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Healing Arts

2024 Healing Arts Village

Welcome to the Red Wing Healing Arts Village!

This year will include Henna & Body Art, Thai Massage, Chair Massage, Reiki, Healing Touch, Stone Massage, Holistic Coaching, Herbal Products & Workshops and Intuitive Tarot Readings.
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Mariza Dovis and Gerry Stowers, with over two decades of experience in the healing arts, are bringing a team of dedicated healers to Red Wing 2024. Both lifelong learners committed to serving and healing the planet and its people, Mariza and Gerry are massage therapists specializing in stone medicine and energy healing. Gerry Stowers, owner of Meditation in Motion and Healing Arts in downtown Staunton shares her love of energy medicine as a Reiki Master Teacher and curates local community events merging movement and sound healing. Mariza Dovis, owner of Mahalan Wellness,  also commits to her personal arts and shares creative outlets through her writing, painting and ceramic arts. True community workers, with a shared passion for wellness and peace, the duo’s combined years of healing touch expertise will enhance the musical experience at Red Wing Roots Music Festival. Through ceremonial connections with the earth and a mission to spread joy, Mariza, Gerry, and their team of vendors will be on hand to provide beauty and smiles, meeting all your self-care needs during the festival.  

Gerry Stowers is an intuitive practitioner of the healing arts and owns her practice, Meditation in Motion, in Downtown Staunton.  During her two decades of extensive study and travel, she has adventured across the globe, learning ancient healing practices. Gerry has studied and practiced a myriad of energetic modalities; she is a massage therapist, a Reiki Master, a yoga instructor, and a practitioner of Chinese Medicine. She recently graduated with a degree in Acupuncture from Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine. Gerry is also skilled in acupressure and reflexology.

The goal behind Gerry’s work is for everyone to know and connect with their own divinity. She seeks to help individuals discover and shine their own light.

Throughout her explorations and education, Gerry has come to understand the healing power of energy work. Everything is energy- as such, we have the ability to work with the elemental forces to transmute and heal both physical and emotional suffering. Gerry’s deep interest in medicine is lifelong. She experienced a cosmic transformation during a 2004 pilgrimage to Costa Rica, where a connection with Nature guided her on a journey of spiritual transformation. After this profound experience, Gerry began her study of Reiki. The beautiful simplicity of Reiki resonates with Gerry; she is now honored to share the knowledge of this spiritual energy with her community.

During her practice of Reiki, Gerry has worked in hospital with mothers who have just given birth, helping to guide new spirits through the Gates of Light. She has also worked with the hospice community for the last decade at Augusta Health, lovingly holding space & guiding individuals who are preparing to transition. As a gatekeeper, Gerry endeavors to help people to remember their divinity. She appreciates Reiki’s powerful ability to facilitate energetic exchanges on the non-verbal level, where deep transformative healing can occur. Gerry Stower’s mission is to help others to remember that wherever they are, they are safe. When we learn to shine our own light, the path to healing is always possible.

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Contact email: [email protected]
Meditation in Motion Instagram: karmaincheck77

Mariza Dovis

Mahalan Wellness, Home Wellness and Indigenous Healing Arts

Mariza Dovis is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Stone Walker, Artist who has had 14 years of experience in integrative healing arts and approaches her clients holistically. Her practice is based out of Harrisonburg where she offers sessions at her healing arts studio and teaches ceramics to the community through Friendly City Clay. Her greatest teachers walk with the medicine of the Dakota Souix people in the traditions with the stone tribe. Come experience her work and intuitive approach which allows for a deep restoration that will satiate you to allow for noticeable rejuvenation. 
 
The best sessions at Red Wing have been through the sweet rains, the hot sun relieved with cold stones and the sweet sounds of the festival. 
 
An added bonus this year, Mariza is offering her services in oracle and symbols readings, sit with her while sharing herbal teas curated for the heat of the festival and cool down and relax over life questions. With an ability to hold space deeply for her community, Mariza can help reflect on small or large life transitions with wisdom and a life lived as a learner. 
 
 

Bluebonnet Studio

Sarah Wendtlandt is a licensed massage therapist and owner of Bluebonnet Studio based out of Staunton, Virginia. She has been practicing for almost two decades and specializes in a technique called Ashiatsu Barefoot Bar Therapy. It is a barefoot massage technique in which the therapist delivers deep, broad, consistent pressure while utilizing their feet and body weight. Working with gravity, this technique is able to provide effective therapeutic massage without causing pain or discomfort. Sarah is also a licensed esthetician and will be offering mini facials to refresh and rejuvenate the skin. Her highest priority is to create individualized healing sessions and to offer a safe space for optimal relaxation and tranquility. 

 

Kaytea Thompson

Sky, Hawk, Horse and Stone

Kaytea is a Licensed Massage Therapist with over a decade of experience. She has cultivated a practice with a focus on Stone Medicine, Cranial Sacral, Essential Oil Therapies and Equine Experiences.

As a practitioner she holds space for and facilitates the client in activating one’s own abilities to heal body, mind and spirit. Kaytea keeps her client list small with a focus on quality over quantity. Her practice is located in a quiet private office in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the beautiful town of Luray.  As a Massage Instructor and Stone Medicine Ambassador Kaytea is passionate,  vulnerable and authentic and strives to accommodate all styles of learning. She interprets the world through connection, story and symbolism and weaves these threads with creativity and a hunger for
knowledge and understanding. She developed curriculums for and currently teaches Intro to Energetic Healing Modalities, Intro to Cranial Sacral Therapies and Intro to Essential Oils at Cedar Stone School of Massage’s Massage Program and is Certified to Instruct Stone Medicine 1, Healing Hands, Rainbath and Feather Fan Making for which she can provide a location or travel to your location.

 
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Blissful Studio & Healing Center

Blissful Healing Arts, sister company of Blissful Yoga Studio & Healing Center and Blisssful Herbal Farm & Apothecary, is located just outside Harrisonburg Va. Owner/Practioner, Cheryl Martin, an energy healer for the past 20 years, is originally from the Valley and continually grateful to practice in such a beautiful region and within our wonderful community. During healing sessions, Blissful Healing Arts draws from a combination of healing techniques such as Reiki, Stone Medicine, Healing Touch and channeling/mediumship, depending on the clients desires. The results are usually deep relaxation and sense of peacefulness. For those with specific questions concerning life or loved ones, channeling/mediumship or tarot/oracle readings are more well suited. These sessions allow for powerful and often reassuring insights and messages to flow through.

Whether a client chooses energy healing or mediumship for their booking, Blissful Healings Art’s commitment is for each client to feel safe and well cared for. We can’t wait to see you!

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This is SKS. Artworks fourth year at Red Wing Roots. Come experience the ancient art form of body adornment. SKS.ArtWorks offer henna body art, created with all natural, essential oils infused, henna. Enjoy the intricate and beautiful henna tattoos that last you days. This art form is a lovely tradition of South Asian culture that is used for celebrations, hair dying, and even has medicinal use.

Henna has always brought so much joy to me and I love sharing it with others.

 
 
Eleanor felt the call toward healing touch early in life. She is trained in reflexology and reiki in addition to body art. Her first henna tattoo inspired her immensely and she began dreaming about doing henna herself, determined to practice and hone her skills. What began as an artistic hobby gradually grew into a profession doing something she loves, as she shared henna with more and more people. A great admirer of the traditional Indian style, the intricate lacy elegance of it, she is also influenced by the beauty she sees in nature and the world around her as well as the countless amazing artists online.
 
Certified in natural henna, her blend is made with lemon juice, jagua, essential oils and sugar for a deep brown stain that lasts about 2 weeks. Sparkle hair is the tie in of shimmery silk strands to individual hairs. They last anywhere from a day to many months.
 

Glitter Bee Art

The Glitter Bee is thrilled to be returning for her 4th Red Wing and this year she’s bringing a team! The Bee will be joined by The Sparkling Dragonfly, The Twinkly Lightning Bug, and The Fancy Mantis offering henna, face painting, glitter tattoos, hair tinsel, body glitters & gems, and sweat-proof grown up festival looks.
 
We are all so excited to see new faces and to be reunited with past years’ Red Wing families.

As always, The Glitter Bee only ever uses fresh, natural, handcrafted henna paste. If you have a G6PD Deficiency diagnoses, please talk to your artist before getting henna applied.​
 

Tim Witting

Thai massage has been an interest of Tim’s since spending a year traveling around South East Asia ten years ago. That interest flowered into a passion seven years ago while doing a 200-hour training at Thai Massage Circus in Laos with five amazing teachers and forty-five students from all over the globe united by their common enthusiasm for Thai massage. Much beyond thinking of Thai massage as a set of techniques, he learned to think of Thai massage as a powerful philosophy and a method to build deeper awareness. The quality of our touch, he discovered, is directly proportional to our mindfulness; in this sense, when one offers a Thai massage, they are doing their spiritual practice. After his month-long stint at Thai Massage Circus, Tim has continued his studies by exploring several other traditions as well as craniosacral therapy and Ayurvedic oil massage. He now offers sessions out of his Charlottesville office. 

Moon Roots Herbs

Celia Tumolo

My name is Celia and I started my holistic journey when I had small children. I started to really question what I was giving them and my desire to give them the healthiest options out there. At the time I also realized that growing my own herbs would provide what I needed, especially if I couldn’t find it elsewhere. My background prior to this was in veterinary medicine. I’ve been a Vet Tech for 30 years, so I knew I could make helathier options for my animals as well. 
All of the products I make I use daily for my family and animals. I truly believe that herbal medicine is where we should start when treating the issues that come up. I believe there is a time when western medicine is needed also. However, many times we can use herbal medicine as a preventative measure and can avoid synthetic medications. Then, if necessary, we can go to more western options. 
I am a small batch one woman business. I enjoy every aspect of what I do and I love sharing with people what herbal remedies can do.
 

Rogue Readings

Rogue is a comedic philosopher, teacher, and healer, with a rare and unique ability to expose pathways to self love, forgiveness and inner silence… Through stories.

With the vehicle of Animal Spirit Cards, you can choose 1, 3, or 5 cards to share insights about today’s most important thought or lesson….to a full picture of life’s more prominent patterns to help navigate a future freed from the ransom of past regrets, as well as the fears of the future that limit our choices.

As always… If it’s not  SPOT ON… ITS FREE!  Guaranteed entertaining!​

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Balanced Health Massage & Wellness

Ben is a Licensed Massage Therapist who views massage as more than just a form of relaxation but rather a medical necessity. As a graduate of Cedar Stone School of Massage and a former surgical dental assistant, Ben is well-trained in human anatomy, physiology, pathologies, and medical terminology. He is proficient in finding knots, releasing sciatic tension, lymphatic drainage, and joint mobilization. He is open to working with other licensed professionals for a whole person approach to achieve a greater benefit for clients. Ben is a Christian with Russian roots and his hobbies include snowboarding. He is fluent in Russian.