Mary Duman received her nutritional training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. She is a Certified Health Counselor, Certified Natural Health Practitioner, and Certified Raw Food Chef. She also holds a Diploma in Homeopathy from the British Institute of Homeopathy and a Digestive Health Specialist Diploma from the Loomis Institute. Mary completed her health practitioner training as an intern at Classic Homeopathy with Ronald Frank, D.H.M. She also completed her Modern Day Priestess training and is a certified Modern Wisdom Practitioner.

Rev. Kate Rodger is founder of the Institute of Modern Wisdom and committed to serving Humanity - Body, Mind, + Soul. Having a profound experience on her first Cleanse at 21 years of age led her to inspire, facilitate, and educate Cleansers for the following 30 years in the liberation and empowerment that can come with this level of Self-Commitment and Self-Care. Deeply she knows - from personal experience and from the lives transformed in leading folks through Cleanses - how profound a quickening and enlivement that can happen in multiple areas of the lives of participants. Nothing gives her greater joy than to bear witness to individuals liberating to their very own brilliance - in every way. Because IMW is committed to a Wholistic approach with the events we offer, she is delighted that our Spring Cleanse is deeply established as an annual offering for the world at large.

Jenna Steep is a Total Yoga Nidra facilitator and women's embodiment coach. She is fiercely passionate about the healing power of rest, and the wisdom of returning to cyclical living.

She leads online immersions holding space for exploration of what it means to live embodied, and facilitates deeply restful, restorative healing space locally and globally with in-person circles, classes, workshops and retreats.

Michael Spencer is the founder of Let's Purify!, an online coaching business. She is a Home Energy Coach and Reiki practitioner who helps soulful people declutter their homes on a deep level through a spiritual process called Home Energy Purification. As a former mental health counselor with training as a Modern Day Priestess, Michael brings a wide variety of expertise to her services.

Rachel Haymer is a master healer and powerful empathic reader originally from Hawaii, now practicing in Manhattan. Descended from an ancient line of medicine workers, Rachel has in healing through emotional breakthrough for all types of ailments for the last 15 years. Using a combination of Reiki, Breakthrough Breathwork Medicine, Soul Communication and Ancient Hawaiian Healing, she has successfully treated thousands of individuals. Rachel uniquely reaches the heart of her clients pain, to create relief and uncover practical solutions for long term and complete healing.

Michelle Alva is a Licensed Physical Therapist for over 23 years who has created The Alva Method of Self-Healing Empowerment, a multi-modal process of self-discovery that teaches individuals how to harness their innate healing power, awaken and empower their sacred sexuality. She is a mother, Tantra Practitioner, NLP Practitioner, Yoga Teacher and Sound Healer.

Marianne Mitchell is an IMW-Certified Modern Wisdom Practitioner, KRI-Certified Aquarian Teacher of Kundalini Yoga, Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner, Ancient Wisdom Teacher and Spiritual Counselor. Marianne weaves together an immense toolkit of modalities, including intuitive guidance and wholistic consulting to support individuals and groups at the level of mind, body and spirit to hold each one in remembering more fully who they are. Marianne offers private sessions, distance sessions, Divine Feminine Shamanic Circles, Shamanic Men’s Council, Co-ed Mystic Circles®, Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Classes. She also offers Land Ceremonies and Blessings as well as Rites of Passage for all stages of life.

Since 1992, Ron Frank has an established practice educating people to achieve personally empowered health and wellness through nature. Ron embraces the trinity of a Mind, Body, and Nature Connection for total health and wellness. Ron’s education and experience are much more than can be listed here starting with his Diploma in Homeopathy from The British Institute of Homeopathy, U.S.A., and his D.H.M. (Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine) degree from The Hahnemann College, London, England.

Surreina Gallegos Gerbman is a YogaWorks Certified E-RYT-500 teacher and assistant trainer, Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Sound Healer, Aroma-Touch Practitioner, and specialty teacher of Kundalini Yoga and Y12SR (Yoga of 12 Step Recovery). She is the creatrice of The Yogi’s Radiance Cleanse Program and has been facilitating cleanses and teaching about intuitive balanced nutrition since 2004. Surreina specializes in working with women to awaken feminine strength and grace, and her passion for spiritual practice and embodiment inspires her work, infusing her classes, workshops, trainings, circles and retreats with a feeling of Sacredness to create an uplifting experience that opens the heart and mind to new possibilities.

Christel Libiot is a master at holding space and celebrating each person in their truth to support, with her smile and open heart, people individually and in group, in women’s circles, workshops and ceremonies. She has been holding Cacao Ceremonies with her husband in the Mid-Atlantic area since 2012. Cacao is “the Heart Opening Experience.” When Christel is not leading cacao ceremonies, she is a teacher in training with Heartwaves Healing Institute’s current Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy training. She is also a Certified Modern Wisdom Practitioner/Modern Day Priestess initiated through the Institute of Modern Wisdom in 2013 and has been a mentor for MDP and Certification. Additionally, since 2005, Christel has been a leader of the Woman Within® Weekend, an empowerment workshop for women, in the US and Europe, and has led over 70 of these experiential empowerment retreats for women in the United States and in Europe.

"Ms. Health Nut," Uri Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, grew up influenced by Western culture. She was urged to learn more and seek world experience, leading her to study fine art and fashion design at Parsons School of design in NYC. Though having a successful career in fashion, she came to realize her passion lies in the wellbeing of the Mind, Body, and Spirit.

After starting a family, Uri has traveled world-wide to discover healing modalities and ancient wisdom to help heal people who are in need. She has 2 healthy children in the Waldorf School of the Rudolf Steiner education system, which she also strongly supports and recommends. With a lifetime mission to change the sugar culture of America to sugarfree Halloween and Easter, Uri advocates a natural way of living and helps others to live a holistic lifestyle through consulting and retreats.

Joyce Wonderly grew up in rural Michigan, running free in the kitchen and garden, creating meals, helping her mother can, freeze and prepare the garden harvest for the winter. Dinners consisted of large platters of garden fresh vegetables, legumes and hearty homemade bread. Breakfasts of ancient grains. Joyce’s mom was ahead of her time, providing the family healthy, vegan, and sugar free meals.

As an adult, Joyce has pursued the culinary arts with passion. Fermenting produce from the local farmers market, making wine and vinegar with the fruit, and canning food items she likes to have in the winter. She is a culinary artist and enjoys not only creating beautiful and delicious food, but also healthy. Over the years she has held cooking classes when requested to do so.

Dr. Jeff Essen is an accomplished Naturopathic Doctor, Holistic Healthcare Practitioner, Certified Gluten-Competent Practitioner, and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who has been in private practice with the Whole Life Clinic In Rosemount, Minnesota, which he founded at the turn of the century in 2000.

Naturopathic medicine seeks to find the causal factors to disease and stay on the leading edge of science in matters of metabolism, toxic exposure, and functional nutrition.

At the Whole Life Clinic Dr, Jeff specializes in autoimmune disease, digestive issues, and functional hormone support.

The origin of the word “Doctor” in Latin is “Doctore”, which means teacher.

Dr. Jeff strongly believes that every medical practitioner should be an educator for their patients.

Over the course of all his years in practice, Dr. Jeff has taken hundreds of hours of continuing education, focusing on autoimmune disorders.

Functional Endocrinology, Functional Blood Chemistry, Functional Neurology & Brain Chemistry, Mastering Blood Chemistry, and Mastering the Thyroid have all been institutional as developmental instruction to expand the knowledge base of the Whole Life Clinic practice.