Creative Healing Connections
2024 Arts & Healing Retreat Staff
SomaBeats Programs, Retreats and Adventures offers mindful awareness and joyful play by creatively blending philosophies, principles, and movement arts to get the heart moving, release tension and bring a sense of balance into our daily lives.
SomaBeats founder, LMT/Wellness Consultant
Johnna MacDougall
Johnna has been in the Business of Self-Care for Community Health and Well-Being for over 40 plus years. Her studies, research, and experiential journeys for Wellness Rhythmic practices brings smiles and peace to all who participate.
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SOMABEATS mission is to provide educational
services which focus on intelligent self-care. She can be reached at 518.791.9586 or
email macdougalljohnna@gmail.com to design a program that fits your needs.
M Ed., educator, artist, and lifelong learner
Melissa Lambert
Melissa lifts opportunities for creativity as an avenue for healing and interpersonal,
intergenerational, and intercultural connection.
NYC-based Licensed Psychologist and Post Traumatic Growth Oracle
Dr. Shenell Evans
She helps clients master the capacities necessary to build resilience and
experience posttraumatic growth after trauma or adversity. One of her areas of specialty includes chronic and invisible illnesses. Her wellness continuum by providing sacred space and evidence-based technologies for continued growth and evolution.
Environmental Psychologist, Artist, Writer, and
Facilitator
Shawndel N. Fraser
Shawndel's work centers creative healing through the arts, psychology, and
esoteric practices. Her primary focus is to create emotionally safe and physically
supportive spaces for survivors of trauma, people living with chronic illness, and
various types of groups and communities. Shawndel is also a resilient survivor of
complex trauma, and lives with grief, chronic illness, and disability. She
navigates the life-spaces between psycho-emotional and physical challenges,
while cultivating practices of self-awareness, compassion and spirituality for
long-term vitality, courage, connection, and well-being.