My journey with Core Energetics started in February of 2002, when I had a spiritual awakening during a workshop that was so powerful, it took me 2.5 years of intense work on myself just to understand what had happened. Had I just been a witness to someone else’s process, I would have been more able to think of it as just weird, strange and kinda crazy. But because it was happening to me, in my own body, I could not discount it, I couldn’t keep running from it, and had to find out more.

Up until that moment my adult life had been filled with monumental outlandish successes, all unconsciously designed to keep me from feeling powerful feelings of fear, pain and powerlessness that I kept hidden deep inside. The cost of holding back all these feelings was at the root of so much suffering in my life, and struggles in my relationships.

Jana began her career as a screenwriter and television producer, and won numerous awards for her work, including an international Emmy. She created several television series, including Being Erica, which ran for four years on the CBC, and ultimately led her to discover Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics. Jana completed her training at the Core Energetics Institute in New York, and for the past eight years, has facilitated weekly groups and workshops in Toronto and Los Angeles on topics including sex and attraction, the shadow, boundaries and relationships. In addition to her private practice, Jana is the Director of the 4 year Metamorphosis Core Energetics Practitioner Training program held in Massachusetts. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.

My goal is to guide and support individuals on their journey toward discovering their inner divinity, just as my teachers have done for me. I am a trained Core Energetics practitioner with a postgraduate degree in Core Energetics and Integrative Body Psychotherapy. I have also been certified in Trauma Release through the CoreEvolution Institute and hold international certificates in various coaching fields such as Life Coaching, Executive Coaching, Ontological Coaching, Team Coaching, and Project Coaching.

With over 15 years of experience in private practice, I have led individual and group supervision processes, workshops, courses, and conferences in various forums and countries. I collaborate with Corpore México by leading supervision groups and teaching workshops. I also work with the Metamorphosis Core Energetics Training and the Montreal Institute of Core Energetics Institute in several of its programs.

Warren is the former Executive Director of the New York Institute of Core Energetics and has been doing Core for nearly 3 decades. Residing in Vail, Colorado, he maintains a diverse, full-time practice and travels internationally, teaching and facilitating workshops. He is passionate about working with clients and groups to assist them in experiencing themselves more completely and authentically in their everyday lives. While beginning his psychotherapeutic career as a more traditional talk therapist, Warren has turned his attention to the body-centered modalities and the developments that have manifested from the advances in neuroscience and trauma release therapies. The basis of his work has been in Core Energetics principles, and he brings the fullness of his personal and professional experience to his colleagues, clients and students. Warren provides a deeply grounded and heart centered perspective.

Sherri is a senior faculty member at the New York Institute of Core Energetics and previously co-facilitated the Nyack Living Core program. She operates a full-time practice in NYC, working with individuals, couples, and facilitating group process. Sherri’s work is primarily concerned with helping people to live the fullest expression of themselves, assisting her clients to step into the power that comes from knowing their purpose. Sherri’s training came as an inaugural graduate of the Radical Aliveness Core Energetics Institute of California and she serves on their faculty. 

Sara attended the Radical Aliveness Institute for 2 years, has a BA in Psychology, and is a Core Energetics Certified Practitioner, from the New York Institute of Core Energetics. Sara has a private practice in Toronto, Canada, where she holds weekly groups, one-on-one sessions, and co-facilitates weekend workshops. She has been a guest teacher in the Montreal Living Core Program and assistant teacher with MICE for since 2023. She took on the added role of Administrative Coordinator for MICE in 2024.  Sara’s passion is to create body-based, experiential community for her clients in a welcoming and supportive way.

Brian Gleason is the co-founder, director, trainer and developer of Exceptional Marriage. Brian has over 40 years of experience in working with organizations, groups, couples, and individuals in a variety of mental health, corporate, wellness, and educational settings. Over the past two decades Brian pursued his education and personal growth through a wide range of experiences. He received a certification as a Master Hypnotherapist in the California Institute for Hypnotherapy. Additionally, he completed a six-month intensive relationship training, studying with psychologist Dr. John Gray, bestselling author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Brian also studied family therapy at the Ackerman Institute. Then, in 1991 Brian began a five-year certification process as a Core Energetic Practitioner from the Institute of Core Energetics in New York City. This body-centered psychotherapy training became an essential component in the development of Exceptional Marriage, as Brian brought together talk therapy, somatic therapy and spirituality.

Brian is a senior faculty member of the N.Y. Institute of Core Energetics and Radical Aliveness Institute in Los Angeles, California. He teaches internationally and is author of a book on transpersonal psychology – Mortal Spirit. Brian also enjoys a thriving private practice for individuals, groups and couples as well as providing supervision for therapists.