Prior to his current post as professor of tourism for 15 years, he served as a consultant for the national Ministry of Culture and Tourism for 5 years, and as professor of English out in the Korean countryside for 17 years. A native of the USA, he has been living in South Korea for 36 years now, always following his passionate interest in hiking Korea’s forested mountains and visiting their historic spiritual sites. He has proudly been a member of the RAS-KB for three decades. He was appointed the national Honorary Ambassador of the Baekdu-daegan Ranges in 2011. Mason earned a Masters Degree in the History of Korean Religions from Yonsei University in 1997. He has authored and edited ten books on Korean culture and tourism, including Spirit of the Mountains about Korea's traditions of sacred mountains, the English Encyclopedia of Korean Buddhism, and Solitary Sage: The Profound Life, Wisdom and Legacy of Korea’s ‘Go-un’ Choi Chi-won. He has published many articles in academic journals and popular magazines, and has frequently been interviewed on various media. 

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She is a creative writer, dramatist, and Co-Artistic Director of Nothing Without a Company. Since 2007, over twenty of her works have been produced in Hawai’i and Chicago. Hannah is a founding member of BearCat Productions, a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, a board member at Aloha Center Chicago, and a member of Ke Ali`i Victoria Ka`iulani Hawaiian Civic Club and Ke Kula Kupaa O Ka Pakipika hālau. 

Nothing Without a Company 

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Aloha Center Chicago

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 BearCat Productions 

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Chicago Dramatists 

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She believes that images speak a profound language; her life’s work is a translator of the unseen and advocates for the imaginal. She holds a Masters in Engaged Humanities, Masters in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is currently working on her dissertation in Jungian Depth Psychology and Archetypal Studies program at the same institution. In her work and teaching, she centers imagination, creativity, and deep rest. She teaches workshops, and collaborative training focused on yoga philosophy, women’s health, the Goddess, creativity, dreaming, intuitive movement, and yoga nidra. Her passion is to inspire students to rediscover their creative self by weaving the blessings with the wounds while honoring the land and the ancestors. 

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Kit was raised by and trains with his father Patrick Kelly, who is said to be one of the more accomplished Taiji teachers of our time. Immersed in Taiji and Meditation from a young age, Kit always knew he wanted to pursue the internal path to freedom. He started training Taiji seriously in 2003 when he was 18 years old. Kit has spent the past 6 years training and helping to manage Patrick’s 9clouds Taiji school in Shanghai, China. He plans to continue his training in China for as long as is necessary to produce a significant change inside himself.

Drawing from tools found in Eastern mind-body traditions such as yoga and meditation, as well as from modern neuroplasticity research and mindfulness, since 2004 Amie has taught ways to sustain health, cultivate stability and resilience in the mind, and open pathways to the possibilities life holds. She hosts group courses, private counseling, and regularly leads retreats regionally and internationally. Also a lifestyle photographer, Amie is a visual storyteller who loves to capture the wonder of events and the world. She recently took part in documenting the release of wolves into Isle Royale National Park and photographed an intimate tour in the south of India.

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She worked at the Dill Pickle Food Co-op for ten years, seven as General Manager, and spent one year at the helm of the arts non-profit High Concept Labs. Sharon is a regular contributor to Streetsblog Chicago and is the Dance Editor at Newcity Magazine. 

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She teaches from her own dedication to the practice of ParaYoga® and has been fortunate enough to have high caliber teachers like Rod Stryker, Brent Anderson, Jack Kornfield, and Sally Kempton. Her direct link to the Himalayan tradition provides the method she teaches. Called Sri Vidya tantra, which was traditionally an oral tradition, handed down from teacher to student. Leah teaches as she has been taught by her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, using time tested ancient methods in todays modern world. Today you can find Leah teaching at festivals, leading on-line meditation trainings and taking her clients on international retreats. Her capacity to take years of dedicated learning and translate it for her clients makes Leah's approach accessible and functional. She focuses on Meditation, Nidra, Pranayama and Self Inquiry. She is a nationally certified Para Yoga® instructor, is Polestar® Pilates trained, a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider and ACC Level ICF Coach. And soon to be Search Inside Yourself Institute graduate! Leah’s mission is to help others live a healthier and happier life using self awareness techniques, meditation and life coaching to achieve the perspective and clarity the desire to live their best life. 

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The poetry becomes a starting point for performance and a visual art practice. Most recently she performed at the spoken word festival Woerdz 2018 in Lucerne, Switzerland, Sarajevo Winter Literary Festival in Bosnia and Burren College, Ireland. In 2019 she toured a devised performance she wrote entitled Utopic Dialectics to Rockville, Maryland; Sofia, Bulgaria and Riga, Latvia creating the finale performance at Women Made Gallery, Chicago. Carron is Creative Director of the public performance festival Out of Site Chicago producing unexpected encounters in urban space to facilitate a dialogue with the publics of Chicago. She was elected onto the College Art Association Committee of Women in the Arts and sits on the Wicker Park Public Art Funding Committee.

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Twitter: @CarronLittle @outofsite_chi 

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chi websites: 

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