Teacher & Practitioner Bios
Crissy
As an ordained minister, Crissy has practiced for over a decade as a mindfulness meditation instructor, life coach, metaphysical teacher, and energy healer. Crissy is a Traditional Usui Reiki Master, with a variety of other certifications, including life coaching and sound healing.
A powerful intuitive, Crissy meditates regularly and is especially in-tune with energies. She is gifted in guiding clients to stay grounded and focused. She has a deep understanding when it comes to identifying and releasing energetic blockages in the body, chakras, and aura, allowing for balance and healing in all aspects of her clients’ life.
With years of practice in hypnosis, Crissy has also safely and gently guided many clients to gain deep insights through past life regression. She has been called a gift to empaths, assisting her clients to clear energy, cut cords, and set up protections to strengthen their auras. In sessions, she may call upon archangels and spirit guides to bring guidance and assistance. Crissy has also successfully guided many clients in forming a relationship with their own guides through the classes she offers at The Center.
Crissy has served as a practitioner at The Open Mind Center since 2015 and in the Atlanta area since 2012. She also brings over 10 years of prior experience from her roles in coaching, supervising teams, and developing training programs in the corporate world.
Offered: Reiki, Tarot Readings, Mediumship, Cord Cutting, Energy Healing, Chakra Balancing, Sound Healing, Past Life Regression, Soul Coaching, Life Coaching, Reiki Light & Sound Healing
Available on Mondays 11:30am-3:30pm, Thursdays 11:30am-5:00pm, Fridays 11:30am-7:00pm, and 2nd & 4th Saturdays 12:00-6:00pm
Kayla
Kayla is an intuitive reader, medium, channeler, Reiki practitioner, and creative soul. From a young age, she felt deeply connected to her intuition and the unseen world. While these gifts were always present, they blossomed through years of dedicated study and practice.
Kayla offers oracle, tarot, psychic mediumship, flower readings, Reiki healing sessions, meditation experiences, and journaling workshops designed to provide insight, healing, and encouragement with the power of voice. She has shared her work throughout Michigan, Georgia, and Florida. She brings a compassionate and grounded approach to every session.
Kayla believes creativity can be a powerful tool for healing and self-discovery. Her experience working with autistic children has deepened her appreciation for neurodiversity, and the connection between psychology and spirituality.
Kayla is passionate about helping others reconnect with their inner wisdom, embrace self-love, and remember the light that already exists within them.
Offered: Tarot Reading, Mediumship, Intuitive Reiki, Energy Healing, Chakra Balancing
Available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12:00-6:00pm and every other Saturday from 1:00-7:00pm
Charmaine
Charmaine is a Soul Coach, Usui & Karuna Ki Reiki Master, Pranic Healer, and the owner of The Open Mind Center. She also has a diploma in Metaphysical Theology and Ordination.
Having shown interest in the spiritual world as an adolescent, Charmaine’s intuition elevated and she began studying a wide range of spiritual topics. With over 30 years of metaphysical practices, including soul coaching, Reiki, energy healing, and operating The Open Mind Center, her efforts have continued to promote wellness, mindfulness and awakening.
Charmaine believes that everyone is on a healing journey. She works with clients in a nonjudgmental, compassionate approach which emphasizes connection, levity, and
relatability over strict, prescriptive methodology. Her goal is for each client to heal and grow into the version of their life and themselves that they are seeking.
Offered: Soul Coaching via Phone
Available on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00-7:00pm
Shannon
Shannon is a breathwork facilitator, somatic coach, and conscious dance guide who supports individuals in reconnecting with their bodies, emotions, and inner wisdom through embodied, nervous-system-aware practices.
Her work is grounded in compassion, presence, and deep respect for each person’s lived experience. Drawing from breathwork, somatic awareness, conscious movement, and elemental wisdom, Shannon creates spaces where people feel safe to soften, release, and explore what’s alive within them.
As a highly sensitive person herself, Shannon understands overwhelm, burnout, and disconnection — and brings a gentle, attuned approach to every class she facilitates. Her sessions are trauma-aware, non-forceful, and deeply supportive, inviting participants to listen to their bodies and move at their own pace.
Shannon’s intention is simple and profound: to create welcoming spaces where all parts of you are allowed, where the body is honored as wise, and where healing unfolds naturally through breath, movement, and presence.
Emily
Emily believes that the healing of ourselves is in our own hands and hearts.
As a certified ayurveda lifestyle coach with a degree in nutrition, she has studied energy medicine and practices the power of healing oneself with one’s own energy, awareness and intention. She expanded on this knowledge and experience of working with energy through studying the art and wisdom of Qigong, incorporating movement, deeper studies of the 5 elements, TCM, meditation, breathwork, and intention. Emily has also studied meditation and alchemy for many years and weaves these experiences along with sound healing and tuning the biofield into her qigong classes.
From an early age, Emily knew that she wanted to help others. It has been through her own journey of helping and healing herself that she has cultivated her own strength, empowerment and awareness. She believes that the potential to live a life of abundance and wellbeing exists within each of us. It is through presence, allowing, acknowledgement and validation of our experiences that we connect to our hearts for coherence, integration and wellbeing.
Maha
Maha is a psychosomatic massage therapist, yoga instructor, and workshop leader, who has been serving the Greater Atlanta area since 2010. They are passionate about guiding people toward deeper self-awareness and healing. They specialize in helping clients recognize how the tension patterns in their bodies reflect their inner coping strategies—offering an approach that blends science, movement, and psychology for holistic transformation.
Drawing from extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, functional movement, and organ systems, Maha integrates developmental psychology, emotional growth, and the latest research in somatics and neuroplasticity to help clients reshape both their minds and bodies. Their unique approach builds new behavioral pathways, allowing people to reconnect with their bodies in a meaningful and compassionate way.
Maha’s teaching style is grounded, intuitive, and heart-centered—welcoming all bodies, backgrounds, and experiences. Since 2007, they have been a trusted space holder and educator in the greater Atlanta area, offering yoga, coaching, and more. Maha is committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and accessible space for all learning styles and lifestyles—where people can explore, heal, and grow at their own pace.
Dr. Jimi
Dr. Jimi is dedicated to serving his community through fitness training, wellness consulting, group fitness classes & programs, and life coaching. His methods bridge science and spirituality. With four degrees and multiple certifications in health-related fields, he brings a strong educational foundation and a deep well of knowledge to those seeking guidance in improving their health and overall quality of life.
Dr. Jimi integrates physical health, mental clarity, and spiritual development. He has a strong academic foundation in kinesiology and nutrition and explores the relationship between food systems, environmental stewardship, and human health.
His training includes extensive study in Tai Chi and Qigong under a legendary Shaolin Master. This deepened his understanding of energy cultivation and the relationship between movement, breath, and internal balance.
Dr. Jimi now offers his expertise in both Tai Chi instruction and garden-based education. Through these offerings, he continues his mission of helping individuals reconnect with nature, develop personal discipline, and cultivate healthier, more balanced lives.
Jason
Jason is a sound healer, energy practitioner, and lifelong explorer of the mystical, the unseen, and the cosmic. With over 25 years of experience as a video editor, Jason has honed a keen sense of timing, rhythm, and flow, which he brings into every sound bath and healing session.
A masterful facilitator of crystal singing bowls, Jason guides participants through deeply immersive sound journeys designed to relax the nervous system, release energetic blocks, and expand consciousness. His grounding, centered presence creates a safe and nurturing space where people can reconnect with themselves and access higher states of awareness.
Jason has co-facilitated countless sound baths and cacao ceremonies alongside Crissy, blending sound, energy work, and sacred ritual to craft experiences that are both heart-opening and transformative. His natural curiosity about extraterrestrial realms and the mysteries of the universe infuses his work with a sense of wonder, possibility, and connection to the greater cosmos.
Known for his visionary energy, quiet strength, and intuitive guidance, Jason offers a unique combination of grounding support and expansive exploration. Whether holding space for personal healing, collective ceremonies, or cosmic attunements, he encourages participants to journey inward, awaken their intuition, and step into greater clarity, alignment, and spiritual resonance.
Lisa
Lisa celebrates the divine light that exists in everything by honoring natural rhythms and earth medicines. She is a PhD, an ordained pagan minister and shamanic practitioner with over 20 years of experience conducting seasonal rituals, facilitating group classes, and offering individual healing sessions like Shamanic Healing, Chakra Balancing, Cord Cutting, and Energy Healing. She has studied with notable teachers from the Eagle Condor Council, Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Harner Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and her own spirit guides.
Lisa is an empath and intuitive who believes that all life experiences are opportunities for growth and learning. Through all her energy services, Intuitive (psychic) Readings, Soul Coaching and Life Coaching, she works with clients to help them move from a place of fear and stagnation to a place of love, gratitude, respect, and awareness. Lisa has been described as a natural healer with a keen sense of energetic imbalances that cause distress and discomfort. Her ultimate goal is to clear those imbalances to expand and awaken compassionate inner wisdom.
Andrea
Andrea is a seasoned counselor, meditation guide, and intuitive healer with more than 20 years of experience supporting individuals and groups through personal and professional transformation. She combines intuitive soul guidance, holistic healing, and Gestalt therapy to help clients reconnect with their bodies, energy, and inner wisdom, empowering them to live with greater peace, purpose, and joy.
Her diverse experience includes corporate counseling and leadership training, mindfulness facilitation, intuitive soul guidance, energy awareness coaching, body image and wellness counseling, as well as leading transformative meditative shamanic drum journeys. Andrea’s work honors the connection between mind, body, and spirit, creating a path toward healing that is both practical and deeply meaningful.
She believes that healing is not about becoming someone new, but rather it’s about remembering who you have always been beneath the fear, expectations, and false stories. Her greatest joy is walking beside each person as they rediscover their light and create a life that feels deeply aligned with their soul!
Prachi
Prachi is a Certified Associate Pranic Healer and performs guided meditations. Her work with Pranic healing, an advanced form of “no-touch” energy healing that aims to bring balance in the energy body, is often described as the science and art of using energy to heal the body. It helps to cleanse, energize and balance the energy systems, thereby promoting wellness and good health on all levels: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It is the fastest growing complimentary energy healing modality in the world today. Her work with healing and meditation aims at reducing stress, anxiety, and healing energetic and psychological wounds.
Kelly
Kelly is an accomplished Breathwork Coach and Trainer. With over 30 years of experience, her skills include motivational speaking, relationship training, life and executive coaching, and program directing. She performs many of her services in groups and one-on-one, making her skills versatile for individual services and group events.
Kelly considers the opportunity to work with others a blessing and wants to continue her work in helping and educating people to be empowered in their own lives.