Sylva Dvorak Ph.D.

Sylva Dvorak, PhD is a holistic counselor, social entrepreneur, and author who maintains a part-time private counseling practice while serving as Chief Inspiration Officer and President of the I AM Foundation and a consultant for several social-cause organizations.

Sylva received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her PhD in Psychoneurology and Integrative Healing from Beurin University in Los Angeles. She is a regular guest lecturer at several universities and is the International Chapter President of the Association of Natural Health.

Sylva has consulted for Fortune 100-500 companies, worked with top corporate executives, spoken at international corporate events, and shared the stage with Don Miguel Ruiz, Marci Schimoff, Janet Bray Attwood, Chris Attwood, Phil Town, Mary Morrissey, Marcia Weider, and numerous others.

Sylva's commitment to help others find their personal freedom goes back to her experiences as a young child. She and her family escaped from what was then Czechoslovakia during the Soviet Union occupation and at that time she spent time in refugee camps.

Sylva lives and breathes what she teaches and remains devoted to her daily spiritual and physical practice. She is passionate about merging spiritual wisdom with scientific understanding of the body and mind and how that can lead to healing and inner transformation.

Sylva is a co-author of Your Hidden Riches - Unleashing the Power of Ritual to Create a of Life of Meaning and Purpose with Janet Bray Attwood and Chris Attwood. Your Hidden Riches provides a real-world guide for busy modern achievers to harness the power of ritual to create a rhythm to their life by managing their time, energy, and thinking, as well as tapping into their inner "hidden riches" to align themselves with their unique Life Design.

Through intensive interviews with top performers around the world, Sylva discovered the world's most successful people have private rituals they perform on a daily basis to achieve peak performance, stay calm under pressure, and balance their energy across all areas of their lives.

Upon aligning powerful rituals with their unique genius (i.e., natural talents and passions), busy modern achievers are able to lock in to a state of "flow", where obstacles become almost effortless to overcome and goals are much more easily achieved.

It is Sylva's deep understanding of human nature, a life-time of personal experiences and study and application of ritual, and a commitment to a life of contribution that added to the depth and breath of their book.