120-Days to Mastery and 13 personal guides by your side to help get you there.
You’re in for a very exciting journey!
We’ve gotten together an amazing group of Silva enthusiasts who will be guiding you through Summer of Silva 2011. This group of dedicated Silva practitioners is very diverse and each person has their own gifts they are ready to share.
In the Summer of Silva 2010, they actively contributed comments, shared their experiences, and most importantly helped other Silva students by offering advice and solutions to their challenges.
We’d like to recognize them for their contributions to the Silva community:
Alex Roger Harrisen
He’s a quiet kind of guy, who enjoys good conversation, reading exciting books, exercising and gardening. Alex would describe himself as highly motivated, well educated and a seasoned traveler.
His work consists of being an entrepreneur, Internet marketing consultant and Marketing person and copy writer.
Alex first began using the Silva program in the 1970′s when he bought a book by Jose Silva. The book sparked his interest and peaked his curiosity to learn more, which lead him to get the UltraMind course and the Silva Life programs. Learning how to re-order his life to the life that he wanted has been difficult at times, but always fun!
Alex states: “My belief is that most people can do well by enrolling in and using the Silva Method. While I have several college degrees and much training in leadership and management, my Silva training ranks highest in my growth and personal satisfaction.”
Jaclyn Norris
“A dedicated student of the mind” is how Jaclyn would describe herself. She knows it is certainly paying off by helping her to overcome countless internal battles throughout her life. Through this she has built a strong foundation for the things she has set her mind to achieve.
Jaclyn has a passion for performance arts, particularly music as she is a guitarist and vocalist, but also hypnotism and the art of seduction.
She is working at becoming a conversational hypnotherapist. Her development is in line with becoming a better performer musically so she is looking to coach aspiring performers to become more confident, passionate, and dynamic on stage. Another area of study for Jaclyn is business and investing, as she highly values the need for financial literacy and wealth creation.
With her desire to work with small business owners in my community, Jaclyn hopes to coach them into being smarter, more confident and successful business people. She states, “I can truly say that life is getting better and more exciting every day!”
Tina L. Roman
“I’m a wife, mom, daughter, entrepreneur, financial coach, healer, medium, Reiki master, and lifelong Silva student.”
Tina’s first introduction to Silva was the Silva Ultramind ESP System where she loved the meditations from the very beginning.
They fell in complete sync with the meditations and visualizations her mother had already been teaching her since childhood. As she continues to grow physically, mentally and spiritually, she enjoys helping others grow as well. Tina quotes Winston Churchill saying, “Make today awesome! Never, never, never quit!”
Katerina
Katerina describes herself as an adolescent of 44 years, always in love with the wonders of this creation, within and without.
Growing up in a family of Silva practitioners, Katerina took her first Silva seminar when she was 16. She didn’t start to deepen her Silva Method practices until much later and then realized all its amazing possibilities. 
Katerina is a management consultant for a living (although she’s trying to change that), and in her spare time, she writes poetry and has a passion for music and photography.
Three years ago, almost by chance, she took up long distance running and ended up a passionate marathoner, literally running around the world.
Katerina says, “I really enjoyed last year’s Summer of Silva and the interaction with other students. Therefore, I’m eager to make the most of this year’s course and contribute to it any way I can.”
Mark Hoover
“I am an artist/photographer and eternal student.”
Mark’s personal transformation work began with the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement in the early to mid-nineties (note its resurgence here>>> ).
Mark studies languages and the Torah, as well as a proliferation of philosophers. His “brand” is still in development, but it encompasses service, entertainment and growth.
His goal during this Summer of Silva is to manifest this brand on the Internet as a gateway to living a more complete life on individual merit.
Mark is currently living in the Northern US and eager to return to the South and from there plans to travel worldwide with his camera and computer, journaling this great existence that we all can share. Mark’s adopted credo: “A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.” ~ Albert Camus
Sorella
29 year old Sorella was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but was disfellowshipped when she was 24, and since then been looking for answers.
The Silva program helps her to be a positive human being, something she sometimes has a problem with.
Sorella is Dutch, but has lived in Ireland, on Tenerife and in Germany.
Alison
Alison is a 64 year old happily married woman, who has a married daughter, and one gorgeous and very active 3-year-old grandchild, with another due in August.
Alison has taught young children, been a complementary therapist (Shiatsu, Reiki, Bach flower remedies) and self published a book co-author by her husband and herself. She has now retired from full time work and enjoys all that life has to offer, learning from its challenges and making the most of the opportunities that come her way.
Alison says, “One of those great opportunities is to be part of the Summer of Silva 2011and I am really looking forward to all it offers and all I can contribute.”
Brigitte
Brigitte now lives in her beautiful adoptive country, Australia, where she migrated 31 years ago. Over the years she has developed a successful career in engineering, however after 20 years she became bored and dissatisfied with her job/career.
Brigitte says she lacked vision for the future and had no plans but knew she did not want to continue on the same path and was looking for ideas on how to move into the next stage of her life.
Whilst discussing meditation with a colleague, her colleague mentioned the Silva Method she had come across many years ago and that had helped her acknowledge and use her intuition. Brigitte went home that night and searched the Net. Eventually she joined the Summer of Silva 2010. She went into the exercises with an open mind and practiced the teachings religiously.
Brigitte says she had practiced active meditation previously so the exercises were relatively easy for her to do. Subsequently she left her employer and is now trying to establish a business which will enable her to diversify and perform tasks that are more rewarding and fulfilling. Nevertheless, after twelve months after Summer of Silva 2010, Brigitte says she needs a refresher because she stopped practicing the teachings and still doesn’t have a clear idea where she is heading. The question remains for her, “What am I going to do with the rest of my life?” not only with regards to career but also relationships and continued contribution to society.
“I am looking forward to the Silva Master’s Circle 2011 as I know it will help me gain insights into what my life path is meant to be and help me create a life of my own design.”
Alton J. Sanders, Vacaville CA
“The Silva Master Circle has been the best self improvement program that I have work with to date.Being able to be calm within has become a normal state of mind for me and it feels good.”
At 48 years old, Alton says that going and living a life of pure joy is what he has searched for many years. When he got the got the Silva Intuition System CD’s his life started changing instantly for the better.
Alton expresses that this program is a blessing and a calling that he has been searching for since he was a child, and the power in the program is deeper then he ever imagined. Alton says his understanding of wealth has been magnified to a degree of eternity, there is no price to this gift that has been freely given to him and he plans on sharing it with the world. The most amazing thing for him is that he is very happy right now and his emotions are still up like yesterday. He had to ask himself, “Do you feel the feelings inside?”He says he felt his energy within and is still filled with joy– there is no animosity, anger, frustration just pure JOY.
“This System will guide you toward want you want to create yourself. All you have to do is a little FUN work daily and make a habit of it. Everything else will come to you, it works!!!!! See you in the positive zone.”
Roberta Tower (Rolana)
Rolana was born in Denver, Colorado and traveled around the country for several years with her father, a career army soldier. Later upon returning to Denver, she finished high school and attended the University of Denver.
After that she worked as a cartographer for an energy company which led into a position selling maps of the Denver area. Rolana is now married with two grown daughters and a son. She continues to improve her life through online education.
Dana Reynolds
Dana Reynolds took part in the first Summer of Silva, squeezing in the daily lessons by listening to them each morning in the dairy barn while milking, and then practicing the mediations after returning from her corporate job where she is a user experience manager on a major website.
Practicing the techniques has given her the focus and discipline to realize her dream of completing her first novel. She lives on a small Ozark farm with her husband, two children and many many animals which are also members of her family.
Kimberly (KK)
Kimberly lives in sunny southwest Florida. Three years ago she attended a live Silva seminar and learned many of the techniques for meditation . Silva’s method has enhanced her life in many ways from learning to slow down to honing her intuition .
Like many others after the seminar, Kimberly was floating and it continued for a long while. Life went on and she got out of practice until last summer Silva offered a summer program. She dedicated 120 days to meditating.
One of the best parts of the Silva summer was the online blogging and learning from others. She says everyone was so helpful and willing to share. There were people from all over the world and we were connected because of Laura Silva and her team !
“Well here I am again ready to connect with who ever wants to connect ! Let’s get Better and Better everyday in every way. Cheers ~ Kimberly (kk)”
Gabi
Gabi starts with this powerful phrase “ANYONE can do it! Silva Master’s Circle (SMC) is the best place to be whether you are a beginner or whether you have already read all the Silva Method books, practiced the home study courses or participated in a live event. SMC will take you to places you may have already been but it will sure take you to places you have never been!”
Gabi is always ready to share her insights, her enthusiasm is contagious and authentic. What she says is what she thinks and feels.
She is confident about who she is and shared with us that now she lives a happy, meaningful and purposeful life. A life where she has finally realized that abundance or wealth starts within and expands outwards. She thinks that abundance and/or wealth is not a curse or taboo or something that only some people can have. “It is the ultimate lesson. Living an abundant and/or wealthy life is being holistically -physically/mentally/spiritually/emotionally – healthy, being mindful, have complete awareness and to top it all enjoying the journey of this road of sense of purpose. It is not something I am rejecting now; instead I embrace it. I am grateful every morning, throughout the day and all night.”
