Lindsay Berra is a freelance sports journalist based in New Jersey. She is currently creating content for Tom House’s pitching bio-mechanics app, Mustard, hosting the sports nutrition podcast Food of the Gods, and contributing regularly to Men’s Health. Previously, Lindsay was a national correspondent at MLB.com and MLB Network and a senior writer at ESPN Magazine. She received her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she played varsity softball and men’s club ice hockey. Lindsay is the oldest grandchild of Carmen and Yogi Berra and a board member at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Little Falls, NJ. She is also an avid Cross Fitter, yogi, cyclist, runner, hiker and golfer. 

JONATHAN GOLDMAN, M.A. is an international authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. He is author of HEALING SOUNDS, SHIFTING FREQUENCIES, THE LOST CHORD, the best selling THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING, CHAKRA FREQUENCIES (co-authored with his wife Andi), and his latest THE DIVINE NAME, winner of the 2011 Visionary Award for Best Alternative Health Book.

Jonathan is director of the Sound Healers Association and president of Spirit Music, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. A Grammy nominee, he has created numerous best selling, award winning recordings including THE DIVINE NAME (with Gregg Braden), REIKI CHANTS, FREQUENCIES: Sounds of Healing, THE LOST CHORD, 2012: ASCENSION HARMONICS and CHAKRA CHANTS, double winner of Visionary Awards for Best Healing-Meditation Album and Album of the Year. Jonathan is a lecturing member of the International Society for Music Medicine. He has dedicated his life to the path of service, helping awaken and empower others with the ability of sound to heal and transform.

In Spring 2011, Jonathan was named as one of Watkin's Reviews 100 Most Spiritually Influential People on the Planet. In 2011, Jonathan was inducted into the Massage Therapy' Hall of Fame. He presents HEALING SOUNDS lectures, workshops and seminars worldwide. Jonathan lives with his wife Andi in Boulder, Colorado and may be reached at: https://www.healingsounds.com/

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Jonathan Goldman is a writer, musician and teacher. He is an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Jonathan is the author of HEALING SOUNDS: The Power of Harmonics,(Inner Traditions), THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING (Hay House), SHIFTING FREQUENCIES (Light Technology) , CHAKRA FREQUENCIES (Inner Traditions), co-authored with his wife Andi, and his latest, THE DIVINE NAME: The Sound That Can Change the World (Hay House), winner of the 2011 Visionary Award for Best Healing Book. He has studied with masters of sound from both the scientific and spiritual traditions, including the Dalai Lama' Chanting Gyuto and Gyume Monks and has been empowered by the Chant Master of the Drepung Loseling Monastery to teach Tibetan Overtone Chanting. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Film Making from Boston University and a Master' Degree in the Independent Study on Sound Healing from Lesley College. He is a lecturing member of the International Society for Music and Medicine. In Spring 2011, Jonathan was named as one of Watkin' Reviews 100 Most Spiritually Influential People on the Planet.

Jonathan is the director of the Sound Healers Association; the original organization dedicated to the education and awareness of sound and music for healing. He is also president of Spirit Music, which produces music for meditation, relaxation and self-transformation. Jonathan has created numerous cutting edge, best selling recordings including: Chakra Chants won the 1999 Visionary Awards for Best Healing-Meditation Album and Album of the Year, 2012: Ascension Harmonics winner of the Visionary Award for Best Healing-Meditation in 2010. Other highly acclaimed award winning albums: The Lost Chord, The Divine Name (co-created with Gregg Braden), Reiki Chants, ChakraDance, Ultimate Om, Holy Harmony, Crystal Bowls Chakra Chants. His latest album include: 2013: Ecstatic Sonics, Chakra/Brainwave Harmonizer and Cosmic Hum. His collaboration with Tibetan Chant Master Lama Tashi Tibetan Master Chants was been nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music. His overtone chanting is heard on Kitaro' 2001 Grammy Award winning album.

Jonathan has written numerous articles on the therapeutic and transformational uses of sound and music, which have appeared in many national publications. He has also contributed chapters and interviews to many books, including: MUSIC MEDICINE, SONIC ALCHEMY, MUSIC: PHYSICIAN FOR TIMES TO COME and HEALING SPIRITS. Jonathan' work has been cited in many books, including Julia Cameron' VEIN OF GOLD. The McGraw-Hill college text, MUSIC IN OUR WORLD, has a chapter on Jonathan' recording of Dolphin Dreams. In DA VINCI DECODED, Jonathan' CD Chakra Chants is listed as the #1 Selection on the Top Ten Spiritual Playlist.

An internationally acknowledge Master Teacher, Jonathan facilitates Healing Sounds Seminars at universities, hospitals, holistic health centers and expos throughout the United States and Europe. He has appeared on national television and radio, including Art Bell' Coast to Coast AM and has been featured in national periodicals including USA Today and The New York Times. His annual Healing Sounds Intensive attracts participants from throughout the world.

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“Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man” Documentary

Special Guest on Interviewing the Legends

Allen Farst, founder of Niche Productions, is thrilled to announce the signing of a distribution deal with Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios Company, to release his latest film, “Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man,” a sterling documentary on the rock ‘n’ roll pianist/keyboardist often described as the “Fifth Rolling Stone. The film was released to several Video-On-Demand (VOD) outlets on December, 2020.

Directed by Farst, “Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man” provides an epic, in-depth look into Leavell’s life both on and off the stage. Leavell has played and toured with the Rolling Stones since 1982, and his status as rock royalty may be equaled only by his stature within the world of environmental forestry, where he previously has been named the National Tree Farmer of the Year in the United States. It’s this fascinating combination of passions, coupled with more than 80 gripping interviews from legendary musicians with a combined 58 Grammy Awards, that already has produced quite the buzz for the film.

The documentary captivated crowds last year at both the Macon Film Festival and Sedona International Film Festival, the latter of which recognized the film as the 2020 People’s Choice Award. “This is a MUST-SEE film for anyone who loves great music and great documentaries,” said Patrick Schweiss, Artistic Director of the Sedona International Film Festival. “Director Allen Farst has managed to capture the life of one of the great keyboard legends, Chuck Leavell, who has worked with all the greatest musicians…The Tree Man’ was a rousing hit at our festival, with audience members cheering and raving about the film!”

The documentary is full of star power, including interviews with Billy Bob Thornton, Mick Jagger, President Jimmy Carter, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Dickey Betts, Paul Shaffer, Chris Robinson, Charlie Daniels, Miranda Lambert, Charlie Watts, Bruce Hornsby, Juliann Lennon, Mike Mills, John Bell, Pat Monahan, Ronnie Wood, Warren Haynes, John Mayer, David Gilmour and more.

CHUCK LEAVELL: THE TREE MAN

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Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man is the cinematic documentary that explores the world's fascination with the greatest piano and keyboardist over the last 40 years. Follow Chuck's story as he divides his talent between music, forests and family.

Starring: Mick Jagger , Keith Richards , Charlie Watts and Ronnie Woods

Directed by: Allen Farst

The documentary is full of star power, including interviews with Billy Bob Thornton, Mick Jagger, President Jimmy Carter, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bonnie Raitt, Dickey Betts, Paul Shaffer, Chris Robinson, Charlie Daniels, Miranda Lambert, Charlie Watts, Bruce Hornsby, Juliann Lennon, Mike Mills, John Bell, Pat Monahan, Ronnie Wood, Warren Haynes, John Mayer, David Gilmour and more.

Available to purchase at amazon.com

With capabilities of reaching more than 100 million homes in North America and nearly 1 billion homes worldwide, Gravitas Ventures is making this must-see movie available on several VOD platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay, VUDU and Playstation.

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Liz Nicholls is A Woman in Motion!

Getting Epilepsy at the age of 21 changed her life, it changed her! No one likes to feel marginalized by a medical condition. That is something that Liz Nicholls has fought hard not to be for most of her adult life. One of her specialties in Transformational Coaching is for women with epilepsy. Purely because she has been there, and knows that the struggles are both the same as everyone else and sometimes unique, as with any of life's challenges.



"It changes how you see yourself, how you feel about things, the world and everyone around you. It causes you to look at everything in a very different perspective"

​Liz Nicholls knows what it is to have lost everything and come back. At 21 she started learning how to live with a medical condition that few people really understand the impact of. She lost her job, her drivers license, and the impact of living with this uncertain challenge that flares up has given her a compassionate heart and now she taps into this in her important work. 



At 38 she made a life-changing decision. At 55, after surviving the loss of a parent, end of a long-term relationshiop, and overcoming chronic health issues, Liz recognized the need to find herself and her true purpose in life.

She studied under influential empowering women, worked for coaching companies and listened to 100's of women's stories at the same cross roads. It was at this time that she started her own business "Women In Motion", providing personal development and business resources for women.



Today, Liz helps women with epilepsy through her coaching programs, designed to support those women who she knows often still live in fear.  When epilepsy can appear without warning, it is easy to step into being a victim, and Liz has learned the strategies to keep her mindset in "Victor" mode!



She has climbed her way outside her box, having set out on a course alone in a search for resources to demand her life back from Grand Mal Epilepsy. She devoted time and effort to study blending cultures of health and align herself with the right people to overcome her blockages to live a fulfilling life.



Elizabeth (Liz) Nicholls is an Advocate for  Epilepsy.  Connect with Liz via her website at: www.liznicholls.com

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JENS JARVIE

Jens is a passionate singer-songwriter, kirtan wallah, multi-instrumentalist, meditator, yogi, father, land steward, and lover of life who has carried a vision to uplift and assist the great awakening of humanity through music for the last 20 years.

He studied “music as a mode of transformation” at Naropa University integrating music, psychology, and religious studies. His chanting and original lyrics will inspire you to take flight in the vastness of the heart. Jens’s songs invoke healing and love for the benefit of all beings, inviting you on a journey of depth and transcendence. His music is about celebration, embodiment and remembrance of our deepest wisdom. Through positive affirmations, ancient mantras, engaging melodies and driving rhythms Jens offers a spirit of strength and devotion to soar into gratitude for this life we are living!

Jens has recorded and produced 4 albums in the last 10 years and resides in Sebastopol, Ca where he continues to grow his current project, The Heart Wide Open, “mantra music for an awakening world.”

MICHAEL NEWTON

Born in Yorkshire, grew up in South Wales. I loved music from an early age, and I learned many instruments while playing drums in a punk band. I was accepted into College at 16 years old to study music and electronics.

I graduated 1980 during the beginnings of electronics and computers in music.I had an exciting career commuting between LA and London. So I started out an early adopter of tech when a revolution was happening. 

I met my wife in San Diego. We had a great life. My wife suffered with depression that became worse, so we relocated to the rural Midwest to be closer to her Mom and sister. I got a regular job in IT, so I could be a better caregiver. Several years passed, and I suffered a stroke. Shortly thereafter, my wife’s sister and mother died accidentally. This was all too much for my wife’s mental state so she took her own life.. 

This left me 2 dogs and 2 cats stranded in the rural Midwest with no support and less than adequate health facilities or therapists. So I turned to music as my therapy. I first had to figure out my recording systems, and I entered music in step time because my tremors in my right hand made playing impossible. I wanted to document my progress in music and to date have written nearly 1000 tracks on Soundcloud created whilst volunteering for a theater post production audio and scoring a series of local radio plays. However my reading, writing, and speech needed help. I cussed a lot, which is a normal symptom post stroke, and people say I am blunt. This amount of trauma will do that to a person.

I managed to contact an old friend musician Lightyear in Florida, and via Skype, embarked on a book study every Sunday until my reading and speech improved. I went to therapy groups and was just about to venture into the real world when the pandemic hit.

If I wasn’t isolated before I was now. I had been using a virtual reality headset for exercise and meditation, and although I had worked with 3D modeling software in my career, I still lacked the motor control to build anything in VR. I discovered Social VR and with the help of music industry friends like Lightyear who were dealing with challenges due to COVID 19 persuading them to join me in building worlds in VR. Group therapy and support meetings began to flourish covering all kinds of mental health issues in a tailored space – people say they feel more present  compared to zoom.

Using social VR i have reconnected with old industry friends and made new ones. The VR community is growing organically with community input. New experiences are being created in media, education and support groups. I have seen theatrical productions conceived, cast and rehearsed in VR gone to comedy clubs talk shows all created by the VR community.

To this end, I help co host a weekly event virtual discussion of content creation where we help foster the community in our story-based mentorship. Whether you are a seasoned professional, content creator, or just curious, this is the place for you to turn dreams into reality, and it is truly a mind blowing event.

My life has had its challenges,but I am optimistic about the future. Social VR, I believe, will be the next generation of media, and I am so glad to play some part in it to help share it with the world.

Devin Gardner was a 2010 Watkins  Award Honoree from Detroit Michigan.  He is a former high school national top 10 ranked quarterback who eventually started at the University of Michigan. Devin was an undrafted free agent of the New England Patriots. He ultimately played professionally in Japan for a few years. Devin is now a Sports Broadcaster, a youth sports advocate, a podcaster, and is considered one of the greatest University of Michigan Sports Broadcasters'. 

Patrick Neville is an American politician and a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 45th District, which includes much of Douglas County. A Republican, Neville currently serves as the Minority Leader of the House, having been elected to this position at the beginning of his second term in January 2017.