Nancy Blachly has been a licensed massage therapist since 1984 with Nevada State Massage License and City of South Lake Tahoe Massage permit, a 22+ year member of the American Massage Therapy Association, and is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, NCTMB. After graduating Magna cum Laude from the University of Wisconsin with a pre-med focus in human anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology, and a Phi Beta Sigma award for distinguished scholarship, and then teaching High School for several years, she decided to “go be one of the ski people because they’re happy!” One of the early pioneers and first licensed massage therapist in South Lake Tahoe, she instituted and taught massage therapy at the Lake Tahoe Community Collage in addition to her private practice with clients from all walks of life – from movie sets to camp sites, and from sports stars to film, television, and music recording celebrities to golf, ski, and cycling professionals. Her additional training includes neuromuscular deep tissue release, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain, lymphatic massage, Emotional Freedom Technique, Inter-dimensional Healing, acupressure vortex points, and Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Research, Matrix Energetics Level II Practitioner, Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection Level III Practitioner. She’s also been a certified Sound Health BioAcoustic Research Associate since 2002, providing sound healing therapy with voice analysis and sound presentation and working with frequency and vibration as a healing modality. Having trained with Sharry Edwards, director of Sound Health Research Institute, Nancy serves as the Sound Health Research Institute IRB and Peer Review Chairperson, and is a member of the SHRII ethics committee. She's a Certified Bioresonance and Biofeedback Therapist CBBT, member of the Association for Bioresonance & Biofeedback Practitioners ABBP, a member of The Sound Healers Association,and Board certified member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners AADP. As a way of sharing her knowledge and experience with others, she formed An Association of Massage Therapists in 1997.
Kathi Cross earned a Commercial Art Degree from Orange Coast College and received her certification training at Diamond Light School of Massage in 1998. After additional training in Magnetic Healing from Esclepion Healing Center in San Rafael and becoming a Certified Amanae Emotional Release Practitioner, Kathi joined our group in 2000.
Amanae is an emotional release body work technique which opens "doorways" that have been closed by deeply held fear, anger and trauma. Amanae is a journey that takes us back to remembrance and direct experience of the self by working with heart energy. There are doorways in the body tissues and when these are opened any stored issues can be released, allowing us to then access our own light. Once we can access our own light, healing takes place. Amanae assists in bypassing our mind and ego, dramatically clearing the way to physical and spiritual health and wholeness. The ultimate purpose of Amanae is to merge with All That Is and live in divine essence.
Kathi also practices Jin Shin Jyutsu and loves using her skills to help others “be in their body,” relax, and allow their body to heal as they feel more like themselves again. Kathi is licensed to practice massage therapy in South Lake Tahoe, CA.
Tiffany Mallin trained at the Sun Coast Center for Natural Health School of Massage Therapy in Tampa, Florida where she earned certification in Massage Therapy and Hydrotherapy in 1991. Her further training has been in Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Aromatherapy, and Aron Mattes Stretching, and her specialty is Deep Tissue Sports Massage. Tiffany also offers a wonderful facial massage with Dermalogic products to cleanse, exfoliate, and tone. She also incorpoates specialized facial massage techniques rejuvenate, increase firmness, and Hot Stone Therapy. A stone massage uses stones to massage the body. Heated smooth, flat stones are placed on key points on the body. The massage therapist may also hold the stones and use them to massage certain areas of the body. The hardness of the stones allows the therapist to address specific problem areas with more detailed work or deeper pressure. The heat from the stones will relax muscles, increase the blood flow to the area being worked on which further accelerates the healing process. This increase in circulation and the relaxation of the muscles also aids in mental relaxation.
The use of hot stones for healing dates back to ancient times, but the use of hot stones for massage caught on when Arizona massage therapist Mary Nelson introduced her hot stone massage technique, called LaStone Therapy.
Tiffany owned her own massage company in Stowe, VT for 15 years before joining our group. Tiffany is licensed to practice massage therapy in South Lake Tahoe, CA.
