Great schools and training programs offer learning opportunities that go far beyond the syllabus. We asked some amazing folks from the community to share stories from their educational journey with us.

Krissy Bautista

Currently, I am in the second quarter of the masters program at the Academy of Intuition Medicine. I enrolled at the Academy about 18 months ago and I will graduate in July of 2024. Of all the formal trainings that I have gone through, my journey in this school has been my most profound experience. Read more>>

Kat Novotna

The best thing about being trained as a certified EcoNIDRA™ teacher is that the training itself is an immersion into this deeply relaxing practice that resets your own nervous system and helps you reconnect with your inner nature and the rest of our planet. Read more>>

The Ema

It wasn’t until early 2013 that I learned of the training that would begin to bring it all together for me. Convinced that I needed to shake up whatever pattern kept me arriving at the same conclusion in life, I started making bold moves like packing up my car & moving from Charlotte to Los Angeles like I’d always wanted. Word of the moves I was making made its way to my old pal Overton Loyd who I knew from my college days of working with George Clinton & P-Funk. He introduced me to a program he’d taken in the 70s that led to breakthrough that initiated his working with George. Read more>>

Mark Hancock

I did my 3 year residency in Family Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was in many ways the perfect program for me. The hardest part of the entire training was the first 2 months on inpatient wards. We worked in a multi-layered team. There was the team of medical students, the residents and interns, and the attending physicians. I started out so slow and out of place- learning the system took a lot of time for me. I appreciated that the rest of my team was not impatient, but I still felt like I didn’t understand how it all worked. We would start very early in the morning around 5am doing “pre-rounds” where I would gather the vitals, med changes, new orders, overnight report from the nurses, and do an examine and speak with the 3-5 patients I was responsible for. Read more>>