Faculty Legend
M=Mentor | S=Steward | Med=Meditation | FAC=FAC Teacher and Practicum Reviewer | PACE=PACE Teacher | SE=Self-Exciting Teacher | R= Renewal Teacher| RR=Radiant Reflection Teacher | SK=Skills Review Teacher | PD=Program Development

For a list of in-person seminar teachers by course, click here.


Amy Skezas, J.D., D.D. (R, RR, S)
Ms. Skezas began exploring consciousness in 1975 when a spontaneous kundalini experience led to a yogic trance and near-death experience. From that opening of consciousness came a great desire to explore, understand, and communicate about the void and the light. Her background includes a B.A. cum laude from Cornell University in international relations (1981) and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1985); work for the International Desk of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia, PA (1982); practice of law with Sayles, Evans, Brayton, Palmer, and Tifft in Elmira, New York (1986); ordination as an interfaith minister in the Church of Tzaddi (1989); ongoing studies in meditation with LuminEssence, Ashland, OR (begun 1989); ongoing membership in Spiritual Directors International (begun 2004); and ongoing studies in reflective practice with the Centre for Supervision and Team Development, Bath, England (begun 2005).



Laura Smith, M.A., M.Phil., M.Div. (M, Med)
Ms. Smith brings over ten years of teaching World Religions and other subjects at such schools as Vassar College, the New School University, and Rutgers. As a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, she worked, studied, and conducted research on spirituality for extended periods in Nepal and India. She is the author of The Illustrated Timeline of World Religions (Sterling Press) and holds an M.A. and M. Phil. from Columbia Univ. in Religion and Buddhist Studies.








Eve Soldinger, M.P.H., L.Ac. (PD)
Ms. Soldinger began her career in health care more than 30 years ago as a health activist. In addition to a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, she holds graduate degrees in acupuncture from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in Columbia, MD and the College of Traditional Acupuncture in Leamington Spa, England. Her work as a healer has also led her to study many forms of energy work primarily with indigenous healers in the Americas. She has developed a way of combining the various forms of energy work in what she has coined as Sacred Intuitive Healing.

Over the years she has supervised acupuncture students at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute and is on faculty at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in Gainesville, Florida. In addition to teaching a year long course of her own style of energy work called the Shamanic Approach to Energy Work, Eve also teaches at the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley, CA and has taught at the American College Of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She began her collaboration with Amy Skezas in 2006 when they taught a class called Earth Healing, Self Healing. While she often travels to teach throughout the 50 states, she is licensed to practice acupuncture in Arizona and Maryland. To find out further information, visit www.sacredintuitivehealing.com.





Bonnie Witherspoon, M.Div. (M)
Ms. Witherspoon has spent more than 30 years in the airline industry as both a flight attendant and a manager of flight attendants. She has developed programs that established standards for professional conduct and coordinated support services for over 9000 flight attendants. Bonnie has also worked with pregnant and parenting teens as a parent educator and has been an advocate for support services for school-aged parents. Additionally, she has helped low-risk female prisoners develop the life skills needed for re-entry into society and provided assistance as a hospice volunteer supporting both those transitioning as well as their loved ones. Bonnie has a certificate in mediation from the Center for Dispute Resolution and an extensive background in psychology and spirituality. She has pursued Shamanic studies with Carlos Castaneda, completed the Pathwork Transformation Program (2 year) and is a spiritual counselor and an ordained minister. Bonnie is a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and Gauden University and lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

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