ALISTAIR APPLETON
Alistair is a TV journalist and presenter in the UK with long experience of Buddhist meditation. He's studied with monks from the Tibetan and Thai Forest tradition and completed numerous retreats in Scotland, Devon, California and Thailand. He teaches courses in basic meditation practice up on Holy Island in Scotland each summer. Last year, he filmed the documentary The Man Who Drank the Universe which recorded his experiences with Ayahuasca in Bahia, Brazil.

Visit Alistair at: www.alistairappleton.com

YOGIRAY KESSELER
Yogiray Kessler, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), leads gong healing events, workshops, and Kundalini Yoga classes. He trains sound healing practitioners, distributes gongs, holds a M.A. degree in speech communication, teaches college level communication classes, and is both Reiki-trained and a Master Practitioner of NLP®.

As part of this retreat’s program, he will be playing this ancient instrument thought to release negative emotional patterns in the body during special sessions for those interested. Other attributed benefits include acting upon the circulatory system to increase flow and reducing stress through inducing a state of profound relaxation in participants. These effects are created through vibratory sound waves that penetrate the organs, tissues, and blood chemistry with healing energy.

You may visit Yogiray Kessler at: www.yogiraygong.blogspot.com/

SILVIA POLIVOY
Silvia is a psychologist graduated from Belgrano University of Buenos Aires in 1983, with a Master's degree in clinical psychology. She has intensive training in transactional and transpersonal therapies and drug abuse rehabilitation. She's also carried out field research on psychoactive mushrooms in Mexico with Mazatec shamans, as well as worked extensively in the Peruvian and the Brazilian Amazon with ayahuasca and San Pedro, where she's been initiated and trained in shamanism and the ritual use of ayahuasca by Shipibo shamans.

In November 2009 Silvia and Ayahuasca-Healing Retreats, Brazil, were featured in Shaman's Drum magazine. Currently, she is working on her first book, Ayahuasca-Healing.