The Songbird Flock
Jasmine Gold is the director of Songbird Community Healing Center. She is a Toltec Mentor, certified Four Agreements Facilitator, and Reiki Master. Her traditional education includes BA’s in Linguistics and Classical Languages at UC Berkeley. Her non-traditional Toltec education started ten years ago with local teacher Allan Hardman. It includes a three-year intensive spiritual training program with don Miguel Ruiz (author of the Four Agreements) and Barbara Emrys. She has taken six power journeys to Teotihuacan, Mexico and one to Peru. Some of her other teachers include David Deida, Sahn Kai, and her teenage son Julian. She loves the continuing process of getting in touch with herself through exploring and releasing old beliefs.
Besides Reiki, Jasmine has explored many other healing arts. Five years ago, her passion for community building and research prompted her to start the Hands of Gold Healing Clinic in her living room in Cotati. She is excited to move it into the Songbird Healing Center. The clinic provides a fun and casual community for people to explore and receive different types of healing. Jasmine offers small classes and in-person private sessions and phone sessions. These are tailored to individual needs and can include visualization, discussion, recapitulation breathing, hands-on energy healing, and/or tools based on the Toltec teachings of don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements.
Dawn Zaft is the founder and director of Green Bough Herbal Cooperative. Havingstudied primarily with local herbalist Gail Julian and also with Oakland based herbalist Adam Seller, she has worked as an herbalist and herbal educator for the past 6 years all over the Bay. Dawn’s educational background is not only in herbal medicine but, also, in holistic nutrition, Chinese medicine, and health politics. At New College in San Francisco she pursued her undergraduate studies in activism and social change. Health politics and education are a major focus in her life. She is dedicated to the ideas that access to good quality health care is a fundamental human right and that high quality holistic, botanical medicine, bodywork, and food as well as healthy community are essential parts of health. These ideas have helped shape the Songbird project.
From 2000-2006 Dawn worked at and co-managed Oliver’s Market supplement department in Cotati, CA. She then relocated to Berkeley where she worked as a manager and herbal medicine practitioner at Elephant Pharmacy from 2006-2007. Traveling throughout the Bay, Dawn has worked as an educator for supplement brokerages since 2004, conducting staff trainings and customer demonstrations for lines such as Herb Pharm and Aubrey Organics. She has been a college instructor of western herbal medicine at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College. Currently, she is a 3rd year student in the Masters of Oriental Medicine program at AIMC. Dawn resides and keeps an herbal and bodywork practice in Sonoma County.
Kathy Caldwell-White had her healing seeds planted from 1974-1976 as she observed her flute teacher and others doing their regular daily practice of Regenerative Movement, (Katsugen Undo) in Matsumoto, Japan. In 1980 she began her own practice upon a return residency in Japan. Certification in Reiki and The Radiance Technique was accomplished in 1978 and 1982. She was trained in Acutonics more recently. This practitioner has worked in Mexico, Japan Europe, Canada, and in the USA. She has also worked as a performing musician, CD producer and author at several of these locations. Volunteer work includes assistance at Quan Yin Acupuncture Center in San Francisco (1990s), San Francisco Public Schools, and at the Petaluma People Services Center. Her mission is to assist others along their path to wellness . Her measure of success is found in helping people to continue to heal themselves and to leave each session with an improved quality of life. Your benefits include Stress Reduction, assistance with health concerns, pain reduction, and improvement of your vitality, among others.
Teresa Callison holds a Master’s degree in psychology, an Integrated Movement therapist certification and is a registered yoga instructor. She has recently moved here from Seattle, where she taught at The Samarya Center, a nationally recognized yoga research and education center, dedicated to providing yoga and yoga therapy to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Teresa has worked extensively with individuals of many different ages and with a variety of life challenges. Ingrained in her teaching are the three overarching philosophies of Integrated Movement Therapy: The student is already perfect and whole, the student and teacher are both unlimited in their abilities to heal and that no part of the body, mind or spirit works alone.
As a long time runner, vigorous asana practicioner and busy mom of two, Teresa has come to realize the incredible benefits of a gentle and yin yoga practice. To learn to move slowly and deliberately with your breath, to stretch the deep connective tissue in the body and to give yourself permission to be exactly where you are at this moment is both a gift, as well as a powerful journey of self-discovery. Teresa believes in making yoga accessible to everyone regardless of age, ability or economic status and provides students a safe, comfortable environment in which to practice. Teresa is an energetic, compassionate therapist/teacher who brings a sense of fun and compassion to those with whom she works.
Deborah Dow-Gallagher has been an intuitive for over three decades. She is very excited about practicing Theta Healing, a method she has been certified in for eight years. Theta healing is a non-touch approach that looks at clearing beliefs that may get in the way of your optimal health and well-being.
Christeen Fischer, Tarot reader and teacher. Christeen took her first Tarot class 20 years ago and the cards have been one of her favorite personal development tools ever since. At first, she read the cards only for herself, then for others, and now she teaches people to read the cards for themselves.
She is excited to be part of the Songbird Coop as it has been on her wishlist to be part of a holistic center that educates and supports its community. Christeen believes that we all thrive when we are given the tools to make empowered choices for ourselves.
Sybil Harmony is a clairvoyant, medium, medical intuitive and healer. She works with healing guides and in the angelic realm. She works with your aura, chakra system, and energy to heal your body, mind and spirit through releasing energy within the energy system. Sybil can help you clear out past life, addictions, relationship blocks, and create and discover your life purpose. Sybil also teaches how to connect with your own divine guidance. Sybil will help you connect with the guides and angels around you. We are all able to receive guidance from the divine. Sybil teaches you how to receive your own guidance, heal yourself and heal others for a healthier, happier life.
Sybil has been practicing as a light worker for 18 years. She is a natural born psychic and healer. She is a world traveler and has a strong connection to the ancient oracles of Greece. She has trained with Doreen Virtue and healers in the Philippines. She has a background in counseling and is very knowledgeable of twelve step groups. Sybil says, “I work for God where ever I am needed. My mission is to make the world a better place one person at a time.”
Cecilia Kinzie‘s interest in Healing began at a very young age. From 19 to 25 she studied at Aescelpion Healing Center in Marin County, CA and completed their spiritual wellness program, their year long clairvoyant training program, advanced clairvoyant training program, their year long hands on healing program, their advanced hands on healing program, and their massage program graduating as a CMT. In 2005 she started a Raw Food’s business www.rawglow.com, where she teaches people about the healing power of diet, positive thinking, and meditation/visualization. In 2010 she became certified in Reconnective Healing. She has been able to heal herself of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Asthma and is dedicated to help people who have the desire to heal and change their lives.
Reconnective Healing is a new modality of healing which introduces a new frequency to the planet. By interacting with these new frequencies of energy, light, and information we are connected to the universe and to the fullness of who we are thus allowing healing to take place. Reconnective Healing is like no other healing modality she has encountered and she definately recommends that you experience it for yourself. To learn more about Cecilia and Reconnective Healing please go to www.reconnectingwithlight.com
Melanie LaBrie is a certified IYK (Its Yoga, Kids!) instructor, Montessori Pre-school Teacher and an Amrit Certified Instructor (Level 1). Mindful of the many blessings that yoga & meditation has brought into her life, she is passionate about introducing yoga to children at an early age. Yoga encourages a child’ self-esteem and body awareness with a physical activity that is non-competitive! When children learn self-soothing, relaxation and inner-fulfillment, they can navigate life’s challenges with a little more ease.
Shine Your Light Yoga, provides a safe and nurturing environment where children can strengthen their sense of confidence, focus, breath, creativity, physical awareness and appreciation of their whole being through yoga, movement and music. Yoga awakens the children’s creativity and intrinsic love of exploring their bodies inspired by animals and the natural world. Some days there will be a theme or focus that threads through all of the activities. Activities are inspired by the yogic intention of breathing, focusing, creativity, peace, and awareness. They include yoga games, inventing poses, visualization and guided imagery. Melanie is available for Children’s birthday parties (price depends on time and number of children).
Marsha Sendar is a certified nutrition consultant, physical therapist, and health educator who is passionately committed to a holistic approach to health. Marsha brings her love of delicious, health-promoting foods and her extensive experience in many forms of movement and exercise to her work. In addition to offering classes at Songbird, Marsha maintains a private practice in Santa Rosa where she offers nutrition consultations, Aston-Patterning sessions, healthy exercise and stress management instruction, and physical therapy services. For more information, visit her website at www.marshasendar.com.
Marsha Sendar is a certified nutrition consultant, physical therapist, and health educator who is passionately committed to a holistic approach to health. Marsha brings her love of delicious, health-promoting foods and her extensive experience in many forms of movement and exercise to her work. In addition to offering classes at Songbird, Marsha maintains a private practice in Santa Rosa where she offers nutrition consultations, Aston-Patterning sessions, healthy exercise and stress management instruction, and physical therapy services. For more information, visit her website at www.marshasendar.com.
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