Lorraine May Levy holds a PhD in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, awarded in 2020, and teaches as adjunct faculty in the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology programme at Sofia University.[1] She has taught trauma survivors using the theories of C. G. Jung, and identity and transformation through trauma became her passion.[1] She returned to formal education at thirty, as a single mother of five, and worked her way from an associate degree at West Valley College to a doctorate.[1] Her dissertation brought together the image of the goddess Persephone, underworld trauma, and the practice of providing clothing to victims of sexual assault.[1] Outside the university she works as a depth psychologist, educator, integrative wellness guide, and retreat and therapeutic process facilitator.[2] Her clients come to her with addiction recovery, anxiety and other life transitions, and she works with them through art, dreams and storytelling.[2] She is based between Thailand and Italy and works with clients worldwide.[2]
Carlos performs as Cardan Balam, a musician and ceremonialist who fuses pre-Hispanic instruments, prayer and live electronic production. His touring project is Cardan Balam Ancestral Music.[1][2] Born in Atlixco, Puebla, he leads cacao ceremonies, temazcal and Hikuri ceremonies from his own ceremonial space in Playa del Carmen, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán.[1] His path crossed with Mayan culture and with Wixárika (Huichol) shamans when he was young, and he represents Wixárika, Mexica and Maya shamans today.[1] He founded Colectivo Cultura Ancestral, and with his family works to preserve Mayan lands and heritage in the Yucatán.[1] He has released music since 2021, most of it on the Balam Music Label, and in July 2024 he led the Tribal Village at Dreamersland Festival in Poland.[5][6] In November 2023 he was one of three credited artists on Sukum Balam, a five-track electronica album on the Balam Music label.[3] His Instagram, @cardan_balam_musica, has about 25,000 followers.[2]
Jourdi Bleu is a breathwork coach, yoga teacher and speaker based in Sydney, Australia, originally from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She is operations manager, mindset coach and instructor at This Is Yoga, which has studios in Randwick, Clovelly and Rozelle.[1][2] A car accident at fifteen set off an addiction that took in oxycontin during the opioid epidemic; she was in rehab at eighteen, and she lost a partner to an overdose during a later relapse.[3] Yoga was her way out, and the wild nights gave way to early mornings and sobriety.[4] In March 2024 she gave the Women's International Day keynote at an i-DIAS Global Conferences event in Paris.[6] She is a co-author of the anthology Dream to Rise, and in 2022 she appeared as a charter guest in the first season of Bravo's Below Deck Down Under.[1][5]
Isao Kato is a Japanese shamanic practitioner who works with the drum and rattle, and a member of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies' faculty for Asia and Oceania.[1][3] He has completed the Foundation's three-year programme and its shamanic healing training, and his specialisations are psychopomp work, guiding the dead onward, and house clearing.[2] He offers soul retrieval, extraction, guardian spirit retrieval, psychopomp work and space clearing, in person or remotely.[1] Based out of Chiang Mai, Thailand, he has practised shamanic healing and divination for more than a decade.[2][4] He came to this from a corporate career in engineering and technical writing.[1][5] He says the physical world is the dream, and dying is waking up.[4]
Todd B. Peyton, MA, LPC, KYI, is an American psychotherapist with more than twenty years of practice in depth-oriented psychotherapy, Jungian dream analysis and somatic and energetic work.[1] He sees clients in Hang Dong, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, and in Bangkok, the Philippines and Greece, with telehealth sessions for clients in the United States.[1][4] He trained at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California, taking a master's in counselling psychology with a focus in depth psychology.[2] Alongside the clinical training he spent extended periods ordained as a Buddhist monk at Kyiatisaung Monastery in Thaton, Myanmar, and studied dreams in analysis with the Jungian author Robert Johnson and with the Trappist monk Father Gregory Santos.[2] He is also a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and his offerings include Asclepian Detoxification.[1] He has brought Kundalini to the Henosis community directly, most recently leading a kidney kriya session for a Henosis group.[3]
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