
| John M. Thorpe, RCST, CHT Administrative Director Co-Owner: Sky Lake Healing Arts, LLC & The Bodhi Tree Center for Healing Arts 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. 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 Hypnotherapist. 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. 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 Society of PsychoLinguistics Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals American Council of Hypnosis Examiners |

