Facilitators

Avikal E. Costantino
Avikal is a spiritual teacher. Curiosity, passion and love for the truth guide
his teaching and are transmitted in a clear and focused way. He is the
founder and director of the Integral Being Institute active in Europe, Asia and
Australia.
He has worked with people since 1968, initially as a social/political activist and an anthropologist and later as a Martial Arts teacher and a Shiatsu practitioner and healer. Since 1992 he leads Zen Self-inquiry retreats around the world and has been a Senior Teacher of the Diamond Logos from 1997 to 2007. For the last 10 years he has also been involved with corporations in fields like: leadership, conflict resolution, self-management, resilience and collective intelligence. Avikal is also a poet and a writer. [read detailed biograhpy]

Jayana McMahon
Jayana has worked with people since 1998. Initially trained in Kinesiology, Biofeedback Clearing, Emotional Stress Release and Massage, she later studied Facial Harmony at the Kinesiology Institute in Germany. She is also a qualified Trainer, adding to this dimension Bush Survival and Self Defense with S.A.T.S. (Special Abilities Training School) in Queensland. Jayana has staffed on Satori Zen residential retreats with founder of Integral Being Institute, Avikal Costantino, for the past 5 years. She facilitates workshops on the Superego (Inner Judge), as well as individual sessions of self-enquiry. Jayana brings a rich life history and warm approachable manner to her articulation of the deeper issues of our personality and spirit. Trained to lead the Awareness Intensive -Who is in? retreat.

Anna Leela McDonald
Leela has been a professional violinist with an international reputation since 1992. For the past seven years, she has been intensely involved in her spiritual path, including Satori retreat, Essence work, Enneagram exploration and working with the Superego. She completed her Inner Judge training with Avikal at the Integral Being Institute in 2006. She now gives sessions and group workshops on the Inner Judge. In addition, for musicians she gives 'lessons' where alongside technical and musical development, enquiry is brought to where the superego is limiting further growth. Trained to lead the Awareness Intensive -Who is in? retreat.

Mark Gleeson
Mark has been interested in personal growth and human potential since his late teens. Initially interested in Sport Psychology, Mark studied Physical Education, Psychology and Clinical Hypnosis at University, before completing practitioner training in Feldenkrais, Neo-Reichian Breathwork and trainer training in NLP. Mark started doing Satori retreats in 1999 and has continued his self exploration with Integral Being retreats and programs including the ‘Who is In?’ and superego training programs. One of Mark’s interests is to incorporate these trainings into therapist training and the corporate world, where he currently works in consulting, executive coaching and facilitation in a national consulting firm in Canberra, Australia.