Our Founder (Dr. Joe Powers)

Dr. Joe Powers, kinesiologist, therapist, author, and long-time practitioner of various forms of meditation, has been teaching a wide variety of groups for nearly a decade. His lectures and workshops aim towards expanding consciousness towards kindness and opening the heart to love through guided meditation, breathing techniques, visualization exercises and group discussion.

Who is Dr. Joe Powers?

For more than a decade, Joe Powers has been fascinated with the mind, specifically, how thoughts affect behavior and health. His research began in his early college days, when he was accepted into a rigorous honors research program at Temple University. As an undergraduate, Powers studied the mind-body connection with athletes, and his revolutionary research found that athletes could actually create brain chemicals to enhance performance through simple visualization and self-hypnosis techniques.

After his undergraduate study, Powers went on to received his Masters in Education and Doctoral degrees from Temple University. While pursuing his graduate education in the field of Exercise and Sport Psychology, Powers’ interest in the mind-body connection continued, as he began to explore this within the addiction community. Working at such prestigious institutions as The University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, Powers developed various research studies with heroin and cocaine users, aimed at understanding the role of exercise and holistic health approaches towards combating their addiction. His work in addiction research led to a landmark publication in the American Journal on Addictions, outlining a year-long study which promoted the use of exercise within addiction rehabilitation.

During his graduate schooling, Power’s career path veered in many directions, taking him initially into the medical writing field, where he published nearly fifty articles, many of which were syndicated to a variety of health journals and magazines. His work in writing, and especially his continued editorial towards alternative medicinal approaches, quickly gained him exposure in the holistic health community, and in 1999, Powers was hired as Vice President of Content, for WellPlanet, a growing media company focused on natural health and wellness.

Powers thrived in the media world, transitioning eventually from content to business development. After a year at WellPlanet, he moved to New York where he oversaw the business development of a health television company, and where he gained exposure to the many aspects of corporate life.

Wanting to truly grow creatively, Powers left the media world in 2001 and was hired by one of the largest pharmaceutical companies to oversee an innovative think tank, aimed at creating novel tools to promote health education. Within a year, Powers had created four patented award-winning tools that revolutionized aspects of pharmaceutical marketing through cutting edge technology. In 2001 he was recognized as one of the top performers in the Company and as an expert in technological innovation. His tools, such as OsteoEx, a palm-pilot program for people with osteoporosis, continue to be used by physicians and patients around the world.

… And then a major shift occurred. Powers’ desire to better understand the mind-body connection, and more specifically, to help people overcome self-doubt, anxiety, depression, and negative thought patterning, could not be squelched, despite his growing success in the corporate world.

In March 2003, Powers left the Corporate world to follow a lifelong calling to help people unlock their unlimited potential and open their hearts through kindness and generosity. His vision soon was cemented in the creation of Soul Graffiti LLC. Pulling together all of his past experiences in the media, Internet, and business worlds, within weeks after its website launch, www.soulgraffiti.com, Soul Graffiti became home to an international audience of thousands of people. Soul Graffiti’s mission was simple: to raise an awareness of conscious acts of kindness, through a supportive and nurturing environment where people could share stories and learn to overcome adversity with love and compassion for all.

After only a month, SoulGraffiti.com registered more than 100,000 hits to its web site and stories began pouring in from around the world. Soul Graffiti began to gain interest with many celebrity authors, psychologists, and spiritualists, who resonated with the powerful message of kindness. Soon these celebrities began to seek participation and Soul Graffiti began to further blossom into a company the espoused love, compassion, and generosity for all.

At the insistence of many students, Powers produced the flame meditation on
CD and released it in the Spring of 2004.

In 2004, Soul Graffiti along with Powers' Flame Meditation increased in popularity. Powers‚ meditation classes began to increase as well and took him to such places as Australia, Canada, Israel, Puerto Rico, and all around the United States. Besides his workshops, Powers began a weekly meditation class in Middletown, NJ, where people of all background come together to practice mindfulness and redirect their thoughts towards love and kindness.

In addition to his teaching, Powers released his first book in March 2004, titled Soul Graffiti: Stories That Inspire Action. The book shares his inspirational story of the creation of Soul Graffiti, along with stories from the hearts of people around the world. Unlike many of the other inspirational books and stories, like its title states, Powers’ Soul Graffiti: Stories That Inspire Action is about more than emotion, it is about action. These stories are infused with a sense of growth and were compiled by Powers in an effort to motivate others to appreciate, and more importantly, to perform, even the smallest act of kindness, which he says, “will surely leave an eternal mark on the life of another.”

Due to the success of his first book, Powers hopes to release a revised edition of Soul Graffiti in late 2005 with double the stories and a Foreword by the Dalai Lama. He also looks to publish his first self-help volume, titled The Veil of Consciousness, a book on self-realization and overcoming self-defeating belief systems. Both of these books are currently being reviewed by several interested publishers.

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