Musical Prophet - Inspirational Singer-Songwriter - Shamanic Theatre Artist - Keynote Speaker - Laser Word Alchemist - Psychic Surgeon - Interfaith Minister - Sacred Silence Guide - Evolutionary Change Agent - Published Poet - Intimacy/Relationship Coach - Primal Release Facilitator - Mediator - Community Leader - Mistress of Ceremonies - Emissary, Messenger & Teacher of Peace Born to two survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, Tes has dedicated her entire life to healing conflict, creating harmony, and understanding the nature of peace - both in the external world and within one's own soul. Singing "to chase away the demons" became a refuge from the age of five, as she sought to process the unconscionable atrocities witnessed and endured by her fragile and traumatized parents. Performance-as-therapy was her cathartic outlet for creative self-expression throughout her schoolyears - and since - both secularly and in religious and spiritual realms. Growing up in New York City, with Broadway Theatre & Nightclub Cabaret in her own backyard, Tes got her BA in Drama & Theatre at CUNY Queens College, studied with numerous respected acting & voice teachers including: Dennis Moore & Ron Shetler (American Academy of Dramatic Arts); Robert X. Modica (Sandford Meisner Technique); Stephen Book (Viola Spolin Technique); Alex Rubin (Primal Theatre); Jered Barclay; performed professionally in television, stage, film and produced her own nightclub act before moving to Los Angeles to continue pursuing her performance career. There she was cast in several episodics, movies and theatrical productions, including her own one-woman show called "Aftermath". All the while, Tes continued to evolve her psyche, seeking insight & solace in both traditional and avante garde therapeutic modalities. Burdened with a well-meaning, though misguided childhood prophecy that she would "make up for everything her parents had been through in their lives," Tes delved deeply to ultimately discover her supreme songwriting gift, and conceived "Six Million Candles - Concert at Auschwitz" - a global healing concert project intended to restore planetary harmony through the transformative power of music & flooding light into arguably the most heinous symbol of man's inhumanity in history. Her heritage mandate of "tikkun olam" (to add beauty to the world) made becoming a catalyst for world peace a natural destiny... After 9/11, sponsored by United Nations "NGO" - The Women's Federation for World Peace International, Tes was given the honor of singing her original trance-hymn 'Peace In The Middle East' for 6000 Israeli & Palestinian women in Jerusalem's Independence Park. Delivering a poignant message from Mother Earth directly into the heart chakra of the planet's body, and speaking on behalf of all mothers, set a tone for her role as "The Voice of Global Awakening." Exposed to alternative lifestyle choices for more socially and environmentally responsible living, Tes then founded an experimental community called the Universal Temple of Higher Consciousness, an "unconditional love & world peace" residential retreat center in San Diego, California. Populated by a core group of: Transformational Performance Artists; Primal Release Facilitators; Expressive Arts & Transpersonal Gestalt Therapists; Rebirthers; Mediators; Ministers & a World Sacred Music Producer, this evolutionary nest, housed in an acoustic sound chamber, provided an incubator for ongoing intensive group process, sacred music & sound healing events... all designed to foster a holistic sense of oneness and achieve resonant harmony among it's residents and visitors. As a microcosm of society, the UTHC mission was to explore whether a community of dedicated lightworkers could realize the abstract dream of sustainable peace. The project lasted more than four years in it's then-incarnation, with the culminating crown success of a profound 5-Day Silent Retreat, by the end of which all neurotic mind-chatter and petty projections of one personality upon another were completely dissolved! This final experiment so impacted Tes' sense of possibilty, that she began to regularly incorporate the gift of silence into her own ongoing practice, and offer it to others, both individually and in group retreat/sessions. A student and teacher of Advaita (Oneness), Law of Attraction & Science of Mind, Tes counts among her most respected mentors Osho, Ram Dass, Gangaji, Yogananda, Abraham-Hicks, Ernest Holmes, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Louise Hay, Deepak Chopra (whom she opened for at The Global Mind Change Forum in Santa Barbara, CA), Byron Katie, Dr. Barbara Marx Hubbard, Dr. Edwin Harvey Elkin, Matthew John Stenger, Stu Schreiber and Kennedy Carr. With over three decades in successful intimate relationship, Tes considers her partners to be "evolutionary allies" and is an expert at communication and sustainability. A master word alchemist and psychic surgeon, her greatest passion is to expand consciousness, open hearts and liberate souls. With powerful insight and precision, Tes has an uncanny ability to swiftly intuit and dismantle psycho-emotional blocks, offering unprecedented relief and euphoria to her audiences, clients, workshop & retreat participants. She is available for private (phone or in-person) as well as group sessions, public performance, emceeing and speaking engagements. She can also write customized songs or jingles for your "cause" - as inspired! With one fully-produced cd under her belt (Awake In The Dream: Musical Medicine for the Soul - Volume 1) and another sixty-or-so equally inspiring “empowerment anthems” to record, present projects include the production of two new cds, a new autobiographical one-woman show, gatherings & sessions at her new bayfront oasis "The UTHC Lotus Pad – Miracle-on-the-Bay"... and the launch of a viral movement to teach the “power of the word” by renaming our world PLANET PEACE. *Presently residing on Mission Bay, in San Diego California.