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
As an exhibited artist and
photographer,
John enjoys the
magnificent views of Lake
Tahoe and the Northern
Nevada area.
John is also a published poet.
Here's a recently published poem.

Let Us Unblind Ourselves

Let us unblind ourselves
to the colour of our Beauty.

Let us unblind ourselves
to our manifest Light.

Let us unblind ourselves
to Turtles walking in the morning
sunshine.

Let us unblind ourselves
to Life.

for the Bat Clan
jmt 4/5/07
SKY LAKE HEALING ARTS LLC
John M Thorpe RCST, CHT
Biography
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