Awake your feminine power and warrior spirits and reactivate the deep, inherent, often forgotten energy within us all. Come together and join us on 8/8, the Lions Gate portal activation day. Eight women will share their inner wisdom in harmony with the universe. The union of this gathering is vital for women, coming together to harness the intuitive strength to change the world. This ancestral wisdom is within us all and united; we can rise together, heal, and return to our origin.
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SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Blake-Thomas (Director and Philanthropist)
Elizabeth Blake-Thomas is a British award-winning filmmaker and philanthropist based in Los Angeles. She is the founder and resident director of the entertainment company Mother & Daughter Entertainment, whose motto is "Making Content That Matters," focusing on each project and starting a conversation amongst viewers. An Official Ambassador of Awareness Ties for Human Trafficking, Elizabeth hopes to raise more awareness of the horrific nature of human trafficking and help put a stop to it.
Her award-winning short film UNSEEN, which addresses the role technology plays in the facilitation of child trafficking, is used by multiple organizations and schools to help educate on potential lure tactics. A regular on panels at Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto International Film Festival, Elizabeth mentors wherever possible, ensuring she sends the elevator back down to all other female directors and filmmakers.
Tatiana Skroskis, The Trap Witch (Intuitive Healer)
Tatiana Skroskis, also known as ‘The Trap Witch,’ is an intuitive healer specializing in transformation, confidence, and embodiment coaching. Her areas of passion are shadow work, which aids people in working through subconscious blockages, stigmas, and addictions, and understanding sexual energy and spirituality. She helps her clients heal from trauma and codependency through understanding ancestral healing.
Barbie Herron Conkling (Artist, Midwive, Community Leader)
Barbie founded the non-profit Cozy Courage, which distributes cozy blankets to cancer patients, veterans at the VA hospital, and people experiencing homelessness. She has become an advocate for women in recovery and shares her experience, strength, and hope with the women in correctional facilities in the greater Los Angeles area. Barbie works closely with The Wishtoyo Foundation, advocating and fundraising for healing our sacred land and ocean. She is also a certified Reiki practitioner who understands that we are all energy and connected. "We are all made up of the essence of the Divine – pure loving energy, just housed temporarily in the human body.”
Great Grandmother Mary Lyons (Ojibwe Elder, Spiritual Advisor)
Great Grandmother Mary Lyons is an Ojibwe Elder, spiritual advisor, and UN Observer on women from Apple Valley, Minnesota. Great Grandmother Mary carries an intense professional portfolio; her contribution to the wellness of women and families stands at the forefront of her commitments in talking circles, ceremonies, vision interpretations, and one-on-one spiritual guidance. Amidst her wellness journeys, she finds time to do presentations on cultural issues of displaced native children who live in foster care.
Krishna Kaur (Kundalini Yoga Teacher)
Krishna Kaur is a dynamic, heart-centered yoga teacher who began studying yoga in 1970 and has passionately taught the art and science of Kundalini yoga and self-awareness for over 40 years. She brings knowledge and experience from teaching in Africa, Mexico, and inner cities throughout the United States. A master teacher trainer, she conducts workshops in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Krishna is certified by the 3HO Foundation and the Kundalini Research Institute as a Kundalini yoga teacher and trainer of levels I and II. She is the regional coordinator for 3HO Africa, which unites Kundalini Yoga in Africa. Krishna also founded and runs Y.O.G.A. for Youth, a non-profit dedicated to training yoga teachers to work with at-risk youth and creating yoga programs in schools and juvenile facilities.
Karla Ballard (Empathetic Leadership, Founder & CEO of YING)
Karla Ballard is the Founder and CEO of social enterprise organization YING, a P2P Group Skillsharing™ platform set to launch globally via the IOS and Android app markets. YING helps members within groups and communities facilitate on-demand exchanges, fostering a task-oriented economy between members.
Tanya Khani (Persian-American Soulful Publicist)
Tanya Khani is a publicist working with thought leaders and conscious brands. She combines intuition, soul work, and traditional PR to bring impactful and transformational messages to the limelight. A champion for alternative healers and thought leaders, Tanya represents some of our time's most enlightened and inspirational leaders.
Over the past few years, she's worked with spiritual teachers, healers, meditation studios, and fitness experts, landing them on various media outlets such as The Doctors, Good Morning America, Almost 30 Podcast, Bulletproof Radio, People Magazine, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Well + Good and more.
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS
Sue Wong (Artist, Fashion Designer)
Sue Wong is an internationally renowned fashion designer, visionary, and icon recently honored with a spectacular Retrospective Fashion Show and received a Lifetime Achievement Award. Additionally, she was honored by Metropolitan Fashion as Designer of the Year. Many luminous Hollywood stars favor Sue Wong's haute glamour evening gowns, appearing on red carpets, including the Emmys, Golden Globe, and Oscar ceremonies. Think Taylor Swift, Anne Hathaway, and Minnie Driver. Jessica Biel, Kelly Osbourne, and Tyra Banks. Sue Wong is a proven alchemist, expanding her artistic canvas into design modalities for interiors and signature hotels.
Dr. Naina Sachdev (Health Advocate, Activist)
Dr. Naina Sachdev of Naina MD™ Beverly Hills is Board Certified in Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine. In addition, she completed a fellowship in Functional, Aesthetic and Stem Cell Medicine from the A4M Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Naina is a renowned national and international speaker on various topics of her specialty, including bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, aesthetics, and detoxification.
Sande Hart (Social Artist, Circle Convener)
Sande is an award-winning leader in women's empowerment and interfaith community building. She is actively engaged in leadership in the peace, interfaith, compassion, community building, and women's empowerment sectors. She served on the Women's Task Force for The Parliament of The World's Religions, developing and producing the first-ever Women's Village at the 2023 conference. Sande founded and served as Director for the international organization The Charter For Compassion's Women and Girls sector, creating the 9th sector of the international organization focused on compassion. She has conducted countless workshops, produced events in more than seven countries, and presented on panels in universities, global and local organizations, and city and state-level institutions.
MASTER OF CEREMONY
Rev. Wendy Silvers (Founder of the Million Mamas Movement)
Reverend Wendy Silvers will be moderating the panel; she produces, hosts, and speaks at illustrious venues such as Agape International Spiritual Center, Conscious Living Expo, Bhakti Fest, Health Freedom, and Spiritual Centers. Wendy helps moms embody their power, raise empowered kids, and change the world through vision and grace. She is the founder of the Million Mamas Movement, a volunteer Ambassador for the Children's Health Defense California Chapter, creator of The Awakened Mother™ series, host of The Awakened Mother Podcast, and a co-author of the International bestselling book Balance for Busy Moms, releasing in spring 2022.
PERFORMERS
Snow Raven (Author of Neoshamanic Healing)
Snow Raven was born in one of the world's most remote and coldest inhabited places, The Republic of Sakha, Yakutia (Arctic Siberia). She was three years old when she learned the language of birds and animals. Snow's voice takes its breath from traditional Sakha culture and is truly an instrument. She is the creator of 'Arctic Beatbox,' the reindeer breath and "Neoshamanic Healing" ceremonies, and the founder of OLOX records and Kut-Sür: Temple of Shamanism and Science.
Nacho Arimany (Producer, Performer and Musician)
Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumental, and composer whose music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra. He possesses a unique blend of talents and diverse capabilities as a producer, performer, and musician for the brain. His work also centers on healing women's sex abuse and war trauma in countries like Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, and he also developed a technique to heal trauma created in the womb all over the world.
Scarlet Rivera (Composer, Ambassador for Peace)
Scarlet Rivera is best known for her work with Bob Dylan as the soloist on his multi-platinum album 'Desire' and in the Martin Scorsese film The Rolling Thunder Revue. She is also the Ambassador of the World Peace Violin for the McCollum Foundation, with performances that honor the beauty and diversity of our planet and the return to the original teaching of indigenous peoples.
Deepak Ramapriyan (Dpak)
Deepak Ramapriyan, also known as "DPK Future," is a virtuoso singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, dancer, and record producer known for evoking extraordinary experiences in listeners of all kinds. Classically trained in violin since age 4, Deepak lends his immense talent to elicit a remarkable range of emotions, from soul-centered meditative bliss to ecstatic jubilation, inspiring his listeners to go beyond the ordinary and access transcendent states of joy and spiritual communion. He is the lead singer and violinist for the rock/pop band The BOLT and the world sacred music band Breath of Life Tribe, and he has played with extraordinary talents such as India.
EVENT COORDINATOR
Emma Nittolo (Founder of Awake Your Inner Body)
Emma is the Founder of Awake Your Inner Body, a companion to holistic living and sacred self-care. She developed Awake Your Inner Body to embrace the divine feminine and empower women globally to care for their bodies and heal their wombs while giving back to our indigenous roots. Awake Your Inner Body intends to cultivate this positive change by hosting events, celebrating holistic products, and supporting the indigenous ancestors who have paved the way and are the key to the future.
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