Joel Ayala Ayapana is a Veteran of the United States Air Force, between the years of 1991 to 1996, during Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield, for which he had been assigned to both Iraklion Air Station in Crete, Greece and to Travis Air Force Base, California, during the length of those four years. He is an Honors Graduate of Cleveland State University in 2000 and in 2002, where he completed two Undergraduate Degrees in Psychology and in Nursing. He has been practicing within the specialized nursing field of Behavioral Health as a Registered Nurse for nearly eleven years, now, where he has operated from among variable and exciting hospital environments within behavioral health homecare, Dual Diagnosis and Detoxification, the psychiatric emergency room setting, Veteran case management, and inpatient psychiatry where he is humbly and currently working, now, as a charge nurse on a Behavioral Health Dual Diagnosis Unit in Northeastern Ohio. His inspirational work through the application and instruction of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Positive Thinking, and Heart Science towards populations, from among vast and widening socioeconomic scope of the mentally ill, the homeless, victims of substance abuse, anxiety disorders, and depression has earned him several awards and recognitions within the field of nursing.
Additionally, he has received initiations and blessings from a number of prominent spiritual teachers, including Judy McCracken, Anrita Melchizedek, Solara Anra, Gurmuk Kaur Khalsa, Aluna Joy Yaxk’in, Raphael Greissmeyer, Willaru Huayta and Jennifer Klarfeld. He is a Reiki specialist, a Kundalini Yoga enthusiast, a Light Worker, numerologist, alchemist, a philosopher, an author, writer, traveler, and marathon runner. He is a loving husband, father and a son, a friend and an inspiration, a Seeker of Truths, and an Awakener of Hearts.
Additionally, he has received initiations and blessings from a number of prominent spiritual teachers, including Judy McCracken, Anrita Melchizedek, Solara Anra, Gurmuk Kaur Khalsa, Aluna Joy Yaxk’in, Raphael Greissmeyer, Willaru Huayta and Jennifer Klarfeld. He is a Reiki specialist, a Kundalini Yoga enthusiast, a Light Worker, numerologist, alchemist, a philosopher, an author, writer, traveler, and marathon runner. He is a loving husband, father and a son, a friend and an inspiration, a Seeker of Truths, and an Awakener of Hearts.