About Us

Sacred Centers is a community of individuals who want to make a difference in our world. Our community forms organically from the workshop experience and the desire to keep that feeling alive in one’s own community. Our students and graduates of the Sacred Centers Certification Program form Sacred kin-ships in their own area, where they may teach, conduct healing practices, or hold events.

In this way, Sacred Centers’ kin-ships become self-organizing points for the coalescence of consciousness, illuminating the sacred web of life for the purpose of bringing together the imaginal cells of the emerging paradigm. (More on Imaginal Cells).

Dr. Anodea Judith

Anodea Judith, PhD. is the founder and director of Sacred Centers, and a groundbreaking thinker, writer, and spiritual teacher. Her passion for the realization of untapped human potential matches her concern for humanity’s impending crises — her fervent wish is that we “wake up in time.” She holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Psychology and Human Health, is a 500 hour registered yoga teacher, with lifelong studies of healing, mythology, history, sociology, systems theory, and mystic spirituality. She is considered one of the country’s foremost experts on the combination of chakras and therapeutic issues and on the interpretation of the Chakra System for the Western lifestyle. She teaches across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Central America.

She is best known for the chakra classic, Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System, (Llewellyn, 1987, revised 1999), an illustrated 435 page manual that has come to be considered the definitive work on the subject. With approximately, 200,000 U.S. copies sold and additional printings in 15 languages. A second book, co-authored with Selene Vega:The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body, and Spirit through the Chakras (Crossing Press, 1993, 289 pp.) arose out of the popular Nine-Month Chakra Intensive, taught by Judith and Vega for over two decades. Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, released by Celestial Arts in February 1997 charts childhood development, related difficulties and techniques for healing them, all within the chakra model and is a popular text in healing schools across the country. In March of 2000, she released a six-tape audio course called: The Chakra System: A Complete Course in Self-Diagnosis and Healing through Sounds True, Inc., followed by the popular boxed kit: Chakra Balancing. Her artistic expression combines with her mystic passion in her award winning DVD, The Illuminated Chakras, a co-creation with her son, artist and animator, Alex Wayne.

Her most recent book won two literary awards in 2007. Waking the Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love charts the history of human development into our present crisis and necessary transformation, with an inspiring message of hope for our future.

Anodea conducted a private healing practice in California for over 20 years, but travelling has taken her healing efforts into the workshop mode.

And finally, on the more personal level, Anodea Judith is a dynamic individual with many talents: teacher, healer, priestess, musician, artist, yogini, and co-heart. She is well-loved for her integration of mind, body, and spirit. She feels deeply concerned about the state of our world, in terms of ecology, ethics, politics, and religion. Feeling that individual and cultural transformation are intrinsically related, Anodea supports a path to empowerment and balance through teaching of life-affirming paths of wisdom. This is achieved through a reclamation of our bodies and minds, the environment, and our connection to both Heaven and Earth. She is a dynamic and experienced speaker, workshop presenter, and visionary, dedicated to healing our world and evolving human consciousness.

Read more about Anodea’s story: Discovering the Rainbow Path

Contact Anodea Judith.

Sacred Centers Staff

Shanon Dean

Sacred Centers Office Manager

Shanon Dean is the invisible smile behind Sacred Centers as she manages the endless details: maintaining both websites Sacred Centers and Waking the Global Heart, creating ads and art work, managing workshop details, geeking the technology, computing royalties and year end taxes, and keeping Anodea organized while she’s at it! If you can identify your problem or need, Shanon can address it. She’s a great facilitator, who often shows up with a fresh basket of fruits, veggies, and eggs from her garden. Contact Shanon.

Ramone Yaciuk

Sacred Centers Programs Director

Ramone Yaciuk has been studying psychology and healing for most of his life.

His book, Enjoy The Hell Out Of Your Life, is a compendium of ways to avoid the pitfalls of unhappy patterns and emerge joyously to create a glorious life.

Adding to his degree in psychology, he is also an Advanced Certified Rolfer, a Certified Coach, with training in the work of Virginia Satir through the Human Validation Process model. He has led workshops on teambuilding, personal growth, and management seminars on communication and interpersonal skills.

His seminar management experience over 18 years includes work with four major seminar companies as well as his own business. During that time he worked as a presenter, course designer, a trainer for presenters, and an event coordinator.

Ramone has helped people transform their bodies and their lives through his Rolfing and coaching for 23 years. He is an avid yoga practitioner and has studied Iyengar, Anusara and, of course, Sacred Centers Yoga. He has consistently practiced yoga for over 10 years. Contact Ramone

Gianna Perada

Sacred Centers Office Assistant

Gianna is the fresh face to Sacred Centers and a welcome surprise since we keep expanding! She has taken over the retail and wholesale orders, answering phones and correspondence, doing data entry, managing workshop shipping details, and keeping Shanon afloat! Contact Gianna.

Nini Gridley

Sacred Centers Certification Coordinator

Nini Gridley is a founding faculty member of Sacred Centers and has been teaching some of our Introductory Teleclasses. Nini began studying the chakra system with Anodea in 1993. She took all the workshops, then assisted all the workshops and was instrumental in the development of the certification path. Professionally trained as a Spiritual Healer and Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner she initiated her private practice, Full Spectrum Healing™, in 1995 offering private healing sessions, meditations and Bach Flower Essences to children and adults. Previously a Child Life Specialist Nini worked with children on Pediatrics in Medical Centers for nearly ten years. She has a Master’s Degree in Education from Bank Street College of Education (NY, NY) and a B.A. in Child Development and Education from Connecticut College (New London, CT) which inform her understanding of the of chakras and illuminate the healing process.

In 2004 Nini completed six years of training to become a Professional Level Kripalu Yoga Teacher (500 hrs.) at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, in Lenox, MA. She taught Yoga classes to adults and children there for years and continues to teach workshops on the chakras and meditation for Retreat & Renewal. Currently residing in Saratoga Springs, NY, Nini is teaching at Yoga Mandali where she leads the popular “Full Spectrum Healing Series” for nine weeks on the liberating current of the chakras. Her dynamic workshops weave ancient teachings on the chakras with her expertise in child development to illuminate the midlife healing process and bring Universal light and unconditional love to the process of self discovery.

We are delighted her role at Sacred Centers will be increasing. You can reach her via email at coordinator@sacredcenters.com.

Sacred Centers’ Teachers

Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT

Selene Vega, PhD. LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist (Marriage and Family Therapist). Since 1972 she has led individuals and groups on journeys into the realms of psyche and spirit, combining her extensive background in dance, yoga and other movement forms with her work in hypnotherapy and ritual to assist people in being fully awake and conscious on their path through life. Former editor of the Spiritual Emergence Network Newsletter, Selene’s writings include chapters in Walking in Two Worlds (Ed. Gilligan & Simon), The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook (Ed. Khalsa & Mijares), and co-authoring The Sevenfold Journey (with Anodea Judith). Selene and Anodea have been teaching together since 1985. She is currently psychological consultant for an online fitness community in addition to workshop teaching and individual coaching. Contact Selene.

Jason Auer-Sears

Jason Auer-Sears completed his schooling at Eastwind School of Holistic Healing in Iowa City. He joined forces with a chiropractor and a naturopath to co-facilitate the leading wellness clinic in his home area, The Bradley Center, a leading clinic in the area, where he has worked for the last seven years with a variety of practitioners, building a practice as a Certified Chiropractic Assistant, Reiki Master, and practitioner of the Aaron Mattes method of Active Isolated Stretching. As creator of Chakrassage and a student of Anodea Judith, Jason integrates manual therapy, stretching, vocal toning, visualization and bioenergetic concepts with the wellness model of the seven chakras. Contact Jason.

Glenn Hartelius, PhD.

Glenn Hartelius, PhD. is a master healer and a scholar. As a pioneer in transformative psychology he brings a radically simple and practical understanding of how to create profound inner change, uncover your root issues, unlock your forgotten potential, and unleash the power to be fully present in your life. Glenn holds an M.A. in religion, and a Ph.D. in East-West Psychology, and has particular expertise in the anatomy and disorders of chakras. Glenn currently teaches in the residential doctoral program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, and serves as Secretary-Treasurer for the International Transpersonal Association. He teaches workshops internationally, and publishes in the fields of transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies. Past teaching experience includes instruction at the Ph.D. level for the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, in the online Masters’ program at Naropa University, and at the undergraduate level for Laney College in Oakland. As a somatic counselor and practitioner, he has treated more than 10,000 clients during 27 years of private practice. Contact Glenn.

Lynne Michelson, MA

Early in life Lynne spent 2 years in Europe and then lived in an intentional community in the US, and was fortunate during that time to study with some of the world’s eminent spiritual teachers. She has taught meditation, awakening practices and transformational psychology. Lynne has been a psychotherapist and relationship coach for over 15 years, a workshop facilitator, a national speaker, and created several non-profits that bring community, service, and fun together. Lynne was Director of Marketing and before that Director of Training at the Relationship Coaching Institute. She is committed to helping her clients and group participants grow from the intrinsic place inside each of them of creativity, curiosity, and light. She was also the Sacred Centers Certification Coordinator before Nini Gridley took over the position. Contact Lynne

Tulasi Jordan, MA, LCSW, ERYT-500

Tulasi Jordan, LCSW, ERYT-500, Psychotherapist, has been trained in a variety of modalities that allow her to utilize unique and individualized approaches to healing. She received her Master’s Degree from New York University, holds a Post-Master’s certificate from the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute for treating eating and body image problems, and is also certified in Clinical Hypnosis. She received her Gold-Level certification for coaching from Coaching from Spirit Institute, and has done additional coaching training specifically for therapists.

A professional-level yoga teacher, she has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1993, and is a certified Anusara Yoga Teacher and a Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher. She has studied and taught yoga in the U.S. as well India. For over 13 years she has taught yoga programs and classes at Newton Hospital, in Newton, NJ. Additionally she teaches personal development, meditation, and yoga workshops in NJ. She has also assisted Anodea Judith in workshops.

She has the foundation of more traditional psychotherapy, and through additional training and experience is able to offer clients more contemporary interventions as well. With over thirteen years of working with clients individually as well as in groups, she utilizes elements of psychodynamic psychotherapy, somatic therapy, mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), behavioral therapy, solution-focused therapy, and clinical hypnosis (when requested).

She recently released the CD Beauty from the Inside Out: Basic Home Yoga Practice and has also been interviewed by the media for her work with eating disorders and body-image problems. Check out Tulasi’s website’s: Postivite Body Solutions and Insight Psychotherapy. Contact Tulasi.