Barbara Adler, M.A., works as a healer, facilitating wholeness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. She is a graduate of Lesley University (Counseling Psychology M.A.), the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (Energy Healing) and A Society of Souls (Integrated Kabbalistic Healing). Motherhood, qigong, creative expression, and experience in the business and non-profit worlds also inform her life and work.

Nina Carmel, M.S.W., R.Y.T., is the founder and director of The Therapy Center for Mind and Body in the Boston area (a center consisting of thirty-five Psychotherapists, Mind-Body Therapists and Healing Arts Therapists). She is a psychotherapist, consultant and teacher with specialties in Mind-Body Therapies, Trauma, and the Interface of Western Psychology and Eastern Meditative Disciplines. Nina’s love of Yoga, and Yogic philosophy began in childhood when she was introduced to it by her mother and grandmother. She has literally grown up with it. She has studied several traditions with many teachers, teaching in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. She is a certified and registered Yoga Alliance Teacher. Nina was formally introduced to meditation at the original Kripalu ashram, in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania as a teenager in 1977. She has studied with many teachers since, in Europe and North America and is a Meditation Teacher in the Theravadan, Zen and Advaita traditions. Nina had the profound experience of Satori (awakening) happen “to her”, unbidden and repeatedly throughout her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. After decades of investigation with Meditation masters across continents, and dedicated research into the nature of this phenomenon, as well as the eventual acknowledgement of her realizations from the Burmese Meditation Master, Pa Auk Sayadaw, and the encouragement and guidance of the Canadian Meditation Master, U Jagara to “teach to benefit others from the perspective of understanding Psychology as well as Meditation”, she is now offering Dokusan (private meetings for spiritual inquiry), meditation classes, groups and retreats for all spiritual seekers wishing to awaken to their true nature.

Cerridwen, M.A., brings to her work over thirty years of teaching and healing experience, expertise in a wide range of modalities, and deep caring and compassion for all seekers drawn from experience with her own life challenges.  Her work emphasizes individual empowerment with elements from energy psychology, energy medicine, neuro-linguistic programming, inner guidance, transpersonal hypnotherapy and contemporary shamanism.  Cerridwen holds certification in Eden Energy Medicine, Body-Centered Spiritual Healing, Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, and NLP. Check out the information and recommendations at her website: www.aligningenergies.com.

Robin Comeau has an M.Ed. from Boston University. She has studied writing, art, authentic movement, and acting/improvisation. She is an artist and writer who has been a member of Turtle Studios in Watertown for ten years. There, she trained as a creative coach with Kate Ransohoff, artist and author of Elijah’s Place.

Max Dashu is a feminist historian of women. She founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 and her work has gained international notice. See her articles and video clips at www.suppressedhistories.net and art at www.maxdashu.net.

Janet Farnsworth, M.A., is a licensed social worker who has worked with individuals, families and groups. Formally trained in psychodrama, she also has extensive dance experience nationally. She is dedicated to bringing the healing power of dance to women, and in particular to embracing personal movement as a guide to self-empowerment. A mother of two, she is also deeply committed to the beautiful, messy, seemingly impossible task of self-growth – and to leading a life guided by Spirit.

Wendy Garling, M.A., is a writer, editor, gardener and mother of three sons. Her life was shaped by journeys to India and Nepal in the 70’s and 80's where she had many adventures and met many remarkable spiritual beings. Since that time, she has studied and practiced Buddhism – in 2007 traveling to Tibet on pilgrimage. In teaching, her primary interest is the reemergence and power of the sacred feminine. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. in Sanskrit from U.C. Berkeley and continues to practice and learn, mostly within the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Hawk Dance Ceremonies of Transformation was co-created by Annie Geissinger, M.A., LMHC, a student of Willow Tequillo, Tewa/Hopi Medicine Woman. Annie is an expressive arts therapist, teacher, counselor, editor and musician based in Providence, RI. She has taught at Kripalu Yoga Center in western Massachusetts, Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island; at Meeting Street School in Providence; and at The Healing Circle in Providence. She studied West African drumming for over twenty years, with Abdoul Doumbia of Mali. For over twenty years she has studied Authentic Movement, a meditative moving and witnessing practice, with Janet Adler. She is a founding editor of the magazine A Moving Journal.

Laney Goodman, visionary, ceremonialist and drummer, leads drum circles called Drumming in the Four Directions to help us re-connect with each of the four directions/elements. Laney can help you find your own rhythm and voice...even if you have never played a drum or sung before. Laney’s roots are of the Eastern Door of the Cherokee Nation in the Great Smoky Mountains as well as German, Scots/Irish and English. She has studied with the late Grandmother Twyla Nitsch of the Seneca Wolf Clan, and with African/American Drum Masters Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill and the late Baba Olatunji.  www.womenonair.com.

Edith Griffin is a certified reiki master with a longstanding interest in human spirituality, the natural world, and the healing power of cosmic love. She first became aware of her strong ability to channel healing energy in 1996, when she unexpectedly and spontaneously began to experience waves of energy passing through her hands during a women’s healing workshop. She is the owner of Karendyth Holistic Center in Westford www.karendyth.com.

Denise Koelsch is a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in Beverly, Massachusetts, and has been providing psychotherapy for eighteen years. She frequently uses an approach called Internal Family Systems, an approach that involves mind, body, spirit integration. She has been a practitioner of meditation for thirty-five years and has been teaching meditation circles for four years. She is presently studying shamanism (four years). As an integrative healer Denise draws upon these forms in her individual and group work. As a long time practitioner of meditation, Denise is committed to guiding, teaching, and supporting others who wish to walk the path of being-ness and develop a deepened connection to spirit

Jeannie Lindheim, M.A., has taught acting, movement, improvisation, creativity, auditioning, and characterization techniques for the past thirty years at a variety of educational institutions including: The Boston Conservatory of Music, Harvard University Law School (Theater in the Courtroom), and Boston University. Currently director of Jeannie Lindheim’s Center for Creativity-Turning Inspiration into Action (www.center4creativity.org), she offers arts-based workshops for a variety of organizations, especially in healthcare. In 1996, Jeannie went to Russia with Patch Adams and thirty-five other hospital clowns; she started her own Hospital Clown Troupe in Boston after she returned and has entertained over 40,000 children in the last 13 years (www.hospital-clowns.org). She has conducted over 100 regional and national workshops for physician groups in Dealing with Challenging Patients and Situations and Communicating to Patients with Life-threatening illness. You might even have heard her voice, since she does voice-over work for a long list of companies.

Katy Locke, M.Ed., s an artist, storyteller, spiritual feminist and visionary who, for eight years, studied, taught and promoted Women’s Spirituality at the Women’s Well. Now living in Keene, NH, Katy is awakening her new dream of healing human relationships with the Earth through permaculture, community building, creativity and joy. 

Majida Miller, M.S.W., has worked in clinical social work with a special focus in trauma recovery and family therapy. She has been studying Sufism for nearly twenty years, which has greatly enhanced her sacred connection to the Earth and has fostered a deep sense of the importance of community. Majida lives in Central Vermont where she is working with others to cultivate sustainable living.

Renu O’Connell has been a practicing artist for thirty-five years. She has owned an artisan gallery for twenty-eight years. Currently, she is an art-making workshop leader and affiliate of Turtle Studios in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Lynn Roberson, M.A., L.M.H.C., is a Kripalu-certified yoga teacher who has treasured the gifts of yoga in her life journey and now offers these gifts to others. She has dedicated over twenty years supporting women’s growth, transformation, healing and empowerment through her counseling, workshops mentoring, reiki, art, and more.

Stephanie Rutt, M.A., is an ordained interfaith minister serving at the Tree of Life Interfaith Fellowship (TOLInterfaithFellowship.org). She is the author of An Ordinary Life Transformed: Lessons for Everyone from the Bhagavad Gita and has been facilitating study groups on the textfor the past ten years. She also created the Pastoral Mentoring Program, centered on the creation of spiritual practice using mantra meditation. Stephanie worked as a mental health counselor in the 1990s and taught for many years in the behavioral sciences for the University of New Hampshire at Manchester.  

Jennie Sandberg, Ed.M., is an artist, mother, film school student, registered yoga teacher, energy healer, Nia dancer and hula hooper. Art, movement, and meditation helped her through a divorce and other life challenges. Jennie received a master’s from Harvard University and a certificate in Expressive Arts Facilitation from Salve Regina University. She is currently working on a documentary on the Women's Well.

Demaris Wehr, Ph.D., taught for many years at the Episcopal Divinity School and Andover Newton Theological Seminary. Since the early 1990's she has maintained a private psychotherapy practice. She did conflict transformation work in Bosnia with the Karuna Center and is currently writing a book about this. In the past year, she has become aware of a new phenomenon entering the culture: women over sixty who are healthy and feel “young.” How do we proceed from here? Do we reinvent ourselves? Or do we continue doing what we've always done? Demaris, over sixty herself, has been exploring this issue in workshops and learning with and from older women in her practice. She is the author of Jung and Feminism: Liberating Archetypes. See an interview with Demaris on YouTube.

Stephanie Bennett Vogt, M.A., is New England's leading expert in the field of space clearing and the author of Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are. With more than 30 years of teaching experience, Stephanie serves on the faculty of the New England School of Feng Shui and is the founder of SpaceClear, a consulting practice dedicated to bringing homes and their occupants back into balance. Stephanie writes and speaks widely on topics of home tending, simplifying, personal clearing, dowsing, honoring the feminine, and cultivating what she calls "spacious detachment." To learn more about her book and her practice based in Concord, visit her website at: www.spaceclear.com. To see her on YouTube, click here.

Anne Yeomans, M.A., is a psychotherapist and group facilitator. One of the founders of the Women’s Well, she facilitated its nine-month program for six years.  Anne has a private practice in Concord and Shelburne Falls, MA, where she works with individuals and couples. She has a deep interest in embodied spirituality and has studied authentic movement. She is currently writing poetry. To hear a radio interview about Anne's vision quest experience, click here and go to the 1/14/09 program.