Facilitators

Samara L. Stern, Owner
LMT License #6062, Massage Therapist, Usui Reiki Master, Fertility Healing

I was born in New York City and moved to Charleston in 2003. I began studying Energy healing work in 2001. After moving to Charleston I enrolled in The Charleston School of Massage, graduated in 2008, and became a licensed massage therapist. While at Charleston School of Massage, I also completed the Healing Arts Program, where I learned Hot Stone Massage and added to my knowledge of Aromatherapy. In 2007 I began my Reiki Training and am now a Usui Reiki Master Practitioner.

Energy healing has always been a passion for me. I feel so blessed to have the opportunity and privilege to open a community healing center here in Charleston, where people can come to explore, heal, learn, and grow.

I'd like to thank everyone who helped bring this dream to fruition. I look forward to meeting and working with members of the community and having you become part of ours.

David R. Stowers
LMT License #4686, Tuina

David moved to the Charleston area in 1992 and is a graduate of the College of Charleston with bachelor degrees in Biology and Philosophy. He graduated from the Charleston School of Massage where he now teaches since receiving his certification in 2006.

Having studied at the Beijing Olympic Training Center in China in 2006 David integrates the philosophy and practice of Tuina* in every session concentrating his efforts to open the body’s defensive chi to get energy moving in both the meridians and muscles

* Tui Na is translated as “push-grasp” in Chinese. After answering some brief questions about the nature and location of the general health and existing conditions, the practitioner will concentrate on specific acupressure points, energy trigger points, muscles and joints surrounding the affected area. The practitioner, by pressing, tapping, and kneading with palms, fingertips, knuckles or elbows, helps the body to remove blockages along the meridians and stimulates the flow of chi and blood to promote healing, similar to principles of acupuncture and acupressure. The practitioner can then use range of motion, traction, massage, with the stimulation of accupressure points and to treat both acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions. Tui na's massage-like techniques range from light stroking to deep-tissue work which would be considered too vigorous or too painful for a recreational or relaxing massage.

Alice M. Stern, LMSW
Usui Reiki Master
Energy Healing Drumming
Crystal and Stone Healing Therapy

In the last six years I feel I have learned more than any other time in my life. I have been enriched with meeting powerful, spiritual, and genuine women who want to give back to one another and society.

For me, learning Reiki has not only inspired me but has been like a new friend that is with me always. My love of stones and crystals throughout my life has inspired me to learn more and to get my certificate in crystal and stone healing. Drumming is a new venue for me and I am learning more everyday. The ability to use the drum to follow my inner rhythms and to “Dance with the Gods “ has opened up a whole new way to communicate with myself and others.

I studied at the Infinite Light Healing Studies Center in Sedona, AZ where I received my Usui Reiki I and II certificates, along with a certificate in Crystal and Stone Healing and Reiki Drumming. I received my Usui Reiki Master Level Certificate in 2008.

My goal is to help guide women and children to become the best that they can be, to help women find their voice through drumming, and to use multiple modalities to strengthen and support each individual on their healing journey.

Greg Ryan-SC LMT# 1883

Medical Qi Gong, Medical Intuitive assessment, Myofacial Release, as well as Qi Gong Massage, Neuro Muscular and Deep Tissue Massage and Architect Dimensional Therapy.Greg Ryan has practiced massage and body work for the last fifteen years.
His Energetic Medicine background stems from his advanced studies of Korean martial arts and the ancient Chinese practices of Qi Gong. He is certified in Medical Qi Gong, under Masters Shou-Yu Liang and Wen-Ching Wu. Greg has merged various techniques of Qi Gong to create The Movements of Life Qi Gong practice.
Additionally Greg is a certified Usui Reiki Master.
In conjunction with the Eastern healing arts, Greg is state and nationally licensed in massage and bodywork and adept in such techniques as Myofacial Release, Neuro Muscular, Swedish Massage, and the creator of Architect Dimensional Therapy.

Maureen Donohue-SC LMT# 3231

Maureen’s has been questing and searching for the deeper meaning in life for many decades. In 2002 she was drawn to Reiki as a spiritual discipline. She offers therapeutic massage and Reiki treatments as a way to recharge and uplift the body physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. She invites you to experience an uplifting, unbroken period of time where Mind, Body and Spirit unite with the Self. The focus of your session is reconnection. A brief discussion period precedes your treatment so that each experience is unique and corresponded with your current life situations. Whether addressing chronic pain, emotional stress or simply needing to relax, massage therapy and Reiki can engage your parasympathetic nervous system, encouraging your body to heal. Her unique treatments may include hot towels, aromatherapy, Reiki, neuromuscular massage, a held Intention, stretching, rocking, Swedish or hot rock massage. You will depart renewed having experienced a release from muscle tension and stress. Harmony of the emotions and a sense of well-being will follow you home.

Maureen Donohue is a South Carolina licensed and Nationally Certified Massage Therapist. She is a Usui Shiki Rhoyo Reiki Master, Paramita Path Level III Practitioner and Karuna Reiki Master. Maureen teaches Reiki classes and has a private practice. She graduated from Southeastern School of Neuromuscular and Massage Therapy in October of 2002 and is a member of Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals.

Sarah Divya Greenwood

Certified innia,basic hatha yoga, pranayama, raja yoga,reiki II and CPR.She hasa Bachelor of Arts in Theater Performance and an Associatesof Arts in Social Sciences.Sarahis also currently finishing a personal training certification program through World Instructor Training Schools(WITS).She will be available as a total fitness personal trainer in the near future, which will allow her to give exercise prescriptions, nutritional guidance and healthy lifestyle coaching.At non-profit organization People Against Rape, she took an in-depth training and spent the next two and a half years interning and volunteering as avolunteeradvocate.Herdiverseinterests in movement, healing, performance arts and humanity eventually droveher towards a powerful lifestyletransformation.

Sarah Divyahas studied with many teachers and has anextensive background in various kinesthetic, healing,performance and creative art forms.Sarah Divya has experience in African, modern and other forms of expressive dance, as well asexperience with andexposure to multiple martial art forms.She also has experience asa professional middle-eastern belly dancer.In her yoga journey,Sarah loves teaching and practicing hot yoga.Additionally,she has fallen in love with the style of luna yoga, which promotes management of fertility & menstrual cycles, as well as guiding sexual energy (beneficial for both men and women).She has found that even those who are not interested in managing fertility & cycles deeply enjoy luna yoga as a gentle,restorative class, as it is appropriate for all ages.Certified toteach chakra work, Sarahhasstudied meditation techniques and worked intensively with an acupuncturist,energy,reiki and massage workers.She has experience asa singer/song writer (performing at various Charleston venues) and theatrical arts (director of Jon Jori’s,Night Stream,assistant stage manager of Shakespeare’sMeasure for Measurefor the College of Charleston’s annual ‘Shakespeare Project’and light board operator forCollege of Charleston’s production,The Story). Past business owner of Domestic Expressions, Sarah Divya was inspired by her terminally ill client, who despite doctors’ prognosis of never being able to walk again, walked under her care. Sarah Divya is committed to how the body, mind, emotions, spirit and lifestyle work together and affect each other. After all of her various studies and experiences in movement, healing, performance and social arts, she desires to help others find their own unique path.