Rebecca Austill-Clausen, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

Reiki Level I Certificate-Provided Training: Discover Your Natural Healing Energy and Enhance After-Death Communication

Wednesday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm 

($125 /$150 separate registration required)

Rebecca has been using Reiki for 28 years. She has taught thousands of medical professionals and all others the joys of Reiki healing. Reiki can be learned on one day. Experience one-to-one healing sessions as you receive and share Reiki with multiple partners. Learn to give Reiki to yourself, family, friends, clients, colleagues, animals, and even plants. Reiki’s unconditional LOVE facilitates communication with those living in the afterlife. Reiki has been taught at every in-person American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference since 2015. Becky is thrilled to provide Reiki training at IANDS’s Annual Conference for the fourth time. Access your self-healing abilities at this highly effective experiential workshop.

Rebecca is an Occupational Therapist, Fellow of the American OT Association, and Reiki Master. She teaches Reiki at national conferences and universities, along with teaching after-death communication both in-person and online. Becky had a profound spiritual transformative experience (STE) and shared death experience (SDE) when she discovered the ability to communicate with her deceased brother even though she initially had no psychic or spiritual awareness. She has initiated five private practices including one that grew to a staff of 350 therapists. Becky is the Healing Coordinator at IANDS conferences and is honored to serve on the Ethics Committee. Her award-winning book Change Maker, How My Brother’s Death Woke Up My Life will be available at the IANDS bookstore

Suzanne Giesemann

Making the Connection with Higher Consciousness

Wednesday 1:00 – 3:00 pm

($80 separate registration required)

Evidence-based mediumship reveals that you don’t have to die to experience the same greater reality as those who have had near-death experiences (NDEs). There is a better way! It is called The Awakened Way®. Join Suzanne as she explains why anyone can connect with loved ones and higher beings in the non-physical realms and can gain the same powerful benefits that have transformed so many experiencers. This fast-paced workshop will include proven tools for living a consciously connected and divinely guided life.

Suzanne Giesemann is a metaphysical teacher, author, and Messenger of Hope, recognized on the Watkins’ list of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. She is a former U.S. Navy Commander who served as a commanding officer and as aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Today, she guides people to the awareness of a greater reality. She has published 14 books, Six Hemi-Sync recordings, and YouTube videos with over nine million views.  She produces the Awakened Way app and hosts the popular Messages of Hope podcast. Her gift of multidimensional communication has been verified by noted afterlife researchers, and her messages bring not only hope but also healing and love that go straight to the heart.

Anita Moorjani

Near-Death Experience, A Guided Journey with Anita Moorjani

Wednesday 4:00 – 6:00 pm

($80 separate registration required)

Join Anita on a transformative expedition into the realm of the other side. Connect with your higher self, guides, and deceased loved ones as you are comforted, inspired to reevaluate life’s priorities, and offered a deeper understanding of life, death, and the interconnectedness of all beings. This experience will be followed by tips for integration and a Q&A.

Anita Moorjani is a renowned author and spiritual speaker known for her transformative journey beyond the brink of death. While living in Hong Kong, Anita battled end-stage cancer before experiencing a remarkable near-death experience (NDE) that shifted her perspective on life. Her bestselling memoir, Dying to Be Me, chronicles her profound journey and miraculous healing. Its popularity established her as a premier NDE expert. A beacon of inspiration, Anita travels the world sharing her insights on self-love, consciousness, and the interconnectedness of all things. Her teachings empower others to embody the highest version of themselves and live vibrant, authentic lives. Anita continues to be a guiding light in the realm of spiritual exploration.

Tonda Nampaio-Cardenas

Exploring Our Sacred Hoop Connections

Thursday 7:00 – 9:00 pm  

($40 separate registration required)

Join the workshop, “Exploring Our Sacred Hoop Connections” to have fun and help create your own Sacred Inner Connection after your near-death experience (NDE), spiritually transformative experience (STE), and more. By learning about the Indigenous Wisdom of the Sacred Hoop, the natural patterns within the Medicine Wheel, and the nature of the beautiful Sonoran Desert, we can naturally find our place of connection within the Sacred Hoop. You can also better express your NDE, or other STE through the related intuitive art process. No art experience required! We love newbies because art comes from the heART!  Be a part of the fun by creating your own mini canvas and by helping create a larger community canvas project.

Tonda is a childhood trauma survivor, resulting in her near-death experience at the age of nine. Nature would be her barometer to measure and make sense of the world, oftentimes bringing her solace and joy as a child running wild through the forests. As an adult, Tonda would find her mother and realize her indigenous heritage. Tonda’s natural abilities began falling into place. As a medicine person, and honoring her visions and out-of-body experiences (OBEs), she continued to learn with elders in the local indigenous communities, while raising her family and stationed within the military. By being present and holding space for NDErs, Veterans, first responders, non-profits, and under-served women, all within the undercurrent of trauma survivor, Tonda would have a vision that would change her course and life ethos. She created the Red Earth Warrior Walks program, nature adventures with purpose for healing trauma, and finding a reconnection between Spirit and Self.

Nancy Rynes 

Shifts Through Time: Practical Time Travel

Friday, 6:30 – 8:30 pm  

($40 separate registration required)

Have you ever wondered about the possibility of living other lives? Do you want to try out a very light level of regression before committing to an in-depth session? Let’s have a little bit of fun together as a group and dive into some practical time travel experiences while we explore the possibilities of living multiple lives. Nancy, a Level 2 Certified QHHT Past Life Regressionist, will lead everyone on a quick trip through time with a group regression. Each participant will have their own experience of another life as Nancy helps you achieve a light trance to explore both the past and the future in a safe and fun setting. Make sure to bring a notebook and pen to jot down notes, and perhaps even a blanket to stay warm and cozy.

Nancy Rynes is a geoscientist, archaeologist, artist, and explorer of all things weird and wonderful.  As a near-death experiencer, remote viewer, QHHT regressionist, and energy worker, Nancy seeks to combine her innate curiosity about the nature of reality with a sense of discernment and groundedness learned as a geoscientist. She strives to make both scientific and “paranormal” topics easier to understand for everyone, Nancy has been featured on NBC TV’s The TODAY Show, PBS Television, and the Netflix series Surviving Death. She is a popular keynote speaker and workshop leader and has appeared on many podcasts and radio shows.

Ellen Wier

A Glimpse of Heaven with Crystal Bowls and Musical Imagery

Friday, 6:30 – 8:30 pm  

($40 separate registration required)

“A Glimpse of Heaven with Crystal Bowls & Musical Imagery” is not just a workshop; it is a testament to the healing power of music, born from divine wisdom shown to me during my near-death experience and mystical events in my life. Designed to deepen our connection to the higher self, this process engages participants with the healing frequencies of crystal singing bowls and vocal toning to align the body’s energy centers, as they immerse themselves in guided music imagery. They will work with theta brainwave states and altered states of consciousness, allowing for a journey into deep meditative states and spiritual awareness. This unique combination not only supports personal healing but also fosters a connection with the collective consciousness, leveraging a powerful shared vibration for communal enlightenment and growth.

Ellen Wier (Formerly Whealton) is a near-death experiencer, light worker, transpersonal and music therapist, healer, workshop presenter, and educator who uses numerous modalities such as music, crystal singing bowls, chanting, visualization, and meditation in her practice. She experienced an NDE at age 12 after being kicked in the head by a horse. During that time she vowed to come back to heal people with music, after which she experienced tremendously impactful spiritual downloads before being drawn back to her body by music. Ellen has hosted a spiritual series on the AwakeTV network, and her work was highlighted by Jack Canfield, New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books

Kimberly Braun, MS

Live a Life of Miracles

Saturday 5:15 – 7:15 pm  

($40 separate registration required)

You are a living expression of the Divine; therefore, your life is meant to be an awakening to yourself as Love Incarnate and to give you the continuous satisfaction of being the flow of the Divine and being an agency of the miraculous. Join Kimberly, who discovered this liberating wisdom through her NDE and mystical experiences, for an experiential workshop that will provide the inspiration, inquiry, and exercises for you to touch your very center and understand how to live from this place more consistently in every moment of your life. The Divine Love of your being is pulsing to dissolve all fear, but how does this happen and what does it mean to be part of this process? The Divine Love of your being is inspiring your greatest life, a life of miracles, but how do you surrender all that limits you from this awakening? And how do you step in with great freedom and great intimacy? Come play with Kimberly and discover new answers to these eternal questions.

Rev. Kimberly Braun, impelled from her earliest childhood experiences and her NDE at the age of 19, spent over a decade as a Carmelite monastic nun exploring the path of Presence and then obtained her master’s in theology and formal ordination where she explored the many facets of self-realization and the essence of Being. She lives to inspire others to connect to, and live from, Divine Love at their center with great freedom and joy. Kimberly is a TEDx speaker, Reiki Master, international speaker and retreat leader and former meditation faculty at the renowned Omega Institute who has served tens of thousands through her writing, speaking, retreats, online courses, and community. Her latest books are Miracles in the Naked Light and Beloved Found, Poems from the Source.