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Guest Occupation: Author, Teacher, Workshop Facilitator, Shaman, Healer, Marriage and Family Therapist, Mental Healther Counselor, Traumatic Stress Expert, Integrative Medicine Practitioner, Researcher
Guest Biography:

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is the author of eight books including Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth, Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s GuideHow to Heal Toxic ThoughtsThe Shaman’s Toolkit, andAwakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation.  She also has 6 audio programs including “Shamanic Meditations: Guided Journeys for Insight, Vision, and Healing”, “Soul Journeys: Music for Shamanic Practice”, and “Shamanic Visioning”.

Sandra has been teaching for over 30 years. She teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.  She has trained and founded an international alliance of Medicine for the Earth Teachers and shamanic teachers.  Sandra is recognized for bridging ancient cross-cultural healing methods into our modern culture addressing the needs of our times.

Sandra is devoted to teaching people how we can work together as a global community to bring about positive change for the planet.

Sandra is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist and Professional Mental Health Counselor. She is also a board certified expert on traumatic stress as well as certified in acute traumatic stress management. She was awarded the 2007 Peace Award from the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine. Sandra was chosen as one of the Top Ten Spiritual Leaders of 2013 in the November/December Issue of Spirituality and Health.

Guest Category: Courses & Training, Energy Healing, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Mental Health, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Shamanism, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space, NEA award-winning playwright, actor, filmmaker, producer, teacher, and activist
Guest Biography:
Leo Garcia – Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space

Space, where, among other things, is venue for freedom of creative expression.  Why being you and expressing oneself artistically is important for you, for the community and for the growth of civilization.
 
Leo Garcia – Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space

“I’m aligned with Highways’ commitment to diversity, to the development of new works, to the exploration of new forms of performance, and to our commitment to the First Amendment: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’ I will continue to facilitate artistic expression in a supportive, non-elitist, non-judgmental, non-dogmatic way. At Highways, I believe that we contribute to culture and society by affecting progressive change through performance. There’s no place I’d rather be.”

Leo Garcia

Leo Garcia, an NEA award-winning playwright, actor, filmmaker, producer, teacher, and activist has served as Highways’ Artistic Director since 2003.

One of the most versatile theater artists in Southern California, Leo Garcia is a nationally respected playwright, actor, filmmaker, teacher, director and producer. His plays have won awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, New York Foundation for the Arts, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, The National Hispanic Media Coalition, and MCA/Universal. Garcia’s works have been presented by numerous nationally-established companies and presenters, including New York’s Theater for the New City, The New York Shakespeare Public Festival, The Jewish Repertory Theatre, INTAR, The Los Angeles Theater Center, The South Coast Repertory Theatre, The Tiffany Theatre, and Santa Fe Stages, among many others. He worked for many years with his mentor, internationally acclaimed playwright and director, Maria Irene Fornes, as writer and actor and has been directed by her in her plays in New York, Los Angeles and Siena, Italy at the Dionysia World Festival. Fornes also directed Garcia’s play, “Dogs,” at West Coast Ensemble Theater in LA.

Garcia has also been a fixture on the Los Angeles alternative performing arts scene for many years, one of a handful of artists who represent a fully developed, professional approach to multidisciplinary work. His show of solo works, “My Alien Abduction,” was an LA Weekly Performance Pick of the Week. Between 1995 and 2002, he served as an artist, teacher, director and producer for numerous productions and classes at Highways ; Resident Playwright with the Mark Taper Forum’s Latino Theatre Initiative; and Project Artistic Director and Playwright of the community-based San Diego Playwrights Project. As an actor, Garcia appeared in over 30 off-Broadway and regional theatre productions and guest starred in such episodic series as “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Tour of Duty,” and “Jake and the Fatman.” He was also a regular on the daytime drama Santa Barbara. As a filmmaker, Garcia’s film, “A Rainy Day,” was distributed by Universal Television and was shown in festivals nationally and internationally. Garcia has been recognized by Out Magazine as one of the OUT 100 of 2005, a list of the year’s most interesting, influential, and newsworthy LGBT people. He is the recipient of the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Asolo Conservatory.

To email: leogarcia@highwaysperformance.org

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Visual Arts, Education, Philosophy, Self Help, Spiritual, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: C0- Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space, cross-disciplinary practitioner who works in film/video, theater, performance and the visual arts
Guest Biography:

Patrick Kennelly is a cross-disciplinary practitioner who works in film/video, theater, performance and the visual arts. Kennelly’s diverse practice across these disciplines involves writing, producing, directing, designing, performing and curating. Hailed as a “wunderkind” by esteemed critic Debra Levine, Kennelly’s 2012 creation, PATTY – a multi-platform project that included an album, website, music video, commercials, clothing, and a Pop! Musical event (featuring an all-female cast) received 5 L.A. Weekly Theater Award nominations including “Best Musical.” It was cited in that same publication as “one of the most exhilarating eviscerations in L.A. this year. Don’t miss it. GO!”

Kennelly was a recipient of the 2008 Princess Grace Award for Theater, and has received fellowships, grants and awards from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the City of Santa Monica, the Center for Cultural Innovation and others. He received his BFA in Film/Video at CalArts and an MFA in Theater Direction at UCLA. He is the founder and producer of U-N-M-A-R-K-E-D, a production entity dedicated to live and remote Outer-disciplinary spectacle, horror, glamour, and social justice. Kennelly’s most recent completed project is the experimental short-form documentary video ten minutes is two hours, shot in South Sudan. The video is currently being distributed by OneCloud Entertainment.

Guest Category: Arts, Design, Fashion, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Health & Lifestyle, Music, Philosophy, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: International performing artist and yoga teacher, musician, dancer, and workshop facilitator,
Guest Biography:

The “Sound” of Transformation… if you could hear transformation, as it is happening, what would it sound like?  Our guest tonight offers us a glimpse through the instrument of her body united with the Sonic Butterfly.  Feel the transformation in this inspired conversation with Andrea Brook, International Peforming Artist and Yoga Teacher.

ANDREA BROOK

Andrea Brook is an international performing artist and yoga teacher. As a musician, dancer and installation artist, Andrea has toured since 2001, presenting visually and sonically stunning performances and transforming architecture and natural environments into large scale musical instruments, including the Coliseum in Rome, the Space Needle in Seattle, the Temple at Burning Man and the Grand Theater in Shanghai.

Andrea has been teaching yoga since 1998, and has led workshops and retreats around the world including Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, the Omega Institute, the TED Conference, and festivals including Wanderlust, Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle and the Envision Festival in Costa Rica. Her classes, workshops and retreats are designed to set one’s intentions into motion and use the tool of yoga to live life fully.

See “My Life Purpose” Video – Featuring Andrea Brook and learn more about our guest, and the Sonic Butterfly at her website

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Health & Lifestyle, Fitness & Exercise, Yoga, Music, Philosophy, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Healer
Guest Biography:

Kimberly has a gift and passion for connecting world changing women tothe power of their money. She has helped 1000’s of people over the past 15 years release their debilitating hidden blocks and fears to lead more successful lives. Kimberly has 15 years experience in the financial planing world. She owned and operated an eco-flooring store for 5 years and earned 3/4 of a million dollars in her third year. She spent 12 years training at Aesclepion Intuitive Healing Center where she discovered her intu-itive abilities, channeled, lead healing clinics, and learned how to manage her energy. Kimberly has traveled to more than a dozen countries. She has worked directly with many indig-enous healers in Guatemala, Tibet, and spent 15 days with the Shipibo shamans deep in the Am-azon jungle in Peru participating in sacred ceremony with, their master plant teacher, Ayahausca. This allowed her to access ancient wisdom and innate knowledge that has enabled her to expand on the work of Dr. David Hawkins in his book “Power vs. Force.” But it hasn’t always been this way… Kimberly grew up in one of the wealthiest counties in the country on welfare. Her alcoholic fa-ther was often unemployed and her mother raised her in a very suppressive religious cult. This deep programming taught that money is the root of all evil, and having anything luxurious was being materialistic. While growing up, she could not participate in holidays and birthdays, she could not have friends outside the group, and college was forbidden. This life long quelling of her spirit eventually caused her to walk into a sporting good store to buy a gun to end her life. Instead she got angry and found an exit strategy to leave the cult and her abusive husband. She discovered she and her children were not disowned by her higher power. She set out to unearth what she had been deprived of… Today she believes each of us is perfect, luminous and brilliant beyond belief. She believes heal-ing is necessary, not because we are broken, damaged, or defective, but because some of our es-sence is buried among the lies and misconceptions we believe about ourselves. She is delighted to share the best of her discoveries as an international energy healer, seer, and spiritual guide who has unlocked the secrets on how to manage the energy of your money to lead a life of true wealth without worry.

Guest Occupation: Owner of Interiors By Anna Maria, LLC., International Tely Award winner, attended the New York School of Interior Design
Guest Biography:

Anna Maria Kinberg, owner of Interiors By Anna Maria, LLC., International Tely Award winner, attended the New York School of Interior Design and has been creating beautiful spaces for discerning clients for over 15 years. Her scope of work has been residential and commercial spaces, set design, restaurants, night clubs and offices. Interiors By Anna Maria believes in infusing your taste, treasures, and personality into a space and integrating our expertise and resources to give you a look that is personally yours. Our clients attest that Interiors By Anna Maria is much more than just a design company, we assist our clients with their design vision and while we are doing it we establish a true sense of creativity and adventure throughout the entire designing process. Whether the design is traditional, transitional, contemporary or modern it is paramount that functionality is first and foremost in today's modern lifestyle.

Our professional success is due to Anna Maria's uncanny ability to make a design look as though it has always been in it's environment. Over the past 15 years Anna Maria has completed many significant projects from the Landmarked Steinway Building in the Sherry Netherlands Hotel which overlooks Central Park in New York City; a loft Penthouse on trendy Duane Street in New York City; Landmarked Built 1800's Roger Sherman Inn Dining Rooms and Bar in New Canaan; Life Nightclub the former Village Gate on Bleeker Street New York City; a 5,000 sq. ft. vacation ski house in Park City, Utah; a Modern Frank Lloyd Wright home designed by architect John Howe; a 14,000 sq. ft. Central Hall Colonial in Harrison, New York; a unique Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles, California; and a 4,500 sq. foot estate in the Glendale Hills section of Los Angeles.

Another passion for Anna Maria are children...Her non-profit "Designing Angels" is a creative program that brings comfort and happiness to children from low and moderate income families with special needs emotional or physical by designing and decorating a "room of joy" for healing.

Anna Maria recently won an International Telly Award which she shared with television producer Tim Hamilton for creating a script for her Intuitive Interior Design business.

Guest Category: Design, Visual Arts, Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Feng Shui, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Musicians
Guest Biography:

The Outback Gypsies are Andrea and Del Fisher, two very gifted musicians from Australia.  Their special blend of musical magic will take you on a journey deep into your soul and make you want to sing right along with them with no inhibitions.

Through a series of songs consisting of heart stirring and thought provoking original material they will have you up on your feet wanting more.

The Outback Gypsies’ unique appeal lies not only in their highly credible song writing and musical ability but also in the chemistry of this talented couple.  The love they share combined with their passion for the music they naturally exude reaches out to connect with every member of the audience. 

The result is a spellbinding orb of colour and light, healing sounds through beautifully blended harmonies, storytelling and laughter, gentle reflection, invigorating rhythms and joyful movement.  Add to this eclectic mix a genuine care and respect for their audience’s sense of musical appreciation and you have a very magical performance indeed.

A treat for the ears and eyes, a nurturing for the soul and an uplifting for the heart is what you will experience with The Outback Gypsies.

Guest Category: Arts, Music, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Vision-Aries
Guest Biography:

Activating the Universal Source Field (InnerNet)
i.e., the Quantum Field of the Cosmic Cloud,
  a.k.a. The G.O.D.net (LOVEweb)

Discussing...
 'Progress of THE MOVEMENT'
and 'Global Net Activation' 

Guest Category: Earth & Space, Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Spiritual