Aida Shibli is a peace seeker and founder of the Bedouin reconciliation tent in Shibli as well as co-founder of a peace research village in the Middle East.

Aimee Ginsburg, award winning columnist and Indian correspondent for Israel's 'Yedioth Achronot' newspaper, has been living in India for nearly a decade. She is often visiting ashrams and temples with her saddhu friends or otherwise being dragged through the jungles by her two sons who must show her yet another king cobra.

Amoda is a spiritual teacher and author with ten years experience of counseling and leading personal transformation groups. In her new book How To Find God In Everything (Watkins, 2008) she shares a vision of hope and joy for humanity and her work is now dedicated to spreading this message on a global level so that it creates a real change in the world. For more information visit http://www.amodamaajeevan.com/

Ananda is a traveller in life and an investigator of life's mysteries. His journeys have taken him from working in law offices to meditation retreats in India, from shamanic rituals in Central American jungles to the urban jungles of the business world and life still continues to suprise him.

Anna Gordon is a writer, healer and teacher who has been exploring meditation, hands on healing and devotional poetry for fifteen years. She helped to establish reiki schools in India, England and the Middle East and is currently writing a novel and poetry.

Bala Jaison Ph.D., author of Integrating Experiential and Brief Therapy, is a psychotherapist in Toronto, Canada. She is also the Director of Focusing For Creative Living, a Goverment Recognized Educational Institution, celebrating its 20th year of providing innovative workshops and Focusing seminars to the public and mental health professionals.

Bonnie Katz is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the Los Angeles area. She helps clients to recognise and free themselves of old patterns which block them from having satisfying healthy relationships. She may be contacted at http://www.bonniekatz.com/

Bruce Burger is a musician with several albums out under the name RebbeSoul. It's spiritually based world music and hence his connection to Essence Of Life. When not recording music, performing, writing, bicycling, reading, gardening, or eating, he's probably asleep. You can pay him a virtual visit at http://rebbesoul.com/ and look for RebbeSoul on YouTube.

Daniel Stambler has been involved in Zen practice for sixteen years and has learnt from Vipassana and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the US. He founded and now teaches at the Zen Community of Jerusalem which meets regularly for meditation and retreats.

DeAnna L'am has been working internationally in the fields of Women's spirituality, peacemaking and community building. She works on building bridges across all perceived differences. As a child her father told her that Blue birds are a symbol of happiness but don't exist in reality. She now lives with her family in California, surrounded by Blue Jay birds. Her website is http://www.deannalam.com