Cynthia Brix, is an interfaith minister, wellness specialist, gerontologist, and storyteller. She is a candidate for the Unitarian Universalist ministry and a contributing author of the book "Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men" scheduled for fall 2007 publication by Hohm Press. [www.hohmpress.com]

Cynthia's serves as program director with Satyana Institute
[www.satyana.org], an international, non-profit organization that provides service and trainings that combine the inner work of the heart with outer service in the world. She co-facilitates healing and reconciliation workshops and conferences in South Africa, India, Italy, and the United States. Cynthia's focus at Satyana Institute is toward expanding the gender reconciliation program, and supporting, Maher, [www.maherashram.org] an interfaith refuge project for battered women and children in India.

A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran's Passage Meditation, Cynthia has led meditation workshops at regional and national Unitarian Universalist conferences. Fundamental to her ministry is a contemplative life of prayer that infuses her activism in social justice, gender healing, and racial harmony.

Cynthia earned a master of divinity degree from Iliff School of Theology in Denver and a double master's degree in wellness management and applied gerontology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Cynthia is available as an officiant for special ceremonies, including non-denominational and interfaith weddings, child blessings, rite of passage celebrations, memorial services and funerals. She also provides wellness sessions for individuals and couples that emphasizes spiritual practice and service toward successful change in lifestyle behaviors.