Yogiraj Charles Bates Vv Bates Dr. Surya Pierce Ryan Kelly Roger Sams Apryl Electra
10th Dot Founder, Yogiraj Charles Bates
Steeped in both modern and ancient systems thinking, Yogiraj Charles is a rarity in that he is a yogi-adept with 40 years of study with his teacher, HH Swami Rama, and an executive with 30 years utilizing his specialty training in Gestalt Theory, Transactional Analysis, Neuro-linguistic Programming and several more organizational development methodologies. He has served as adjunct faculty at St. Catherine's College and The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
His first book, Ransoming the Mind: The Integration of Yoga and Modern Therapy introduced a revolutionary approach to the use of yoga in institutional psychiatric interventions and drug addiction. In the late 80's, his second book, Pigs Eat Wolves: Going into Partnership with Your Darkside, brought him invitations to work at the highest executive levels in the communications and banking industries when the largest organizations at that time faced dismantlement or complete systemic transformation. His effectiveness was paramount in the latter scenarios emergence.
Yogiraj Charles' quest to understand the inward and outward sciences of humanity directed him to take a seven year sabbatical in 2001, focusing on his own leadership preparation. His deep study of human anatomy, the psyche, global history and the realms reached in meditation have readied him to direct others in conditioning their own collaborative leadership tactics.
10th Dot serves as a learning field founded upon and enriched by his vast knowledge and practical experience. Yogiraj Charles prepares leaders of the 21st Century to FutureProof their organizations as he does the same with the 10th Dot Enterprise. He is writing his next book, The Reinvention of Civilization.
10th Dot CEO, Vonda Vaden Bates (Vv)
Vonda is heading up 10th Dot using its methodologies to build the 10th Dot Enterprise. She collaborates with clients, investors, partners, staff, and vendors in ways that exhibit the models and leads endeavors that brings the 10th Dot vision to life; "You at your best... Your endeavors thriving."
Her extensive experience across industries enlivening endeavors with systems thinking, participant engagement strategies, recorded and live entertainment, leadership coaching and communication plans have uniquely prepared her to lead 10th Dot. Clients served represent fortune 500, for-benefit, state government, and individuals. You'll find her complete 20+ year vita on LinkedIn.
Since a little over a year after collaborator Marnita Schroedl suggested Vv and Yogiraj connect professionally, they have been boldly researching the nature of relating with integrity and intention. They married in 2009 and enthusiastically herald their merged family, four adult children, six grandchildren, as well as the 10th Dot team, collaborators and participants.
Faculty
10th Dot Instructor, Ryan Kelly
As an Olympic trained bike racer with nine years of experience teaching yoga, Ryan has come to
believe that two of the most important aspects to true happiness are mobility
and education. To live in a body that is comfortable and able, and to learn to
navigate the mind with compassion are major elements to living a life of
freedom and joy.
In her classes Ryan will integrate the philosophies of
Tantra with breathe linking movements of vinyasa. ″Tantra means to remove the dust and the dirt. Each asana,
or posture, has what is called a bhavana, or essence. By stringing postures
together in a mindful sequence we accomplish an energetic out come, or desired
e-motion. All the while
integrating the mind, the body, the breathe, the intellect, and the pure
potential that is your true nature.″
With a 780 hour massage therapy education, and two years
experience caring as Sougnier for professional mens cycling team, her understanding
of the gross anatomy of the physical body is well versed both in language and
in the hands of her body work.
Ryan completed a three month yoga training in the summer of
2001 in Koh Phangnon Thailand. The training began with a ten day silent
meditation retreat at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand and then continued with
study in asana, philosophy, anatomy, yoga therapy, and pranayama. Since that
time she has studied with many different renowned teaches, namely: Sean Corne,
Cindy Lee, Doug Swenson, Dharma Mittra, and Rod Stryker. She recently has been
introduced to her teacher, Yogiraj Charles Bates, a forty year disciple of Swami
Rama and today continues a more refined self study.
″They say that when a student is
ready, a teacher will appear. It is with great gratitude, humility, and service
that I am now at the feet of my teacher″.
10th Dot Physician, Dr. Surya Pierce
Dr. Surya Pierce is an integrative family
doctor who seeks health and healing in the broadest sense. A recent graduate of the
University of Wisconsin Family Medicine Residency, he is pursuing a
year of practice and study in affiliation with the UW′s Integrative Medicine
Program in Madison. Dr. Pierce grew up in the small town of Marine,
MN with clean water, fresh air, good food and an early introduction to
yogic practice. He attended Macalester College in St Paul where he majored
in psychology. During this period he began his formal training in
ashtanga yoga with Yogiraj Charles Bates. He became a ″non-traditional″
premed student in his senior year after returning from a semester abroad in the
Himalayas. He completed his premedical studies at Columbia University
while teaching hatha yoga and continuing training with Yogi Bua Swami. Dr.
Pierce′s interest in integrative medicine led him to medical school
and residency at UW, where he has been mentored by Dr. Dave Rakel. Recognizing the intrinsic healing capacity of
all living things, Surya′s calling is ″to partner individuals and
communities in support of natural spiritual awakening.″
10th Dot Instructor, Roger Sams
Roger Sams holds a Bachelor of Music from Bowling Green
State University and a Master of Arts in Music Education from Case Western
Reserve University.He is a
nationally recognized expert in the Orff Schulwerk approach to music and
movement education,presenting at
state, regional and national conferences for over twenty years. As a leader in
his profession, Roger is frequently published in music education journals and
has served on the National Board of Trustees of the American Orff Schulwerk
Association.He has been on the
faculty of teacher training courses at University of St. Thomas, University of
Wisconsin Eau Claire, University of Montana,University of Toledo, Akron University and Cleveland State
University.He has been on
the music faculty at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio since 1998,
creating one of the most respected Orff Schulwerk programs in the country.
A graduate of the Gestalt Training Program at the Gestalt Institute of
Cleveland,Roger sought out
a fusion of his Gestalt training with his spiritual practices and began
studying with Yogiraj Charles Bates in 2000 and is a graduate of The Ashram
Project.He fuses his
background in music and movement education,movement meditation, Gestalt processes and yogic philosophy
through Transformational Movement,his own unique approach to holding sacred space for personal and
spiritual growth.He
is the Co-Founder and Spiritual Director of the Sacred Arts Holistic Center in
Cleveland.
Staff
10th
Dot Chef, Apryl Electra
Apryl Electra has been practicing a living foods lifestyle and coaching others since 2007. She discovered raw foods in 2005 while researching ways to manage chronic pain and also in hopes of finding better vegan nutrition while avoiding common allergens like wheat, soy and corn. In 2009 she began making delicious live, vegan gourmet for 10th Dot. She believes good energy comes from living food and the love put into the creation of a meal.
Her company raw.raw.raw. was founded in February, 2010 and aims to bring the knowledge and benefits of living food into the lives of those ready for it's amazing power. Check out her blog too.
Apryl is also an accomplished recording artist, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist as well as a certified yoga instructor. She has been writing music since age six and playing live shows since the age of 16.
Her yoga journey began in 1998 and led to her certification in 2004. She has taught privately and professionally.
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