Archive for Therapist Profiles
Skye Livingston
How did you get into this line of work?
Insatiable curiosity: the body is to me what the cosmos is to an astronomer. It never ceases to amaze me that the deeper you go the more there is to explore and I love the journey
What three adjectives would you use to describe your work?
Sensitive, [...]
David “Atibala” Thorp
How did you get into this line of work?
I started studying nutrition and herbalism over a decade ago when my own health took a turn for the worse. Natural medicine seemed like the obvious direction to go, especially since I felt a lack of support from the modern medical industry. The first thing I turned [...]
Sumanasa Daren
You may know Sumanasa as a fantastic Yoga Instructor, she also practices Ayurvedic Mind Counseling and Private Yoga Therapy at Yoga Mandala.
How did you get into this line of work?
I had sincerely tired of my own suffering and was determined to find the way out. It didn’t take long before I was catapulted by Grace [...]
Bill Kester
How did you get into this line of work?
When I was nine or ten years old I massaged my father?s legs when he got home and rubbed my mother’s head when she got headaches. As a teenager, I read books on yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka, and later, ParamahansaYogananda and his teacher Sri Yukteswar. While teaching [...]
Taylor Shogren
How did you get into this line of work?
My mother would ask me to rub her shoulders when I was little, and as soon as I was done with her shoulders, she would tell me how good she thought I was and ask me if I wanted to show her how good I was at [...]
Joey Erwin
What drew you to bodywork?
I was drawn to bodywork because it came really natural to me. I’ve always been really interested in anatomy, I’m a total anatomy dork and a science geek. I love the way the body works and learning about it how it moves and functions and how hard it works just to [...]
