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El Monte Sagrado offers specialized, unique spa programs designed to relax, heal and inspire. Embark upon an authentic journey for mind, body and spirit, led by our talented and experienced professionals.
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Acupuncture with Richard A. Connell, Doctor of Oriental Medicine
Treat yourself to something extraordinary! Sessions include a constitutional evaluation, acupuncture treatment and practical self-care suggestions to take home with you. All imbalances begin on an energetic level, and these sessions are intended to balance, heal and reconnect you to your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
90 minutes - $190 In Guest Room
120 minutes - $240 In Guest Room
About Richard
Richard earned his Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine at the Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SWAC is consistently ranked among the top acupuncture schools in the United States. He has an extensive background in oriental medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, Asian massage/TuiNa and bodywork. Richard is held in high regard by colleagues in the industry for his knowledge of oriental medicine and herbal theory, diagnostic abilities and skills in the manipulation of qi.
Chi Nei Tsang with Terri Picard
Chi Nei Tsang is a comprehensive approach to detoxifying and invigorating all of the internal organs and balancing the entire body with bodywork as needed. Chi Nei Tsang can relieve acute and chronic pain, especially neck and back pain. Other possible results can include resolving headaches, indigestion, fatigue and dissolving scar tissue. Chi Nei Tsang with Terri can regulate menstrual imbalances, menopause symptoms, and prostate congestion. Chi Nei Tsang is also a wonderful prenatal (after the first trimester) and postnatal recovery treatment.
90 minutes - $190 In Guest Room
120 minutes - $240 In Guest Room
About Terri
Terri Picard is a licensed massage therapist who has been practicing her life's love of bodywork, including trauma recovery and Chi Nei Tsang, for over 21 years. Terri's background includes a degree and career in psychology, working with children, adolescents, and families, as well as teaching bodywork and facilitation workshops. Terri's intuition, humor, and ability to connect heart to heart allow guests to relax easily and benefit from the innovative and life changing work that Terri offers.
Egyptian Anointing with Maria Mikhailas
This two-hour 'out of this world' experience will move you deeply into your most inner self. You will enter the profoundly peaceful, meditative and invocative spaces created by the Egyptian Anointing with an intention, either spoken or held quietly in your heart… perhaps something that you have been working on, praying over, or aspiring towards in your life. This intention is held throughout the anointing experience by you and Maria. The basis of the Egyptian Anointing is deeply relaxing massage evolving into the anointing of the seven chakras with sacred oils combined with gemstones to magnify the potency of the oils and your intentions.
120 minutes - $240 In Guest Room
About Maria
Maria Mikhailas is a graduate, in 1989, of the National Holistic Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has practiced at the Bay Club in San Francisco, the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara and the San Ysidro Ranch from 1989 until 2001, moving to Taos in 2001. She is state and nationally certified in Massage Therapy and certified through the Pacific School of Aromatherapy in the practice of aromatherapy.
Rapid Eye Technology with Claudia Bianca, MRET
Rapid Eye Technology (RET) can be a life transforming experience, empowering you to live a happier, more productive life by releasing your negative belief systems, thought forms and emotions. By simply blinking, breathing and moving your eyes, RET gently mimics your body's natural emotional discharge mechanisms, offering you the option to consciously choose healing perspectives that more fully support you in new directions. RET is innovative and unique, safe and natural, nurturing and supporting you in releasing the past and moving forward in life with a sense of well-being and joy. Feel relaxed, yet energized after a session with Rapid Eye Technology.
90 minutes - $300 In Guest Room
About Claudia
Claudia Bianca, MRET is a Master Rapid Eye Therapist, Rapid Eye SSPT Trainer/Tutor and Reiki Master, in Private Practice with Rapid Eye Technology since 1992. She brings twenty years of involvement with RET - first as a research team member and then a practitioner - and has assisted thousands of clients in changing their life by creating what they truly desire. As a member of ABMP (Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals), ACEP (Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology) and the Taos C.A.R.E.S. Coalition she enjoys living and contributing within her community.
Sound and Vibrational Therapy with Alex Rentz
This two-hour session integrates the subtle energy work of Polarity and Cranial Sacral with Acutonics, which is a system that uses tuning forks to balance and heal the body with sound vibration. The goal of this treatment is to interface the physical body, nervous system, organs and fluid systems with the energetic body, meridians, chakras and diverse energetic circuits of the body. This treatment is excellent for body tension, headaches, fatigue, restlessness and sleeping disorders. This truly unique treatment for the bodywork connoisseur leads to a state of deep relaxation and balance that the body uses to heal and replenish itself.
120 minutes - $240 In Guest Room (Please wear loose comfortable clothing)
About Alex
Alex has been a scholar of healing arts for over 15 years. Out of a personal interest in nutrition and yoga grew a passion for bodywork with a broad scope of modalities from deep tissue structural body work, cranial and visceral techniques to more energetic modalities like Polarity and Core-Synchronization. With his Sound and Vibrational Therapy treatment, he synthesizes his years of clinical massage experience, to blend sound, bodywork and energy balancing to a truly unequaled experience. He has studied Acutonics for three years and finds it to be truly a unique modality enhancing both massage and energy work.
Spiritual Cleansing with Grandmother Jean
Spiritual cleansings of body, spirit and mind by Grandmother Jean (Adasti) are customized for each guest’s needs utilizing sacred animal skins, rattles, traditional song and prayer, smudging and the use of crystal healing. Her learning and teaching is not confined solely to her Native American heritage. She honors the traditions of Egypt, Tibet, China, India and many other great spiritual teachings. Adasti is a Cherokee Ulansuti, (Master Crystal Worker), Spiritual Teacher and Ceremonialist who has introduced thousands of people to this Native American way of balance and harmony with Grandmother Earth. She follows in the footsteps of the women of her family before her and was chosen as a Medicine Woman by her grandmother. Many of the people that she works with are non-Native Americans who are searching for a way to restore their connection to the earth and the original teachings to find harmony and balance. For this reason she travels the globe and uses many spiritual teaching tools to reach everyone.
2 hours - $300 In Guest Room
About Grandmother Jean or, as she is known in Cherokee, Adasti Gadahee
Grandmother Jean is a widow and mother of five. Grandmother Jean travels globally to share her love and teach her knowledge of the Way of the Right Relationship – to Creator, to self, to children and to Grandmother Earth. In addition she is an International traveler who has visited and exchanged Indigenous energies and views with the Maoris of New Zealand, the Aborigines of Australia, and the Mayans of the Yucatan, Mexico. For the past four decades, she has taken her teachings to all peoples of the world to teach and learn. In Alaska, Canada and South America, she is always warmly welcomed, as well as from the Four Directions of the USA by those with whom she has shared ceremony.
T'ai Chi Chih with Dyana Sangraal The ancient Oriental Chi Kung meditative form of movement known as T'ai Chi is available in a manner that anyone can learn and receive benefits from within a short period of time. Known as T'ai Chi Chih or knowledge of the supreme ultimate, this gentle form consists of easy-to-learn flowing movements that promote feelings of inner peace, serenity, joy and spiritual atonement. It is appropriate for all ages and is especially recommended to reduce stress, relieve chronic pain, heighten energy and stamina, improve breathing and circulation, enhance balance, assist in weight and blood pressure control, stimulate creativity and intuition, and improve memory. Individual classes are available as well as those part of the Living Spa programs. 60 minutes - $135 In Guest Room 90 minutes - $185 In Guest Room
About Dyana
Dyana Sangraal was accredited as an instructor by Justin Stone in 1990. She is also certified as a Reiki Practitioner, Feng Shui Consultant and personal color artist. She is honored to share T'ai Chi Chih as it has enhanced and changed her life in many positive ways. Dyana invites you to join her and experience the beauty and harmony that T'ai Chi Chih offers.
The Scented Journey with Maria Mikhailas
The Scented Journey is a sacred gathering of information released by our sense of smell. In our present age, we rely a great deal on the information that our eyes, ears and thinking sense give us, but rarely do we explore the secrets our sense of smell can bring. Smell is our first and most ancient sense. In ancient esoteric science, this area of the brain is known as the Third Eye or the sixth Chakra and is our connection between body and spirit. The Scented Journey is a collection of 16 blends of essential oils and hydrosols distilled and blended by the Master Distiller, Jack Chaitman. Each blend is unique and like no other. Using your intuition, you pick the blend that most speaks to you at the time. As the facilitator, Maria will be guiding you to maximize the information received on your journey. A lovely pamphlet to write down experiences is provided.
90 minutes - $190 In Guest Room
About Maria
Maria Mikhailas is a 1989 graduate of the National Holistic Institute in the San Francisco Bay area. She has practiced at the San Francisco Bay Club, the Santa Barbara Athletic Club, the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara and the San Ysidro Ranch from 1989 until 2001, moving to Taos in 2001. She is state and nationally certified in massage therapy and certified through the Pacific School of Aromatherapy in the practice of aromatherapy.
The Soul's Blueprint with Julie Kelly
Your astrological birth chart is your soul's blueprint: a tool that defines your personality type, behaviors, strengths and challenges. Its interpretation defines the areas of your life that can enhance your potential for growth and fulfillment as well as issues and practices that have no further benefit in your life. Understanding your birth chart and gaining deeper awareness of your soul's choices for this lifetime can help you create a richer life and add depth and new meaning to your relationships. It also can show you how to reconnect with joy and live your life more consciously on both spiritual and material levels. Readings include birth chart interpretation, yearly forecasts, compatibility and solar returns and locational charts.
90 minutes - $190 In Guest Room
120 minutes - $240 In Guest Room
About Julie
Julie Kelly is a past life astrologer whose focus and expertise defines your personality and your soul's purpose and direction. Julie studied astrology for over 17 years – including extensive study and work with renowned astrologer, Dane Rudhyar, and has been a professional astrologer since 1977. Her readings interpret natal charts, date and time-based forecasts, and specific events. In addition to personal readings, her astrological expertise includes writing articles, teaching classes, and lecturing.
Trauma Recovery with Terri Picard
All of our experiences are stored as patterns in the body. There is a specific open physiology (body posture, facial expression, emotion, breath pattern, etc.) of joy, love and excitement, each one being similar yet unique to each person. Traumas however, such as accidents and/or difficult emotional events, create limited physical and emotional patterns of tension in the body, unique to each person. These tensions can be cleared through an empowering re-education session; clearing pain and emotion from the memories of accidents and other fearful experiences; restoring strength and stability to a sprained joint, such as an ankle or knee; bringing you to the present and orienting you to your desired future.
90 minutes - $190 In Guest Room
120 minutes - $240 In Guest Room
Personalized Yoga/Yoga Therapy with Monique Parker
Yoga is a highly individualized system of self-care that views each person as unique. It offers optimal recommendations for enhancing strength, flexibility, structural alignment, proper functioning of body systems, and mental steadiness. Personalized sessions provide the practitioner necessary and compassionate guidance to empower one to succeed on his or her path.
60 minutes - $135 In Guest Room
90 minutes - $185 In Guest Room
About Monique
Monique has been studying yoga since 1996 and teaching for the past six years. She is a personal student of A.G. Mohan and Indra Mohan of Chennai, India, the long-time private students of the late Sri Krishnamacharya and authors of Yoga Therapy and Yoga for Body, Breath and Mind. Monique is known for her peaceful, but powerful presence.
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