PRESENTERS

Devotion
www.devotionsings.com

Devotion is a dynamic vocal duo from Colorado whose rich harmonies lift the heart, revive the spirit, and capture the imagination. Robert Anderson has composed a #1 hit song and Lori Sandstrom is an International Peacemaker Institute graduate. Together as Devotion, they showcase their refreshingly original blend of pop, rhythm and blues, and inspirational music at progressive spiritual centers, retreats, conferences, youth gatherings and special events across the country. Their highly-praised recordings "We Are Healing" and "Intention", and "Do All You Can" are acclaimed as, "Conscious music at it's finest!"

Dana Clark

Singer/songwriter Dana Clark has served for five years as Music Director at the Unity Church of San Antonio. She teaches private lessons in piano, flute, guitar, voice, and songwriting. Her workshops are based on the idea that music making is an essential and natural part of the human experience, not the exclusive privilege of those with special talents.

Rev. Beth Boilott

Since January 2006 Beth is the spiritual Leader at Unity Church in beautiful Gulf Breeze Florida. She moved there from Nashville, Tennessee to fulfill her dream of becoming an ordained Unity minister. She has more than fifteen years experience working in the field of addictions. Prior to ministry she has written and directed substance abuse treatment and prevention programs for The Leonard Bernstein Center for the Arts, The Tennessee state Bureau of alcohol and drug abuse services, and Renewal House. She is a workshop/retreat facilitator on both national and local levels. She writes and performs songs and plays affirming the goodness of life.

Shannon Modrell
www.shannonmodrell.com

Shannon frequently speaks and sings in Sunday services, conferences, and private settings in Houston and across the USA in addition to offering workshops on Singing Meditation, The Harmonics of Sound Color and Vibration, and various meditation exercises. She has served as vocalist and music director for Religious Science and Unity churches and featured performer for Wednesday night services at the First Church of Divine Science, in Houston Texas. Currently she serves as Artist-in-Residence for Unity Circle of Light and is the featured vocalist for the West Houston Theosophical Society. She is also the Founder of the New Thought Music Alliance, a national networking, education, and support organization dedicated to expanding New Thought Music.

PRODUCERS

Dale Worley
www.asacredplace.net

Dale Worley has twelve years experience studying, teaching and living the principles of New Thought. Dale began singing and playing the piano around the age of eight, and with influences as varied as Ray Charles, Elton John and Elvis Presley, he can "rock the house" as well as create a meditative and sacred mood with his music. He most recently served for two years as a member of the SpiritPath retreat team at Unity Village. Dale has been a traveling spiritual leader since 2001, and today he continues that work, bringing weekend retreats, an alternative worship experience called AWE, and his unique style of music to churches across the country.

Kathy Scott Perry

Kathy Scott Perry is the local sponsor of the retreat. She has been in television, sales, marketing and was a successful business entrepreneur. She has a vast background in planning, promoting and participating in conferences involving personal growth, wellness and spirituality. She was the producer of her own "Inspiration Connection", a spiritual networking group in Austin, TX. She has been an integral part of the Whole Life Expos, the International Lightworkers Conferences and the International Wellness Conference, among others. She has been instrumental in the startup of two Unity Churches and is the past Director of Events at Unity of Wimberley, where she brought in Marianne Williamson, Joe Vitale and hosted a number of other speakers and events. She has her own business called "The Motivation Muse", in which she promotes motivational and inspirational authors, speakers and musicians. She is the co-producer of the "Awakening World" Conferences which will be held in San Marcos, Texas and Phoenix in 2009 and will subsequently be held in major cities throughout the U.S. It is her greatest desire to inspire and motivate people to achieve their greatest heights of personal achievement and spiritual growth.

HOUSE BAND

Kevin Lewis, Bass

Kevin Lewis has performed and recorded on both bass and guitar for over three decades. Owing to his well-trained ear and his musical intuition, he is one of those rare musicians who is able to play anything with anybody and make it sound good, even without rehearsal. Each night of Spirit Sharing at the 2007 Sound Connections Music Conference in Unity Village he was part of the rhythm section, backing up a steady stream of individual performers as they each played a song. He teaches bass and guitar, and plays with the house band at the Unity Church of San Antonio.