Topics & Presenter Descriptions
Reweave your field of energy with our special guest, renowned dancer and teacher, Banafsheh Sayyad, who will teach, inspire and lead us into our own sacred feminine force, connecting with Mother Earth, our heart and inner knowing. Other presentations include: Truths & Tips on Awakening, Gifts from the Earth, Drawing the Dance, and The Importance of Your Journey. Late afternoon session includes a guided meditation into deep relaxation. You will return home with the energy and tools to create a stronger tomorrow.
Title: The Dance of Oneness Special Guest: Banafsheh Sayyad
BIO: Internationally known Persian master dance artist and transformational teacher, Banafsheh Sayyad has dedicated her life to empowering people through the creative process. She communicates the universal message of Divine Feminine wisdom in a passionate yet serenely meditative way. Her spiritual teachings through dance, movement and meditation are based in joyously embodying the transcendent in our everyday lives. “Love your body and your Self, and live in the world as a Lover” are the elemental messages Banafsheh encourages her students to experience. With a MFA in Dance and a MA in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to healing through dance on individual and collective levels. Dance of Oneness®, the modality she has created has empowered countless women and men to claim and embody their unique identity. Banafsheh performs and teaches worldwide. Visit her website. Watch Banafsheh dance.
Title: Rise My Daughters Rise Presenter: Paula Petry, PhD
BIO: Dr. Paula Petry is an Author, Speaker, and Wellness Director at Lightwork Education & Wellness Center, a holistic elementary and middle school located in Miami, Florida. Paula’s journey of self- discovery, healing, and personal empowerment began with the birth of her daughter, Alexandra, who was born with a severe disability. In lieu of accepting the fate prescribed by physicians, other health professionals, and educators, Paula chose to pave a new path for not only her daughter, but for many others. She became a strong advocate to meet the needs of her daughter and in that she formed what is now one of the leading community-based parent advocacy organizations in the country, Parent to Parent of Miami, Inc. She brought that knowledge and her passion for family-centered care services to her faculty position at the University of Miami, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics—for over a decade preparing pediatricians to work with children with special health care needs. Her daughter’s death brought great loss, suffering, and new beginnings. She studied energy medicine, sound healing, mindfulness, and somatic therapies to heal. Paula now finds purpose and meaning in helping others pave their path forward to their own bright beginnings. Her recently published memoir, A Mother’s Courage to Awaken, describes her death and rebirth process as she reclaimed her voice and inner strength. Visit Her Website: paulapetry.com
Title: Gifts From The Earth Presenter: Chef Lisa Brown, M.S.
BIO: Lisa Brown, founder of Free Flowing Health, is a wholefoods plant-based chef, certified INN health coach and educator residing in SWFL with well over a decade of experience helping people transform their lives. In addition to having acquired a culinary education at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC, Lisa is also certified to teach various styles of yoga. She holds a Master’s Degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College. Born and raised in NYC, Lisa spent her younger years living life in the fast lane. Working as a full-time EMT while in college, coupled with a poor diet, stress, and little sleep left Lisa running on empty with a number of health issues, including a severe back injury, hormonal imbalances, terrible acne, low energy and extreme depression/anxiety. After turning to yoga for physical rehabilitation and adjusting her lifestyle, diet, and mindset, Lisa experienced deep and long-lasting healing and shifts on all levels of being. Lisa's quest for knowledge, passion for healthy living, and deep desire to be of service to others became insatiable. Today Lisa combines her work as a chef, coach & educator to help people around the world achieve greater levels of health, happiness and, harmony. Visit Her Website: https://www.freeflowinghealth.com
Title: Unifying Our Hearts Through Sound Presenter: Jahidi Deen
BIO: Jahidi is a musician, sound healer and meditation teacher who assists individuals in their alchemical process toward wholeness. A former attorney, Jahidi left his legal career to follow his calling. He is the inventor of Rhythmic Resonance Healing, a healing modality combining shamanic journeying, suspending drums over clients, chanting and breathwork, in order to escort clients into deep states of relaxation and healing. He has presented as a TEDx speaker at TEDxMIAMI. Jahidi’s mission is to empower, heal and unify people through rhythm and sound. http://www.jahidi.com/
Title: Drawing the Dance Presenter: Dana Outlaw-Pezoldt, M.A.
BIO: Dana is a visual artist and administrator with her master’s degree in expressive arts, the healing arts, from the University of South Florida as well as her undergraduate degree in Child Development from FSU. She has worked as an expressive artist and Child Life Specialist in pediatric hospice and pediatric oncology settings and has over 30 years of experience working with children with disabilities. She currently is a program manager with Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs' All Kids Included initiative where she is instrumental in providing ongoing guidance and program development and review of community-based art programs for children and youth with disabilities.
Title: The Importance of Your Journey Presenter: Leigh Kapps, PhD
Leigh Kapps, PhD, BCAB-D, was for 41 years the COO of United Community Options of South Florida (Former United Cerebral Palsy). She began her spiritual quest early in life at the age of 9 when her father died. She sought answers to life’s meaningful questions regarding where her father went and the meaning of life. She found her teacher at the age of 22 and spent 14 years studying with her, fully embracing Ascended Master teachings. Once trained to read the Akashic Records, she began doing readings remotely for people around the world. As this developed, she was able to intuit an intimate connection with her client’s guides. She began doing weekend workshops based on these readings, establishing the guide’s connection and past history. She teamed up with an artist to create guide renderings, presented at the workshop during a sacred ceremony. Leigh combines her Akashic Record training with her background in music, healing, hypnotherapy, and ancestral clearing to provide a complete service to her clients. This work is a joyful path filled with meaning and connection to guides who lovingly serve us daily without recognition.
Performer: Brazilian Voices
Brazilian Voices is a non-profit female vocal group of 34 women who sing Brazilian and international music for concerts, educational, hospitals and chemotherapy infusion units, nursing homes among others. Known as 14-time winner of the Brazilian International Press Award for Outstanding Brazilian Musical Group in the US, it has released 7 CDs in the US and Canada and performed widely for 18 years, including in Barcelona, Madrid, Mexico, New York, Arizona and London, in addition to more than 500 performances in South Florida, reaching more than 19,000 people yearly.
In addition, Broward County has proclaimed September 15th, 2016 to be "Brazilian Voices Day” for its positive contribution to the community, which all members are very proud of. Brazilian Voices performs for the 7th consecutive year at the Women’s Summit and Annual Family Cafe Summit in Orlando., an event for hundreds of Floridians with disabilities and their families. Once again, Brazilian Voices reaches out to various communities in Florida with their soothing voices, kindness, joy and professionalism.
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