Chris Tai Melodista was born in Paris in 1974 to his Vietnamese mother and French-Jewish adoptive father. He began his training in diverse styles of martial arts at the age of 6 and obtained his black belt in Japanese jiu-jitsu at 17. Chris competed in the first MMA competition in France and has since invested over 40 years in martial arts practice and more than 30 years in the discipline of personal development.

In his 20s, Chris traveled to Lhasa, Tibet, to deepen his practice in Buddhism at its source. During his stay, he had the opportunity to teach Kung Fu and Qi Gong to some of the monks. After almost a decade of working as a photographer in advertising and fashion for numerous high-end companies in Madrid, Chris moved to the U.S. in 2009, seeking to make more of an impact in the world.

Chris has achieved an impressive series of certifications, including life and love consciousness coaching with Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks, NLP licensed master practitioner, clinical hypnosis, Pranayama and Qi Gong, Russian martial art Systema instructor, combatives instructor, and MovNat trainer level 1&2, as well as stick massage bodywork therapy. In 2014, Chris traveled to Poland to meet and study with Wim Hof and became the first person certified by Wim Hof, aka “The Iceman,” in the U.S. and France. He also mentored with Dan Brulé to further his style of breathwork.

Chris Tai is the founder of Radical Expansion, a company dedicated to performance coaching through breathwork, movement, and mindfulness. He created this company to teach the knowledge he had compiled throughout his lifetime. The simple and easy method he founded is now taught by coaches in Europe and the U.S. Over thousands of people and hundreds of seminars worldwide have benefited from this practice.

Chris considers himself an eternal student and continues to teach and encourage people to become the person they were searching for through practice and quality of choice.

Vicki Mizel, a Master in Psychology, was trained as an educator and public speaker.

She began teaching the Brain Sprout’s Memory Method in 1980 to school children in public high schools. Within a short time she trained executives in Fortune 500 corporations such as IBM, Rolm, Prudential, Hewlett Packard; taught through community college, both seniors and Alzheimer’s patients; and gave public seminars nationally and internationally. She also produced a highly successful audio-tape/CD program on memory training.

After 20 years of teaching and training, Mizel returned to graduate school to receive her Master’s degree in psychology. She now off ers her programs to therapists, heath care practitioners, medical facilities, spouses and caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients and their loved ones.

Vicki Mizel was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was trained as an educator, psychologist, actor and public speaker. Her undergraduate degree was from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and her master’s in psychology was completed in 2000, at Antioch University in Marina Del Rey, CA.

She has been teaching her Brain Sprouts Memory System since 1983. The memory method is known, with time and practice, to increase neuro connectivity and neural regeneration in the brain and enhances brain activity and healing.

Throughout her career, she has worked with school children, university students, CEOs of companies, and actors, as well as brain injured, dementia, and Alzheimer’s patients. She has been an educator, artist, actress, speaker, and now a writer, over the span of forty years. Her natural love of learning and helping others improve their lives is inspiring, and she has a passion for improving the lives of people of all ages and cultures.

Vicki treasures and values friendships, and still has friends from her childhood. She has always enjoyed yoga, travel and hiking, and her black cat named Charlie. She practices a balance of Eastern and Western healing modalities, and is an avid mediator.

More About Vicki Mizel and her work at:

www.loveremembers.net

brainsproutsmemory.com

www.savingbrotherfromcovid.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickimizel/

Wowza is a legend with a tremendous legacy. Her long and multifaceted career started at sixteen when she won the title of Miss Dixie Queen of the South. This led to becoming the Florida Citrus Queen and an international spokeswoman and featured guest on TV shows nationwide – including the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Steve Allen Show. Wowza became Miss Florida of 1957 and a runner-up in the Miss America Pageant.

A professional actor, Wowza appeared in numerous film, prime-time TV, and stage productions and trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. Her passion for coaching actors was first expressed in the 70s as an Acting Teacher at Antioch College in LA. She continued coaching in the 80s with On Camera, using video feedback to prepare guests for The Johnny Carson show. In the 90s, she was the creator and director of her own performing arts company, Theatre of the Earth. Today, her expertise is unparalleled in coaching actors, dancers, singers and motivational speakers on how to move through inhibitory barriers to express the authenticity of their essential nature.

Wowza has spent six decades as a group leader in the human potential movement. A short list of her presentations includes teaching Expressive Arts Therapy at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, London and Switzerland. Embody the Brilliance-The Physiology of Leadership was taught at the Social Research Corporation in Japan and Skyros Institute in

Greece. For the last fifteen years, Wowza has taught Expressive Arts Therapy in Mainland China.
A group leader at the world-famous Esalen Institute, Wowza, has taught a variety of programs; Natural Genius, Sound Healing, Shamanic Mask Experience, Emotional Fitness, and Ageless Vitality. Wowza studied with bodywork pioneers Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, Judith Aston, and Milton Tragar. Fit to Lead and Computer Fitness was offered at Sun

MicroSystems and Oracle Corporation, Her unique Emotional Fitness program demonstrates how to lead the body: breath, voice, movement, and emotional energy on the same path as the mind. A corporate consultant, Wowza has been a regular at Lawrence Livermore teaching atomic scientists, A Physiology of Leadership. She is the author of: The Humming Book, Primal Energetics, and Wowzacise – Growing Young on the Ball.

Earth to Eve is an LA-based musician originally from NYC. She writes raw, uncensored alternative pop music you can cry, laugh, or scream along to.

Multi-talented recording artist and songwriter, Nic Jackson, is based in Los Angeles, California. After studying at the prestigious Musicians Institute, he soon began performing at some of the most iconic venues in LA. Musically, his vision is focused - to create a distinctive sound blending elements of soul, funk, R&B, and pop. Warm and organic, his music channels the perks of the old-school scene, while going forward with creativity and innovation.

Jackson recorded the theme music for "Is That Black Enough For You" (Netflix) in 2022 just before performing at the White House. He was featured on "Motown Magic," a Netflix animated series, voicing the characters Uncle Rod and Brand. Nic has also performed live, opening for Mint Condition and Blackstreet at the prestigious Nova Theatre in Los Angeles.

In 2020, Jackson released a studio album titled "Waiting for the Day," with eight standout tracks. This album captures the intensity of his live performance, but with more emphasis on the lyrics.

Jackson's music has been favorably compared to Al Green, Marvin Gaye and Leon Bridges. Nic Jackson has a sound you already know and love...from the first time you hear it.

With a passion for creating at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and social justice, Téana David is the Executive Director of the ILLUMINATE Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California. Prior to that, she was Co-Director of the Shift Your World Film Festival and also served as Director of Deepak HomeBase in New York City, where she designed and curated a year-round event series with authors including Brené Brown, Byron Katie, Zainab Salbi, Robert Thurman, Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, Deepak Chopra, and Thich Nhat Hanh monastics.

Growing up on Vancouver Island, Téana was drawn to protect the natural world from an early age. As a young actor and activist, she co-starred in an environmentally-focused children’s television series and was active in community efforts to preserve local old growth forests.

Today, Téana is a founding member of Artists for Amazonia, an entertainment industry initiative that addresses critical issues impacting the Amazon Rainforest. Through her production company, Wise Planet Media, she has produced many short films to support this important cause including Weave of Life, narrated by Morgan Freeman and The Time Is Now with Txai Surui, Ziggy Marley, and Barbra Streisand. Other media projects include serving as Impact Producer for the Amazon Prime docuseries Changing of the Gods and as an advisor on the Sundance award-winning documentary, The Territory.

Téana is also a teacher of Somatics and Pilates and has led retreats in both Costa Rica and British Columbia incorporating these modalities with sitting and walking meditation practice in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Téana holds a B.F.A from The Boston Conservatory and an M.F.A from Naropa University where she was introduced to the practice of Dharma Art – “art that springs from an awakened state of mind” – which continues to inform her personally and professionally.

Torkom is a sound healer, meditation guide, and creator of Quantum Harmonix; a unique frequency healing modality. This listening experience is designed to deeply drop one into a relaxed and therapeutic state by incorporating a variety of techniques and tones that have been shown to effectively calm the body and mind. The total experience typically lasts 1 hour and requires no prior experience with meditation.

QUANTUM HARMONIX is a unique sound-based meditative and healing technology. The powerful tones produced incorporate natural fluidity & movement, and have been shown to have profound effects on the mind, body, consciousness of an individual. Q.H. sounds are designed to lead one through an effortless and powerfully restorative meditation experience invoking relaxation, and expanded creativity, while improving sleep quality and productivity, while decreasing stress.

The music is layered live and explores acoustical phenomena, white/pink noise, low-mid-high range frequencies; all folded into a tapestry of real time musical compositions.

Dr. Ellen Cutler, D.C., is a bestselling author and an internationally recognized teacher, public speaker, and media spokesperson. She has a chiropractic degree and specializes in the use of desensitization of food and other sensitivities, gentle detoxification, and enzyme and nutritional therapies for chronic conditions that have perplexed the conventional medical establishment. This is all addressed in her revolutionary healing technique ECM (Ellen Cutler Method). Many patients have come to Dr. Cutler as a last resort, only to find that their conditions could be traced to sensitivities to food, their inability to digest what they are eating, and other reactivities. Dr. Ellen at this point has almost a year waiting list practice as she treats patients from all over the world in her clinic and online. During the past 40 plus years in clinical practice, before which she successfully addressed her own health condition, Dr. Cutler has found that food sensitivities and improper digestion and sensitivities or reactivities contribute to a surprisingly extensive number of ailments. ECM works successfully with many conditions, such as obesity, skin problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, auto- immune disorders, asthma, Lyme, headaches, mold and mycotoxins, candida, female and male issues, children’s issues and of course digestive disorders such as colitis irritable bowel syndrome and GERD as well as endocrine disorders such as thyroid and adrenals. She also supports and focuses on longevity, vitality, and balancing and regenerating the microbiome as well as help clear emotional and psychological traumas.

Dr. Cutler focuses on optimizing the body’s ability to self-heal by combining several natural healing methods, thus addressing sensitivity-related chronic conditions. Over the years, thousands of her patients from around the world have been helped by her approach and have found relief without, or with decreased reliance on, medications, which can sometimes cause dangerous side effects along with their benefit. Dr. Cutler’s approach incorporates her profound knowledge of both conventional therapies and natural wellness. Her years of clinical practice are a testimony to her in-depth experience and dedication.

Dr. Cutler is dedicated to the further development of clinical research on desensitization and enzyme and nutritional therapies, as well as teaching and writing. She continues to consult with clients from around the world. In addition, Dr. Cutler has provided training to other health care practitioners through her seminar appearances, books and videos and is now providing up to date webinars, and curriculum on beginning, intermediate and advanced course in ECM, including enzyme therapy, desensitization and nutrition. Dr. Cutler is also expanding her consulting to the world with one on one sessions, which can allow Dr. Cutler to bring her work to the globe.