Instructors

Don's mission is to give people the tools they need, to achieve the life they want. He believes that each of us already has everything we need to succeed. The goal is to discover how to use the power of the mind. His purpose is to have the people he helps, teach the techniques they learn, to others, improving their lives as well.

Don graduated from the Northern Arizona University Physical Therapy program in 1986. He has primarily focused on treating patients with orthopedic, sports and pain issues. He uses manual therapy, exercise, ergonomic analysis and patient education as his main techniques to assist his patients in regaining their function and reduce pain.

Before becoming a Physical Therapist, he spent many years working with folks who had mental, sensory and/or physical disabilities. 

He began studying, then certified in Zero Balancing, a form of manual therapy/ body work widely practiced by Massage Therapists. ZB involves both physical and energy, a stretch for Don.

Searching for a way to help his patients overcome or have control over pain he discovered hypnosis, becoming certified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist in July 2007. Although initially focusing on pain and medical issues, his practice quickly expanded to include a very broad range of issues. 

Teaching kinesiology (orthopedics, movement, and relevant anatomy) in a massage school for several years. Don learned the art of taking large amounts of information, determining what is most important, and making it easy to learn.

Anita Mischuk is a certified teacher of Contemporary Alexander Technique. She received her AT teacher certification from the Alexander Alliance Germany in 2017. After her certification she moved from Germany to the US and arrived in 2023 in Tucson, AZ.

Her mission is to empower her students and clients with tools to find ease and freedom in any professional and personal activity.

Anita’s passions include conveying the power of natural mechanics and movement, and helping individuals access their own innate being for personal growth and more meaningful lives.

She brings compassion, curiosity, kindness, knowledge and creativity to her holistic approach of the work. 

Anita has served on the faculty of the Dancing Prairie Massage Therapy College, IA, and teaches masterclasses at colleges and universities across the country. Anita currently also serves as a faculty member and the Co-Director of the Southwest branch of the Contemporary Alexander School and teaches Professional and Personal Enrichment Programs. Other practices that inform Anita's work are energy healing, craniosacral therapy, hypnotherapy and ENT. 

Wendy applies her extensive massage experiences, trainings and personal adventures with injury recovery, health restoration and resilience to empower her clients and students. She offers her bodywork and teaching to encourage hope, resilience and an awareness, balance and healing within one’s body, heart and mind. Wendy is motivated by her inquisitiveness and appreciation for the human body puzzle, human nature, and human resilience to create a learning environment for her students that promotes their own curiosity. Wendy’s love and connection to nature and movement helps her create a heart centered, deep listening, creative approach to her bodywork and teaching.

Wendy is a graduate from Northern Arizona University with a degree in Exercise and Nutrition Science (1997). She is a graduate from ASIS Massage program in Cottonwood (1997). Her massage practice focus includes rehabilitation, structural alignment, integrated bodywork for general and complex health concerns, integrated energy work, self care promotion, and health and wellness consulting. She has advanced certification in sports massage, and advanced training in postural analysis, yoga therapy, cranio-sacral therapy and polarity.

Wendy was an instructor at ASIS School of Massage Flagstaff (2009-2018). Her teaching repertoire included kinesiology and connective tissue massage, clinical therapeutics and processes, as well as lead Instructor, teacher mentor, instructor/student relations. She has offered continuing education for massage since 2013.

Harmony Green/Spirit Doula and Universal Empathic Soul Mentor. Her mission is to assist empaths on their earthly journey. This is her life’s work and the reason she is here on the planet this time around! She has been blessed with a life that has not been easy. Through the often intense excursions into her trials, she found her trails and answers. She is humbled to be here to guide you as you find your trails and answers too. She is a published poet, writer, soul painter, and explorer of her own path. She’s allowed the opportunities presented to her by integrating her truth for over 30 years in the capacity of empath, healer, teacher and guide. While owning and operating 3 healing centers over the decades, her clients have taught her so much! It has been her deep honor to have worked with hundreds of clients individually and in groups via silent retreats and spiritual mentorship. As an expert in Myofascial Release and Unwinding techniques, she brings to you the experience to help you energetically unwind your wounds into wisdom.

Heidi Wilson has been practicing craniosacral work since 1995. She is certified in Visionary Craniosacral Work through the Milne Institute. She has also studied from some of the major players/teachers in the international biodynamic community including Charles Ridley, Franklyn Sills, Michael Shea, Ryan Halford, Roger Gilchrist, Giorgia Milne, and Debra Menaz D.O.

Heidi teaches six levels of workshops in her course “Riding the Wave, Touching Stillness; Craniosacral Work with a Biodynamic Perspective”. She offers a certification (not a nationally recognized program) for fulfilling the requirements of the course.

BSW, LMT, CMLDT and teacher with IIQTC.org. Rose’s journey with Bodywork and the Healing Arts has spanned four (4) decades. Being a massage therapist and educator (teaching at ASIS in several capacities for 7 years), she has found Qigong to support her lifework as a human being. Nine years of working in the hospital as a massage therapist deepened her understanding of the effects of stress/anxiety on our health and the need to include self-care/healing in our personal health care routine. Integrating the practice of Qigong the last 10 years has led her to be a certified teacher with the Institute of Integral Tai chi and Qigong. Sharing Qigong has become a passion, as she recognizes its self-awareness and self-healing capabilities more overtime. She also enjoys hiking, herbology, gardening and spending time with her family, friends and dogs.

In 1994 Stephanie Selman earned her master's degree in traditional Chinese medicine from the Oregon College of Oriental medicine. She has worked in many integrative settings including homeless shelters, jails, pain management clinic, and primary care offices. Stephanie has a passion for continuing education and has earned advanced certifications in advanced facial rejuvenation techniques as well as animal acupuncture.

Olivia is a Licensed Massage Therapist specializing in fascia manipulation and fascial stretching. She has over 13 years of experience working with clients to help them feel better and more balanced in their body. Her instruction is fun, nurturing, and empathetic.

Katie has practiced massage therapy since 2010 and was trained at the Arizona School of Integrative Studies. Katie's desire to help others, combined with her love of the plant world, inspired her to attend the Herbal Wisdom Institute, where she completed a certification in Western Herbalism in 2019. Katie is also a qualified level two hypopressive trainer through Hypopressives Canada. She is excited to bring this complete core training system to her community and help people reach optimal core and pelvic health.

She is deeply grateful for all the training she's received thus far and is honored to teach massage therapy, herbalism and the hypopressive technique.

Aileen’s greatest desire has always been to help others feel better and gain skills to help themselves. As a natural teacher and perpetual student, she has happily filled the positions of: Massage Therapist and educator for her clients; Massage Instructor, teaching and mentoring the next generation of Massage Therapists; Yoga Instructor, specializing in helping everyday people connect with their bodies, and find relief from anxiety, stress, and trauma, and learn tools to have success out in their daily lives; Health and Wellness Coach, helping people put various tools in place to gain life skills to live with greater ease, stability and grace; and Meditation Teacher, to master their minds and find greater peace in life.

Aileen specializes in pain relief, structural alignment and relaxation techniques, utilizing tools that she found helpful for her own recovery and sense of well-being. She is certified in Manual Lymph Drainage, has advanced skills in Neuromuscular Therapy and Reeducation, Connective Tissue Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, and Relaxation Techniques.

Aileen’s experience, love of teaching, and specialized skills have lead her toward the joint development of this massage continuing education and community enrichment center in an underserved area.

Aileen finds her greatest happiness out in nature, in the woods, on the water or working in her garden, with her own or other people’s animals, cooking and feeding her loved ones, moving her body, and singing kirtan/chants, or any other thing.

Nina graduated in 1989 from Mueller College of Holistic Studies, San Diego, CA. Years later, coming to Sedona, Nina graduated from the Sedona School of Massage and continued her education in Ortho-Bionomy and took a deep dive into the world of Osteopathic Manual Therapy. Currently Nina is a registered Assoc. Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy®, and Upledger Certified CST-T Therapist. A concurrent student of the Barral Institute and Teacher’s Assistant for Neuromeningeal Manipulation: An Integrative Approach to Trauma (NM1). Nina is now a Certified Amen Clinic Brain Health Professional. Nina has also spent the last 14 years in private practice working with a Hands-On Advanced Osteopathic Manual Therapist. Together, they write stimulating curriculum based on an array of traditional Osteopathic manual therapies, creating lessons that join theory with practice. A natural teacher, filled with an unquenchable thirst for a deeper and broader understanding of the body, Nina has doubled her passion by sharing her knowledge with her clients and students.

Brittany Petrick is the owner of Harmonizing Healthcare and is a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Brittany received her Master’s degree from SWAC in Boulder CO in both acupuncture and Chinese herbal therapy. Her background includes 16 years in the western medicine, including graduating from the University of Colorado Health Science Center with a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing in 2008. She worked as a Registered Nurse for 9 years and realized that we need more focus on preventative care and treating health concerns from the very root to truly make a lasting impact in each unique individual.​Brittany has studied with Dr. Mindy Pelz to receive her “Fast Like A Girl” certification, teaching women how to balance hormones in all phases of life through fasting and feasting around their cycle or in a strategic way in menopause to achieve hormonal balance but more importantly, quality of life.