MEET OUR PROVIDERS
Mariia Babina
Salt Therapy Grotto & Spa Owner
Service Manager
Yoga & Dance Instructor
Mariia is excited to welcome everyone into the beautiful space of healing and relaxation on both, spiritual and physical levels.
She’s happy to be able to provide services that help her clients feel and look their best. She wants everyone to feel welcomed and be surrounded by a peaceful, pleasant energy every time her clients walk in the doors.
Mariia was born and raised in Russia where she received her degree in International Relations. Her journey into a Beauty/Wellness world started when she moved to the United States.
She’s a Licensed Aesthetician, a certified Yoga/Fitness Instructor and a certified Reiki Energy Healer.
At Salt Therapy Grotto & Spa Mariia wants her clients to unwind and escape the busy world and find themselves drifting into the magical world of meditation and tranquility.
KARI JO SHEPHART
KARI JO is a Reiki Healing Provider, Breath Work Facilitator and a Yoga Instructor.
Kari Jo has always loved this physical, human experience and connecting deeply with others. She has been offering yoga classes for 10 years and is working toward her 500HR Awakening Yoga certification.
Awakening Yoga is a progressive Yoga system rooted in Hatha Vinyasa with an emphasis on ritual & self inquiry. Each class pays homage to the traditional nature of the Yoga practice with a practical and functional approach to asana (physical postures) built for today's bodies and minds.
Because the physical body is such a crucial part of the human experience, breathwork and meditative practices are important aspects to Kari Jo’s rituals and means of grounding herself in a turbulent world. Breathwork and meditation have played a significant role in promoting peace, self-awareness, and connectedness not only within herself but also with the greater force of Love that is all around us.
In addition to being a yoga teacher, Kari Jo is also Reiki Master certified and loves working with the universal life force energy (greater Love & Light) to offer insight and connectedness to one’s higher Self for each reiki client she works with.
Dawn Bickel
Psychic, Medium, Healer
Dawn comes from a long ancestral lineage of Scottish-Irish-Cherokee Intuitives, Healing Psychics & Mediums. On the other side of her family, her Great Grandmother was an Armenian-Hungarian Seer. These gifts have been passed down to Dawn allowing her to communicate within multiple realms of spirit - angels, spirit guides and passed love ones.
In her childhood she would often dream of things that would come true and see people that others could not.
She uses divine channeled guidance from Arch Angel Metatron to perform multidimensional healing helping individuals to create, transform, be inspired, grow in abundance, heal, and connect on multiple levels as well as empowering them to step into their own 'Divine Identity'.
Over the years she began to tune more deeply into both her spiritual and psychic gifts by becoming an ordained minister, certified Reiki energy healer, certified Ho'opono pono therapist, frequency and sound healing practitioner, and a practitioner of emotional release bodywork.
She is also known as 'Medicine Woman' due to her knowledge - ancestral in origin - regarding natural herbs and shamanic plant medicine ceremonies.
Dawn is available for spiritual readings every other Friday from 11am - 4pm.
Tamala Thomas
Dance Instructor/ Reiki Practitioner
Tamala, a long time Naples resident, is originally from Strongsville, Ohio. She has danced since the age of 4 studying Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Musical Theatre and most recently, Ballroom.
She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri and majored in Dance.
Tami danced professionally in Los Angeles, California and has many TV, Film and Stage credits to her name.
While living in Nagoya, Japan for 8 years, Tami studied Japanese and Traditional Japanese Dance.
She is one of a few select Western women who achieved Natori status in the Fujima Ryu discipline receiving her Japanese Dance stage name "Fujima Kanshuu" in 1995.
Tami, an Empath and Lightworker, is a Breathwork Practioner studying under Christian de la Huerta.
She is a Certified Reiki Practitioner and includes TM (Transcendental Meditation) in her daily practice.
Tami offers private Reiki Healing Sessions (1 hour and 30 min)
as well as adult and children Reiki Circles.
Tami has played Pickleball and competed since 2012.
In 2015 she became a Certified Professional Pickleball Coach and in 2016 won Gold in Women's Singles 50+ at the 1st US Open Pickleball Tournament here in Naples. Presently, she is a Concierge Pickleball Instructor.
In her spare time, Tami is an Artist and the creative owner of her company 'Bling! my Apron by Tami'.
Tami offers two Dance Classes per week. Tuesdays at 6pm and Saturdays at 5pm!
Andrea Bella Luna
Psychic Medium
Tarot/Oracle reader
Past Life Readings
Energy/Crystal Healing
Star/Candle Magic
Medical Intuitive
Andrea is a very gifted psychic medium whose gifts of channeling
ancestors and guides are both uncanny and powerful. Through these
channels, she is able to give sound and clear guidance to
best support you on your future path, as well as be able to bring love
and healing to complete connections with those who have passed.
Andrea's gentle energy work will facilitate the healing of old wounds and
eliminate beliefs and traumas that limit our abilities to obtain a
clear path on our journeys on this earth plane.
Her bright sweetness brings light and love to every reading she does.
You can't help but feel Andrea's genuine love and
kindness in all of her work.
Dave has developed a keen interest in complementary and holistic health care since the 1980's. He was Director of Wellness with world renowned Dr. Barry Sears, the author of the New York Times best selling book “The Zone” giving lectures, coaching and consulting with customers, doctors, chiropractors, and healthcare professionals for more than 25 years.. He wrote many articles on the importance of an anti-inflammatory diet, meditation and wellness.
While working with hundreds of individuals over two decades who followed an anti-inflammatory diet some still experienced no benefit with various conditions like pain. It was then he became aware that other factors such as stress, anxiety and past traumas had to be addressed and Thought Field Therapy (TFT) offered hope
What is TFT?
Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is the original sequential tapping procedure that Dr. Roger Callahan discovered in the 80’s which provides a code to nature’s healing system. When TFT is applied to problems it addresses their fundamental causes, balancing the body’s energy system, and allows you to eliminate most negative emotions or fears within minutes.
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Overcoming Stress, Anxiety and Trauma to Stay Healthy
Do you or a family member struggle with stress, anxiety related to a health condition?
Did you know that six in ten Americans live with at least one chronic disease, like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and many others?
Interestingly, these diseases are not caused by germs, bacteria or viruses, they are not infectious.
New medical and quantum biological research has demonstrated that all chronic disease can be linked to “stress” on our biological system – the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body. New integrative approaches to healing, like TFT, are now showing more and more evidence of the key role of stress in our health and overall quality of life.
In this class you will learn how to:
Identify blocks to healing, or becoming pain-free, or remaining calm and balanced
Identify what stressors are affecting us and how to eliminate or neutralize them
Heal the effects of trauma
Release fear and negative emotions
Remain peaceful, calm and balanced
Reduce pain – both emotionally and physically
Create a daily constitutional tapping sequence specifically for you and your life circumstances.
The ease and power of these simple techniques suggest that we have a healing power within us that only awaits a simple tapping code in order for the healing data to kick in and take us to a higher state of health.
Your healing is an inside job. You have at your fingertips a safe and natural technique to help reduce the negative effects of stress, anxiety, fears, physical pain and trauma.