Duncan Cryle is co-executive director of Clear Sky Retreat Center in Canada, student of founding teachers Qapel and Catherine Pawsarat Sensei, and founder of consciousorganizations.com

He blends years of co-creating Clear Sky’s integral and awakening community with an international career as an executive with major technology companies. He was a co-creator of IBM’s mindfulness community, and led a successful global mindfulness program at SS&C Technologies.

His mindfulness and organizational development work is based on 30+ years of personal practice, and 20 years co-developing Clear Sk as a “living lab” for integral and awareness-based approaches to team learning, communication, organization development, and personal transformation.

He holds a Ph.D in philosophy and publishes in the academic field of workplace spirituality.

He is passionate about the potential of heart-based leadership and practices to transform work cultures to a healthier way of working together for positive impact.

Evangelos Diavolitsis is a Dharma teacher, behavioural money coach and a certified 5Rhythms® movement facilitator. He has a passion for integrating the path of awakening with movement, meditation, art and business. He has been continuously studying with meditation masters Qapel and Catherine Sensei of the Namgyal Lineage since 2002.

Evangelos regularly mentors people on the art of integrating a spiritual path with a financially balanced material life through somatic expression and radical self-inquiry. His conscious leadership skills have led him to work with notable companies and innovators such as Google, Engineers without Borders, Mandali, Findhorn Foundation, Fairtrade Canada and the Sameness Project.

He has an honors degree in Urban Sociology and Policy making from the University of Toronto, a master teacher certificate in Behavioural Money Coaching from the Money Coaching Institute in California and directly trained under the tutelage of 5Rhythms movement founder, Gabrielle Roth. fourwaystofreedom.com

Lisa Feder is a cultural anthropologist and educator specialising in personal transformation and cross-cultural community building. As the founder of Manding Grooves, a France-based organisation, she creates immersive workshops where participants engage with West African jeli (griot) music—dancing, singing, and playing the balafon—as a gateway to deeper self-awareness, transformation, and intercultural connection. Through retreats in West Africa, France, and the United States, she guides individuals and communities toward realizing their fullest potential by integrating movement, music, and mindfulness.

Lisa is also a dharma-based life coach, working with an international community to support personal and spiritual evolution. Her approach is rooted in Integral Spirituality, drawing from Buddha-dharma, the Western Mysteries (Tarot), West African traditions, and other wisdom paths.

Lisa had over 20 years of experience in musical cross-cultural learning, movement, and mindfulness. Her work is deeply informed by her dedicated dharma practice and karma yoga training under the tutelage of Qapel and Catherine Pawasarat, dharma and integral evolution trainers, and the Planet Dharma team. This includes mentorship under Duncan Cryle and Karen McAllister, (both, IEC presenters). She has participated in numerous solo and group retreats at Clear Sky Meditation Centre, bringing depth and contemplative insight into her work as a guide and teacher.

Nishta’s teaching style is heartfelt, humorous, clear and transformative. She works with people to cultivate their highest conscious creative compassionate potential, so it spreads like wildfire. She uses movement, mindfulness meditation, humour and matters of the heart as a ground for exploration into deeper states of being. She teaches the art of clear communication and how to cultivate healthy dynamic honest relationships.

She is dedicated to her own personal awakening and supports communities that are passionate about a paradigm shift. She has been a lifelong meditator, traveler and business leader for 25 years.  Nishta is committed to her unwavering path of helping people get over the biggest obstacles of their lives. Most notably aiding people in transcending their blind spots and learning to be their own best friend.

She is a chameleon, a voyeur of human behavior and life long inquisitor of emotions, body and psyche. Nishta means “Nirvana”, the ultimate resting place. She has always had a keen and curious mind. Educated in Dharma, Transpersonal Psychology, Mysticism and the Moving Body.

She pays homage to all of her teachers in the Diamond Approach-Ridwhan School and the illuminated teachings and teachers of Osho which have set the heart ablaze. Doug Duncan (Qapel) and Catherine Pawasarat (Sensei) are her mentors, they embody a living path for awakening.

She is a transformational coach multi-& disciplinary meditation retreat leader, founding member of Four Ways to Freedom and a certified International Open Floor teacher. She is a Certified Behavioral Money Coach. She co-founded Conscious Dance Italy. She is a regular guest teacher at the Mandali Foundation Retreat Center in Northern Italy. fourwaystofreedom.com

Karen McAllister is a co-founding member and leader at Clear Sky Retreat Center, where she has lived year-round in a residential integral conscious community since 2004. Trained by Clear Sky’s co-founders and spiritual teachers, Qapel and Catherine Sensei, she not only studies the map of integral theory but actively walks the territory, embodying its principles in daily practice.

Rooted in this lived experience, Karen, her teachers, and their community move together as a collective—helping both themselves and newer members move beyond an overemphasis on the “I” quadrant—developing the “we,” “its,” and “it” quadrants through collective practice, service, and financial maturity. As the community’s money coach and founder of The Mindful Money Coach, Karen works on both growing up and cleaning up, helping individuals integrate their financial shadow so they can resource their path rather than bypass it.

This work extends beyond Clear Sky to the wider international community through Qapel and Catherine Sensei’s Planet Dharma, where Karen supports seekers in bridging the gap between spiritual aspiration and financial engagement—making money a tool for awakening and meaningful impact.

For those ready to deepen their spiritual and financial maturity—sustaining both inner and outer evolution—she offers a lived pathway to wholeness.

U.S.-born Catherine Pawasarat practiced the ayahuasca sacrament in the 1990s, while working as a photojournalist specializing in environmental and human rights. For 20 years she lived in Kyoto, where she met Buddhist teacher Achariya Qapel in 1998. She trained daily with him in an intensive spiritual apprenticeship that’s rare in the modern West.

In 2004 Qapel and Cata co-founded the Clear Sky Retreat Center in British Columbia, Canada. There Cata has co-cultivated an innovative, generative organization with conscious community. Together Qapel and Cata have also taught virtually through Planet Dharma. Clear Sky and Planet Dharma have evolved as living labs supporting community movement through Integral stage development together, including experiments with group guru.

An expert in traditional Japanese culture, Cata advocates for the spiritually transformative and generative nature of Kyoto’s ancient Shinto Gion Festival. She also teaches about the unique roles of Women in Buddhism.