Reiki

Reiki

Intuitive, warm, humorous, and grounded are words others have used to describe me. Born and raised near the Santa Monica mountains of Southern California, my path has included a variety of experiences that influence how I show up in the world. I hold a master's degree in counseling psychology and have nearly a decade of experience as a therapist, working with youth, families, and individuals in community-based settings, schools, and foster care. Additionally, I ran a professional birth doula business. Currently, I work as a life coach, helping others "birth" their authentic selves. Before this, I lived in Northern New Mexico, where I helped establish school gardens and implemented environmental education programs. When I'm not working, I can be found hiking, practicing yoga, dancing, engrossed in a creative project, or simply cradling a cup of coffee and taking in the view of the pine trees outside my home in Truckee.Show More

What is Alchemy?

What is Alchemy? Traditionally, alchemy was the medieval practice of transforming base metals into gold — a mysterious blend of science, art, and mysticism. Over time, the word has come to mean the process of profound transformation: turning something ordinary into something extraordinary and revealing hidden potential within. At The Alchemy Space, alchemy is both our name and our mission. We believe in the art of transformation — in ourselves, in our community, and in the world around us. Through movement, creativity, connection, and holistic well-being, we nurture the process of evolving together, elevating what already exists, and creating something entirely new.Show More

Swedish Massage

Angel Wing Massage & Reiki is a heart-centered healing practice founded by Breanna Ross-Dee, a licensed massage therapist and Usui Reiki practitioner devoted to helping others reconnect with their bodies, energy, and inner peace. Trained at the National Holistic Institute, Breanna blends a wide range of therapeutic modalities—including deep tissue, Swedish, Thai, cupping, and hot stone massage—with intuitive Reiki energy work to create deeply personalized healing experiences. Rooted in a holistic approach, her work goes beyond physical relief, supporting emotional balance, energetic alignment, and overall well-being. Each session is thoughtfully tailored to the individual, whether in a peaceful studio setting, in-home visit, or immersive outdoor “nature massage” designed to deepen connection with the natural world. Driven by a passion for healing and empowerment, Breanna also offers Reiki training, guiding others to step into their own healing abilities. Angel Wing Massage & Reiki is more than a service—it’s a sanctuary for transformation, relaxation, and renewal, where clients are supported on their journey toward greater health, clarity, and self-connection.Show More

Reiki

Jennifer Vanatta is a devoted guide in the healing arts, blending over a decade of yoga teaching with certifications in sound healing and Reiki energy work. Her path to these practices was not simply academic, it was earned through lived experience. Having faced trauma and profound loss at a young age, Jennifer knows firsthand the weight of anxiety and depression, and the long, often nonlinear road toward healing. It was through yoga, sound, and energy work that she found her footing; tools that helped her return, again and again, to her own inner stillness. That personal journey is the heartbeat of everything she offers. Today, she weaves together movement, meditation, and vibrational healing to help others reconnect to their own inner wisdom and natural state of harmony. She holds space with deep compassion; not as someone who has all the answers, but as someone who has walked through the dark and found the light on the other side. Rooted in Nevada City, CA, Jennifer is inspired by nature, the rhythms of the earth, and the alchemy of nourishing, high-frequency living. Her work invites balance, presence, and deep embodiment for anyone who is ready to come home to themselves.Show More

Pregnancy Massage

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

Reiki

In April 2022, I hit a wall I couldn’t think my way out of. My husband was deep in building his business, and the emotional and financial volatility of entrepreneurship was hitting our household hard. The pressure to contribute financially became so intense that it shut me down. I wasn’t just overwhelmed, I was paralyzed. Getting out of bed felt like a stretch. Showing up for my kids took everything I had. What made it more confronting was I had over 25 years of leadership experience behind me - nonprofit leadership, operations, strategy, and consulting. I had built organizations, led teams, influenced policy, and solved complex problems at a high level. I had the honor of testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee - US Congress in Washington DC. I knew how to lead and I knew how to execute and none of that could solve what was happening internally. In desperation, I stepped back. I started applying for jobs, roles far below my experience level just to feel some relief and stability. The idea of going back to a traditional path made me feel physically sick, but so did the uncertainty of staying where I was. That tension forced me to confront something I thought I had already worked through: My identity was still tied to achievement. Around that time, I invested over five figures into a three-month coaching program, convinced it would give me the clarity I couldn’t access on my own. It didn’t. The program lacked depth, structure, and real leadership. The guidance was inconsistent, and the work contradicted itself. And I could see it clearly because I understand how transformation actually works. That experience forced me to get honest. I had been outsourcing my authority and looking for someone else to give me the answers, hoping there was a faster way. There isn’t a faster way. I know this and yet I couldn't sit with this level of discomfort. I had to face my own patterns of scarcity thinking, fear-based decision making, impatience, and the belief that once I reached a certain level, I would finally feel better. Reiki had already been part of my life before this. I spent years practicing Reiki and then pursued my Reiki Master Certification believing that was the destination. But this season showed me something different. Reiki isn't the end - it is the doorway. As I moved through my own unraveling, Reiki became something I lived, not just something I practiced on others in my energy healing practice. Reiki supported (and continues to support) me in the quiet moments where there was nothing to fix, only something to understand. That’s when everything started to shift.Show More

Wilderness Therapy

I’ve spent most of my life guiding people through mountains, rivers, and personal transformation. What began as a career in outdoor education and ski coaching evolved into a calling: helping others navigate the inner terrain of growth and healing. After two decades of guiding and teaching around the world, I founded ACE CoLab — Adventure. Connect. Evolve — to bring together the best of movement, mindfulness, and coaching. My path weaves through high peaks and deep introspection — from training ski professionals and leading expeditions, to studying integrative health, mind-body medicine, and wellness coaching. Through these experiences, I’ve learned that transformation doesn’t just happen on the mountain — it happens in how we show up for ourselves every day. Healing is a process of remembering our wholeness, reconnecting with what truly matters, and aligning how we live with who we are becoming.Show More

Gyöngyi Ridenour

Gyöngyi Ridenour Gyöngyi Ridenour is a holistic practitioner, sound healer, and yoga teacher with over 17 years of experience supporting individuals in finding balance, clarity, and well-being. She draws on her diverse background as a business owner and former professional ski instructor, bringing a unique combination of discipline, focus, and practical guidance alongside deep intuitive healing. Her wide-ranging experience allows her to meet clients where they are, providing support that is both grounded and transformative. A lover of nature and dedicated mother, Gyöngyi enjoys raising her son in the Tahoe area, where she immerses herself in skiing, outdoor pursuits, and the vibrant local community. Her connection to the natural world informs her work, inspiring a holistic approach that nurtures both the mind and body, while fostering a sense of harmony and grounding.Show More

Astrology

CHEK Practitioner | Integrative Movement Specialist | Holistic Lifestyle Coach I grew up as an athletic kid who was always injured, bouncing between physical therapists, feeling frustrated that no one could explain the root cause. Everything changed when I completed my YogaWorks 200hr training in 2017, which taught me how breath, proper muscle activation, and nervous system regulation shape the way we move and work through the growing pains of life in a healthier way. That foundation deepened during my four years ski instructing in Keystone, CO, where I analyzed hundreds of bodies and learned how to teach movement with clarity, safety, and intuition. In 2020, I became a NASM Personal Trainer, but I knew I needed something more comprehensive. That’s when I found Paul Chek and the CHEK Institute. For the past three years I’ve been immersed in corrective exercise, functional movement, holistic lifestyle coaching, somatic work, and emotional-root-cause healing. I’m currently awaiting my HLC Level 3 certification and completing Integrative Movement Science Level 3 February 2026. My mission is simple: Help you feel strong, balanced, and pain-free so you can live the life you love. From chasing the kids to playing adult soccer or pickleball, I believe your injuries are feedback, not failures: invitations to listen, unlearn, and rebuild with intention. Whether your dream is to eliminate pain, prepare for pregnancy, return to play, or reconnect to your body, I blend science, intuition, and integrative health medicine principles to guide you back to natural movement and true vitality.Show More