Teachers (also available for individual sessions)

 

Europe and Australia [go to US]

Vedanta Aspioti
Born in Athens in 1965, she studied architecture, modern art and design in Greece and at the Sorbonne in Paris.
She has been working in the field of channelling and therapy for the last 20 years. Creator of the Power of Light-Training for channelling, energy work and intuition. Also a trained primal therapist, she has made the dealing with Inner Child issues another focal point of her work. She has been in training with Faisal for the last 6 years and brings the dimension of essence into the world of channelling. Disciple of Osho since 1987.

[country: Greece | w: www.channeling-the-source.de] 
satyam

Satyam, Umberto Bidinotto
MA in Philosophy, Psychologist, trained in Eriksonian hypnosis and NLP, counselling and breath work.
He is leading groups and trainings since 1990. In the same year he opened an Osho Meditation Center in Treviso, Italy, where he mainly works, now.
Since 1997 he is in training in the Diamond Logos work with Faisal Muqqadam.
[country: Italy | | www.oshotreviso.com]

kalakeli Kalakeli (Julia Bodkin)
Was born in England in 1968. Has lived and worked in spiritual communities all over the world for the last 17 years. Now living and working in Australia and Italy. She is a Craniosacral practitioner, and also trained in breath therapy, massage, Hypnosis and NLP. She is one of the facilitators and originators of The Path of Love process. In training as a DiamondLogos teacher with Faisal for since 1996. Also in training as a creative art therapist. Offering Craniosacral therapy incorporating Essence and the Diamondlogos Teachings.
[country: Byron Bay, Australia | | phone: +61 2 66 848 097]
yogananda

Yogananda (Hugh Evans).
Yogananda has been a disciple of Osho since 1974 and has been a student of Faisal since 1999. He has an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has participated in Faisal’s teacher trainings in California and in Europe and in 2005 began to practice as a Diamond Logos teacher. He currently lives in Ireland.
[country: Ireland, teaches also in London| e: | landline +353 669476923, mobile +353 86 2414247]

manfred Manfred Fett (Avida)
MA, since 1980 working as consultant, trainer, coach and therapist with individuals, groups and organisations.
Experienced in various realms of personal growth and spiritual unfoldment, particularly trained in Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetic, Counseling, Ericksonian Hypnosis, NLP and Somatic Experiencing. He works with Faisal since 1997, as Diamond Logos teacher since 2003.
[country: Germany, Munich | e | p 0049 (0)89 9036999]
Bhadrena C. Tschumi Gemin
Bhadrena has been working in the field of Human Growth and Healing Arts as a therapist and teacher since 1976. She has expanded her knowlegde of the human system into the biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy, trauma resolution and the work with the Diamond Logos approach.
Her interest is to support clients to connect with their potential and self-healing capacities.
[country: Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Japan, India | e | w www.craniosacralbalancing.com | p +41 31 301 30 42]
Kavi Gemin
Kavi's somatic approach views the human being as a whole. He has been practicing and teaching Massage and Craniosacral therapy for many years, supporting the receivers to reconnect with their resources and their inherent ability to contact Health. The Diamond logos underlyes and expands his work in craniosacral and trauma resolution.
[country: Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Japan, India | e ] | w www.craniosacralbalancing.com | p +41 31 301 30 42]
Velusia van Horssen
Velusia is trained and experienced in the realms of psycho-spiritual unfoldment. She has been teaching and sharing since 1981 in open group formats and has developed courses in intimacy, meditation, and spiritually based counseling skills. Velusia has offered Diamond Logos courses and individual sessions in Denmark since 1999.
[country: Denmark | www.diamondlogos.dk | p 45 4733 9250 | ]
Henrik Juul
Denmark. Born 1951. M.A. in psychology, specialist and supervisor in psychotherapy, authorized by the Danish Association of Psychologist.
I have been working with groups and individuals with regard to body- & essenceintegrating psychotherapy, energywork- and bodywork as well as spiritual development since 1978.
My other line of work is leadership training and business psychology. In this area I mainly focus on raising the level of consciousness, ethics and creative intelligence along with stress reduction and mediation.
Since 1996 I have been trained by Faisal Muqaddam. I offer group and private sessions.
[e: | w: www.henrik-juul.dk & www.ki.dk & www.body-essence.dk]
Jeremy Klein
Born and raised in Venezuela, B.A. and B.A.S.  For 10 years Jeremy worked as a leadership consultant and executive-coach in the US, South America and Europe. During this time he also studied different systems of psychological and personal growth. 
Since 1996, he has training closely and extensively with Faisal Muqaddam in Berkeley, California.  In 2005 he moved to Copenhagen where he now lives and works as a senior teacher at the Diamond Logos Academy Scandinavia. 
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upchara Upchara – Stephane Picard
holds an MA in Philosophy and is trained in Eriksonian hypnosis and NLP. She also has been trained as a transformer in the School of Mysticism in Pune, India, where the Inner Alchemy approach ( transforming energy through acceptance and understanding, involving mind, heart and body) was developed and practiced since 1989. She is the co-director of the Alchemy Institute. Since 1997 she is in training in the Diamond Logos work with Faisal Muqqadam. Her counseling sessions are directly based on the DiamondLogos work with Essence. She has been a disciple of Osho, since 1978. She has been leading groups in Italy and India since 1990. She is now also leading groups in Chile, Venezuela, France and Spain. (Women groups, and explorations of Power, Fear, Guidance, and Love). Upchara was born in 1947 in French Canada, and grew up in Europe and South America. She currently lives in Toscana, Italy.
[country: Italy| e | w www.inner-alchemy.com | p 0039-3402483913]

Bhakta Oechslin
He has a degree in Literature and History of Arts and has been involved in personal development , meditation and spiritual growth since 1976 as Osho’s disiple. He is a trained Co-Dependency Counselor and an Ericksonian Hypnosis Practitioner. With Faisal since 1998, he is Senior Teacher of Diamondlogos Work. He has integrated The Diamond Logos Teaching into his relationship counseling work in and spiritually based counseling skills trainings. He also offers Diamond logos courses and individual session in Italy and Asia.  [www.insightlook.com]

Floriane Usener
Healing practitioner. She is trained in Traumatherapie, Gestalt-Arttherapie, Breaththerapie as well as in eastern and western Meditation Methods. For the past 30 years she has been working in clinical institutions and in her own practice. Since 1997 she is in Training with Faisal and the DiamondLogos Teachings have become the main focus of her work. As a Senior Teacher she is now practicing in Munich and is leading retreats in Germany.
[country: Germany | www.floriane-usener.de]
Emilio Mercuriali (Ankur)
Born and raised in Italy, during the past 25 years he has lived in the UK and Australia. He is currently living in Istanbul where he recently started Diamondlogos Turkey.
He has been working with Faisal Muqaddam and being trained as a teacher since 1999. His spiritual journey started with Osho at the age of 17. He has been studing the works of Maurice Nicoll (Fourth Way) and various psychological approaches. Trained in "Somatic Experiencing" (SE) method of trauma resolution and working with attachment issues. He has also been a facilitator in the Path of Love process.
[ www.essenceofself.net | ]


 

US [go to Europe and Australia]

prabha Prabha Bell
Prabha is a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, specializing in abuse and trauma workshops and education; relationships-in-conflict counseling; and the Diamond Logos approach. She has developed many groups, trainings and workshops throughout the world, including The Anti-Fischer Hoffman Process, Sexual Abuse Group, Trauma Group and Co-Dependency Trainings. Prabha has been a disciple of Osho for many years and has worked with Faisal in Europe and lately in the Bay Area in California, where she now lives near her sons and grandchildren. Prabha is now targeting her expertise in the integration of Trauma and Essence.
[country: USA/Fairfax, California | e: | p: 1 415 721 7088]
Daniela Boifava
Born in France and raised in Morocco and Italy, Daniela's life-long search for truth, her passionate heart and her inquiring and creative nature have brought her to many paths in her life. She is a certified Somatic Experiencing© Practitioner, a Personal Life Coach, a Cross-Cultural trainer as well as an accomplished graphic artist. With Faisal's direction she created the logo for the DiamondLogos Teachings. She has been a student of Faisal Muqaddam since the early '90s and practicing as a Diamond Logos teacher for few years. Her holistic approach facilitates and supports the understanding and integration of all aspects of the human experience from traumatic to spiritual. She now lives in the USA and Italy
[e: | +USA 001 303.448.9848 ]
 

Frank Echenhofer
Frank is a licensed psychologist, has a psycho-spiritual private practice, and teaches in the Clinical Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Frank has been a student of western and eastern psychology, Buddhism, Shamanism, and Sufism for 30 years and a student of Faisal Muqaddam’s for nine years in the Diamond Logos Teachings.  Along with Lobsang Samten, he founded the Tibetan Buddhist Center of Philadelphia in 1989. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive clinical training in bioenergetic analysis, humanistic and transpersonal psychotherapy, and Gendlin’s Focusing approach. He has taught Transpersonal and Experiential Psychotherapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies www.ciis.edu for the last eight years and has conducted EEG and phenomenological research in meditation and altered states of consciousness in India and in Brazil. Frank conducts sessions in his home which is in the East Bay, off the Arlington Blvd., about 5 minutes from Faisal’s home. He can be contacted at his e-mail.
[ country: USA/El Cerrito, California | e: | p: 1 510 233 7195 ]

Raymond Himmel has been a student of Faisal Muqaddam since 1991 both as a private student and in his teaching trainings in California and Italy. Raymond is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and has a practice of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in Mill Valley. He has studied and taught Taijiquan and Qigong for 35 years.
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Mahdiah Jacobs- Kahn
Mahdiah Esther Jacobs-Kahn, MSW, is a senior teacher in the Diamond Logos work as taught by Faisal Muqaddam. She has worked closely with Faisal for over 12 years. She teaches the Diamond Logos work to individuals and groups and does workshops in the US and Europe. Mahdiah is an experienced psychotherapist who received her MSW from New York University in 1966. She has worked with children and adults in a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities and in the past twenty years has focused on healing and transformation. In addition, she is a Senior teacher and Retreat Guide in the Sufi International Order and a Senior teacher in the Sufi Healing Order, and teaches classes, conducts workshops and guides spiritual practices for seekers on the Sufi path.
[country: USA/Mill Valley, California | e: | p: 1 415 383 3548]

 

Gail Johnson
ATR-BC (Art Therapist, Board Certified), has been in teaching training with Faisal since 1995 and inquiry work with Sandra Maitri for three years prior. A practicing artist and board certified Art Therapist, she received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 1980, and her MA in psychology in 1992.  She has studied with Pomo and Huichol shamans since 1982. Her work integrates Creative Arts into Diamond Logos teachings.  She is the co-creator of  Renaissance Healing Arts Studios, where she conducts private sessions and facilitates groups in Sonoma County, California, and Crestone, Colorado.
[country: USA/Santa Rosa, California, and Crestone, Colorado | e: | p: 1 707 579 8417 California and 1 719 256 5723 Colarado - please call California number first]

Abhi Ktori-Carter, R.C.S.T.
Born in England of Greek and English parents, Abhi has lived in the US for the past 25 years. He has over 17 years experience and training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and other Craniosacral methods, including training in pediatrics, birth issues and trauma. He is a member of the Craniosacral Association of North America. Abhi has been a student in the Diamond Logos work with Faisal Muqaddam since 1994. His understanding of the Diamond Logos teachings, as well as his love for the silence of meditation, enrich his work as a Craniosacral therapist. In his treatments, his intention is to support clients to connect with their Being and to facilitate the circulation of essence. He currently maintains a private practice in Grass Valley, California, and also offers sessions in Marin County, California
[country: USA/Grass Valley, California | e: | p: 1 530 268 3802]

Manohar Croke-Ktori
MA Transpersonal Psychology, PhD Candidate, Manohar has been a student with Faisal since 1993. She is also founder and Director of the Institute for Esogetic Colorpuncture, USA, where she teaches the use of state-of-art light therapy techniques for mindbody healing around the US. She is trained in trauma resolution therapy techniques through the Sensorimotor Institute of Boulder, CO. She has also been trained in various techniques of meditation for the past 30 years. Manohar is currently offering classes and private sessions in the Diamondlogos system in the Grass Valley/Nevada City and Bay areas of California.
[ country: USA/ Nevada City, CA | e: | p: 530-362-6908]
Clare McLaughlin M.A. MFT is a licensed psychotherapist and a teacher in the Diamond Logos School of which she has been a student for 9 years. She received her MA in Integral Counseling Psychology. Areas of concentrated training are; Somatic Body Oriented Therapy, Relationship Paradigms, Trauma Release, Creative Process and World Religions, especially Buddhism, Christian Mysticism and Sufism. Clare has a private practice specializing in individual and relationship therapy as well as Diamond Logos Inquiry. Other areas of development include: Process Psych; Attachment Theory; Addictions; Transformational Breath-work; Dream Process, meditation and prayer. Clare has been working in the healing profession and has been facilitating groups and retreats for 25 years. She offers a unique blend of clinical skill, wisdom and sincerity, creating a safe container for your personal transformation.
[ San Rafael, California | 415-482-8082 | www.claremclaughlin.com ]

Crystal McLeod
became a Diamond Logos student ten years ago after many years as a resident in a Gurdjieff 4th way group.  She is a certified Bereavement Counselor.  Her extensive experience on the spiritual path has offered her teachings in a variety of disciplines including Gurdjieff concentration techniques and vipassana, tantric and cathartic meditation practices. She holds a degree in Art History, is a singer, and is the mother of two grown children.
[country: USA/Mill Valley, California | e: | p: 1 415 383 3010]

Marc Paisin
Marc was raised in California, USA and began his spiritual journey in earnest in the 1970’s following his disillusionment with the practice of law. From 1982 through 1989 he was associated with The Ridhwan School. He has been working with Faisal since 1991 and is one of the members of the original teachers’ group. He is also trained in Bodynamics. His law practice now is exclusively devoted to mediation and he is an active Diamond Logos teacher both on the mainland USA and in Hawaii.


[country: USA, Hawaii | e: | p: 1 510 918 4907]

Robin Winn, MA, MFT, is a licensed therapist in the body-mind-spirit stream, and has practiced Rosen Method Bodywork for over 25 years. In addition to her training with Faisal, Robin’s life and work are touched and awakened by the company and teachings of many remarkable spiritual teachers from a variety of paths including Byron Katie, Ammachi, Leslie Temple-Thurston, and Lama Palden Drolma. She has trained in Focusing, Resonance Repatterning, Speaking Circles, Process Painting, and is currently studying the Anat Baniel Method and Wisdom Healing Qigong with Ming Tong Gu. Robin leads groups and sees couples and individuals in Berkeley, and Inverness, CA.

[ Inverness and Berkeley | 510-644-4196 | ]

 

Therapists available for individual sessions

Faisal has authorised a number of people to officially give essence-based sessions. These are all therapists or bodyworkers who have been working extensively with people in their own field and now incorporate ‘The DiamondLogos Teachings’ into their approach.
These people are in training with Faisal and are not authorised to teach the DiamondLogos teachings, they offer this techinique incorporated into the skills that they already have.
In these essential sessions an element is added to the regular sessions, which has to do with incorporating essence as part of the resolution.
Not just the therapeutic or the physical resolution, but also the qualities of essence or qualities of the soul that need to be addressed, and integrated for the healing and understanding to take place completely. So it may not differ from the regular sessions in terms of the methodology, it could be breathing or Craniosacral, the difference is that the teacher is also paying attention to the different essential states as they arise. Helping the students to recognize them and exploring their nature and the issues that come up with them.
The following list the names of these people and their contact for anyone who wants to have a taste of the DiamondLogos teachings, or for follow-up work after the retreats.

Pratibha de Stoppani
VOICING© is an approach that uses the singing voice to bridge the level of the ego to the domains of Essence.
[country: Switzerland | e | w www.voicing-institute.com | p 0041 (0)91 606 37 52]