“MOVING MEDITATION FLOW CLASS” by Dana “the Yoga Diva” Smith

The Yoga Diva will get the conference off to a great start with a moving meditation flow class to warm up our lungs, calm our minds and get our energy flowing.

Dana is certified Master Life Coach, Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher and Holistic Health Practitioner. Considered a "Jane of all Holistic Trades" she specializes in Thai Yoga Massage, Reiki and is a gifted Intuitive Counselor. She has practiced yoga for several years and is registered with the National Yoga Alliance . To keep classes creative and fun, she continues to attend workshops and has completed teacher trainings with Shiva Rea, Doug Swenson and other renowned yoga teachers.

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“RELEARN HOW-TO BREATHE AND DE-STRESS” by Ayo Handy-Kendi –

The PositivEnergy Breath Coach and founder of Black Love Day

Relearn How to Breathe for Better Life, Health and Work is an in-depth, interactive “breathshop” that explores the tremendous benefits of correct breathing, offers breath mechanics to relearn how-to breathe, connects breath to stress management and offers stress busters to enhance personal effectiveness and/or relationship building. We all say that we breathe but it is researched that 9 of 10 Americans are breathing inefficiently. This is putting our health at great risk. When one becomes aware of how to control the breath, they gain the perfect, natural tool for controlling their life. Effective breathing affects healing, long-lasting change, growth, life-style, anger and stress management; physical and spiritual enhancement; emotional balance; mental clarity; energy and peak performance; inner peace and joy. To live life to the fullest understand there is Power and “PositivEnergy” in the breath! So re-learn how to breathe at this introductory workshop.

Renown as Mama Ayo, she currently serves as a Breathologist/Stress Manager and Inspirational Speaker/Life Coach demonstrating over 30 years of experience as a vegetarian, community organizer, social service/mental health counselor with a BA in Community Organizing and AA in Human Services. She is also a Certified Transformational Breath Facilitator (CTBF), Certified Stress Manager (CSM), Certified in Reiki I, II, RaSekhi I, II, Qi Gong I, II and as a Diversity Trainer. Furthermore, she is spiritually degreed in overcoming the life challenges of child-hood abuse, domestic violence, addiction, homelessness and the violent deaths of her teenage son and oldest brother. “PositivEnergy™” the I-can-do concept for quality life, co-created in 1981 by her which affected thousands, is now connected with breathwork as the process of attitude change in 2010. She is the author of, “The Power of the Breath”, “The Black Love Book”, “PositivEnergy – Motivational Messages from a Sister in the Struggle”, and a play, “A Day of Withdrawal”. She further serves as the CEO of PositivEnergyWorks, a health service of transformative processes, products and events focused around breathwork; is the Founder/Dir., African American Holiday Association (AAHA), a non-profit that uses holidays, celebrations and rituals for social change, healing, cultural and economic empowerment; and is the founder of Black Love Day- Feb. 13th and The Ritual of Reconciliation. For a life-changing, re-connection to the “Power of the Breath” and the “breath movement” call 202-667-2577 or view www. Breathepositive.com

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MOVING WITH THE BREATH WITH FOCUS ON PRANAYAMA AND ASANA by HawaH

This dynamic workshop will begin with a series of Pranayama exercises (The Science of Breathing, learning how to control and use the breath to enhance creativity and health). Then we will transition into a mindfulness meditation, working on cultivating stillness and understanding impermanence. The workshop will conclude with a series of yoga asanas for the intermediate student.

What to Bring: Meditation Cushion/ Blanket, Yoga Mat, Towel, and extra $ if you would like to purchase any of Hawah’s books. Please come to this workshop on an empty stomach.

HawaH is an artist, author, educator, yoga instructor and community organizer. He has dedicated his life to teaching about solutions to violence and ways to peace, and has traveled to over 23 countries in the past 9 years to facilitate interactive workshops, dialogues, perform poetry, teach yoga, and speak with those interested in creating a caring, sustainable, and equitable world.

HawaH was trained and certified at the Yoga Vidya Gurukul, a world-renowned teacher training college in India. He has spent his entire life traveling back and forth between India and the U.S., where his exposure to eastern asceticism and western materialism inspired a quest to transcend duality. In this way, he maintains a consistent Vipassana Meditation practice and yearly returns to India to reconnect with his roots. Most recently he has been experimenting with Capoeira (a Brazilian form of martial arts and dance) and Kung Fu (specifically training in Shaolin & Bagua styles). No matter how much HawaH practices however, it is clear his most focused and cultivated discipline is Seva Yoga (the Yoga of Service). Today he continues to serve as the executive director of the non-profit organization One Common Unity. HawaH's Teaching Style: HawaH's classes are dynamic and shamic; a journey integrating his knowledge of ancient yoga forms with parallel modalities found in other cultures & traditions. 202.445.0957 http://everlutionary.net/photos/body-forms

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“OXYGEN IS THE KEY TO SURVIVAL” by Kathleen Schuppel RN BSN MSN

Oxygen is the key to survival of all our living cells. Nurse Schuppel will speak about our freedom to breathe oxygen and what it does to enhance the breath of life in anyBODY. We breathe 22,000 times a day, taking in and out an olympic size swimming pool volume of air each day. Shouldn’t it be clean and shouldn’t we breathe to enhance the entrance of oxygen to do the work of keeping all our systems working the way they should? Learn the benefits of oxygen and why IT IS the critical element that we should not take for granted.

Kathleen describes her business of helping people attain uncompromising health by making sensible lifestyle choices to fit their needs and calls herself a HEALTHY HOUSEHOLD NURSE. Nurse Schuppel earned her BSN from Columbia University and MSN from the University of New Mexico. Nurse Schuppel spent 22 years at the Hospital bedside and is experienced with breathing and the effects of having enough oxygen to be well. For the last 15 years Nurse Schuppel has been involved in Green Technologies that promote clean air, essential living water and 100% vegetarian nutritionally superior supplements. Nurse Schuppel believes that promoting “Uncompromising health from the inside out and the outside in,” helps to keep people out of the hospital.

“THE ART OF LYMPHASIZING AND THOUGHT” by Dr. Khadijah Abdul Malik

WORKSHOP: Optimal activation of your Lymphatic System is a requirement from nature. The breath of life ignites the tree of life --the lymphatic system. With every breath we take, you increase the power of the lymphatic vessels. The lymphatic vessels have the unique ability to remove the blood proteins and excess water from around the cells so the oxygen and nutrients can get to the cells to generate and power the pumps. Learn how to assist this process so your body can be free of pain, loss of energy, and stagnation as long as you live. Come join me for this 15 minute workshop. It’s time for you to take back control of your health and learn to “lymphasize” the excess fluid away. Our bodies were created to heal themselves! The discoveries pertaining to the blood and lymph, life process and cell environment, reveal how everyone can help stop pain and every disease thought. The lymphatic system is to your body like a filter on a fish tank is for your fish. Every cell is constantly generating power for each and every part of the body to function properly.

LECTURE: STEP UP OUT OF THE DARK AGES OF HEALTH CARE.

The conventional theory of medicine says that your health is a matter of your genetics, exposure to infections, enzyme, proteins and lifestyle. Their theories have you believing that emotions and consciousness has nothing to do with your health and lifestyle choices. Your emotional experience has a greater factor on your health than any of those mentioned above. The good news is that you can do so much to heal your emotional self. Change your thoughts and you change your life. Join me for a 20 minute lecture on the new frontier in medicine as we learn to Step Up out of the Dark Ages of Health Care. You have to because it’s “Time to Bury Diseased Thinking” and leap into the future of Information as medicine.

Dr. Khadijah Abdul Malik, known in the community as Dr. Karen Davis-Foulks has over 20 years of health care experience. She is the creator of The Ark of Self-Healing & Self H.E.L.P. and Founder of 4 Advanced Holistic H.E.L.P. Foundation (Health Education for Longevity & Peace). Dr. Khadijah Abdul Malik hosted Health Talk / Health Wise: It’s Your Life a motivational and nutritional health talk radio show on WOL 1450 AM and CPR 97.5 FM radio. She rededicated her life to raising public consciousness about the power to heal oneself. She is the author of Tune Into Yourself Thru The Magic of Poetry, The Answer Is Be Still And Listen and her new release “Step Up Out of the Dark Ages of Health Care: It’s Time to Bury Diseased Thinking”. Dr. Khadijah is well-known as a Motivational Speaker and Poetress. She is deeply committed to the spiritual awakening process; to the exploration and advancement of the evolution of consciousness; and to the power of conscious thinking. Her personal mission statement “Conscious living through Living Consciously™ affirms that, through the power of Spirit in her, she heals, empowers and transforms lives through the expansion of consciousness. She offers NES Pro Vision Human Body Field Evaluations, Stress, Relaxation and NLP Counseling, Therapeutic Reflexology, Life Extension Nutrition Counseling and Cellular Ecology training (support of the Lymphatic System). She practices in the *non-secular science of medicine as a Preventive Medicine Lymphology Doctor, and Informational Bioenergetic Health Care provider. “Right thoughts poured into Consciousness will eventually purify it”. Ernest Holmes.

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HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK™ – A JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS By Sharanya Naik

There are many transformative breath practices and Holotropic Breathing has gained worldwide acceptance. Developed by Dr. Stanislav and Christina Groff , since the 1950’s, this form of breathwork operates from the principle that we are our own best healers. Using our breath we are able to enter into non-ordinary states of consciousness. In non-ordinary states we move more deeply and rapidly toward wholeness as physical, emotional, mental and spiritual beings. This workshop will introduce you to a powerful therapeutic concept for healing towards wholeness.

Sharanya Naik has been a practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork since 1996. She was certified as a facilitator in 2003 and has since facilitated the Holotropic process for groups and individuals in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York City. She has been a frequent contributor to The Inner Door – the journal for Holotropic Breathwork practitioners. Sharanya is a student of many kinds of bodywork. She is a certified massage therapist, she practiced Yoga and Yoga-Nidra in her early years, and was an Indian Classical and American Modern Dancer for most of her life. She has been a school-teacher for the last 20 years, and is currently the Director of Diversity at Princeton Day School in New Jersey. She can be found on the web at www.bodyworknj.com or by email: sharanya172@gmail.com

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KEYNOTE: ANCIENT EGYPT – THE FOUNDATION OF BREATHWORK AND YOGA

By Sebai Muata Ashby Ph. D., D.D., P.C., Y.U.

Just as civilization started in Africa, the practice of breathwork started in Africa too, specifically Ancient Khamit, which later became known as Egypt. In the ancient Egyptians writings, the introduction to humanity about the control of one’s breath (life force) is noted as early as 300B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) prior to the emergence of the discipline of physical movements in India- 2500 years before. Learn more about the truth of this history – that before India or China, the concepts of breathwork and conscious movements formed the foundation for what we know of today as “Yoga”.

Muata Ashby, author of over 50 books, holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in World Religion and Myth, focusing on African and Indian Religion, and a Doctor of Divinity Degree in Holistic Healing. He is also a Pastoral Counselor and Teacher of Yoga Philosophy and Discipline. Dr. Ashby received his Doctor of Divinity Degree from and is an adjunct faculty member of the American Institute of Holistic Theology and the Florida International University. Dr. Ashby is a certification as a PREP Relationship Counselor. Dr. Ashby has been an independent researcher and practitioner of Egyptian, Indian and Chinese Yoga and psychology as well as Christian Mysticism. Dr. Ashby has engaged in Post Graduate research in Yoga at the Yoga Research Foundation. He has extensively studied mystical religious traditions from around the world and is an accomplished lecturer, artist, poet, screenwriter, playwright and author of over 30 books on yoga and spiritual philosophy. He is an Ordained Minister and Spiritual Counselor and also the founder the Sema Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading the wisdom of

Yoga and the Ancient Egyptian mystical traditions. www.egyptianyoga.com

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“THE DANCE OF THE STRUGGLE” - FOCUS ON SENIOR BREATH/STRETCHING

by Doris A.M. Thomas

Doris A.M. Thomas will offer a visual presentation called “The Dance of the Struggle”, which demonstrates her struggle in life and how she got up from all of it. This dance will further emphasize the benefit of Senior breathing and stretching. This 85 years young Senior is a 40+ year survivor of Breast Cancer who further overcame a 2nd re-occurrence of Cancer in her hips. As part of her healing she took up stretching and has been doing yoga for approximately 16 years at the Washington Senior Wellness Center. She affirms that proper breathing, yoga and meditation have helped preserve her life. She states, “I do yoga every morning to prepare myself for the rest of the day, because I’m usually achy and stiff in the morning, having a case of osteoporosis. I feel that if it wasn’t for yoga, I wouldn’t be able to walk. Yoga reaches all parts of my body, keeping my bones flexible. Sometimes I’ve been asked to teach yoga to other Seniors-- this also helps me.” She also dances with a group of Seniors from the Model City Wellness Center called the “Senior Steppers”, who demonstrate dance all over the city. As Ms. Senior D. C. of 1982, she also represents the grace of aging as a representative of the city. She is the founder/company director of The Serenity Players, an East of the River theater company, that she started in 1985, so that she could pursue her life-long love as an actress. She does lots more, but for now, know that it takes a lot of energy to do what she does, and it comes from the breath.
For contact: 202-575-4248 www.serenityplayers.org

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EXERCISE AND BREATHING by Chris Thomas Fitness

Chris Thomas is a Master Trainer and Professional Body Builder. His workshop will introduce the importance of breathing while exercising, something that everyone does not do, but can make a big difference in the outcome.

Chris Thomas Fitness is a premier fitness and spa company with the most competitive prices in the Washington DC area. Our unparalled service, competitive prices, and overall values are why our customers keep returning. Come where the pro-athlete, celebrity and serious people train.

Our courteous and professional staff has served clients such as; National Basketball Association (NBA), Women National Basketball Association (WNBA), National Football League (NFL), National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ), Professional Tennis Association, Federal Police (FBI, CIA, U.S Marshall), Homeland Security , Lobbyist, Hospitals, teachers, and more. We have been in business for over 7 years with results that speak for themselves. Come to a place were training is affordable and customer service is priceless. ChrisThomasFitness.com

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TETADA KALIMASADA featuring Sal Tauhidi

Tetada Kalimasada operates on the basic principle that Man is composed of matter and energy. Thus, the exercises stimulate the main nervous plexus system (energy centers or charkas) of the body to generate extensive bio-electricity, converts it to energy, and allow it to effectively flow internally and externally. In addition to the cultivation of inner energy and healing ability for the practitioner, Tetada Kalimasada enhances the development of mental concentration and emotional control. It empowers the students to use this inner energy for holistic well being of the individual. The Five Basic Key Principles of Kalimasada are Triangular Diaphragmatic Breathing Movements, Alpha Concentration, Progressive Relaxation and Energy Synchronization. KALIMASADA is an ancient Indonesian method of inner energy development and self-induced therapy, which has been passed down through many generations, for the past 500 years ago, the knowledge, practice and teaching have been exclusive to Javanese family. A little over ten years ago, the present day successors of the late Grand Master of this method were motivated to share their knowledge and teachings throughout the world for the good of humanity. Brother Tauhidi shares it here at this conference with us.

Sal Tauhidi has been a practitioner of Kalimisada for 15 years, and is currently resident instructor for the Washington DC area. He currently works as an International Trade Specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce, providing export managerial and supervisory oversight and advocacy for U.S. Commercial Service Operations in African and the Middle East. He holds a BA in African & Middle East Studies and an MA in International Transactions. He is an outdoor nature, holistic health, jazz and sacred music enthusiast. He is married with three children.

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“KUNDILINI RISING” by Freedome El

What Freedome’ brings to the table today is divine innerstanding of empowerment practices that will allow each of us to reclaim ownership of our lives and take charge of our health. “Through the use of traditional belly dance movement, breath, sound and focused thought we have the ability to raise our vibrational force up through the kundilini (chakkra centers) to the Universe, speak our will into its center and manifest destiny. We are the Gods and Goddesses of our own lives. Let it be done!” It surely will be done in her workshop entitled “Kundilini Rising”.

Nebt KheperRaet Hu Ity Herishief-El, a RAM which loosely translated means master of the transformation process, is a wholistic health consultant, health and wellness practitioner/therapist, creative artist and educator, blessing the DC metropolitan area since 2001. The wholistic health practices and therapies she has mastered and offers to her clients include reiki, reflexology, massage therapy, auricular acupuncture detox, aromatherapy, crystal healing, movement therapy, nutritional guidance and herbal healing. Freedome’, as she is affectionately known, is the CEO of two businesses: Free and Green, a business that focuses on restoring the balance continuum through “green” consciousness raising and providing ” green” services and products that promote “green” living for a “greener” world; and The Freedome Collective, a community based organization dedicated to building better, stronger, more unified communities. Learn more about these businesses on line at www.free-and-green.com and www.thefreedomecollective.org
freedome2green@live.com 240-468-3100

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SPIRITUAL MALE UNFOLDMENT with Lulama’s (Swami Jivan M.M.) :

This presentation is designed to help restore the balance between men and women, dealing with the issues of spiritual responsibility of manhood, .What is it to be a man spiritually? Spiritual unfoldment and it’s effects on a man’s sexual, emotional and mental health? The Importance of breath work in relationship to yourself and others? Vulnerability the power of manhood. Can a man’s sensitivity help women to be themselves? All of these questions will be answered in this workshop.

Lulama during his adolescent years took a strong interest in mediation, and Tantra, This pursuit lead him to take discipleship under the Enlightened Master Osho Rajnessh. Soon after he meet his life long friend, and teacher Shantum Nityama, an internationally known Tantric teacher, through his work, he was exposed to the sensitive nature of women and energy development. Lulama integrates the various fields of Humanistic psychology, the research of the Ennegram a personality assessment system, has been a student of Chi Kung , Yoga and Aryuveda for the past 21 years.

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OXYGEN BENEFITS OF LIVE FOODS by Khepra Anu MOJO JUICE CLUB

Daily we must meet the critical need for oxygen – the vital element common in air, water, food. Oxygen is the greatest rejuvenation nutrient available, converting food into energy. Are you getting that energy from the food you eat? Khepra will tell you and show you how”

Khepra Anu has devoted his life on the path to higher health, wealth, and enlightenment for his family and community. For 20 years he has practiced vegetarianism and for the last 10 years an exclusive live food diet. He is a certified food scientist, live food chef and Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) Yoga Teacher. He has been featured in Pear Magazine , an online monthly magazine dedicated to the live food lifestyle. Formally trained as a Mechanical Engineer at Howard University, he has applied that understanding to his approach to repairing and detoxing the human body through the scientific and mechanical application of proper food and juice. He is the author of a new book, Paradise Health, Your Guide to Optimum Health through Detoxification. Khepra has committed his life to sharing the live food lifestyle and a prosperous mentality in his quest to continue to heal and nourish himself and others. He is the manager and Head Live Food Chef at Senbeb Café, a vegan eatery that has been serving the Washington , DC community for over 20 years. Every month Khepra leads the

community on a week long fast on coconut water and fresh juice. Khepra is available for health consultations, live food prep classes, and fasting guidance.

QIGONG & EMBRYONIC BREATHING FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH & LONGEVITY”

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“QiGong refers to the mental mastery over the flow of life in one’s body. qigong also means separation of your breathe from your body which means that use your breathing to direct energy to your body through a system of exercises” from “Power of the Breath”, Ayo Handy-Kendi

Manifest is honored to participate in the "The Breath Mastery Conference – Supporting Mothers and Fathers for Family Health” and will be teaching the “QiGong & Embryonic Breathing for Optimal Health & Longevity” Workshop. Let Manifest help you “empower, enlighten & heal from within”

Manifest Ra is a Certified QiGong Healer/Instructor, Life Balance Expert and Motivational Speaker. He has studied and practiced QiGong for over 10 years and has taught the “healing art of cultivating energy” to many people through classes, life balance workshops and demonstrations. Manifest trained and received his certification in QiGong Healing at the Chinese Healing Arts Center (Danbury, CT) and has learned from various Qi Gong masters. He has facilitated QiGong workshops for Howard University Hospital and teaches Life Balance Training & Stress Management workshops for the DC Public School system, corporations, agencies and other groups as well as Life Balance Coaching to individuals. He is also a professional member of the National QiGong Association (NQA). For more information visit www.manifestra.com or call (202) 746-4537.

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SUDARSHAN KRIYA by Dr. Tracee L. Jamison-Hooks

The Art of Living Course (AOL) gives participants the practical knowledge and techniques to unlock their deepest potential and bring fullness to life. Whether happy and successful or feeling the stress of poor health, disappointments, or fear, every participant is cared for and comes away lighter, with effective techniques for releasing mental and physical stress and increasing his or her health, energy, peace, self-knowledge, awareness, and joy. The masterpiece of the Art of Living Course is a powerful breathing-based technique called Sudarshan Kriya , or the healing breath. Sudarshan Kriya incorporates specific natural rhythms of breath to release stress and bring the mind to the present moment. The course also includes other breathing techniques, meditation, low-impact yoga, and skills for dealing effectively with challenging emotions and situations. Participants leave with simple but powerful techniques they can practice every day, and an extraordinary weekly group practice is available in many areas.

Dr. Hooks enjoys her career as an Electrical Engineer and works as a Parts Engineer and Failure Analyst at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. She attributes her career joys and successes to her work as an Art of Living Teacher and the inspiration she has received from her teacher, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Dr. Jamison has enjoyed teaching this course in the Washington DC area at Inner City High Schools, Youth Jails, and shelters housing abused women. She has taught in Syracuse, NY at a women’s shelter. And she has taught on the Salish-Kootenai Tribal Reservation in Pablo, MT to the suicide prevention center and in youth centers. She has personally seen the AOL course transform and enrich the lives of a diverse group of individuals. Whether you are on a spiritual path or not, one can benefit from taking this beautiful course.

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Ema Zatitie, Wholistic Practitioner, Thai Yoga Bodyworker, will co-facilitate workshop with Brother LuLama.

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