**Editor’s Note** It is with great plea­sure that we share our newest fea­tured mem­ber of Tiferet!  You can learn more on all fea­tured mem­bers by click­ing here. If you would like to be fea­tured you can click here and fill out the brief form. Vir­ginia Chase Sut­ton loves to travel and has recently returned from her third trip to Buenos Aires, a place she con­sid­ers as her sec­ond home. She col­lects vin­tage hats, evening bags and cos­tume jew­elry, and shops at sec­ond hand stores and yard sales. She has pub­lished two books of poetry: “” (Cha­toy­ant) and “” which won the Morse Poetry Prize. She has been the Louis Unter­meyer Scholar in Poetry at Bread Loaf and won the National Poet Hun. Her poems have appeared in “Paris Review” and “Ploughshares” among many other lit­er­ary pub­li­ca­tions, jour­nals and antholo­gies. Her MFA is from Ver­mont Col­lege of Fine Arts and she lives in Tempe, Ari­zona.   We invite you to con­nect with Vir­ginia. Tiferet Mem­ber Pro­file Per­sonal Web­site Books: Links listed above LinkedIn Facebook

**Editor’s Note** It is with great plea­sure that we share our newest fea­tured mem­ber of Tiferet!  You can learn more on all fea­tured mem­bers by click­ing here. If you would like to be fea­tured you can click here and fill out the brief form. Anthony Lawlor is an archi­tect and author who explores the rela­tion­ship between spirit and mat­ter through design. His books include ,  and . Dur­ing 30 years of archi­tec­tural prac­tice, Anthony has received awards for excel­lence in design from the Amer­i­can Insti­tute of Archi­tects and Inte­rior Design Mag­a­zine. Anthony’s film The Liv­ing Tem­ple offers a video jour­ney through world sacred places. His work has been fea­tured on Oprah, National Pub­lic Radio and numer­ous other national media. Anthony lec­tures and teaches work­shops inter­na­tion­ally on con­scious­ness in design He is based in Marin County, Cal­i­for­nia, USA.   We invite you to con­nect with Anthony and read some of his posts on Tiferet. **Note: Tiferet has offered classes with Anthony before and we plan to do so in the future.  We invite you to join Anthony’s future classes.** Tiferet Mem­ber Pro­file Per­sonal Web­site Books: Links listed above Twit­ter Facebook

**Editor’s Note** It is with great plea­sure that we share our third fea­tured mem­ber of Tiferet!  If you would like to be fea­tured you can click here and fill out the brief form. Intro­duc­ing David Ben­nett David is author of “,” a pub­lic speaker on Tele­vi­sion, Radio and lec­tures across the nation, and leader of the Upstate New York IANDS. He facil­i­tates a shar­ing group for Spir­i­tu­ally Trans­for­ma­tive Expe­ri­encers (STErs) and writes a reg­u­lar col­umn about STE issues for the cen­tral NY news­pa­per “Meta­phys­i­cal Times.” Recently started writ­ing a bi-weekly blog based on daily reflec­tions posted on his FB fan Page Dhar­maTalks. David had three trans­for­ma­tive expe­ri­ences; in 1983 he drowned and had a NDE while the Chief Engi­neer of the ocean research ves­sel Aloha. He expe­ri­enced a Trans­for­ma­tive Expe­ri­ences in 1994 when he was med­i­tat­ing in Sedona AZ. The third expe­ri­ence occurred Novem­ber 2000, when David was diag­nosed with stage IV lung can­cer that metas­ta­sized into his spine caus­ing its col­lapse. Now in remis­sion and retired/disabled David’s pas­sion includes work­ing with expe­ri­encers and can­cer sur­vivors inte­grate their expe­ri­ences along with writ­ing. We invite you to con­nect with David and read some of his posts on Tiferet. Tiferet Mem­ber Pro­file Dharma Talks Web­site Voy­age Read the Rest…

**Editor’s Note** It is with great plea­sure that we share our sec­ond fea­tured mem­ber of Tiferet!  If you would like to be fea­tured you can click here and fill out the brief form. Intro­duc­ing Kathy Kot­taras I am orig­i­nally from Chicago, Illi­nois, and I cur­rently live in the Los Ange­les area. Since com­plet­ing my M.A. in Eng­lish at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Irvine, I have been  teach­ing writ­ing and yoga in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Before becom­ing a mom, I taught high school Eng­lish for nearly seven years, dur­ing which time I received the 2004 Bravo Award for Excel­lence in Teach­ing from the Los Ange­les Music Cen­ter. I have been hon­ored by hav­ing my work included in sev­eral pub­li­ca­tions. I was a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to the print and blog edi­tions of edi­ble Los Ange­les, and I also have work pub­lished in The Edith Whar­ton Review, ReadWriteThink.org, YES! Mag­a­zine, Tiferet: A Jour­nal of Spir­i­tual Lit­er­a­ture, and the anthol­ogy Mamas and Papas: On the Sub­lime and Heart­break­ing Art of Par­ent­ing, pub­lished by City Works Press. I am deeply inter­ested in the link between the con­tem­pla­tive and spir­i­tual prac­tices of yoga and med­i­ta­tion and the writ­ing process, and how we move our words to express these per­sonal Read the Rest…

**Editor’s Note** It is with great plea­sure that we share our first fea­tured mem­ber of Tiferet!  If you would like to be fea­tured you can click here and fill out the brief form. As I was work­ing out the details of this first post I thought I’d also ask Nancy if she had a photo or quote that rep­re­sented her def­i­n­i­tion of “bal­ance”. Below is the photo she shared is one she did in the 80’s that still rep­re­sents her idea of inner bal­ance. “Por­tal” Find­ing the ‘still-point’ of inner bal­ance in a tur­bu­lent world. by Nancy Wait, oil on can­vas, 36“x28” (1988)   Nancy Wait | Artist, Author, Actress, Radio Host Nancy lives in New York City. In 2011 she pub­lished her first mem­oir, , and is cur­rently work­ing on a follow-up book. Her first career was that of an actress in Eng­land in the 1970s (as Nan­cie Wait), and after a spir­i­tual awak­en­ing in 1976 she shifted over to paint­ing. In 1987, when the ener­gies changed again, she began to study writ­ing, as she was now being guided to write about her life and the trans­for­ma­tional jour­ney she expe­ri­enced through paint­ing her inner life. Since 2009 she has been shar­ing Read the Rest…