About Our Advisory Board

The former Editorial Director of ELLE and Deputy Style Editor for the New York Times Magazine, she has covered international spa trends for Real Simple, holistic spa treatments for SELF and massage for O: The Oprah Magazine. Her observations on beauty, wellness, food and travel have also appeared in Vogue, Health, InStyle, Fitness, Ladies Home Journal, Luxury Spa Finder, The New York Times Book Review, ELLE, The New York Post, and many more.

Berg has been a featured speaker at the International Spa Association Conference (ISPA), the Green Spa Network Congress, the American Spa Expo, the Health and Beauty Expo, the Inside Beauty Show, the Global Green Expo, Green Festival, and served as a judge for the Green Spa Network Sustainability Awards, and a brand award judge for Green Fest NYC.

She has been quoted for her expertise in New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Glamour, Redbook, Swedish ELLE, The Daily Mail, Singapore Financial Times, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, CosmoGirl, Working Mother, Reader’s Digest and more.

Berg travels the globe dispensing eco-friendly tips along the way. She has made hundreds of appearances on radio and television shows across the U.S., including The Today Show, Martha Stewart Living and Fox News.

She has been featured on various TV shows, including The Doctors and Extra TV. Dr. Cates is host of The Spa Dr. weekly podcast and her PBS special, Younger Skin From Within.

She believes the key to healthy skin is inner and outer nourishment with natural and non-toxic ingredients. For more visit www.thespadr.com

Her story is a narrative of finding herself at age 20, after literally losing her hair from stress and cheap beauty care products. She was at an all-time low in self-confidence because so much of her life was falling apart. Her journey is about finding her way back to health, which has manifested into her becoming a farmer, and formulating the Wildling Botanicals skincare line, Wildling Herbs. Through her businesses, she brings a much-needed perspective to the beauty world by joining nature and business together, so that she can empower others in health and wellness brands to do the same.

In the 90’s Jaya committed herself to meditating and enrolled in an intensive program at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. She took on a leadership role there before branching out and teaching intuitive development classes in private practice. Jaya earned her Certified Life Coach designation in 2003. Weaving together her years of health and beauty management experience with her intuitive life coaching resulted in her creating the unique niche of strategy coaching for holistic businesses.

Jaya is a speaker at industry events such as The International Esthetics, Cosmetics, and Spa Conferences (IECSC); The Day Spa Expo; and Mind Body Spirit Conference. She had been published and featured in magazines such as Dermascope, NailPro, Women’s Health, and Success. Her Top Holistic Health and Beauty Business Trends has been distributed on Yahoo! Finance and ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliate networks. She has been an Advisory Board Member for the Day Spa Association and a NAMASTA affiliate business coach.

Jaya works internationally, providing individual coaching and consulting by phone and Skype. She has a new online video course called Clients & Cash for holistic practitioners who want to get clients fast. There is a link to get the free portion of the training below. You can also watch her Holistic Pro Show videos on her blog or YouTube.