The Songbird Flock
Jasmine Gold is the director of Songbird Community Healing Center. She is a Toltec Mentor, certified Four Agreements Facilitator, and Reiki Master. She has spent her adult life gradually awakening to Spirit and the truth of who she is. Her process of transformation continues to this day in an ongoing dance of discovery. Her traditional education includes BA’s in Linguistics and Classical Languages at UC Berkeley. While there, she started developing a fascination with studying personality types. Her non-traditional Toltec education started ten years ago with local teacher Allan Hardman. It includes a three-year intensive spiritual training program with don Miguel Ruiz (author of the Four Agreements) and Barbara Emrys. She has taken six power journeys to Teotihuacan, Mexico and one to Peru. She was drawn to the Toltec work because it has a strong focus both on letting go of limiting beliefs and on living our lives from a place of unconditional love and acceptance. Some of her other teachers include David Deida, Sahn Kai, and her teenage son Julian. Her passion is to share information and support growth for all through community, connection, and creativity.
Besides Reiki, Jasmine has explored many other healing arts. Her love of community building and research prompted her to start the Hands of Gold Healing Clinic in her living room in Cotati. After running it there for five years, she moved it to the Songbird Center when it opened. The clinic provides a fun and casual community for people to explore and receive different types of healing. Besides the Healing Clinic, Jasmine offers small classes, in-person private sessions, and phone sessions. These are tailored to individual needs and can include visualization, discussion, recapitulation breathing, hands-on energy healing, and/or tools based on the Toltec teachings of don Miguel Ruiz.
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Teresa Callison holds a Master’s degree in psychology, an Integrated Movement therapist certification and is a registered yoga instructor. She has recently moved here from Seattle, where she taught at The Samarya Center, a nationally recognized yoga research and education center, dedicated to providing yoga and yoga therapy to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Teresa has worked extensively with individuals of many different ages and with a variety of life challenges. Ingrained in her teaching are the three overarching philosophies of Integrated Movement Therapy: The student is already perfect and whole, the student and teacher are both unlimited in their abilities to heal and that no part of the body, mind or spirit works alone.
As a long time runner, vigorous asana practicioner and busy mom of two, Teresa has come to realize the incredible benefits of a gentle and yin yoga practice. To learn to move slowly and deliberately with your breath, to stretch the deep connective tissue in the body and to give yourself permission to be exactly where you are at this moment is both a gift, as well as a powerful journey of self-discovery. Teresa believes in making yoga accessible to everyone regardless of age, ability or economic status and provides students a safe, comfortable environment in which to practice. Teresa is an energetic, compassionate therapist/teacher who brings a sense of fun and compassion to those with whom she works. She offers private and group instruction. Sliding scale options are available.
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Hamida Judith Dides, M.A. has been on the search for knowledge and truth since childhood. Raised in a bi-cultural, bi-lingual extended family, she grew up knowing there was more than one way to view the world. This has been the basis of her approach to life. Her academic work in Anthropology and Linguistics took her to the Congo and Mexico for work and study. Her chosen spiritual path, Sufism, took her to Turkey, Morocco, Egypt and India. Meditation, prayer and contemplation took her to the inner realms. Not limited to the human world, she has connected to the plant “kin dom” through her study and practice of Herbalism, Flower Essences and Aromatherapy. Hamida connects to the Cosmos through Astrology, the language through which we communicate with the Heavens – as above, so below. She feels her work is to serve as a bridge between the worlds, so that we can exchange energy and wisdom.
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Dianna L. Grayer, Ph.D., is a Marriage Family Therapist in Petaluma. She has counseled children, teens, adults, couples, and families from diverse backgrounds for over 16 years and continues to do so. Dianna loves supporting, encouraging, and teaching others to care more deeply for themselves, live fuller and happier lives, and meet their full potential. In 2010, she earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Meridian University, where she serves as a faculty member. When she’s not seeing clients or teaching, Dianna spends most of her time writing children’s stories and poems, creating tools and workshops to help people heal their lives, playing basketball and games, laughing, and enjoying nature.
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Susan Hammond is a teacher and consultant specializing in the Feldenkrais Method®, a form of somatic education developed to improve movement, function and decrease pain. She has worked with stroke patients, people with MS, people with back, neck & shoulder pain, with children, and those wanting to sit and move without pain. Her work also integrates the studies of physical movement, self-defense and the need for an embodied presence in leadership. She maintains a private practice in Sonoma County, California teaching one-on-one lessons and group classes in the Feldenkrais Method. www.EaseIntoAwareness.com
Susan earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Lewis & Clark College. She served for over eight years on the management staff at Coastal Health Alliance, Point Reyes, California www.coastalhealth.net. There her responsibilities included services and agency coordination, medical assisting, hiring and patient education. In 1986, she began her practice in Aikido. She commenced an integrative study of the physical aspects of the art, human effectiveness, communication, safety, women’s issues, leadership and wellness. In 2007 she attained third-degree black belt rank. She teaches the martial art at Two Rock Aikido dojo www.TwoRockAikido.com in Petaluma, CA, where she continues to train for her own advancement in the art. She has parented three stepchildren, all now adults, and she makes her home in Santa Rosa, CA, with her husband and 14 year old daughter.
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Judy Hill, a graduate of Sky Hill School of Massage, has worked in the field of Health and Beauty for over 17 years. Whether it be improving her clients appearance or quality of life, increasing ease of movement and/or feelings of relaxation, Judy enjoys empowering others. Her education and experience in Spas and as a Health & Wellness Consultant, as well as running her own business, has given her both the knowledge and the skills to impart a greater sense of well being to her clients.
Judy’s customized massage sessions emphasize holistic principles and products. They utilize both Eastern & Western modalities of healing, including, but not limited to, Acupressure, Deep Tissue, Swedish, and Sports. Judy combines a creative and intuitive touch with a high level of respect for the client’s individual needs.
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Carol Hince has been practicing yoga for 17 years and is certified as an Integrative Yoga Therapy Teacher and as a teacher of Restorative Yoga. She has been teaching Restorative Yoga at Kaiser Santa Rosa for three years. She completed advanced training with Richard Miller in iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation. Carol has also been a Physical Therapist for more than 40 years. Throughout her career as a Physical Therapist, she has taught classes to clients and colleagues on back care, pulmonary care, posture and lifting, wellness, and techniques of exercise. She spent two years as lecturer in Physical Therapy at UC San Francisco, and five years teaching health classes at San Francisco City College.
The main focus for Carol has always been to help her clients in any way she can, and for that to be as fun and supportive as possible. She does this by sharing her knowledge of the body, mind, and spirit connection. Carol’s background in physical therapy and yoga, and her personal journey of self discovery, make her a skilled and gentle teacher, uniquely sensitive to others’ challenges. www.carolhince.com
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Kathleen McTeigue had a spontaneous realization of the non-dual nature of Reality beyond time and space. She realized the unity of creation beyond all words, thoughts and concepts, the formless ground of Being. This awakening to truth began an intense inner journey of healing and transformation. Teachers from various spiritual traditions have helped her to integrate these realizations.
Kathleen loves helping others remember who they really are beyond the stories of their lives. It is with humility and gratitude that she accompanies fellow travelers on this human and divine journey of remembrance. She offers meditation/spiritual dialogue gatherings and private sessions to support healing and spiritual awakening. Kathleen has a B.A. in Psychology and is a Certified Alchemical Hypnotherapist.
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Melody Myrick is a Second-Degree Reiki practitioner whose journey into alternative health practices began over 25 years ago. Her search for more natural options has included studies in herbal medicine, aromatherapy, crystal therapy, meditation and visualization, as well as NLP and psychoneuroimmunology. She has been working with Reiki and energy healing for more than two years, and is currently working towards her Master Teacher level in Reiki.
As the daughter and granddaughter of natural intuitives, Melody has always been drawn to the metaphysical and paranormal. Her mother’s studies of astrology and palm reading piqued her curiosity about divination at an early age, and eventually led to Melody’s interest in cartomancy and love of Tarot. As a 3rd generation intuitive and natural empath, her Reiki sessions often include intuitive energy readings. She also incorporates aromatherapy and crystal therapy into her sessions.
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Terry Lynn Trap
p is a holistic nutritionist, holistic health counselor, herbalist, kinesiologist, iridologist and reiki master. Terry offers nutritional counseling and wellness programs designed to balance body, mind, emotions and spirit. A Body Scan uses the tools of kinesiology and iridology to discover underlying imbalances such as nutritional, body systems, organs, glands, vitamins, minerals, herbs, supplements, food, environmental, emotional, mental, spiritual and genetic constitution. Energy corrections may include balancing with magnets, accupressure, or lightly holding points to unblock meridians and energy flows.Detoxification therapies using the far infrared sauna and the detox foot spa help the body to detox, reduce pain, stress and promote weight management. Terry has attended Bauman College and has 15 years experience in the natural health field. Terry has been a catalyst for many on their path to health and healing!
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Shoshanna Weiss is recently resettled from Mystic,CT where she worked part-time as a Massage Therapist and full-time as a Child Play Therapist. Shoshanna is a graduate of the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy and practices Swedish, Thai, and Sports Massage. She integrates these modalities to create a personalized and integrated experience. Using Reiki and Reflexology, Shoshanna brings energy work to her practice. Shoshanna is able to accommodate special populations including pregnant women, teenagers, the elderly and people with stress disorders.
As a Child Play Therapist, Shoshanna has years of experience helping families with diagnosis, treatment and advocacy for children under eight years of age with behavioral issues, who present challenges to parenting. Licensed by the National Boards in both Massage Therapy and Clinical Social Work, Shoshanna is happy to share her skills and humor with you.