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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. ​​

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Trillium Natural Medicine - Dr. Alex Kraft is a Naturopathic Physician and Acupuncturist. As a Functional Medicine doctor, Dr. Kraft uses lab testing, diet, lifestyle changes, herbs, supplements, and hormonal therapy to promote proper function of the body and stimulate the body’s innate healing abilities. He sees his role as a health detective – helping identify factors which are contributing to ill health, recommending supportive therapies to maintain or regain health, and encourage the healthy lifestyle changes to maintain health on a daily basis. Dr. Kraft completed both the Naturopathic Medicine and Acupuncture programs at Bastyr University in 2004. Visit his website for more information or link her to Schedule appointment. ​


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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 lives. To schedule an appointment contact Sue at: sue@dayaalu.com or 206 499-4728


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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


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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.


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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


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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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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.


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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.

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  • Home
  • Classes
    • Schedule (All Classes)
    • Online Classes
    • Recorded Classes
    • Class Descriptions
    • Purchase Giftcards + Classes
  • About
    • About Dayaalu
    • Staff & Core Teachers
    • Sue Steindorf, Founder
    • Spiritual Community
    • Community Farm
  • Offerings
    • Events
    • Series
    • Online Partnerships
  • Health & Wellness
    • Wellness Tips
    • Practitioners
    • Infrared Sauna
  • Event Space
    • Rent Dayaalu Center!