• Teachers


Alia

Alia joins the community from a place of passion, spiritual knowledge, and personal lessons. As an Energy Medium, Healer and Certified Life Coach, Alia’s main focus is on Spirituality, Psychedelic Integration and Holistic Healing. Throughout many years of her life, Alia has wor...

Natarsha Mcqueen

Natarsha Mcqueen is a Pilates Instructor & Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor & Nutritionist based in NYC with over 10 years of experience. She transforms clients into fitter and healthier versions of themselves through focusing on the mind-body connection. She offers holistic ...

Irina Linetskaya, MD

Irina is a board certified Internal Medicine physician and LGBTQ+ health and HIV specialist whose integrative medicine practice, Contemplative Medicine, focuses at the intersection of physical illness, emotional trauma, and spirituality. Irina has supplemented her rigorous medica...

May Empson

May Empson is a Columbia-certified coach and facilitator of healing, transformative experiences. She helps professionals and entrepreneurs figure out what’s next to live a more fulfilling life and live that life. As a Columbia MBA and Columbia-Certified coach who has spent year...

Stephan Hausner

Stephan is a healing practitioner and humanistic psychotherapist. As a world-renowned facilitator of Systemic Constellations, working in the field since 1993, he is the author of the book “Even if it Costs me My Life – Systemic Constellations and Serious Illness”, which has...

Amy Smith

Amy Smith is the owner of Laughing Buddha Hot Yoga with 2 locations in south Jersey. Amy has been teaching yoga since 2012 and became an instructor at 19 in college when she found yoga to help her handle an injury. She has practiced under Baron Baptiste and her focus is vinyasa y...

His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche

His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche is the lineage holder of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in 1990 and recognized by H.H. the Dalai Lama and H. H. the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa as the tulku, or rebirth, of Kalu Rinpoche (1905-1989), a renowned Buddhist...

Genevieve Walker

Violinist and composer Genevieve Walker grew up in a musical household. The sound of a violin tuning was the sound of home. She lived in the classical music world for many years and then as a young adult her interests took her traveling the world. She was influenced by different ...

James Lawer

James Lawer has graduate degrees in theatre and divinity. He studied with and was initiated into tribal traditions in North, Central and South America as well as the indigenous (Druid) traditions of Great Britain. He was an ordained Christian minister serving congregations until ...


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