blake mclemore
Blake McLemore is a licensed Massage Therapist trained in Myofascial Release (John Barnes Technique), Deep Tissue, Watsu Water Therapies, Relaxation Therapies, and Integrative Thai-style Bodywork. He is currently a student of Anat Baniel in her Feldenkrais Method training, as well as a continuing student of Paul Fowler and Paul Weitz in Traditional Thai Massage. Blake blends clinical analysis and intuition to support his clients, and help them heal.

He has had consistent success treating clients with:

-chronic neck pain,
-digestive discomfort
-chronic headaches
-anxiety
-lower back pain
-upper and mid back pain
-knee pain and weakness
-high stress related symptoms
-frozen shoulder among other symptoms.

Sessions are specific to clients' needs, and are offered at 1 hour, 90 minutes, and 2 hours. References available upon request.

www.myofascialrelease.com
www.anatbanielmethod.com

cathleen fitzpatrick
For the past twenty years Cathleen has been developing a greater sense of understanding for the body through movement training and dance. Twelve of those years were spent dancing professionally with modern dance companies traditionally rooted in African and other vibrational techniques. She has a passion for choreography and teaching children creative ways to express themselves through movement. Cathleen incorporates these talents into her approach to healing, which is very muscle specific, with a true gift for recognizing and targeting imbalances in the body. She works intuitively combining tissue manipulation with energy work to facilitate the alignment of spirit and body, movement recovery, and performance enhancement. Her philosophy incorporates a great deal of education for her clients on preventive medicine and pro-active lifestyles. Cathleen is nationally certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork. The spine of her practice includes Swedish, Deep tissue, and energy balancing. She is a certified Reiki 3 practitioner, pre- natal therapist, and incorporates myo-facial release into the healing process. In her practice, she works intuitively with her clientele to create and facilitate a natural, inspiring release of unwanted energies creating optimal health while merging paths of mind, body, and well-being.

monica yearwood
In 2002, Monica started studying Ayurveda at Maharishi University of Management through the introduction of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Transcendental Meditation technique. While she was there she was fortunate to study with world renowned physicist and Vedic Science teacher, Dr. John Haeglin. Since then, she has studied with one of the foremost Western Buddhist Scholars and best selling author Lama Surya Das, Dr. Mark Halpern of the California College of Ayurveda, and Drs. Brian and Light Miller of the Florida Vedic College, where she was individually selected by them as a Pancha Karma apprentice. She has received her certification in Reiki levels I and II, and is a certified yoga teacher, licensed massage therapist, and the recipient of an associates degree in Dhanvantari Ayurveda from the Florida Vedic College and Pancha Karma technician.

She currently practices in Chicago at YogaNow.

To find out more about Ayurvedic Therapies,
please check Monica's website:
www.vedictherapies.com

To book an appointment, please call Monica directly 312-280-9642

PAULA BATTAGLIO
Paula began her journey as a healer 25 years ago when she met a wonderful shamanic healer who inspired her to learn more about energetic healing modalities. It completely transformed her life, and awakened a deep passion for supporting the healing, spiritual awakening and empowerment of others.

Her first area of study was Therapeutic Touch, an energetic modality used by many nurses to accelerate the healing of hospital patients. Her journey has continued with Healing Touch, Pranic Healing, Quantum Touch, Reiki, Nomena, and Healing Spectrums. She has studied with Billie Topa Tate at the Mystical Sciences Institute in Evanston, and is certified as a Master Space Clearer, Nomena Healer-Teacher, and is currently in a master Mystical Feng Shui Certification program. She has also studied Quantum Touch with Richard Gordon, Pranic Healing with Stephen Co, Healing Spectrums with Thomas Gates, and is a certified Reiki Master Teacher through Karen and Steve Mitchell.

At YogaNow, Paula offers Healing Spectrums treatments. Healing Spectrums is a very powerful modality. In these simple “non-touch” sessions, Paula is able to draw upon those spectrums that help enliven the body’s natural healing ability. The coherence created through these universal spectrums reduces the level of chaos in the affected areas and uncovers the presence of subtle physical anomalies or “artifacts” within the body.

As these artifacts are released, an enhanced process of healing begins through the increased coherence and integration of body and consciousness. This process also enlivens awareness along with a more expanded sense of perception and connectedness.

She also offers Reiki and Reikissage treatments.

YOLI MAYA YEH
Yoli Ma is now offering Thai Yoga Therapy along with private Yoga Therapy sessions. Yoli Ma has been practicing Thai Yoga for ten years, completing her studies with the famous Mama Lek, a former head of Thai Yoga Therapy at Wat Po in Bangkok . Yoli is offering one hour, one and half hour, and a two hour sessions which includes a full body herbal steam pack treatment with fresh herbs. Thai Yoga's unique nerve and ccu-pressure point stimulation is combined with Yoga positions the therapist manipulates you into. Herbal steam packs following the hands-on treatment increase circulation, soothe the muscles and further relax the body with natural aromatherapy.

DARRA
Bio coming soon. Please check back.

JANET BASS
Janet enjoy's assisting the body in bio-energetic alignment so that your mind, body and spirit are in agreement with your purpose. A consummate world traveler, she has assisted hundreds of people around the planet to open their hearts to moving forward in their lives in a loving and compassionate way through body and energy work.

KIMBERLY HOWELL
Kim Howell is a Reiki master. She started practicing in 2004 and completed her mastership training in October 2005. Previously she taught 5th/6th grade and did Reiki in her free time, but she is now excited to be offering treatments full time. Reiki brings healing and balance to the body, mind, and spirit. During treatments, Kim uses a light touch to channel universal healing energy to her clients. Reiki balances the chakras (energy centers), clears the aura, removes blockages and negativity, and helps to improve the flow of energy through the body. One client described her treatment as “a massage for the soul.”

As a musician, Kim also likes to incorporate relaxing music and sound healing into her treatments. She feels that music can directly reach the soul. Tuning forks of different frequencies are used to help balance their corresponding chakras.

Kim can focus on specific areas of the body where a client may be experiencing pain, or give a general treatment for the whole body to clear away stress and negativity that build up during our busy, everyday lives. The treatments are relaxing and painless. Each treatment is approximately one hour long.

LISA PERSICO
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RUBEE BLACKRIVER
Rubee Blackriver found yoga and his mystic path 15 years ago while on assignment in Africa as a dignitary protection specialist. After contracting malaria in West Africa, he was healed holistically by a village shaman with herbs, prayers, and drumming. That same shaman later named and initiated Rubee into the shamanic arts. Since being infused with the healing spirit, Rubee has created a unique practice combining several healing and expressive arts that honors his African and Native American ancestry. Rubee uses a holistic approach to protecting and securing the mind, body, and spirit. His work assisting and advising high profile clients has earned him the title of "Local Light!" by Chicago Sun Times celebrity columnist, Bill Zwecker.

SAMANATHA KOTKAT
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MARY HUDDLESTON
Mary Huddleston is a Certified Sacred Sound Practitioner. She has studied and worked with Richard Rudis in all of his Sacred Sound workshops in the Chicago area for the past 5 years. In September 2007, Richard Rudis authorized her to teach Intro Level Sacred Sound Classes.

Mary has travelled to Tibet, Nepal and India to enhance her connection with and knowledge of Himalayan Bowl, Tingshaws, Ghantas/Vajras. In addition to her work with the Himalayan Instruments of Sound, she is a musician who also studies and works with the healing and transcendant vibrations of Sanskrit Mantra. She incorporates these modalities, as well as her Reiki training into her sessions.

SHANTAL ALONSO
Shantal Alonso began studying and practicing the Usui Reiki system as part of her own self-healing journey. Reiki sparked a genuine shift in consciousness by opening her heart, mind and spirit to receiving the information and guidance she needed to heal within and without, to embrace her true self, and to finally bring to light her creative passions. Shantal experienced a truly holistic transformation, which inspired her to explore various forms of healing for herself and others, including Jin Shin Do and aromatherapy.

Reiki is a gentle, non-invasive "laying of the hands" technique that conveys warmth, serenity, nurturing love and healing. Reiki involves guiding universal energy to flow through the hands: it brings harmony and balance by getting to the root cause of any disease and restoring the flow of energy in the chakras. As a Reiki practitioner, Shantal channels this loving energy, integrating soothing sounds, visualizations, intuition and intent, in order to bring comfort and help awaken her clients' abilities to contribute to their own healing process by applying it to their everyday lives.

Sessions are specific to clients' needs: the energy may be focused on any area of the client's life (past, present or future) or specific areas of the body. Reiki automatically relieves stress, but deeper benefits can manifest depending on the client's needs and wants.

JONATHAN MEYER
Jonathan's somatic therapy combines aspects of massage, physical therapy, energy work, and movement education. A typical session would involve some hands-on work and some movement facilitation. Somatic therapy is a broad and flexible approach readily adaptable to the specific needs of the client. Client and therapist work together to determine the best approach to the meet the client's needs. It can offer massage and relaxation, pain and stress reduction, recovery from injury or surgery, and overcoming difficulties with organs, nerves, or endocrine glands. It is a powerful approach for addressing trauma and psycho-somatic issues. It provides valuable tools for growth in physical practices such as yoga, dance, acting, and sports.

Somatic therapy also works with developmental movement and reflexes: the basic physiological patterns and responses an infant is engaged with in order to develop complex adult coordination. This can be valuable for infants with developmental challenges and for parents seeking to better understand their infant's developmental arc and help facilitate this journey.

Jonathan Meyer has a certificate in Somatic Movement Education (The School for Body-Mind Centering) and is a graduate of the Carolina School of Massage Therapy. He holds a BA in dance from UNC Greensboro. Over the last 20 years, he has studied a wide range of movement forms and healing modalities, including aikido, taiji, capoeira, butoh, yoga, contemporary dance, gymnastics, meditation, healing touch, and authentic movement. His work is particularly informed by Body-Mind Centering (BMC). For more on BMC, visit www.bodymindcentering.com).
Jonathan is Artistic Director of Khecari, a non-profit contemporary dance company (www.khecari.org).

RICH COTTER
Rich is a graduate of Chicago School Of Massage Therapy Class 61 in 2002. He has over 600 accredited hours and studied reiki with Reiki Master John Sparks at The Insight Awareness Center in Homewood and a 200 hour Yoga Anusara Inspired Yoga teacher training at Soderword in Hickory Hills. He specializes in swedish massage, sports massage and is trained in deep tissue. Rich also been an athlete playing Division 1 soccer at Loyola University and he understands how to work with various injuries. He preaches that getting a massage before a yoga class is like a bath in the fountain of your because it will add greater extension to opening muscles that were previously restricted and make it easier to root your joints into proper position so you can connect deeper to your own strength and ground into Mother Earth. Its that experience that will realign your posture even better and make a more and younger version of you.

Ryan Lee
Reflexology is a safe, natural, and enjoyable way to reduce stress, relax deeply, and encourage the body's natural healing ability. Practitioners of reflexology perceive the body and life of their clients holistically: everything is interconnected.

Through the feet, reflexologists use a combination of direct pressure, holding, and massage techniques to relax, energize, and rebalance the entire body/mind.

Ryan Lee is full-time foot reflexologist, offering Traditional Japanese Reflexology treatments in several Chicago locations. Ryan's teacher, Eric Huffman, lived and trained extensively in Japan under master reflexologist Ando Haruki. Ryan's apprenticeship has been rigorous and rewarding, spending nearly 30 hours each week learning all aspects of his trade. And while Ryan's apprenticeship has him deeply rooted in the traditions of foot reflexology, he also recognizes reflexology as an art, open to evolution and adaptation to meet the needs of each and every client. For more information, please visit www.RyanLee.me. Thank you!

Michelle Bastian
Michelle Bastian is a Certified Energy Therapist and Transformational Coach ...modulating frequencies and balancing chakras to facilitate breakthroughs in your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being and inspiring you to increase your experience of divine laughter & ecstatic joy. Her individual sessions incorporate and gourmet intuitive blending of Matrix Energetics, Acutonics, Gem Stone, Color, Light and Sound Therapies, Chakra Reconstruction and other Vibrational Healing Modalities and involves a blend of awareness thru Spiritual Traditions and Communications Technologies. She graduated with honors from Seattle based EarthWalk School of Energy Healing…a pioneer in the field of energy healing and vibrational medicine education… bridging the gap between the world of Energy Healing and mainstream western medicine. They are recognized by the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) as well as being the first Washington State Licensed Vocational Technical School for Energy Healing Certification (and first in the country to be recognized with this status).

In addition…Michelle is also certified thru …Matrix Energetics… a dynamic groundbreaking Energy method that transforms reality at the quantum level. This new paradigm gives you instant access to new states of awareness which make it possible to interact with the material world and transform it - to affect change connected to past traumas, injuries and emotional patterns. Matrix Energetics shows us how we can consciously choose to observe in a different way. As a natural extension of changing your way of perceiving, your old reality collapses and new possibilities materialize instantly. Matrix Energetics itself is not a technique but a consciousness shift. You're creating an altered state, a different reality, which you energize and give life to with your active imagination. And it can all happen now.

Michelle magically weaves in the Matrix Energetic frequencies in the Core Energy Practices to create powerful results for her clients. Results have even been as profound as manifesting life…as many of her female clients have been able to conceive a child successfully where other more mainstream western methods were unable to achieve results. One client even shared…’I went to see my acupuncturist that day and she refused to work on me because I was in such a good place! She had never seen my pulses so healthy and alive. She told me I should see your more often because you obviously have more affect on me than the acupuncture! Not only that but the laughter and playfulness you sent me was awed by the people in that office! I had them crying they were laughing so hard!

Shift your auric field to the colors, lights and sounds of a 'New Vibration' with Energy Therapist...Michelle Bastian

Greg Sklar
Bodyworker, Modern Medicine Man & Massage Therapist, Greg Sklar, seeks clients with an infinite desire to improve their life with the treatment of alternative medicine. He seeks those with chronic illness or sickness, as well as those in recovery. As a Licensed Massage Therapist he will work with and teach clients muscle and connective tissue recovery techniques to satisfy relief of internal issues, as well as give advice on alternative treatments that may be beneficial in healing the sick, or discuss ways to assist in the healing of a loved one, with respect to where Western Medicine leaves off.

Greg Sklar seeks to share healing work because his lungs spontaneously collapsed during his formative years in a reoccurring fashion, and was once one who slid from the grasps of Western Medicine, and its inability to help him, into the arms of successful alternative healing. Greg Sklar understands and knows how to help those who suffer, educate those who support those who suffer and bridge the gap between Western & Alternative Medicine.

Specialties:
Pulmonary Function
Muscle & Connective Tissue
Alternative Healing Consultation

Yoga Now appointments available all day on Wednesdays & Saturdays.

Gustavo de la Torre
Gustavo de la Torre embodies healing as a way of life and is passionate about massage therapy, which first initiated him into this path of healing. Gustavo is always looking for the most advance and effective forms of healing he can find. Besides relaxing therapies Gustavo has trained in Deep Tissue, Sports Massage, Pregnancy and in a specialized trigger point technique, called Rice Release Method. Gustavo also has Reiki II, Theta Healing and Jade Stone Therapy in his tool belt. Reiki uses universal life force energy to heal, which is a powerful and loving form of healing. Theta Healing is done on the core, genetic, history and soul level by pulling old beliefs, emotional blocks and physical shock and trauma from the client etc… Jade Stone Therapy is the hybrid of hot/cold stone therapies, because of the specialized handcrafted shape of each stone, the many healing properties of Jade and the unique ability to give heat and absorb heat equally well this amazing balanced yin and yang stone is magnificent experience not to be missed. Gustavo had the fortune to study and be privately trained by the creator of Jade Stone Therapy, Jim Dorr to teach advance Jade Stone Therapy.

God/Goddess Massage is a massage that makes you feel worshipped from head to toe with long strokes that reconnect you back to your body. This massage is great for when you need a real thorough body overhaul meaning you have some major projects that need therapeutic work on, but you also want to feel pampered and relaxed by flowing and soothing strokes. The first hour and half is dedicated to getting the kinks out and the rest of the massage is dedicated to you relaxing, and enjoying the body Creator gave you. This massage can be done in an hour and half, but it is recommend that for the massage connoisseur it should last much longer.

Gustavo is offering one hour, one and half hour, and two hour plus for the massage connoisseur. This massage is only recommended for people that are considered by the medical community as being in good health. A waiver will need to be signed for any massages that last more than two hours. Call the studio directly for an appointment. 312-280-9642

Anton Mackey
Native American Healer and an Intuitive Artist
Anton is a Energetic body worker and Massage Therapist using the training from his Grandfather as a child to see and use energy of life. This is done thru massage, intuition and energy healing. As a Native American child to see the spirits in all things and feel the energy of life, he has been drawn to the healing arts.

Healing is a practice in which all tools have a purpose and a time which to use them. In a session you may experience, energy balancing, energy scanning, Chakra clearing, Acupressure, Intuitive Healing Touch, massage techniques such as deep tissue, Swedish, BMT, PNF, Hot Stone, and a deep sense of peace. Anton has a passion to heal and will use all the techniques at his disposal to provide relief for his clients.

Anton is trained in Energy Work, Licensed Massage Therapist, Nationally Certified NASM Personal Trainer.

Anton is also an Intuitive artist, fine artist, sculptor, painter for the last 15 years using his intuition to assist people with their path in life. This is done via Intuitive art, Aura reading, Energy sensing.

Martin Barba
Bio coming soon. Please check back.

Debra Taitel
Debra has nearly 20 years experience in clairvoyant reading and spiritual healing. Her formal clairvoyant training began in 1992 with meditation and healing classes. After completing intensive clairvoyant and teacher training in 1993 she launched her own practice offering professional readings. She has taught a range of classes and workshops including meditation, spiritual healing, clairvoyance, karma, and healing the astral body in addition to conducting weekend meditation healing retreats. Debra was an instrumental voice in the creation of a school for psychics originally located in Evanston, IL, where she was one of the first women teachers and served as Assistant Director for several years.

Debra is active in her community offering clairvoyant readings at several holistic health conferences, Women’s Resource Fairs, and Halsted Street Market Days. In addition she has given readings and donated readings as silent auction items at multiple fund raising events in Chicago for organizations including the Museum of Science & Industry Youth Outreach program, Joel Hall Dance Center, MS Society of Chicago, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Baird & Warner Goodwill Network (benefiting a local battered women’s shelter.)

Debra was recently a featured guest on the Visible By Numbers BBS Radio broadcast. She currently resides in the city of Chicago where she is a professional clairvoyant reader/teacher helping people to uncover their own truth, healing their spirit so every client can create the life they want. Her readings are thoughtful, compassionate and full of insights and wisdom gained by the experience of living.

Adding to her own life's purpose and experience Debra sells real estate with Baird & Warner in the city of Chicago. Using her clairvoyant and healing abilities combined with more than 25 years of professional experience in real estate, she assists her clients in selling or finding their dream home. Her personalized house healings help to clear out old or lingering energies that may hinder a home from being purchased or sold.

Debra deeply understands the importance of healing the spirit and the effect it can have on the body as well. Her personal spiritual journey helped her to achieve a life-changing weight loss of 86 lbs maintained for more than 14 years. She shares her skills, experience and personal journey working for a major international weight loss company as a motivational speaker.

For more information please visit Debra’s website: www.Spiritlightinsight.com

Melissa Simo
Melissa Simo finds freedom in the body/mind . She believes in the connection of the body and mind to open us, heal us, restore us, and bring us closer to ourselves. She recently received a certification in The Feldenkrais Method® this past June and is excited to share this phenomenal work. Through her Feldenkrais practice, she finds softness, lightness, and an ability to listen to the subtle sensations of the body and how they manifest through our whole being. Functional Integration® in the Feldenkrais Methiod is a subtle manipulation technique in which we respond to our neuromuscular organization through the feedback of touch. We can discover new ways to let go, new ways to organize, a quality of ease, and an efficiency, of movement through dynamic alignment. It brings attention into where we might be overworking and how we engage ourselves through out the whole. Melissa enjoys blending a sense of playfulness, humility, and humor with deep embodiment and consciousness . She also has a dance background, graduating from Columbia College with a B.A. in Dance, and she continues to be fueled by random acts of dance influenced by improvisation, contact improvisation, and butoh here in Chicago.

Tracey Ostrand
Tracey Ostrand is an innate healer who has trained in many different healing modalities over the years to facilitate her knowledge of healing and self expansion. With a compassionate heart she tries to guide her clients back into their place of power, into their knowing of whom they truly are and what they are truly capable of. She is a firm believer that the healer must first be healed and is always making sure that her heart is in balance so that she can be a clear channel of healing and expansion for others. One of her favorite forms of healing is not just giving Reiki but teaching Reiki. She is a certified Reiki Master and Teacher who loves to pass on this training because of the amazing power of transformation that working with Reiki energy makes possible. Her own level of expansion and transformation was so profound that she has become a passionate Reiki teacher who aspires to attune everyone and anyone who hears the Reiki call. She is also a certified yoga teacher specializing in one on one instruction, an Akashic Records reader trained by the gifted Christina Cross, and a Sweat Lodge Facilitator under the tutelage of Singing Man, an Arapaho elder and medicine man. She is available by appointment only. To book a Reiki session, Akashic Record reading, or one on one yoga session please call the studio directly. To see when her next Reiki class is scheduled please click on the workshop tab.