Jeremy Smith is a part-time massage practitioner in Berea, Kentucky. He holds a master’s degree in mental health counseling from Eastern Kentucky University and now investigates issues of mind-body connectedness.

Alan Fogel, PhD, is a Rosen Method bodywork practitioner, a licensed massage therapist, and a professor of psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He has been an active contributor to research on nonverbal communication, especially between infants and parents, for the past 35 years. He is the author of The Psychophysiology of Self-Awareness: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Body Sense (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) and writes a blog on body sense for Psychology Today magazine (www.psychologytoday.com/blog/body-sense). Fogel is also founding editor of the Rosen Method International Journal (www.rosenjournal.org).

Maracie Wilson, MSN, RN, PHN, CES, is the director for Wellness and Health Improvement at St. Joseph Health System. In her role as a champion of population health management and wellness innovation, she is helping to lead employees, patients, and communities toward self-engagement in proactive prevention and health. As an experienced clinician certified in public health nursing and clinical exercise, Wilson has broad experience, ranging from critical care to wellness.

Tracy Walton, LMT, MS, is a researcher, writer, award-winning educator, and specialist in massage therapy and cancer care. She is a dynamic voice for the power of touch and appears in the film Touch, Caring, and Cancer, an inspiring instructional program for care partners. She taught physiology and pathology at the Muscular Therapy Institute (now Cortiva Institute-Boston) for 13 years. She has devoted much of her work to massage therapy for medically complex client presentations. She helps massage therapists simplify massage contraindications, ease the interviewing process, deepen clinical reasoning skills, and expand their client base. For more information, visit www.tracywalton.com.

Thomas Myers is the author of Anatomy Trains (Elsevier, 4th ed., 2020) and Fascial Release for Structural Balance (North Atlantic, 2nd ed., 2017). Myers studied with Ida Rolf and has practiced integrative bodywork for more than 40 years. He directs Anatomy Trains, which offers hundreds of continuing education seminars worldwide and online. For more information, visit anatomytrains.com.

Jim Gilkeson is a bodywork therapist and the author of A Pilgrim in Your Body: Energy Healing and Spiritual Process (IUniverse, 2009). He teaches meditation and energy-oriented healing in Northern California.

Paula S. Stone, MA, NCTMB, ARCB-CR, is executive director of The Stone Institute LLC in St. Charles, Missouri, and author of Therapeutic Reflexology: A Step-by-Step Guide to Professional Competence (Pearson Education, 2011). Stone’s publications, seminars, classes, and research explore the efficacy of contemporary reflexology, as well as its interface with massage and other forms of bodywork. To contact Stone, visit www.thestoneinstitute.org.

Yael Halpern—massage veteran, educator, and freelance marketer—helps individuals and businesses reach their target audience and increase sales and professionalism within the wellness industry. With a passion for marketing, technology, and entrepreneurship, Halpern draws from experience and successful models used in other industries in order to reach the broadest possible, quality audience.

Diana Panara, MSW, HHP, NCBTMB, earned her master’s degree in social work from Tulane University in New Orleans, and her holistic health practitioner designation from the International Professional School of Bodywork in San Diego, California, where she also teaches. She has also taught at the Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy, the Big Sky Somatic Institute, and the Reidman College of Complimentary Medicine.