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 Give to the Well

 

2012 Women's Well Faculty

 

Barbara Adler, M.A., works as a healer, facilitating wholeness on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. She is a graduate of Lesley University (Counseling Psychology M.A.), the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (Energy Healing) and A Society of Souls (Integrated Kabbalistic Healing). Motherhood, qigong, creative expression, and experience in the business and non-profit worlds also inform her life and work.

Janet Farnsworth, M.A., LSW, is a licensed social worker and an experienced dance and movement teacher who has worked with individuals, families and groups.  Formally trained in group facilitation and psychodrama, she also has extensive dance experience in New York and Boston, and with the Doug Wood Dance Ensemble in Chicago. Janet’s practice, Dancing to MySelf, is a model of open and non-evaluative dance which honors each individual’s instinctive response to music – simply moving in a way that feels right – as a means of connecting to one’s highest and deepest wisdom.  She is dedicated to promoting the use of dance and movement as pathways to healing and empowerment.  Janet currently facilitates a variety of dance journeys for children, families, disabled seniors, and adults.

Melinda Franceschini, D.V.M., Ph.D., dipl. ABT, combines her training and experience in eastern healing arts, embodied and nature-based spirituality, psychic development, medicine and science with a deep connection to Spirit and love of the Earth. She has many years of experience teaching embodied energetic and spiritual practices in weekly classes, workshops and private sessions. In her private practice she works with people and animals, offering a variety of healing and spiritual development services. Her life path is focused on the integration of intuitive knowing and expanded consciousness with ordinary day-to-day life. She is passionate about helping others as they find their own way intuitively, supporting them in the process of opening to expanded states while being grounded joyfully in the body on the Earth. www.mysticstream.com

Laney Goodman, visionary, ceremonialist and drummer, leads drum circles called Drumming in the Four Directions to help us re-connect with each of the four directions/elements. Laney can help you find your own rhythm and voice...even if you have never played a drum or sung before. Laney’s roots are of the Eastern Door of the Cherokee Nation in the Great Smoky Mountains as well as German, Scots/Irish and English. She has studied with the late Grandmother Twyla Nitsch of the Seneca Wolf Clan, and with African/American Drum Masters Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill and the late Baba Olatunji.  www.womenonair.com.

Edith Griffin is a certified Reiki master with a longstanding interest in human spirituality, the natural world, and the healing power of cosmic love. She first became aware of her strong ability to channel healing energy in 1996, when she unexpectedly and spontaneously began to experience waves of energy passing through her hands during a women’s healing workshop. She is the owner of a holistic center in Westford westfordtherapycenter.com.

Janet Kessenich, M.M. is an energy healer, spiritual/psychological intuitive, teacher, seminar leader, writer and musician. She began her business practice, Spiral Energies (www.spiralenergies.com) in 1998. Her healing work is informed by her certification and training in the LuMarian, Reiki, Acutonics, and Pranic methods of healing. Along with her work with clients, Janet speaks and writes about the spirituality found in everyday life. She is completing a book called “Music Lessons for the Spirit,” an account of the spiritual lessons she learned as a practicing musician.