MindfulnessSpotlight: Mindfulness

Sam Asser

Sam Asser is the co-founder of Fast Way To Health, an online education platform specializing in fasting. Sam is a holistic coach and the host of their online events that bring together health and wellness experts from all around the globe to empower and educate people on becoming the best and healthiest version of themselves. Fasting has been the catalyst for positive change in her own life and her mission is to continue to spread this positive ripple effect out into the world so people can become who they truly are.

Mitch Asser

Mitch Asser is founder of FastWayToHealth.com and The Fasting Summit, which is one of the leading health and wellness brands in the world that is focused around fasting. His events have now reached 10s of 1,000s of people who are looking to reverse disease, fight fatigue, lose weight and ultimately become a healthier version of themselves with fasting.

Maureen Garry, PN1, FAS

If you want to lose fat, gain cognitive clarity and feel younger all in one fell swoop, then you need to meet Maureen Garry, respected nutrition coach, trainer and brain health expert. As a woman who has not only overcome her own weight struggles but discovered how to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease that runs in her family, Maureen offers invaluable tips and tools to help women peel off extra weight while increasing mental acuity. It is possible for you to slim down and sharpen up without struggle. You can lose - or avoid - the "menopause brain and belly" so many women accept as normal, keeping you lean, clear and ready to enjoy life. Discover what the "naturally slim and sharp" people do, and you'll be naturally slim and sharp, too!

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Joanna Rushton

Body, mind and performance coach, Joanna Rushton is a two times #1 Amazon Best Selling author, is also Co-Founder and Director of Bhavana Organic Farm + Cooking School and the host of Healthy ME Summits.  Jo has studied under some of the world’s leading holistic health practitioners and healers and is honored to be a Faculty Member of the CHEK Institute and teaches Holistic Lifestyle Coach (HLC) Level 1and 2 across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada and the UK.

Jo speaks and teaches internationally on health, nutrition, wellness, and lifestyle. She heads a multi-disciplinary private practice, working with individuals, families and organizations, leading the way in preventative and corrective health. She is committed to empowering individuals to transform their way of thinking; improve personal health; achieve personal goals, and make a difference in their daily life and the lives of those they touch. She coaches in both an online and face to face capacity.

Jo has helped individuals around the world reclaim their health where modern medicine and conventional approaches have failed them in the past.  Jo works with clients and families that have a multitude of conditions and concerns from chronic fatigue & autoimmune issues to cancer.

Carla Atherton, MA, FDN, TNC

Carla Atherton, MA, FDN is the Director of the Lotus Health Project and the Healthy Family Formula, Host of the Children’s Health Summit, Family Health and Nutrition Coach, Writer and Editor, Curriculum Developer, Publisher, Workshop Leader, Yoga Instructor, Health (R)evolutionary, and Children’s Health Advocate.

Carla Atherton is an acreage-living mother of three teenagers and specializes in family health with a focus on functional, holistic, natural health and wellness, with specific interest in chronic childhood illness, functional neurology, digestive health, the science of mind/body practices, stress reduction, autoimmunity, and immunology. Carla coaches families to overcome health challenges using the principles of lifestyle medicine.

Lisa Moore, DD, ATP, CHT

Lisa Moore is a Doctor of Divinity, Certified Hypnotherapist, Angel Therapist Practitioner and Intuitive Life Advisor. She teaches and counsels her clients to realize their own magnificence and authenticity. Lisa’s depth of knowledge, warmth of heart, and experiences in both the physical and nonphysical worlds provide the foundation for her profoundly transformation sessions, classes and live workshops.

Lisa has discovered many secrets to empowerment along her life journey with her greatest teachers being her 3 grown children. She is passionate about inspiring and guiding others to live the healthy, joyous, fulfilling lives they so desire and deserve. She is the founder and co-producer of the LGBT Wellness Summit and is presently working on a Television project geared to the 18-30 year old who suffer with mental health and addiction behaviors.

Rick Shaffer, MDiv

Rev. Rick teaches a new style of meditation that helps participants tap in to their own awakening spirit. As a sought after speaker, teacher, healer, and spiritual therapist, he encourages his group members to unlock and develop their own doctrine or faith system. After a career as a radio/tv broadcasting executive, Rev. Rick returned to graduate school. He graduated Magna Cum Laude, from Central Theological Seminary in Kansas City, with a Master of Divinity degree, a professional degree. As a retired ordained minister, he has expanded beyond organized religion. He has enhanced the "Unity Consciousness" method, which originated in Santa Fe, to more easily access the flow of Divine within. He was also the producer of the MyAnswerToday Christos Chi videos. He hosts many podcasts, such as Gay Love on QtalkAmerica, and the LGBT Wellness Summit for Health Talks Online.

Lori Morrison

Lori is an authentic guide to healing the body, mind and soul through a rewiring of the body's energetic flow where the soul is rebooted into joyful living. Combining her many skills as a Spiritual Counselor, Healer and Intuitive along with her knowledge of shamanic healing and energy balancing, Lori inspires those she works with towards personal shifts in consciousness.

Stephen Huszar

Stephen is a film actor, producer and entrepreneur. His passion for story, combined with his pursuits in mindfulness lead him to recently produce Milton’s Secret - the first-ever feature film based on the teachings of Eckhart Tolle (Author of The Power of Now). Collaborating with a star cast including: Donald Sutherland (Hunger Games) Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast & The Furious), Mia Kirshner (The L Word) and David Sutcliffe (Gilmore Girls) and directed by Barnet Bain (What Dreams May Come), the critically acclaimed film suggests a mindful approach to tackle major issues in society such as bullying, violence and stress.

Stephen has dedicated much of his life’s work to producing conscious media for mainstream audiences. He’s inspired by transformation and is committed to empowering adults and youths with practical tools to overcome the “bully” in our schools, homes and in our own minds. He co-founded Mindful World to produce edutainment properties such as Milton’s Secret along with Mindfulness Education and Social Emotional Curriculum for schools.

Mike Olaski

Mike Olaski is an Integrated Media Producer working with brands and businesses to develop and produce multiple forms of media, technology and content while managing the strategy and integration of each form and format. Such was his role in Mindful World’s premier production, Milton’s Secret; The Movie, Web Content, Courses, Software Applications, as well as The Mindful World Parenting Summit.

Mike has dedicated much of his life’s work to producing progressive and integrative health and wellness related content. He’s inspired by holistic systems and is committed to sharing the profoundly universal message of mindfulness. His passion for inclusive, transparent and holistic systems translates into the technical and strategic opportunities to put forward powerful, positive messages in movies, shows, and other content knowing the transformative impact potential they have on how we see ourselves, each other, our experience in this world and our daily lives.

Stacy Thomas, PhD, C Psych

Dr. Stacy Thomas is a Clinical Health Psychologist working in private practice in Toronto. With close to 20 years of experience, she has helped people navigate significant life challenges and guided those looking to maximize their potential and design their lives. Dr. Thomas integrates mind, body and spirit approaches into her practice and she attributes her ability as a facilitator of rapid change to her own practice of mindfulness, which has allowed her to connect more deeply and authentically with the clients she serves. She feels incredibly blessed to have the privilege to parent two wonderful children who have been her best mindfulness teachers to date.

Eric Zielinski, DC

Dr. Eric Zielinski is the author of a U.S. bestselling book, The Healing Power of Essential Oils, and has pioneered natural living and biblical health education since 2003. Trained as an aromatherapist, public health researcher and chiropractor, Dr. Z started NaturalLivingFamily.com in 2014 with his wife, Sabrina Ann, to help people learn how to safely and effectively use natural remedies such as essential oils. Now visited by more than four million natural health seekers every year, NaturalLivingFamily.com has rapidly become the #1 online source for biblical health and non-branded essential oils education.

Lisa Sniderman

Lisa Sniderman, aka Aoede, is an award-winning folk pop artist, playwright, author and filmmaker from San Francisco, who obsessively creates to heal. She creates and records unique, original full-length fantasy musicals on audiobooks that she adapts into musical theater stage plays. She’s been honored with more than 80 awards for songwriting, audiobooks, films, stage plays and books since 2012 — all while suffering from a rare autoimmune disease: dermatomyositis, a progressive muscle weakness disease.

Sniderman’s mission is to be a light and a muse by inspiring, engaging and empowering young adults (and kids at heart) of all ages, challenges and abilities through original art and music. Her new memoir, A Light in the Darkness: Transcending Chronic Illness through the Power of Art and Attitude, chronicles her 10-year journey living with chronic illness while creating to heal. She’s founded an online community of artists creating to heal, and collaborated with more than 50 artists who use creativity to heal on an online video showcase and live multi-media performances in 2018.