This is not just another “feel-good” seminar.
This is a massive, life-changing experience! It’s a hands-on, all in, activity based, experiential event!
There has never been anything like Inner Winners. It’s B.J. Palmer meets Tony Robbins! Inner Winners is transformational and our attendees celebrate incredible changes and growth both personally and professionally. If you want to live a better life, and experience life more deeply and with a truer sense of self, the this is THE event for you!
Inner Winners is uniquely designed to connect head and heart. You will be challenged and you will grow exponentially!
During the day, we will be outside, in nature, participating in events proven to profoundly connect you to your highest self. Incredible events continue into the evening, including a personal FIREWALK Experience.

River Ribley
Ranked as one of the Top 10 Chiropractors in New York for 2006 – 2015 by the Consumer Research Council of America’s Guide to America’s Top Chiropractors, Dr. Jay Handt founded The New York Chiropractic Life Center in 1978 on the Upper WestSide of Manhattan. He is a graduate of York College (The City University of New York)and The New York Chiropractic College, a diplomate of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, a member of the Board of Trustees of Life University, where he is also a President’s Circle member and is on the board of directors of New Beginnings Seminars.
He teaches on the post-graduate faculty of Life University. He is a founding member of The New York Chiropractic Council, a member of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association and a founding member of One Chiropractic.
Jay lectures on chiropractic care, personal growth, and motivation worldwide, and creates programs for groups and businesses, depending on their needs. He presents ropes courses to prospective students at Life University, allowing the participants to develop and focus on skills for achieving personal growth in all phases of life. For more than twenty years, Jay has also presented fire walking programs to help people break free from their limitations.
Kathi holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in music from Brooklyn College, and her creativity is evident in everything she does. She is a personal growth seminar leader, a motivational speaker, and a certified ropes course facilitator. She is on the board of directors of New Beginnings Seminars. She currently lectures on leadership and teamwork as well as facilitates the ropes course for chiropractic students considering enrollment at Life University. At many Inner Winners programs, she leads a spiritual portion of the program; something she has done since the early 1990’s.
Kathi works closely with Jay on all of their programs, from creation to implementation. Kathi is one of the three founders and organizers of Business Success Team, a networking group whose purpose is for its members to support each other with sound business tips and referrals. She is also a founding member and board member of League of Chiropractic Women, an international organization bringing women to the forefront in chiropractic leadership, politics and success, and speaks internationally on chiropractic stages. In addition to raising three children, she has worked as a stock and bond broker, real estate broker, and travel agent.
Kathi and Jay co-authored “Retire In Practice,” a book that grew out of a dream at Inner Winners, helping others discover the perfect formula for more passion, purpose and abundance. They are active in community service. Together they have donated their time and talents to ChiroMission and Chiromissions, organizations that deliver free chiropractic care to thousands in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Trinidad, and Cuba, to the Marine Corps’ “Toys for Tots” program to help the needy, and to City Harvest food drives. It is their mission to help others constantly create excellence in their health and lives.
Inner Winners was born in the late ” 80’s by Chuck “River” Ribley and his wife, “Sunshine” Ruth. In 1990 Jay and Kathi Handt became partners with Inner Winners. 8 to 10 programs were held for years, each lasting 3 days to 10 days in: Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Florida and Georgia.
From the beginning, fire-walking has been an integral part of the Inner Winners Seminars along with their very unique and effective experiential training. Inner Winners continues on a mission of “a world inner-directed.” Inner Winners was created to facilitate an empowerment of an individual to the “Spirit within” and allow that to be ones guidance in “living their dream.”
Sunshine & River Ribley
In 1998 Inner Winners concentrated their activity in Europe, mostly in Spain and Wales. In 2014 they once again started having Inner Winners twice a year in Dahlonega, Georgia along with seminars in Europe. In 2014 Inner Winners started yearly programs in Melbourne, Australia.