GUEST:  SONJA GRACE

For over thirty years, author and Mystic Healer, Sonja Grace has been offering her clients, both in the United States and abroad, immediate stability, clarity, and guidance. Through her healing, counseling and spiritual processing, Sonja has a wide variety of talent to choose from in which she accesses her ability to channel and communicate with the divine. She sees and receives messages from loved ones who have crossed over and offers a venue for healing in this world and the spirit world.  Her ability to read and clear the karmic threads to past lives helps clients heal lifetimes of patterns.

Sonja is an energy surgeon and helps clients to identify where the discomfort is in the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual bodies. She provides medical scans and defies time and space with her energy medicine, etheric clearing, structural and cellular healing work helping the client to transform their energy, chakras, auric field, as well as the physical body in all systems.  Sonja is able to execute all levels of her work from a distance and over the phone.

In another area of expertise Sonja’s extensive work with animals brings both client and pet to the forefront. She communicates with them for clarity and understanding for the owner and veterinarian. She has worked with a wide variety of pets both here and the spirit realm. Many people contact Sonja to simply get in touch with a pet or relative that has crossed over.

Two time author of Angels in the 21st Century and her latest book, Earth Ways Healing Medicine for the Soul, provides a pathway to the four seasons through prayer and ceremony and is a companion to the film presentation Earth Ways Series.

Sonja currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

Tina Sacchi is a Master in Holistic Alternative Arts, which includes Hypnotherapy, Energy Healing (Reiki/Shamanic), Mysticism, Chakra Balancing, Soul Path Guidance, Past Lives Resolve, Future Life Progression, Raw & Healthy Food Coaching and Life Event Ceremonies.  Tina is certified in Clinical Hypnotherapy through the Arizona Society for Professional Hypnosis as well as the National Guild of Hypnotists.

After climbing the ladder to senior executive positions in corporate America for almost two decades, Tina felt that there was still something missing. Also she battled some  physical illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, arthritis, shingles, etc which are no longer part of her life. “And now what?” she said. Although she was always successful in her various positions, she wasn’t passionate about her career and wanted to claim back her physical health. So in 1997, she left corporate America and started studying profusely the many alternative healing techniques she now uses to help others.  “Although I was always successful in my previous career, I feel super successful now due to the passion and the connection I feel in my entire being. Enlightening others is what I do.”

As a loving and caring spiritual leader, Tina has helped thousands of people find their inner truth and has helped them make their transition to their own calling.

Tina has created six wonderful cds: I Decide and I Create the Body I Want, a weight management hypnotherapy/hypnosis session cd, Serenity-A Suite of Four Guided Imagery Meditations, Connecting With Ascended Masters, Guides, Angels and Light Beings Meditation, and Survive Cancer Now, The Hypnotherapy Way to Replace Dis-ease with Excellent Health, Happiness and Love,  Supere El Cáncer Ahora, and  I Sleep, Sleep, Sleep Soundly Now (Complete Audio Set: Preparing to Sleep Checklist, Meditation, Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis)

Mission:

Sondra Forsyth is Co-Editor-in-Chief of ThirdAge.com a dance critic at BroadwayCritic.com and an AARPBlogauthor. She has been writing and editing on the web since 1997 when she began contributing her "New York Dance Scene" articles to DanceArt.com and editing other writers for the site. She continues to blog on DanceArt.com  Sondra is experienced with Content Management Systems, image uploading and resizing, basic HTML and SEO, and blog platforms.

Also a journalist and author, she writes about a broad range of topics including health and fitness, narrative non-fiction "as told to" stories, women’s issues, fashion, beauty, celebrities, psychology and mental well-being, money and work, parenting and grandparenting, relationships, and dance. Sondra is a winner of the prestigious National Magazine Award, given jointly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the American Society of Magazine Editors, for a narrative non-fiction piece in Good Housekeeping entitled "The Families Left Behind." Her by-line has appeared in many major magazines, among them Town & Country, Redbook, Gourmet, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, Dance Magazine, and Ladies' Home Journal. She is a contributor to the iconic "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" column in LHJ and served as LHJ's Executive Editor. Her other staff posts were Features Editor at Cosmopolitan under the legendary Helen Gurley Brown, and Articles Editor at Bride's. Sondra is the author or co-author of twelve books published by such respected houses as Ulysses Press, Crown, Simon & Schuster, Dutton, and Grand Central. Her most recent title, "Candida Cleanse: The 21-Day Diet to Beat Yeast and Feel Your Best", was published by Ulysses Press in May of 2014.

A former ballerina, Sondra founded Ballet Ambassadors and served as Artistic Director from 2001 until 2013. An arts-in-education outreach organization, it received funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Department of Education, Suffolk County BOCES, and Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES. Sondra was named a 2012 Purpose Prize Fellow by Encore.org for giving underserved young people the change to share the stage with professional dancers in the classics and original ballets.

Sondra holds a masters degree from Harvard.

My first guest Dr Arthur Rosenfeld began his formal martial arts training in 1980 and has studied deeply in China and the United States. A Yale graduate, he has his needle in the vein of Chinese tai chi grandmasters, and is dedicated to personal transformation and social change through the application of tai chi practice and Taoist philosophy. In 2012 he was ordained a Taoist monk at the Chun Yang (Pure Yang) Taoist Temple in Guangzhou, the first Westerner to be so honored. He hosts the hit (56MM households tune in) national public television show Longevity Tai Chi with Arthur Rosenfeld.

Rosenfeld blogs on The Huffington Post, and his offerings also appear in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Parade, Newsweek Ebony, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, and numerous other websites and newspapers nationwide. He was named Tai Chi Master of The Year at the World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2011, and received the Action On Film Festival’s Maverick award (previous recipients include David Carradine, John Savage, and Talia Shire) in August 2012.

In 2010, Rosenfeld produced and hosted a documentary series on the scientific evidence for acupuncture, tai chi, and meditation. Funded by the pharmaceutical industry, tens of thousands of copies of these films have been distributed to major medical centers, professional healthcare organizations, group medical practices, patient advocacy associations and more. In 2012 he produced a follow-up instructional series.

Rosenfeld has penned 12 critically acclaimed books, some of which have sold bestseller numbers and been optioned to Hollywood. Along with the Dalai Lama, he was a finalist for the prestigious Books for a Better Life award for his bestseller The Truth About Chronic Pain (New York: Basic Books, 2003), and his prize-winning novels have recently focused on Chinese philosophy and martial arts action. Most recently he authored Tai Chi – The Perfect Exercise (Da Capo Press, June 2013). He is currently at work on a novel about the Chinese sage, Lao Tzu. He holds group and corporate workshops around the country and destination retreats around the world, as well as teaching beginning and advanced martial arts students locally in South Florida.

I wasn’t aware of how much I was connected with my Spiritual guides until I was in my twenties. I remember as a child I was afraid to be alone in the dark. I was five and my sister, Maureen, was six. I would ask my sister to “think” when we were tucked in for the night.  I somehow knew that if she was thinking, she would be awake allowing me to comfortably go to sleep so I wouldn’t be alone in the dark.

A few years later, while experiencing unpleasant dreams, my guides taught me to think pleasant thoughts to replace the haunting ones in my dreams. I later learned only one conscious thought can be in the mind at any one time. If I thought of something positive and exciting nothing negative could enter the doorway of my mind.

When I was in my teens, I could manifest almost all the things I wanted in life with grace and ease. The manifestations weren’t anything major – good grades in school, an occasional gift, getting the job I applied for – but I felt and noticed that my life appeared to be guided.

I enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating from high school. I received a  medical discharge after two years for blindness in my right eye. I enrolled in college shortly thereafter and earned an Associate of Arts Degree in Accounting. After graduation, I began my career in the corporate world. Most of my working years were in supervising individuals, coaching, and managing the daily routine using the spiritual techniques taught to me by my spirit guides. I contribute my 35 years of success in the corporate world to a spiritual consciousness in handling my daily business routines, dealing honestly and truthfully, and treating all individuals like family.

When I started to meditate as a young father,  my awareness increased and I realized that the Great White Brotherhood was working with me.  On one occasion while on a business trip, I was guided to go to an old book store  where I reached for a book on the top shelf. It was called First Book of Azrael: Teachings of the Great White Brotherhood (by the Great White Brotherhood and published by Devorss & Co., 1965). Subtle experiences like this were indications to me that I was being guided by the Great White Brotherhood.

Although I worked during the day in the corporate world, I continued to do my spiritual work in the evenings and on weekends. In my late twenties, I followed a four-year study curriculum and became an Ordained Metaphysical Minister.  In that capacity, I occasionally facilitated funerals and weddings.

After a dynamic, spiritually awakening dream visit with the Lords of Amenti, I learned about thoughts. I began facilitating meditation classes which I did for over twenty-five years assisting other in connecting with their Spirit guides. Through the years, I became a Reiki Master and studied in Hawaii to certify as a Kundalini Yoga instructor.

I enhanced my connection with Spirit when I visited to  Peru on several occasions to participate in Shamanic spiritual ceremonies that included  drinking the Shaman plants Ayahuasca and Huachum.

Miriam Knight was a senior business executive who made a mid-life shift onto the spiritual path. Upon moving to the US from England, she published a holistic journal for 7 years. She then founded New Consciousness Review a review magazine and website that showcases the people, books and films inspiring personal and global transformation. She also hosts an award-winning weekly author interview show that provided the foundation for her new book, What Wags the World, Tales of Conscious Awakening.(O Books, Sept. 26, 2014.)

A native of Venezuela and citizen of the world, Miriam has lived on four continents and speaks four languages. She has a BA in Romance Languages and Psychology from Boston University, and an MA in Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Larry Payne, Ph.D. is an internationally respected yoga teacher and back specialist. The L.A. Times named Larry "One of America's most respected Yoga teachers". He co-authored Yoga Therapy Rx, Yoga for Dummies and The Business of Teaching Yoga.  Larry is founding president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, founder of the Corporate Yoga program at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the first Yoga teacher to offer Yoga classes at the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the yoga curriculum at UCLA’s School of Medicine, and the founding director of the new Yoga therapy certification program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

In 1979 he was an advertising executive, plagued with chronic back pain and stress. His quest for relief led him to study Yoga and health in eleven countries and inspired his career change upon certification in India.  In 1980, Larry founded the Samata Yoga Center in Los Angeles and later earned a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in fitness education with an emphasis in Hatha Yoga from Pacific Western University. His background is in Psychology and he has also completed graduate work in Physical Therapy at Cal-State University at Long Beach. He was the U.S. representative to the first World Congress of Yoga in Montevideo, Uruguay, and has received Outstanding Achievement Awards for Yoga in Europe and the United States, and the Golden Lotus Award from South America. In 2000, he was a panelist and yoga instructor at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In addition, he is the founder of the Healthy Back Program at the world-famous Rancho La Puerta Fitness Spa.

Larry has been a frequent guest on national television and syndicated radio programs. His work has been featured in numerous national and international magazines, as well as in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. Most recently he is featured in six new DVDs as part of the Yoga Therapy Rx series. Larry resides in Los Angeles, California and has a thriving practice in Marina del Rey and Malibu. In addition to speaking engagements and workshops, he leads Yoga and health seminars worldwide.

Lecture, Workshop, Instruction Conference and business executive planners are finding Larry’s presentation to be a unique and welcome addition for a wide variety of formats. Whether he lectures on health, how to control stress, keeping our backs and minds healthy or giving simple Yoga instructions for busy people, Larry educates and informs by using methods from his international education and hands-on experience. Many of his seminars are participatory workshops. Larry’s range of instruction enables him to tailor-make relevant contributions to seminars and business meetings.  Larry specializes in preventing back injuries and stress reduction through Yoga, and his audio/video products have been recommended by more than 300 doctors.

Mystic Pete is a cellist, music and video producer, author, and radio host. He hosts the broadcast radio show “In A Dream,” which features the DJ community, on KXLU, 88.9 FM, Los Angeles, Saturday nights at midnight PT.

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