Lisa Tracy is highly accomplished in the Healing Arts with an international reputation. She has been developing her integrative wellness practice for nearly 30 years. Lisa's field of expertise consists of a multi-disciplinary weave of therapeutic physical medicines. CranioSacral Therapy, Trager Psychophysical Integration, Ortho-Bionomy, Neuro-Muscular Re-education, Therapeutic Massage, Body Talk Systems and AqauticCranioCare are among the healing modalities found to be most facilitated.

Lisa has participated in international research and world wide educational institutes dedicated to the Esoteric and Hermetic Sciences, Alchemy, Huna (the science of spirit) and the Cultural Culinary Arts. Lisa has trained, studied and/or resided in Hawaii, Belize, Jamaica, Cozumel, Caribbean Seas, French Polynesia, Bali Indonesia,  Panama and Bad Sulza Germany.

Lisa's deep connecting essence is birthed through her experiences in the Liquid Light Sound Temples 528Hz, Trance Dancing, Divine Diving with Dolphins, creating poetry, laughing and remembering to remember that we all already remember!

Lisa's goal and purpose is her continuous support in creating balanced change and well-being within herself and others.


Laguna Bacalar Institute
International Holistic Symposium
Bacalar, Mexico
Southern Yucatan Peninsula
January 8 - 10, 2010
Speaker Bios
Lisa Tracy
Denise Keenan
River Kaaster
Denise Keenan is a master bodyworker, master hypnotherapist, certified HypnoBirthing Instructor, and certified science of the breath facilitator in the healing arts profession for twenty five years.  Her warm, dynamic presence will coax the best from you and she will help you to recognize your own essential, excellent potential.

She has studied and worked with such luminaries as Stuart Wilde and Andy Caponigro, founder of the Pranic Energy Healing Institute. Denise works with therapeutic applications of the science of breath and hypnotherapy in calming and healing the body of the effects of stress, trauma and repressed emotional tension. She has had training in a wide variety of therapies including 5-Path™ and Transpersonal hypnotherapy, Yoga, Aikido, Alexander Technique, Transformational Breath, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Pranic Energy Healing, Feldenkrais Technique and other techniques. She has studied Temple Lomi Lomi and Shamanic Healing in Hawaii with Kumu Lawrence K. Aki, Kumu Wayne Kealohi Powell and Kahuna Harry Uhane Jim. She has traveled, lectured, and practiced internationally.

Denise offers a rare combination of intuition, strength and gentleness to everyone she meets and her work is a reflection of her passion for life.
River Kaaster is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Senior Scientist at the Great Lakes WATER Institute, and Director of the Laguna Bacalar Institute. He was recently selected as a SoTL Scholar 2009-2010. His study is titled “Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Creativity”.
 
River has a keen interest in bridging spiritual and scientific knowledge patterns. He studies how indigenous cultures have influenced the development of modern science and how this connection has directed contemporary societal beliefs, especially with regard to technological advancements and sustainability of societies.
 
Numerous projects have been spearheaded by River over his career. He founded an international, professional scientific journal, now in its 28th year of publication by the North American Benthological Society. He initiated the National Geographical Society funded discovery and exploration of the underwater hydrothermal vents in Yellowstone Lake; 20+ years running and now researched by scientists from around the world.
 
River has explored some of the premier lakes in the world, including the famed Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia where his group was the first western scientists to circumnavigate the lake. This led to a long-term scientific exchange between U.S. and Russian scientists.
He has a host of publications and created many opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. He holds two scientific patents in biological technology.
 
River founded the Laguna Bacalar Institute in 2007, that is dedicated to preserving the pristine waters of Laguna Bacalar, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
Greetings from River Kaaster. This is my non-status name; my known name is Jerry Lee Kaster (original Dutch name - Kaaster). My grandmother's  Euro-heritage is the Wildfang ancestry dating back more than 1000 years. In the new world her heritage is northern Anishinaabe, a group called the Otipemisiwak -- 'those who own themselves'. I am Dutch-Metis.
 
I have a great interest in Euro &
Nativo traditions, hierarchy growth and collapse, and the integration of earth based spiritual belief and science.
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Born in Embudo, New Mexico, of Basque, Mexican, Spanish and Ute Indian lineage, Mallanalli comes from a curendera culture and family. She is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine with a degree from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a trained acupuncturist and masseuse, and studied with various healers in Hawaii and Mexico.

Mallanalli's specialty is a form of bodywork -- Hawaiian Temple Bodywork - Lomi Lomi Nui -- that incorporates all of her training, experience, inspiration, and knowledge. This type of bodywork is based on an ancient Hawaiian form called "flying." This work is transformative, compassionate, nurturing and treats body, mind and spirit to bring them into balance.

Mallanalli offers professional development workshops that enable her to share with fellow practitioners her approach to body work done with integrity and to prepare therapists for the spiritual and intellectual challenges of sustained, professional work.

Massage therapy work can often lead to exhaustion if not done with the proper care. At hotels and spas around Mexico and the U.S., Mallanalli works with therapists helping them learn how they can conserve their energy, replenish themselves for their work, and provide greater benefit to their clients.

Mallanalli  (Featured Speaker)
Milwaukee, USA
Minneapolis, USA
Bacalar, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Milwaukee, USA
Deva Avishta
Avishta has a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy and is experienced in Active Meditations of Osho, besides training in core-energetics, inner child healing and tantra work with integration of the male - female duality  and conflict resolution . Avisha has lived in spiritual and ecological communities of Greece, Scotland, Italy and India.

Avishta is connected with, and respectful of all native cultures, especially Maya culture. Since 2001, Avishta has had the dream to live close to Maya 'zone', and in 2007 came to live in Bacalar in fulfillment of that dream. She now follows a meditational path to seed a new way of human interaction, the planet, and the cosmos, following the Maya vision of community: "In'lakech alaken", I am another you.

Avishta is also a founder  of the Foundation Emerge Bak'halal and coordinator  of the culture commission. Avishta has a Masters degree in psychotherapy.


Bacalar, Mexico
Christianne Hall (Featured Speaker)
Vancouver, Canada
Christianne has embraced spiritual connections through the language of light and holographic sound healing. She is a teacher of toning, drumming, new and full moon ceremonies, and the creation of sacred spaces. Christianne engages aromatherapy, Lomi Lomi, and shamanic practices.

Christianne has traveled extensively as a second-spirit purveyor of "vertical time superseding horizontal time".





Ellen has BA in Psychology and English from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, and an MA from University of St. Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. Ellen also resides in Edina, Minnesota.

The Feldenkrais Method is an educational system centered on movement, aiming to expand and refine the use of 'self' through awareness. It uses movement as the primary vehicle for gaining awareness and is directly applicable to restricted or habitually poor movement. As a process for gaining awareness, the system expands choices and responses to many aspects of life. 
Ellen Pinnell
Puerto Morelos, Mexico
Dotty Bacon
Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA
Dotty is a purveyor of Earth based wisdom within her healing art form. Her initial training in reflexology began in the early 70’s and that along with other modalities, evolved to her founding the practice of AcuRelease. 

AcuRelease is a unique form of kinesthetic, soft-tissue body work that pinpoints and releases tension, energetic blockages and imbalances within the body. In the tradition of many other alternative therapeutic forms, such as reflexology and acupressure, AcuRelease is a holistic healing art that treats specific parts of the body and its energy fields with the aim of enhancing the health and comfort of the whole person.

Dotty has applied her healing form to many of our four-legged kin: elephants, hummingbirds, iguana, preying mantis, and many domesticated animals. Dotty is also an organic food farmer and practices yoga, tai chi, and NIA.
Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Louise practices integrative holistic healing through massage, breath, reiki, and laughing yoga.

Laughter Yoga combines unconditional laughter with Yogic Breathing (Pranayama). Anyone can Laugh for No Reason, without relying on humor, jokes or comedy. Laughter is simulated as a body exercise in a group; with eye contact and childlike playfulness, it soon turns into real and contagious laughter. The concept of Laughter Yoga is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits.

Laughter Yoga alone is a great way of releasing stress and negative thoughts. It is a very useful technique to dissipate anger and helps focus on meditative activity.

Louise Keenan
Peggy Kaune
Peggy has been engaged in the holistic path for twenty years. She is a registered nurse, reiki master, certified healing touch practitioner, and registered aroma therapist.

Botanical derived aromatics, e.g., eucalyptus, lavender, lemon, peppermint, tea tree, and other essential oils are widely recognized for their use in therapeutic applications. By learning about plant signatures and chemical makeup, one can recognize the role of essential oils in management of stress, inflammation, infection, mood alteration; and thus promoting overall health, vitality and longevity.

Peggy is a master aromatheripist and alchemist who has created some of the highest quality and highest functioning essential oil blends available. As a life-long learner, Peggy is currently training in Spiritual Phytoessencing. This is a great opportunity to learn about an ancient art form in alchemy that is directly applicable to personal health and well-being.
Louise is a gifted guided imagery innovator with an unlikely background in musical comedy. Louise mixes panache, wit,
presence and style with substance and warmth.

Louise Keenan
Mistress of Ceremonies
La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Barbara Neebel Meier
Decorah, Iowa, USA
Barbara is the founder and director of Windemere Institute of Healing Arts and the non profit organization, One Within. A 22-year career in Western medicine as a respiratory care practitioner led Barbara to the study of Eastern Healing Arts. Barbara studied Breath extensively with noted Pranic Energy Healer and Breath Master, Andy Caponigro. Her further studies include Usui, Karuna and Tummo Reiki, Tui Na, Traditional Thai Massage, Qi Gong, Meditation, Aromatherapy, Healing
with Sound, Hypnotherapy, and Healing Touch. Barbara has also completed studies in Inca Shamanism through the Healing the Light Body School with Dr. Alberto Villoldo, Hawaiian Spirituality and Healing with Harry Uhane Jim and Serge Kahili King, Nine Rites of Enlightenment (Munay Ki) with Wake Wheeler, and Advanced Chi Lel Qi Gong with Master Frank Chan. She was ordained to the Ministry by Glenda Green with the Spiritis Sancti Church in 2007.  Her passion is in Being One Spirit, and she is dedicated to sharing that passion and devotion with all who care to gather together for that purpose.
Cuauhtémoc Hernández Maya (Featured Speaker)
Cuauhtémoc Hernández Maya is Medical Director of the Tao of Healing Center - Integrative Medicine, Cancun. He is a medical doctor and former resident of the National Institute of Pediatrics.  Graduating as a chemical biologist and formerly specializing in pediatrics at the National Institute of Pediatrics. Among his certifications are medical acupuncture and herbal medicine from UNAM (University of Mexico), homeopathy, natural therapies, iridiología, biogmagnetismo, quantum medicine, mind-body medicine, transactional analysis, bioenergetics, Bach flower remedies, meditation, Tai Chi, traditional Chinese medicine, and ayurvedic.

He has published in various national publications and also has received recognition for
international scientific papers on topics such as: Scientific basis of the acupuncture, integrative medicine, sciences of complexity, biophysics, neuro-endocrino-inmunologia. Dr. Cuauhtemoc is the integrator of the Theory of Fractals Holographic Bioenergy and also teaches Chi Kung for health, black belt in Kung Fu and practitioner of meditation.
 

Cancun, Mexico
Diana Guarneros´ paintings speak the language of symbols. Although in Mexico this language has its own archetypes, it’s essentially universal.
             
Diana’s paintings are visual meditations that are sometimes accompanied by poetic meditations.  These two forms of artistic expression invite us to experience the reality of the spirit in our personal way. They can help us to experience the desert as a source of unexpected life, to experience ourselves as standing between the forces of heaven and earth, to transform cosmic and telluric energies into personal energies. The paintings are full of life forces; they revitalize us and have a healing effect when we are disconnected from nature. The mandalas of the elementary forces are an expression of this fact. They are mandalas of life, spheres of creation that can refresh and nourish our life forces.

Diana Guarneros
Cancun, Mexico