Wellness Practitioners
The hands and voices that move through this space arrived here through their own apprenticeship to healing. Their training runs deep. Their presence is the medicine.
We don't hire wellness practitioners. We recognize them.
Each wellness practitioner carries decades of practice: clinics, apprenticeships, quiet returns to the source. Not staff, but people genuinely called to this work, and to those who arrive seeking it.
Showing all 18 wellness practitioners
Misty Soderholm
Founder · LMT, LE, ERYT, HHP · 30+ Years
Trained at the Wellness & Massage Training Institute, the San Diego School of Healing Arts, and the Deepak Chopra Center. Creator of Sol Flo Massage and the founder of SoderWorld's healing arts practice. Her hands know both protocol and presence.
Chahé Soderholm
Sound Healing Practitioner · Yoga & Meditation Instructor
Founder of the Wellness Information Network and producer of Wellness 2000. His sound healing sessions and workshops open the nervous system to integration, weaving sound and stillness into a single practice.
Crystal Shepard
Spiritual Life Coach · Reiki Practitioner
Founder of Guiding Light Holistic Coaching. Blends compassionate care with evidence-based practice, drawing on hypnosis, intuitive energy healing, and sound and light work to help members move through life's harder turns.
Don Carter
RASHA Quantum Biofeedback Practitioner
Operates the Quantum Healing Room using the RASHA scalar plasma energy device, a Base-12 Frequencies technology designed to assist nervous system release and the body's own self-healing capacity. Sessions are quiet, precise, and deeply restorative.
Heather Pleune
Akashic Records Consultant · Reiki Master Teacher
Founder of Healing Spirit Pathways. Level IV ARCI Certified, the highest accreditation through Akashic Records Consultants International. Her readings access deeper wisdom; her sessions land with both clarity and care.
Jessica Castro
LMT · Yoga Instructor · Somatic Coach · 22+ Years
Trained at the Wellness & Massage Training Institute and Nature Care College in Australia. Works across Swedish, Deep Tissue, Esalen, pre and post sports, Lomi Lomi, Cranial Sacral, Reflexology, and Therapeutic Touch.
Karen LaFrano
LMT · Somatic Bodyworker · Yoga & Reiki Master · 25+ Years
A career of interdisciplinary clinical work alongside physicians, physical therapists, and chiropractors. Founder of Self Care In Balance and the LaFrano Massage Dynamics teaching lineage. A true bridge between structural rehabilitation and energy work.
Karla Cain
CAP, NAMA Board-Certified · ERYT · YTT Lead Trainer
Founder of Sattvic Sage Ayurveda. Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and Pancakarma Body Therapist. Faculty at Ananda Ayurveda Academy. Her work pairs classical Ayurvedic protocol with the lived rhythm of modern practice.
Kaylie Marie
Psychic Medium · Karuna Reiki Master
Began meditating and seeing spirit at age ten. Trained at Findlay Spiritualist College in England and certified under Lisa Williams and Colby Rebel. Her readings carry the steadiness of long practice.
Kierstin Wnek
Yoga & Meditation Instructor · Energyworker
RYT-200 graduate of Sattvic Sage Ayurveda Yoga Teacher Training at SoderWorld. Works with Reiki, crystals, oracle cards, astrology, and sound to support clients moving through transition and inner inquiry.
MaryRose Plante
LMT · Ashiatsu Therapist · Yoga Instructor
Seven years at Athletico Physical Therapy doing pre and post surgical massage with athletes, bridging structural rehabilitation and bodywork. A practitioner since 2002, with deep grounding in both clinical and integrative care.
Meka Leach
Yoga Instructor · Sound Healing Practitioner · Reiki Practitioner
Certified Bhakti yoga teacher (200 hours) and the youngest in the USA to complete the certification. Founder of Mindfulness with Meka. Hosts the monthly Girls Moon Cycle Circles.
Mick (Lotus) Sod
Massage Therapist · Esthetician · Reiki Practitioner
A graduate of SoderWorld Academy of the Healing Arts and Universal Spa Training Academy in Esthetics. Certified in permanent makeup. Skincare with a spiritual dimension.
Shannon Chada
Reiki Master Teacher · Sound Healing Practitioner · Ceremony Keeper · 27+ Years
Also known as Mino Nagamowin Ikwe, Good Singing Woman. Founder of Full Circle Harmony. Holistic practitioner, vocal alchemist, native drummer and flute player. Often called "The Energy Doula."
Dr. Sharon Garvey
DC · Activator Method · 37 Years
Founder of Experience True Health. Practices the Activator Method, low force, quiet adjustments. Specializes in golf injury treatment and prevention.
Stephenie Padilla
Licensed Esthetician · Certified Reiki Practitioner
Certified by the University of New Mexico in Curanderismo, traditional healing using plants. Brings energy-informed skincare grounded in plant medicine and ancestral practice.
Dr. Vaidya Ashlesha Raut
Classical Ayurvedic Doctor
Founder of Ayurveda for Healing. Frames Ayurveda as the science of life and longevity, embodying physical balance, emotional peace, mental health, environmental mindedness, and spiritual development.
Violet Vrsek
Licensed Esthetician · Yoga Instructor · Since 2007
Expert training in the Bioelements product line. Integrates deep relaxation, crystal healing, and energy movement into her facial treatments. Skin work that doubles as a return to self.
Are you called to this work?
SoderWorld is always meeting the wellness practitioners who understand healing as sacred service. If you are a bodyworker, energy worker, or wellness guide whose practice resonates with this sanctuary's vision, we would love to begin a conversation.
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