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September 19 - September 23, 2019
Agnes Baker Pilgrim (Federated Tribes of Siletz) is the oldest living member of her tribe. Grandmother Agnes has been honored as a treasure of her people. She brought back the traditional Salmon Ceremony along with other traditions that were soon forgotten. She is the oldest on t...
Born in the State of Sao Paulo Brazil, Clara studied philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo. Through her experiences of Clairvoyance and mediumship, she has initiated many teachings from macrobiotics to Umbanda. After helping with the curing of Padrinho Sebastiao, spiritual le...
Mona, a Hopi/Havasuai/Tewa elder has a Master of Social Work degree and has recently been chosen as a member of the World Council of Religious and Spiritual Leaders due to her international justice work. She has worked on issues of Indigenous Peoples especially related to the Rig...
Rita worked as a traditional healer in the South Central Hospital in Anchorage as a tribal doctor using plant and energy medicine and now travels tirelessly healing and teaching the was of her grandmother. Rita is currently employed with South Central Foundation as a tribal docto...
Unci means grandmother in Lakota. Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance is Oglala Lakota, she was born in the SW corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. She still lives on the land that was allotted to her great grandparents over 100 years ago. Unci Rita cherishes ...
Born the youngest of 15 children in the highlands of Central America, Flordemayo was found at an early age – like others in her family – to have the gift of Sight. By age four, she was being trained in the art of curanderismo, which had been handed down from mother to daughte...
Maria Alice Campos Freire is a healer with Amazonian plant medicine, leader of Umbanda ceremonies and founder of Centro Medicina do Floresta (Forest Medicine Center) which offers healing flower essences internationally. She has developed research and healing methods with plants o...
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development. During the past 50 years, Chief Lane has worked with Indigenous Peoples from the America...
Dr. Henri Mann is a Cheyenne enrolled with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes and she is the founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. Dr. Mann was the first individual to occupy the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BOZEMAN, wher...
Jussara Korngold, BS, MBA. Jussara is the founder and president of the Spiritist Alliance for Books (SAB), a non-profit organization, which has the aim to promote and disseminate Spiritism, in English, as codified by Allan Kardec. Mrs. Korngold is also one of the founders and pre...
Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University as well as co-founder and President of Tibet House US and it's Menla Retreat & Spa. A world-wide lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, activist for the plight of the Tibetan people, translator of Buddhis...
Maya Tiwari is an extra-ordinary spiritual teacher revered by thousands of people whose lives were transformed by her healing presence. For the past 35 years, Maya has been filling a significant void in world culture as spiritual mother, nurturer, and healer–a living personific...
Anne Marie Miller is the Founder & Executive Director of Indigenous Celebration, a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization currently serving 19 tribes in the Amazon with a mission to preserve the forest and it’s wisdom by empowering the world’s indigenous through a celebrat...
Tim Guinee is an American stage, television, and feature film actor. Tim has given presentations on the climate crisis all over the United States as well as in Canada and North Africa. He enjoys giving talks to oppositional and underserved audiences including such diverse grou...
Julia Walsh is a community organizer and political strategist who has worked on progressive issues and campaigns for twenty years. Julia is the co-founder and director of We Stand United, a new organization that works to unite the power of popular culture with grassroots organiz...
Join us at Dr Weiss’ Mindful Living Retreat at Menla Retreat and Dewa Spa in Phoenicia, New York for an exceptional experience celebrating all our hard work a...
Join Connie Viglietti this fall to dance between the veils of Ecstatic Expression. Together we will gather, as women have since the beginning, to explore the ro...
“All war, belongs on paper” ~ Byron Katie All internal beliefs that lead us to struggle, to separate ourselves out, to judge and to hold one another in cont...
This retreat is led by Colleen Saidman Yee, a renowned yoga teacher, studio owner and author who has been practicing yoga for over three decades. Are you ready ...
Jacqui is honored and excited to lead Om Tara Yoga Studio’s 5th retreat at Menla. To retreat means to withdraw. Jacqui invites you to withdraw from your routi...
Life-Force Academy at Menla This is an in-person, multi-day immersive yoga retreat that will give you the energy, inspiration and momentum to live the life of c...
EMBRACE is a sacred and multigenerational opportunity to experience and expand the light from within. So many of us have suppressed and sabotaged our own unique...
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Dan B.
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Kara S
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Nitzan Blouin