We can't keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people.

Akilah S. Richards founded Raising Free People Network as a media and collaboration hub for her inquiries, efforts, findings, and community organizing at the intersection of privilege, parenting, and power.

Prentis is a teacher, an embodiment coach, a writer, and an experienced group and conflict facilitator, who holds the importance of intimate, body-centered transformation as key to healing and key to justice.

The kind of change we are after is cellular as well as institutional, is personal and intimate, is collective as well as cultural. We are making love synonymous with justice.

Sah D'Simone is a spiritual revolutionary, mystic, artist, award-winning filmmaker, and the internationally best-selling author of Spiritually Sassy: 8 Radical Steps to Activate Your Innate Superpowers. He is well-known for hosting the top-rated Spiritually Sassy Show podcast and The Big Celebrity Detox on UK Channel 4, and for creating the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method™.

April Hubbard she/her is an artist and disability rights activist in Nova Scotia Canada. Other ways she describes herself: Proud Wheelie!, Mi’kmaq, Circus & Perfomance Artist, Adaptive Athlete, Loves to show Love!

The Therapist Who Moves You

Erica Hornthal is a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed clinical professional counselor. She is the founder and CEO of Chicago Dance Therapy and author of the award-winning book, Body Aware.

Fotini Chandrika is an equine guided professional, trauma informed yoga teacher and yoga therapist. She is a visionary intuitive guide for the betterment of life for all beings through interspecies connection and reciprocal healing on earth and in spirit.

Fyre Jean is a two-spirited resilient survivor, a Métis Grandmother, healer, heARTist, activist, and educator. Fyre specializes in creating a sustainable expressive arts healing practice through an Indigenous, eco-arts-based lens. Fyre consistently challenges individuals and organizations to examine their oppressive, eurocentric, patriarchal attitudes and practices.

Panditji Dabral is a senior meditation teacher in the Himalayan Tradition. He was born near Dehradun, India, in a family of Sanskrit scholars. He holds a doctorate in Yoga Philosophy and Sanskrit from Varanasi, India. He has worked closely with Swami Veda teaching Meditation and Yoga Philosophy in Asia, Europe and North America.

Marie and Meaghan Wright are young queer filmmakers who own Mirror Image Media, a full service video production company that specializes in commercials and documentaries, founded by twin sisters and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Through concept development, creative direction, filming, and post-production, they are dedicated to bringing your story to life.

Pamela Madsen, a Somatic Wellness Coach with a Master's degree in Education, has coached hundreds of women and couples on their own personal journey back into their bodies. Pamela founded Back to the Body, Inc and The Back To The Body Method™, now in its twelfth year.

For the past 30+ years, Robert Litman has guided clients and students in the use of movement, breath and sound as a tool for personal growth, restoring healthy breathing rhythms, structural alignment, and efficient body mechanics.

In 2023, Robert was featured on Oprah Daily classes.

Everyone is talking about Gabor’s new book The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. This year for our 2023 Summit, Gabor is joining us again for a new interview focused on embodied healing.

Nicole (she/her) is an Ashkenazi Jew of mixed European descent. In 2009, she was awarded a master’s degree with a specialization in yoga therapy from Lesley University in Boston, MA. For 9 years, she served as the Director of Therapeutic Yoga Programming for the Provincial Health Services Authority at their Burnaby Centre for Mental Health & Addictions and Riverview Psychiatric Hospital. From 2007-2018, she worked as a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) at Onsite, the treatment arm of North America’s first safe injection site in Vancouver’s downtown eastside.