Who We Are
We are a group of NIASZIIH students and Practitioners from Ithaca, NY and the surrounding areas, all dedicated to a path of healing for ourselves and others. We desire to bring our services to our community by offering monthly healing clinics, while also deepening our skill in working together with other healers. Each clinic session will offer two or more healers working together on a client to allow for a synergy between healers, adding power and depth to the healing work.
Carol James
Carol S. James, E-RYT, C-IAYT, is a NIASZIIH Practitioner in her 7th year as a NIASZIIH student. She owns Yoga Journeys, a healing practice bringing the tools of yoga and earth-centered healing to her clients. She describes her work as an encounter with transformation of the body, mind and spirit. She works with shift in physiology which create shifts in psychology. Carol has been in practice as a yoga therapist since 1999, teaches yoga classes, is an Assistant Teacher in wildernessFusion's BodyWork class, and facilitates leadership, emotional intelligence and wellness workshops for organizations. Visit her website at: yogajourneysheal.com
Danielle Prizzi
Danielle Prizzi is a NIASZIIH Practitioner in her 6th year as a NIASZIIH student, and a 3rd year wildernessFusion bodyWork student. She is a certified birth and postpartum doula and community herbalist, specializing in the childbearing years and holistic women's health. Inspired by her own healing journey, she merges her love and intensive study of ancestral earth living skills, folk traditional medicine, shamanic journey work, and western science into a holistic, alchemical embodiment of healing. To continue your healing work with Danielle, please contact her for an appointment at: wombtreedoula@gmail.com.
Hillary-Joy Pitoniak
Hillary-Joy Pitoniak is a NIASZIIH practitioner in her 6th year of Healing classes with WildernessFusion and is currently deepening her studies through the Primaltalk Intensive Program. In addition to her training at Wilderness Fusion, she approaches her healing work through the lens of various modalities as a certified herbalist, reiki healer, and flower essence practitioner. Most of all, Hillary-Joy is committed to helping individuals realize their own unique gifts and providing a compassionate, judgement-free place to assist those on their journey of healing.
To connect with Hillary-Joy, please contact her at: jaguarwomanrising@gmail.com.
To connect with Hillary-Joy, please contact her at: jaguarwomanrising@gmail.com.
John Palumbo
Originally from the West Coast, John Palumbo relocated to Ithaca in 2011. He felt ‘the call’ of WildernessFusion back in 2016 and is currently a student in the Healing 6 class. John joined the Ithaca Niasziih Healing Clinic in 2019 and has been practicing his healing work at this and other locations ever since.
Holly Cornwell
Holly Cornwell is a NIASZIIH Practitioner. Early in childhood, she developed a deep connection with nature, Creation, and the creatures around her. She discovered that great peace and healing are available to us there. Holly weaves her connection with the natural world and her healing work together to help introduce others to the sacred stillness and healing abilities of nature. Here she hopes others can find a pathway to their own healing experience in a time where the world feels full of chaos and confusion. To connect with Holly, visit: SoaringHawkConnections.com
Gwen Quigley
Gwen Quigley is a 4th year NIASZIIH student, and a 2nd year wildernessFusion bodyWork student and she has always been drawn both to healing work and nature. In nature, she has found tools with which to recharge, be inspired, have connection and explore creativity. The natural world has always been a safe place for transformation and healing. With gentleness and encouragement, Gwen brings this safe place of healing to others where they can connect to and celebrate their inner self, inner child, and inner beauty. If desired, they can find or create paths to walk out in the world with these connections. To contact Gwen, please email: gwenmquigley@gmail.com
Licia Augusta
Licia Augusta is a 4th year NIASZIIH student and a 2nd year wildernessFusion bodyWork student. For as long as she can remember, she has sought and found solace and freedom in the wild and untamed natural world. Through connecting with these raw elements of nature, Licia has learned to connect to similar deep places in herself. She desires to bring to others that wild acceptance and offer them the new perspectives it unearths. Lending support, Licia hopes that they will discover and step into a more full expression of who they are while simultaneously growing more in love with themselves and this earth we walk on. To contact Licia, please email: wildflowers.in.the.wind@gmail.com
John Bennett
John Bennett is a 3rd year NIASZIIH student. Following the call, John synchronistically encountered many healing modalities, finally finding wildernessFusion. He now has a Healing Energy practice and teaches Yoga and Meditation classes in Naples, NY. For more information or to contact John, visit:
WesternDoorHealing.com
WesternDoorHealing.com
Kara Peet
Kara Peet is a 3rd year NIASZIIH student, who has always been curious about nature and people. She is grateful for the relationship between them and is interested in expanding their connection, reciprocity, and healing. When exploring the NIASZIIH modality, Kara feels more grounded, more connected, and more herself. Through this practice, she enjoys helping others identify hidden opportunities and find more choice around caring for themselves, honoring the earth, and/or connecting with other people. Kara also enjoys making things that are often inspired by or part of the natural world. To connect with Kara, please email: kndpeet@gmail.com
Karen Kudej
Karen Kudej is a 2nd year NIASZIIH student who has taken a roundabout path to healing work. She appreciates this healing modality’s emphasis on choice, wandering, and perspective, and she enjoys finding the connections among seemingly unrelated things. She believes it is never too late for one to learn something new.
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