MEET OUR COMMUNITY OF HEALING ARTISTS
SUSANNA ALONGI, LMT
Shanti Center Co-Owner, Clinical Visceral Bodywork, Orthopedic Massage
As a Licensed Massage Practitioner for over half of her lifetime, Susanna works in the expansive, energy moving, field for healing her client's physical and energetic bodies. As a Clinical Visceral Therapist, she has a passion for creating movement, fluidity and to promote healing in abdominal organs, hips, pelvis and spine. Susanna is a coveted healer in Bellingham, WA and has a long track record of client success. She has a passion for birth work, and in the past has served as a Doula and Midwifery assistant in the community of Bellingham, WA. Today her practice focuses on supporting the mother with fertility bodywork, prenatal and postpartum massage.
LINDSAY WORLEY, LMT, CERTIFIED SOMA PRACTITIONER
Shanti Center Co-Owner, Soma Structural Integration
I have been practicing bodywork since 2013. As my practice has evolved I have served a wide range of clients with different backgrounds, needs and goals for bodywork. My sessions range from helping people get out of pain and shifting chronic pain patterns, to facilitating a deeper connection in body-mind-spirit and felt sense awareness, to promoting structural balance for more easeful posture and movement, to helping folks unwind from a stressful week at work. Whatever your goals for bodywork, I aim to meet you where you are and seek to understand how I can best support you in your journey. Through my practice I hope to contribute to a kinder, more compassionate, more embodied world.
I offer Soma Neuromuscular Integration as part of an 11-session series, ongoing treatment or maintenance sessions, and/or as stand-alone sessions designed to facilitate greater structural balance and easeful movement. This is also potent work for shifting chronic pain patterns and healing old injuries. I also offer Somassage and Integrative Massage Therapy for those looking for something more closely resembling typical massage therapy and for those seeking relaxation & stress relief. My work is slow, deep and meditative, with the intention of helping to ease your body/mind/spirit into deeper harmony and balance.
Learn more at www.somabodyworks.com.
LEAH GROSSMAN, CERTIFIED ADVANCED SOMA PRACTITIONER, LMT
Structural Integration Bodywork, Tuning Forks, Hypnotherapy
I have been practicing bodywork and energy work since 1992. Through my diverse modalities, I aim to enhance physical vitality and foster self-understanding. My passion lies in helping clients tap into their personal power and innate ability to heal, addressing both surface-level and core aspects of their being. I hold a special fascination with exploring and regulating the nervous system as a means to expand consciousness.
Receiving bodywork has been the most consistent and powerful pathway of obtaining health and increasing self awareness I have experienced. I graduated in 1992 from the Brian Utting School of Massage and continued training at The Bellevue School of Massage in Bodymind Shiatsu, and then at the Soma Institute in 2005 as a Certified Advanced Soma Practitioner. As a true believer and experienced provider and recipient of Soma and massage, I am honored to pass on the work to my clients who want to experience the gift of physical and emotional balance: freedom of pain, healing from injury, nurturing the immune system, increased flexibility and grace, self awareness and internal peace.
If you'd like to learn more about my services and read testimonials, please visit www.somamassagebellingham.com.
MELISSA SETUM, LICENSED ESTHETICIAN
Holistic Skin Care, Natural Hand Crafted Products
I have been a holistic esthetician for 17 years and I believe that healthy skin is achieved not only through the healing properties of clean, whole plant ingredients but also through balancing your body, mind and spirit.The goal is not perfection, but being in harmony with your skin’s natural process, bringing forward your natural beauty and helping your skin return to a healthy, balanced state. Real beauty comes from a place of loving yourself fully and feeling great in your own skin. This is why I love to combine skin care with energy work, creating radiance from the inside out.Skin is a living organism and is nourished and regenerated by whole plant ingredients that utilize nature’s intelligence to heal and balance. I believe in using only simple, pure and highly energetic products in my skin treatments, which will bring life and vitality back to your skin. This is not just a facial but a holistic treatment that will truly make your skin and spirit glow!
SHIRA SMASON-MARCUS, LMT
Licensed Massage Therapist, Thai Massage
*Shira is currently on maternity leave - Fall 2024*
Shira has been a massage practitioner for nine years here in the Pacific Northwest and is excited to share her healing practice at The Shanti Center.
Her style incorporates elements of Swedish Massage, Deep Tissue and Integrative Myofascial Release. In 2015 she received training in Traditional Thai Massage in Chiang Mai, Thailand and brings these ancient techniques to the table as a means of addressing mobility issues and increasing overall flexibility. Her Thai Style bodywork is also available for clients interested in fully clothed sessions, positioned on a floor mat in pretzel-style body contortions or more gentle, assisted yoga poses.
Shira crafts all-natural body care products, with the intention of using simple, organic ingredients. Her soaps, bath teas and massage candles can be found in the waiting room at The Shanti Center as well as various farmers markets in the greater Bellingham area.
TRISTAN JORGENSEN, LMT, ASSOCIATE CERTIFIED COACH (ACC)
Integrative Massage Therapist and Empowerment Coach
Hello purpose-driven creators,
As an Integrative Massage Therapist, I support you to connect with your inner wisdom and encourage alignment of body, mind, and heart. My bodywork modalities include Lomi-Lomi, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Cupping, and Attunement, a form of energy work that supports connection to the source energy of your highest self.
As an Empowerment Coach I help you transform your life and step further into your power as a creator through practices involving
Intentionality; Getting clarity as to why you are here, and committing focus to it.
Removing barriers so your intrinsic Awareness of who you uniquely and profoundly are, naturally emerges.
and Radical Growth in Action; Ways to courageously step into your potential, your meaningful impact.
Within you is the wisdom, moment-to-moment, to feel peace.
Within you is the love and compassion to cultivate inspired connections.
Within you is the fire-in-the-belly to feel flipping ALIVE.
CAROLINE SNIJDER VAN WISSENKERKE, LMT
Soma Structural Integration, Pregnancy massage, movement education
I see an incredible endurance inside you, a stunning capacity to persevere. But we were not meant to do this alone. I want to support you in your health journey, so you can embody your most resilient self. A licensed massage therapist for nearly ten years, I am certified in Soma Structural Integration, Nutritious Movement® Restorative Exercise, and pregnancy massage. Structural Integration is a whole-body educational undertaking in which you work closely with your practitioner to cultivate more sustainable body alignment, reclaim connection with your full being, and make real progress resolving your pain or injury. I use my deeply intentional touch to have a conversation with your structure, inviting your nervous system to discover new ways to perceive the world. I add to this my training with Nutritious Movement®, so we can apply what you are learning with me to your life out in the wild—where you work, raise children, and do the things you love in a way that is sustainable for your body. I am especially passionate about helping people with babies and children in their lives because I believe our children deserve to have caregivers who are being nurtured, too. Learn more about my work at carolinesvw.com.
ELIZABETH RUFF, CERTIFIED ADVANCED SOMA PRACTITIONER, E-RYT 500, LMT
Structural Integration Bodywork, Functional Yoga & Ayurveda
Elizabeth focuses on a practice that helps people experience long lasting relief from pain and greater joy in life. She offers Soma Structural Integration which is an intense 11-session series of hands on bodywork that makes use of fascia manipulation and movement to train your body to become balanced & limber. In addition, you can book a 2hr session that will combine movement and bodywork to help you transcend dysfunctions that may be holding you back in CrossFit, Running, Mountain Biking or just moving through life with grace. Additionally, Elizabeth has been a yoga instructor since 2002, a yoga retreat leader, and founder of the SomaYoga Teacher Training. She presently leads classes via livestream through her platform: Modernyogatribe.com.
Reach out, and find your line of grace!