Gabrielli LaChiara, she/her/hers pronouns, is a white, cisgender woman of Italian descent, age 54 at present time, 2020. She holds her private practice and healing center in Amherst, MA, on the Indigenous land of the Nonotuck and Pocomtuc peoples, and the Nipmuc Nation. With two decades of work in clinical social services, Gabrielli comes to the healing arts with a strong human service base.

In 2001, Gabrielli faced her own personal challenges with a diagnosis of breast cancer which further fueled her desire to ignite healing on any and every level possible. Gabrielli established a full-time private healing practice in 2003. In 2008, she co-founded the Infinity Healing Practice Training Program with Lori Friedman and has been training anyone who is called to apply their intuitive healing gifts for healing humanity since that time.

Chloë Faith Urban, she/her/hers, is a white, cisgender woman of British, Irish, French, German, and Scandinavian descent, age 33 at present time, 2020. She lives and holds her private practice in Portland, Maine, on the indigenous land of the Abenaki people and Wabanaki Confederacy.

As a certified Infinity Healing Practitioner and Lead Trainer, Chloë established her private healing practice in 2014, and 3,800 people, worldwide, have attended her online healing courses through DailyOM and her own website.

Chloë has been immersed in healing spaces her entire life. Raised by a Mother who is a shamanic practitioner, rituals, ceremonies, and healing were an ongoing part of the environment she grew up in. Through her growth and wisdom she has learned, and is consistently learning, to differentiate those practices that were culturally appropriated and those that were infused with grace, respect, and essence.

Rob Hurwich, he/him/his pronouns, identifies as a white, cisgender, male of Jewish heritage, age 45, and resides in Amherst, MA, on the Indigenous land of the Nonotuck and Pocomtuc peoples, and the Nipmuc Nation. He has been training and practicing in Infinity Healing Practice since 2014.

Rob has studied many various healing modalities and wisdom traditions. He has been practicing Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation since 2006, including 2 ½ years of living in monasteries and retreat centers practicing intensive meditation. The primary lineages he practices are Theravada Vipassana in the style of Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, and Vietnamese Zen and Mindfulness in the style formed by Thich Nhat Hanh.

Lori Friedman (she/her/hers) comes to the Infinity Healing Practice with a career in arts management, curating, and independent consulting. While parenting 2 young children, she returned to school, receiving her MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst in 2008. Through their children, Lori met Gabrielli LaChiara in 2003 and began a friendship and kinship.

Experiencing for herself the magical power of Gabrielli’s work, Lori encouraged her dear friend to expand her work to reach a broader audience. In 2008 Lori joined Gabrielli to help create, develop and facilitate the Infinity Healing Training Program, and served as Lead Trainer and Co-Facilitator through 2020. Lori currently serves as an advisor and provides leadership training support.

Taja Will, pronouns Taja/they, is a queer, Latinx, non-binary, femme artist, healer, and activist. They are a transracial adoptee from Chile who lives with an invisible disability. Taja’s work is devoted to the potential for individual and collective healing by expanding awareness of cultural somatic intelligence; trauma-informed care; ancestral practices; and a willingness to lean into anti-oppression values and actions.

Taja maintains a dynamic Healing Justice practice that includes consulting with individuals, organizations, and communities in the context of workshops, conflict mediation, one-on-one somatic healing sessions, nervous system triage, board development, and organizational cultural competency, and individual coaching on unwinding from white body supremacy culture.

Sarah Urech is senior strategist for the Omega Women’s Leadership Center and a founding staff member. She is a licensed master’s social worker and certified practitioner of psychodrama and group psychotherapy. Sarah has performed with Hudson River Playback Theatre for 25 years and has taught this improvisational storytelling theatre in four languages and 18 countries, including Cuba, Japan, and Russia, elevating the voices of people less often heard in society. Before joining Omega, Sarah worked at the Oncology Support Program at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, NY, for a decade and was its director for four years. Originally from Switzerland, Sarah speaks seven languages and teaches public speaking for Omega.