Instructors
MaryBeth Hraniotis, BFA, CTAT/AmSat, IDMA, Reiki Master
Ms. Hraniotis is a board certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique (CTAT), with a BFA in Fine Art and Modern Dance from the University of South Florida and a Masters degree in Isadora Duncan Movement. MaryBeth earned her Reiki Master degree in 1996 from Wendy Marks, 14th in lineage from Dr. Usui. She is the co-founder of the Holistic Health Consultants of the Hudson Valley. Ms. Hraniotis has extensive education, teaching and practice experience in the field of Constructive Movement Education and energy healing. She dances professionally and teaches workshops from early childhood through elder populations. She has lectured within the U.S. and abroad on subjects related to thinking, sensing and moving, and she has developed a specialized theory of movement education called GeoSpatial™. Ms. Hraniotis teaches and practices both private and group work at The Meadow Studio in Montgomery, N.Y. and is available for consultation and residency programs in public and private institutions.
Wendy Marks, RN, MSN, ANP-BC, Reiki Master, Certified Holistic Bodywork Therapist 
Ms. Marks is an ANCC board certified adult nurse practitioner, and co-founder of the Holistic Health Consultants of the Hudson Valley. She practices and teaches Reiki, holistic nursing, integral health and pain management. Ms. Marks is a professional nursing graduate of SUNY Morrisville (AAS) and Mount Saint Mary College (BSN, MSN). She is currently pursuing her doctorate of nursing at Sage Graduate School in Albany NY. She was certified as a Reiki Master in 1994 by the Rev. Anne Marie Seyfarth, 13th in lineage from Dr. Usui, at the Center for Enlightenment in Lowell, MA; and as a holistic bodywork therapist in 1995 by the Polarity Realization Institute in Ipswich, MA. Using a holistic-integral health, caring-healing model, based on Dr. Jean Watson’s Theory and Philosophy of Human Caring and Dr. Barbara Dossey’s Theory of Integral Nursing, Ms. Marks consults, practices and teaches Reiki, holistic-integral health and nursing. She is available for private, group and institutional consultation through The Meadow Studio in Montgomery NY.
Carolee Bongiorno is a Board-Certified Art Expressive Therapist and a Professor at Fordham University and The City College of New York. She studied at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts and at the Studio School in New York City. She has a B.A. in English and Art and an M.S. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, as well as an M.S. in Learning to Read Through the Arts all from Fordham University. She works both with Individuals and facilitates Groups.