Artists
Will Marsh
Sitar, Guitar, Setar
Will Marsh brings refined melody, imagination and devotion to all facets of his music. He has been performing classical sitar for fourteen years and guitar twenty. Will has worked with Grammy-winning musicians and producers and has been featured on national T.V. From his roots as a guitarist from northern Michigan to performing Hindustani sitar in Kolkata, Will’s musical journey has been rich and diverse. He believes passionately that music is essential to all of humanity. He holds his MFA in World Music Performance from the California Institute of the Arts and has studied with some of the world’s greatest musicians including Ustad Aashish Khan (eldest son of Ali Akbar Khan), Roshan Bhartiya, Tushar Bhaita and Shakir Khan. Currently, Will resides in the California Bay Area as an active teacher, performer and recording artist.
Inbal Etgar
Somatic Breathwork Guide & Sound Healer
Inbal Etgar of SONOPRANA is a Designer and Facilitator of healing workshops based on Breathwork and Sound. Inbal is trained and certified in Breathwork meditation, Sound Healing, and Ceremonial arts. She weaves her experience as a designer, healer, and creative director into her work with individuals seeking greater access to inner peace, intuition, and emotional freedom. Inbal studied sound healing at the Globe Institute, and Nada Yoga (yoga of sound) at the Vox Mundi school of sound and the voice.
Nat Kendall
Yoga Teacher & Song Leader
Nat Kendall is a San Francisco based yoga teacher, world music recording artist and devoted student of yoga, Nat shares his wisdom of the teachings in a heartfelt and grounded way that will easily awaken beginners and re-inspire long time practitioners. Instantly accessible and relevant to our modern times, the grace of Nat’s teachings pour through in tangible practices, tools, techniques and insights that are sure to enlighten your spiritual path and yogic journey.
Elise Lein
Dancer & Musician
"Music and dance are one's true language of the soul."
Elise Lein, (MPhil) brings over a decade of creative and spiritual wisdom to Embodied Sounds. She dances in Sounds of the Ocean, guiding participants back from meditation to the physical world. Elise believes in dance and music as one’s true language of the soul and authentic expression as a process of deep healing and spiritual transformation –for oneself, our society and the environment. Growing up in a musical family with a classical background, Elise began studying ballet and piano at age five, participating in many concerts and dance competitions as a child. Her creative journey went from following this strict classical model to freeing her art, mind and soul on the path of spirituality and healing. Elise has extensive practical experience in film production and storytelling as well, working on documentaries in Europe about climate change and environmental topics. She believes strongly in the path of transformation from mental/personal health to our global and environmental health.
Amber Herzog Lyman
Poet & Producer
Amber Herzog Lyman is a poet, film writer, adventurer and Earth ambassador based in California and Maui. A born explorer of high mountains, deep oceans, ancestral wisdom and emotional awareness; her life’s work weaves together the synergistic potentials of restoring human connection to nature consciousness, in spoken word poetry and in the 2021 international award-winning documentary feature film “Ocean Souls,” which explores the experiences of emotion, language, culture and family among whales and dolphins worldwide.
Aminah Chishti
Musician & Spiritual Teacher
Aminah has become a leading force in the art of the traditional Qawwali genre of tabla. Her studies took her under the wing of the lineage holder Ustad Dildar Hussain (28 years playing for the legend of Pakistan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan).
As the first western and first woman disciple of this genre, Aminah has become a revolutionist by changing the boundaries of women, by being accepted by the community of a 1000-year-old lineage. She has sat where no woman has ever sat or maybe will ever sit.