centered Staff Bios, Lexington, KY | Wellness Center near me in Lexington, KY

Lauren

Massage Therapist, Trauma Informed Yoga instructor, Birth Doula

Lauren is the owner, director and co-creator of Centered. She’s been practicing and teaching yoga and massage therapy for over 18 years and has offered talks on health and wellness for focus groups, the VA, Hospice, women in recovery, local hospitals and universities. Prior to opening Centered, she was on faculty in the massage and yoga programs at Lexington Healing Arts Academy and currently teaches in The Essence of Yoga advanced teacher training program and leads international yoga retreats. Her private practice focuses on massage, yoga and a variety of other bodywork modalities, including craniosacral, Thai massage, and movement re-education. Lauren’s ongoing passions and practices include art, yoga, meditation, breathwork, martial arts, mental health awareness and advocacy. She particularly loves working with women and families moving through life transitions, trauma and recovery as well as children and infants with sensory, digestive and neurological issues.

Lauren’s mission is to help spread the power and potential of holistic care. Her belief and practice in promoting oxytocin as a mechanism for healing is a defining characteristic of her work, life and daily self care practices. She feels that self care is our personally prescribed “medicine” and in today’s world, taking this time each day is not selfish but rather necessary for our overall health and well-being.

One-on-One Sessions: Craniosacral, Thai, Shiatsu, Movement Re-Education, Therapeutic massage, Holistic Health Consultations, Private Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork
Yoga Classes: Kundalini, Gentle Community Yoga.

“There’s a culture at Centered of kindness, acceptance, and celebration of our unique self. The more we’re able to celebrate our own gifts the more we’re able to inspire others to allow their gifts to be seen. As we lift ourselves up, we are lifting each other up. We are all a work in progress: when we know better, we do better.”
-Lauren

CERTIFICATIONS
Licensed Massage Therapist
Certified Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher
Birth Doula
Certified Infant Massage Instructor
Dancing for Birth instructor
Advanced Prenatal and Postpartum Therapist
Certified Body Recall Instructor
Trained in Pediatric Craniosacral Therapy
Certified in Mental Health First Aid

Who she sees: adult females, trauma recovery, prenatal & postpartum, baby/pediatric, couples

Modalities: Craniosacral, Thai Massage, Shiatsu, Abdominal Massage, Relaxation Massage, Movement re-education, one-on-one yoga and meditation, birthing preparation and support.

Cost:
30 min (baby/pediatric only)- $45
60 min- $80
90 min- $110

Tuesday

9:00

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10:15

AM Kundalini Yoga

11:00

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12:00

PM Gentle Community Yoga

Alexa

Massage Therapist

Alexa is passionate about finding and maintaining balance throughout our bodies through the use of a variety of massage techniques geared toward relieving sports related injuries, limited range of motion, and posture-related issues. She emphasizes the importance of bodywork as a fundamental component in performing at our fullest potential, whether you are training for a sporting event or preparing for a week at the office. Above all, Alexa is passionate about creating positive changes in the body and educating her clients on ways they can live their best physical lives. Her practice focuses on deep tissue, sports, myofascial, and Traditional Thai Massage.

Alexa is a 2015 graduate of the Lexington Healing Arts Academy and has over 4,000 hours of hands-on experience as a Massage Therapist. She has previously worked as a part of the KY Chapter AMTA Sports Massage Team and continues to offer massage at various sporting events including the annual Iron Man triathlon. More recently, Alexa dedicated 60 hrs. to studying the benefits of Traditional Thai Massage out of Chiang Mai, Thailand, returning in early 2018.

In her spare time, Alexa rock climbs and spends time with her amazing dog.

Who she sees: adult females, adult males, athletes, chronic pain, prenatal

Modalities: therapeutic, deep tissue, swedish relaxation, prenatal

Cost:
60 mins- $80
90 mins- $110
120 mins- $150

Jennifer

Jennifer is a Yoga teacher and activities manager at Centered. She received her 200-hour teaching certificate from the Lexington Healing Arts Academy and began teaching Yoga in June 2019. Her practice is based in fundamental ideals such as being kind to yourself, others, and nature, and her classes guide students to presence, gently easing the body and mind toward a more comfortable, centered state of being. Expect to find yourself more challenged to mentally dive deep into your body than to push it to physical extremes.

At home, Jenn loves cooking Indian food, playing with her dog, Chandni, nerding out about music, and dreaming ever-larger with her life partner, Graydon.

Brooke

Kinga

The mystical side of and the philosophy behind Buddhism has fascinated Kinga since an early age and brought her to meditation and Yoga. Being very fortunate in having parents that opened the door to this world, Kinga started with a regular practice as a teenager and found her way to Ashtanga during her Master studies in sociology and philosophy, not knowing where her path would lead her. She moved in 2011 to South Africa and joined a teacher training under the supervision of Bruce Master in the Sivananda tradition. She has been trying to find a way to join the different styles since then. Kinga has been teaching in yoga studios since 2012, in addition to time spent teaching in the South African prison system. Since moving to the USA in 2016 she has continued to explore the path of Yoga, diving deeper into the practice of Ashtanga, Bhakti & Nidra Yoga. Kinga has a PhD in Social Psychology and has been studying Ayurveda since 2017. She enjoys combining ancient knowledge with modern research and is always on the lookout for links between the different theories. Her biggest joy is to learn and share her experience.

Joshua

Massage Therapist, Yoga Instructor

Joshua began his journey of holistic healing in 1995 at the Reilly School of Massotherapy in Virginia Beach. He is a graduate of Amanda McMaine’s 200 hour Essence of Yoga Teacher Training program as well as Matthew Higdon’s 200 hour Subtle Power Yoga Teacher Training program.

Joshua has facilitated a variety of self awareness and body mind integration exercises including; 10 years as group leader with Meditation for Stress Management for the Fayette County Drug Court Program; 8 years as instructor in Anatomy, Kinesiology, structural tissue integrative techniques, and range of motion bodywork with local massage therapy schools; 22 years sharing a variety of yoga classes as well as a variety of wellness workshops. He has worked with professional athletes and teams including our University of Kentucky SEC and NCAA aquatic athletes.

Joshua leads weekly Slow Flow and Special Needs yoga classes at Centered and special needs classes with the Latitude Artist Community and Employment Solutions. He is passionate about assisting others in their journey to mental, physical, and spiritual health and has worked one on one with clients of Hospice, the VA and a variety. He works well with others.

Joshua is experienced in facilitating the movement of the accumulation of stress stored in the body. His bodywork focus is on the rehabilitation and treatment of injury, utilizing range of motion and structural tissue work.

Bodywork: Thai, Therapeutic, Deep Tissue, Movement Re-Education, chair. Full body range of motion.
Yoga: one-on-one, weekly classes: Slow Flow, Special Needs.
Meditation: private sessions.
Specializes in adults, people with special needs. Also sees people in transition, clients with PTSD, athletes, injury/surgery recovery.

Who he sees: adult females, adult males, people in transition, PTSD, pregnancy, post-partum, athletes, digestive issues, headaches, chronic pain, injury/surgery recovery

Modalities: therapeutic massage, deep tissue massage, thai massage, one-on-one yoga, lomi lomi

Cost:
60 min- $80 (or $50 for yoga/meditation)
90 mins- $110
120 mins- $150 (deep tissue, full body range of motion)
180 mins- $220

Wednesday