Hibiscus invites celebrated women who focus on personal growth and self-discovery to lead our retreats and become part of the Hibiscus community. Experienced teachers, authors, motivational speakers and personal coaches, each Speaker is devoted to empowering women to create lives of meaning and intention. They will harness the transformative power of travel in our unique workshops. Meet our exceptional women below.
 
Ingrid Bacci
Lauren Mackler
Tama J. Kieves
 
Ingrid Bacci, Spain Guest Speaker and Workshop Leader
 
Ingrid Bacci is a gifted author, psychic, somatic healer and medical intuitive whose professional commitment is to help people discover and live their fully authentic selves. The best-selling author of The Art of Effortless Living which was a Book of the Month Club selection, and of Effortless Pain Relief, featured in Oprah’s magazine, Ingrid is an internationally sought-after intuitive who quickly helps her clients pinpoint and resolve the core issues limiting their lives.

Ingrid’s classes combine deep relaxation, playful self-exploration through body awareness exercises, personal intuitive readings, and powerful techniques to release whatever fears stand between you and your dreams. Classes are both intimate, deeply supportive, transformative, and absolutely tons of fun.

The power of Ingrid’s work derives from deep personal experience. A graduate of both Harvard and Columbia Universities, and former acclaimed professor, she left the academic track to pursue healing and transformation after being struck by a crippling disease doctors told her would be with her for life. Her radiant health, love of life, and passion for helping others testify to the depth, beauty and efficacy of her work.
 
Workshop: The Art of Effortless Living
An Intensive to Move from Stress to Effortless Flow
Ingrid will be leading our workshop in Spain.
 
Would you like to eliminate stress, tension, fear and anger from your life, develop harmonious relationships and live from a foundation of peace? Identify your true life direction? Create a concrete map for the journey toward fulfillment? And learn a step-by-step 100% guaranteed process for finding total ‘flow?’ This experiential, eye-opening and exciting workshop will break the mould of your expectations by introducing you to unique, body-centered tools for clearing the blocks out of your life, creating emotional harmony, clarifying your direction, and accessing your inner wisdom.
This intensive and joyful workshop helps you identify what’s keeping you from living as freely, effortlessly and joyfully as you are meant to, while offering you simple, effective tools for creating your authentic, empowered self. The workshop is highly playful, experiential and mutually supportive, and includes a private intuitive reading and healing session for each participant. Gifted intuitive and somatic healer Ingrid Bacci will help you:
• identify your current core purpose
• release physical, emotional, mental or spiritual blocks that keep you from your purpose
• learn how to relax into ever deeper levels of ease
• identify tools that will be uniquely helpful to you for creating an authentic, powerful and loving lifestyle in your everyday life
• maximize physical, emotional and spiritual health 
 
Daily sessions include dialogue, movement exploration, gentle emotional release work, intuition-building tools and free time for additional private bodywork sessions with Ingrid. 
 
Learn more about Ingrid at her website www.ingridbacci.com.
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Lauren Mackler, Argentina Guest Speaker and Workshop Leader
 
Lauren Mackler, a leading expert in unleashing human potential, is a renowned coach, keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and popular radio and TV talk show guest. She is the fellow author of Speaking of Success with best-selling authors Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, and Ken Blanchard, and founder of the coaching and consulting firm, Lauren Mackler & Associates. Lauren was recognized by Vitals Magazine as one of the top 5 coaches in the U.S. and the best in Boston. Her new book, The Art of Aloneness: Becoming Whole and Happy on Your Own, will be published by Hay House in April, 2009.
 
Workshop: The Art of Aloneness
An Intensive on Becoming Whole and Happy on Your Own.
Lauren will be leading our workshop in Argentina.  
 
Do you spend your life waiting for a soul mate to make you happy?    
Do you settle for unfulfilling relationships out of fear of being alone? 
Do you long for greater fearlessness, joy, and self-sufficiency? 
 
Today, nearly half of all adults are single. This shift has been brewing for decades, yet attitudes about being alone have changed little during those years. From childhood, we learn to associate aloneness as a condition to pity or feel ashamed of. The Art of Aloneness: Becoming Whole & Happy on Your Own is designed to help you move beyond the limiting beliefs, fears, and behaviors that hinder your ability to create a joyful, fulfilling, and secure life on your own. The workshop is for people who are single or divorced—or in a relationship, but want to develop greater independence within their partnership. Workshop topics include:
 
• Embracing Your Aloneness
• Uncovering Your Authentic Self
• Managing Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You
• Living Deliberately Versus By Default
• Creating Your Life Vision
• Bringing Your Vision to Life
 
Using brief lecturettes, visualizations, and experiential exercises, you’ll gain practical information, tools, and exercises to help you develop the self-awareness, life skills, and confidence to create and live a rich, happy, successful, and financially secure life—with or without a partner.

Learn more about Lauren at her website www.laurenmackler.com.
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Tama J. Kieves, 2009 Guest Speaker and Workshop Leader, Greece
 
Tama Kieves, an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, left her law practice with a large corporate law firm to write and to embolden others to live and breathe their most meaningful self-expression. She is the best-selling author of This Time I Dance! Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love, which was chosen as a Finalist for the national Nautilus Book Award.

Kieves is a sought-after speaker and life coach and has helped thousands of individuals fulfill their creative dreams.

She is the founder of Awakening Artistry, an organization dedicated to creating a global family of visionary minds, creative souls, and empowered leaders. Her dynamic work has recently been featured on Canada's nationally televised, "The Vicki Gabereau show," said to be Canada’s "Oprah."
 
Workshop: Unleashing Your Calling
Coming in May 2009, Greece
An Intensive to Create the Work and Life You Love
 
Do you crave meaningful work? Or ache to creatively express yourself or help the world...and get paid for it? Do you want to contribute your time to a cause which stirs your soul and satisfies your urge to leave the world a better place?  
 
Your wildest dreams are not frivolous. They are your source for inspired abilities and explosive direction. And in uncertain economic times, true passion is your greatest security.
 
Come join Tama and experience moving past fears and confusion, to uncover and thrive in your authentic calling. Take the time to step into another life and join other entrepreneurial and creative minds in this hands-on, joyful, and transformative intensive. Learn how to:
 
• live from inspiration instead of fear
• choose the right passion and stay on fire
• tap unstoppable inner strength
• turn your talents into income or a role of significance
• uncover compelling strategies to achieve your dreams
• get the support you need
• trust the power and magic of unconventional choices
 
Our retreats will be packed with turn-your-life-around exercises, heightened creativity, group support, personal attention, and passionate mentoring!
 
Learn more about Tama at her website www.AwakeningArtistry.com.
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