JClay is a spiritual teacher and rap artist redefining how music is used to heal. A leading voice in the spiritual hip-hop movement, his work challenges the beliefs that quietly shape fear, identity, and self-worth. His acclaimed album IAMNOBODY, IAMSOMEONE has been embraced by industry and psychology professionals as a powerful tool for inner healing, praised for its rare ability to translate mind-body-soul awareness into music that actually lands. With his newest album It Just Feels Good, JClay continues to prove that peace doesn’t have to be preached or protected, it can be felt. As one listener put it, “If Jesus rapped, it would be this.”
This experiential Master Class invites participants to experience peace as a natural state rather than something to protect or maintain. Through guided awareness, reflection, and music, participants explore what happens when self-judgment softens and clarity returns. The session emphasizes ease, presence, and living sacred power through everyday experience.
Sherri James is take-charge businesswoman, entrepreneur, author and minister who expertly balances career, ministry and family. Her lifelong passion for the bible and desire to work in ministry began after hearing the late Rev. Dr. Mary Tumpkin preach for the first time. She has never been the same. With more than 23 years experience in ministry, James emerged as a leader in her church, Understanding Principles. She became the protégé to the ministry’s founding pastor, Rev. Dr. Della Reese Lett (Touched By An Angel). In 2015, Rev. Della passed the torch to James while she was still completing seminary.
What if the pressure you're feeling right now is evidence that something is forming? This experiential Master Class invites participants to explore the sacred space between asking and receiving — recognizing that we are often walking in answered prayers we forgot we asked for. Through reflection, writing, and spiritual practice, we'll transform how we see the waiting seasons.
Rev Deborah L Johnson is a lifelong social justice advocate and professional DEI consultant. She is an inaugural recipient of New Thought Walden Award for Spiritually Guided Acitivism and an Inductee into the MLK Jr Chapel Board of Preachers at Morehouse College. Author of The Sacred YES and Your Deepest Intent, Rev Deborah is the founder of Inner Light Ministries, a founding member of Agape International Spiritual Center, and a Leadership Council member of AGNT. Rev Deborah’s new nonprofit, Unleashing Our Future, sponsors a free online version of Pulled By Vision every 2nd Saturday where she serves as lead facilitator.
Through a meditative artistic process, we envision the highest possibilities for democracy, immigration, climate change, health care, economics, and justice. In small groups, we practice bringing our existing narratives about these issues into alignment with the truths revealed to us. Raising our individual and collective vibrations, we uplevel personal conversations and public discourse.
Jason and Tina Marie are Amazon best-selling authors of Manifest a Joy-Filled Relationship and Taking Your Relationships Off Cruise Control, spiritual educators, and co-founders of Legendary Relationship. They are the creators of the proprietary M.A.N.I.F.E.S.T Method, a consciousness-based framework for awareness, empowerment, and intentional living. Their work blends metaphysical principles, lived experience, and practical reflection to support personal and collective transformation. Together, they guide individuals and communities to reconnect with inner authority, restore sacred power, and relate with clarity, presence, and purpose across all areas of life.
This masterclass invites participants to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the conscious awareness that restores sacred power in every area of life. It explores how inner agreements shape our experiences with self, family, community, and life itself. Through reflection and insight, participants reconnect with their inherent authority and remember the sacred power that has always been within.
Eisha A. Mason is a “master practitioner” at the Agape International Spiritual Center, where she has taught Practitioner Studies for 25 years and served as a spiritual therapist for 40 years. As a community facilitator, activist, educator and published author, she focuses on the intersections of social justice, nonviolence, spirituality and the “soul work of social change.” Eisha is a co-founder of Acts of Power: Liberation of the African American Soul, Community Healing Forum and Black New Thought Support Group. She recently joined Ahiah Center for Spiritual Living, continuing her commitment to spiritual leadership, collective healing, and transformative action.
We tap into our collective memory to connect with the power, wisdom and guidance of our ancestors. We activate spiritual gifts that are our divine inheritance and remember the eternal love in which we are held. From our ancestral lines, spiritual ancestors and the Divine Intelligence flowing in all creation, we affirm that we have all that we need to meet life’s challenges and build thriving communities.
I was ordained in 2016. I planted Unity Golden Life Ministries serving South Florida. I joined the UUMS faculty in 2018. I facilitated numerous life affirming workshops at various churches, centers and conferences, including Celebrating our Golden Life at the 2022 PADNT conference, two Women of Wisdom conventions, and two Unity People’s Conventions. I was featured in A Sound of Unity: The Twelve Powers, a film by New Thought author and director, James Twyman. At the 2025 Unity People’s Convention, I was presented with the Ruth M. Mosley Award, for outstanding leadership.
People all across our nation are confronted with the threat of war, ICE raids, military troops in our cities, reductions in health care, rising costs due to tariffs, and so much more. Maintaining inner peace during times such as these is a challenge for the most grounded among us. This master class is specifically designed to help attendees develop skills to navigate the rough waters in which we sometimes find ourselves.
Jeffrey V. Noble is a Healing Alchemist, Master Practitioner and Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming, Certified Pranic Healing Practitioner, and Ordained Minister of Healing and Transformation. He is the Founder and CEO of The Noble Touch, an innovative holistic wellness organization dedicated to educating, motivating, and empowering individuals to take control of their own healing. Rooted in African centered spiritual wisdom and New Thought consciousness, his work supports the total healing of mind, body, and spirit. At previous Celebrating Our Soul conferences, Jeffrey and The Noble Touch have provided energy healing sessions in service to the community.
Pressure does not break us. Pressure reveals us. In this experiential Master Class, participants are guided through the Stop, Drop and Roll model, a spiritually grounded and embodied practice for meeting stress, trauma, and overwhelm with clarity, presence, and sacred power.
Rev. Jack Roberts is dedicated to helping individuals activate their sacred power and create lives of purpose and success. Once homeless on Skid Row, he transformed his circumstances through New Thought principles and now serves as a living demonstration of spiritual truth in action. Founder of Life Mastery Systems and author of The Science of Affirmations & The Power of Denials and Speak It Into Existence, Jack blends spiritual insight with practical tools. A Metaphysical Minister and Human Potential Coach, he empowers others to translate faith into focused action and turn intention into fruition.
In this immersive Masterclass, Rev. Jack Roberts, Author of 'The Science of Affirmations & The Power of Denials,' will guide participants in the process of creating transformation using their sacred power. A true Masterclass where you will walk away with a repeatable framework that you can use in any aspect of your life.
Dr. Liza Swedarsky, MD, RScP is a gynecologist and minimally invasive surgeon with over 27 years of clinical experience specializing in outpatient gynecology, and laparoscopic/robotic surgery. She has dedicated her career to eliminating gynecologic and surgical disparities for the marginalized, Black, and Latina women, serving in six of Boston’s community health centers. She is a licensed spiritual practitioner that embodies healing as an experience and narrative between the Self, Spirit, Body, Mind, and Soul. She is the founder of Health Vows and the Embracing Black initiative, creating safe spaces and facilitates experiences and workshops that center healing and educational experiences that combine evidence-based medicine and spiritual practice. Her work has been recognized through multiple grants, including Harvard Radcliffe (2025), and she serves as an Ambassador for the American Cancer Society Voices of Black Women Study.
Healing in Black Through Conscious Living: Breaking the Legacy of Dis-ease is a 90-minute masterclass led by Dr. Liza Swedarsky, MD, RScP, blending medical science and spiritual practice to address the leading causes of death impacting Black women and men. Grounded in the theme Crowned in Clarity, this session explores the deeper roots of health disparities including individual behaviors, structural racism, chronic stress, and conscious beliefs while recognizing the healing superpowers within. She offers practical, evidence-based and soul-centered tools for healing, longevity, and empowered self-care. Participants will leave with one embodied insight to support mental, emotional, physical, and/or spiritual transformation.
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