Sonya Haramis, M.Ed., is a spiritual storyteller.  He Modern Greek myth, The Circle of Olympians won the National Best Books Awards 2007 for Mythology/Folklore, and was an Award Finalist in Visionary Fiction.  She is currently shopping the film version of The Circle of Olympians, and is working on her book of spiritual stories for children, which illustrates her belief in angels, magic, love, Heaven, and miracles for young readers.

Ms. Haramis is a Shodan/Black Belt in Aikido, a spiritual martial art of harmony and peace, practices Reiki, and holds a master's degree in counseling psychology from Boston University and a bachelor's degree from Boston College.

Sonya Haramis is also the author of Gracious Gifts...Expressions of the Divine, a book of inspirational parables endorsed by Deepak Chopra, James Redfield, Dr. John Gray, Midwest Book Review and others.

“…Sonya Haramis will establish herself as one of the great spiritual storytellers of our time…” Liz Illgen for New Age Retailer.

Learn more about Sonya at http://www.peaceofthedreamer.com. 

Monterey County Weekly Aritcle about Sonya. 

"Marina woman finds inspiration in martial arts." Read more

June 12, 2008 Press Release - Sonya Haramis, M.Ed., won three awards in the 2008 National Indie Excellence Awards

To be announced

Tuesday September 2, 2008 - at 4pm Pacific - 7pm Eastern

Dom DeLuise, beloved comedian, actor, chef and author, will join Sedona Talk Radio hosts Sonya Haramis and Joanna Paxinou in a special show on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm (PST), 7:00 pm (EST). Dom will be interviewed by Sonya, host of KEEPING THE PATH LIT, and Joanna who hosts AT THE MOVIES WITH JOANNA on www.sedonatalkradio.com.

In a warm, delightful interview, Dom will discuss his book, EAT THIS…AGAIN IT’LL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER!, share his love of cooking and food, his friendships with celebrities, as well as loving family memories of growing up in Brooklyn and his mother’s favorite recipes, who in trying times would say, “Eat this…you’ll feel better.”

The interview will be archived on Sedona Talk Radio, which is partnered with Blog Talk Radio that has about 3.3 million listeners per month.

Dom, a 12-year veteran of THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW and many film roles, including Mel Brooks comedies BLAZING SADDLES and SPACEBALLS and co-starring with his good friend, Burt Reynolds, in several movies, including Dom’s favorite THE END. Dom, also an author of children’s books, THE POUCH POTATO and NO PLACE LIKE HOME, is busy finishing his latest book, PIZZA ANYONE?  www.bookmasters.com

Click here to view a You Tube Video for the appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Dom talks about this show during the interview.

Dom also hosts his own radio cooking segment every Saturday on the syndicated show ON THE HOUSE with the Carey Brothers. Visit www.domdeluise.com for more information.

Get ready to laugh!

Listen: 

Friday August 1, 2008 - at 2PM Pacific

Marc Allen, Publisher of New World Library, Author, Musician
   

Sonya interviews Marc Allen, internationally renowned author and president of New World Library, publisher of Eckhart Tolle, Shakti Gawain, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra. Marc’s latest book, The Greatest Secret of All, explains the secret of creating the life you want, and the greater secrets of a life well lived making the world a better place.

Marc’s new 12-week mentoring program based on his bestselling Millionaire Course offering interactive group sessions, one-on-one coaching, and more.

Visit his websites at http://www.marcallen.com and http://www.newworldlibrary.com.

Saturday June 21, 2008 at 4pm

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will interview Leon and Phoenix of Sedona HeartWalk Center, http://www.sedonaheartwalk.com.

Listeners will be treated to a free mini Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) healing session! We will also discuss the vortex energy of Sedona, and learn about the different sacred services Sedona HeartWalk Center provides. Please join us and call in with your questions!

Leon: Co-Director and Facilitator of Fun and Informative Vortex Tours and Hikes - Leon is among the top 26 and the top 27 Master Instructors in the Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) healing modality for 2006 and 2007 respectively. IET works to release energy blocks that hinder us from living our energetic potential. This modality addresses the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of ourselves to raise our vibration to enable us to live in our Divine-Self…our joy!

Phoenix: Co-Director plus Angel Therapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist - Phoenix has worked with angels for most of her life, although she didn't realize that's who she was talking to. So it's very easy for her to teach you to talk to your angels and receive their guidance. Empowering you to be your own reader and channeler.even when you're not in Sedona.

May 8, 2008 - Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Sedona Workshops in June.

 
This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will interview Dan Millman, international speaker and best selling author of 13 books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, The Laws of Spirit, Everyday Enlightenment and No Ordinary Moments. His books, translated into 29 languages, have inspired and informed millions of people around the world.  And the feature film starring Nick Nolte, Peaceful Warrior, was adapted from Way of the Peaceful Warrior - www.peacefulwarrior.com.

Tune in to hear about Dan Millman's lectures and workshops at the Sedona Creative Center on Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21. Friday's presentation will be on A Peaceful Warrior's Way to Wellness where Dan will share his secrets based on universal laws and common sense that work for anyone interested in a realistic approach to achieving optimal wellness and vitality. Saturday's workshop will be on Living the Laws of Spirit-An Experience where Dan will show how anyone can apply key spiritual laws to achieve real-world outcomes in everyday life. For more information on theseworkshops, please see www.danmillman.com.

Tune in to listen to Sonya's interview of Dan Millman - who is the true Peaceful Warrior, as well as an outstanding and highly acclaimed author and leader in the spiritual world...a force who has been a hero to many and who still lives the Peaceful Warrior's Way.

April 22, 2008 - Sensei Danielle Smith

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will interview Sensei Danielle Smith, Dojo Cho (Chief Instructor) at Aikido of Monterey, (www.aikidomonterey.com ) in Monterey, CA.  

They will talk about Aikido, a martial art of non-resistance, which is often called the art of peace.  They will also discuss the journey toward inner peace, and how Aikido can help transform the world by transforming the lives of each practitioner on and off the mat, as well as the lives that practitioner touches. 

This is an exceptional and rare opportunity to listen to Sensei Danielle Smith, a master teacher (not only in Aikido, but in Life), whose teachings have transformed the lives of thousands of students all over the world.

March 20, 2008 - The Spring Equinox

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will talk about the Spring Equinox, the labyrinth as a way of experiencing the equinox as well as a way of journeying to one's center, Lent as a time of meditation and spiritual commitment, and the various holidays and celebrations that take place during this time of year. Please join her to welcome in Spring!

February 21, 2008 

January 24, 2008 

January 10, 2008 

New Year's Celebrations Around the World  

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will talk about how different cultures around the world welcome in the new year, and clear out the energy of the old year. She'll talk about simple ways we can embrace some of these traditions to celebrate the new things in our lives, and ways to focus on these things in the coming year ahead. Happy New Year everyone!

December 25, 2008

The Christmas Bird

This week on Keeping the Path Lit Sonya will read a special Christmas story, The Christmas Bird, written especially for her listeners. The Christmas Bird is a heartwarming, magical tale of rebirth, peace, hope, and healing.

January 13, 2008

Michele Reese, Honoring the Body as a Temple"?

This week on Keeping the Path Lit Sonya will interview Michele Reese, a health consultant and nutrition educator.  They will discuss how important it is to nurture oneself with healthy eating and lifestyle habits that support well-being.  It has been said that the body is a temple, and Sonya and Michele will discuss nutritional ways in which to honor it as such. 

Michele has devoted 23 years to the study of health, fitness and whole food nutrition and has a BS degree in Natural Healing & Holistic Nutrition.

November 29, 2007

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will talk about elders and how they inform our lives, live within us, and are needed in the world today, especially in its leadership. 

She will touch on various cultures which actively honor and seek the wisdom and guidance of its elders and what we can learn from them.

November 15, 2007

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will continue to talk about The Song of the Soul and how it manifests (or doesn't) in daily life. 
 
On today's program Sonya will continue to talk about the Song of the Soul and how it manifests in our daily lives. She will also talk about gratitude as we move into the holiday season, and how it can put us into the same space as the song of our soul.

November 1, 2007

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will talk about The Song of the Soul and how it manifests (or doesn't) in daily life. 

Poets, philosophers, artists, and musicians, all knew and know the importance of giving life to the song of the soul and we'll talk about ways we can bring it into our daily lives.  The Song of the Soul is the highest and holiest part of ourselves that seeks expression through our lives.  We are unique and so is the song of our soul.

October 18, 2007

Sonya discusses how sacred spaces and places can transform our lives and transform us if we are open to them. 

Sacred places can even be in our homes – an altar, special room, etc.  Time seems to shift when we remove ourselves from our routines…sacred places can create passages and thresholds for us.  A sacred space is like a new mirror for us to see ourselves and remind us what we are a part of.”

October 4, 2007

Meditations from Around the World Keeping the Path Lit

This week on Keeping the Path Lit, Sonya will talk about different meditations from around the world, as a way one can keep the path lit for oneself.

Meditation can be as simple as breathing mindfully for a few minutes every day, simply listening to beautiful music or sounds of nature, or it can be a more in-depth, formal practice.  Meditation is a way to part the veil between Heaven and Earth and can transform one's life.

September 20, 2007

This week on Keeping the Path Lit Sonya will interview Andrea Mikana-Pinkham, Director of Sacred Journeys, Body Mind Spirit Journeys, based in Sedona, AZ.

Sacred travel, and how it can be a doorway to other worlds and personal transformation will be the topic of this week's episode.

Andrea Mikana-Pinkham is the Director of the Sacred Journeys division of Body Mind Spirit Journeys, an innovator and leader in the field of  sacred travel. She brings over 14 years of experience in this field to her position. Her familiarity with all the operations of the tour programs enables her to guide each traveler to the "special" Sacred Journey that will meet his or her spiritual travel needs. She is a Featured Speaker and Tour Hostess on BMSJ's Sacred Journeys Egypt, England, Greece, Ireland, Peru, Sedona AZ, and Scotland. With her extensive background in the holistic healing and personal growth fields, Andrea supports participants to connect with the powerful transformational energies of the sacred sites, as well as their own Inner Wisdom.

Andrea an avid practitioner of the Goddess Tradition, a trained shamanic practitioner, Reiki Grand Master of the Ichi Sekai (One World) Reiki System of Natural Healing, and a spiritual counselor. She has been a conscious channel since 1987, bringing through the energy of the Kumaras. With her husband, Mark Amaru Pinkham, she teaches and facilitates classes, seminars and healing retreats in The Seven Rays of Healing School. Andrea has studied with North and South American Elders. She has led over 25 Sacred Journeys to Peru since 1994, and is a Mesa Carrier and a Practitioner of the Inca Spiritual Tradition. Andrea is a Lady Knight Templar and the North American Grand Prioress of The International Order of Gnostic Templars, a modern-day spiritual Templar Order dedicated to the revival of the Goddess Tradition and Gnostic Wisdom.

For more information about Andrea and her work, visit:

http://www.bodymindspiritjourneys.com/foursectorssacredjourneys.htm
 
http://www.gnostictemplars.org
 
http://www.serpentsofwisdom.com
 
Check out Body Mind Spirit Journey's blog with Andrea and her husband author Mark Amaru Pinkham at http://www.bmsjourneys.blogspot.com.

September 5, 2007

This week on Keeping the Path Lit Sonya will include readings from her books, some good news, an acknowledgment about the fires in Greece and provide an address if people want to make donations to support the victims of those fires. 

Sonya will also sell a handful of books and donate all proceeds to the same fund.   She will wrap up with how what affects one of us affects all of us and end on a positive note.

August 23, 2007

Sonya Talks with Marie Herbert

Join Sonya Haramis this week on "Keeping the Path Lit" as she interviews Marie Herbert, author, guide in personal growth/development and in wilderness rites of passage. Marie will also talk about her husband, the late Sir Wally Herbert, a world-renowned explorer who was the first to make a surface crossing of the Artic Ocean, and who was guided by his dreams. Join Sonya and Marie as they discuss how we keep the path lit by loving life and ourselves, by listening to our inner voice and extending our boundaries.

Marie Herbert is an author, guide in personal growth and development, and in wilderness rites of passage. Marie has lived with peoples all over the world including the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland, the Sami, and Native American medicine people. She brings the wisdom and experience gleaned from a lifetime's travel to helping people know themselves, discover their gifts and purpose, and to choose a path in line with their greatest destiny. She shows people how their inner and outer worlds relate, and how we may approach nature to find the answers to our deepest questions.

MARIE HERBERT was born in Dublin, brought up in Sri Lanka, and educated in South India. After three years at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London, and two years teaching English & Drama, she joined the P.R. company of Prince Uri Galitzine as a researcher. It was there, in 1968, that Marie met her future husband, polar explorer, Wally Herbert (now Sir Wally), just a few weeks before he set off on his historic journey by dog sledge across the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole - and they were married on Christmas Eve 1969, shortly after his return.

So began Marie's remarkable career as a traveller and writer. In August 1971 with her husband and their ten-month old daughter, Kari, the first of two, she went to live for two years among the northernmost tribe of Inuit, the Polar Eskimos, an adventure that prompted her first book, 'The Snow People'. Thirty-five years later, Marie is still receiving fan mail from readers of this book!

This was followed by a winter living among the Sami - the Reindeer Lapps - during which she joined the nomads on their spring migration from the mountains to the coast. Several more trips to Greenland, as well as research trips to Denmark, Greece, Australia, Zimbabwe and the Himalayas gave her more book material, and inspired her passion for the exploration of Ancient Wisdom and the unfolding of human potential.

Her first novel, 'Winter Of The White Seal' which is set in the Antarctic, at the time of its discovery by the sealer, has been translated into nine languages. 'Healing Quest' chronicles her 'transformational' journey among the Native Americans in New Mexico after the death of her younger daughter Pascale, and it has been described by Bel Mooney as a book that has resonances for everyone. 'It is one of the wisest and most moving accounts of a personal bereavement I have ever read, and a book that will encourage those who feel their lives to be generally without direction'. More recently Marie has been working on The Journey of Life – a book based on the medicine wheel teachings; a second novel; and The Way of the Explorer –a tribute to her husband Sir Wally which she hopes will inspire others to explore more of their world and their natural gifts and talents.

August 9, 2007

Sonya is welcomed by Daniel Stief, Creator of Sedona Talk Radio. They have a conversation about Sonya's New Talk Show, her life and her books.

Sonya Haramis is a spiritual storyteller. "I've been blessed with this gift," she says. In her new book Gracious Gifts...Expressions of the Divine, Sonya shares her gift with the world.

"I've always felt close to Spirit, but kept these writings private until this book," Sonya explains. Gracious Gifts began as personal meditations. She never intended to share these private meditations and writings until she was led to read them to a family member, who was speechless after Sonya read them to her. Then Sonya read the same chapter to a dear friend and he was speechless. "I then realized I was supposed to share what I had written, and not keep it private," says Sonya.