Sane Living was founded in 2014 by Innovator & Futurist Aubrey Balkind. At a very young age Aubrey almost died of typhoid in South Africa. After recovering from this illness, Aubrey realized that his body could self-heal without medication by eating the right food. In his mid-twenties following Robert F. Kennedy’s world civil rights tour in South Africa, in 1966, inspired Aubrey to emigrate to New York in 1968 where he graduated with an MBA, honors, at Columbia University and then entered into high level management consulting at Arthur Young where he worked for 4 years. In 1972 Aubrey founded Frankfurt Balkind one of the country’s most innovative branding, design and advertising firms with Steve Frankfurt, who was President of Young & Rubicam and who influenced the beginning of the MAD MEN TV series. Frankfurt Balkind grew quickly opening offices in New York, Los Angeles & San Francisco, focusing on entertainment, finance and technology industries. Frankfurt Balkind created over 1,500 design campaigns for well known movies, many of them Oscar winning. Some of these movies include Rosemary’s Baby, Alien, Forest Gump, Fatal Attraction, & Titanic to name a few. Aubrey helped launch many companies inclding CNN, ESPN, HBO, MCI, RCN, MTV, Adobe, Acrobat, and About.com from 1977-1993.
Aubrey Balkind
In 2010, after spending time with his step uncle Sydney Brenner, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology, Medicine and DNA in 2002, Aubrey started Sane Living to focus on Lifestyle Based Health and Self-Healing. Sane Living promotes the health of people & planet by illuminating life’s inherent Self Healing regenerative nature. Striving to create the simplest, most powerful paths to health and well-being with offerings of shared experiences, media production, and POV knowledge. Sane Living shares Lifestyle tips for a healthy way to live and provides resources, classes and videos and information on its website to make meaningful and easy changes to the way you live. Sane Living Event Space Sane Living Event Space
The Sane Living Center is a recently rebuilt beautiful auditorium, film production studio, and venue, ideally situated in the heart of Ojai, California. This high technology space can be attended or rented and hosts a variety of lifestyle events, conferences, film screenings, film & music festivals, artistic performances, lectures and talks, business functions, community events, special occasions, private celebrations, and more. On the outside lawn Aubrey designed and created a sculpture called EVO 3 comprised of 3 eras – Nature, Sapiens and AI, (artificial Intelligence), with local artist Ray Cirino, see back cover. The Ojai Health Intensive (OHI) took place at the Sane Living Center in Jan 2020 approximately at the start of Covid, led by the renowned Dr. Hans Gruenn of the Longevity Medical Center. The event featured many leading-edge speakers from the health & wellness industry in Ojai including Byron Katie of The Work and Wild at Heart’s fermented specialist Michelle Lopez. The focus of the event was centered around Lifestyle (nature, sapiens and AI) and Self-Heal (EAT, MOVE, DE-TOX & DE-STRESS) to keep our bodies healthy which is the central philosophy of the Sane Living Center.
Sydney Brenner Sydney Brenner
Dr. Hans Gruenn – Leader of OHI Conference
Byron Katie –The Work Byron Katie –The Work
The Sane Living farm is an extension of the Center. It is a quiet & serene 20+ acre avocado/citrus fruit and vegetable permaculture orchard in Ojai, California, situated in the mountains on the edge of the Los Padres National Forest which extends northward 400 miles. Sane Living is excited to announce its collaboration with Ojai native Michael Brian Baker of The Academy of Integrated Human Sciences, aka The Breath Center. Michael Brian Baker is a beloved teacher of Southern and Northern American Spiritual Theory and practice. He is the Creator of “The Anatomy of Awakening” curriculum, which has garnered him a well-deserved reputation for taking large groups of people through an initiatory rite that reveals their true essence and fills them with a profound sense of hope. For nearly 20 years he has skillfully blended Western Medical Science with Eastern Vedic Philosophy, and is a featured Keynote speaker at Bastyr University, The Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders, UCLA’s Psychedelic Science Symposium, Holistic Veterans Foundation and Nationally Accredited Substance Abuse Treatment Centers. He is the founder of True Awakening and The Breath Center Healing Arts Collective.
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