Anne began practicing yoga twenty years ago to help with chronic back pain. She found that yoga helped tremendously, and through yoga she was also able to eliminate many unhealthy habits that she had struggled with for years. This inspired her to learn more and she attended a one month intensive yoga teacher training with Ana Forrest. She then began teaching classes in the Evanston and Chicago area, and completed massage therapy school. Several years later she continued her studies at Yoga Point in India where she studied hatha yoga, meditation, yoga nidra and Ayurveda. Soon after she began teaching yoga and practicing massage therapy full time at her first studio in Richmond, Il. Her massage practice specialized in helping clients overcome pain naturally, through deep tissue work as well as cranial sacral therapy. During this time she completed another yoga teacher training through the Himalayan Institute, as well as completing a one year training in Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy. She has also explored other healing modalities, completing an intensive two year training in Shamanic Healing. Anne continues to teach yoga, and practice bodywork and various healing modalities full time at her studio in Makanda IL. Her style of teaching is eclectic and intuitive, drawing from various yogic traditions, with mindfulness being a priority. Her massage sessions are customized to bring about effective healing for the client. Massage and Healing Sessions are highly effective at relieving pain and tension.
She is currently midway through an in depth 3 year training in Tibetan Energy/Soul Healing (Tse Dup) and will be excited to share that modality with clients in 2023!
Anne Discepolo
Meredith graduated massage school in 2020 from Full Circle School in Aurora, CO where they were trained in a therapeutic modality called SMRT or Somatic Muscle Release Technique. This style of massage moves the body into the direction of its existing pattern to elicit an unwinding response in the tissue and activating the nervous system. It is so relaxing! These moves work wonderfully in between Swedish or Deep tissue strokes to offer a lovely mix of flow and pain relief/ prevention! She also uses some Lymph drainage, and Cranio-Sacral techniques. Additionally, in 2020 she saw a Biofield Tuning Practitioner who brought so much relief to my anxiety in a single session that she immediately added this modality to my practice and have been using Tuning forks for sound healing sessions since 2021. Essentially, in these sessions they work around the body sending coherent sound into regions where we may be unconsciously carrying static and disharmony in the form of injury, or uncomfortable emotions etc. To put it simply, everything in the universe is vibrating and creating frequencies and it is the nature of everything to harmonize itself against coherent sound. So, when we carry frequencies of injury, depression, anxiety, or even ancestral patterning in our DNA, these things can be shifted and altered by introducing healing vibrations and the frequencies of alignment. They do entire 60-minute tuning sessions and can also incorporate tuning forks into massages. Meredith is so excited to be living in Southern Illinois and working in Makanda and looks forward to working with you all!
Meredith Rader
Kimberly Glenn
Kim felt an inner calling to facilitate healing spaces for women when she began her own deep dive inward to do "the work" a few years ago. Kim's passion lives in empowering her clients with the tools and support that they need in order to navigate the mysterious process of womanhood with ease.
Kim is certified as a doula and holistic birth facilitator, with additional certifications in prenatal yoga and postnatal yoga, and is currently studying to receive certification as a 200 hour yoga teacher. She has attended multiple trainings related to womb health and has conducted hours of research to bring the best information she can to her clients. Much of her time is spent studying and experiencing the ins-and-outs of womanhood, sisterhood, and self care. She also facilitates a monthly self-care group for mothers looking to connect with themselves and each other; the group is called Mindful Mamas Gathering (Southern Illinois) and can be found on Facebook.