Contributors
Lucia K Wolfer
Lucia empowers transformation with tools, such as meditation, creativity, intuition-based art and journaling. With meditation, she encourages creatives to connect to their true, authentic, selves and enter into the field of infinite possibilities using their unique creative gifts and talents. She is a world traveler and grew up in Central America and Chile. Multicultural influences weave themselves throughout her artworks.
Lucia is a retired bilingual teacher, administrator, author, artist, a Chopra Certified Meditation Instructor and a Certified Stress Management Coach (in training). She is honored to be contributing to this site as the publisher for our Awaken The Power Within e-magazine and the 4seasonscreativegroup.com website.
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Email: LuciaArtzStudio@gmail.com
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Website: www.luciakwolfer.com
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Loretta Day
Loretta Day is passionate about inspiring people to discover and embrace their joy. She is a Chopra Certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher who leads twice weekly chair yoga classes and meditation empowering people of any age to live life mindfully, and awaken to the wisdom of practicing yoga and meditation. Loretta successfully completed, with honors, a course of study in Yoga, Health & Wellness Education with the American Yoga Academy which is recognized nationally, internationally and registered with Yoga Alliance.
You can reach her at lorettah101@gmail.com
Ellyn Wolfe
After multiple careers— Life Coach, Human Resources Director, Corporate Stress Management Trainer, and Mom—Harvard-educated Ellyn Wolfe retired, stepped into a life of literary creativity. She is a founding member of the Diamond Valley Writer’s Guild, sat on their Board of Directors, and edits and publishes the DVWG magazine, Straitjackets.
Grateful for the Color Blue: Surviving the Loss of An Adult Child is her memoir, a page-turning account of her journey through the death of her adult son.
“When Rob was dying, I looked everywhere for a book written by parents who had lost their adult child. I hoped to find solace in the company of another who knew the horror of what we were going through. I longed for someone who could look into my soul, know the intensity of my experience, and be compassionate. I found nothing.
“I decided to write my memoir as an outreach to those who need to know they are not alone in their loss, that someone out there understands on a deep level and offers compassion and support. The five-star reviews and thanks I receive from readers let me know the book is making a difference.”
Ellyn is currently working on a novel about three women, from three different countries who meet at a volunteer program in Spain. Each is redefining her life and her relationships.
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Grateful for the Color Blue: Surviving the Loss of an Adult Child is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Color-Blue-Surviving-Adult/dp/1734997109/
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Ellyn’s author website: https://www.ellynwolfe.com.
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Straitjackets Magazine is online at: https://www.straitjackets.org
Cécile Bersegeay
Cecile Bersegeay is a Chopra Perfect Health Ayurvedic Lifestyle Instructor, a Reiki practitioner, a speaker, a writer, a Drama Director and a singer. She is passionate about using these wide-ranging tools (from Ayurvedic resources to Voice Therapy) to help people embrace their true selves as well as give them personalized solutions for emotional and physical recovery.
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You can reach her at chbersegeay@gmail.com
Bhuvana Krishnan
Bhuvana Krishnan is a Chopra Center certified instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation. A certified energy medicine practitioner, Bhuvana uses principles of yoga, energy medicine, and meditation to bring healing of body, mind and soul. She is dedicated to guiding others to live a heart centered life. An ardent student of the healing arts, Bhuvana is grateful to share this knowledge and help people live their best life in alignment with their true self.
Bhuvana lives in Atlanta, GA and can be reached at bhuvana.skrishnan@gmail.com
Melissa lreland
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Melissa Ireland is a visual artist exploring creativity in life, and most recently in writing, along with being a meditation teacher, and a student of Ayurveda. Three years ago she gave up her home in the USA to travel the world and share her skills as a volunteer. So far she has creatively navigated adventures on three continents. Australia is where she is currently planted. Who knows where her dance with the Unknown will take her next.
Website: melissajoy56.myportfolio.com
Instagram: melissa.ireland.56
Facebook: Melissa Ireland Art
Ebook “Listenings” https://mi33.gumroad.com
Jamie Cromer Grue
BOARD CERTIFIED PSCYCHOANALYST
LCSW ACSW FABP
TRAINING & SUPERVISING ANALYST
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
CERTIFIED PERFECT HEALTH CHOPRA INSTRUCTOR
Jamie is an integrative holistic psychoanalyst and certified Perfect Health Chopra Instructor. She created Windows To Wisdom so she could teach about the unconscious mind and the importance of self-awareness in a community of therapist and coaches and other helperpreneurs who are looking to deepen their own inner work and possibly apply to their practices as well.
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Trained in hypnotherapy before she became a psychoanalyst! Jamie is a well-read professional saturated in the credentials to help anyone on their psychological journeys. While her private practice is at full capacity, she decided she wants to take her service to a different level. In doing so, she’s created this space as a spiritual guide and wants to help guide professionals to their unconscious mind in order to help lead a quality life, and teach it to those they help as well.
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Her private practice is in New Orleans and she is on faculty at the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. Also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and she is a board-certified psychoanalyst through the American Board of Psychoanalysis.
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You can reach Jamie at www.windowstowisdom.com
EK Cameron
EK is a Certified Life Coach, Meditation & Well-Being Life Style Instructor with Chopra Global and the International Coaching Federation. Previously she spent over a decade working as a Financial Analyst in Global Financial Organizations.
Currently, EK teaches meditation classes, guides and supports youth and adults through Coaching and Retreat sessions in person and online. She believes that Mindfulness and Meditation Practice is one of the fundamental tools for being empowered, creative and whole. She is also an advocate of living a balanced life through Ayurvedic Lifestyle which is not only healthy living for individuals but also for healthier communities and the environment.
You can reach her at ek.cameron@gmail.com
Lori Painter
I have worked in the health and wellness industry for over 20 years as a Holistic Health Practitioner and Life Transformation Coach for Women.
I author a weekly blog at LifebyLori.com where I share tools and resources as inspiration for personal transformation. I host monthly wellness events for women online and in person. Born and raised in Southern California, a proud mother of two college students with a love for yoga, surfing, and all things wellness.
You are welcome to attend a full moon sunset hike event I'm hosting in La Jolla, on September 29
Email: lori@lifebylori.com
Website: www.lifebylori.com
Join My Wellness Events
Heather Luhmann
My quest to live my essence started when I was asked: What brings you happiness? What are your passions?
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Absolutely nothing came to mind. After years of constant activity, raising kids, caring for aging parents...I had arrived at a place where I wasn’t sure who I was or what I wanted. The awe, happiness, and wonder had been replaced with a low-grade numbness. When had this happened? I went on a quest to reclaim myself and found mindfulness and meditation which have helped me remember my essence. I am forever grateful!
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I am a therapist, trauma specialist, and meditation instructor. I am passionate about helping others to remember their essence and zest for life by introducing them to the practice that have changed my mine.
My presentation will help you understand what your essence is and how you can uncover it to live a life that you love.
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Please connect with me at LiveYourEssenceToday.com, or on Instagram and Facebook at Live Your Essence Today.
Wynne Anderson
I am Wynne Anderson- woman, wife, mother and Me-Maw. Thus far, I have played many roles in my 67 yrs. “young” life: an 8th grade middle school science teacher, the Assistant Director of the Challenger Learning Center at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (where I “pretend” went to the moon and mars on a daily basis) yrs. and a grant supervisor for a Mentoring Program for children of incarcerated parents run through the Sociology Dept. at UTC.
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I enjoy living on a mountain top in Tennessee where I spend many hours outdoors hiking, mushrooming, planting trees and meditating. I am a true nature enthusiast. I have a certified tree farm dedicated to the sustainability of woods, water and wildlife. It’s my happy place.
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I also love writing. I write stories, poems and books. 2 of my stories have been published. My favorite is a children’s book about my precious bloodhound Pearl.
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One of my favorite jobs was being the Education Specialist for Level 2 teen boys in a locked facility at The Chambliss Center because this where my transformation in life began. The Chambliss Center was always trying different ways to help boys deal with trauma so, they decided that I would supervise the boys during yoga sessions (at this time, I knew nothing about yoga. I couldn’t even touch my toes). I was hooked after the first class! My yoga practice led me to meditation. I began meditating with Deepak Chopra”s 21 Day Meditation Series. Meditation and Yoga have CHANGED MY LIFE! I have experienced and continue to experience positive benefits in every area of my life. That was 8yrs ago and life just keeps getting better and better. Something this good has to be shared and that is why I became a meditation teacher. I am a teacher to my core but I am also a lifelong learner.
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I am now a certified Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher. I received my training from the Chopra Center in California which is now part of Chopra Global. I am also a Level 2 Reiki Therapist. I love teaching meditation and helping others develop their own personal meditation practice. It is all about the evolution of the soul, my friends!
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You can reach me at houndhappy2@gmail.com or on FB @winmed12 Primordial Sound Meditation with Wynne Anderson