Ashalyn, CHT - Mt. Shasta , CA       ShastaVortex.com

Visionary Founder/Project Director of Ascension Heights Health Resort, Owner/Director of Shasta Vortex Adventures & Editor in Chief of Mountain Spirit Chronicles

Ashalyn has been working towards creating The Resort since her original vision in 1989. Her passion and dedication for this project continues to grow with every breath she takes. She calls it her "Life's Work." Ashalyn moved to Mt. Shasta City in 1988 and loves the mountain so much that she created a business around it called Shasta Vortex Adventures. Since 2003, Shasta Vortex has been offering people worldwide local guided tours in all four seasons and Integrative HealthCare ...fostering awareness through personal experience, with your optimal health in mind!

Ashalyn is also a psychic Certified Hypnotherapist who has been offering Soul Communications Sessions to clients worldwide for the last 30 years. Her mission is "...to help people remember who they are and encourage them to follow through on their life purpose and I find Mother Nature a magnificent helper in this pursuit." As a tour guide, her Sacred Site Treks, Guided Vision Quests, Sacred Springs Tours and Healing Earth Journeys all incorporate reconnecting to the healing powers of nature, oneself, the Earth Mother, Creator Source, Ascended Masters and other beings on one's individual spirit team.

As a single mother of two grown sons she has been a secretary, office manager, waitress, salesperson, graphic designer, certified preschool teacher, employee trainer and gardener. She was also Director and emcee for Planetary Citizens' 1991-92 Symposium for Inter Species and Inter Dimensional Communications in Tucson, AZ. She is a published writer and poet and is editor, ad sales executive and creator of a local tabloid called Mountain Spirit Chronicles ...to educate, entertain and enlighten those exploring the Mount Shasta area. In 2007 Ashalyn joined the Mt. Shasta Women In Business organization and is now on their Steering Committee. They are "...a strong network of dynamic, professional women achieving their business goals through support, inspiration and mentoring."

Dr. Janine Talty, D.O., M.P.H. - Watsonville, CA      Wellness-Rehab.com 

Owner and Medical Director of the Wellness & Rehabilitation Medical Center and Clinical Assistant Professor at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Dr. Janine Talty, D.O., M.P.H. holds a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and Masters in Public Health, with a BS in Sports Medicine, with Residency and Fellowship at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, with certifications in Manual Medicine, Muscle Energy Techniques, Myofascial Release, Strain-Counter Strain, Function Indirect Technique, Craniosacral Techniques, Direction Action Thrust, and Exercise Prescription. She is board certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians, holds a California State Medical License, is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, the American Back Society, the International Spinal Injection Society and a Board Member of the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine.

Dr. Talty has the same vision of blending sound medical advice and treatment that includes complementary and alternative approaches - exactly what she has been working toward and doing for the past 10 years now at the Wellness & Rehabilitation Medical Center. "Bringing this blend to the Shasta area is a natural," she offers. She now owns a home in Lake Shastina (just north of Mt. Shasta) with her husband and visits the Mt. Shasta area often. Dr. Talty is currently creating new web site - http://DrTalty.com She just published her book, Indigo Awakening: Confessions of a Dyslexic Physician.

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Dr. Valerie Olmsted, RN/BSN, DD, ND, NMD -Sedona, Az
quantumvortexexperience.com

Dr. Valerie Olmsted is a Naturopathic Physician in active practice in the Phoenix area. She hopes to work with AHHR 6 months of the year. A retired RN with over 30 years in the acute care field (Emergency, Intensive Care, Caridac Care, Home Health and Home Hospice). She is also an ordained minister with Blue Flame Ministries.

Host of "The Enlightened Medicine Show" on BBSradio.com, Dr Valerie, aka "The Holographic Physician," brings out the little-known Truth about health and healing - on all levels of being. With an interest in Quantum Physics Medicine, she employs devices made by physicists, alongside ancient "devices" (symbols, amulets, etc.). The combination of devices creates a zero-point field, with scalar energy. Scalar energy could be thought of as your favorite golden retriever. It goes out and fetches what you say (and feel) that you want. The science of it all is related to frequencies and the non-local mind.

A published author in the health and nutrition field, she is currently writing several books on health and spirituality. Dr. Valerie is also an accomplished artist working with oils, pastels, watercolor, glass, lapidary, silver, leather and other media.

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Dr. Alan Cooper, D.C. - Mt. Shasta, CA       passionatepeace.org

Chiropractor; Medical Hypnotherapist; Mind/Body Specialist; Cancer Guide

Together with his life mate, Sally Cooper, Dr. Cooper wrote three books in the 1980's that presented a bittersweet, poignant cosmological view of the Universe that presented the Three Phases of Truth - The Tree of Knowledge, The Truth Hurts Phase andThe Truth Shall Set You Free. This helped Dr. Cooper formulate a new paradigm for healing called, Double Helix Mind/Body Therapy.

The Coopers and their 8 children have also created Passionate Peace Partners, a subsidiary of their California non-profit corporation, Miracle Struggle. Their mission is to gather performers and other passionate peace makers from warring and antagonistic ethnic cultures and have them perform and create art together to pave new pathways on which humanity can tiptoe away from the obvious - passionate paths of war. They spent several years living in Kosovo doing this.

Dr Cooper feels that Mt Shasta can become the mecca for Integrative Cancer Care for all sufferers worldwide."Why do we need Ascension Heights," Cooper asks? "... Coretta Scott King died of Cancer in a Mexican Clinic...because America is a third world country in terms of Integrative Cancer care. It's time for alternative healers and Medical Doctors to [work together.] I see Ascension Heights as a place where all health practitioners drop their egos and make the patient's optimum health the most important issue."

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Robert Atkins - Ashland, OR        dragonflyconstructioncompany.com

Owner of Dragonfly Construction Company

Dragonfly Construction Company builds Eco-Friendly Homes and Affordable Living Homes in Northern California and Oregon State. Their first straw bale construction foray was ten years ago and they remain very passionate about its many virtues. Their homes incorporate energy efficiency and ecological materials such as earthen plaster, cotton insulation, low VOC paints, and nontoxic concrete stain. Some homes have an off-grid solar electric system, which incorporate innovative features such as hot water preheating with excess energy. Large outside porches can protect the house from the elements. Window seats hewn from thick pine slabs provide inviting spots to take in views. Walls are plastered with natural materials that have an organic, hand-sculpted feel, with pure lime outside and pigmented clay with a touch of sparkling mica inside.

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Beloved - Mt. Shasta, CA OpenYourHearts.com
ShastaVortex.com

Beloved lives in Mt. Shasta and it is her greatest passion to assist others in empowering them to open their hearts to live the joy of life. Beloved is a conscious channel, an intuitive teacher & life coach, an instructor & facilitator of spiritual energetic healing, sacred tantric dance for women & leads sacred journeys each summer to Mt. Shasta. She also offers workshops, retreats, trainings and personal sessions in LaHo-Chi, Angel Light and Arcing Light spiritual energetic healing. She is the author of The Cosmic Cradle© and many articles on spiritual growth and mastery. She is a pianist, singer/songwriter, records Personal Musical Heartsongs, and has a CD of her healing music called Grateful Day©. She is also a tour guide for Shasta Vortex Adventures, offering Sacred Site Treks on Mount Shasta.

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Anne Bretschneider, Mt. Shasta, CA, Owner of Sacred Arts

Anne is a massage therapist, a QXCI practitioner, a gourmet raw food chef, a “permaculture-based nature scaper,” an artist and channel for Sacred Geometry. As a very young girl Anne visited the Native American sacred sites and Chartes Cathedral. As she was gazing at a rose window in Chartes, she felt the presence of God at her right shoulder, giving her the sense that there was a Divine Order in the Universe of which she was a part. In her college drawing class, a geometric pattern of perfect symmetry came through her. Unbeknownst to her, it was the same geometric pattern of the rose window.

Five years later a healer in Arizona showed Anne a Sacred Architecture book, in which she saw her drawing. The woman told Anne, “This is a very important design, because it opens up the heart chakra and connects people to God. The old master architects knew how to do this, but this knowledge has been lost for centuries.” Years later, Dr. Gerber told Anne the same thing during a lecture on Vibrational Medicine when the exact same design came up on screen. This led her to the The New School of Architecture in San Diego where her first project was to rebuild the Chartes Cathedral from scratch, including all the rose windows. After extensive research and intuition, Anne brought this to a level of completion that had not yet been brought forth. Sacred Geometry is now her greatest love.

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Burton Fisher, Jr. - White Buffalo Stands - Weed, CA ShastaVortex.com

White Buffalo Stands was the name given to him by his great grandfather, Old Bull. His English name is Burton Fisher, Jr. and he is enrolled with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe from Lame Deer, Montana. In his village he was raised by his grandparents, who taught him the importance of being in touch with nature and spirit and leading a spiritual, prayerful life. This led Burton to explore and follow the different prayer circles of Ceremonies that take four days and nights to “give of yourself so you may learn and be given wisdom through the Sudda Fasting, Sundance and Piercing Ceremonies.” He also sings for the people who go through those Ceremonies.

Burton is a sixth generation singer, drum keeper and a Hereditary Chief for his Tribe so songs are very much a part of his life. He has prayed and sang in Sweat Lodges all his life and is an instructor in this format or way of thinking. He relocated to the Mount Shasta area in 2008 and has been getting to know many of the local Natives who share his love of Ceremony. He is also a tour guide for Shasta Vortex Adventures who offers Morning Star Tours and a Giving Ceremony on Mount Shasta - Authentic Native American Ceremony for spiritual growth and understanding.

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Jeffrey Collings, MBA - Mt. Shasta, CA        123mc.com

Co-founder/Owner of Mission Communications

Education:

• BA Ohio Wesleyan, Economics; 1975
• MBA Univ. S. California; 1979 Deans List  

Experience:

• Black Acoustics: high end audio products; cofounder 1979;
  • Products on cover of Audio magazine 1982
  • Grew to national dealer network with over 100 dealers
• Three advertising agencies, Account Exec.; 1982-3
• Coca Cola USA: 1983-1992
  • Manager Marketing Program Development USA
  • Field Marketing Manger, Southeast Region
  • National Marketing/Sales Liaison
• Three years of solely spiritual work/healing, no professional job 1992-1995
• Turner Broadcasting Worldwide: 6 months 1995
  • Outside, then inside consultant/head of Management Training & Development
• Various small business consulting clients in marketing , training and sales; late 1995-early 1997
• UPLINK: on founding team as VP Sales &  Marketing; Joint venture with BellSouth where UPLINK was the first application of new wireless data cellular transfer technology; 1997-mid 1999
• Arise & Shine herbal cleansing and detoxification products; mid 1999-mid 2000; Outside, then inside consulting regarding turning the business around
• Mission Communications: on founding team as VP Sales & Marketing; turnkey wireless monitoring and control systems for municipal water and wastewater; mid 2000-present; on team that:
  • Grew company from raw startup to full US and Canadian distribution network
  • Over 500 municipalities using their systems
  • Completed two national account and OEM agreements
  • Currently negotiating with two multinational companies who want to buy the company.

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Tony Corsini, BFA - Mt.Shasta, CA        TheFlyingLotus.com

Owner/Operator of Creative Stoneworks and Co-owner of The Flying Lotus Movement Center

Creative Stoneworks is a stone masonry, landscape design and construction company in Mt. Shasta, California. He is also a visual artist, operating Salamander Studios, a multi media, artist-owned studio and gallery and co-owner, with his wife Ra-el, of The Flying Lotus Movement Center.

He received his BFA in Landscape Architecture in 1990 from University of Idaho, then was Project Supervisor for Earth, Wind and Rock in Ridgeway Colorado. From 2000 to 2002 he was Caretaker, building manager and groundskeeper at True Nature Retreat Center in the Colorado San Juan Mountains, where he also offered guests a variety of wilderness and mountain experiences. As Artistic Building Detail Supervisor during that same time, he was a personal creative liaison between owners and building crews helping to finalize and implement exterior and interior building detail.

As a stonemason, Tony provides solid quality stonework with the added dimension of incorporating elements of Sacred Geometry and Earth Energy Dynamics into planning, design and construction of all projects. He uses aspects of the art of Geomancy, the understanding and use of the Earth's natural energy grid and ley lines, and Sacred Geometry to create balance and beauty in his creations. Sacred Geometry is a mathematical and visual language used to describe the interconnectedness and creation of the entire universe.

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Jacqueline Ifft-Matisek, RN, ND -San Bruno and Mt. Shasta, CA mtshastaresearchfoundation.org

Jacqueline is owner and operator of three organizations: Golden Wholistic Services, Nursing Academia; Heart of Shasta Retreat Vacation Rental; and Mt Shasta Research Foundation, Inc. non-profit 501 (c) (3) EIN:74:3132428.

She is based in Northern California and working on "The Rehabilitation Focus" for rural communities and is very committed to redesigning new ways for nature and humanity to work together as community.

Mt. Shasta Research Foundation, Inc. has made a two-year commitment is to assist fundraising with Shasta Vortex Adventures for full construction of Ascension Heights Health Resort in Mt. Shasta, CA.

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Pepper Lewis - Mt. Shasta, CA       ThePeacefulPlanet.com

Founder of The Peaceful Planet and channel for Gaia/Mother Earth

Pepper Lewis is a natural intuitive, a gifted channel and a recognized writer, speaker and teacher of metaphysics. The unique and distinctive channeled messages brought forth by Pepper have become favorites of readers all over the world. Most popular are the featured articles authored by the sentience of our planet, Mother Earth, affectionately known as Gaia. These messages frequently appear in a variety of publications including, Sedona Journal of Emergence. They are also a favorite with many websites and news groups. Pepper is frequently featured on radio and Internet broadcasts including, The Great Shift, with Rev. Fred Sterling.

Pepper is the founder of The Peaceful Planet, an organization dedicated to relating to our environment and the world around us in a way that embraces and projects balance, integrity, peace and harmony. The Peaceful Planet offers inspirational products and services designed to empower, assist and educate. Seminars, lectures and workshops are on-going as time allows. Inquiries regarding scheduling an event in your area are welcome.

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Andrew Oser - Mt. Shasta, CA

President of Summit Coaching Services and Founder/Executive Director of Joy of Sports Foundation

Andrew Oser is the President of Summit Coaching Services, which offers coaching, retreat, and training to nonprofit and business leaders. One of his passions is helping visionary leaders manifest their dreams. Previously, he founded and served as Executive Director of the Joy of Sports Foundation, a nonprofit organization which has made a difference in the lives of more than 35,000 children. Andrew has spoken and given workshops throughout North America and Asia, and has conducted seminars for major corporations such as General Dynamics and HBO. His work with the Joy of Sports Foundation has been recognized as a Point of Light by the White House. He is author of The Joy of Tennis and Star Power for Preschoolers. Andrew is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University.

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Peggy Risch, RPT - Mt. Shasta , CA     dynamicwholeness.com  

Peggy received a B.S. in Physical Therapy from Indiana University 1976 with distinction. Other Certificates of Professional Training are:

• Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
• Biodynamic Massage
• Vegetative Therapy
• Manual Therapy Certificate
• Three Dimensional Schroth Scoliosis Treatment
• Reiki Practitioner

In addition, she has received specialized training in hand therapy; additional spinal training from the University of Michigan Osteopathic School and the Institute of Graduate Health Science; traditional and transpersonal psychotherapy training in Germany; studied various forms of integrative transformational bodywork, movement & dance, and energy medicine during her nearly 30 years of experience in the healing arts.

Her Craniosacral Therapy instruction includes Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. This approach focuses on the inherent health and wholeness from a place of deep listening and the recognition of the manifestations of the Breath of Life. She has taught Craniosacral Therapy to massage students for the last 4 years. Peggy also spent 8 years doing environmental research.

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