About Us

Sacred Centers is a community of individuals who want to make a difference in our world. Our community forms organically from the workshop experience and the desire to keep that feeling alive in one’s own community. Our students and graduates of the Sacred Centers Certification Program form Sacred kin-ships in their own area, where they may teach, conduct healing practices, or hold events.

In this way, Sacred Centers’ kin-ships become self-organizing points for the coalescence of consciousness, illuminating the sacred web of life for the purpose of bringing together the imaginal cells of the emerging paradigm. (More on Imaginal Cells).

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Dr. Anodea Judith

Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises — her fervent wish is that we “wake up in time.” She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher, with lifelong studies of healing, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality. She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She teaches across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Central America.

She is best known for the chakra classic, Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System, (Llewellyn, 1987, revised 1999), an illustrated 435 page manual that has come to be considered the definitive work on the subject. With approximately, 200,000 U.S. copies sold and additional printings in 12 languages. A second book, co-authored with Selene Vega:The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body, and Spirit through the Chakras (Crossing Press, 1993, 289 pp.) arose out of the popular Nine-Month Chakra Intensive, taught by Judith and Vega for over two decades. Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, released by Celestial Arts in February 1997 charts childhood development, related difficulties and techniques for healing them, all within the chakra model and is a popular text in healing schools across the country. In March of 2000, she released a six-tape audio course called: The Chakra System: A Complete Course in Self-Diagnosis and Healing through Sounds True, Inc., followed by the popular boxed kit: Chakra Balancing. Her artistic expression combines with her mystic passion in her award winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, a co-creation with her son, artist and animator, Alex Wayne.

Her most recent book won two literary awards in 2007. Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love charts the history of human development into our present crisis and necessary transformation, with an inspiring message of hope for our future.

Anodea conducted a private healing practice in California for over 20 years, but travelling has taken her healing efforts into the workshop mode.

And finally, on the more personal level, Anodea Judith is a dynamic individual with many talents: teacher, healer, priestess, musician, artist, yogini, and co-heart. She is well-loved for her integration of mind, body, and spirit. She feels deeply concerned about the state of our world, in terms of ecology, ethics, politics, and religion. Feeling that individual and cultural transformation are intrinsically related, Anodea supports a path to empowerment and balance through teaching of life-affirming paths of wisdom. This is achieved through a reclamation of our bodies and minds, the environment, and our connection to both Heaven and Earth. She is a dynamic and experienced speaker, workshop presenter, and visionary, dedicated to healing our world and evolving human consciousness.

Read more about Anodea’s story: Discovering the Rainbow Path

Contact Anodea Judith.

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Lynne Michelson, MSW, LCSW, CPCC

Sacred Centers Certification Coordinator

Early in life Lynne spent 2 years in Europe and then lived in an intentional community in the US, and was fortunate during that time to study with some of the world’s eminent spiritual teachers. She has taught meditation, awakening practices and transformational psychology. Lynne has been a psychotherapist and relationship coach for over 15 years, a workshop facilitator, a national speaker, and created several non-profits that bring community, service, and fun together. Lynne was Director of Marketing and before that Director of Training at the Relationship Coaching Institute. She is committed to helping her clients and group participants grow from the intrinsic place inside each of them of creativity, curiosity, and light.
Contact Lynne

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Shanon Dean

Sacred Centers Office Manager

Shanon Dean is the invisible smile behind Sacred Centers as she manages the endless details: maintaining both websites Sacred Centers and Waking the Global Heart, handling the retail and wholesale orders, creating ads and art work, answering phones and correspondence, doing data entry, managing workshop details, geeking the technology, and keeping Anodea organized while she’s at it! If you can identify your problem or need, Shanon can address it. She’s a great facilitator, who often shows up with a fresh basket of veggies from her garden. Contact Shanon.

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Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT

Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist (Marriage and Family Therapist) with a Masters in Clinical Psychology and a Bachelors in Ritual and The Arts (UC Santa Cruz). She is a doctoral candidate at Saybrook Graduate School. Since 1972 she has led individuals and groups on journeys into the realms of psyche, combining her extensive background in dance, yoga and other movement forms with her work in hypnotherapy. Former editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter, Selene’s writings include chapters in Walking in Two Worlds (Ed. Gilligan & Simon), The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook (Ed. Khalsa & Mijares), and co-authoring The Sevenfold Journey (with Anodea Judith). Selene and Anodea have been teaching together since 1985.

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Lion Goodman

Lion Goodman is a an Evocateur — one who evokes the best in others. He is a life and business coach, a published author, workshop leader, and entrepreneur, who has spent his life studying human consciousness and personal development. He has been President of the Goodman Group, a corporate executive consulting firm, for more than 25 years, a member of the World Business Academy, and an active agent in the men’s movement. He was a teacher of the Avatar Course, a belief management system, for six years, and now coaches individuals in life manifestation and personal choices and advises leaders in sustainable business. Contact Lion.

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Jason Auer-Sears

Jason Auer-Sears completed his schooling at Eastwind School of Holistic Healing in Iowa City. He joined forces with a chiropractor and a naturopath to co-facilitate the leading wellness clinic in his home area, The Bradley Center, a leading clinic in the area, where he has worked for the last seven years with a variety of practitioners, building a practice as a Certified Chiropractic Assistant, Reiki Master, and practitioner of the Aaron Mattes method of Active Isolated Stretching. As creator of Chakrassage and a student of Anodea Judith, Jason integrates manual therapy, stretching, vocal toning, visualization and bioenergetic concepts with the wellness model of the seven chakras. Contact Jason.

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Glenn Hartelius, PhD.

Glenn Hartelius, PhD. is a master healer and a scholar. As a pioneer in transformative psychology he brings a radically simple and practical understanding of how to create profound inner change, uncover your root issues, unlock your forgotten potential, and unleash the power to be fully present in your life. In over twenty years of experience he has seen more than ten thousand clients. Glenn holds an M.A. in religion, is completing a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology, and has particular expertise in the anatomy and disorders of chakras. Glenn runs educational events for professional psychotherapists, publishes articles in professional psychology journals, serves as director of an accredited massage therapy program, and travels internationally to speak about his work.

Contact Glenn.

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Nini Gridley

Nini Gridley is a Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher, a dynamic workshop leader and a holistic healer, who weaves in-depth study of the chakras with expertise in child development into a process for deep healing. Nini has been offering individual sessions, as well as meditations and workshops on the chakras through her private practice, Full Spectrum Healing™, since 1995. She teaches “Retreat and Renewal” workshops at Kripalu Center, the largest and most established Yoga center in the U.S., located in Lenox, MA. Her teaching has been featured at libraries, schools, churches, community colleges and many Yoga centers throughout Connecticut and New York. She has a Master’s Degree in Education from Bank Street College of Education (NY, NY) and a B.A. in Child Development and Education from Connecticut College (New London, CT). Internationally registered as a Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner she utilizes Dr. Edward Bach’s 38 original flower essences in her healing practice with children and adults. Nini is a founding faculty member of Sacred Centers, the premier training program on the chakras, teaching various international tele-classes. Check out Sacred Centers Teleclasses here. Her first meditation CD, MoonWish, contains a manifestation meditation designed for use at the New Moon, the most auspicious time for fresh starts and new beginnings. Contact Nini or P.O. Box 264, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 for her current teaching schedule. Order MoonWish from SacredCenters.

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