Diana - Director/Tour Leader
Diana is a visionary, a philosopher and a teacher. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Yoga Instructor and Certified Hypnotherapist with an emphasis on personal empowerment and releasing limiting beliefs.
She has been a world traveler for 20+ years,
but it is her spiritual journey that has taken her to such places as Buddhist retreats in Nepal, Islamic home stay in Kashmir, trekking in the Caucaus mountains to a historic orthodox church set high above Kasbegi, Georgia, exploring the Mayan pyramids of Guatemala and Belize, hiking El Camino Inca (The Inca Trail) to Machu Picchu, the ancient mystical site of Delphi in Greece, the Khmer temples & palaces of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and celebrating the Sikh's holy day with thousands of Sikh pilgrims at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.
Her mission is to inspire and assist others to discover and embrace their personal power; and to promote understanding and peaceful community amongst cultures. Her vehicle to accomplish this mission is foreign travel, ritual and teaching Self-exploration.
Washington - Tour Leader
If you are fortunate enough meet Washi you will see a very gentle man, an open heart, kindness, empathy, exuberant in life as well as an intelligent entrepreneurial young man who has learned through his life experiences what it means to be one with your people. We call him “Washi the Unstoppable”…he just gets things done.
Jenni - Tour Leader
Jenni has a Master’s in Acupuncture, and is a Certified Yoga Instructor.
She has been traveling the world for over 20 years, often alone, or with other women. Her journeys have taken her across the many landscapes of India, through the Himalayas of Nepal both by foot and by mountain bike, into the historical, fascinating land of Turkey, traversing the Straight of Gibraltar and into the alluring world of Morocco, biking through the Pueblos Blanco’s of Spain, lounging along the gorgeous beaches of Portugal, and immersing herself in the heart of the Incan Empire now known as Peru, as well as Thailand, Greece, Indonesia, Venezuela, and Bolivia, to name a few.
Her training as a healer and teacher along with her wanderlust and enthusiasm for exploring the world, are a powerful, inspirational and motivational combination for guiding you to your edges and beyond.
Rob Cooper - Tour Leader
Rob Cooper, also known as the Former Fat Guy once weighed 475 pounds. Through a system of natural health, whole foods and a basic walking program of 20 minutes a day, lost nearly 300 pounds of fat over 2 and a half years.
He began weight training and put on over 50 pounds of muscle in the years since, lowering his body fat even further.
He’s the author of Fat Loss Fundamentals and 12 Weeks To Better Eating – a step by step guide to improving what and how you eat, one habit at a time, and hosted an internet based talk radio show in 2003 called "The Former Fat Guy Show - Fit Wise & Well".
Rob enjoys being active. He’s a red belt in Taekwondo and has white water rafted in Alberta and British Columbia Canada, and Costa Rica. He summited Mt Kilimanjaro in 2006 and climbed to Mt Everest base camp in the fall of 2008. Rob recently took up skydiving and has logged 40 jumps. He’s 41 years of age at the time of this writing and in his own words – gets younger every day. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta Canada and his website Former Fat Guy has been online since 1995.
"Rob could just as easily be found in a gym, meditating, gone for a walk, reading a book, stepping out the door of an airplane at 13,000 feet and then asking for a big mug of green tea".
His mission is to inspire people to take action on their health and weight by becoming active in fitness, changing their beliefs about what they can accomplish, and becoming more passionate about what they do and who they are; to teach others that anything is possible and nothing happens by accident. His website is: www.formerfatguy.com
Jackie - Tour Leader/Facilitator
Jackie is a peace advocate, adventurer, a gifted intuit, healer, ordained Minister, 
Reiki master and teacher. She is a certified Hypnotherapist and a graduate of Northwest School of Healing and an Artist Way facilitator.
Jackie has walked the Andes in Ecuador, danced, played on the beaches and explored Greece. She has sailed the waters of Mexico and traveled to Dharamsala, India to hear His Holiness Dali Lama teachings and basked in the Himalayas in Vashisht, the Valley of the Gods. She lives simply in a yurt in Leavenworth with her husband Dave, and creates collages from her trips and spiritual experiences. She is an adventurer of the body, mind and spirit. Her love is to create ritual, finding community worldwide and to experience travel as a spiritual journey. Her dream is that we will have world peace through inner peace.
Rajan - Tour Leader
Rajan has been taking tour groups into the remote regions of Nepal and 
Tibet for over 14 years, amounting to hundreds of trips. Diana sought out Rajan, in Kathmandu, because of his amazing reputation and testimonials from other travelers. His service is impeccable and carried out with great integrity….and his compassion for his fellow Nepalis is legendary.
Rajan is also licensed and experienced to design tours in India, Tibet and Bhutan and we will be happy to help you design an “add-on” to your Never End Peace and Love Tour with us!
P. S. Rajan has an interesting side-line talent as well…he is a television comedian in Nepal! What a diverse guy, huh?
Julie - Tour Leader/Facilitator
Owner and President of Distinctive Management Co. which offers 
Inspiring and Motivational products andservices including “InspireABook – be the author of your dreams”™ A program designed to inspire first time authors to self-publish. She is also the co-founder of a non-profit which supports education and well-being of women and children in Cambodia. She is a radio talk show guest on many shows including CFAX1070AM, featured on British TV (Anglia TV and satellite) and Shaw TV Daily show in Victoria B.C. She is currently co-hosting a documentary series on “Compassionate Women” for Supreme Master TV interviewing women she met during her travels in Cambodia and Lao about empowering local women.
Her book, “A Seven Year Journey Around the World – Discovering My Passion and Purpose” helped her to discover her true self and she now helps to guide women on their own path to self-discovery.
She has visited over 35 countries and lived in South Africa, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, an Indian Ocean Desert Island, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada and of course, England. She now lives in Victoria B.C. with her husband Greg.
Darlene - Photographer/Tour Leader
Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Darlene brings her passion for travel and personal growth to Red Lotus as well as her amazing talent for 
capturing "feelings" in her photography. She is a seasoned traveler having spent time in Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Peru, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. Darlene loves exotic locales, exotic food and experiencing different countries directly through the local people and the cultural arts.
She also enjoys helping others and is honored to be part of Red Lotus. Her other passion is fitness and health, which comes in handy hiking the Andes! Her vision is to share her artistic talents through teaching “the art of seeing”, and to spread love and tolerance through the experience of truly connecting with and understanding people of different cultures. You can enjoy her photography at her website: www.herview.ca and her blog www.herviewphotography.com
Janelle - Photographer/Tour Leader
A world traveler from a young age, her adventures through Europe, Australia & the South Pacific, South East Asia, and frequent visits to Trinidad & Tobago have inspired her love of capturing the world around her through photography
. As we are all impacted visually, by photographing worlds which not everyone has the opportunity to see we are given the ability to tell a story about a family, an experience, a culture, a cause, without uttering a word. The possibilities are endless. Her most impacting travels have been to Trinidad, where she has had the opportunity to develop a relationship with the Cyril Ross Nursery which houses children living with HIV. Having spent several months photographing the children and providing them with massage therapy, she has visited the orphanage in 2006 and 2008 alongside her husband, Dave. They plan to return in 2010.
Janelle is an award winning professional photographer and a graduate of the Western Academy of Photography. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she has lived throughout western Canada and currently resides with her husband in Victoria, BC... for now. You can visit her website at: www.jpanphotography.com
Michelle - Tour Assistant
Michelle has embraced every opportunity to travel starting from 
a young age. It began with her family taking her on long road trips across Canada, from British Columbia as far as Quebec, on four different occasions. She has now done that same journey, and much more, in her adult life. Michelle has also attended University in Florence, Italy, where she traveled the country on her days off from school. Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Western USA, Finland, Germany, Austria and Dominican Republic are other countries that she has gratefully visited.
Michelle has assisted with Red Lotus Tours in Peru. Understanding the value of adventure and personal growth, Michelle enjoys guiding others in unforgettable experiences which open their mind and hearts.
She holds an Associate Degree and many certifications in the health and fitness industry.
Cricket - Tour Assistant
Cricket is a Licensed Massage Therapist, childbirth doula andyoga teacher. Her love of people and places far and wide has inspired her to travel, informed her life choices, and given her an ever-expanding definition of the words 'home' and 'family'. She believes in the spiritual alchemy of journey, adventure, and surrender: these create the potential for the unknown to illuminate one's truest self, and offer the richness of experiencing different cultures as a path to embodying wholeness and harmony.
