Originally dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance therapist, trained in several psycho-corporal techniques, in Esalen Institute (USA), in African dance in Douala (Cameroon), in contemporary dance in France, Amiyo Devienne studied Gurdjieff movements with Deborah Rose, Avrom Altmann and James Tomarelli, direct students of John G. Bennett.

Amiyo lived many years in India, in the international commune of Osho, where she created a unique synthesis between the eastern and western visions of dance, and where she learned the stillness of meditation.

For 30 years now, she travels worldwide, sharing her experiences on movement, as a science, as an art, as a tool for inner ?development, for both, amateurs and professionals and in 2002 she taught at Carolyn Carlson Institute ?Accademia Isola Danza?. Amiyo is leading seminars in London, Madrid, Rome, Sicily, Munich, Nurnberg, New Delhi, Dharamsala in India, in Moscow and St Petersburg in Russia. Choreographer, she created and directed more than 50 performances, whose 30 were of Gurdjieff movements. She has also opened her school in Alsace, France, where she offers initiation and training in Gurdjieff movements, as well as dance ?therapy-expression seminars.

Nina:
I had not been raised in any religious tradition, just a token Christianity which mostly consisted of loving to sing hymns in school assembly. From then until now I have not stopped searching for God, for myself, for peace of mind, enlightenment, whatever you call it. I did TM, searched for gurus in India and became a disciple of Osho Rajneesh nearly 30 years ago. I traveled all over North America and Europe and lived in Japan for four years.

I have done regular meditation practice for 30 years. When I met Byron Katie and started to do The Work daily my internal and external life totally changed. It is the key that I needed to unlock my meditation. Now my mind is clearer, stress is disappearing, joy is abundant. If you really want to know and live the Truth, this Work is for you; if you want to be happier and have less stress in your life this Work is for you; if you want better and happier relationships this work is for you. It is "the fast track".
I am grateful to this Work that Katie shares with us and would love to support you in finding your way with it.

Ashik:
I am now 57 years old and recognizing, at last, how little I know. I studied philosophy in Oxford in the 60s and the same light leads me still. How does my mind work? I followed the Perennial Philosophy wherever it led me, through psychedelics, chaos, music, beauty, and meditation. Living for years with Osho and now with the ancient pines in high Colorado I dig deeper into the stillness at the center of all things.

A chance meeting in Kyoto led me to Katie, and within hours I knew that The Work was a new broom made perfectly to chase out the cobwebs of my mind. These days I keep busy building websites, poems, music, and our house, walking the dogs and doing The Work. What a blessed life.

If you want to follow this road I am here for you.

Anand Samir is a meditation leader, and musician since 1970. He played music groups in Osho's communes including Oregon and in Poona, as well as for Osho personally in discourse. He is also a therapist offering individual sessions in psychotherapy from a comprehensive background in therapy and meditation.

Sugandha Brooks has been working with the Meditative Therapies since 1995. She was trained in the Mystic Rose (1995) and Born Again (2001) Meditative Therapies in Poona, India. These techniques were given by the enlightened mystic, Osho. She has been organizing and facilitating these processes in Boulder, Colorado, and Costa Rica.

Suvarna has been a meditation leader since 7 years, and learning and doing Osho's meditations since the age of 17. Having spent over ten years in the Osho International Commune in India, she is able to bring the essence of these meditations out in a way of teaching that inspires confidence and relaxation, in an atmosphere of playfulness.

Suvarna, also an accomplished musician, has been playing music since the age of seven, starting with classical piano and violin, choral singing and folk singing. In Pune, India Suvarna learned Indian raga singing, and in 1998 she began to create her own individual vocal style using melodies composed of Indian ragas, and rhythms combining electronic beats and ethnic drums such as Indian tablas.

She has three CDs published, the first, Fire of the Oracle, produced by Dik Darnell, and composed and performed with her brother, Ravi, a well known kora player and composer. (Etherean Music, 2000.) Her second album, Energia, (2003, Infinity Music) - features special guests Hossam Ramzy and Ty Burhoe. Hossam is an acclaimed Egyptian percussionist, and Ty is a prominent disciple of Zakir Hussain. Suvarna?s latest project, This Dewdrop World, sees her moving into a more laid back and intimate space, with all new compositions of vocal improvisations and mantras. She will be touring the Southwestern US in August with guitarist/composer Jamie St. Clair, and tabla player Steve Bross.

Vipal Cohen is a long time bodyworker who chose to add Kobido, a beautiful and unusual type of face massage, to his already rich store of resources, which includes 18 years of Rebalancing?. He studied with Mochizuki, the only Kobido teacher in the West.