PRACTICAL MYSTIC WORKHOP

 Stephen Altair’s background is varied and eclectic. Stephen co-founded three educational institutions and a health and lifestyle television channel, has published ten books including one top ten best-seller, composed three music albums including a single presented to Nelson Mandela on his inauguration and supports Tibetan refugees educational programs. Stephen has lectured at universities at Bachelor level in Computer Science and Music and at Masters level in Computer Science and given seminars and workshops in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Japan. He has been a guest speaker at Microsoft conventions on the subject of mindful practice and technologies.

Stephen graduated from Auckland and Otago University with degrees in Education and Business and was Certified as a Counsellor with the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of New South Wales in Australia. Stephen is also a trained Vedic astrologer and brings practical insights to the life path energies from a Vedic and Tibetan perspective.

He has been writing and teaching meditation techniques for over 30 years. 

Stephen shares teachings, activations and transmissions from "The Light of Awareness at the Heart" and Light Body Awakening, based on subtle energy meditation and the ancient Dzogchen, Mahamudra and Madhyamaka teachings with deep gratitude to all the lineages and all blessings dedicated to your liberation and to the liberation of all those participating

Holly Copeland brings expertise and training as a research scientist and certified Human Potential Coach and applies these to help people learn what it means to “step into the flow life” and live from a place of grace, purpose and HeartMind.

Following a 20-year career as a scientist at The Nature Conservancy and as a mom of twins, Holly understands the demands of juggling a busy, professional career and the struggle of feeling “in your head” with the constant demands of an analytical mind. She combines ancient practices such as meditation and awareness-based mindfulness with modern science and technology.

Drawing from her science background and training, she helps people understand the neuroscience behind meditation and track their progress to strengthen their motivation and allow them to see the results for themselves. Through the powerful combination of biofeedback, neurofeedback and neurostimulation tools combined with meditation, she works with people to transform their busy, reactive minds into focused attention and stable awareness.

As a supportive and enthusiastic cognitive performance coach, she has a passion for helping individuals who have tried meditation before but just couldn’t seem to break through into peace. Step by step, she teaches people to rewire their brains, track their progress, and harness their inner wisdom to transform their lives into clarity, calm and joy.

 Kiefer O’Sullivan has been a passionate neuroscientist for many years and a lifelong student of the brain and consciousness. Originally from Ireland, he moved to the United States in 2007 and received his B.Sc. in Neuroscience from Dominican University of California. From there he moved onto his graduate studies, earning a master’s in biomedical science with a research thesis in neuroscience.
Following his time in academia, he moved on to fuse his passion for consciousness, meditation, and the brain in the realm of human potential. In the past few years, specifically, his focus has been understanding the neuroscience of consciousness, with a specific focus on using non-invasive methods like meditation to dramatically impact the functioning of the brain, nervous system, and the entire body. Then, moving to use that understanding and developing programs and methods for businesses, executives, individuals, and anyone seeking to reduce suffering and achieve their highest potential.
As both a neuroscientist and long-time meditator, his lifelong study has been pursuing the origins, structure, and nature of human consciousness and explaining how this informs our sensation of reality. His ambition for society, by unraveling the tangled mystery of consciousness, is to build and develop a practical toolset with which people may alter their own minds, of their own volition, from within, and provide pathways toward the self-healing of mental and physical illnesses and the attainment of happiness.