Eve Bruce is Programme Director for Lios Dána Dolphin Spirit Gate.  For the past decade she has dedicated herself to changing the paradigm of our relationship to our Mother Earth, to the Goddess, to our bodies and to each other. She facilitates trips to learn from indigenous elders in South America and Africa. Brought up in Kenya, she holds a special love for the wisdom and energies of the continent from which humanity was born. She has studied with the prophet, artist and holy man Credo Mutwa for five years. As both a plastic surgeon and a shaman, she has a unique perspective and understanding of what our culture and others call beauty, of the workings of our body sacred, and of how we do or do not embody our spirit. Eve has studied with John Perkins and the shamans described in his books Shapeshifting and The World Is As You Dream It, and was the first non-Quechua woman to be inducted into the Circle of Yachaks, or Birdpeople, of the high Andes. Her passion is helping individuals change their dreams by shifting from a focus on external to internal beauty. She teaches people transformational tools to shapeshift themselves, our culture, to have “plastic surgery without the surgery,” to end the “pursuit of happiness,” and to live in ecstasy. Author of “Shaman MD” (Destiny Books),  her new book with Robert Levy, “Shamanism – The Book of Journeys” (O-Books) is due out later this year.

Michael Travers has been owner and director of Lios Dana for twenty-five years. Taking the leap from the paradigm of international high powered corporate computer job thirty years ago, he made his home in Ireland and has pursued his passion as a renowned oil painter. Michael’s work is displayed in galleries in Dingle, Killarney and Tralee. Drawing inspiration from the rugged seascape of his home in County Kerry, his oils can be found in collections internationally.
“He experiments with a whole new range of surface effects in which he explores the refraction of light on sea and sand and shore. There is a deeper sense of an organic force or energy, released by the hidden harmonies of the environment.” Continuing his study of oriental martial arts and philosphy, he has created the space for deep spiritual exploration and learning in Lios Dana. Michael and Eve are dedicated to continued stewardship of the land as a place for individual spiritual empowerment of all who come.

Eva Bruha (from Switzerland) has been living in Ireland since 2003. She has spent years exploring the voice and experiencing its healing power. In 1990 she went on her personal pilgrimage of 10 years, spending extended periods practicing Mindfulness Meditation in Monasteries and Meditation Centres in the US, Europe and Asia. She has altogether spent more then two years in silent retreats and was ordained as a Buddhist Nun in Burma for a half a year. Her inspiration draws from the wisdom of all spiritual traditions.

Timothy Sweeney (from California) has been studying and practicing different forms of Meditation for over 30 years. He has spent over 2 and a half years years in silent retreats in Meditation Centres in the US and Europe. He currently teaches Meditation retreats and MBSR around Ireland. Timothy has worked as a teacher, pilot and builder. He is also an avid gardener, parent and is interested in living sustainably.

Jay Ramsay is an acclaimed poet and UKCP accredited psychosynthesis psychotherapist. Author of over 30 books, most recently the ecospiritual collection Places of Truth  (Awen:www.awenpublications.co.uk) and The Poet in You (O Books: www.o-books.com) which publishes Part 1 of his correspondence course in poetry Chrysalis the first time. He is an experienced therapist and inspirational workshop leader who has run workshops in Ireland since 1992. See also
www.lotusfoundation.org.uk and www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk for details of his work and on-going groups.

Judith Moshier is a longtime clairvoyant, healer, mystic and dreamer with experience in Hawaii, Brazil and Ireland. Her healing work utilizes plant remedies as well as oriental medicine, bodywork, spirit clearings and intuitive readings. Communing with spirit, using deep meditation and stones, she is directed by spirit in everything she does.
Helping others daily with her readings, she is a well loved healer bringing soulmates together and helping them through the process of remembering ~ soul to soul. She has a lucrative tarot practice in Long Island, New York.

Elizabeth Kramer (link to www.bluespiritjourneys.com) is a practitioner of Chinese medicine, and learned about healers and shamans early in her life in the Andean mountains of Peru. She began to have mystical experiences at the age of six when the Kundalini energy became active and insistent. Later, her inquiries about this phenomena, led her to the teachings of Eastern mysticism and Chinese medicine. The process of learning to be an acupuncturist evoked memories of her earlier life with her Indian grandmother in Peru, and she returned to the mountains of the Andes to learn from shamans who had mastered working with Energy and the Luminous Body.
Together with Eve, Elizabeth was initiated into the Yachak tradition of healers, of Sacred Birds & Sacred Mountains, to bring the work to others who seek knowledge and to re-establish health to the body, mind and Spirit.

Rose Khalsa (link to http://users.erols.com/rosediana/biography.html) is the Director of The Polarity Center & Shamanic Studies. She has been teaching internationally for over 20 years. Rose offers trainings in polarity therapy, visionary cranial work and shamanism, and integrates nature-based and holistic approaches to healing in her private practice. Her healing work includes polarity therapy, cranial sacral, spiritual counseling and shamanic healing. Lakota Ways and Tibetan Buddhism are integrated into Rose’s life and work and are shared as part of her Medicine.

Jaqui MacMillan (link to http://www.drumforjoy.com/About_Us.php) found her passion for African drumming in the early 1980’s.  Over a span of thirteen years, she studied with many Masters, including Babatunde Olatunji, Mamady Keita, Sam Turner, Carlos Moore and Mahiri Fadjimba Keita at the Tam Tam Mandingue School in Washington, D.C.  Having performed and recorded with some of the top names in the business, she began sharing her joy of drumming with others by teaching classes and facilitating community drum circles. Jaqui has taught privately and given workshops throughout the USA for over seventeen years through her program, Drum For Joy!™.  The Washington Area Music Association, (WAMA), awarded Jaqui the “World Music Instrumentalist Award” every year from 1995 through 2002 and she was featured in the Women Drummers 2000 issue of DRUM! Magazine.  In 1999 and 2001, she attended the Drum Circle Facilitators Playshop and the Facilitators Mentor Training in Hawaii with Arthur Hull.  Jaqui has facilitated drum circles for hundreds of conferences, corporate team building events, elementary and high schools, hospitals, programs for “at risk” children, juvenile detention centers and programs for homeless and battered women.  She is a founding board member of the Drum Circle Facilitators Guild (DCFG), an organization dedicated to professionalism in the field of drum circle facilitation.  As an endorsee of Mountain Rythym Percussion, Jaqui represented the company as a guest facilitator at Summer NAMM in Nashville, TN, at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, (PASIC), in Ohio and as a workshop leader at the Seattle World Rhythm Festival.

She is currently creating a drum program for children,  which includes her own line of drums and percussion instruments and she is the director of The Drum For Joy!™ Orchestra.

Bernardo Peixoto PhD, affectionately known by his spirit name, Ipupiara, is an anthropologist, environmentalist and teacher. He is also a member of Ure- e-wau- wau tribe of Brazil and cofounder of Native Cultural Alliance, an organization dedicated to the preservation and sharing of native cultures and wisdom. He has worked for many years with the tribal and “riverine” groups in South America. Bernardo and his wife, Jenny, have traveled extensively over the past 10 years offering lectures and workshops in different states.

Jenny Clay Toscano, affectionately known as Claicha, is a teacher, researcher of traditional herbal medicine and conducts fieldwork with the indigenous people of South America. She also assists in the development of environmental programs and trips to the Amazon. She currently serves as the Coordinator of Programs with the Native Cultural Alliance (NCA).

Roger J Woolger PhD, is a Jungian analyst, regression therapist and professional lecturer with degrees in psychology, religion and philosophy from Oxford and London Universities. He trained as an analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Born a British citizen, Roger has lived and taught Jungian and transpersonal  psychology and comparative religion in North America and England. He has been a Guest Professor at Vassar College, where he gave the Mary Mellon Memorial lectures in 1988. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Vermont (1975) and Concordia University, Montreal (1979-80). He has led workshops at the New York Open Center, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute, and speaks at a broad range of conferences internationally.