Healing Touch

Deep Tissue Massage

My life took a pivotal turn at the age of 21 when I underwent a major pelvic reconstructive surgery. Every phase of my recovery was challenging. The structure of my pelvis forever changed, causing a ripple effect of tightened muscles, compensation issues, nerve damage, and major scar tissue adhesions in my upper leg and abdomen. ​ ​I visited countless bodyworkers to find relief, and learned how to listen to my body. I changed my major to study more in school, and realized I want to help others with challenges like mine. I enrolled in massage school and developed a strong foundation in bodywork, then hit the road for a year, traveling through remote villages of South East Asia where I learned ancient forms of bodywork and herbalism in local temples. During this time I received a post-graduate diploma in Ayurvedic Medicine and Yogic Science, studied Thai massage, and Yoo Fai (Thai Traditional Postnatal Treatments.)Show More

Myofascial Release

I began dancing in a studio when I was 3 years old, and embodiment has been my saving grace through childhood neglect and trauma, 2 divorces, loss of children, domestic violence, sexual assault and more. Many times in my life I didn't quite know how I could go on living, or if I wanted to. Every time something expansive and full of light would anchor me into the path of choosing life and choosing myself no matter how difficult the uphill climb seemed. After persevering so many challenges in my life, I am devoted to supporting others in their path back to self-love, peace, joy, and wholeness. My love for dance translated into a love for studying the human body, psyche, and spirit/soul and I have been on an epic journey of deep study and education to better inform my healing path and those I assist. I am a life-long learner and will continue to dive into spaces and places where I can continue to learn and expand. I am a 500 ERYT Yoga Instructor and Facilitator, have a Pre/Post Natal Fitness Emphasis, am certified in myofascial rolling and release, love supporting cycling beings and girls and women, and the masculine who wants to learn to support women and children. I am a beautiful blend of practical and esoteric, weaving my intuitive magic and vast array of skills and lenses to help the individual drawn to work with me. Whether you need help in the physical plane with your body and sexuality/sensuality, your mind/thoughts and how to interact with others and the world, or are feeling stuck in spiritual/soulful realms, I've got you.Show More

Ayurveda

Fertility Specialist | Foothill Birth Plan Consultant | Midwife Assistant, Birth, Postpartum & Death Doula and mentor | Herbal Consultant & Teacher | Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy | Cranial Sacral Therapy | Reiki Usui Master Teacher | Pregnancy Massage Therapist | Infant Massage for Parents and Caregivers Instructor | TCM Placenta Tincture & Encapsulation | Hospice Patient and Caregiver Treatment | Medical Breast Massage | Massage Therapist | Yoga Teacher | Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga | Mama Earth Parenting | BirthDance™ classes SAMANTHA CORSIGLIA Director and Integrative Health Practitioner Location: Half Moon Bay, Nevada City, and Virtual Samantha is the Owner, Director, and Primary Integrative Health Practitioner at Coastside Health and Healing. Raised in the Sierra Nevada Foothills - a Fifth Generational Northern Californian- Samantha had the opportunity to follow her passions, travel, studying abroad. She fuses Ancient, Traditional Health Philosophies and modalities, together, to offer her clients Individualized Consultation and Therapeutic Treatment, as an Integrative Women, Children, and Family Health Specialist. She is known as a Fertility Specialist-treating those Trying To Conceive, keeping prenatal people comfortable, she turns breech babies, encourages labor, provides labor support, puts mamas back together-postpartum, give babes Cranial Sacral and Reiki to optimize feeding and balance after birth. She applies a fusion of hands-on therapeutic bodywork techniques, utilizing her custom made medicinal oils and liniments to treat those encountering menstrual pain, menopausal symptoms, organ prolapse, andropause, digestive, and prostate issues, the injured rancher, farmer, construction worker, beat up skier, snowboarder, surfer, kayaker, frisbee golf enthusiast, musician, dancer, equestrian, athlete, teacher, techie, caregiver, as well as optimizing hospice patients' quality of life. With her herbalist background, Samantha makes custom made medicinal tinctures, salves, ointments, liniments, oils, cough medicines, utilizing food as medicine, (ie: broth, soups), for her clients. With her dance and yogic background, she teaches Appropriate Yoga for everyone, Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga with Infant Massage, BirthDance™, Parenting, and Prostate and Uterine Self Care Classes, encouraging a healthy balance of education and appropriate movement for the body. Her 30+ years of tenured experience and education has led her to bring her vision to fruition providing, full spectrum model of care utilizing her Village of Support team for a Coastside Birth Plan. It is within this model she feels parents and families, receive the complete support they require to stay integrally whole, unified, and thrive in their journey into Parenthood. Samantha is an Integrative Health Practitioner for ALL HUMANS. She strives to support, educate and empower those who seek to improve their own health stories, well being and thrive within our world.​ Samantha’s Background: 2018-Present-Founder of Coastside Birth Options, Providing Full Spectrum Model of Care & Education for families 1998-Present-Founder of EarthDancer Wellness, Integrative Women, Children, and Family Health Practice Lifetime Homesteader-Raising Livestock, Designing & growing gardens, orchards, Culinary & Medicinal Herbs, as a Master Gardener & Herbalist, Wildcrafting Native Medicinal Plants, and Educating adults and children. 1992-Present- Veteran Parent & Homebirther 2020-Certified Advanced Level: Type 1 Diabetes care, Virtual College, UK 2006-2019- Creator of Mama Earth Parenting Classes for Pediatric Alternatives, Mill Valley, CA 2018-Creator of BirthDance™ classes, lifetime dancer 2017-Certificate Neonatal Resuscitation Program, with Karen Strange, Los Altos, CA 1999-2017- Veteran Custom Homeschooler 2015-Certified Lighting the Path Yoga Teacher Training, with Pete Guinosso, San Francisco, CA 2015-Certified Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga Teacher Training, Jane Austin, San Francisco, CA 2013-2014-Hearts & Hands Midwifery Training; Birth, Postpartum Doula & Midwife Assistant, with Elizabeth Davis, San Rafael, CA 2013-Trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine Placenta Tincturing & Encapsulation, with Sharon Economides, LMW 2009- Alive & Well Certified Pregnancy Massage Therapist, Corte Madera, CA 2000-2006-Level Four Certified ATMAT (The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy) Practitioner & Self Care Instructor, with Rosita Arvigo, DN, Belize, Central America 2001-2005-Certified Snowline Hospice Volunteer, Placerville,CA 1997-2003-Certifed Reiki Usui Master Teacher, with Lynda Marinics, Camino, CA 2003-Ordained Minister, Universal Life Church, CA 1997-2003-Certified Herbal Consultant & Teacher, EverGreen Herb School of Integrative Herbology, Advanced Western Herbology & Ayurveda, Placerville, CA. Fusing Traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Maya traditions. 2001-Trained Infant Massage Instructor for Parents and Caregivers, with Kalena Babeshoff, Sonoma, CA 1998- Alive & Well Certified Massage Therapist, Corte Madera, CA 1994-1996 Trained in Cranial Sacral and Medical Breast Massage, Rincon Valley Chiropractic, Santa Rosa, CAShow More

Healing Touch

My path as a healer began when I was in college at UC Berkeley, studying philosophy and living at a 60-person vegan co-op. At 19, I stepped into a manager role at my co-op that involved supporting my housemates with interpersonal conflict. There, I first held space for people to express their emotions and needs openly—and witnessed how honesty and vulnerability could transform tension into connection. I felt deeply aligned in that role and knew this was work I was called to, so I went on to complete a Conflict Mediation training to deepen my skills and experience. Years later, seeking support for my own anxiety, perfectionism, and over-functioning, I struggled to find a therapist through my insurance who felt like the right fit. Wanting a body-based approach for deeper transformation, I began working with a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I immediately resonated with my coach, and felt relief to finally be working with someone who I didn't have to explain myself to, and who brought in expertise beyond my own experience. Over time, I built a deeper sense of embodied safety, expanded my emotional range, and started to shift my chronic pattern of constantly being busy but never feeling like I was doing enough. Now, I am so much more in tune with my body's wisdom and feel more spaciousness, possibility, and empowerment in my life. Grateful for the profound impact this work had on me, I pursued training in Somatic Experiencing myself. Studying the modality has deepened my healing even further, and I’m honored to now be able to offer others this same support.Show More

Shiatsu

Zen Shiatsu found me in an East West Center in San Diego in 1985. My next job took me to NYC, where I found my way to the Shiatsu Education Center of America. I became affiliated with that institution, the Ohashi Institute, and started a branch school in Chicago. I became a senior instructor in the Ohashiatsu system, and at the same time, heard a voice in a SweatLodge. It simply told me that I was born to practice Shiatsu. It's been a long four decades in the clinic and classroom sharing the beauty and power of healing touch following the Meridian Channel system. I could tell a thousand stories. I hold them all in my heart.Show More

Ayurveda

Sage Ardas is a holistic healer, advanced health coach, and energy worker offering a deeply integrative approach to wellness. Her work weaves together reflexology, cupping, and energetic alignment to elevate, balance, and harmonize the body’s natural frequencies. Drawn to family and community wellness, Sage began as a postpartum doula before earning her Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Oakland, CA. Her studies and travels through China and her exploration of herbalism, Ayurveda, homeopathy, Kundalini Yoga and Tibetan medicine deepened her understanding of the universal principles of healing and guided her back to her ancestral lineage of healers. In her years practicing in a bustling downtown clinic, Sage discovered her passion for reproductive health, fertility, and wellbeing. Her master’s thesis focused on a healing protocol for PTSD, inspired by personal loss and her desire to support veterans, mental health and trauma survivors. After a long, difficult birth left her with mobility challenges, Sage’s own healing journey took on new depth. Through a blend of physical rehabilitation, energetic medicine, and ancestral guidance, she reclaimed her strength and purpose. Now a devoted mother of two, Sage’s work centers on optimizing the body’s natural cycles, awareness and understanding hormones, honoring postpartum recovery, and empowering others to reconnect with their innate rhythm of healing and finds deep fulfillment in supporting her community.Show More

Acupressure

As a youth, I suffered from chronic stomach pain and other maladies. At age 16, I went to a traditional western allopathic doctor. He spoke with me for twenty minutes. I was asked questions such as “What type of recreational drugs have you tried?” and “Where is your pain?” I was not asked ‘Do you exercise?’ ‘How much fruits and vegetables do you eat?’ ‘Do you sleep well?’ ‘What do you do to create happiness in your life?’ The doctor then prescribed me four pharmaceuticals. They were Celebrex for the back pain, Zantac for the stomach pain, Valium, and Zoloft for I can only imagine why. I felt that the pharmaceuticals were not going to heal me but just mask the symptoms. I was offended to be only offered drugs without any help or advice towards health and wellness. I refused them and started to look into alternative health modalities. Six years later, I was referred to an amazing acupuncturist and gifted healer. It was the first time someone understood how sick I was since their diagnostic methods could see past my outer “healthy” appearance. The acupuncturist diagnosed and treated the imbalances that were ruining a lot of my days. The treatments and information changed my life and inspired me to discover how it all works. Now by sharing my knowledge and experience with others, I can help ignite the light inside of them, to find the desire to heal. I can do this by bringing my patients the tools and power needed to create wellness and health in their own lives. This is done by integrating the Eastern and Western medical systems, frequency medicine and patient education, thus creating high-quality true health care.Show More

Massage Therapy

Ayurveda