Founders
Don Berlyn
Don's mission is to give people the tools they need, to achieve the life they want. He believes that each of us already has everything we need to succeed. The goal is to discover how to use the power of the mind. His purpose is to have the people he helps, teach the techniques they learn, to others, improving their lives as well.
Don graduated from the Northern Arizona University Physical Therapy program in 1986. He has primarily focused on treating patients with orthopedic, sports and pain issues. He uses manual therapy, exercise, ergonomic analysis and patient education as his main techniques to assist his patients in regaining their function and reduce pain.
Before becoming a Physical Therapist, he spent many years working with folks who had mental, sensory and/or physical disabilities.
He began studying, then certified in Zero Balancing, a form of manual therapy/ body work widely practiced by Massage Therapists. ZB involves both physical and energy, a stretch for Don.
Searching for a way to help his patients overcome or have control over pain he discovered hypnosis, becoming certified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist in July 2007. Although initially focusing on pain and medical issues, his practice quickly expanded to include a very broad range of issues.
Teaching kinesiology (orthopedics, movement, and relevant anatomy) in a massage school for several years. Don learned the art of taking large amounts of information, determining what is most important, and making it easy to learn.
Katie Bortle (she/her)
Katie has practiced massage therapy since 2010 and was trained at the Arizona School of Integrative Studies in Flagstaff, where she completed a 750-hour intensive course.
Over the past 13 years, she has taken numerous continuing education courses to expand her massage repertoire. Highlights include myofascial, fascial stretch therapy, structural integration, craniosacral, trigger point, neuromuscular therapy, and prenatal massage.
Katie holds an Arizona massage therapy license and is a Board Certified Therapist through NCBTMB. Katie's desire to help others, combined with her love of the plant world, inspired her to attend the Herbal Wisdom Institute in Prescott Valley Arizona, where she completed a certification in Western Herbalism in 2019. This course gave Katie the knowledge to help others discover how to incorporate herbs into their lives.
Most recently, Katie became a qualified level one hypopressive trainer through Hypopressives Canada. She is excited to bring this complete core training system to her clients and help them reach optimal core and pelvic health.
She is deeply grateful for all the training she's received thus far and is honored to bring massage therapy, herbalism and hypopressives to Flagstaff.
Wendy Hines (she/her)
Wendy applies her extensive massage experiences, trainings and personal adventures with injury recovery, health restoration and resilience to empower her clients and students. She offers her bodywork and teaching to encourage hope, resilience and an awareness, balance and healing within one’s body, heart and mind. Wendy is motivated by her inquisitiveness and appreciation for the human body puzzle, human nature, and human resilience to create a learning environment for her students that promotes their own curiosity. Wendy’s love and connection to nature and movement helps her create a heart centered, deep listening, creative approach to her bodywork and teaching.
Wendy is a graduate from Northern Arizona University with a degree in Exercise and Nutrition Science (1997). She is a graduate from ASIS Massage program in Cottonwood (1997). Her massage practice focus includes rehabilitation, structural alignment, integrated bodywork for general and complex health concerns, integrated energy work, self care promotion, and health and wellness consulting. She has advanced certification in sports massage, and advanced training in postural analysis, yoga therapy, cranio-sacral therapy and polarity.
Wendy was an instructor at ASIS School of Massage Flagstaff (2009-2018). Her teaching repertoire included kinesiology and connective tissue massage, clinical therapeutics and processes, as well as lead Instructor, teacher mentor, instructor/student relations. She has offered continuing education for massage since 2013.
In her free time she enjoys connecting with nature, dancing, any activity outdoors, her relationships with her husband, children and dogs and cats! These relationships offer her constant teaching about herself and life.
Aileen Judson (she/her)
Aileen’s greatest desire has always been to help others feel better and gain skills to help themselves. As a natural teacher and perpetual student, she has happily filled the positions of: Massage Therapist and educator for her clients; Massage Instructor, teaching and mentoring the next generation of Massage Therapists; Yoga Instructor, specializing in helping everyday people connect with their bodies, and find relief from anxiety, stress, and trauma, and learn tools to have success out in their daily lives; Health and Wellness Coach, helping people put various tools in place to gain life skills to live with greater ease, stability and grace; and Meditation Teacher, to master their minds and find greater peace in life.
Aileen specializes in pain relief, structural alignment and relaxation techniques, utilizing tools that she found helpful for her own recovery and sense of well-being. She is certified in Manual Lymph Drainage, has advanced skills in Neuromuscular Therapy and Reeducation, Connective Tissue Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, and Relaxation Techniques.
Aileen’s experience, love of teaching, and specialized skills have lead her toward the joint development of this massage continuing education and community enrichment center in an underserved area.
Aileen finds her greatest happiness out in nature, in the woods, on the water or working in her garden, with her own or other people’s animals, cooking and feeding her loved ones, moving her body, and singing kirtan/chants, or any other thing.