculty member with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and internationally she has trained advanced practitioners in Europe, Asia, Canada as well as in the United States. She consultants for the University of Michigan's School of Medicine, and has completed post graduate training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. view products back to top

Carol Dickman
Carol Dickman is a New York City-based stretch/yoga instructor and writer. She is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor, and is also certified by The Yoga College of India in the Bikram Yoga method. In addition, Carol is a certified teacher of Yoga of the Heart; Cardiac Teachers' Training from the Integral Yoga Institute. She was selected by Oxford Health Plan as one of their Alternative Medicine Program Practitioners. Carol is delighted to bring yoga to more people through her three yoga cassettes, Bed Top Yoga, In Flight Yoga, and Seated Yoga. view products back to top

Carol Ginandes, Ph.D.
Carol Ginandes is a health psychologist, staff associate at McLean Hospital, and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She has conducted collaborative, cutting-edge research on hypnotically facilitated healing of fractures and post-surgical incisions. In her private practice in Watertown, Massachusetts, she integrates hypnosis with psychotherapy and behavioral medicine to work with clients who have a variety of mind/body problems. She is also a visual artist and photographer whose work can be found at www.carolginandes.com view products back to top

Charles Needle
Charles Needle is an award-winning nature photographer and writer. His videotape, The Healing Power of Nature: Visual Therapy for Stress Reduction & Wellness, currently plays in over 250 hospitals, corporate wellness centers and physicians’ waiting rooms across the country. Charles founded Nature Comforts, Inc., which offers a wide array of specially designed products and services that enhance wellness, healing and inner strength through reconnecting with nature. view products back to top

Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D.
Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D. is a child/educational psychologist, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at UCLA, and creator of Imagery For Kids, a positive coping skills program. An international workshop leader on the healing power of children's imagination, Dr. Reznick is based in Los Angeles, California and specializes in helping children and adolescents develop the emotional skills necessary for a happy and successful life. Her guided imagery audios focus on teaching children to connect with their feelings, develop self-love, and manage stress. view products back to top

Cyndi Lee
Cyndi Lee, director of OM yoga center, is a practitioner of both hatha yoga and Tibetan Buddhism, and has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. She is a practitioner in the Shambhala lineage, founded by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Her offering as a teacher is the immediacy of the hatha yoga experience informed by Buddhist teachings. Cyndi is the author and artist of the best selling OM Yoga in a Box series (Beginner, Intermediate and Couples). She currently writes a regular column for the Shambhala Sun called "Body, Breath & Mind." view products back to top

David Bresler PhD, L.Ac
David Bresler is a health psychologist and board-certified acupuncturist who is a co-founder and the current Director of the Academy for Guided Imagery, where thousands of interactive guided imagery practitioners have been trained and certified. In addition to authoring Free Yourself from Pain and scores of journal articles, he is Visiting Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the UCLA School of Medicine and was named in 2000 to the White House Task Force on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. view products back to top

David Illig, PhD
Dr. Illig resides in Portland Oregon where he divides his time between consulting in the legal world as a trial consultant and work in the area of self-improvement. He is a licensed Psychologist and a member of the American Psychology Association, and the American Society of Trial Consultants. His SuccessWorld self-improvement audios provide a sophisticated integration of mind/body/spirit approaches that include Ericksonian hypnosis, guided imagery, hemi-sync musical tones and positive subliminal messages. view products back to top

Donna Eden
Donna Eden is a vibrant and compelling teacher of energy medicine, acupressure and wellness. A clairvoyant and energy healer herself, she has made a career of teaching people who do not sense subtle energies how to work with them, for themselves and others. Lucky for all of us, she has recently begun to codify her work on books and video recordings. view products back to top

Rev. Donna Shenk, RN
Donna Shenk is both a pastor and a nurse, and serves as The Director of Chaplaincy Services at Ephrata Community Hospital. In addition to her training as a nurse, she is also schooled in pastoral education, Gestalt Psychotherapy and Healing Prayer.
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Ellen Curran, RN
Ellen Curran is the author of Guided Imagery for Healing Children and Teens. A registered nurse for twenty-four years, She has been certified in Integrative Imagery through the Beyond Ordinary Nursing Program, sponsored by the American Holistic Nurses Association. Ms. Curran has a private practice in guided imagery where she works with children with multiple disabilities and pain problems as part of their wellness plan. view products back to top

Emmett Miller, MD
Dr. Miller is acclaimed for his significant contributions to the field of mind/body medicine. He is noted for the invention of a completely new mode of self-healing and personal growth, the deep relaxation/guided imagery/meditation cassette. He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-founded the Cancer Support and Education Center, where he serves as Medical Director. view products back to top

Gael Chiarella, RYT
Gael Chiarella, founder of The Yokibics® Institute for Personal Development, is a teacher, author, and life coach for individuals and organizations. Her Yokibics® Mindbody Fitness Program was named one of the nations "Top Ten" by American Health Magazine. She is also the author of The Yokibics Mindbody Workbook and Audio Programs for Everyday Living. view products back to top

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.
Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. is a meditation teacher, author and psychologist who founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. He wrote A Path with Heart; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (with Joseph Goldstein); and Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart (with Christina Feldman). view products back to top

Jean-Luc Mommaerts, MD, MCS
Jean-Luc Mommaerts is a physician and expert in hypnosis, with a masters in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence whose work is highly regarded and popular in Europe. His Aurelis Auto-Suggestion programs combine an immense physiological and psychological knowledge base, artful meditative technique, a glorious voice and multi-lingual talents (English, Dutch, French and Spanish) to produce a prolific array of audio meditations that address scores of health challenges. view products back to top

Jeffrey Allen
Jeffrey Allen has been an educator since 1975. He began as a special education teacher, and as an elementary school principal, he has seen first hand the effects of stress and other challenges that children encounter every day. He was voted Principal of the Year in the 1995-96 in the Madison (WI) Catholic Diocese. Since 1985, he has coordinated and facilitated Rainbows, a program designed for children who have experienced death, divorce or separation. In addition, Allen serves as coordinator for Odyssey of the Mind, the "Olympics" of creativity for children. view products back to top

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD is the founder and former director of the Center for Mindfulness and the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, promoting important research worldwide on the power of mindfulness for stress reduction. He is also the author of two best-selling books: Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are. view products back to top

Sudhir Jonathan Foust , M.A.
Sudhir Jonathan Foust is cofounder of the Mindfulness Training Institute of Washington and conducts retreats and seminars that focus on cultivating embodied awareness, based on the Yogic and Buddhist traditions. He is a senior teacher and former president of Kripalu Center and leads a variety of seminars and retreats designed to help people cultivate a living relationship to spirit. view products back to top

Julie Lusk M.Ed, RYT
Julie Lusk is a yoga instructor, wellness expert and certified counselor, who has created several mind-body books and CDs, all marked by her sunny, gentle, affirming teaching style. She is author of Desktop Yoga and Volume One and Two of 30 Imagery Scripts., and speaks around the country on wellness issues and mind-body techniques. view products back to top

Karen Sothers ME.D.
Karen Sothers is a stress management specialist and educator, with a masters degree in health and exercise science from Vanderbilt University. A certified yoga instructor, she has been teaching yoga, relaxation training and meditation for over 15 years. She also consults to Scripps Medical Center and maintains her private practice, teaching clients how to implement positive lifestyle choices. view products back to top

Kate Hunter Kelley, MFT
Kate Hunter Kelley, MFT, is a dream artist, writer and psychotherapist. Her gift is to open people to the dreams of their lives. She has trained extensively in psychodrama, dreamtending, and indigenous traditions. Kate has been in private practice for twenty years and offers individual consultations on dreams. view products back to top

Ken Cohen
Ken Cohen is a renowned Taoist initiate, China scholar and qigong master. A gifted teacher, he is in demand for presentations and workshops around the world. Ken is the author of The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing. He is equally adept in the ways of Native American Healing, and in these sacred circles, he is known as Bear Hawk view products back to top

Sudhakar Ken McRae
Sudhakar Ken McRae is known for his openheart, a commitment to conscious living, and his meticulous, good-humored instruction. He combines the precision of the Iyengar tradition with the heart-centered, meditative aspects of Kripalu yoga. Sudhakar has been studying, practicing and teaching yoga and meditation for over 25 years and, as the Director of Daily Sadhana at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA, he instructed over 30,000 students. He currently directs Global Yoga Journeys, a yoga travel company offering weeklong intensive Raja yoga and meditation retreats around the world. He serves on the Advanced Yoga Teacher Training faculty at Kripalu Center and mentors teachers seeking advanced certification. view products back to top

Linda LeClaire
For decades, Linda LeClaire has devoted herself to using visualization techniques for coaching professional, college, and amateur athletes. Through her company, VisualEyes, she produces guided imagery for tennis, baseball, basketball and golf; and offers workshops, seminars and individual coaching sessions, designed to help athletes improve their game and achieve a smooth, flowing peak performance. For seven years, she was on the coaching staff of the women's tennis team at the University of Minnesota. view products back to top

Laura Staton & Sarah Perron
Laura Staton, cofounder of Baby Om, is professional choreographer, dancer, personal fitness trainer, and yoga instructor, who specializes in pre- and postnatal yoga. Sarah Perron, cofounder of Baby Om, is a dancer, long-time yoga teacher and fitness instructor who focuses on women’s health. Together these two gifted women have created a wonderfully multi-textured wellness program for new moms and their babies. view products back to top

Laurent deBrunhoff
Laurent de Brunhoff has kept the enchanting spirit of Babar - the beloved elephant king most of us got to know as children ourselves - and his family alive for more than 50 years. Because he practices yoga every day and values it greatly, he has combined his love of Babar with his love of yoga, to produce a wonderful guided yoga practice book for children. view products back to top

Lynne Newman, M.A.
Lynne Newman is well known as a compassionate, intuitive counselor, healer, group facilitator and motivational speaker, who has a passion for helping people understand the journey of the soul, transform their lives and experience joy. Although much of her work focuses on healing trauma, her audio meditations strike a deep chord in just about anyone who experiences them. view products back to top

Mark Hyman, M.D.
Mark Hyman is a pioneer in using the principles of integrative medicine for the prevention of disease and the promotion of wellness. He lectures widely on natural solutions to common health problems, has a popular wellness blog and he co-wrote Ultraprevention as well as Ultrametabolism, and the Detox Box. view products back to top

Marsha Wenig, CYT
Marsha Wenig, Certified Yoga Therapist, is the creator of YogaKids and the President of YogaKids International. Marsha is the co-founder and director, along with husband Don Wenig, of Dancing Feet Yoga Center in Michigan City, Indiana. Over the years, they’ve developed many children and family programs, as well as programs for special needs children, and they now host international retreats in Mexico, Costa Rica, Bali and around the U.S. The YogaKids video is the recipient of The Parents Choice Award. view products back to top

Martha Howard, MD
Martha Howard MD has a Master's Degree from Harvard University in Chinese Language and Literature and an MD from Loyola University. She combines a knowledge of Chinese Traditional Medicine, Western medicine, psychoneuroimmunology and bioenergetic medicine in her practice. She is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, which she has been practicing since l982. Dr. Howard is currently the Medical Director of Wellness Associates of Chicago. view products back to top

Martin Rossman, MD
Martin L. Rossman, MD is a physician and acupuncturist who, along with David Bresler, co-founded the highly respected Academy for Guided Imagery, which has trained hundreds of practitioners from around the U.S. and the English speaking world in the art and science of Interactive Guided Imagery. He has also written 2 books on imagery and healing - Guided Imagery for Self-Healing; and Fighting Cancer from Within. He has also created several audio programs to aid with healing. view products back to top

Maureen Murdock
Maureen Murdock is a psychotherapist, educator and author, who teaches writing at UCLA. Along with her classic children’s guided imagery book, Spinning Inward, she has written The Heroine’s Journey, Fathers’ Daughters and Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory. She teaches memoir writing, to adults and children. She is also a prolific art photographer, whose work is widely exhibited. view products back to top

Michael Reed Gach, PhD
Michael Reed Gach, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of The Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, California, and the creator of the Acu-Yoga system, which combines yoga stretches with gentle pressure on various key acu-points, geared for specific ailments or conditions. In addition to training others in his techniques at his school, he's written several books The Bum Back Book; Greater Energy at Your Fingertips; Acupressure's Potent Points; and Arthritis Relief at Your Fingertips. view products back to top

Nancy Klein
Nancy Klein combines twenty years of teaching with the lessons learned from her own experiences with cancer in developing resources for children facing serious illnesses. Nancy offers a way for parents and other support people to actively participate in a child’s recovery. As a speaker and educator, Ms. Klein’s teaching covers the full spectrum from elementary school to university classes. view products back to top

Peter Levine
Peter A. Levine holds a Ph.D. in medical and biological physics from the University of California-Berkeley and a Ph.D. in psychology from International University. He has researched the psychology and physiology of trauma and especially childhood sexual trauma for over 35 years. The originator of the powerful Somatic Experiencing technique, he has written Waking the Tiger as well as Trauma through a Child's Eyes. view products back to top

Robert Miller ND
Robert Miller is a Doctor of Naturopathy and a Certified Acupuncturist, in addition to being an experienced audio engineer and successful founder of his Tree of Life Ministries in Ephrata, PA, where he consults with clients on a mind, body and spirit approach to wellness. view products back to top

Roger Klein
Roger Klein has worked as a therapist, psychologist (in private practice) and school psychologist since 1975. He currently works part-time as a school psychologist for the Watertown (WI) Unified School District, and operates a private practice that works with children and adults in one-to-one and group settings. Dr. Klein has presented workshops and seminars to more than 60 groups on the local, regional and national levels. view products back to top

Roxanne Daleo, PhD
Roxanne Daleo, Ph.D. is a health educator and the founding director of MindWorks for Children. Trained in relaxation and stress reduction techniques at Harvard Medical School's, Division of Behavioral Medicine, her work is based on extensive experience with children and adults. She has produced audio-visual programs for patient education, health promotion, and creative arts therapies and has developed play therapy programs for the chronic and terminally ill. She conducts stress management workshops for professionals and develops health promotion programs for educators and health care practitioners. view products back to top

Sharon O' Connor
Sharon O'Connor is a musician, cook, and author of thirteen books in the Menus and Music series, where she gets to combine her love of music, food and travel. Founder of the San Francisco String Quartet, she was educated at the University of California, Berkley and the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. view products back to top

Shinzhen Young, PhD
Shinzhen Young, PhD is an American born meditation teacher who was ordained as a Buddhist monk at Mt. Koya, Japan. After several years of training in various Asian monasteries he became interested in the scientific study of meditative states and worked at the Princeton Biofeedback Institute. He is the co-founder, with Shirley Fenton, of the Vipassana Support Institute, which trains meditation facilitators to create a network to support meditation practice. His teachings emphasize the benefits of meditation in daily life. He has written articles and produced audio recordings on Vipassana meditation. view products back to top

Susan Piver Browne
Susan Piver Browne is the founder and creative director of Padma Media. She is a producer, author, and marketing specialist who has worked in the entertainment industry for 14 years. Piver Browne believes that the consumer of spirituality materials has matured past merely reading about meditation, yoga, prayer and faith to wanting to weave such practices into daily life. She finds, authors and produces exquisitely attuned, impeccable materials that provide practical, uplifting tools to aid in this effort.One of her most recent CD-Book Offerings is Joyful Mind. view products back to top

Susan Rosen
Susan Rosen is a yoga instructor and breast cancer survivor. She was born and raised in California and received her degree from San Diego State University. Susan began to study Iyengar yoga fourteen years ago because of debilitating pain in her shoulders. Within a few years she was able to regain her strength and flexibility, and her pain had vanished. Susan has been teaching Iyengar style yoga privately for the past seven years, and has been teaching at Positive Choice, Kaiser Permanente in San Diego for the past year and a half. She received her yoga training from the BKS Iyengar Yoga Centers of San Diego, and is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. view products back to top

Susan Winter Ward
Susan Winter Ward is an internationally recognized yoga instructor and the creator of the Yoga for the Young at Heart™ collection, an instructive and inspiring collection of CD Roms, videos, audiotapes, books, television programs, and retreats. Susan is on the teaching faculty of Deepak Chopra's web site, and teaches and serves on the Board of the American Yoga College. view products back to top

Suzanne Scurlock-Durana, CMT
is the vibrant creator of the Healing from the Core: A Journey Home To Ourselves audio series, and has been teaching and mentoring in the area of conscious awareness and its relationships to the healing process for over twenty years. Since 1986, she has been a certified instructor of CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release training with the Upledger Institute, nationally and internationally. . She is known for her grounded, direct, nurturing way of assisting others in going to the heart of their healing process. view products back to top

Tracy Carreon, M.A.M
Tracy Carreon is a speaker, writer, life coach and educator who teaches classes and offers workshops in creative writing, stress reduction, and self-care. She has a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling and certification in Mindful Coaching. view products back to top

Wendy Burton
Wendy Burton is a gifted photographer, designer and literary agent, who created her first book as a result of her own experience with chemotherapy, when guided imagery provided her with powerful assistance and guidance. Giving her own imagination free reign to create healing images, and collaborating with a wonderful artist who matched her enchanting sensibility, resulted in an inspiring first book. view products back to top