Reverence and Gratitude
for teachers, mentors, and friends
Personal Mentors:
Eddie Ellner for demonstrating the importance of simple things, his big heart, mischievous comedic style, life & death ping pong matches, introducing me to so much, and laughing at me when appropriate.
Luca Cupery for her unfaltering capacity to show up in connection to life with goodwill and sensitivity, and to always be there for me.
Gregory Gaiser and Rebecca Lincoln for their exceptional demonstration of mature and compassionate leadership in both Hakomi training level 1 and 2.
Ben and Britta Gudmunson for their friendship and demonstration of “jumping with faith” - for skillful facilitation, and a community of song.
Teachers on the fundamental non-dual nature of consciousness, identity, and reality:
Nisarghadatta Maharaj
Educators on relevant global dynamics, game theoretics, politics, economics, education, cognitive science, and more:
Jordan Hall
A category of her own: My lovely, wise, beautiful, and powerful wife Lora. For mirroring the infinite love of my own heart as best we can no matter what happens.
Other educational experiences that have added to my understanding of life:
6 years as a yoga teacher
2 years as an Authentic Movement facilitator with Kaita Mrazek
Level 1 & 2 Dynamic Body Balancing (Craniosacral & Myofascial Release) with Carol Phillips
Several Yoga Teacher trainings through Yoga Soup and Core Power
2x 10-day Vipassana with Southern California Vipassana Center
10-day silent plant medicine retreat
40+ Ayahuasca and Mushroom ceremonies with various practitioners
Dialectic into Dialogos with John Verveke and The Circling Institute
All courses and offerings available through Charles Eisenstein
John Wineland’s The Path of Embodied Masculinity
Rupert Spira's 40hr Meditation series: Luminous Body, Transparent World
Angelo Dilullo’s 4-day non-dual meditation retreat
Week-long non-dual sit with Way Miller and Andrew Hewson
Gestalt Weekend workshop with Dorthy Charles
10+ Holotropic Breathing workshops with Eddie Ellner
Monthly workshops of Authentic Relating Games with Tamra Rutherford
Alexis Slutzky - Grief ritual weekend retreat
3 years with the Incourage Community Chorus
Elisa Rose’s Embodiment Alchemy workshops and retreat
Wild Yes (creative play) workshop and retreat co-leader
Awakening from the Meaning crisis - Lecture Series with John Verveke