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Dawn
Davidson & | David
Doleshal, Ph.D |
Terry
Brussel Gibbons |
Paul Brussel Gibbons | Ed
JorEl Elkin, Ph. D. | Anastas Harris, Ph.D.
Marcus Brussel Jenkins
Wilton Jones |
Harold Kornylak, D.O., C.T.E. |
Donald Michael Kraig
Janet
Kira Lessin, P.T.S. |
Shama,
CHt, CDC, TDE | Sasha
Lessin, Ph.D.
| Les Nuckles
Ted Thomas |
Sophia Songhealer |
Steven Vogue, D.C., N.D. |
Leanna Wolfe,
Ph.D.
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Active
in the San Francisco Bay Area poly community since 1996,
Dawn &
Akien have been serving as relationship coaches since
1998, mentoring
others to create extraordinary relationships with their
partners and
with themselves. Akien and Dawn have conducted
workshops on relationship
development (including at the last three West Coast
Loving More
conferences), and have created study groups on personal
growth, safer
sex, and various poly issues. They have been interviewed
for television
on the subject of polyamory, with segments appearing in
Los Angeles and
Sweden, and are the hosts of the San Leandro Poly
Pool Party. They have been married for approaching 15
years, have two
amazing children, and are dedicated to creating
intentional extended
family and community.
Dawn Davidson had her first conscious poly experience in
Georgia in
1984, and has gone on to experience many varieties and
forms of
poly-dating -relating and -loving. She holds a
bachelor's degree in
Genetics from UC Berkeley, has visited Japan to sing
with her Early
Music quartet (with whom she has sung for more than 20
years) and enjoys
canning, costuming and cats, among her many other
interests. Making
connections among people and being a clearinghouse for
information is
something she does on the same level as breathing.
has been poly for more than 20 years,
though he only found
out there was a name for it 10 years ago. His progress
in this field has
been a direct result of marrying. Primarily
self-educated, he's avidly pursued learning in many less-traditional ways, including
workshops on relationships and self-development with
Landmark Education, Dan Millman and Lori Starr. His
wide-ranging interests include neurochemistry,
comparative religion,
relationships, history, and broadsword fighting. He
believes that we're
all our own best teachers.
Dawn & Akien are
featured at these World Polyamory Association
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin
Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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David
Doleshal, Ph. D. has
a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Irvine.
He has been studying innovative techniques for the healing of
emotional issues for more than 18 years. He is currently the
President of Prosearch, - a non-profit organization that offers
guidance and coaching in matters related to career. He is
also the director of Saturnia Regna, - a Political Action
Committee specifically organized for the promotion of the cause
of polyamory.
He
has presented workshops at Bi-Sexual Conferences,
at the California Men's Gathering, and at Men's
Retreats at Kalani Honua on Big Island.
He
has had both long-term and short-term relationships with men
and women, separately and together.
Dr.
Elkin is a divorced father of a 31 year old daughter,
maintains a friendship with his ex-wife and is currently
living with his significant other near Hana on Maui.
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Terry Brussel Gibbons,
Paul Brussel Gibbons,
&
Marcus Brussel Jenkins |
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Professional hypnotist Terry Brussel Gibbons has
been in private practice since 1969 and is the director
of Success Center in with hypnotists now using her Seven
Keys to Self Actualization system throughout the United
States and Canada. She and her husbands Paul and Marcus
have been involved in Multiply committed relationships
since the 70 s. They give workshops for such
groups as science fiction conventions, Loving More, and
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Terry is also a
fourth generation matchmaker and director of Marriage Minded
Introductions. She, Paul and Marcus coordinate Live the
Dream, an education and support group for those who,
originally inspired by the writings of such authors as
Robert Heinlein, Robert Rimmer and Marion Zimmer Bradley are
now ready to LIVE such alternative lifestyles as cooperative
living, open relationships and group marriage. Much of
their personal belief system is based on Stranger in a
Strange Land. Live the Dream is affiliated with Church of
All Worlds, a real life organization (since 1968) based on
Heinlein's fictional one.
Drs.
Steven Vogue and Anastas Harris have been Tantra teachers
for 10 years and have had a Tantric, polyamorous relationship
for 19 years. They belong to a poly family of beloveds, of about
26 individuals, who they meet with for an extended weekend
approximately every three months, usually at their home. They
present workshops on Tantra and Polyamory and do private Tantric
coaching with couples and singles.
Anastas and Steven teach the art of super-conscious, sacred sex,
by creating a Tantric relationship with their clients, and, if
they are a couple, bring them into Tantric relationship with
each other. They teach Tantric skills and awareness, including
Ejaculation Mastery, Full Body Orgasm and a sex that is based on
creating a union of the sexual and spiritual energies.
Their clients learn the art of running and transmitting life
force sexual energy, in the context of the Sacred Heart Space,
rather than friction sex. They assist their clients to
overcome their sexual challenges and experience extended bliss
in love-making. They are co-authoring a book on female orgasm.
Steven
and Anastas teach out of their coastal, north San Diego,
California home where they have a Tantric bed and
breakfast. Couples who wish to do so can enjoy the Tantric
bed and breakfast service while taking a Tantric training. They
are well known for their Tantric workshop “The Intimacy Oil
Experience” and invite you to be on their mailing list for
this and other events. Anastas is also a
psychological therapist and Steven, a chiropractor and
naturopath.
Poly
Bio
Professional
Bio
Steven's
Bio
Anastas's
Bio
San Diego - North County, California
Phone: 760-929-9988
E-mail: Sacredsex@TantraTurnOn.com
Web sites: http://www.tantraturnon.com/,
http://www.thetantraexperience.com/
Anastas
and Steve are featured at these World Polyamory Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Steven
Vogue and Anastas Harris present the Laguna Beach, 2004
Post-Conference, October 24, 2005:
Living
Compersion: An Experiential and Tantric Workshop
Wilton
Jones has been
taking intimate photographs of people since 1992. In his
newest work he is documenting the more intimate, normally
private, erotic side of people, as individuals, as couples,
and in extended poly families. He and his partner, Sue,
have had numerous poly relationships, owned a ranch, built two
software companies, spent time on a sailboat and raised three
children over the 30+ years they have been journeying
together.
Wilton is featured at these World Polyamory Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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Harold
Kornylak, D.O. has
many years of experience as a healer, teacher and
therapist. Along with extensive training in body-mind
therapies, he is a Certified Tantra Educator and has studied
personally with some of the most well-known teachers in this
field. |
Harold
is featured at these World Polyamory Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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Donald
Michael Kraig graduated from UCLA with a
degree in philosophy.
He has also studied public speaking and
music (traditional and
experimental) on the university level.
After a decade of personal study
and practice, he began ten years of
teaching courses in the Southern
California area on such topics as
Kabalah, Tarot, Magic, Tantra, and
Sex Magick. He has been a member of many
spiritual and magical groups
and is an initiated Tantric. Currently
studying for a doctorate in
clinical hypnotherapy, Don has lectured
all over the U.S. and in
Europe. His books include Modern Sex
Magick and Modern Magick,
which
has sold over 125,000 copies worldwide.
He has also contributed to
several books including Ecstasy
Through Tantra. |
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Don
began
a triad relationship while still in
college, but it failed due to jealousies and
old-style thinking. He later moved to San Diego where he
became a part of the
Lifestyle. He soon became a regular contributor to Friends
and Lovers, the leading Southern
California lifestyle paper of that
time.
He
moved to Minnesota and became involved
with several people in undefined Poly
relationships. He traveled some,
then settled
in Venice Beach, California, where he
enjoys loving relationships and
exploring how love can help relationships grow rather than limiting
individual’s potentials.
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Janet
Kira Lessin, P.T.S.,
Director & CEO of the School of Tantra, the
World Polyamory Association and the World Peace
Association leads seminars and conferences
with a focus on the the fields of tantra,
psychology, relationships, polyamory, UFOlogy,
ancient anthropology, alternative realties,
speculative theories, physics and peace.
Janet has devoted her life to the healing of the
planet. She realizes true healing
originates within each individual and expands by
the power of love till it envelopes all of
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She
is convinced that through workshops and
conferences like the ones she leads, conferences
that focus on evolution and spiritual growth ,
combined with personal introspection, reflection
and a commitment by individuals to take
responsibility and heal, humanity can transform
and create a civilized civilization that
respects consciousness in all its
diversity. This new paradigm of a
conscious society honors individuality and
creative expression. The paradigm includes creativity through
relationships. Relationships are a high
spiritual path for growth and
transformation--unlike sexual repression which leads to
violence. Humankind needs to honor
individual choice in regards to sex to evolve to its
highest potential, transcend violence and end
war. Polyamory is a positive, passionate
path to peace.
Janet and her husband, Sasha
are healers, teachers, relationship counselors
and psycho therapists. They've been
married, polyamorously since 1997. They've
appeared in seven television shows promoting
polyamory: Leeza Gibbons, Inside
Edition, Extra, Time Zone
International, Talk or Walk, John Walsh and Penn
& Teller's Bullshit and a documentary, Intimacy.
They were featured in Time, Hustler and Playboy
and have appeared on numerous radio
shows. They
live in Maui, Hawaii, have an active therapy
practice and school where they teach tantra,
counseling and relationships. They travel
frequently to reach a larger audience, teach and
help those in need.
Janet
has written a personal account of her life as a
polyamorist, Loving More:
The Poly Tantric Lovestyle, available
as author's edition from World Polyamory
Association.
Maui, Hawaii
Phone: 808-244-4103
E-mail: janetkiralessin@aol.com
Web sites: www.schooloftantra.com,
www.worldpeaceassociation.com,
www.tantraconnection.com,
www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com
Janet
Kira and Sasha are featured at these World Polyamory Association
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin
Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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Sasha
Lessin, Ph. D. (U.C.L.A.), a poly psychotherapist and relationship counselor since the
1970s, has worked extensively with people exploring
alternative relationship choices. He
and wife Janet would love to facilitate you in
your relationship choice. The Lessins have led
polyamory training groups at Loving More conferences and
in their community on Maui, Hawaii. Counseling,
teaching in seminars and, now, In their book, More
Loving Loving More: Synergistic Sacred Sex for Three or
More Lovers, the
Lessins share the tantric and psychospiritual
practices they use to help you form, sustain and
celebrate triads, pair networks and lovenests.
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Maui, Hawaii
Phone: 808-244-4103
E-mail: sashalessinphd@aol.com
Web sites: www.schooloftantra.com,
www.worldpeaceassociation.com,
www.tantraconnection.com,
www.worldpolyamoryassociation.com
Janet
Kira and Sasha are featured at these World Polyamory Association
Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin
Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005
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Les
Nuckles is
a trained and practicing sexual surrogate.
He has helped women overcome issues involving
lack of self esteem, poor body image, lack of
experience and trust issues. He has helped
them overcome issues that were holding them back
from enjoying richer, fuller, more robust sexual
relationships. He was featured in an interview
in the June 2003 issue of Psychology Today.
Les is also a professional massage therapist and
a Watsu Practioner. He lives and practices in
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Les,
and his wife Jan, have been together for over 5
years. They met at a poly potluck in
Southern California and have been together ever
since. Les has always felt poly even
before he became aware of the word. He has
always experienced feelings for a number of
people and wondered why it was "not
alright" to love more then one person.
He discovered the word Polyamory on the internet
in 1999 and has been openly practicing that
lifestyle since then.
Les and Jan live
in a clothing optional resort in southeast
Orange County in Southern California.
Les is featured at the World Polyamory
Conference,
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Ted Thomas
appears in numerous books as an
investor and investor trainer. His
website chronicles his pioneering work
with promoting personal as well as
financial growth.
His "Fred-ian"
approach includes viewing all feelings
as valuable, creating body metaphors
or forms for emotional states,
resolving these forms by combining
them, and conducting the process in a
supportive Tribal environment.
His methods help re-frame fears
as productive resources on your
emotional control panel and helps
convert your interpersonal conflicts
into bases for deeply satisfying
intimacy.
Participants report beneficial
results in vocational and personal
areas, especially in relationships. Ed
holds degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Industrial Management
from MIT, lives on Lake Tahoe, is 58
years old and plays the banjo.
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Ed
is featured at the World Polyamory
Conference,
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
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Shama,
CHt, CDC, TDE
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For more
than a decade, Shama has been a dynamic force
in the Los
Angeles community. As lecturer, writer
and media personality, she
has brought a renewed sense of potential
for a better life and world to
all those she touches. She has a
successful private practice working
with individuals and couples bettering
their lives and relationships
through her talents and training in many
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Shama offers over 10
years of experience as a
hypnotherapist and chemical dependency
counselor. She is also trained in
Tantra, shamanic psychology and
various healing techniques in energy
and bodywork. As an educator, group
facilitator, and counselor, she
specializes in sexual, chemical, and
self-esteem Issues and alternative
lifestyles.
Click here for Shama's Poly Bio and
more pics
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Sophia
Songhealer
Sophia, who calls herself a songhealer, has been
providing musical inspiration for countless
gatherings since the 60's. Her music
and her "voice of gold, full of power and
love" open the heart and
help us connect with each other, our Selves and
our precious Mother Earth.
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Since 1978, Sophia
has released ten powerful and hauntingly
beautiful recordings, extended musical
journeys featuring exquisite arrangements by
virtuoso musicians, which create a deep
and sacred tapestry of sound. She
dedicates her work to the embodiment of the
Goddess in all her many glorious forms,
and to the healing of our selves and our
world. A "cult" favorite
among healers, massage therapists, tantric
yogis and lovers, she is excited to join you!
Sophia is featured at these World Polyamory Conferences:
Laguna Beach, CA - October 22-24, 2004
Harbin Hot Springs, CA - June 17-19, 2005 |
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Leanna
Wolfe, Ph.D.
is a social anthropologist and a
sexologist specializing in the dynamics of multiple partner
sexuality. She did her doctoral research on "Jealousy and
Transformation in Polyamorous Relationships". She has
been a professor of anthropology for upwards of 20 years,
designing specialized courses including Gender, Sex &
Culture and Magic, Religion & Witchcraft.
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Her research has taken her to the
hinterlands of East Africa, the Highlands of Papua New Guinea,
Thailand, Cuba, Mexico and Bali. She has been featured widely on
TV, radio, and in print and is the author of Women Who May
Never Marry.
For
more information on Leanna Wolfe's poly history read, Adding a Co-Wife, When One Lover is Not
Enough and As the Other Shoe Drops.
Education:
see web page: http://www.lavc.edu/anthr2lw/index.html
Credentials: Ph.D. Sexology 2003 Institute for Advanced Study of
Human Sexuality (San Francisco)
MA Anthropology 1980 New School for Social Research (New York
City)
BA Anthropology 1975 UC Berkeley
Dr. Leanna Research
5105 Williams Place
Los Angeles, CA 90032
home: 323.223.1507
LAWolfe@aol.com
http://www.lavc.edu/anthr2lw/index.html
Terry Brussel Gibbons | Donald
Michael Kraig | David
Doleshal, Ph.D. | Terry
Brussel Gibbons | Paul Brussel Gibbons
Ed
JorEl Elkin, Ph. D. | Anastas Harris, Ph.D. |
Marcus Brussel Jenkins |
Wilton Jones
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Harold Kornylak, D.O., C.T.E. |
Janet
Kira Lessin, P.T.S. | Shama |
Sasha
Lessin, Ph.D.
| Les Nuckles |
Ted Thomas |
Sophia Songhealer |
Steven Vogue, D.C., N.D. |
Leanna Wolfe,
Ph.D.
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World Polyamory Association 
