Co-Owners:

Elizabeth Sowell, LMT

414-331-7502

Co-owner of WildHeart Studios, Elizabeth Sowell is originally from Ashland, Oregon, but has called Milwaukee home for the past eleven years. She is a Blue Sky School of Professional Massage and Bodywork Graduate with eight years’ experience. She volunteered and worked several years at Core el Centro, a nonprofit holistic healing center that provides services to lower income families, and now works for St. Ann Center, a nonprofit intergenerational care facility. She works with clients with a variety of physical challenges such as MS, Cerebral Palsy and Parkinsons. She offers services such as Therapeutic Massage, Energy/Reiki and Sound Healing, Raindrop Therapy, Flower Essences, as well as CranioSacral Therapy, which she studied through the Upledger Institute. Any of these services can be incorporated into a session to meet the individual’s needs. Elizabeth continues to seek out and provide wellness techniques that promote self-healing of the body, mind and spirit.

Elizabeth also studied and performed with the Ballet Rogue, formally known as Oregon State Ballet, for most of her childhood and early twenties. She still studies with Robin Bryant, a Contemporary/Modern Dance teacher and choreographer in Ashland, Oregon. Elizabeth is teaching the Dance Improvisation/Dance as a Healing Art class, which is based on and inspired by Robin’s teachings. Elizabeth is looking forward to bringing this soul inspired dance to Milwaukee with Robin’s blessing.

Cindy Smith, LMT, Practitioner of Healing Arts

414-793-5656

Co-owner of WildHeart Studios, Cindy grew up in Southern California but has called Milwaukee home for over twenty years. With a lifelong interest in creativity and healing, Cindy’s passion is in providing a nurturing space for those seeking physical and emotion pain relief. Combining eastern and western massage and bodywork with energy therapies and movement, she is dedicated to the care and well being of those dealing with chronic illness and difficult life challenges and seeks to help them find joy in movement.

With a background in corporate and social services, as well as graduate work in Trauma Counseling and Creative Writing, Cindy is most interested in supporting the healing process of people who are transitioning in the physical, personal, career or spiritual aspects of their lives.

Additional Training:
Nia, White Belt
Certified Ageless Grace Educator
Artist Way Creativity Workshops, Facilitator
Focusing Technique, Facilitator
Employee Assistance Program, Crisis Line
Survivors of Domestic Abuse Groups, Facilitator
Grief Counseling Groups, Facilitator

She has enjoyed volunteering her health services for Boys and Girls Club, Stand Up for Kids Homeless Shelter, and Milwaukee County Child Protective Services. Currently Jennifer volunteers as a mentor with the non-profit agency New Concepts.

Instructors:

Rebecca Zenke

Rebecca Mara, RYT, is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor trained at Spirit Rising Yoga Foundation in Chicago. As a teen, she became fascinated by yoga because of the mental, spiritual clarity and tranquility that yoga provides. After practicing many styles as an adult, she was drawn to Kundalini, the yoga of awareness which uses mantra breath and meditation to open the heart and strengthen the spirit. The joy yoga brings to peoples' lives is her driving force.

Carrie Zielinski

Carrie discovered Nia in 2001 after being a "gym rat" for decades, spending 2 hours a day working out, rain or shine. Carrie stumbled upon a Nia class and was intrigued by the happy sweaty faces that emerged after class. She became hooked, taking Nia 5-6 days a week. She liked the changes in her body, emotional state and overall sense of well being, and for the first time since childhood, was able to allow herself to experience "joy" in her body, and chose to complete her White Belt Certification in 2005. In 2007, she had a hip replacement with many complications, and became very ill. As she slowly recovered, there was never the option NOT to dance, and thanks to the caring and supportive Nia community and her own determination, she recovered from a series of physical and emotional challenges. As soon as she could use crutches, she returned to class and followed the movements of the upper body while sitting in a chair. This was the foundation for her continued recovery, and Carrie began teaching Nia in 2008. Carrie continued on a journey of personal growth and self healing. She took her Blue Belt Certification in 2009, and as a teacher, she shares the benefits of the tools Nia has given to her.

Susan Reis

Susan Reis is a Certified Sound Therapist, Intuitive, Medium and Spiritual Counselor. She uses song and sound for healing at a spiritual, emotional and physical level. She specializes in helping people understand their soul's purpose. She has been in private practice channeling information from the Highest Source and Angelic Realm since 1993. Susan has a Bachlors in Religious Studies from California State University Northridge, a Sound Therapist Certification from Boulder, Co where she studied with Johnathan Goldman, and a Mediumship Certification from Kona Hawaii where she studied with Doreen Virtue. She is also a certified Crystal Therapist, Reiki Master, and Intuitive Healer teaching classes around the world.

Kelly

Kelly has practiced yoga for fifteen years, and completed the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training at The Center For Happiness in Minneapolis, MN. Grateful to share one of the oldest yoga technologies, her first set of classes will focus on the lower chakras to strengthen the navel center, help elimination and digestion, and enhance creative energy. It is said, “Developing the higher centers without the base is like pouring water into a sieve. Without the lower chakras in balance we cannot materialize our desires, or sustain what we have attained in meditation.” Yogi Bhajan
In addition to stretching muscles to maintain strength and flexibility, some of the many benefits of yoga result from pranayam, or breathwork, which promotes mental focus, strengthens the nervous system, and boosts the immune system. Meditation also promotes a sense of inner peace and helps develop intuition.
Please wear comfortable clothing and avoid a heavy meal two hours before class.

Judy Haack

Judy has the unique ability to find beauty and joy in everyday situations, and is pursuing her passion to help others find that joy. As a Second Degree Trance Dance Facilitator, she provides a secure, nurturing atmosphere for participants to explore the depths of their conscious and subconscious. Having trained with Ernesto Ortiz at the sacred Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, she has had the privilege of working with shamans. Her training in multiple modalities gives her the ability to hold the space in a way that is safe, non-judgemental, loving and pure. She is a Nia Black Belt Instructor and Level I Reiki Practitioner. Some of her other trainings include deep Chakra work, Soul Journeying and meditation. Judy holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has been facilitating Trance Dance since 2008, and actively expands her knowledge of movement and its impact on our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual states.

Chad Turner

Chad was first introduced to yoga as a form of rejuvenation when he was attempting to address his narcolepsy and excessive fatigue. The more he practiced yoga, the more yoga’s healing power became quickly evident igniting his desire to share yoga’s healing potential with others. With a combination of raw foods and a regular yoga practice, Chad learned how to truly feel his absolute best.

Drawing on his diverse back ground in Living Food instruction, yoga, meditation and superfood living, Chad creates a unique classroom experience in which the yoga practitioner experiences the yoga as a form of healing and a means to feeling their absolute best. Chad’s classes are what he considers “yoga as medicine” and therapy in motion. He offers insight into postures and how they can be used to address a diversity of ailments such as fatigue, back pain, shoulder/neck pain, arthritis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, anxiety/depression, blood pressure, cold/flu/sinus and tense or sore muscles. Chad’s intention is to create within each yoga class a space in which students can disarm themselves and rediscover the joy of living. Chad likes to think of himself more as a Joyologist than a yoga instructor or wholefood coach.

Chad is a registered Yoga instructor who has been practicing and instructing people with yoga for over 5 years. He completed his 325 hour Yoga Instructor Certification in Coonoor, India at TheAyurvedic Retreat Hospital under the direction of Dr. Senthil Kumar. Chad was instructed by Dr. Kumar that Yoga is the first medicine he prescribes.

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