Inula Martinkat, Ph.D. earned her doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology and has studied extensively in India, Europe, as well as in the United States for the past 30 years. Among the spiritual teachers she has been influenced by are Osho, Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, and Byron Katie. Dr. Martinkat has also had substantial training in the field of body-mind therapy as well as spiritual development. Her areas of focus include meditation, expanded states of consciousness, women’s spirituality, death and dying counseling, Gestalt Therapy, EMDR, hypnotherapy and emotional clearing processes.

Dr. Martinkat is the co-founder and Academic Dean of IUPS, and is particularly interested in mentoring students in the areas of consciousness studies, women’s spirituality, and the spiritual dimension of counseling.