Many of our graduates and friends who are talented teachers, not only at DoveStar but in many other locations, have found that DoveStar provides a space to express themselves for their own growth, as well as facilitate growth for others. Because of our belief that everyone is unique, we allow for many teachers with varied backgrounds and experience to be a part of the ongoing presentation of seminars at DoveStar. This aids our students in the process of choosing from a wide variety of topics to fulfill the requirements for becoming licensed or nationally certified.

Saryna Champagne, Director, LMT, RMT, CAI, CHT

Saryna graduated from DoveStar's 1,000 hour massage certification program in 1985. In 1988, Saryna received certificates in two additional programs: 400 hours in Alchemical Hypnotherapy and 700 hours in DoveStar Teacher Training.

Saryna has studied Kahuna Shamanism with Serge Kahili King, PHD, Kahuna Shaman and Director of Aloha International, Kauai, Hawaii. She has also received Crystal Healing training with DaEl Walker, owner of Crystal Awareness Institute.

Saryna's professional career has spanned various fields and positions over the years. Some of these positions include: Administrative Assistant (DoveStar), Executive Director(DoveStar), Quality Control Inspector, Engineering Technician and Director of a massage program in Tewksbury, MA.

In addition to her professional life and her studies in the field of holistic healthcare, Saryna also found the time to provide specialty massage services to many clients on a part-time basis.

Saryna is an approved continuing education provider with NCBTMB and is now the Director of DoveStar, since Kamala's passing in December of 2008.

Carrying on the DoveStar legacy is of utmost importance to Saryna.


Jack Barakitis, AS, LMT, SRT

Jack graduated from DoveStar completing the Kriya Massage and Reiki program in 1997, trained in Craniosacral with the Upledger Institute in 1998, is currently a Continuing Education Provider, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Instructor and Shamballa Instructor. Jack received an Associates Degree in Electronic Technologies at Northern Essex Community College in 1990. He has continued his education in Shamballa and has been an instructor of multi-dimensional healing since 1999. He is the co-founder of Hilton Head Reiki and Newburyport Reiki and operates a private massage practice with his wife who is also a DoveStar graduate. Jack's current field of study is linguistics and it's role in our healing process.


Sarah Beals, BA, LMT

Sarah is a graduate of DoveStar, licensed Massage Therapist, Chiropractic Assistant, certified Tai Chi and Chi Kung Instructor. She received a Bachelor’s De-gree in Psychology at University of California in 1988. Sarah was direct-or of a center for women, coordinator for Rape Crisis and counselor for reproductive healthcare. She has a private practice on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.


Janice Clark LMT, RMT, CAI

Janice is a graduate of DoveStar, a Licensed Massage Therapist, Colon Hydrotherapist, Reiki Master Teacher and a Certified Alchemia Instructor. She has been involved with holistic health care since 1982, works as a practitioner in conjunction with Chiropractors and has a private practice in Warner and Hooksett NH.


André Côté, LMT, RMT, CHT

André is a DoveStar graduate of the Kriya Massage, Reiki Master Teacher and Colon Hydrotherapy programs. André has traveled extensively throughout the United States during the last several years and has practiced massage in New Hampshire, Florida, New York, Alabama, and California. André has been an instructor for DoveStar since 2003 and he currently holds massage licenses from the states of NH and FL. After his extensive traveling, André has returned to DoveStar to resume his teaching career. He looks forward to sharing his passion for massage and reiki with the next generation of holistic healthcare professionals.


Theo Fabricius, LMT

Theo is a graduate of DoveStar, Reiki Master, Licensed Massage Therapist, and Instructor at holistic centers in South Shore Communities since 1986. Theo has been a practitioner of holistic philosophy since 1976. He has a private practice in Hanover, MA.

 

Jennifer (Jenni) Graftdyk, ASID, CMT, RMT, CAI

Jenni is a graduate of DoveStar, Licensed Massage Therapist, Colon Hydrotherapist, Synergy Practitioner, Reiki Master Therapist, Holistic Clinic Manager, and Alchemia Bodywork Practitioner. She is an Alchemia Instructor. She received an AA in interior design in 1998 from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia which overlaps into the creation of a soothing peaceful environment in her spa.

Jenni exemplifies one who lives the integrity of Mind, Body, and Spirit as being one with all that is in her private practice “Oasis Life Spa” in Hilton Head, SC.


Gi Indoccio, BA, MA, CHT, RMT, CAI

Gi is a graduate of DoveStar, an ACHE Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Reiki Master Teacher, and a Certified Alchemia Instructor. As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Gi has over 8 years of clinical experience, and 14 years of teaching Holistic Therapies. She provides counseling/psychotherapy for adolescents, adults, but mostly, women in transition. She utilizes Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Meditation/Relaxation Techniques, Solution Focused Therapy, Hypnotherapy/Guided Imagery, Life Coaching, and incorporates Reiki into the sessions.
Gi owns Graceful Awakenings in Newington, NH and is employed per diem at the Behavioral Health Psychiatric Unit at Portsmouth Regional Hospital and at Addictions Recovery Services Intensive Outpatient Program in Portsmouth, NH.


Chi Liang (James) Luo, LMT, RMT, ABI, CAI

A graduate of DoveStar, James is a licensed massage therapist, Reiki Master Therapist, Asian Bodyworker and instructor, Certified Alchemia Instructor. James studied Oriental medicine for 3 years at the Guangsisx Medical University in China and specializes in Oriental Bodywork. James is legally blind and has an ambition to have a private practice with a holistic center that will employ blind massage therapists.


Vanessa Lyons, HPS, CHT, RMT, CAI

Vanessa (SilverMoone) is a graduate of DoveStar, an ACHE Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist,   Reiki Master Teacher in both the Usui and Shamballa Traditions, Ordained Minister (ULC), initiated High Priestess, and a Certified Alchemia Instructor.  She is a graduate of the Eye of the Eagle 2-Year Shamanic Healer Training Program with Leontine Hartzell, has studied with Silver RavenWolf and Christopher Penczak and now synchronizes both the earth-centered and energetic philosophies in her practice and teachings.  Vanessa has been part of the Pagan community since 1997 and has been the facilitator of A Dianic Coven (an international cyber-community) since 2004. Vanessa teaches throughout New England and has a private practice in New Hampshire.


Ron McBride, LMT, RMT, CAI

Ron is a graduate of DoveStar and the Mueller College of Holistic Studies in San Diego CA, Licensed Massage Therapist, Reiki Master, and a Certified Alchemia Instructor. He holds 5th degree black belt in Wado-Ryu Karate. He has been an instructor of Karate since 1984 and received the Grandmaster Hironori Ohtsuka Award in 1999. Ron is the owner of Avalon holistic center in Florence SC.


Rev. Matooka MoonBear-MacGowan, LMT, RMT

Matooka is a DoveStar graduate of the Kriya Massage and Reiki Master Teacher programs. She holds a National Certification for Massage Bodywork, and has been teaching massage since 2002 in Santa Fe, NM and New Hampshire. She has a strong background in Earth Based Spirituality with various teachers, including a four year walk with a Mohawk Spiritual Person, and Priestess studies with Sisters of the Burning Branch, where she was initiated as a High Priestess. She is an ordained Minister of Universal Light Church and now leads the Corn Mother Ministry. She has studied LaStone Therapy and Shamballa Reiki with a special passion for Shamanic spiritual practice.


Lisa Oswald, LMT, RMT, CHT, CAI

Lisa is a graduate of DoveStar. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist, a Colon Hydrotherapist, Reiki Master Therapist and a Certified Alchemia Instructor dedicated to bringing empowerment and freedom to all who study with her.

Lisa has a had a private practice since 2001 in Blairsville GA with a focus on Holistic therapies as a means of detoxing on mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels.


Patricia Schippani, LMT, RMT

Patti Schippani graduated from Dovestar in 1995 and has been NH licensed massage therapist ever since.  She has been practicing Craniosacral Therapy and Myofascial Release for the last 12 years.  She has studied intensively with Hugh Milne, O.D., John F. Barnes, PT, and has taken all the Upledger seminars.  She has worked as a teaching assistant for the MFR seminars with John Barnes, and has dedicated her entire practice to working with clients who suffer from debilitating chronic pain and limited movement.  In addition to these therapies, she also uses Visceral Manipulation and Vibrational healing techniques, as well as Tong Ren and Matrix Energetics.   She owns Soma Advanced Body Therapy in Merrimack, NH.


Deborah Sellon, RMT, SMT, CHT

Deb is a Reiki Master Teacher, a Shamballa Master Teacher, Emotional Healing Hypnotherapist, Shamanic apprentice and an Energy Medicine Practitioner.

She facilitates labyrinths and incorporates shamanic journeying, breathwork and energy bodywork in her private practice in Wareham, MA.

 

Karyl Sheridan LMT, RMT

Karyl is a graduate of DoveStar, Reiki Master Teacher, Kriya Massage Master Therapist, Alchemia Master Teacher, Nationally-certified, and Licensed Massage Therapist. She has been involved with the holistic field since 1991, and served on the DoveStar Advisory Board. Karyl has been instrumental in introducing massage and Reiki in hospitals and maternity wards. She teaches in New England and the Southeast with a private practice in Hooksett, NH.


Melanie (Ganga) Ward, LMT, CAI

Melanie is a graduate of DoveStar and a Licensed Massage Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Certified Alchemia Instructor. She has studied Yoga and Meditation at the Dhyanyoga Center and the Vipassana Meditation Center, Craniosacral basic and somato emotional release with Upledger, Transformational Breathwork and energy anatomy with Caroline Myss.

Melanie has been a practicing massage professional since 1991, an infant massage instructor and a facilitator for the study of A Course in Miracles. She has a private practice in East Hampstead, NH.


Paul Whittier, LMT, RMT

Paul is a graduate of DoveStar and is a Licensed Massage Practitioner, Reiki Master and a Colon Hydrotherapist. Paul specializes in spa therapies and Yoga Bodywork and has his own practice “The Elements of Bodywork” in Westborough, MA.

 

Paul Wilson, LPTA, LMT

Paul is a graduate of DoveStar, a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant. He received his AA in Applied Science in Physical Therapy at Newbury College in 1996. He has worked in the field of Physical Therapy since 1993, specializing in acute, subacute, outpatient, and homecare rehabilitation settings, and continues to do so on a per-diem basis. He owns Nantasket Therapeutic Massage and Wellness Associates in Hull, MA.