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is a multi-talented, energetic and creative facilitator. She guides women to embrace their personal strengths and unique beauty within a community where like-minded goals are celebrated. She creates contexts that enhance mental, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of life. She masterfully blends expressive arts, yoga, dance, fusion fitness and ecumenical spirituality in sessions that are designed to nurture mind, body, and soul. Gabriela, a lifelong student in mind-body and spiritual fitness, places her own education as top priority with a graduate degree in Creation Spirituality, a Brown Belt in the NIA Technique, and as an apprentice of Zen-Yoga master, “Ranjani” Dr. Mary-Elaine Cobo, and The Total Integration Institute. She is certified in ACE Group Fitness, Personal Training, Yoga, and Meditation. Gabriela is co-owner of Source Consulting Group with her husband, Kenya. She has worked at renowned institutions such as Canyon Ranch Resort, in Fitness and Movement Therapy, and The Chopra Center for Well Being, where she provided her unparalleled wellness education while honing her culinary skills as a Chef. She is one of the three guiding lights in the culinary demos she shares with fellow SYL staff members, Lisa and Molly. Gabriela recently published the Inner Wealth Deck: an interactive, expressive tool kit of 22 beautiful activity cards
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is a certified teacher and curriculum specialist who, with engaging rhythm and effusive energy, guides participants in sessions that incorporate his expertise in community and human development through kinesthetic learning. Kenya’s unique blend of skills as an educator, facilitator, and percussionist inspire life-relevant, real learning and personal growth. He expertly facilitates team and leadership shaping in SYL’s outdoor sessions – “Living On The Edge” while seamlessly providing safe, supportive, educational, experiential and highly effective challenges. He inspires and motivates women to step beyond their own comfort levels and into a world of confidence, leadership, creativity, and acceptance. Kenya is co-owner of Source Consulting Group with his wife, Gabriela. He is a REMO endorsed drum-circle facilitator and primary facilitator for the North American Drum Café Corporate programs. He has published his first book in the area of kinesthetic learning activities, Rhythm Play!
SYL's site design and webmaster: Kenya Masala
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is a leading edge nutritionist. Known for her innovative ways of educating and empowering others to find practical ways to integrate healthy eating with active living, Lisa’s focus is on natural and alternative medicine as related to functional medicine. With undergraduate and graduate degrees in food, nutrition and physiology, Lisa’s provides strategies to manage weight, maximize metabolism, maintain blood sugar and optimize heart health. She guides cooking demos, nutritional shopping tours, and special events. She has worked at such renowned institutions as Canyon Ranch Resort in Tucson and at a 15-physician cardiology center in South Denver. She co-authored the chapter, Bone and Joint Health, for the textbook, Nutrition and Alternative Medicine (CRC Press). Lisa is a co-author with Kathy S. Soverow, M.S., M.Ed. and Angela Hynes for a series of books that integrate behavior and nutrition to help women end their internal wars with food and eating by teaching them how to “love what you eat, and eat what you love.” Lisa is one of the three guiding lights in the culinary demos she shares with fellow SYL staff members, Molly and Gabriela. Lisa is currently co-writing a book with Kathy S. Soverow and Angela Hynes entitled, “What’s Your Eating Personality?”™ |
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brings a myriad of gifts to her facilitating expertise at SYL. With her love for both culinary and organic gardening, Molly has earned the affectionate moniker of “The Martha” of SYL. Her “Cooking with Fire!” sessions are as entertaining as they are educational, motivating, and just plain fun. Working for over 15 years as a hiking guide at the renowned Canyon Ranch Resort, she came to SYL with a passion for helping women breakthrough their fears in relation to outdoor adventures. This has earned her high respect and accolades from those in the industry. Her cooking and organic gardening skills guided her visionary trek to become the Founder/Executive Director of what she transformed from a historic barn near her home into Tucson’s very successful Rincon Valley Farmer’s Market today. This venture also inspired Molly to create the interactive sessions where she mentors women on ways to become more involved in their own town and/or city community endeavors. Molly is one of the three guiding lights in the culinary demos she shares with fellow SYL staff members, Lisa and Gabriela.
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is the Vice President of Global Communications for REDKEN 5 TH AVENUE NEW YORK. She is a highly respected professional in the beauty industry and an expert and master storyteller in the area of spirituality. As a steadfast advocate for living a balanced, productive, and fulfilling life, Ann captured her recipe for success in her 2005 book, Get Glowing! You Are A Star Right Where You Are. With “charity” as a valued touchstone in her life, she is a tireless leader in promoting the how tos of inner and outer beauty and in her contributions to a myriad of international charitable events. Ann was instrumental in raising over $575,000 for the American Heart Association Beauty Ball. Her next goal was to raise $1 Million for ongoing research in breast cancer and she presented the City of Hope (a leading research and treatment center for life-threatening diseases) with a check for $1,400,000. In return, her industry and peers have bestowed a plethora of accolades and awards for her continual industry and community pursuits. |
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In 1993 made history as one of four women to reach the South Pole. The American Women’s Antarctic Expedition (AWE) trekked a grueling 700-miles across the snow and ice of Antarctica before reaching the world’s most remote destination. They skied for 67 days pulling 200-pound sleds into headwinds exceeding 50 mph and in temperatures that dropped to 67 degrees below zero. Six years later Sunniva led a team of three on a 33-day 350-mile coast-to-coast crossing of the Greenland Icecap to become the first Canadian woman to complete the trek. Providing just two of Sunniva’s “firsts” throughout the many adventures she’s journeyed, one gets a sense for her love of the outdoors and adventure travel. She is a passionate instructor during her motivational teachings and seminars, as her audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Norway and Africa will attest. Serving as an instructor for Adventure 16’s Wilderness Outings Programs, Sunniva has guided numerous backcountry navigation, backpack and winter camping and survival programs. She continually participates in research surrounding the implications of psychologically- and physiologically-challenging endeavors. She has served as Director of Travel for a large company in the SF Bay area developing specialty adventure travel trips where she served on the faculty on trip with various cruise companies in the Arctic, Antarctic, Falklands Islands and South Georgia. Sunniva’s multidimensional background combined with her inspiring communication skills, abundant energy and passion for the outdoors keeps her forever on the go, whether creating adventures for SYL or engaged in other less than leisurely pursuits.. |
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