Enlightenment Day / Speakers
Twenty one speakers across three conferences. The 2026 line up will appear here.
Everyone who has spoken at the Enlightenment Day Conference since 2023, with the talk each one gave. Biographies are condensed from the conference's own speaker pages. Speakers for 2026 will be added here as they are confirmed, and you can propose a talk.
Enlightenment Day 2025
Reiki teacher and founder of Khora Consulting, known spiritually as Gian Kamal. She spent decades representing designers through her New York agency before turning to healing work.
Enlightenment Day 2025
Executive coach and educator who has guided more than 5,000 students and leaders in emotional resilience and communication. A graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD programme and founder of the Spirituality and Happiness Institute.
Enlightenment Day 2025
Award winning filmmaker and spiritual teacher, known as Rajada. Founder of A Thousand Suns Academy, maker of the PBS film America's First Guru, and a TEDx speaker.
Enlightenment Day 2023, 2024, 2025
Nath yogi of the Gorakhnath lineage, initiated by nadi guru Yogi Budhnath ji at Trimbak, from the Maath at Pimpri Gawali in Maharashtra. Author of Insight into Meditation and Yoga and co-author of Gorakh Sabadi, the sayings of Gorakh Nath.
Enlightenment Day 2024
Iranian American who grew up in Iran and was introduced to Buddhism after moving to the United States. She speaks on impermanence and the potential for awakening in every person.
Enlightenment Day 2023, 2024
Founding member of Divine Illumination Institute, the not for profit educational organisation that presents Enlightenment Day.
Enlightenment Day 2023, 2024
Scholar of Tantra and Advaita philosophy. After a master's degree from Sampurnananda Sanskrit University he founded the Department of Tantric Studies in Nepal, took his PhD at Martin Luther University in 2005, and has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at Stony Brook University.
Enlightenment Day 2024
Musicologist and writer who has recorded the traditional music of Peru for the British Museum since 1980, co-author of Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo, and founder of the Amazon Retreat Centre in Mishana.
Enlightenment Day 2023, 2024
Computer scientist, entrepreneur and video game pioneer, a graduate of MIT and Stanford, founder of Play Labs at MIT and author of The Simulation Hypothesis and Wisdom of a Yogi.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Gave the 2023 keynote on the Das Mahavidya, the ten great cosmic wisdoms, in the light of modern science.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Lead pastor whose recovery from a thirty year addiction came through plant medicine traditions, and who now works in spiritual and holistic wellbeing.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Motivational speaker, social worker, bhakti yoga practitioner and founder of the #RememberMeToo movement.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Ethnomusicologist at Toronto Metropolitan University whose research centres on Baul spirituality and the creative industries.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Cardiologist, physician scientist and Professor of Medicine. An initiate in Shrividya and non dual Shaiva Tantra who has studied Tantra, Advaita Vedanta, Yoga and Ayurveda with teachers across traditions.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Certified yoga and meditation trainer, spiritual advisor and chaplain at Northeastern and Brandeis universities, faculty member at Tufts University and a director of engineering in technology.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Psychologist and a pioneer of consciousness research, known for cross cultural work on dreaming, psychedelics, creativity, shamanism and trauma, and the author of many books in those fields.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital and entrepreneur, with an interest in diet and holistic wellbeing.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Spoke in 2023 on visualising OM, drawing on the Vedic view of the Absolute and on the Ramayana.
Enlightenment Day 2023
United States Navy veteran who studied zoology and now works in public health, and a student of Advaita Vedanta.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Yoga teacher since 2014 with a 500 hour training completed in India, a student of Bhakti Yoga teachers in the United States and India since 2016, and a singer of kirtan.
Enlightenment Day 2023
Founder of Integral Yoga and author of Pranayama, the Elixir of Life. After forty years in telecommunications in India and the United States he turned fully to yoga, having trained in 1996 in the Swami Satchidananda tradition.