John Gilmore D. Min Spirituality, M.Div., BA Psychology, RMT., CMTBW., Grief Facilitator, LMT, Certified Life Coach

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John Gilmore Quick Facts

Main Areas: Alternative Healing Modalities, Spirituality, Life Coaching, Energy Work on all Levels
Career Focus: Workshop Leader, Lecturer, Spiritual Teacher and Life Coach
Affiliation: John Gilmore's Next Step Coaching

Dr. Om Prakash (John W. Gilmore) was ordained as a UU Minister in 1995. During his ministry at UU Church of Manchester he entered a doctoral program at University of Creation Spirituality, a school Wisdom School founded by Ph.D., Rev. Matthew Fox, in Oakland, CA that changed his life. Dr. Gilmore’s dissertation focused on external and internal oppression, and how we can remove their lasting effects by using of alternative methods such as meditation, Tai-Chi, Yoga, Massage, Reiki, Spiritual Life Coaching, and the many other methods used to deal with the fruit of oppression since the beginning of time. In 2001 he received his D. Min. in Reinventing Work and Spirituality.

Soon afteward Dr. Gilmore became engaged in a ministry of wellness and social justice in order to provide tools to individuals that they can use to strengthen their own psyches and lead more prosperous lives. He was student and faculty member at Sat Yoga Institute in CR for one year and is now doing a Sat Yoga Ministry of Healing on all levels, especially internally. Dr. Gilmore worked with the UUA Anti-racism Task-force, the UUA Pilot Programming Team, and the Anti-racist Analysis Team during the formation of UUA Anti-racism programming for more than 10 years as a volunteer. He was an Anti-racism, Anti-oppression Consultant for one year for DRUUMM, and the Co-Director and then Director of Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community. Dr. Gilmore was working during his later years in the United States and Costa Rica to empower individuals to create new forms of institutions based on relation building, partnership, and applied spirituality, instead of power-over. He was a JUUST UU Consultant working to introduce congregations and other institutions within the denomination to new ways of thinking and ways of integrating their most deeply held beliefs into the work they do in the greater community. Om Prakash has worked as the Director of Racial and Social Justice for the Joseph Priestley District of the Unitarian Universalist Association half time and doing a ministry of healing through meditation, movement, alternative spiritual direction therapies and Sat Yoga Meditation. He has now retired and is working, full time, to promote healing and spiritual growth through facilitating workshops on spirituality, lecturing, life coaching, and doing book signings and presentation.

He has written several books on practical spirituality and fantasy books, with deeply spiritual lessons as central themes. He is an E-zine Writer on the internet. Om Prakash has been a martial arts teacher, a massage therapist, and a Reiki Master Teacher and a Spiritual Guide. He has narrowed is work down to Life Coching, Body-work and Massage Therapy. He also is a host on blog talk radio at www.blogtalkradio.com/practical-spirituality

Other Programs & Highlights

Book Reviews and samples or links to samples at www.nextstepcoaching.mysite.com and www.dswellness.com

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from John Gilmore

"So our vision brings the melody. Braided voices in perfect harmony. Truth is the song that makes our day brighter, all of the love we've known through troubled days. Deep in your heart is the light that brightens all of the darkness falls in your way."-- EWF

In truth we are all one. We are all the light and wisdom that issues from the One. If we will cleanse ourselves of the deceptions and fantasies we can return to the source from which we come ad begin to create a whole new world. We human beings have the power. We are the light.

Om Prakash John Gilmore

"Why do you play your games and never really satisfy the loneliness you claim, spending your life in the pouring rain. Forget about those memories driving you insane. You can't hide forever. Just decide to make it better. Turn it into something good. Remember you can choose not to lose find your grove and be a winner. Wake up! Take a step ahead. Wake up to the brighter side."--EWF

As human beings and divine beings we are creative creatures given the power to make choices and given the power to change the world if we reclaim our power. There are many ways to do this. One can meditate, one can exercise, no matter what one does it is most important to cleanse the mind of the falsity and to wake up, or to become enlightened.

Om Prakash John Gilmore

Getting Started With John Gilmore

Rev., Om Prakash. John Gilmore, D.Min. an ordained Unitarian Universalist Minister and a Sat Yoga Minister. He was a student and faculty member at the Sat Yoga Institute of Transformational Spirituality (www.satyogainstitute.org) for one year. Dr. Gilmore is following the mystical teachings and ideals put forward in the tenants of Creation Centered Spirituality and the mystical traditions of all religions including the Sat Yoga Tradition. Dr. Gilmore is a writer, a Certified Reflexologist, a Certified Massage therapist, a Reiki Master Teacher, and a Martial Arts instructor. Dr. Gilmore was raised as a Pentecostal. He began his own spiritual search at the age of 17. Through his studies of psychology, eastern philosophy, martial arts, and earth based religion, he developed a well rounded view of religion and the workings of the human mind and society.

For more than 7 years, after receiving his B.A. in Psychology, Dr. Gilmore was a devout Pentecostal and a Pentecostal Minister and Interfaith missionary. From there he returned to a deep study of meditation and personal spirituality that led him to the pursuit of ministry in the Unitarian Universalist Association after having a kundalini experience. After receiving his M. Div., Dr. Gilmore became a Unitarian Universalist Parish Minister, which provided him the time and flexibility to engage in a search on the mystical path and to complete his doctoral studies at a wisdom university in Oakland, CA. Through his work in anti-racism and anti-oppression, meditation, exercise, reading and debate, Dr. Gilmore came to a deeper spiritual understanding that replaced his religious views. This mystical understanding, the connection with the Divine, became the driving force for the authorship of five books on spirituality and related topics, and the creation of the cyber service and school of spirituality. Spurred on by the openness provided by the Unitarian Universalist faith, Dr. Gilmore moved to take a larger step and share the idea of a truly interfaith spirituality to the spiritual seeker.

Please see our website, www.dswellness.com, to explore his writings more fully. Classes in anti-oppression and reclaiming your identity are available at this cyber school. Please hit the Diana Sarah Wellness School for Inner-Peace tab on our website for more information.