Founder of the School for Intuitive Ascension | Intuitive Therapy Coach & Master Trainer
Merit Solara Duran is a sought-after intuitive therapist and transformational teacher known for her extraordinary ability to pinpoint the hidden beliefs, emotional pain, and energetic blocks that stand between you and your deepest desires.
A graduate of the Berkeley Psychic Institute and a certified Master Trainer of the Goran Technique™, Merit combines over 20 years of experience in energy healing, emotional repatterning, and psychic development. Her clients often say, “She has a gift for making the unconscious, conscious.”
With advanced training in consciousness work, Merit helps clients and students find and clear the root causes of trauma, patterns, and stored pain—whether imprinted in the unconscious mind or embedded in the physical body. Her methods blend powerful emotional release tools with clairvoyant training, helping students not only heal but also awaken their intuitive gifts with clarity and confidence.
Born to a Chinese-American father and a Japanese-American mother in the culturally rich yet often harsh streets of San Francisco, Merit grew up surrounded by drug use, violence, and emotional neglect. By the age of nine, she was already battling depression and suicidal thoughts. Despite trying years of traditional therapy, nothing could touch the hopelessness she carried—until she discovered the Goran Techniques™.
Using this groundbreaking method, she was able to permanently dissolve the core unconscious programs that had kept her trapped in despair. This healing became the catalyst for her life’s work.
“The deeper you clear, the higher you rise.” – Merit Solara Duran
Today, she trains empaths, healers, and awakening intuitives from around the world to do the same—guiding them to step fully into their power, purpose, and psychic mastery.
Merit is especially known for helping those who feel broken, lost, or “unhelpable”—including clients recovering from narcissistic abuse, childhood neglect, suicidal ideation, and complex emotional patterns that other therapists couldn’t shift.
She is also a recognized clairvoyant and medical intuitive, trusted by clients in the entertainment industry and professional sports. Her School for Intuitive Ascension offers professional certifications in intuitive healing and emotional clearing, with a soul-centered approach that blends grounded skill with cosmic connection.
If you’re ready to shed what’s been holding you back and rise into who you really are—Merit will walk that journey with you.
Co-Director of Education, School for Intuitive Ascension
Clairvoyant Teacher • Star Magic Mentor • Energy Healer
In 1998, Todd began his metaphysical journey, through an out reach program offered by the renowned Berkeley Psychic Institute. In 2000, Todd enrolled in the one year Intensive Clairvoyant Training Program at the Berkeley Psychic Institute of Santa Rosa, California. There, Todd learned the art of “spirit to spirit” communication, developing his innate clairvoyant and healing abilities by participating in hundreds of psychic readings and aura healing sessions.
Upon graduation, Todd enrolled in the teachers program at BPI. Shortly after, he was offered and took the position of Director of the Berkeley Psychic Institute of Santa Rosa. During his time as director, Todd taught and trained hundreds of human souls how to develop their own unique psychic abilities, providing foundational tools and skills to unlock one’s “Inner-Standing”.
Todd has a love and passion for music in all its forms. In 2006, Todd decided to pursue a dream and dove headfirst into the world of music. He developed a band, produced an album and managed to work with a few record labels along the way. Todd was exposed to elements of greed and corruption that altered his life course and perception of the music industry. Although Todd’s dream of musical success (along with his band mates) garnered zero commercial success, the experience brought years of growth he would otherwise not have been gifted.
After the dismantling of Todd’s musical endeavors in 2012, he spent nine years adrift. Processing tremendous grief and battling with depression, addiction to drugs and alcohol and all manor of self sabotage. Todd describes this time in his life as “ the journey through the dark night of the soul”. A journey he believes all humans go through. Dark and light must come into balance if one intends to ascend!
In 2021, Todd enrolled in the Facilitator Training Level 1 program, developed and created by Jerry Sargeant, the founder of Star Magic Healing. Todd is now a certified level 2 Facilitator of Star Magic Healing. Todd now lives in the world of sacred geometry, light language, frequency and code.
Todd’s soul mission is to assist humanity in the ascension process, by utilizing the modalities and skills he has developed. Todd is available to support, nurture and advise. Through the facilitation of healing, Todd is able to locate the root cause of “Dis-ease” within the body, assisting the human soul in the recalibration of their energetic template. Todd is dedicated to the process of empowering each human soul to come into their own divine light and discover who they truly are!
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