Facilitators
Annmarie Solo – Vinyasa Flow Instructor & Singer
Annmarie Solo is a celebrated yoga teacher and singer/songwriter. She teaches a consciousness in action, cultivating mind/body awareness which creates healthy, new patterns and ways of being. She combines alignment with being fully engaged in the moment, allowing the student to listen and then respond to the body’s intelligence. Annmarie believes yoga is a powerful tool for self introspection which can ultimataely bring light or consciousness to what was once dull or dark. Yoga helps us to open, embrace and activate our inherent vitality. Most recently Annmarie released her folk/pop debut called “Rising” which Music Connection Magazine calls, “honest, delicate and heartfelt. Her songs are filled with hopeful, inspiring messages about humanity, love and evolution during these times of great change. www.annmariesolo.com
Pauline ‘Sukhdev’ Drossart – Kundalini Instructor & Singer
Pauline Sukhdev is known for the medicine music she channels and the vigor simplicity with which she delivers the teachings of Kundalini Yoga & Meditation. Yoga and music has been a path of powerful healing for Pauline. Pauline offers her teachings and uplifting music around the world including Europe, Costa Rica and soon to be Hawaii. Pauline and her partner Akadahmah have recently released the now popular chant CD “Livelight” under the Aykanna. Her music spirited, soulful and uplifting. www.theyogaofliving.com and www.aykanna.com
Donna Delory - Sacred Devotional Vocalist
Singer and songwriter Donna De Lory has always followed divergent musical roads. The petite, vivacious brunette with the mighty voice happily dallied in the mainstream as Madonna’s sassy tour sidekick for over a decade, but her own parallel journey as a solo artist follows a more eclectic muse. A devoted student of yoga and spiritual teahcings, De Lory’s lushly conceived solo albums, like her 2009 ecstatic groove Sanctuary, are not only inspired by Western pop, but Indian devotional music, Sanskrit mantras, Northern African grooves, psychedelic arrangement and dance beats. Donna blends her rich spiritual practice, sonic collages and diverse musical inspirations into a unique, world music-meets-kirtan style that’s been called “the perfect combination of earth mama and fairy child, with a voice that oscillates between the passionate laments of Janis Joplin and the crystal clarity of Enya”. “Playing music is my yoga,” says Donna Delory. It’s my bliss. When I play, I get lost in the music, my mind stops, I am the moment and I am free. This is the place I never want to leave.” www.donnadelory.com
Leilani “Lani” Park
Leilani is a Trans-Cultural Wisdom Carrier/Medicinemaker, Sacred Deance, Filmmaker and the Author of the Award-winning book SPIRIT OF HULA, MANA O HULA. She shares the “Sacred Hula: Ancient Mystery School of the Goddess as a Healing Art and Energy Medicine. Leilani has trained with the Great Kumu Hula (Hula Masters) of Hwaii and her mentors include Rubellite Kawena Johnson, the foremost Native Hawaiian Scholar in the world and Kahu and Kumu Poni Kamau’u of the Sacred Kauai Luahine Lineage (a Priest and Master of all Traditional Hawaiian Arts and Cultural Practices). She guides Goddess Celebrations, Retreats, Festivals and Sacred Journeys on Kauai and throughout Gaia as an Emissary of MU sharing Aloha dn the Grace and Sanctity of the Divine Feminine. www.inspiritdivine.com
Radhanath Swami – A True Bhakti Yogi
In 1970, at the age of only nineteen, Radhanath Swami left home in America seeking adventure and spiritual knowledge. After trekking across Europe for months, he reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sahdu or wondering monk, he returned to America in order to share the sacred knowledge and wisdom he had learned from the many holy men and women he had met. His story is recounted in his recently published memoir The Journey Home. www.radhanathswami.com
Akadahmah – Medicine Man and World Percusionist
www.aykanna.com
