Alicia Upchurch is a Reiki Master and Coach that blends the traditional Reiki practice with medicine drumming and channeled song for a shamanic and multi sensory healing experience. She attended NYU for music education and classical voice and now employs this training in her healing practice, believing that the process of self discovery and awareness is the most important education for the betterment of our world. She recently completed the whole person coaching program and is launching a program for conscious uncoupling in the coming months. Her coaching includes energy healing as the body’s wisdom has been paramount to her own healing journey. Alicia is also an Artist, musician and writer and is building a healing space and intimate retreat center in Palenville NY and is excited to offer her gifts to this vibrant community.
Daniell Dubord LMT
Brigit Moynihan Reiki Practitioner and Private Yoga Instructor
Brigit Moynihan is a singer, toning channel, yoga teacher and reiki practitioner. Brigit began teaching yoga in 2000 after completing her first teacher training with Don and Amba Stapleton of Nosara Yoga. Brigit’s work raises the energetic vibration and she knows how to help you clear the way to uncover and directly experience your vital life force. Both grounding and empowering her yoga classes, yoga nidra and Reiki sessions are deeply restorative for your body, mind and energy field. Relieving the stress of our day to day habitual processes allows us all to be more responsive to our needs and self healing. When we are met and nourished by our own resource this has a ripple effect in our lives and communities. Brigit feels becoming a Reiki practitioner is a natural continuation of the energy awakened within us through yoga practice. She received her Reiki activation through Jenny Mulak of Cosmos Mother. Reiki is so subtle yet, so very very powerful. It can shift your energy, enhance your immune system, relieve pain, and relieve stress.✨ Brigit is so very grateful to do this work with you.
Stephanie Hertel – Psychotherapist and Somatic Coach
As a psychotherapist and coach, during our O+ session we will focus on one key area of your life where you are feeling afflicted or are desiring change. Together, we will explore the situation, help you gain insight, define your goals, and walk away with tangible steps / tools for moving forward.
I am committed to providing a safe and inclusive space, welcoming individuals across the full spectrum of gender / identity expression, sexual orientation, relationship styles, and intellectual/developmental abilities.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/stephanie-hertel-new-york-
Pam Otti M.D.
Mark Houghtaling LMT
I am a somatic coach and integrative bodyworker practicing in the mid-Hudson Valley and Catskills, and offering virtual sessions worldwide. My passion is guiding individuals towards holistic well-being through self-inquiry and somatic insights. As a nationally-certified massage therapist, my training has included Swedish massage, shiatsu, lomi lomi, sports massage, and zero balancing energy work, enabling me to personalize therapeutic touch interventions to individual needs. I hold certification as a mind-body coach from the Embody Lab, and in my coaching practice I explore with my clients simple awareness, radical presence, and the interconnectedness of mind, body, and emotions. Beyond my work, I’m a musician, nature enthusiast, and spiritual seeker. Home is Accord, New York, with my husband Neil, and friends and colleagues in our creative, professional, and spiritual communities.
Bri Cordi, MHC-LP
Bri Cordi (she/her) believes in holding space for clients through self exploration, expansion, and navigation. For Bri, effective therapy guides the individual into a state of full feeling and expression, fostering individuality, self-worth, connection and relationship, and creative expression.
Bri believes that holistic wellness includes integration of physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual realms and experiences. She approaches practice from an integrative holistic approach, introducing elements of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Somatic Processing, and Creative Interventions into a Person Centered, Humanistic approach. Bri is influenced by her training in Reiki energy healing, Meditation, and Tarot as well as a background in music and sound healing.
Bri has experience working with individuals in end of life care, and has a passion for working with adolescents, young adults, couples, adults, and older adults. Her areas of focus include relationships and breakups, disordered eating, end of life care, mindfulness, grief, and life transitions. Bri aims to foster an environment that feels safe for total self expression and exploration.
Bri honors the experiences of individuals navigating their souls’ journeys. Prior to embodying this calling, Bri earned a bachelor’s degree in Sound Recording Technology from SUNY Fredonia and worked as an audio engineer for music and television.
Andrew Chen, DPT
Dr. Andrew Chen has been practicing physical therapy since 2012. He received his Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree as well as Bachelor’s in Exercise Science from Rutgers University. While Andrew has had experience practicing in every conceivable healthcare setting and demographic, his expertise is in sports and orthopedic rehab. Outside of healthcare, Andrew is also a musician, world traveler, and former Force Recon Marine and Scout Sniper, with multiple overseas deployments.
https://accessphysicaltherapywellness.com/locations/new-paltz-ny/
Meredith Finkelstein
Meredith Finkelstein is a practicing herbalist. Her approach is syncretic, and she blends several different traditions. She loves sitting down with a client over a cup of damiana tea, walking in the woods, and researching plant lore and science.
Her lineage and teachers include 3 years at the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism, Tammi Sweet, Jean Schneider, Thad Wong, and Renay Oshop.
The Rev. Kathleen Mandeville, M.Div
In her 45 years as an Episcopal priest, arts producer and community pastor, Kathleen has worked with a wide variety of individuals and groups in numerous settings, including hospitals, prisons, low income housing, college campuses, public arts arenas.
She is the founder of The Outer Edge Coaching and IgniVox, a production company dedicated to spiritual, regional, and environmental witness through the arts. Kathleen is the spiritual leader of Gateway House, a growing sacred arts community in Rosendale, NY where she currently facilitates sacred ceremonies, individual and group counseling and groups.
Her specialties include working with healers and creatives as they achieve the true expression of their soul’s mission, combining hard-headed strategy with heart-centered intuition. She is committed to promoting the health and vitality of creative expression in the world.
Questions Answered, Discernments Pondered: At the O+ Festival Kathleen will offer a discerning ear to support individuals in confronting whatever transitions they might be facing, such as death, grief, birth, loss, commitment, unexpected joy, and other profound circumstances. Out of this witnessing process she will tune in to recommend what from her palette of modalities could best serve you in the present moment, including: Kaleidoscopic (Systemic/Family) Constellations, ritual, pastoral guidance, and coaching.