Jean Couch - Booth 927

Learn Simple Guidelines for a Pain-Free Life!
Everything you’ve been taught about posture is wrong… In fact, it’s those directions that are the cause of your pain. Learn simple guidelines of how to sit, stand, walk and sleep in ways that reduce and even eliminate physical pain. Once you understand to balance your skeletal system, you can take control of eliminating pain and feel better immediately. Stop by and learn how to stand right now!
Jean Couch, M.S.Ed., Owner, Director, Author and Teacher. Since 1989 Jean has been studying people who have no back or joint pain. By modeling these people you can be pain free.

Rabbi Yaacov Benzaquen
Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service
Please join us for an inspiring and uplifting Kabbalat Shabbat Service at the New Living Expo. Led by a Rabbi of the Jewish Study Network (www.jsn.info), there will be a special musical Shabbat Service based on the tunes of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. A musical genius, Rav Carlebach was the founder of the famed House of Love and Prayer in San Francisco; he lead a generation of spiritual seekers in the 60's.
No Hebrew or prior knowledge necessary. All songs will be handed out to participants and are easy to sing.
Rabbi Yaacov Benzaquen is renowned throughout the Bay Area for his musical abilities. A trained Cantor, Rabbi Benzaquen used to lead monthly Musical Kabbalat Services in Berkeley and has lead a number of services in Palo Alto. He is originally from Venezuela and currently lives in Palo Alto with his wife and children.

VINIT ALLEN / MODERATOR and his organization produce the Sustainable World Symposium & Festival every two years in San Francisco (the next one is May 13-14, 2006). Vinit is a business and marketing consultant who has worked with many small businesses and non-profit organizations. He has been an activist in the arenas of the environment, peace and human rights for about 25 years.
 
RITU PRIMLANI is the founder and Executive Director of Thimmakka’s Resources for Environmental Education,. She has designed a program of comprehensive environmental outreach to restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, called Thimmakka Certified Green Restaurants (TCGR) www.thimmakka.org.
 
LAURA INGALL works at SF Environment and is the Commercial and Residential Green Building Coordinator for the City and County of San Francisco. Laura works to establish policy to advance green building in San Francisco; to provide technical support on projects; and to conduct outreach within the residential and commercial communities.
 
RICHARD HEINBERG, author of “The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies,” and “Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World,” nominee for the 1994 Alternative Press Award, and Core Faculty member at New College of California, is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators, with an international reputation for his published articles.
 
DEBI BARKER is the former executive director and current international director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), a North-South think tank that analyses myriad effects of economic globalization and advocates alternative policies that are more equitable and sustainable. Ms. Barker is a contributing author of “Alternatives to Economic Globalization:  A Better World Is Possible,” “Fatal Harvest,” and others.

Fred Sterling - Booth 432

Feng Shui the Body, Mind & Spirit
You know how to feng shui your home and office. Now, discover how to apply these ancient principles to you -- your emotions, thoughts, health, wealth, and relationships. What if you could control every aspect of your experience and create the life of your dreams? Learn about weaving the four-body system, Signature Cell Healing™, prana breathing, cellular consciousness, Lemurian numerology, the Ten Principles of Consciously Creating, and more!

Clélia Vahni - Booth 418

Alchemy:  The Body as Sanctuary
Through artful skill, the ancient science of Alchemy engages cosmic principles and the elements of Nature in a process of transmutation and evolution. Alchemy can heal, strengthen, and even transform us. Clélia Vahni will discuss the work of Petri Murien (a genuine traditional alchemist), the significance of alchemy for complementary healing modalities, and how alchemy can help us create sanctuary for the Divine in our bodies and in our world.
Clélia Vahni represents Suryanivas, an importer of alchemical elixirs. She speaks about alchemy and alternative health and lifestyles, and recently published a book titled Stainless Heart: The Wisdom of Remorse.

Richard Kunin & Layna Berman - Booth 227

Methylation and Healthy Aging
Methylation is the most versatile of all biochemical processes, responsible for adaptation to stress, daily detoxification as well as repair of all cellular damage. Efficient methylation is the key to health and healthy aging. If you can’t methylate, you end up with immune system dysregulation – such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Richard Kunin MD is a nutrition physician and a pioneer of the preventative healthcare movement. Dr. Kunin is the Director of Research for Ola Loa Products. Layna Berman is a health educator and produces KPFA’s “Your Own Health and Fitness Show.”

Greta Jonker - Booth 527

The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Spiritual Mind Training Program of A Course in Miracle with the lessons of the workbook, are a transformational curriculum in Self-realization. Forgiveness becomes the key that facilitates the final quantum leap in man’s evolutionary destiny. Its practice is to a total dependency on the infinite possibility of the miracle. That in God all things are possible.
Near-death? Beautiful light, love, oneness, understanding, peace and joy! Does this speak to you of death, the great unknown, the one thing feared by all? It is a reawakening, a rebirth I personally experienced.