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About Celebrating Life
Celebrating Life Ministries (CLM) is a vibrant, interfaith community focused on physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. We help all people in their spiritual walk with the Holy Spirit toward living Christ Consciousness, as embodied by Jesus, the Prophets, and other great Enlightened Masters of all ages and traditions. Our community is rooted in the principle that there is only one religion – the religion of Love.
Many people report miraculous healings in body, mind, and spirit whether they come to our monthly healing events, or they are prayed for daily by our vowed community of monks, friars, and ordained healers. All people who step into this field of grace have a direct experience of the Divine that is unique to them and that lives on in their hearts and in their lives.
Our Leadership Team
Padre Paul Funfsinn
Archbishop
Padre Paul was a mentor under international healer Rev Ron Roth, for 28 years until his passing. Paul now assumes the role of Spiritual Shepherd of this loving community and his mission is to “heal the sick” and “set people free” from oppression and negative energies.
Dana Duryea
Bishop
Dana is an Ordained Spiritual Healer, a devoted Monk and serves as a Bishop within our Celebrating Life Community. He is also the Founder/Director of the Foundation of Spiritual Development in San Rafael, California. Dana is a great teacher that keeps audiences on their toes as you never know what he might do next in his presentations.
Dana’s love for science and the mystical adventures he undertakes has demonstrated to him that there is a Force, a Power and a Presence that leads us every single day by our senses, by our intuitions, and by tuning into the Universe where miracles happen. Dana’s calming energy and wise observations of how energy works will change the way you see things and help participants find ways to tap into this fire that burns within always.
Robert Bearden
Bishop
Renee Plendl
Bishop
In the fall of 2010 Renee was professed a monk in the Spirit of Peace Monastic Community and was professed a bishop in 2023. Since her profession her relationship with the Divine has continued to grow into loving awareness – to live with an open heart.
Other Presenters
Irit Schaffer
Irit Schafer was born in Israel, grew up in Montreal and is now a resident of California. Irit is a published author and her book Good Blood: A Journey of Healing has won numerous awards. She has given talks in Canada and throughout the US and has also been a guest on various podcasts.
Irit began her career as a physical education teacher and coach In Montreal, and her never-ending fascination with the mind-body- spirit connection inspired by her parents’ stories of survival from the holocaust, led her to return to school in CA where she received her Master’s degree of Science in Physical Therapy. In 1997, she was guided to open her own physical therapy practice in San Francisco.
Irit combines her physical therapy and scientific knowledge with her ability to channel the universal healing wisdom of the body. She integrates a variety of energy modalities with vivid storytelling and deep listening. This helps clients with a broad range of disease and disabilities move their inner blocks and open to their own natural healing.
Irit is a space holder, a long time student of FSD, a participant of many CLM events, and is a dear friend to her God Family.
Website: iritschaffer.com
Email: [email protected]
Music Ministry
Ryan Rigoli
Ordained Monk
Ryan is a Musician, Ordained Spiritual Healer, & Professed Monk in Celebrating Life Ministries where he shares God’s healing Presence through devotional music, prayer, and wisdom rooted in the Heart.
As a Spiritual Coach & Teacher, Ryan helps people deepen their intuitive awareness and connection with God. One of his greatest joys is seeing people’s hearts awaken and their Divine presence shine, like a song blessing those around them with its unique tone. Ryan is a teacher at the Foundation for Spiritual Development, an Ananda Sevak with the Golden Age Movement, and is trained as an Integral Coach ®. He has created multiple meditative piano albums which bring people deep peace. You can find out about his music and spiritual coaching practice at www.ryanrigoli.com.
Angelika Schafer
Reverend
Angelika’s gift of music touches the heart; through her inspiring compositions, soothing voice and instruments she channels the frequencies and healing energies of the angelic realms and leads us gently into that deeper space within. She sings ancient chants/Prayers from different traditions, Mantras for healing, Bhajans for singing along and her original songs accompanied by a 50 string Tamboura/Monochord and guitar.
Several contemporary mystics and masters gave special dispensation for Angelika’s music ministry to conduct powerful blessings. She has published 12 CDs and shares her music and inspirational talks worldwide at spiritual gatherings, ceremonies, conferences and healing retreats.
Website: www.AngelikaHealingMusic.com
Email: [email protected]
George Lopez
Professed Monk
George Lopez is a monk with Celebrating Life Ministries and is also blessed to be a part of the music ministry for CLM. He has been a spiritual seeker since a very young age. Playing and singing has always been a path of direct connection to Source for him in this lifetime. In the act of creating he finds some of his deepest and most direct connection to God. Life has taught him that in the end, connection and the path to God is what matters most.
“I am honored to help facilitate the embodiment of the Divine with this
community.”
Email: [email protected]