Rowena Pattee Kryder, M.F.A., Ph.D. has been teaching since 1971 and was formerly chair of Art and Ceativity at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is founder of the Creative Harmonics Institute in Mount Shasta where she held ten-day intensive for twelve years. She is currently in Edgewood, New Mexico where she holds workshops and intensives.

Rowena is author of twelve published books and hundreds of articles. Her life is one of the most creative on the planet today.Nicky Skully, author of Alchemical Healing says, "Rowena Pattee Kryder is one of the most brilliant and creative minds of our times."

Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. physicist and featured in "What the Bleep do we know?" says, "Over the years Rowena Pattee Kryder has proven to be one of the finest minds and artists dpicting the spiritual traditions of humankind. I have known her for all these years and she has always continued to amaze me with her deep insights and powerful mystical artwork."