Lee Thorpe, MA, ADTR, LMT, ABT
Academic Director
Co-Owner: The Bodhi Tree Center for Healing Arts & Sky Lake Healing Arts LLC

Discovering an interest in teaching as a teenager, Lee pursued academics in earnest. She received her Bachelor of Science in Dance Movement Therapy in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied dance, psycho-physiology, and the natural sciences of anatomy, physiology and kinesiology. Furthering her studies, she attended Columbia College - Chicago, receiving her Master of Arts in Dance Movement Therapy in 1992. Since 1993, Lee has been designing and facilitating group movement and growth experiences at venues as varied as hospitals, universities and spiritual retreat centers. Lee's unique blend of skills in clinical professional counseling, teaching, and creative movement arts serve to deepen the participant's therapeutic process through exploration of the mind-body-spirit link.

Lee worked in the Chicago area as a Dance Movement Therapist and facilities supervisor for 14 years, serving populations of all ages and varied psychological profiles, within highly diverse clinical settings. In addition, Lee brings to The Bodhi Tree Center for Healing Arts 5 years of administrative and supervisory experience that encompass activity programming, as well as training and in-service for professional, intern, and volunteer staff. In 2003, she relocated to Northern Nevada, where she and her husband, John, own and operate Sky Lake Healing Arts, LLC, a successful healing arts corporation.

Having begun explorations into different forms of energy and holistic healing while completing her Master's degree, Lee completed 2 years of energy work training in 1991; graduating from the Institute of Spiritual Healing in Evanston, Illinois. While working with the body-in-movement as a psychotherapist, Lee's sensitivities with touch were drawing her to pursue training in therapeutic bodywork. Her focus was in the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine via an Asian bodywork called Zen Shiatsu. To this end, Lee received her practitioner's certificate in 2003 from the Ohashi Institute in Evanston, Illinois. After moving to North Lake Tahoe, Lee became a licensed Massage Therapist in the state of Nevada and has a successful practice in massage and Zen Shiatsu. Lee has been a teacher of Zen Shiatsu and massage at Zen Gate Chiatsu, the Nevada Career Academy, the Milan Institute, and the Baum Healing Arts Center School of Massage.

Affiliations
Academy of Dance Therapists, Registered [ADTR]
American Organization of Bodywork Therapists of Asia [AOBTA]
Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals [ABMP]
National Honors Society [Member, Phi Lambda Theta]
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor [Illinois]
Licensed Massage Therapist [Nevada]

John M. Thorpe, RCST, CHT
Administrative Director
Co-Owner: The Bodhi Tree Center for Healing Arts & Sky Lake Healing Arts LLC

As a leader and administrator, John brings 15 years of management and supervisory experience in the travel and transportation industries to his role as Administrative Director of The Bodhi Tree Center for Healing Arts. Committed to a career path of service work, John relocated to northern Nevada in 2003, where he and his wife, Lee, own and operate Sky Lake Healing Arts, LLC, a successful healing arts corporation. He is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and a Licensed Massage Therapist in the state of Nevada.

John’s interest in education began while attending DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois as an education major. Further experiences as a teaching assistant for alternative healing classes motivated his pursuit to be an adult-learning facilitator. To this end, John trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and completed certification in 2003 as a Certified Hypnotherapist (CHT). Since 2004 he has worked as an instructor at the Baum Healing Arts Center School of Massage, teaching subjects as varied as Anatomy and Physiology to Business Law and Ethics. Simultaneously, he held a 1-year faculty position in Energy Healing at Nevada Career Academy.

John became involved in the healing arts in 1984, graduating from the Institute of Spiritual Healing in Evanston, Illinois where he completed 4 years of training in multiple styles of Energy Healing. In 2006, he added a 700-hour certificate to his credentials when he completed training as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist with the International School of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. Other study paths that John integrates into his healing work include Zen Shiatsu and Meditation, Tai Chi, Qi Gong and other martial arts, and numerous meditation practices. In 2002, John began a healing apprenticeship with master teacher and Integrative Healer, Beth Stein (Chicago, Illinois), focusing on therapeutic process, energy and trauma healing, biodynamic theory, and shamanic practices. John is also mentoring with Bill Bauman, PhD. of the Center for Soulful Living, developing his skills in Human and Spiritual Mastery and Group Leadership, and is a certified Facilitator of Soulful Living (FSL).

John is a published poet, an exhibited artist and photographer, and a student of the Native American flute.

Affiliations
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork
The Center for Soulful Living
Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals
Licensed Massage Therapist [Nevada]
American Council of Hypnosis Examiners & Society of PsychoLinguistics

Vincent Baum, LMT, BS, MS
Faculty Member & Consultant

A licensed therapist since 1993, Vinnie has a private practice in massage in Carson City and owned and operated the Baum Healing Arts Center School of Massage Therapy from 1997-2007. Vinnie has a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and holds a Master's Degree in Sport Physiology and Exercise from Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. He has 15 plus years experience in the teaching profession in Connecticut, New Mexico and Nevada. Vinnie has studied Qi Gong and Tui Na in Beijing, China at the Xi Yuan Hospital, and has attended an advanced program in Oriental Therapy at the Berkeley Acupressure Institute, as well as numerous seminars in various massage techniques. Vinnie is a Reiki Master and a Karuna Reiki Master.

Shane Marquardt, LMT, CSCS
Faculty Member

Shane holds a Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training, and a Bachelor in Health Education from Mankato State University. After relocating to Northern Nevada in 1999, he worked as an Athletic Trainer and Emergency Medical Technician. Shane provided orthopedic rehabilitation services to patients in South Lake Tahoe area from 1999-2003. After completing his training in Massage Therapy, Shane served as Adjunct Faculty in the Physical Education Department at South Lake Tahoe Community College. In 2003, Shane became an Instructor and massage therapy Program Coordinator at Nevada Career Academy in Sparks, NV. He has taught courses in Swedish massage, deep tissue, neuromuscular technique, spa techniques, chair massage, sports massage, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, business law and ethics. Shane is presently employed as a Massage Technician at Walley's Hotsprings and Spa, providing massage, bodywraps, and exfoliating treatments.

ADVISORS

Beth Stein, BA, CTAT, RCST
Integrative Healer and Somatic Educator