Wellness Services, Workshops, 200-Hour YTT, and More

Wellness Services

Wellness providers at Grace Tree Yoga & Growth Studio are a self-governed, abundance-based group with a holistic vision of caring for the entire being – body, mind and spirit.

Personalized Massage

Did you know that you can enjoy one of the most relaxing and rejuvenating massages at Grace Tree? What exactly are the benefits of receiving massage or bodywork treatments? You can expect that a massage will alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion; ease medication dependence; enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow—the body's natural defense system; exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles; help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts; improve the condition of the body's largest organ—the skin; and increase joint flexibility.

Debbie Deters, LMT is an experienced licensed massage therapist who has added training in lymphatic drainage, craniosacral, and TMJ massage. Debbie is at Grace Tree every Wednesday booking appointments from 12:00 to 7:00 PM. She also schedules by appointment on Saturday from 12:00 to 4:00 PM. Contact Grace Tree for rates and discount promotions by email at: info@gracetreestudio.com

Mental Health Therapy

Valerie Allen, MSE, LPCC, Counselor and Couples Therapist - Using a non-judgmental and holistic approach, Valerie helps individuals with life transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, self-doubt, grief, relationship conflicts, addiction and abuse. She can help you find clarity, identify goals and values, and develop a plan for personal growth and healing. Valerie offers Mindfulness and Meditation training to reduce stress, anxiety, depression and encourage compassion for self and others.

In Couples Therapy, Valerie assists with communication, loss of emotional or physical connection, infidelity, or parenting issues. You can be sure to receive an unbiased, compassionate, and directive approach to couples counseling. Valerie has a special interest in helping couples rebuild their relationship after infidelity.

Janet Nash, MSW, LISW-S, RYT-500, Mental Health Therapist - Janet believes in the power of the fundamental healthy functioning of her clients and the use of mindfulness-based treatment as a way to enrich psychological openness, learning, and compassion toward oneself and others. Janet is currently working toward advanced training in yoga therapy and weaves complementary and alternative therapies, including yoga and meditation, into traditional psychotherapy, as appropriate.

Janet is experienced and proficient in the areas of women’s issues, body dissatisfaction, depression, anxiety, family and adolescent issues. She uses an eclectic approach incorporating cognitive behavioral and interpersonal therapies.

Yoga Therapeutics

Janet Nash, MSW, LISW-S, RYT-500 - Janet takes the long view of healing as not just the absence of symptoms and disease, but fostering opportunities for self-knowledge, growth, and transformation through the ancient teachings of yoga. Janet teaches students how to use the nervous system to calm the mind and increase contentment and joy. With a blend of therapeutic techniques from the 8 limbs of yoga, Reiki, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Janet teaches students how to achieve their goals in private or semi-private sessions.

Janet offers yoga therapeutics for functional and structural body issues dealing with both musculoskeletal issues and issues that affect the overall function of the body. In addition, Janet offers yoga for emotional health using an integrated approach that brings the ancient insights of yoga into a modern wellness program, utilizing modern science, medical and mental health knowledge, in addition to ancient practices of self-healing.

Workshops

Grace Tree also offers a wide variety of workshops for deeper personal growth and events designed to bring the community together to celebrate life. Explore the workshops in the month of February:

Yoga and the Goddesses with Becky Morrissey, LPCC, ERYT-500 - Each class will explore the transformative power of a Yoga Goddess deity, via embodied somatic yoga movement, group discussion, art creation, and more; followed by a yoga asana and meditation practice inspired by the spiritual energy of the featured Goddess. Let us awaken to our own spiritual and goddess energies within! February 2nd from 6:30 to 7:45 PM - drop-in fee is $15

Smart Phone Smart Bodies with Claire Rechnitzer, M.AmSAT [Alexander Technique] - Bring your phone, tablet, eReader or even your lap-top (especially if you use a mouse and experience wrist pain) to this hands-on workshop where we’ll practice smart ways to engage with various devices , learn to improvise ergonomic support, demonstrate key functional anatomy details through firsthand experience, and cultivate the posture-saving body-intelligence that can literally spare us a headache. Sunday, February 5th from 12:00 to 3:00 PM - Fee: $35 for adults; $25 for teens.

YOUnique Wellness: You Are What You Eat - Nourishing a Healthy YOU - Looking for suggesions about how to eat healthier and feel better in 2017? Join us for this interactive panel discussion to get different perspectives about food and your well-being. You will go home with practical nutrition tips to improve your overall health. Saturday, February 25th, from 1:30-4:00 PM - Fee: $20 or 2 for $30; REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://you_are_what_you_eat_registration.eventbrite.com

Holistic Living/Holistic Healing - Part 2 with Zeynep Premdasa Yilmaz, Antonia von Hirschberg and Michelle von Hirschberg - Deep down we all crave to live a happy and healthy life and realize our true selves. How about making a commitment to bring it to action now? In this 2nd part of the Holistic Living/Holistic Healing workshop, we’ll focus on tools and techniques for emotional balance, mental strength and joyful living to bring out our highest potential. Sunday, February 26, 2017 from 12:00 to 2:00 PM - Fee: $25.

Pregnant Body Know How with Claire Rechnitzer, M.AmSAT [Alexander Technique] - A very gentle workshop based on teachings of the Alexander Technique suitable for women in any trimester. In this workshop we will explore ways to counteract your changing center of gravity as the baby’s mass increases, and how to redistribute muscular tone to support added weight and girth. We’ll cover tips for maintaining good posture while standing, sitting and lying down, and demonstrate strategies for lifting and bending. We will also learn a variety of quick-fix posture-informing activities that can help relieve stress and cope with discomfort. Sunday, February 26th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM - Fee: $35.

White Lotus hOMe 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Kim Dawes, ERYT-200, RYT-500 and Beth Wiley, RYT-500 are excited to bring White Lotus hOMe to the Grace Tree community. Training began in January 2017. Kim and Beth bring an immense love & experience of asana practice and an in depth knowledge of the philosophy and ancient teachings of yoga. This concise 6 month program is designed so that each aspirant may receive the greatest opportunity for growth in their own personal yoga practice as well as becoming certified to share the many realms of yoga with others. White Lotus hOMe 200 hour program is approved and certified by Yoga Alliance and is a comprehensive training that is a blending of the historical concepts, creative sequencing, anatomy, the energetics and ethics of yoga. Upon completion of this program, certified teachers will feel confident in bringing the mystical traditions of yoga to the modern classroom.

To find out more about the next teacher training, contact Kim Dawes at: https://www.kimdawesyoga.com/