Health & Wellness Practitioners
Dayaalu Center houses traditional and alternative health and wellness practitioners committed to providing deeply integrated and collaborative care for individuals, families and whole communities. Seeking truth and alignment in any area of life is an act of courage and love. Our holistic approach restores balance and fosters transformation in our relationships, bodies, and minds. Along with the practitioners listed below, we also house the Far Infrared Sauna.
Therapeutic Yoga, Physical Therapy and Healing - Sue Steindorf blends 30 years as a physical therapist with the profound wisdom of yoga to create a multidimensional healing experience. She works with all ages, from infant to geriatric, and a diverse range of health issues and concerns. Whether it’s a child with disabilities or an adult with chronic pain or anxiety, Sue utilizes her unique knowledge, experience, and abilities to help people understand and trust their body’s capacity to heal and discover new patterns for living a healthy and vital life.
Sue has a BS in Kinesiology from the University of Washington and an MA in Physical Therapy from Boston University. Her yoga training includes: 200hr Integral Yoga teacher training; extensive yoga therapy education with Doug Keller; Yoga for depression with Amy Weintraub; Yoga therapy with Gary Kraftsow; Yoga for Cancer with Jnani Chapman; and Yin Yoga with Sara Powers. Yoga comes from the root to Yoke or connect and at the heart of her work is cultivating connections that bring balance and wholeness into our lives. To schedule an appointment, contact Sue: sue@dayaalucenter.com / (206) 499-4728
Sue has a BS in Kinesiology from the University of Washington and an MA in Physical Therapy from Boston University. Her yoga training includes: 200hr Integral Yoga teacher training; extensive yoga therapy education with Doug Keller; Yoga for depression with Amy Weintraub; Yoga therapy with Gary Kraftsow; Yoga for Cancer with Jnani Chapman; and Yin Yoga with Sara Powers. Yoga comes from the root to Yoke or connect and at the heart of her work is cultivating connections that bring balance and wholeness into our lives. To schedule an appointment, contact Sue: sue@dayaalucenter.com / (206) 499-4728
Luminanda Coaching, Yoga & Massage Therapy - Karen Sella, MA, CYT, LMT offers coaching, yoga and massage therapy. She is the founder of Luminanda, a holistic coaching company offering integrative practices for illuminating and amplifying the greater good within, between, and all around us. Her work is based on a transdisciplinary background in organization psychology, psychotherapy, expressive and somatic arts, as well as over twenty years of experience engaging people in individual, community, and organizational development. To learn more about her practice or to book a session, please visit www.luminanda.com, or contact her directly: karen@luminanda.com / (206) 780-2998
Accessible Yoga and Physical Therapy - Carol Ann Davidson has over 25 years experience as a licensed physical therapist working with people with disabilities in a variety of settings. In 2016, she entered into yoga teacher training with the intention of deepening her practice and sharing yoga with people with movement challenges who might otherwise view yoga as inaccessible. She believes that yoga is a lifelong practice that can help people of all abilities improve or maintain strength, flexibility, balance, breath, ease, and function. Blending physical therapy and yoga, she provides support, education, and training for a safe and sustainable movement practice. Visit her website at cadavidsonyogapt.com or contact Carol Ann at: cadavidsonyogapt@gmail.com / (206) 390-1709
Carol Ann has a BS in Physical Therapy, Ithaca College; Masters in Physical Therapy, Temple University; and a Doctor of Science in Neurologic Physical Therapy, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She has completed 200 hours Registered Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Garden; Accessible Yoga Training with Jivana Heyman; Adaptive Yoga Training with Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions; and training in Yoga for Scoliosis with Elise Browning Miller. In addition, she has taken courses on the integration of yoga and physical therapy, including a course applying the wisdom of Schroth therapy for scoliosis and yoga.
Carol Ann has a BS in Physical Therapy, Ithaca College; Masters in Physical Therapy, Temple University; and a Doctor of Science in Neurologic Physical Therapy, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She has completed 200 hours Registered Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Garden; Accessible Yoga Training with Jivana Heyman; Adaptive Yoga Training with Matthew Sanford at Mind Body Solutions; and training in Yoga for Scoliosis with Elise Browning Miller. In addition, she has taken courses on the integration of yoga and physical therapy, including a course applying the wisdom of Schroth therapy for scoliosis and yoga.
Inner Bliss Wellness, Ayurvedic Body Work - Bree Oriard offers a variety of customized Ayurvedic body work therapies that nourish and transform. She creates luxurious, healing experiences based on the clients’ specific dosha. Indulge in a deeply relaxing, warm oil Abhyanga massage, a grounding Shirodhara treatment, where a continuous stream of warm oil is poured onto the center of the forehead, or Swedana, a cleansing herbal steam therapy. Bree is a graduate of Bastyr University and the California College of Ayurveda. For more information, or to book an appointment, you can visit her website: www.innerblisswellness.org or contact her directly: bree.innerblisswellness@gmail.com / (253) 732-5345
Sound & Forest Therapy - Joy Evans, MSW (she/her) combines trauma-healing modalities with sound and forest therapy to lead people out of the perpetual stress response, to reconnect with the details of the senses and return to clarity, centered self, and calm. Joy has a deep commitment to restorative practices. At the University of California, Berkeley, she led the team who developed the healing services, crisis response, and advocacy for students, staff and faculty impacted by sexual violence/harassment, intimate partner violence, and stalking. Inspired to make healing accessible to survivors of trauma and vicarious trauma, she began her private practice.
She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and self-designed her major in Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender at Vanderbilt University. She completed The Art of Sound Healing Level II certification through the Seattle Sound Temple, is a certified forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy, and in her third year of study with the School of Celtic Consciousness. Joy welcomes folks from all backgrounds, especially LGBTQ+ and BIPOC to her in-person and virtual offerings.
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She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and self-designed her major in Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Gender at Vanderbilt University. She completed The Art of Sound Healing Level II certification through the Seattle Sound Temple, is a certified forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature & Forest Therapy, and in her third year of study with the School of Celtic Consciousness. Joy welcomes folks from all backgrounds, especially LGBTQ+ and BIPOC to her in-person and virtual offerings.
Experience the healing energy of alchemy crystal singing bowls and support your practice of restorative rest by booking a sound therapy session. Connect with Joy at joyevansmsw.com for more information or book your in-person sound session directly here.
Compassionate Postures, Therapy & Yoga Presences - Sean Ambrose MA, LMHCA's therapeutic style is grooved in a communal, holistic, integrative, and embodied posture, for infants, families, children, relationships, & adults. He loves and believes in humanity, and thus co-creates spaces for better understanding our beauty, passion, intellect, responsibility and divinity. He believes that we are all interconnected through embodiment, and in a relationship can share healing postures. For more information, or to book an appointment, you can visit his website: www.compassionatepostures.com
Reine Medicine, Naturopathic Women’s Health - Dr. Jennifer Heiger, ND founded Reine Medicine to empower women and bring awareness to the immense strength our body and mind hold.
Reine [rèn] is French for Queen—a symbol of power and knowingness. We have these qualities within us, and together we will work to unveil them through all facets of health and wellness. It is Reine Medicine's purpose to find the ways in which you can enrich your life, love your body, and reach your full potential—every day.
Dr. Heiger received her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Washington State in 2010. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Salisbury University in biology, chemistry, and psychology in 2002. Dr. Heiger has trained with Daved Rosensweet, MD and completed the Menopause Method course. She continues to be an active member of the Menopause Method and is on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Bio-Identical Medicine (IOBIM). For more information visit www.reinemedicine.com or contact Jennifer directly: info@reinemedicine.com / (206) 898-2400
Reine [rèn] is French for Queen—a symbol of power and knowingness. We have these qualities within us, and together we will work to unveil them through all facets of health and wellness. It is Reine Medicine's purpose to find the ways in which you can enrich your life, love your body, and reach your full potential—every day.
Dr. Heiger received her doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Washington State in 2010. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Salisbury University in biology, chemistry, and psychology in 2002. Dr. Heiger has trained with Daved Rosensweet, MD and completed the Menopause Method course. She continues to be an active member of the Menopause Method and is on the Advisory Board for the Institute of Bio-Identical Medicine (IOBIM). For more information visit www.reinemedicine.com or contact Jennifer directly: info@reinemedicine.com / (206) 898-2400
Holistic Mental Health Care - Ann Strickland, MACP, LMHCA (she/her) has served the spiritual, musical, and emotional needs of the Bainbridge Island community for over 20 years. She has led music in intergenerational spiritual communities, notably as Music and Arts Director at Grace Episcopal Church on Bainbridge Island, and is a student and teacher of Vedic mantra practices, presently studying with Shantala Sriramaiah. Ann has extensive experience facilitating spiritual retreats and developing curriculum to support people as they explore their own deep inner wisdom. Her experience allows her to understand the ways to work together, with compassion and attentiveness, to help clients explore their inner life.
As a transpersonal psychotherapist, Ann believes in acknowledging the spiritual, cognitive, creative, emotional, and physical selves to explore practices and paths which align these five realms. She values the power of music, visual art, poetry and movement to reveal and cultivate the strengths and innate potential of each person. Specializing in trauma-sensitive, somatic, transpersonal and expressive arts modalities, Ann believes wholeheartedly in practicing with deep humility regarding cultural and identity awareness, and is LGBTQ+ affirming.
Ann is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, music teacher, and non-profit leader. As a yoga teacher specializing in musical mantra meditation practices, Ann offers classes at the Dayaalu Center and Bainbridge Yoga House. Her recordings are available on Bandcamp and Spotify. Visit www.annstrickland.com for more information or contact Ann to schedule a free 15-minute consultation appointment: info@annstrickland.com / (360) 524-4722
As a transpersonal psychotherapist, Ann believes in acknowledging the spiritual, cognitive, creative, emotional, and physical selves to explore practices and paths which align these five realms. She values the power of music, visual art, poetry and movement to reveal and cultivate the strengths and innate potential of each person. Specializing in trauma-sensitive, somatic, transpersonal and expressive arts modalities, Ann believes wholeheartedly in practicing with deep humility regarding cultural and identity awareness, and is LGBTQ+ affirming.
Ann is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, music teacher, and non-profit leader. As a yoga teacher specializing in musical mantra meditation practices, Ann offers classes at the Dayaalu Center and Bainbridge Yoga House. Her recordings are available on Bandcamp and Spotify. Visit www.annstrickland.com for more information or contact Ann to schedule a free 15-minute consultation appointment: info@annstrickland.com / (360) 524-4722
New Beginnings with Ayurvedic Wellness - Michelle Brock, Ayurvedic practitioner, offers individualized, customized consultations educating young, old, sick, healthy, and everyone in between on the ancient Indian principles of a “whole body” healing system.
Ayurveda emphasizes balance in all areas of life, focusing on treating the individual rather than the symptoms they are suffering with. Its holistic approach means that true wellness depends on understanding each person’s unique mind, body, and spiritual make-up. Michelle provides her clients with teaching tools, remedies, and practices to manage their own health, allowing them to understand more clearly how foods, lifestyle choices, the weather, the seasons, the time of day, and even our time of life affect our wellbeing.
Michelle is a 35 year flight attendant for a major airline based in Seattle, WA. Seeking change in her own health led to sharing these transformations and these Ayurvedic principles with others. “I knew right away that healing myself had a connection to one day healing others,” she says.
Michelle graduated from Kerala Ayurveda Academy Milpitas, California; AWC AWP. She recently completed her clinical internship in Kerala, India, where she studied at The Health Village in Alva, India and Ayurvedagram Heritage Wellness Center in Bangalore, India. Please visit: www.newbeginnings-wellness.com or contact her directly: michelle@newbeginnings-wellness.com / (310) 994-4602
Ayurveda emphasizes balance in all areas of life, focusing on treating the individual rather than the symptoms they are suffering with. Its holistic approach means that true wellness depends on understanding each person’s unique mind, body, and spiritual make-up. Michelle provides her clients with teaching tools, remedies, and practices to manage their own health, allowing them to understand more clearly how foods, lifestyle choices, the weather, the seasons, the time of day, and even our time of life affect our wellbeing.
Michelle is a 35 year flight attendant for a major airline based in Seattle, WA. Seeking change in her own health led to sharing these transformations and these Ayurvedic principles with others. “I knew right away that healing myself had a connection to one day healing others,” she says.
Michelle graduated from Kerala Ayurveda Academy Milpitas, California; AWC AWP. She recently completed her clinical internship in Kerala, India, where she studied at The Health Village in Alva, India and Ayurvedagram Heritage Wellness Center in Bangalore, India. Please visit: www.newbeginnings-wellness.com or contact her directly: michelle@newbeginnings-wellness.com / (310) 994-4602
Deep Wellness, Integrative Mental Health - Bridget Carnahan, DO is an osteopathic physician specializing in holistic mental healthcare. Bridget offers personalized approaches to help clients optimize their mental health. Treatment may include genetic and biochemical assessments, nutrient therapy, herbal medicine, ketamine treatment, somatic therapy, and mind-body medicine approaches. Prescription medication management, adjustment, and medication discontinuation support is also offered.
Bridget partners closely with clients and therapists to develop individualized approaches that are based on a deep understanding of each client’s unique life experience. You can contact her or schedule a free consultation through her website: www.deepwellness.us
Bridget partners closely with clients and therapists to develop individualized approaches that are based on a deep understanding of each client’s unique life experience. You can contact her or schedule a free consultation through her website: www.deepwellness.us