is a Body Story Expert, integrative bodyworker, Reiki Master, Ritual Master, former psychotherapist, primary facilitator of Flesh & Spirit Community and co-founder of The Missing Thread Mystery School for Entrpreneurs. He is also the author of "Erotic Body Prayer".

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is a Body Story Expert, a violinist, practitioner of Iyengar Yoga, bodyworker, Reiki Master, student of alchemy and co-founder of The Missing Thread Mystery School for Entrpreneurs. As founder of Healing Notes, a nongovernmental organization, he travels internationally to hospitals and hospices sharing his music with patients as a sound healer. In addition, Donny is a Midwife to the Dying and assists the terminally ill with their "birthing" into death. His first children's book, How the Waif Bunny Saved the Boy, is now out.

is a multifaceted artist who has been training with native cultures in the living wisdom of the Earth for over thirty years. Whether as musician or dancer, writer or speaker, painter or photographer, ritualist or bodyworker, he is devoted to bringing forth the organic intelligence that is natural to our species and forging a passionate blend of arts and activism, thereby celebrating unity in diversity and building bridges for peace.

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Nick is a practicing counselor and healer in San Francisco, who is happy to support the F&S Community. He has studied shamanism, energy medicine and hypnotherapy and continues to use those skills in his work. www.holistictherapysf.com

Don Clark, Ph.D., is the author of the famous book "Loving Someone Gay". For many years Don Clark has been a therapist, mentor and elder to queer men venturing into freedom. www.donclarkphd.com

is a personal mythologist with a Berkeley-based counseling and teaching practice called Soul Mentor. His training includes a doctorate in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Archetypal Psychology and World Sacred Traditions. His work combines the perennial wisdom of many mythological and religious traditions with contemporary approaches evolved by modern depth psychologists. With a focus on facilitating and integrating both psychological development and spiritual evolution, Richard also extensively employs archetypal astrology as a tool for self-exploration.

John Ballew (Guest Staff), is a licensed professional counselor and a massage therapist in private practice in Atlanta. He has an MS in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He has facilitated workshops in gay spirituality throughout North America, emphasizing the connection between body and soul. His work embraces both Eastern spiritual practices and a sex-positive Christian tradition. www.bodymindsoul.org

is a teacher in the Toltec Eagle Knight lineage of Don Miguel Ruiz, a shamanic healer in the lineage of Rebecca Crystal, and a pastor for Amigos de Dios, a fellowship of Christian mystics. He is also a psychotherapist. He integrates his experience in creative writing, storytelling, the Lakota Sweat Lodge and years of experience learning from indigenous spiritual elders, healers and shamans into his work.

is a counselor, spiritual teacher and healer.
A clinical social worker working with cancer patients, she has been honored to witness growth, power and self love in all sorts of circumstances and bodily situations. In connection since 2000 with MCCSF, she has deepened her knowledge of her own divine nature, and discovered embodied , queer spirituality. With her partner, Barb Hargrave, she is committed to continuing the journey to the integration of sex and god (erotic and divine, flesh and spirit) for herself, her relationships and in community. Barbara is the Flesh & Spirit Women's Community Coordinator.

is a holistic health consultant, Native American practitioner, artist, safer sex educator and holistic workshop facilitator. Dan has been assisting in Flesh & Spirit work since it's inception in Cincinnati, Ohio. www.Ceucert.com

has been walking in beauty for more than a decade first by facilitating GaySpirit Drum Circles and now as a Flesh and Spirit Monthly Drum Circle facilitator.

is the Director of the César E. Chávez Institute, San Francisco State University. Rafael has explored a monastic path and shared his gifts with GMSR and Flesh & Spirit

Andrew Ramer is the author of Two Flutes Playing, Elder to Gay Spirit Visions in North Carolina and guest teacher to Flesh & Spirit Community.

is a healer, teaching Reiki master, and Peaceful Warrior teacher. He has been planning and facilitating workshops and retreats for queer men on spiritual paths since 1991 including retreats for several Metropolitan Community Churches, Gay Men's Spiritual Retreat, and the Flesh & Spirit Community.