Raymond Powers has been studying, practicing and teaching for the past 20 years. With a focus on mentoring the art of "presence" he can assist you to move beyond your past-based beliefs, perspectives, and traumas, creating a container to vision and realize your living truth. This leads to more confidence, joy and peace of mind. The result being the unleashing of dormant creative forces that can be powerfully directed into your own unique life purpose.

Teaching workshops, such as Singing Your Dream Awake and The Way of the Open Heart, since 1978, he has taught hundreds of people how to discover their well Being and become beacons of peace and serenity. He has also brought his work into corporations to assist in team building and communication.

His background includes experience and training in East Indian studies, Shamanic ceremony, meditation, sound healing, massage, spiritual counsel, permaculture, system theory, and business development. He has gained national recognition for his expertise in these fields, consulting and contributing to both print, such as GQ and Maxim magazines, and Internet publications. Most recently he has developed an advanced approach to living as love and compassion and is writing a book, entitled Simple Brilliance, that offers practical exercises for personal development and shares with you anecdotes from his extraordinary life. A free sample chapter is available here as a pdf download.

His expertise has been sought after by individuals and businesses who want to empower themselves or their organizations with cutting edge technologies. As an advocate of socially responsible business and fair trade practices, he assists in strategies that will develop sustainable models and maintain a thriving environment. He maintains a strong vision and lifestyle for an economy that supports the needs of the earth, it's inhabitants and all future generations.

Pine Ridge Reservation Relief Project Assisting the Indigenous People of South Dakota

SERVICES

Spiritual Mentoring     - crisis management     - emotional healing     - energy balanciing Personal Development     - life coaching     - career visioning     - relationships Business Consultant     - strategic plans of action     - team building     - communication

"Sustainable" Business Advisor     - pre-cycle source reduction     - energy consumption mangement     - employee relations and resources Workshop Facilitaor     - The Way of the Open Heart     - Singing Your Dream Awake (see flyer below)     - Sustainability: From the Inside Out Seminar Speaker     - Zone 0 - practical wisdom for inner peace     - Simple Brilliance - (see book preface below)     - New Paradigms for a Green Economy

Composer     - music for film, theater, multi-media     - product branding jingles     - specialist in world music fusions Performer     - meditation music and sound healing     - ambient trance dance     - community music making circles Internet     - website design and consultation     - research / information services     - sound design

PLEASE CONTACT ME REGARDING ANY OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES

"My simple philosophy is based on three precepts:" * Still your mind * Handle your psychology and * Awaken your body

Raymond is also a reknown recording/performing artist and a pioneer of world music fusions, a gifted poet, organic gardener,
website designer and gourd crafter. A member of the American and California Gourd Society his ceremonial gourd rattles have
been featured in their national newsletter and on the Home and Garden Network (HGTV). His work can be seen at Creekside Crafts. He also maintains an online weblog, Sounding Circle, that focuses on many of his interests.

Available Recordings (click on image) Heart of the Mother Stillpoint: A Guided Stress Relief Program

Some client testimonials:

I am capable of feeling things I never dreamed.
I am far more powerful than I ever imagined.
I am learning to integrate my Self with my body.
I am purging a deep river of hurt and pain through this process.
I have nothing to fear.
Thank you for providing me a safe place to explore and heal,
a place of comfort and love, a place of dignity and respect. My heart is grateful.
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T.B., Grad. Student, USC Pasadena,CA

I've had more success with Raymond Powers in dealing with some deep seated issues
after two sessions than I did after three years of therapy.
My life has completely opened up - physically, spiritually and energetically.
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J.M., Film Director Santa Monica,CA

Simple - requires little effort, second nature, minimal cognition needed, easily learned, innate, childlike, low calorie, energy efficient, meditative, shortest route, path of least resistance, a straight line, a circle, a spiral, elemental, primary, natural, innocent, primal, obvious, honest, authentic, few moving parts, interrelated, intuitive

Brilliance - intuitive, conscious, luminescent, holistic, integral, reflective, creative genius, imaginative, iridescent, opalescent, responsive, response able, expressive, intentional, wise, patient, radiance, inspired, exceptional, many faceted, holographic,charismatic, shimmering, solutions benefiting and acknowledging the whole

There's a state of remembering that brings us back to the full self-expression and conscious passion we were as a child; those very activities and resources that magnetized our attention. With little effort, hours were spent as minutes, and days as hours, as we remained enraptured with this/these creations of Life. Maybe it was something present in our environment already, something in nature, or a technology or a person; or maybe it was a creative endeavor we enjoyed that sprang naturally from our internal well, such as art, music or writing.

Creation IS, and it has always been coursing through the universe and our veins wanting and seeking expression. Simple Brilliance is a conscious re-membering of who we are as integrated, inter-related, passionate vital Beings. Through the freedom born from discipline, we can re-discover and embody the very essence of ourselves, revealing without ill confidence, our own unique genetic stamp.

For some, this will be easy, for others, extremely difficult, even painful. We all have our own hindrances to joy and exuberance. Some may need to focus on emotional release, "stuck" energies in their bodies, others will need to learn how to still their mind and others may need to create some type of spiritual cosmology that expands their viewpoint of themselves in relation to nature and the universe. All of this attending to a path that is inclusive, rather than exclusive, of those we cherish and have yet come to know.

There is no one way to freedom and there are many ways that we prevent ourselves from fully living our purposeful vision. We must first learn to cultivate trust in Life itself and then in ourselves and finally with others. Cultivating Simple Brilliance catalyzes a life of unexpected joy and opportunity beyond what we ever thought possible; a Life that fully realizes and expresses our capabilities.

For me this adventure to discovering my brilliance and living in simplicity has been both exhilarating and, at time, excruciating. My commitment to living an authentic Life has required me to examine my agendas, motivations, patterns of behavior and relationships.

I have needed to develop my "witness" and remain vigilant in my desire to understand, know and act from an awareness of the "bigger picture", of how my actions and reactions affect the whole. This is a very human process. It is full of mis-takes, awkwardness and "oopsies." It is also rich with love, joy and adventure.

It takes courage, passion and flexibility to admit there are mysteries we may never truly come to know and then to live inside that Mystery, relating to the unknown and listening to the distant guidance that grows ever closer.

A free sample chapter , The Way of the Open Heart, is available here as a pdf download.