About Artist-Author Shirley Ryan

 

Artist-Author Shirley Ryan has been practicing contemplative meditation for over 30 years, and continues to explore the internal and external benefits of walking meditation exercises, Tai Chi, subjective fantasy, breath work, and cleansing processes on a daily basis.

Meditation has played an important role in her work as a spiritually-based life coach, helping people to reach their life goals. During the course of her work, she was led to create Searching for the Waters of Antiquity (order the book) to use as a self-awareness tool. Searching for the Waters of Antiquity uniquely integrates Shirley’s extensive career experience while blending her skills of painting and meditation. See "How to use the book."

Today, Shirley facilitates workshops and speaks publicly on a range of topics, guided meditation to spiritually-based work sites. See Shirley's calendar of events.

Shirley’s interests include painting, writing, and designing spiritual meditation gardens. Shirley lives in Petaluma, California with her husband Robert.

 

Professional Background

Shirley Ryan holds a Bachelors Degree in Organizational Behavior from The University of San Francisco, and a Masters Degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma, focusing on Organizational Development and Family Systems.

Shirley is the founder and president of Working Together, a company that specializes in managing life changes through coaching techniques involving mind, body and spirit. Working Together offers seminars and workshops related to empowerment and meditation.

She has worked with clients as a professional coach since 1994.

 

Meditation Articles by Shirley Ryan:

• Mindful Meditation Tips
• The Hottest Old Tool Around
• The Healing Power of the Mind
• Tapping Business Power
• Tips for Taking Charge of Your Energy
• Practice One-Minute Breathwork
• Why Goofing Off at the Office May Not Be a Bad Thing
• Be Careful What You Believe, Because You Get It!
• Shifting into the Light
• Dissolving Negative Energy

Papers by Shirley Ryan:

• Meditation in Corporate America
• Leading the Sexes to Successful Communication
• Shift Your Thinking & Shape Your World
• Synchronistic Moments in Time
• Changing Face of Leadership
• The Leadership Challenge, at Work,
  Home & in Our Communities
• Girls Will be Girls Takes on New Meaning

 

 

"Sarah read Searching for the Waters of Antiquity out loud to Annie and me as we sat huddled around the book. We all had this visceral experience, relating to the very beginning passage. We couldn't believe it, it was like boom! This powerful, emotional moment that is just impossible to describe. Such a gift . . . we all felt it at once. I immediately ordered 5 more books for gifts." Bonnie Kennaugh-Smith Aurora, CO.   Buy the Book

 

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