Lyndsey Stropkey Thai Massage/Reiki
Master/E-RYT 500 & Yoga Alliance Continuing Education
Provider
Lyndsey stumbled into her life’s work in the year 2000, when
she took her first yoga class at the Shree Muktananda Ashram. She
came into the practice seeking knowledge and better physical health
and found a world of emotional and spiritual healing as well. From
there, she continued her practice at home, studying independently
and eventually taking vinyasa flow classes at a local gym. Though
she loved the physical movement, she always found herself wanting
to know more about ALL the aspects of yoga aside from the postures.
What about philosophy, breathing, chanting, meditation and MORE
relaxation?! She wanted more yoga like she had experienced in
the ashram. She also found herself in the midst of
experiencing deep trauma and needing a lot of emotional
healing.
She found it all in the Kripalu tradition, and in 2008,
Lyndsey attended a month-long immersion at the Kripalu Center,
where she received her 200- hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher
certification. She returned to Kripalu later that year to get
certified to teach Yoga Dance- a practice that combines her love of
music, yoga, and dance.
In 2009, she obtained her basic certification as a
practitioner of Thai Yoga Massage of the Tao Mountain lineage. That
same year, she took her first degree Reiki class and became a
certified Pilates instructor through the National Exercise
Teacher's Association.
Lyndsey completed her Master level of Tibetan Usui Reiki
training with Erin Hill in 2011 and became her apprentice. She
began co-teaching Reiki trainings soon after, and created her own
Reiki curriculum and training manual in 2017/2018.
She returned to The Studio Cleveland and completed
intermediate Thai massage training in 2013. Lyndsey then completed
her 500-hour Kripalu Yoga Teacher certification in 2017, and is on
her way to adding Ayurvedic Yoga instructor to that
certification. She has also become an assistant teacher at
the Kripalu Center, where she has the honor of helping other
teachers on their paths.
Lyndsey had the pleasure of spending five years working with
organ transplant patients and employees of the Cleveland Clinic
Hospital system, using Reiki and yoga techniques to help people
manage stress and pain.
She enjoys sharing a variety of yoga styles with people who
think they cannot do yoga, people who need healing, and she loves
lightening the mood with laughter. It is wonderfully gratifying
watching people heal, blossom, and unfold as they come home to
themselves and release tension and imagined
limitations.
A 2004 graduate of Hiram College with a BA in music,
she loves incorporating mantra, sound, and music into healing, and
teaching yoga with live music. She enjoys sending Reiki
through creating live musical medicine with John Welton & The
Awakening. You can also find her teaching yoga, offering
energy work at music festivals, and running OmBase, a mobile
festival wellness center! Lyndsey offers yoga and yoga dance
classes, private sessions, workshops, Reiki certifications
and Thai Massage. She also offers intuitive healing
sessions which may include Reiki, shamanism, and a blend of
different healing techniques.
