For the last 25 years Kamini has created unique body of teachings combining the ancient wisdom of yoga with modern psychology.

Trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health with degrees in Anthropology and Psychology from Smith College and La Salle University, and as daughter of one of the original yoga masters who pioneered yoga in the West, Kamini has served as Director of Wellness at Yarrow, an executive retreat center in Michigan, and on faculty of the Foxhollow Leadership Center. She is now the Education Director and Core Curriculum Developer of the Amrit Yoga Institute -a cutting edge teaching center for advanced studies in eastern philosophy. She is one of three Founding Directors of the International University of Yoga and Ayurveda with Dr. Vijay K Jain, MD and Dr. Shekhar Annambhotla.

Kamini is the acclaimed author of the book, Life Lessons, Love Lessons, which is commonly described as, “Eat, Pray, Love meets Sex in the City.” In an entertaining and engaging voice Kamini draws you in to a riveting personal story that shows you how to use the teachings of yoga in everyday life.

Considered an expert in the inner sciences of yoga, relaxation and artful living, she is a frequent guest speaker and teacher at various nationally accredited institutions for higher learning throughout the United States. Her guided Yoga Nidra experiences have been used in various government institutions.

Her insight and experience-based trainings and lectures have been welcomed in over 10 countries around the world including England, Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany,Turkey, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Mexico and throughout the United States and Canada.

In addition to her work in assisting individuals towards personal empowerment and fulfillment, Kamini’s corporate clients have included Bahamas Princess Resorts, Kellogg’s, KEDS, Sony, KPN Telecom and Mars Confectionary as well as the Department of Defense and the Internal Revenue Service of the Netherlands.

Kamini sits on the Editorial Board of the Light on Ayurveda Journal, associated with the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth. In 2012 she was awarded the title of Yogeshwari (a woman of yogic mastery) for her keen ability to bring ancient illumination to the genuine challenges of the human experience. Kamini has been featured on the cover of Natural Awakenings, in Dutch Cosmopolitan, Fit and Healthy magazine, and has published numerous articles in the United States and Europe.

Kamini conducts the Amrit Yoga Teacher Training and the Yoga Nidra Professional Training at the 500-hour level for aspiring yoga teachers. Kamini is certified as an E-RYT in yoga instruction. She is also certified in contact partner yoga, Phoenix Rising yoga therapy, massage therapy, danskinetics, and holistic health education. She speaks Dutch, French, and English.

Dr. Sundar Balasubramanian is a Cell Biology researcher and founder of PranaScience Institute. He is currently studying mechanisms involved in resistance to cancer therapy at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He is also a Yoga Biology researcher. A pioneer in the area of research combining Pranayama and salivary stimulation, he discovered Yogic breathing promotes salivary secretion, and it contains factors that are important for our healthy living. Recently, his research work on breathing received a mention in the New York Times.

Growing up in Tamilnadu, India in a traditional Yoga and Siddha medicine practicing family background, Dr. Balasubramanian went to Swami Chitbhavananda’s Vivekananda College in India where he further learned Yoga, Meditation, and Kirtan practices. He has been continuously learning from various Yoga Masters from the East and West. He is a member of International Association of Yoga Therapists, and the Integral Yoga Teachers Association, and a speaker at TEDx Charleston. He is the Director of the Yoga Studies Research Center of the Indian Medicine, Science and Culture Division (IMSCD) of the World Institute for Scientific Exploration (WISE). He has been traveling globally to speak and teach the richness of Yogic breathing as he understands through his research studies.

Global Music Pioneer Rara Avis (Latin for rare bird), born Alex King-Harris, is CEO/Co-Founder of YogiTunes.com and a leader in transformational music experiences. His immersive sonic environments incorporate a multi-instrumental, omni-cultural approach, mixing pre-produced original studio music with live electronic elements. flute, guitar, didgeridoo, harmonic overtone singing, improvised prayers and DJ techniques are layered together to create the backdrop for a mindful and embodied experience – inspiring ecstatic journeys in venues as intimate as a yoga studio and as sprawling as a festival setting. Rara’s influences include blues, psychedelic rock, jazz, funk, African, Middle Eastern and East Indian music, and a wide range of electronic dance music. Playing with Desert Dwellers, Shamans Dream and Liquid Bloom laid the foundation for his current solo work on Six Degrees Records. In addition to his work as an artist, he is also the CEO and cofounder of YogiTunes.com, a digital streaming and download music service focused on the yoga and wellness communities. “Your sets touch my heart in ways that are deep and profound… Your vulnerability and deep sharing creates and holds a safe place that inspires up to go deeper into our hearts.” – Cindy Thompson

Camella is one of the few ordained female Swamis currently teaching in the Kriya Lineage. It is an unbroken line of guru’s dating back thousands of years. Her passion is making yoga truly accessible in all stages of life and has pioneered yoga in the water over the past 20 years. With the encouragement of her students she wrote her first book on “Aqua Kriya Yoga” and began traveling and training teachers. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist, Ayurvedic Health Educator and Home Funeral Guide. Her students love her cooking meals when she hosts yoga retreats and she combined her love for cooking with yoga philosophy to create the online program, “Cooking the Yoga Sutras,’ which brings a new twist to remembering and studying vital yogic concepts. Mindfulness in vinyasa is another branch to her offerings and she combines ceremony and ritual in the hatha series “Kriya Vinyasa.” She is helping to break the taboo around death and dying by addressing Abhinivesha Klesha, or our desire for selective permanence. She has taught prenatal yoga for decades and wrote the book that her paramguru may have written if he was not a man, incorporating wisdom and mysticism. She is affiliated with Yoga for arthritis and is a Blue Mind Ambassador that joins the dots between water and the mind. Camella teaches with compassion and humor and is a regular presenter at the Sedona Yoga Festival.

Erin Byron, MA, YACEP, is a psychotherapist and author of numerous books on yoga and yoga therapy. Twenty years experience as a trauma therapist has helped her weave humor and playfulness into her profound yet practical teachings. As one of the founders of accredited Comprehensive Yoga Therapist Training, she has supported hundreds of students transform themselves through the philosophy and practice of yoga. She is co-author of Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Mindful Living and Amazon.com’s #1 New Release (Health & Fitness) Yoga Therapy for Stress & Anxiety. Erin’s most recent book, Yoga for the Creative Soul, guides you on a fun and inspiring journey of enlightenment through self-expression.

A dedicated yoga practitioner, photographer Robert Sturman has increasingly focused on capturing the timeless grace and embodied mindfulness of asana in his work. His portraits, whether set in the lively streets of Manhattan, the expansive beaches and canyons of Malibu, the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, the timeless elegance of Walden’s New England, or the bleakness of San Quentin Prison, remind us that there is beauty everywhere. His stunning repertoire runs the gamut from yogis perched on rocks surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, to African orphans practicing yoga in Kenya, to breast cancer survivors, bare-chested and scarred. In addition, Sturman has worked extensively photographing war veterans who have embraced the practice of yoga to to heal PTSD, in an effort to help change the heartbreaking suicide statistics. In Sturman’s own words, “I often think of Rumi’s words ‘I can’t stop pointing to the beauty.’ That feels right to me.” Sturman’s honors include Official Artist of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, 2010 FIFA World Cup Artist Representing America, and Official Artist 2008 United States Olympics. In 2012 and 2013, Sturman was the subject of two separate New York Times articles celebrating his photographs of yoga from around the world. Learn more at www.RobertSturmanStudio.com?? Robert will also be available during the festival for private shoots in Sedona’s magical red rocks.

Catherine Ashton, E-RYT500 is an experienced Yoga Teacher of many years, Founder of Yoga toTransform Trauma, a professional therapist, board certified Trauma Specialist, Activist and for many years, the Administrator in large mental health agencies and hospitals serving marginalized populations.Catherine lives in Chicago and teaches Yoga nationally guiding both foundational and advanced teacher trainings and special workshops as well as maintaining a private practice dedicated to trauma recovery and wellness. Catherine’s experience is that Yoga has the ability to touch our bodies and spirit in a way and depth that words may never reach. Catherine grew up in California, is a long standing student and teacherof yoga and draws from her studies in Clinical Psychology, and extensive experience in yoga and the mental health field to provide a holistic approach to living and working with others.

Suzanne lives in Sedona, Arizona where she has been in private practice for thirty-three years. She is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker, a Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Substance Abuse Counselor. Suzanne has taught as an adjunct professor at Arizona State University where she taught Holistic Social Work in the graduate program. Suzanne has participated in three trauma relief deployments to New Orleans working with survivors of Katrina, and six trauma relief deployments to Rwanda working with survivors of the 1994 genocide. Suzanne has participated in three research studies in Rwanda, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals. She also as the previous chair of the TFT Foundation Trauma-Relief Committee has helped coordinate trauma relief efforts in Haiti, Mexico, Rwanda and Uganda. Suzanne has been training professionals and non-professionals in Thought Field Therapy (TFT) since 1996 and has trained over 2,000 people around the world to use TFT at the algorithm level. She is the author of Thought Field Therapy: Clinical Applications, is lead author of two randomized controlled studies and co-author of one outcome study, all published in peer-reviewed mainstream professional journals.

Marc, along with his wife Heather, have been promoting their beloved Sedona, AZ as a yoga destination for nearly 5 years, running the Sedona Yoga festival and recently opening Aumbase Sedona, a center for consciousness evolution where all things yoga in Sedona can be found.  They both know that one of the best things to do in Sedona is Yoga and sharing that with the world is, to them; Dharma… Service in Action.
Marc will be present to facilitate sessions, and Heather has designed the balance of the program.