All faculty are certified Polarity Wellness Educators
and/or APTA-Registered Polarity Practitioners.

 

Gary B. Strauss, MS, RPP, PWE,

Gary continues to inspire the healing arts community with his approach to well being restoration, honoring the wisdom within and instruction through alignment. His crafted method of Holding Space™ for the client, classroom and practitioner, has stemmed from 30 plus years of experience in energy medicine, nutrition, and natural healing. Those related walk away with an empowerment so personal and self sewn; it’s as if Gary has known them all their lives. He is an incredible and articulate intuitive whose presence and openness allows for transformation, regardless of the relationship. Just ask the thousands he has trained and mentored internationally and in the U.S. His Polarity Therapy and Cranial Sacral Unwinding programs are offered through The Institute of Psycho-Strucural Balancing (IPSB, Los Angeles), The Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA, Arizona) The Energy Open Center (Kobe, Japan) and The Open Center (NYC).

Tracy Griffiths, RPP, PWE, CMT
Tracy is the Program Director for Polarity Healing Arts and has been practicing in the healing arts since 1988. She is a graduate of the Institute of Psycho Structural Balancing, where she also teaches the APP program. Tracy utilizes and weaves her training in the martial arts, massage therapy, yoga, psychic tools and essential oils into her classes, offering a diverse, integrative and practical approach to his work. Tracy is greatly devoted to sharing her knowledge with others for the purpose of personal deepening and connection to their own inner wisdom. She is dedicated to bringing this work out into the world and provides the environment to assist others in their quest for growth and healing. Tracy also serves as Certified Dream Coach™ and Certified Soul Coach™.

In Loving Memory of Carolyn Fraser
Carolyn was the Director of Education and faculty member at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe, AZ. Her work there was a very powerful and positive force for the success and growth of the polarity and cranial programs that are tought there. Carolyn held the heart space for the growth and transformation of all those around her. Her dedication and commitment to each person she touched was and still is profound. She is dearly loved and very missed.
We honor her passasge and her soul's journey.

 

Dina Fraboni, RPP, CPE, LMT
Dina Fraboni RPP, CPE, LMT is a certified Polarity,
Craniosacral, Advanced Thai Yoga Therapist and
certified Polarity Educator, Hatha Yoga instructor and ordained minister. Dina facilitates practitioner
trainings at Polarity Healing Arts of CA, IPSB (Culver City), and The Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe AZ. Dina has spent the last 20 years exploring consciousness, spirituality, mysticism and healing arts practices from ancient and modern traditions. Her style is an artistic and eclectic articulation of the laws and mysteries of life energy and universal healing principles.



Heather Principe
Heather is a journeyman of the old ways. Dedicated to teaching within the paradigm of the Four Directions and the Five Elements, she weaves the understandings of Physical Science of our Modern world with the fabric of the most ancient knowings and teachings. She is the founder of the Yoga and Polarity Center in New York, the co-founder and director of Ultrasonic Core Group, an advanced training for Spiritual Energyworkers, and teaches on the Staff of Sivananda Yoga Ashram and Interfaith Ministers. Most recently, Heather has completed a pilgrimage and teaching series in the four provinces of Ireland for Healing, and is completing her Autobiography "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".

Lynn Dennison, MA, MBA, RPP, PWE, RPE, has studied life energy, polarity, and craniosacral unwinding intensively since 1997. She has assisted hundreds of students in craniosacral unwinding classes and retreats in Los Angeles and Hawaii , and she has actively participated as a teaching assistant in every advanced polarity program and intensive held by Polarity Healing Arts since 1999, in Los Angeles , Hawaii , British Columbia , and Switzerland . More recently, she has been co-teaching the Teacher Training programs offered by Polarity Healing Arts, in Los Angeles and Arizona.

Denyce Giannioses, RPP, CPE Denyce Giannioses is a healer and teacher who supports people to experience their true potential in life and relationships. A Registered
Polarity Practitioner and Polarity Wellness Educator, she has been studying vibrational medicine, trauma release, and the healing arts for over 19 years. Her unique approach to healing is holistic, creative, and draws from a wealth of techniques, including energy and bodywork, counseling, prenatal/birth therapy, movement, and meditation. Denyce holds her healing practice in Redondo Beach, CA and teaches Polarity Therapy, Craniosacral Balancing and Pure Expression workshops in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.

James Arena, RPP, CPE, senior Instructor James Arena has been practicing Polarity Therapy since 1979. He began his search for alternative and deeper healing when challenged with his own health issues and found Polarity Therapy to be the most effective method of self healing. His studies have included Emotional Anatomy, Polarity Cranial-Sacral Therapy and specializes in "voice-dialogue", which reaches interior conflicts to create resolution and natural harmony. James has been features on several health talk radio programs nation wide and his special and unique approach to this healing art spans to over 25 years of service.

Pat Brown, RPP, CPE, CMT
Pat Brown is a graduate of Polarity Healing Arts, and has been doing bodywork since 1990. Pat is dedicated to providing a safe learning space for people to come and experience energy, personal growth, and their inner truth. It is her love of the work and deep respect for the healing process that she brings to the classroom to share.

 

 

Lisa Nemzo RPP, PWE, CS, MT
Lisa Nemzo has been practicing in the healing arts since 1984, and is an expert in the field of body/mind. She is an RPP member of American Polarity Therapy Association and the International Polarity Wellness Community as an educator. Through her work with chiropractors and acupuncturists, Ms. Nemzo began to observe that physical injuries often originate from the emotional, mental and spiritual realms; over two decades, she has developed and refined techniques to address the whole person body, mind, emotions, and spirit that lead to more profound and lasting healing. She is also certified in Cranial Sacral Therapy, Reiki, and Massage.

Mary Hardin, BA, RPP,RPE, PWE, CMT, first came to Polarity and Craniosacral Unwinding as a client in the early 90s. After experiencing a particularly transformative session, she enrolled in her first Polarity class in 1998 "to find out what this was all about..." and she hasn’t stopped. Now a graduate of Polarity Healing Arts and the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing, she maintains a private practice and teaches Polarity and Cranial classes at Polarity Healing Arts, IPSB and the Massage School of Santa Monica. One of her passions is helping people reconnect to their spirit to remember who they are and find their alignment between Heaven and Earth.

 

Pamela McBride, RPP

Profoundly interested in the body and movement, Pamela has studied various forms of dance since the age of six. Her love of the body and form and her own quest for healing naturally propelled her to the study of health, vitality and expression. For the last 20 years her studies in the healing arts have included, acupressure, homeopathy, nutrition, mind-body therapies, as well as Hatha and Tantric yoga. Since 1999 Pamela has made an intensive study of Polarity Therapy, CranioSacral Therapy, Reflexology, Lymphatic, Visceral, Therapeutic Circulatory and Thai Yoga Massage. She has also dedicated her life to a Nichiren Buddhist spiritual practice since the age of nineteen.

Kyoko Hayashi, RPP
Founder and Director of The Energy Open Center in Kobe , Japan , Kyoko completed her Teacher Training in 2006 with Gary Strauss of Polarity Healing Arts. She currently Teaches Cranial Sacral and Polarity Therapy in Los Angeles , Hawaii and Japan where she is based as the only APTA certified Instructor in the country. Her lineage comes from her grandfather, who practiced traditional Japanese Buddist/shamanic ways for more than 40 years, connected her to the principles of energy work in the healing arts. Since learning Polarity, her language skills, verbal and etheric, have increased two-fold.

Associate Faculty

Michal Golan, BA, RPP, PWE
brings over 15 years experience in
the field of human relations, wellness & peace having practiced Polarity Therapy since 1990. She is a founding member of the Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence in Los Angeles, a Religious Science Practitioner since 1998 and a certified Theta/DNA Healing facilitator. Over the years, Michal has co-created, developed and conducted transformational training and seminars for the health & wellness, interfaith and peace activist communities as well as for ex-convicts and welfare recipients (/Fire into Water, /with Gary Strauss, /Empowered Communication, Emotional Clarity , SoulForce for Peacemakers, Peace & Democracy 101 /as well as /NonviolenceWorks, /among others with Eisha Mason). As an accredited instructor for Vianna's Nature Path, she travels and teaches Theta Healing certification seminars while maintaining a private practice in Israel and the United States. Michal was a presenter at the 1999 Parliament of the World Religions in Cape Town, South Africa and a delegate to the United Nations Millennium World Peace Summit in 2000. She facilitates transformation for individuals and communities through healing, coaching, training and writing.