Diana Adams, Esq is an attorney, empowerment counselor, relationship educator, and physical self-defense instructor. Diana founded and manages Diana Adams Law in New York City, a law practice focusing on sexuality issues, nontraditional families, and empowering victims of domestic violence.

Diana has become an internationally recognized voice in the relationship choice movement, sharing her personal and legal vision of recognition for families beyond marriage and monogamy.  As an openly polyamorous, queer, bisexual woman, Diana has boldly shared her own relationship story as a model for others as to a how to create nontraditional relationships through self-awareness and communication, and has shared her story in a New York Times feature and to over 12 million young viewers of the award-winning docuseries MTV True Life.

In her professional life, Diana has built her own career as an outspoken advocate for rights of nontraditional parents and families. Diana advocates for parents in child custody cases whose kinky, queer, poly or otherwise nontraditional sexualities are used against them. She advocates for unbundling legal partnership benefits from marriage, so that those who choose not to marry are not disadvantaged in terms of their taxes, health insurance, and other legal benefits. Diana also works holistically with disempowered people and domestic violence victims, to handle legal challenges such as separation from a partner, teach assertiveness in communication, assist in career and financial planning, and more, to create life-long empowered change.

Diana teaches and speaks at law schools, conferences, and colleges (such as Yale Women’s and Gender Studies department), particularly on topics of nontraditional families, relationship choice, empowered communication, and physical empowerment through self-defense. Diana is delighted to moderate this panel discussion of illustrious women on one of her favorite topics! Learn more about her work at dianaadamslaw.net and feministoutlaw.com.

Learn more about Diana at www.feministoutlaw.com.

ROUND-UP EXCLUSIVE: Join Diana as she moderats Friday night’s Women and Power symposium panel!

Paula Tursi is the Founder and Director of Reflections Yoga and the Reflections Yoga Teacher Training Program. She has been working with alternative healing practices for over twenty years. She specializes in the combination of yoga, breath therapy and meditation. She uses these techniques in her class and private coaching sessions, giving her students tools to cope with the challenges of daily life. Paula holds yoga retreats and teacher trainings world wide, where she teaching movement awareness techniques mixed with the yoga to create a clear connection of the mind and body.

Paula’s work focuses on the connection of mind and body, understanding that we move not only from our muscles and joints, but from the understanding of ourselves and how we relate to the world. Movement or asana can start from the inner or outer body, however, movement initiated from the inner body can be an expression of locked memories in the mind that have been patterned over time.

Paula holds a Masters degree in Psychology from Columbia University and a Masters degree in Education from Hunter College. She did her clinical post-graduate training at the Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. She teaches classes, holds corporate workshops and offers individual instruction in breath awareness, partner yoga and spiritual coaching.

ROUND-UP EXCLUSIVE: Paula is speaking on Friday night’s Women and Power symposium panel!

Jacquette M. Timmons, President and CEO, Sterling Investment Management, Inc. amd author of “Financial Intimacy,” is known for leading thought-provoking conversations about money, choices, relationships, and life.

An investment expert and financial coach, she is the founder of Sterling Investment Management, an investment education and financial coaching firm. She has worked in the investment industry for twenty-four years, dedicating more than a decade to teaching intelligent people how to be smarter with their money. Her on-air television and radio appearances have included CNN’s “Your $$$$$” and “Your Bottom Line,” WNBC’s “Today in New York,” “Black Enterprise Business Report,” Fox TV’s “Good Day New York,” and NPR’s “Marketplace Money.” In print, she’s been featured or quoted in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Real Simple, Essence and Heart and Soul.

Ms. Timmons holds an MBA in finance from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and a BS in marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology.

ROUND-UP EXCLUSIVE: Jacquette speaking on Friday night’s  Women and Power symposium panel!

Michael Ellsberg is the author of The Power of Eye Contact: Your Secret For Success in Business, Love and Life, released from HarperCollins April 2010, and is currently working on Self-Educated Billionaires: Lessons From the World’s Most Successful People Who Never Finished College, forthcoming fromPenguin/Portfolio.

Ellsberg is the creator of Eye Gazing Parties, a series of social events based on eye contact which attracted feature press coverage from the New York Times, Associated Press TV, CBS News, CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Regis & Kelly,Current TV, Yoga Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, the BBC, the Times of London, Match.com,Nerve.com, Agence Press France, German and Canadian national television, and in Tim Ferriss’s #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Four-Hour Workweek (pp. 60-61). Elle magazine called Eye Gazing Parties “New York’s hottest dating trend.”

Ellsberg collaborated with Dr. Marc Gerstein on Flirting With Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental, which was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. Ellsberg’s work has also been featured in the Harvard Business Review online and on Digital Book World.

He has written or done major developmental consulting on book proposals that have garnered a total of over half a million dollars for his author clients. They have lead to book deals from publishers including VikingPenguin, Avery (Penguin), HarperCollins, Scribner, Union Square Press (Sterling Publishing / Barnes & Noble), Lyons Press (Globe Pequot), Summersdale Press (UK), and New Holland (Australia).

Ellsberg was born in San Francisco in 1977, grew up in Berkeley, and graduated from Brown University in 1999, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He lives in New York with his fiancée Jena la Flamme.

Presentation: Conscious Loving Couples Panel

The space between one person and another is a mysterious landscape, yet everything that matters happens there.

Annie Lalla has spent much of her life to studying the labyrinthine world of emotions -mapping out the subtleties of relationships and complexities of communication.  A thinker, speaker and a teacher, Annie is known as the “Cartographer of Love”.

With an Honors Degree in Biology & Philosophy, her studies in psychology, evolutionary science, therapeutic sexuality along with certification in NLP & hypnosis all converge in her Relationship Coaching practice.  Here, she helps individuals attract, create and foster extraordinary connections that maximize freedom and minimize shame.

Specializing in the ‘art of fighting’, Annie sees conflict as a crucial aspect of creating intimacy.  ”Arguments are opportunities to understand your partner better,” she says, “when handled with maturity & skill they actually leave you softer, wiser and more in love.”

Annie has created a variety of practical tools and techniques that help her clients quickly diffuse conflict, resolve toxic patterns, assuage shame/blame and cultivate deep, resilient relationships that last a lifetime.

Coaching site:  www.annielalla.com, Annie is also editor of www.wonderzine.com -an online magazine for emotionally astute female intellectuals.

Sherri Langburt conceived of Single Edition more than 13 years ago when at 24, she chose independence over matrimony and career over homemaking. Living alone in a big new city, Sherri quickly discovered the negative misconceptions and stereotypes facing today’s single adults and the serious shortage of support resources for unmarried individuals – an influential and overlooked population segment.

Over the course of her personal and professional journey, Sherri’s proof of concept became increasingly clear and was consistently validated by real life experiences as a single woman. In 2007, after developing years of interactive marketing and business development expertise as well as exposure to global media and CPG companies, Sherri launched Single Edition Media, the company of which she always dreamed. Today, Single Edition Media makes lasting impressions through SingleEdition.com, content syndication with third party publishers as well as lifestyle learning events & seminars and through other experiential marketing programs.

ROUNDUP EXCLUSIVE: Sherri Langburt appearing Friday night on the Women And Power Symposium Panel!

Luba Evans is a free spirit dedicated to the evolution of consciousness since the beginning of times. She is a founder of New York Tantric Meet Up, Boston Tantric Meet Up, Galiana Meditation Retreat and the international movement Tantra Without Borders – entities that reflect her vision of personal growth, healing and spiritual realisation.

Her qualities encompass a lifetime of experience with a wisdom and compassion that goes beyond solitary mortal incarnations, in a style that combines many ancient teachings and genuinely new insights into a synthesis that is uniquely her own. Students say that her mesmerizing voice, her exotic accent, her connection to the source “immediately places them into primordial states of consciousness”.

Tantra Without Borders helps people deeply realize the nature of consciousness, awaken to their immense potential as cosmic beings and return to love. From our sanctuary, built with a lot of tenderness between New York and Boston, we are now expanding our life changing workshops all over the world.

Tantra Without Borders is a part of the universal movement that serves the evolution of consciousness through love. We are helping the feminine to return to love, and the masculine to reflect it. We are helping the masculine to return to love, and the feminine to reflect it. Once this mutual healing goes into motion, more and more of us are reflecting love, we become one and nobody knows where the movement originates, where it begins, where it ends – there are no borders.

Jena la Flamme is a Weight Loss Coach and the director of the Jena Wellness Center and published health columnist. She helps her clients reclaim their bodies and their self-confidence, without dieting or deprivation. A Certified Holistic Health Counselor accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, Jena is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, in New York City.

Jena’s career in the healing arts began 11 years ago during her first visit to India. Touched by the message that the fulfillment we seek already resides within us, Jena launched into focused study of nutrition, yoga and meditation, where she experienced their power first hand, and her life was transformed.

Jena is now primarily a speaker. She speaks to groups of varying sizes, from small and intimate to groups of several hundred. No group is too big for Jena! Her ideal speaking opportunity? An organization that is passionately devoted to the health of its employees or a professional women’s group.

Secondly, she’s a Weight Loss Coach who heads the staff of the Jena Wellness Center, a team of superlatively qualified health professionals based that serves people all around the world who want to have heal their bodies and balance their lives. Jena reaps energy and inspiration from seeing the flame of healing re-animating the lives of those with whom she and her team work

In addition Jena is a writer. Since childhood Jena’s been passionate about writing. Her health, travel and adventure columns are seen in Pilates Style and New York Spirit magazines and in her monthly “Secrets of Weight Loss” e-newsletter.

Jena uses her speaking, writing, yoga and passion for food and life itself to help clients nourish not only their bodies, but their minds and spirits too.

Presentation: Conscious Loving Couples Panel

ROUND-UP EXCLUSIVE: Jena is speaking on Friday night’s  Women and Power symposium panel!

Kiovanna is the founder and director of East Techniques, Sacred Arts Learning Center. She has a BA in Psychology from Stanford University and a Law Degree from Columbia University. From 2001-2004 she lived in India practicing and teaching Tantra as a holistic approach to blissful living. In 2007 she became a certified Tantra Presenter through the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA).

Kiovanna embodies her truth that sexuality is sacred. She is an Interfaith Reverend registered in New York. She is also a certified Temple Priestess, a certified Yoga Instructor, and a certified Reiki Master. In October of 2009 she gave birth to a baby boy and is an ecstatic mother.

Kiovanna celebrates life in New York City where for the last five years she has been coaching women and couples in the art of sensuality.

For more info, visit www.easttechniques.com.

Presentation: MOONBLOOD MAGIC

(Kiovanna just taught this workshop in front of hundreds at Boom Festival in Portugal with phenomenonal results! Many women cried and were deeply moved.)

• In this workshop we will increase the magic of our cycles.
• Explore moon blood rituals, meditations, and asanas to access intuition, inner power and comfort during our menses.
• Practice various self-love rituals coupled with soothing therapies to exercise before and during the week of your moon cycle.
• Learn the blood mysteries and history related to the tantric power of our sacred moonblood.

MEN ARE WELCOME, TOO – includes a teaching component for men as well. Please come no matter your gender! All welcome.

Lolita Wolf is a native New Yorker and an activist who defends the sexual freedom for all consenting adults, spreads the word about BDSM, sex and polyamory, and helps the community grow and flourish. Yet, her goal remains “to have fun.”

Presentation: Trust

How do you achieve intimacy and create an awesome, even sacred bond with a partner? How is it that one person allows another to take control over them? Before such a potent understanding is forged between adults, trust needs to exist. Trust can be built up in a number of ways. Come, learn and put to use the communication skills and honorable actions that go hand in hand on the road to complete and total trust.