Program Director
Sunny Klaber, BS, MS, CMT
Combine a varied educational background that includes degrees and certificates in Geology, Environmental Policy, and Massage Therapy with 15+ years of professional teaching and guiding experience in disciplines ranging from Environmental Science and Mountaineering to Yoga and Thai Massage; add a passion for conscious travel that has inspired multiple pilgrimages to remote areas of Thailand, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Costa Rica, South Africa and Botswana; and you get a woman uniquely qualified to design and lead our integrated travel programs.
Sunny is grateful for the opportunity to explore the mystery and majesty of life through the medium of Integral Travel, and she is looking forward to introducing you to her favorite people and places. Read More
Assistant Director / Instructor
Nikki Oleson
Nikki is a Licensed Massage Therapist, avid outdoor recreationist and blissful traveler with a massage practice and home base on the Oregon Coast. In addition to her intensive training at the Costa Rica School of Massage Therapy coupled with Thai Yoga Massage training in Thailand, she has a BS in Pre Physical Therapy and work experience in numerous rehabilitation care facilities; all of which blends a diverse understanding and appreciation of how the body functions with an intuitive approach to overall well being. Nikki has an unwavering commitment to living life with an awareness of its limitless possibility and potential. She has cultivated this awareness over the years by guiding small groups recreationally both in the wilderness of the North Cascades and internationally throughout Thailand. Her extensive travel throughout Asia, Europe and Central America combined with Recreational Guiding experience contribute a joyful dedication to her role in helping to facilitate adventures that are as full and vibrant as the next.
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Assistant Director / Instructor
Cheri Neal
Born and raised in Northern California, Cheri has always had an adventurous spirit and an interest in the art of holistic healing. Cheri is a registered yoga instructor and certified massage therapist. Her passion for travel has led her around the world in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom through Yoga, Medicinal Herbalism and Thai Massage. She has spent several years gaining experience in all three fields. She is grateful and inspired to be able to share the adventure of healing with anyone with a willing heart and an open mind. Cheri is especially excited to share the amazing experience of Integral Travel with YOU!
Co-creators
Yogini, Rolfer
Kimberly Johnson
Rooted in the Krishnamacharya lineage, Kimberly has deeply explored Viniyoga, Iyengar yoga, and Ashtanga yoga, and finds the heart of her practice to be a continual return to self-inquiry. Her classes are informed by her background in dance, Structural Integration, the Feldenkrais method, Advaita Vedanta, and Sanskrit.
She experienced a huge awakening of the heart on Ilha Grande, which led to the birth of her daughter Cecilia, who is now two years old.She now lives in Rio de Janeiro with some of the warmest people on Earth. And she is always just a day away from the island!
Kimberly has been teaching yoga all over the world (in New York City, San Diego, Chicago, Boulder, Thailand, Malaysia and Brazil) for the past ten years.
Integral Travel is thrilled to collaborate with Kimberly for the "Rhythms of Rio" journey in Brazil.
Social Activists
Ouyporn Khuankaew
Ouyporn is the founder of the
International Women's Partnership for Peace and Justice (IWP), a spiritually based feminist organization working to support grassroots women's activism in Thailand and the Asian region. Since 2002, IWP has led workshops, retreats and training courses which share in common the integration of feminism, social action and spirituality for sustainability and transformation at the personal, community and society levels. Building on freelance work they have done throughout Thailand and the region since 1997, their goal is to work systematically and strategically with grassroots groups over a sustained period of time, practicing a partnership culture that has spirituality as a core foundation of social activism. This is their effort to create alternatives to the hierarchical systems that dominate mainstream institutions and even progressive social movements. Currently, they works with women's organizations, community peace groups, NGOs and grassroots activists in Thailand, Burma, India, and Sri Lanka.
Integral Travel is honored to collaborate with Ouyporn for the "Engaged Buddhism" meditation course which takes place during the Adventures in Healing journey in northern Thailand.
Yogini, Social Worker
Daniela Garcia Mintz
Daniela discovered yoga at the age of 19 while exploring a variety of indigenous spiritual traditions in her native Chile. Her immediate connection to yogic philosophy led her to devote much of the last decade to developing her yoga practice. Her journey has led her to Thailand, Sweden, Italy, Sri Lanka, India and the USA to study Iyengar and Ashtanga yoga with many esteemed senior teachers such as Ramanam Patel, Tim Miller, David Swenson, Rolf Naujarat, Anthony Carlisi, Lino Miele, Patabhi Jois and Richard Freeman.
Her practice continues to be guided by the philosophical threads that first captured her attention, and she skillfully integrates those threads into her teachings in a way that is useful for students living in a modern world.
Daniela feels blessed that her journey has brought her back to Chile, and she looks forward to sharing the practice with people living in the foothills surrounding the Villarica Volcano.
Integral Travel is is grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Daniela for the Thai Yoga Massage Retreat in Chile.
Environmentalist, Vegetarian Chef, Author, Visionary
Nicole Mintz
As a teen in the early 70's, Nicole Mintz left her Beverly Hills home to dedicate her energy to the burgeoning environmental movement in northern California. Then, in her early twenties, she moved to Chile, started a family, and helped pioneer the Chilean environmental movement.
In 1979, Nicole and a partner opened Chile's first vegetarian restaurant, "El Huerto" (The vegetable Garden) in Santiago, which beat the overwhelmingly carnivorous odds, and is still in operation today proudly serving the best vegetarian meals in the country.
In the 90's, Nicole and a group of environmentalists created Hosteria École, a lively backpacker's hostel, located ten hours south of Santiago in the resort town of Pucón. The motivation for École was to promote ecotourism in Chile's first private national park - the Cañi Sanctuary - whose inception and fund-raising efforts, Nicole spearheaded.
Throughout her career in environmental conservation, Nicole has lead campaigns to preserve the Araucaria and Alerce forest, protect Chile's wild rivers and raise conciousness through environmental education, but she is most proud of her efforts with the Cañi Santuary, which have proven to the indiginous Pehuenche people, who now successfully and independently manage the park, that conservation is a viable alternative to commercial development.
Nicole's most recent creation is Gaia Sur, a retreat and learning center located 20 km northeast of Pucón. Gaia Sur has allowed her to synthesize her love of natural beauty, conscious lifestyle choices, environmental design, and vegetarian cooking into a space for people to learn, grow, and connect with themselves and nature.
Integral Travel is honored to have the opportunity to share this space with Nicole and her daughter Daniela during the Thai Yoga Massage retreat, and to support the Gaia Sur legacy.