This Is Not a Wellness Trend—It’s a Return to Inner Sovereignty

Join us for a full day of transformative insights, ancient wisdom, and embodied science led by pioneers in neuroscience, energy medicine, ancient cosmology, quantum awareness, and holistic health.

Featured Presenters

Sonia Barrett

Neuroscientist/Founder of Awareness Gathering & Co-host

Dr. Sonia Barrett is a Neuroscientist & Integrative Mind-Body Specialist and the Founder of The Awareness Gathering events. She is the executive producer of the award-winning documentary The Business of Disease and host of The Expansion Zone on KPFK 90.7 FM. For over 30 years, Sonia’s insights have remained cutting edge in exploring consciousness, human evolution, and potential. She fuses neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and metaphysics to inspire bold self-activation. Her work challenges algorithm-driven limitations, promoting the field of potentiality and self-directed evolution.

Sonia affirms, “Technology drives us to unlock our inner technology—our superhuman potential beyond AI.”

https://therealsoniabarrett.com/, https://neuroradical.com/ /

Parisa Shelton

Co-founder of Shelton Qigong

Parisa Shelton Co-Producer of The Awareness Gathering: is a first-generation daughter of two physicists who grew up in Silicon Valley at the peak of the technological revolution, turned Yogi, and is also a certified practitioner and teacher of Qigong. . Parisa has a BA in environmental studies which she brings to her daily work. Her diverse background makes her the ideal administrator and facilitator for this program. Chris and Parisa are a husband and wife team owning and operating Morning Crane Healing Arts Center in San Jose and Los Angeles, California. They look forward to providing a Qigong Teacher Training course that will transform your life and the lives of those around you.

https://sheltonqigong.com/

Leigh McCloskey

Artist, Actor & Hermetic Scholar

Leigh’s fascinating and inspiring creative life, his art, career as an an actor and his personal “heroes journey” lead him into a lifetime devoted to exploring and reinvigorating the stories, myths and arts that return dignity and meaning to our human struggle. His love of history and philosophy, of art, poetry, theatre and music lead him to develop his innate polymath creative genius. Leigh ultimately would become, through his herculean seventeen year effort to create Tarot ReVisioned, a true master of the Hermetic Arts. His bona fides is the masterwork itself, which is recognized for its genius. His success as an actor in television and films gave him the opportunity to create a private environment in his home where he could safely and intimately explore deep questions about the nature of the inner self and soul that could not be asked in the public arena of Hollywood or a money driven art world.

https://leighmccloskey.com/

Sebastian Siegel

Director & acclaimed Consciousness Author

Sebastian Siegel is a British-American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and author. His modes of storytelling range from filmmaking to contemporary art and psychology. Sebastian writes and speaks extensively on transcendence. Siegel’s first book, Die Bewusstseinsrevolution (The Consciousness Revolution: Meditations for a New World), published by Giger/Verlag, is available here on Amazon and at stores across Switzerland and Germany. He writes and talks on consciousness, joy, happiness, intimacy, compassion, will, the relationship between food and moral accountability, eternal life and intuition. He cites Ken Wilber, Alan Watts, Ramana Maharshi, Joseph Campbell and mentor James Whitmore as strong influences, and as a kid, his father’s lectures on Zen and comics he brought back from India about Rama, Kali, Ganesha and Shakti. In 1983 Siegel met Campbell with his father on Oahu, Hawaii.

http://sebastiansiegel.com/

Dr. Kamau Kokayi

Metaphysician

Dr. Kamau Kokayi MD is the founder of Healing Health Services, and has been in private practice as a primary care holistic medical specialist for over thirty five years. He graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 1982, went on to do a residency in Family Practice with Board certification. His additional studies have been in homeopathy, Chinese medicine, applied kinesiology, nutritional medicine, biogeometry, and metaphysics. He just became the past President of the Homeopathic Medical Society for the State of New York (HMSSNY) and retired from the NY State Acupuncture Board in 2019. In addition to his primary care practice, Dr Kokayi is particularly interested in the interface between Consciousness, the Mind, and Neuropsychiatric disturbances. He facilitates online Consciousness Transformation meditations  https://www.healthatlastclinics.com/.

Dean Chiaro

COO, Soulaire / (EECP) Technology

Dean Chiaro is the chief operating officer at Soulaire Wellness in Santa Monica. He oversees the care of the clients and the delivery of enhanced external counter pulsation (EECP). He has been an emergency medical technician and cardiac technician for more than 30 years. He began his career in the health field at Beverly Hills Medical Center in 1992 and went on to work in the emergency department at hospitals like California Hospital Medical Center in downtown LA and Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park. His extensive knowledge of EECP comes from treating thousands of clients over the years.

Jummee Park

Food Shaman and Author

Jummee Park, Author of The Healthy Bones Plant-Based Nutrition Plan and Cookbook, Founder of SheSalt Electrolyte Hydration Solution,Wellness Consultant, and Lecturer
Medicine Woman, Food Shaman, “Every breath counts to be a good human”
Jummee’s journey of mysterious illness and suppressed misused memories (trauma) have become the soil of her passion, curiosity, and discipline in her personal transformation over the decades. She fertilizes Eastern wisdom and Western philosophies that have been studied by leading world-class teachers to alkalize them into her unique blend of digestible holistic recipes for everyday bliss to turn on the SuperHuman Code to support conscious leaders and the community.

Jummee visions a conscious community of humanity, compassion, and love. She embodies the change and solution to world challenges we face every day by offering accessible holistic lifestyle wisdom with contagious joy and play.
https://www.blisskitchenla.com/

David Khan

Astrocrafter

David is a 22-year shamanic practitioner and the developer of Quantum Rebalancing, a 21st-century science-based healing modality. After healing himself of two mysterious autoimmune conditions, he began helping others heal by clearing ancestral karma and rebalancing their energy fields. His approach to healing is grounded in the belief that enlightenment is already present—we simply need to attune ourselves back to it. This perspective transforms healing from a struggle into a joyful journey of rediscovering what’s always been within reach. David blends science and spirituality to activate our innate capacity for transformation and well-being. Topic: Co-creation of Health and Wealth with the Holographic Field.

Chris Shelton

Qigong Master

Chris Shelton is a certified practitioner and teacher with over 25 years of study and 16 years of clinical experience in Medical Qigong, an ancient holistic health modality that combines Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with movement, breath, and visualization. He has helped thousands of people across the United States and around the world. Chris’ belief in the healing powers of Qigong is rooted in first-hand experience. As a teenager he suffered from a devastating back injury that left him in constant pain and nearly crippled. In a 10 year period, he went from not being able to walk to a martial-arts champion to a renowned healer. Chris attributes his full recovery to Qigong, https://sheltonqigong.com/

Billy Blanks

CEO of Tae Bo® Nation

Billy Blanks is a world-renowned fitness innovator, martial artist, and motivational leader best known as the creator of the revolutionary Tae Bo® fitness program. As CEO of TAE BO® NATION, he continues to inspire millions worldwide with his unique blend of martial arts, dance, and total body fitness.

A 7th-degree black belt in taekwondo and 5th-degree black belt in karate, Blanks also holds a black sash in Hung Ga kung fu. Before creating Tae Bo®, he was a decorated martial arts competitor, representing the United States on the international stage and earning recognition as Karate Illustrated’s National Champion and Rookie of the Year.

Beyond the accolades, Billy Blanks has touched lives around the globe, showing people how discipline, movement, and mindset can transform not just the body, but the spirit. At the Awareness Gathering, he will share his powerful insights on resilience, personal empowerment, and the role of mind–body wellness in today’s world.

https://www.taebonation.com/

Additional Highlights

Mind-expanding talks, wellness wisdom, and energy recalibration
Practices for nervous system regulation in a tech-saturated world
Tools to awaken the “original operating system” of your biology
Immersive sound bath for vibrational restoration
Vendors offering natural food, healing products & earth-based remedies
Music!

Location
Outdoor Gathering on a healing farm in Malibu, California

Sponsors

Vocalist Heather Grace Powers Will Be Performing!

Heather Grace Powers is a soulful singer-songwriter and sound healer whose music bridges the sacred and the human. Through voice and song, she invites listeners into healing, transformation, and spiritual awakening.

Come Join In A Drumming Circle With Roberto Gutierrez!

Be ignited by the drums, the tambourine, play rattles/shakers!

Vendors

Chagit | Aniko Fisch- certified Spinal Flow practitioner | Theraphi Technology | Good Juju – super food

Kerry Clasby

Intuitive Forager

Aniko Fisch

Certified Spinal Flow practitioner, Theraphi Technology

Ram Kirin

Gong sound bath Meditation