SUMMIT SPEAKERS

YOUR HOST

Kimberly Ashton

5 Elements Wellness coach, Energy Medicine practitioner and author, Kimberly is based in Australia & Asia. She supports her clients embody and make the connections of Food-Emotions-Energy. She also teaches Energetic nutrition & Food Therapy workshops internationally in events and Yoga teacher trainings.

She has a passion for curating events and sharing the wonderful world of the 5 Elements with more people on the planet to improve their mind-body-spirit & energetic health.

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Speakers specialising in

Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Speakers specialising in

Food Therapy

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Speakers specialising in

Qigong

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Yin Yoga

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Breathwork & Movement

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Spiritual, Healing Arts & Emotional Wellness

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Speaker Profiles

Sean Guinan

Sean is an acupuncturist, herbalist, & Chinese Medicine physician. Having worked in the health and wellness field for over a decade, Sean is a yin yoga teacher educator and a board licensed acupuncturist with a medical degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. He also holds a Master’s degree in Biology and has traveled the world as a conservation biologist & wildlife ecologist.

Topic: The Energy of Longevity & Living Well with Chinese Medicine

Dr Evan Pinto

The founder and owner of Ginkgo Wellness, Evan Pinto, is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, licensed acupuncturist, and board certified herbalist. Dr. Evan has lived and worked in Shanghai, China since 2012. With a thriving private practice, he focuses on treating conditions caused by stress, anxiety, trauma, addictions, and nutritional habits as well as sports injuries, gynecological issues, chronic conditions, and emotional sensitivity.

Topic: Blood & Consciousness

Ellen Goldsmith

Ellen Goldsmith, MSOM, L.Ac.,  Dip. C.H,.licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, is author of the book, Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: + 175 Recipes for Optimal Health, a book to help people understand and put the nourishing wisdom of Chinese medicine into everyday lives, where it matters most; the kitchen.

Topic: Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine

Mindi Counts

Mindi K. Counts, MA, LAc., is an integrative medical practitioner and Five-Element acupuncturist. Founder of the Inner Ocean Center for Healing, Mindi is a keynote speaker, retreat leaderand teacher. She is the author of Everyday Chinese Medicine and a contributing author to the Trauma Toolkit and Singing Our Heart’s Song.

Topic: You Belong to the Earth

Naomi Jansson

With 20 years clinical experience, Naomi offers integrative and holistic support and education in Traditional 5 Elements Philosophy with a special clinical focus on Women’s Health. With a deep appreciation of the holistic nature of our physical, emotional, mind and subtle bodies she works with clients to optimise health and wellness as they negotiate the cycles that life brings.

Topic: "Shonishin" consciousness connection of Mother & Baby

Jost Sauer

Jost Sauer, founder of the Chi Cycle Health System, is an acupuncturist, lecturer, author and a popular presenter to corporate and community audiences. He’s also an ex-addict, dealer and deserter who kickstarted a recovery revolution by creating one of the most groundbreaking rehab programs on the planet. He pioneered lifestyle medicine for addiction, adapted this for clients without addiction issues and the Chi Cycle lifestyle, a health-boosting, fat-burning feel-good day plan, was born.

Topic: The Chi Health Cycle

Jun Negoro

Jun is a registered Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Physician in Singapore since 2013. She focuses on women’s health, digestive health and stress related conditions that have been increasing over the years. With the passion to make TCM accessible to everyone, Jun created a TCM self-care app known as Kanpobliss, to promote health through a TCM lifestyle which focuses on preventative health and treating of the root cause instead of just band-aiding the symptoms.

Topic: Conscious Womb Health

Carrie Chauhan

Carrie has a Master’s of Acupuncture (M.Ac.) and a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl.OM.), with a practice focusing on Chinese herbal medicine flavored by her experience and training in Ayurveda, Integrative Yoga Therapy and Western herbal medicine. She was licensed for five years in Florida as an Acupuncture Physician before moving west. 

Topic: Chinese Herbal Medicine for Beginners

Dr Eric Karchmer

With over 20 years of education in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Eric Karchmer develops DAO Labs’ proprietary herbal formulas. As a respected academic thought leader and practitioner of Chinese Medicine, Eric designs the most efficacious mix of herbs to bring balance to the mind, body and spirit.

Topic: Treating Better Sleep 

Bettina Zumdick

Bettina Zumdick is a teacher, counselor, humanitarian, and author who is integrating the modern knowledge of the West with the ancient wisdom from the East. With a background in Food Science, Dietetics and Nutrition from the Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany, she has been involved in sharing her knowledge about Food as Medicine – using foods to maintain or re-gain good health.

Topic: Nourishing our Light Body

Vincent Esposito

Dr. Vincent Esposito graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic, where he also received a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition.  He is a board-certified chiropractor in the state of New York, and has a particular interest in functional medicine and health coaching.

Topic: New frontiers of Nutrition

Marlene Watson-Tara

As a high profiled and dedicated health counsellor and teacher with over 40 years’ experience in the health industry, Tara's dietary advice draws from the fields of Macrobiotic Nutrition, her studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine and certification in Plant- Based Nutrition. Tara's books Macrobiotics for all Seasons, Go Vegan and Weight Loss Nature’s Way are available worldwide.

Topic: Shining your Shen

Holly Davis

Holly is a wholefood chef, author and educator. She teaches face to face workshops and online courses in Sourdough Baking and Lacto fermentation. She began my fermentation journey as a teenager, using her mums linen cupboard and any spare bench she could find to house delicious fermenting pickles, cheeses and drinks. She has been making these foods and teaching others how to cook and ferment wholefoods for over 40 years.

Topic: Balanced wholefood eating in a changing season

Andrew Sterman

Andrew Sterman is the author of Welcoming Food, Diet as Medicine for the Home Cook and Other Healers.  The two volumes of Welcoming Food offer a unique entry into understanding the energetics of food, explain how foods work in common sense language and provide easy-to-follow recipes for everyday eating. 

Topic: The 5 Stagnations of Chinese Medicine

Ana Torres

Ana Torres is a lifelong macrobiotic practitioner. She teaches and mentors students at her school Azuki Macrobiotics and at the Institute in Lisbon.

Ana's specialty is making the gift of macrobiotics simple and accessible with classes in English and Portuguese.

Topic: 5 Elements in the Kitchen

Simon Favorito

Simon's interest and journey into the healing power of whole foods medicine began when he was faced with debilitating physical and mental health challenges as a young man early into his adult life which had severe effects on all areas of his life and career as a chef.

Topic: Native Qi food

Tevia Feng

As the Qigong master instructor of White Tiger Qigong, he has taught over 4,000 students from around the world, in countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the US. White Tiger has almost 60,000 members. He has worked closely with terminally ill individuals to professional athletes, ballet dancers, the North American Muay Thai champion, the 2019 female Karate world champion, martial arts champions, yoga instructors, hedge fund managers, political figures, military elite, UHNWI, circus performers, health care professionals, psychologists, medical doctors and more.

Topic: What is Qigong?

Marisa Cranfill

Marisa Cranfill is the founder of YOQI © Yoga + Qigong. Over twenty years ago she discovered Qigong as a student in China. Soon after she combined it with a yoga practice and experienced amazing results: more sensitivity to energy, self-healing and access to nature’s unlimited potential.

Topic: 6 Phases of Qi Cultivation

Stephanie Nosco

Stephanie is a dedicated yin yoga, meditation and medical qigong practitioner and teacher.  With over a decade of teaching these modalities and witnessing their transformative power, Stephanie has fostered a deep appreciation for the human spirit and its role in genuine healing. Stephanie is endorsed by yin yoga founder, Sarah Powers, through the Insight Yoga Institute. She has sat multiple long silent retreats, with senior teachers from both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist traditions. Stephanie holds two undergraduate degrees in religious studies and education and a Masters in Counselling Psychology. She is also working towards becoming a Medical Qigong Therapist through the International Institute of Qigong and Shamanic Chinese Medicine.

Topic: The 5 Spirits

Melissa West

Melissa West is the author of the forthcoming book The Elemental Self: Five Element Yin Yoga. Her themed yin yoga, yoga nidra, restorative yoga, and qigong yoga fusions are loved by thousands of students on her YouTube channel and in her membership community for their authenticity, modifications, natural locations, and poetry.

Topic: Qigong Yin fusion for sleep

Ariel Tang

Throughout her career Ariel has worn many hats. After 12 rewarding years as a yoga teacher and last few years adding on the role of Chi Nei Tsang Specialist, yoga teacher trainer and qigong teacher, and her "previous life" as financial specialist, flight attendant & then CEO of a restaurant chain, she is now divinely called to serve the world as a Quantum Coach/Healer, Ascension Guide & New Earth entrepreneur.

Topic: Consciousness, manifestation & reality

Gabrielle Harris

Gabrielle imparts her infectious love for yoga into each of her carefully designed classes. Having been trained in various traditions for over ten years she brings knowledge, wisdom and a love for living yoga in real life to her teachings. She is also the author of "The Language of Yin: Yoga Themes, Sequences and Inspiration to Bring Your Class to Life and Life to Your Class."

Topic: Living in Yin

Sebastian Pucelle

Sebastian has been studying Yoga since 1994, journeying through Yoga  started with Ashtanga, Hatha and Yin Yoga. For the past 3 decades, Sebastian has practiced Martial Art, Shiatsu, Yoga and Meditation, refining and stabilizing his research to the study of Yin-Yoga as a foundation, to sustain and promote a holistic life-style.

Topic: Yin Yoga Taoist Practice

TJ Maher

TJ’s Yoga story began when he received a book, the Tao Te Ching, as a gift from his sister over 2 decades ago.  It changed everything and he has since become an ERYT500 & YACEP with Yoga Alliance as well as recently becoming a Registered Yoga School with YA offering a 200 hour fully Yin Yoga Teacher Training.  

Topic: Yin Yoga & Qigong For Beginners

Lynsey Chan

Through Breathwork & other energy medicine practices, Lynsey is passionate about guiding others through deep transformational experiences to release trauma imprints and re-connect them to their potential. Working with Breathwork, energy medicine, and psycho-somatic practices, Lynsey has guided many through safe and powerful journeys and supported her clients with the integration of these experiences to create more flow, and make meaningful and last change in their lives.

Topic: Conscious breathwork practices

Simon Borg-Olivier

Simon Borg-Olivier, MSc BAppSc (Physiotherapy) APAM c-IAYT, has been practicing traditional forms of posture, movement, breathing, and mental control for 50 years. He has been teaching for 38 years and has been a registered physiotherapist for 23 years. He is also co-director of YogaSynergy, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected yoga schools, which has a style based on a deep understanding of modern medical science and traditional forms of exercise and therapy from all over the world. 

Topic: 5 Dimensional Flow

Michelle Locke

Michelle Locke was a professional ballerina before an injury ended her career. She became a Shiatsu therapist and founded the Shiatsu School of Western Australia, training practitioners for many years. However, when her baby daughter became seriously ill with Rett Syndrome, she faced a crossroad in her life. Stress, worry and overwhelm threatened her own health and forced Michelle to look within. She developed Wu Tao, a dance practice based on Chinese Medicine, which aims to balance Life Force energy in the body and restore physical balance, emotional equilibrium and peace of mind.

Topic: Wu Tao Dance

Dr Kim Peirano

Dr. Kim Peirano, DACM, LAc is a practicing Acupuncturist in San Rafael, CA, she is a published author, speaker and intuitive healer. Dr. Kim’s treatments and offerings aim to access the deep inner workings of the mind-body-spirit connection to help her patients unlock the root cause of disharmony. 

Topic: Transformative Healing-Bridging the Body, Mind & Spirit

Denby Sheather

Denby Sheather has been in service as a yoga teacher, energy healer and spiritual mentor for over two decades. She is renowned for her insightful and natural affinity with teaching and a pioneering approach to yoga, as well as to health and healing. She is passionate about awakening individuals to their innate power and helping them understand their place within the nature-spirit-self matrix. 

Topic: Modern Day Shamanic 5 Elements

Madina Tanekeyeva

Born in Kazakhstan, matured in The Netherlands and now residing in Sydney (Australia), Madina is a mom & wife, a yoga teacher mentor, creator of Emotional Release Yoga. At a tender age of twenty, she set on a path of understanding herself and the world through the lens of Buddhist meditation and Yoga. The biggest gift that she received while on this journey was the connection with what she calls "The Universal Database".

Topic: Emotional Release Yoga

Dr Ashley Abbs

Dr. Ashley Abbs is an author, acupuncturist and embodiment mentor. She is author of 5 Element Alchemy: Use Your 5 Element Type To Embrace Your Gifts & Create A Life You Love, the creator of Sacred Words, a devotional writing container and the owner of TerraSana Health and Wellness Centre in Calgary AB, Canada.

Topic: 5 Element Alchemy

Jo Little

Jo Little's philosophy and work is inspired by her connection to nature and the deep wisdom that she received after experiencing a ruptured brain aneurysm in 2011 at the age of 33. After six weeks in a coma, she embarked on an intensive self-healing journey of rebuilding neural pathways and understanding firsthand the magic of the mind-body connection and the importance of body sovereignty. Out of this discovery, she started her business, Creative Cleansing, in 2013 which teaches a feminine approach to cleansing that focuses not just on food, but on the mind, body and spirit holistically.

Topic: Rhythms & Self Awareness

Jin Ong

Dr. Jin Ong is a Cathartic Release Therapist. Trained professionally as an osteopath, psychosomatic therapist, western medical acupuncturist and herbalist. She has treated thousands of clients and started two bricks and mortar clinics she later went on to sell.  Jin works with complex physical and emotional conditions that don’t respond to traditional or conventional therapies, including surgery. She also works with cancer and terminally ill clients.

Jin is also the host of The Art Of Listening To Your Body Podcast.

Topic: Understanding your emotional body

Bill Tara

Bill Tara has been an active advocate for dietary reform since 1966. He was head of the Macrobiotic Teacher/Counsellor Review Board in both America and Europe and co-founder of the Kushi Institutes in London UK and Boston USA.

Topic: Spiritual & Ecological Nutrition

Amy La Prairie

Amy Rose is a Holistic Health Practitioner, Coach, Healer, Musician, Thought Pioneer, Speaker, Yoga & Movement Teacher & Thai Yoga Massage Bodywork Practitioner. She has studied one of the most comprehensive Holistic Healing systems in the world with the Chek Institute in San Diego, California.

Topic: Embodying new frequencies

Anita Cheung

Anita is an intellectual mystic, a life-long student and a bridger of worlds. She is the founder of iLiving (world), a multiple-award winning alternative healing & coaching practice servicing Hong Kong and globally.

Anita is trained in and practices a wide range of modalities, including: nutrition & health coaching,
bio resonance, aromatherapy, hypnosis, life coaching, somatic education, breathwork, systemic and
family constellation, soul records work, and consciousness field healing for individual and space.
She has created and practices a comprehensive 6-Level Healing System™ and the Soul Realisation™
processes integrating multiple healing modalities to most effectively support individuals to become
fully who they are. It’s her vision that a systemic and integral approach to personal and collective
transformation and healing will one day become the “new normal”.

Topic: Multidimensional Immunity

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