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Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD, co-authors of the New York Times bestseller Energy Medicine, join Banyen Books for a discussion on Tapping: Self-Healing with the Transformative Power of Energy Psychology.

Donna Eden is the author of Energy Medicine. One of the world's most sought after experts on Energy Medicine, she has treated over 10,000 individual clients and has taught hundreds of classes to standing-room-only audiences worldwide. Able from childhood to perceive the body's subtle energies, she works with those energies to heal others and to teach others how to work with them.

David Feinstein, PhD, a clinical psychologist, has served on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has received nine national awards for his books on consciousness and healing.

Popular motivational speaker and entertainer David Roche discusses his book, Standing at the Back Door of Happiness: And How I Unlocked It, exploring the beauty found in unusual places with elegant humour and compassion.

David Roche was born with vascular malformation of the face, which he sees as an “incredible gift” that has forced him to look inside for beauty and self-worth. It has also helped him to see the beauty in others, despite their flaws, allowing him to live in a world of beautiful people. With a refreshingly good-natured outlook, Roche muses on disability, activism, religion and family.

V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues, and Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and international bestselling author, discuss V's new book, Reckoning.

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author of The Apology (now a play set to debut in 2022), the New York Times bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, the highly praised In the Body of the World, and many more. She is the founder of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. She is one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and the Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She lives in New York.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of Doppelganger, How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Naomi Klein is a columnist with The Guardian. She is one of the 100 People Who Are Changing America in Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker has described her as “the most visible and influential figure on the American left.” In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University, and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice.

Sandra Ingerman, renowned teacher of shamanism and author of Soul Retrieval, speaks on Walking through Darkness: A Nature-Based Path to Navigating Suffering and Loss.

Sandra Ingerman, MA, is an award-winning author of twelve books, including Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth, Walking in Light, and The Book of Ceremony. She is the presenter of eight audio programs produced by Sounds True. For 40 years Sandra has been a world-renowned teacher of shamanism teaching workshops internationally on shamanism and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods. Sandra is devoted to teaching people to work together as a global community to manifest positive change. She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature. Since the 1980s thousands of people have healed from past and present traumas through the cross-cultural shamanic healing method called Soul Retrieval. Watkins Body Mind Spirit Magazine named Sandra one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential People in 2020. Sandra is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional mental health counselor and a board-certified expert on traumatic stress.

Yogacharini Maitreyi explores nuances around the importance of reclaiming Tantra - India’s science of liberation. Maitreyi also shares some personal stories about how she has applied Tantric principles in her own life.

Yogacharini Maitreyi was born in India which was colonized by the British during her grandfather’s time. For over 200 years Yoga, Ayurveda, Indian martial arts, and other arts were banned by colonial rule just like bagpipes were banned in Scotland after the uprising of 1745 and drumming was banned amongst African slaves. The school she runs, Arkaya Foundation, is dedicated to reviving the deeper dimensions of these arts and sciences which have been watered down by mainstream appropriation. Maitreyi has been sharing the depth of Yoga and Tantra for over 26 years. When she settled in Vancouver over 6 years ago she connected with the First Nations community and elders to create more awareness about their Indigenous lifestyle, values and healing.

Conspirituality podcast co-host Matthew Remski joins Banyen for a conversation on his book, Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us.

Matthew Remski is an author, freelance journalist, and co-host of Conspirituality podcast, with bylines in The Walrus, GEN by Medium, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail. He’s published nine books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including threads of yoga: a remix of patanjali’s sutras with commentary and reverie. His book Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond has earned international praise as a groundbreaking resource for critical thinking and community health. In 2023 he co-authored Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat.