Spring Equinox Retreat . Facilitators
March 18-21, 2021
Tanya Colucci. Lead Facilitator
Tanya blends her knowledge and experience in Myofascial Release bodywork, meditation, yoga, energy healing, and shamanic modalities to create a healing experience. After completing degrees in Exercise Physiology and Health Promotion Management, she spent 15 years working as a Corporate Fitness and Wellness Manger, Personal Trainer, Fitness Education, and Mentor. Tanya did not discover her gifts in Healing Intuitive Bodywork until experiencing her own health crisis in her late twenties. Upon trying every avenue of traditional Western medicine, she began exploring alternative ways to eliminate the pain.
Tanya became a certified Reiki Master, Yoga Teacher, and Massage Therapist, and while these modalities helped her manage her pain, it was not until she found Myofascial Release Therapy that she was able to truly heal and find her calling. Currently, Tanya’s passion is to assist others in tapping into their own powers of healing and live a life that is fulfilling, joyous, and pain-free. Her intuition and extensive knowledge, training, and blending of techniques helps her clients tap into what their souls are trying to communicate through their physical bodies. Watch her video here.
Tanya is the founder of Sacred Soul Guidance in Bluffton, SC.
Farnaz Nour Reneker. Lead Facilitator
A seeker and creator at heart, Farnaz experimented with music and the visual arts since childhood, eventually pursuing a career in architecture and design. She began studying metaphysics at age twenty, but didn’t fully explore its depths until her career led her to Los Angeles, the international hub of wellness.
Farnaz’s journey soon expanded into several modalities of vibrational healing. As she began to develop her intuitive energy healing abilities, she discovered the power of healing with sound, color, and the esoteric teachings of ancient cultures. Since then, she has completed four levels of vibrational healing trainings and leads group sound baths, workshops, and private healing sessions encompassing multiple modalities.
Farnaz’s current passion is to help others find the healer within, through wellness retreats that meld the powers of inward reflection, ancient wisdom, and the joys of exploring the sacred sites on this beautiful planet.
Farnaz is a co-founder of White Light Sounds in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Kristin White. Lead Facilitator
Kristin’s music filled childhood did little to prepare her for her first career that spanned 20 years and all the big American cities, as a political fundraiser and event planner. But when baby came, her musical roots and a quieter lifestyle became central to her life once again.
The creation of White Light Sounds combined her love of music and meditation in way she never imagined possible just a few years before. She holds advanced sound healing certification and continues to hone her craft on while drumming with the Frame Drum Academy in Topanga Canyon, playing gongs and crystal bowls in the desert, and strumming her ukelele anywhere and everywhere the wind blows.
Kristin’s professional goal is to make sound meditation mainstream throughout the United States and the world.
Kristin is a co-founder of White Light Sounds in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Mally Paquette
. Guest Facilitator
Mally, a modern medicine woman, has been deeply entrenched with indigenous cultures since childhood. Her spiritual roots are embedded with Native Americans. She founded a nonprofit organization, NAAP to serve the Lakota on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. For a decade she studied the Lakota traditions and in 2002, she was adopted into the Sioux tribe and cherishes this unique honor.
Mally teaches through chakra psychology and her intuitive gifts. She listens to the deeper bodies and can translate one’s physical ailments offering a therapeutic new path to optimal health. She delivers healings through traditional yoga therapy and sound vibration. An energetic Yogini awaits you and will offer you a sacred and safe environment to heal, expand and discover the depths of your soul.
Mally is the founder of Awakenings Yoga Studio in Sedona, AZ.
Laura Penn Gallerstein. Guest Facilitator
Laura, a master sound healer, is an experienced and dynamic teacher of body, mind, and spirit. For over 40 years, she has been studying and teaching yoga, meditation, chanting, sound vibration, reiki, reconnection healing, angel therapy, pilates and dance. She is passionate about the body, mind, spirit connection and bringing peace and harmony into people’s lives.
Laura has mastered the blending alchemy singing bowls, chanting, and guided meditation. Her personal journey carried her throughout the continental United States. She initiated the first Pilates programs at the world-renowned Rancho La Puerta and Golden Door. She has trained with master instructors and physicians. Dr. Mitchell Gaynor and Ashana have been instrumental in developing her teaching style. Laura’s energy and loving essence deliver an unforgettable and transformational experience.
Laura is the founder of Singing Bowls Temple in Sedona, AZ.
Kimberly “TastyAches” Harper. In-House Chef
Inspired by Nouvelle Cuisine, Kimberly specializes in modern food with an emphasis on local, lighter, plant-based fare. Her passion has always revolved around celebrating comfort food with a nutritious elegant twist.
Growing up in a military family, Kimberly traveled internationally and developed a love for regional cuisine. Following in her father’s footsteps, she pursued a military career as a Critical Care Paramedic and Board Certified Patient Advocate specializing in Pulmonology and Critical Care.
While serving in the Fire Department, she received classical culinary training at Stratford University and became dedicated to educating patients on the importance of nutrition and its health impacts. This eventually led her to embracing a plant-based lifestyle and obtaining her Professional Certification as a plant-based chef.
Kimberly is now devoted to helping others understand that healthy and delicious foods can be synonymous. She blends her extensive medical background with her passion for cooking as a personal chef preparing tasty, nutritious meals for clients and catered events.