As a Mind-Body-Spirit Coach, Raven offers her clients and students "Self-Healing Solutions."After careful review of your background, Raven will custom design a program to bring you back into balance.

"My passion is showing others how to heal themselves and manage their pain through simple diet and lifestyle changes. All you need is the desire to heal and the willpower to stick with a program."

Drawing from her extensive trainings and certifications in yoga, Ayurveda, Reiki, massage therapy, positional therapy, writing and expressive therapies, she offers private and corporate wellness consulting, seminars and coaching services. In addition, she teaches a limited number of group classes, workshops and other special programs.

Raven is an alternative healthcare provider through Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and Harvard Pilgrim insurance programs.

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Raven is the owner of Self-Healing Solutions, a Mind-Body-Spirit coach, and author of the book: Get Your Low Back on Track: 30 Days to a Healthier Spine. 

A yoga practitioner since 1981, she is a certified professional level yoga educator through the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She has just received the highest credential available from the Yoga Alliance -- "E-RYT-500", having documented over 2,000 hours of yoga teaching experience in private and group settings.

Raven has a passion for combining the healing arts with the art of storytelling. She has an extensive background in the creative arts and has performed professionally as a singer-songwriter on both coasts. She was a recipient of the ASCAP Plus Award for 2 years in a row and has recorded and produced 3 audio CDs of her original songs.

She holds a masters degree in film production and screenwriting and has taught worskhops and classes in creative writing, screenwriting, story analysis at New York University and at the Gotham Writer's Workshop.

Her articles and interviews have been published in various print and online publications over the past 15 years.

Raven has completed the year-long Transformation Circle with her spiritual teacher, Dr. Barbara DeAngelis, and is in her 2nd year of the Advanced Leadership Training Program with a small group of devoted seekers and leaders.

She has also been initiated into the Neelakantha Meditation tradition through Dr. Paul Muller-Ortega.

Raven's main Kripalu yoga teachers and mentors have been:

Sudha Carolyn Lundeen

Devarshi Steven Hartman

Stephen Cope

Don and Amba Stapleton

Vidya Carolyn Dell'uomo

Brahmani Liebman

Hasita Agathe Nadai

She has studied Ayurveda with:

Dr. Claudia Welch

John Douillard

Dr. Rosy Mann

Hilary Garivaltis

David Frawley

Sanskrit:

Cynthia Snodgrass (Vyaas Houston's method)

Herbal Medicine:

Rosemary Gladstar

Deb Soule

Susun Weed

Nancy Phillips

Professional affiliations include:

IAYT - International Association of Yoga Therapists

KYTA -- Kripalu Yoga Teacher's Association

Yoga Alliance -- Registered member