Speaker Categories: Practitioners

Amanda Xu

Practitioner, OCTAVE Living

Amanda Xu is a seasoned yoga instructor and wellness guide whose journey began in 2009. After years of teaching, managing a yoga studio, and returning to deeper self-practice, she expanded her exploration into the realms of traditional Chinese wisdom, Buddhist philosophy, and Taoist techniques. Since 2016, Amanda has immersed herself in a variety of integrative mind-body-spirit modalities, including sound therapy, breathwork, water dance therapy, and Reiki.

Her path is rooted in the belief that inward exploration is essential in today’s fast-paced world. With a gentle yet grounded approach, Amanda weaves together movement, traditional practices, sound bowl and gong resonance, and energetic healing to help others return to presence and inner alignment.

Amanda invites participants into a shared journey of reflection, embodiment, and self-discovery – empowering individuals to reconnect with their inner worlds through the harmonizing power of breath, movement, and sound.

Asil Toksal

Chairman and Co-Founder, Evolution One

Asil receives and transmits transformational energy and spoken wisdom from higher and non-dual sources of consciousness. This benevolent energy and wisdom is an unconditional gift intended to support humanity’s evolution.

Like many initiates drawn to the spiritual path, Asil’s journey began with the realization that the life he was living lacked meaning and purpose. Although he had reached a high level of professional success, he found himself unsatisfied and depressed. He began to question the meaning of life and existence, which spurred his journey of spiritual discovery.

After nearly two decades of spiritual dedication, six years ago his connection to higher forms of consciousness opened. Through this connection he found a deeper sense of self which led to the inner peace and fulfillment he always felt was possible. He has continued to personally transform, heal, and move into greater alignment. The natural extension of this state of being became his service to humanity.

A non-profit organization was established to support this mission. A team of visionaries came together. A flourishing community formed organically. Events and training programs were developed to support the individual’s journey towards self-realization.

As a result of these offerings, thousands of people have dedicated their lives to becoming “Pillars of Light” and living a life of greater alignment and service.

Asil continues to serve in his role as a conduit of wisdom and energy as well as the visionary spiritual Program Director of Evolution One.

László Kőrösi

Co-Founder, Way of Sound

László Kőrösi is a 20th generation Chen style taijiquan lineage holder and Co-founder of Way of Sound. He has a background in Engineering and Economics.

He is a researcher of internal cultivation practices and their relationship to embodiment and cognition of space.

He has extensively travelled in China, India and Nepal and studied with renowned teachers of various traditions, completing several long-term retreats. He also is a practitioner of yoga in the Himalayan Yoga Tradition.

With a lifelong dedication to understanding how consciousness expresses itself in the mind-body field, he brings decades of experience to his work. By weaving together the wisdom of eastern traditions with western perspectives, he seeks to illuminate a deeper, more intergrated understanding of theory and practice.

He is leading seminars, workshops, and consulting retreat centers internationally.

Susanna Eduini

Practitioner, OCTAVE Living

Susanna Eduini is a Breathwork Master Trainer with over 25 years of experience guiding individuals toward self-actualization through the power of breath and conscious living. Originally from Italy and now based in Phuket, she is also a certified Neuro-Semantic Coach specializing in executive and career development, blending neuroscience with ancient wisdom to unlock human potential.

Susanna’s unique methodology weaves together breathwork, NLP, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, and storytelling traditions from mythology and anthropology. Her integrative approach reveals how thoughts, emotions, and intentional choices shape the architecture of well-being. A graduate of Yale’s Science of Well-Being and Happiness program, she brings both rigor and heart to her teaching.

Susanna will offer a journey into conscious breathing as a catalyst for clarity, creativity, and transformation-empowering participants to align mind, body, and spirit for meaningful change.

Christel Caputo

Executive Director and Co-Founder, Evolution One

Christel Caputo is a multi-faceted soulful leader and catalyst for conscious transformation. With over two decades of entrepreneurial and executive experience, she blends grounded operational leadership with a devotion to inner alignment and divine possibility.

As Executive Director of Evolution One, Christel weaves together the systems, people, and practices that keep the organization flowing in alignment with its mission—guiding teams across the U.S., Central America, and Europe and supporting a global community of over 4,500 members.

Her leadership is anchored in strength—the kind that comes from deep internal alignment and trust in one’s inner knowing. Through the lens of exploration, she supports individuals and organizations in navigating change with curiosity and purpose. Whether holding space in meditation practices or guiding global teams, Christel serves as a catalyzer—sparking connection between the inner and outer worlds through embodied presence and intentional action.

Her work invites transformation from the inside out. She brings the essence of the Divine Feminine into every space—holding space for wisdom, alignment, and potential to unfold in people and power places on Earth.

Eren Akaln

Director and Co-Founder, Way of Sound

Eren comes from a distinguished lineage of traditional healers, sufis, and pioneers of modern spiritualism. She holds an MA in Philosophy from The New School, NYC.

Beginning in 1991, she hosted a long running weekly radio program and led a series of conferences in Istanbul exploring the nature of consciousness, mind, and matter. In the early 2000s, personal health challenges led her to Traditional Chinese Medicine and qigong, eventually taking her to Wudang Mountain in China, where she began intensive training of internal gong fu.

Since 2012, she has been researching the effects of sound and vibration on the body-mind and now runs her own sound healing practice.

With decades of experience immersed in the spiritual and healing traditions of China, India, and Nepal, Eren teaches internal cultivation methods, female qigong, and sound-based healing. Her approach blends traditional lineages with modern scientific insight. She also works as an independent consultant to retreat centers worldwide, developing wellness programs, designing healing environments, and training wellness teams.