Stephanie Ryan
Owner of Illuminations
Akashic Records | Reiki Master/Teacher | Founder of Angelic Chakra Integration
Stephanie is the owner of Illuminations. She is also an intuitive, healer, and founder of Angelic Chakra Integration.
Stephanie has always been a spiritual seeker. When she was 18, she began to meditate. Through meditation, she began to receive information from divine source. The messages spoke frequently of love and forgiveness. In 2007, Stephanie's world shifted. She learned about energy healing and began studying A Course in Miracles. She was amazed that the messages were so similar to the truth she had already received. It was a great relief to find out other people had these similar beliefs.
In December 2010, Stephanie received seven energetic healing symbols from seven Archangels that correspond to each chakra. She has embarked on a journey to discover uses for these symbols including bringing the chakras into balance, activating the archangels, and receiving angelic messages. In 2015, Stephanie began teaching these energetic healing symbols, called Angelic Chakra Integration, to others. She also teaches classes on the Akashic Record and Reiki.
Stephanie currently offers Angelic Chakra Integration, Reiki, and Akashic Record Readings when she isn't busy running the center. She specializes in working with clients that have blockages or phobias that need to be released.
Stephanie lives in Marion with her husband, Shannon, and two half-Maine Coon cats. She graduated from Coe College with a Bachelor's degree in English and believes that literary analysis gave her skills needed to interpret the imagery she receives in her readings and energy work. Stephanie looks forward to being of service to our community as we walk our unique spiritual path.
You may contact Stephanie by calling Illuminations at 319-775-0117 or by emailing illuminationscenter@gmail.com.
Jen Serovy
Seeker | Mystic | Mentor
In 2009 I stepped into the deep healing world of earth-based spirituality; soon after I found my first Tarot deck and have been exploring and reading the Tarot ever since.
I have also continued to explore various methods of healing and divination with the goal of personal healing and self-discovery. In this introspective journey, I had come to recognize, accept, and nurture many parts of my soul’s blueprint and qualities that had yearned to be seen.
In 2016 my spiritual path shifted from solely being self-nourishing to answering the call to help others in their own growth and expansions. This shift led me to Reiki 1&2 training and receiving the Munay Ki transmissions; in 2017 I also completed the Illuminations Modern Shamanism course resulting in my Ordainment and an inner approval to step into my Spiritual Advisor role more fully.
As a curious and continual student of many modalities I combine the lessons learned, skills gained and tools acquired to provide unique and custom guidance.
Using my “Seeker, Mystic, Mentor” philosophy, we can explore nearly any topic or challenge while navigating your soul’s unique blueprint. As a certified spiritual healer, I aim to provide soul-level healing that moves to the center of who you are in order for you to live freely and unobstructed. I am honored to support the expansion of your “humanness” and serve as a witness as you show up authentically, aligned, and fulfilled in your SOUL-LED LIFE!
Jen offers Shamanic & Reiki Healing sessions; Spiritual Guidance; Sigil Energy Activations; Tarot & Intuitive Readings.
You can contact Jen by calling or text to 319-343-7064 or emailing jen@jenserovy.com.
Noelle Holmes
Spiritual Healer, Teacher, and Advisor
Why am I here? What are my gifts? How can I step onto and begin walking the path of my purpose? These were some of the questions that Noelle started asking herself years ago and the answers that came lead her to her own healing journey and work as a Spiritual Healer, Teacher & Advisor.
Noelle has assisted others through guidance and mentoring roles since the late 90's. She combines that background with her intuitive abilities and studies in traditional and contemporary shamanism to offer each person she serves a healing or guidance session designed to meet their individual needs. Noelle believes that we all have an innate desire to walk "in balance" and "with purpose" and that there are times when we need assistance with addressing the fears and imbalances that block our progress.
Noelle offers Shamanic & Reiki Healing Sessions; Spiritual Guidance for individuals and couples; Intuitive Readings. She also does regular Guided Meditation gatherings through the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
Noelle lives in Cedar Rapids and enjoys being outdoors, traveling and connecting with people and hearing their stories. Her mantra in service to others is, "Everyone has a purpose, a Life Path to walk...let me help you connect with yours."
Contact Noelle by calling 319-531-2386 or emailing noelle.holmes8@gmail.com.
Gina Hamilton
LMT, Spiritual Healer, Small Animal Massage Therapist
Gina is a licensed massage therapist and spiritual healer for humans and animals. She is also an ordained minister and Earth steward through S.H.E.S. International, and has conducted ceremonies and rituals. Gina began her journey in 2002 with aromatherapy and energy healing techniques for her grandparents in hospice care. She spent 4 years in a veterinary clinical setting and began to extend these modalities to her animals to soothe wounds and anxiety due to storms. In 2005 she graduated from Carlson College of Massage Therapy and in 2008 became a certified small animal therapist through companion animal touch therapies. Gina has formed her practice, Joy of Healing, with the mission to re-educate the body to heal itself with zero to minimal pharmaceuticals and surgery. Her practice is a holistic approach to health and wellness, combining herbalism, aromatherapy with essential oils, chakra balance, and massage for body, mind, and spirit. Styles of massage include: Swedish, Deep Tissue, Pregnancy, Hot Stone, Raindrop Technique, and Small Animal Massage. Spiritual healing includes Shamanic Healing, Soul Reading, Past Life Journey, Animal Totems & Guides, and Tarot & Oracle card readings.
It is Gina's vision to bridge the gaps between mind, body, and spirit so humans and animals can walk a joyful path of self healing and self discovery.
Contact Gina by calling 319-551-8392 or emailing joyouslmt2015@gmail.com.
Karen Scott
LMT, Reiki Master
My mission at Inikana Massage Therapy is to have my clients feel fulfilled with spirit and to come away from the massage and/or healing with physical wellbeing and a sense of completeness with body, mind, and soul.
As a licensed massage therapist, spiritual healer, and certified Usui and Kundalini Reiki Master Practitioner, I strive to always create custom experiences to meet my client’s healing needs through spiritual work in addition to physical bodywork.
I graduated from Carlson College of Massage Therapy in 2012 and am an ongoing student of alternative and complimentary healing modalities. I also studied Shamanic healing and learned about the chakra system and its effects on the body, mind, and spirit.
My real passion is working with people to assist in their healing process by integrating the healing of body, mind, and spirit through western medicine and eastern philosophy ( ie. Acupressure, energy work, chakra work, therapeutic touch, and aromatherapy). I love to make someone feel better!
I believe that if you are honest in your passion and compassion to help others that passion will show through in all that you do.
I was inspired to do this work by a community of loving, wonderful people that were changing the world by caring for others and making a difference through the use of massage, energy work, and spiritual teachings.
Meditation, massage, energy work, dance, creativity stemming from sewing, and yoga have been an important part of living my life well balanced.
So now that you know a bit about me, I would love to get to know a little about you and to get you started on the path to your physical, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing.
Client testimonial: Meditative, intuitive, and caring, Karen offered a unique healing massage attending to all aspects of my well being. Lori
You can contact Karen by calling 319-2704640 or by emailing Karen@inikanamassage.com.
Laina Pilkenton
Sound Healing, Spiritual Healer, Angelic Chakra Integration, Reiki Master/Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner
Laina is a certified singing bowl sound healing practitioner through the Atma Buti Sound and Vibrational School in Boulder, CO. She is also an ordained minister and certified spiritual healer. Laina began her path in 2016 by studying Modern Shamanism at Illuminations which led her to study sound healing with singing bowls and other instruments. Along the way, she also began exploring other esoteric and modern healing arts such as reiki and Angelic Chakra Integration. In 2018, she began working with deities from the Norse pantheon and exploring ways to fold elements of Norse paganism into her practice. Laina's spiritual practices come from the heart and each session is designed to meet the individual's personal needs.
Laina offers private and group sound healing sessions, shamanic and reiki healing, Angelic Chakra Integration, intuitive readings, group meditations, and Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine healing sessions.
Laina lives in Hiawatha and enjoys spending time with friends, taking her dog Bailey for hikes, and connecting with like-minded people who speak from the heart. She firmly believes that soul-leveling healing starts in the heart and that showing the heart's light is how we truly connect with each other.
Danie McKinstry
Psychic Medium & Akashic Records
Danie is a psychic medium that has been offering medium readings and spiritual guidance for over 20 years. She is passionate about helping others on the spiritual journey and connecting them with their loved ones and spirit guides. Danie offers Medium readings, Akashic Record readings, Spiritual Guidance, and classes on psychic development and mediumship.
Contact Danie by calling or texting 319-310-7091.
Gretchen Little
Creativity Coach & Metaphysical Teacher
Gretchen has been aware of the unseen world all of her life, starting with listening to the nonverbal messages of the plants and rocks in her mom's garden to having an almost telepathic connection with animals. She was always very creative and sensitive, trained in music and art. In 1990, after discovering that if she prayed for healing for someone it often happened, she became interested in alternative healing modalities which led to the formal study of Healing Touch in 1991. Informally she taught herself to read the cards, go on shamanic journeys, perform magical rituals, and get messages from angels through writing. After practicing all of these things on her own for a decade she spontaneously went into a self initiation process that started just after 9/11 and ended just after Christmas 2001. When she came out the other side of that she found that she was getting very accurate details about people who had died. She had gone from being a highly intuitive mind reader to a full blown psychic medium. In the next few years she became a Reiki Master and a Licensed Massage Therapist. She began to experiment with drawing intuitive portraits of people's souls and spirit guides, only recently learning that that's considered a form of mediumship in the Spiritualist church.
Always concerned with the practical side of “woo-woo” stuff, she has made it her mission to give clients (and sometimes random strangers) the clearest, most pinpoint verbal evidence to show that she has a loved one on the line from the Other Side. She also does her best to give messages from angels, fairies, animal spirits – just about anybody in the Unseen Realms – that can be taken home and put to use immediately. She often ends up telling clients their soul purpose no matter what type of reading she started out with. This information comes through in a way that is not just an abstract idea but rather something that can be worked with right away. She has a distinct ability to be the voice for the client's Soul and let the Soul, itself, tell the client its heart's desire. Because of this, no two readings are alike, although there are similar patterns. She is committed to bringing magic back to every day life while encouraging everyone's True Self to express itself in the world. She is happiest when teaching people how to access their own inner genius.
Contact Gretchen by calling Illuminations at 319-775-0117 or emailing illuminationscenter@gmail.com.
Sayde Lorelei
Yoga Instructor
I have been practicing yoga for nearly two thirds of my life now. In the beginning I just wanted to sleep better, but through the practice of yoga, I eventually discovered other benefits. With increased strength, calmness and serenity I came to understand the holistic union of mind, body and spirit.
Some of us need yoga to find peace of mind.
Some of us need yoga to build strength.
Some of us need yoga to regain the freedom we once felt in our bodies as children.
Some of us need yoga to learn how to just sit and breathe.
Each decade of my own practice has brought a new challenge, a chapter to share, deep understanding of the body that hosts our divine energy. Schooling brought a BA in Political Science with a minor in Theater Arts from the University of Iowa with many months abroad in Europe & Great Britain, certifications in basic yoga instruction, trust course and more, but my yoga practice has brought me schooling from the greater pool of knowledge. Interests include gardening, cooking, traveling and reading. Stop by our porch for produce from Grinnell Heritage Farm or catch me at the Downtown Farmer’s Markets in the summer.
Lynn Block
Yoga Instructor
Lynn is an instructor of fitness, and yoga for over 20 years. She has been passionate about fitness since college. She holds a BA in Education from Coe College, and a Masters in Educational Psychology, from University of Northern Iowa. She began teaching fitness classes in 1994. Lynn is certified as Group Exercise Instructor through American Council on Exercise (ACE) and American Fitness Association of America (AFAA). Lynn holds a Health Coach Certification and Personal Trainer Certification through American Council on Exercise (ACE). She also has a Lynn holds many fitness certifications, including Les Mills, Barre Above™, and Cycling.
Lynn’s yoga journey was a little unconventional. She was asked to sub a yoga class for a few weeks in 2004, and her fitness manager suggested that she pursue teaching yoga regularly. With a fitness background, Lynn wanted to find a yoga that fit teaching yoga in a gym setting, for all types of people seeking out the benefits of yoga. She found a Yogafit® and began her yoga journey in a Level 1 training 2005. Lynn has been instructing yoga since 2005, sprinkling different yoga training in over the years. She completed her 200 hour RYT in June 2017, and her 500 hour RYT in October 2020. Lynn has a lot of specialized yoga trainings- 140 hours of trauma informed yoga, 100 hour Women’s mind/body health, 100 hours Brain Health, 100 hour Holistic whole body Health, 100 hour Active Adult Health, 100 hour Athlete, 100 hour Warrior Kids, 100 hour Wellness yoga.
Lynn offers group yoga classes, one-on-one private yoga, Health coaching, and personal training.
Lynn’s style of instructing is inclusive, offering options for poses so that everyone can succeed in finding the pose that works for them. She also offers challenges for those that want to take them, or try a new pose. Lynn believes yoga is for everyone, and can have profound effects in our lives beyond the physical movement of poses.