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  • Alexis Lawton - Energy alchemist, intuitive sacred space holder, Priestess, a goddess mama, creatrix.


    Alexis (“Lex”) is a compassionate and activating sacred space holder walking the path of the modern-day priestess. She specifically connects and shares the wisdom and pure presence of the heart, encouraging those to remember their authentic power and magic.   

    From a very young age, Alexis dedicated her time and attention to the creative art of ballet. Dance was her original soul connection to the divine and pursued a professional dance career in early adulthood. Today, Alexis hosts popular goddess circles and continues to use dance, movement and somatic practices to guide others back to their innate divine wholeness.

    Alexis resides here in Westport where she is constantly learning from her three children (who are her greatest gurus), her loving husband, and all of the amazing people, places and experiences that have crossed her path thus far.  


    You can find out more about Alexis on her website at  www.agoddessmama.com or follow her on instagram @agoddessmama.

  • Bianca L. Rodriguez – LMFT, Ed.M, holistic therapist, holotropic breathwork instructor, author, syndicated columnist, medium/seer.

    Bianca is a licensed marriage and family therapist, published author, medium/seer and nationally syndicated columnist. She is offering monthly Holotropic Breathwork Workshops at the Hummingbird to help people awaken to their innate sense of wholeness.

    In 2005, after obtaining two masters degrees from Columbia University in psychology, Bianca moved to Los Angeles. She began working with children, teens and adults suffering from anxiety, depression, and addiction. Gifted at building therapeutic alliances and applying a holistic approach to healing, Bianca's worked with treatment centers throughout Los Angeles. She is an also a published athor and has worked with publishers such as Oprah and the Huffington Post. Bianca currently runs a thriving private practice where she helps individuals and families recover to their innate state of being, wholeness in Westport, CT.

    You can find out more about Bianca on her website, www.youarecomplete.com, Instagram @youarecomplete or email her directly at bianca@youarecomplete.com.

  • Bradford Tilden - Sound healer, best-selling author, composer, musician, UWT gemstone healing teacher, MM, Certifield Licensed Massage Therapist.

    Bradford enjoys planting seeds and making ripples in the higher consciousness fields through inspiration, education, and activation of human potential using sound, crystals, and energy healing. 

    Bradford graduated from Amherst College and held a one-year fellowship as Assistant Choral Director. He later received a master’s degree in music composition from UMASS, Amherst. Additionally, he graduated from the Globe Institute of Sound Healing and Psycho-Acoustic Music in San Francisco in 2006 and is a certified massage therapist.

    Bradford’s restorative and energizing sound baths feature his voice, crystal bowls, crystal healing and Universal White Time Healing (UWT). He is now the leading UWT gemstone teacher in North America. 

    To find out more about Bradford, check out his website www.CrystalMusicHealing.com, follow him on Instagram @BradfordTilden, You Tube Channel: @Bradford Tilden or Facebook @CrystalMusicHealing.

  • Deana Paqua - licensed massage therapist, reiki master teacher, contemporary shamanic practitioner, published author, and adjunct professor at WCSU in Danbury, CT.

    Through her own path as a “wounded healer” and decades of experience and training in the field of holistic health and cross-cultural healing, Deana feels it is her mission to support others in growing their own healing and spiritual gifts to be more of service to their families, communities, and the earth.

    Deana is honored to share seasonal Shamanic Drum Journey Circles at the Hummingbird, helping others connect with the sacredness of nature, their own teams of spirit guides, angels and ancestors in a safe way for self-healing and self-empowerment.

    Deana has a Master’s Degree in Integrative & Experiential Health & Healing, certifications in multiple energy-healing modalities, the science and art of herbalism, flower essence therapy, and the tarot. She has also had the honor to study directly with indigenous healers and medicine people from Equador, Peru, various North American traditions and Tibet for the past 22 years.

    To find out more about Deana, check out her website www.embodythesacred.net, follow her on Instagram @deanapaqua, or Facebook @embodythesacred.

  • Lisa Pak – Multi-instrumental Sound Healer and Channel, Musician, Women’s Song & Chant Leader, Harmonic Egg® Facilitator

    Lisa is the proud owner of Hummingbird Healing Center. Her mission is to help people awaken to their own innate healing through the power of sound.

    As “guardian” of the sound and light chamber, the Harmonic Egg®, she assists people in their private healing sessions. Lisa facilitates group Sound Bath Meditations as well as private Sound Baths for corporate as well as private residential clients. Lisa received her Sound Healers Certification from the Sage Academy of Sound in Woodstock, NY and has studied with Tony Nec of the Sound Healers Academy in the UK. She is also currently a student of Zacchiah Blackburn of the Sunreed Center in Grafton, VT.

    Lisa is passionate about empowering woman to conect with their authentic voice and inner healer. She is a graduate of the Sisters in Harmony Song Leader program, led by Heather Houston, and has studied with esteemed vocal teachers Silvia Nakkash and Chloe Goodchild. She has also studied with esteemed music therapist, Christine Stevens, in the art of sacred drumming and the Native American Flute.

    Since oprening the center in 2023, Lisa has been leaning into her voice, not as a performance vehicle, but as a tool for transformation and healing.

  • Mirian Zernis – Kirtan Wallah, Meditation Teacher, Sivananda Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master, Holistic Coach

    Miriam Zernis of Sita’s Light (lead vocals and harmonium) is an inspirational teacher and dedicated Bhakta who has been joyfully guiding a deep and heart-opening kirtan experience since 2007 in NY, CT, CA, Costa Rica, Europe, and Canada. She mystically and effortlessly transports a group into a place of inner peace and tranquility while making each event accessible for all levels of experience and curiosity. Her kirtans are a soulful and unique combination of traditional old-world and original chants and spiritual songs framed by eclectic instrumentals. She is joined by several talented musicians on the same mission of spreading peace and joy in the world.

    Miriam has been practicing classical yoga since 1995 and teaching since 2001. She is an internationally certified Sivananda Yoga Acharya, Reiki Master, and a certified Holistic Health Coach. She stepped onto the Bhakti Yoga path in 2006, retiring from a 21-year career as an ABC News editor/writer. You can find out more about Miriam on her website, www.sitaslight.com, email her directly at lightdncr56@gmail.com, or on Instagram @sitaslight.

  • Samer Ghadry- Improvisational Musician, Sound Healer, Educator and Teacher Trainer

    Samer hails all the way from Brooklyn and uses a variety of experiences and approaches, including his roots in the Middle East, into powerful, meditative soundscape journeys rooted in joy and love. Over five years of leading sound healing offerings, plus regular study and collaboration with several renown institutions, inform Samer’s ever-developing foundation. His 25 years of experience as an improvisatory musician are activated into beautiful, musically holistic journeys.

    As a sound practitioner, Samer has trained and assisted with highly respected 9 Ways Academia, Sage Academy of Sound, Dr. John Beaulieu, Rebecca Singer, and Don Conreaux. Samer mentors and offers sessions to a variety of audiences to ultimately help cultivate understandings and growth within individuals and among communities. It all begins with a good listening practice.

    As a musician, Samer has recorded and toured with Matthew Dear, Deradoorian, and Dave Harrington, and his playing appears in Alanis Morrisette's The Storm Before the Calm and the film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

    You can find out more about Samer on his website, www.tonecenter.org, Instagram @samertime or email him at samer.ghadry@gmail.com.

  • Terry Eldh - Classical Musician, Sound Alchemist and Channel, Reiki Master, Energy Codes Teacher Trainer, and 12th Level Light Ascension Bioenergetics Practitioner

    Terry is blessed to combine her two passions – music and healing. As a result of her own deeply transformational experiences, she is committed to empowering others to shift their frequency from fear to love, through sound and energy healing.

    As a classically trained soprano, Terry has sung leading roles in operas by Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi among others in the US and abroad, as well as on Broadway. A former Staples High School graduate and Orphenian, Terry is one of several home-grown Broadway talents and regularly performs at the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts.

    As an educator, she is devoted to teaching new and established sound healers, both as a Mentor at The Sound Healers Academy based in Los Angeles, and through her course, Follow Your Inner Mozart . Terry’s company, SoulOSoaring is a Crystal Tones singing bowl distributor in Southport, CT.

    You can find out more about Terry on her website, www.soulosouring.com, on Instagram @soulosoaring or email her directly at terry@soulosoaring.com.

  • Theresa (Terri) Galuszka - Clairvoyant, Medium, Psychic, Reiki Master, Clinical Hypnotherapist

    Since childhood, Terri has been trained in light work, mindfulness, and compassionate care and wisdom. Her gifts have been carried throughout her ancestral lineage.  Her mother was a British-born Seer and Healer with gifts of prophesy and healing. Theresa's paternal grandmother was born in Russia and read tea leaves and Tarot cards and worked as a pychic medium in 11 countries. Growing up Theresa was raised understanding energy healing through the natural development of her intuition. She was taught through dreamwork, empathy, and compassionate responsibility for others and the world.

    Theresa has studied at The International Reiki Center in Sedona, Arizona, where she received her Reiki Master Level. She has worked on psychic national hotlines, healing centers and spa in NYC's upper east side, and throughout Connecticut as well as internationally. She currently offers reading at the Salt Cave of Darien.

    You can find out more about Terri at www.tmgaluszka.com or reach out to her dtrectly at 203 448-7818.