At Adagio,our clients report a consistent experience. We offer a respectful, peaceful and balanced environment for all who enter our door. Our practice has been built with quality treatments, great relationships and integrity. We invite you to experience the difference that vibrant health and well-being will make in your everyday life.
Adagio professionals assist clients effectively toward their goals in the present; respecting the past, with an eye to the future. We are a holistic practice. At Adagio, this means consistently practicing the art and science of treating the whole individual. Whether you are receiving a treatment for acute or chronic pain or other health issues, an herbal, nutrition or lifestyle consultation, hypnotherapy session or simply discussing your health goals, your situation and patterns are unique. Thus, reaching your goals will be as well.
Cancellation Policy:
In consideration for all of you, our clients, who are waiting to get an appointment: if you cannot make an appointment, you will need to notify us a minimum of 24 hours in advance to avoid being charged for the entire appointment. We thank you for your help and cooperation with this delicate issue.
Our Staff:
Kimberly has always had a passion for natural health. She has been actively practicing in holistic health since 1993 when she founded Adagio Holistic Therapies, LLC. Through personal and professional experience she has integrated and formed a unique method of working with clients and students. This method utilizes Indigenous methods and philosophy as well as Western and Eastern traditions.
When treating clients, Kimberly works with each individual's natural and innate healing ability to aid in the release of old, difficult or painful patterns reaching a more harmonious and naturally vibrant balance. She continues to have great success with fertility enhancement, menstruation challenges, bladder conditions, digestive issues, muscle and joint pain, headaches, and reproductive health to name a few. Kimberly has traveled, lived and studied in Central America with elders of the Maya since 1997. She has studied with Dr Rosita Arvigo since 1998, and lived with Dr Arvigo in Belize for three winters. During that time Kimberly assisted Dr Arvigo in opening a clinic in the town of San Ignacio, seeing clients there, both with Dr Arvigo and on her own. Also, while living in Belize with Dr Arvigo, Kimberly was instrumental in the development of the first Massage Therapy School for Belizeans, where she also taught the first year it was open, helping Belizeans learn new skills and earn a more sustainable living. Kimberly is passionate about ancient and Indigenous healing methods. She honors her teachers in Maya Medicine including: Dr Rosita Arvigo, Miss Hortense Robinson, Miss Beatrice Waight, Miss Juana Shish, Mr. Martin Prechtel, Don Mai and Mr Harry Guy.
Kimberly is currently studying Curandismo with Elena Avila of the Aztec tradition and has also been exposed to Traditional/Indigenous healing methods of the Chinese, Japanese, Toltec, Cherokee, Chippewa and Lakota.
Kimberly is an Ordained Minister, Certified Hypnotherapist, Herbalist, Maya Abdominal Therapy practitioner, Maya Spiritual Healing practitioner, Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCTMB) and is a Certified Self-Care instructor of the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy™ as well as "Creative Fertility" and "Building Fertility with Nutrition". Kimberly leads travel excursions in Belize as well as treating clients, speaking and teaching on a variety of topics in holistic and Indigenous healing in Minnesota, Belize and many other locations.
Jill Shepherd has been practicing holistic therapies since 1999. She has an inherent interest in holistic health and knows first hand how powerful and life changing a whole approach can be. Jill excels in treating pregnancy discomfort and pain - both prenatal and postpartum. Her own experience with severe sciatica in her first pregnancy led to a desire for helping women during their childbearing years. She is a certified pregnancy practitioner and incorporates her training of Maya abdominal techniques as needed. Her intention is to treat the mother directly with a nurturing touch while positively, yet indirectly, affecting the unborn child.
A trip to Belize, Central America allowed her to study with Dr. Rosita Arvigo where she became a Professional Practitioner of Maya abdominal techniques. This training has enabled her to treat a variety of ailments relating to digestive issues and reproductive health concerns. Out of this work came a passion for treating digestive imbalances and ways to naturally enhance fertility in both women and men. She has been a Teaching Assistant in several of the Self Care Retreats taught by Kimberly Hart.
In addition, Jill has training in essential oil therapies for creating balance within the body. She is highly skilled in treating chronic and acute pain as well as stress, carpal tunnel pain, TMJ syndrome, headaches, and sciatica. She has studied structural integration, crainosacral therapy, and connective tissue technique. She uses heated stone therapy when indicated, as a way to open up tissues and facilitate warming and overall healing in the body. She has been a nationally certified practitioner (NCBTMB) since 1999.
Selma Sroka found her professional home in Family Medicine, where she learned to work with the full spectrum of people. She has expanded on her foundation in conventional knowledge and training for the past 20 years, setting her intention to see people as whole systems and not just sets of symptoms and diseases. She has studied Indigenous Healing with several traditional healers from the Lakota, Maya and Aztec tradition, who have been her guides and mentors in a wholistic approach to health and healing, and she has selected specific approaches that seem to complement her work. She continues to learn from her own personal journey and from the innate wisdom of those she works with.
Selma is especially interested in supporting individuals to remember and return to balance, to prevent disease and to achieve improvement in their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Her approaches in general include nutrition and lifestyle education utilizing the functional medicine matrix, intuition, touch and movement therapy, with special attention to clearing toxins, balancing energy, creating sacred space, ritual and spiritual healing work.
Selma has completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, from the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Although she is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is an Associate Professor for the U of MN, she will not be practicing standard, conventional medicine, writing pharmaceutical drug prescriptions or accepting insurance at Adagio Holistic Therapies, LLC. Selma will be working with the approaches and modalities which she has found supportive and beneficial for many people in their healing journeys. Examples of credentials for these approaches: Selma has a Healer's Certificate and Minister of Healing Certificate from Ron Moor's Center for Wholeness training program, and is a practitioner of Maya Traditional Healing. She has worked with plants and their ability to facilitate healing for over 20 years, and is in process of certification in Functional Medicine, Visceral Manipulation and Frequency Specific Microcurrent.
Pauline Marie is a Massage and Bodywork Therapist, as well as a Reiki Master with a passion for integrating the healing arts. After surviving a cancer diagnosis and working for many years in corporate America, Pauline needed a change. Now working in Holistic Health, Pauline is following her dream of integrating complimentary and alternative therapy with conventional medicine and whole systems care. Pauline's approach stems from personal experience, education, research, mentoring and coaching. She works to identify and cultivate your existing innate healing capacity recognizing individual differences and the many dimensions that affect your overall health and well-being.
Specializing in pain management, disease prevention, health restoration, healthy aging, and women and children's health; Pauline's Bodywork consists of restorative deep tissue that combines Western Trigger Point Therapy and Myofacial Release with an Eastern Thai-Shiatsu blend. This work will release pain on a physiological level releasing stress stored in the body's tissue and old patterns of thinking from the mind. Pauline's Energy Medicine as a Reiki Master supports the body's inherent self-healing abilities and allows the body's natural energy to flow, allowing deeper healing on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.
Bodywork and Reiki both work effectively alongside conventional health-care, whole systems care and with natural remedies to expand your treatment options and enhance your progress toward vital health.
With an advanced certification in prenatal and postnatal bodywork, Pauline can assist you during pregnancy, while entering motherhood and returning to your pre pregnancy state all the while balancing your body, mind and spirit. As a Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist and Certified Infant Massage Teacher your family will benefit from Pauline's whole systems approach. Sessions may include education and instruction of Reiki, Infant Massage and Self-Care techniques. Pauline also has experience working with children diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, Autism and anxiety related disorders.
Pauline has a Bachelors of Science Degree from Arizona State University and is a graduate from Northwestern Health Sciences University's Massage Therapy program. She served an internship with the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Pauline is a Nationally Certified Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Practitioner (NCTMB), Certified Pediatric Massage Therapist (CPMT), Certified Infant Massage Teacher (CIMT), and a USUI Reiki Master. Pauline also works in a Hospital based massage practice and with children in a Pediatric Integrative Medicine Clinic. As a member of the Adagio team, Pauline brings all of her skills and knowledge to our community and supports you on our healing journey.
Jennifer Quade has been working as a Registered Nurse for over 5 years and she always felt that there had to be more to healing than the western medical system taught her. After struggling through her own physical and emotional health issues that were deeply rooted in stress and unhealthy patterning, she found Maya Abdominal Therapy and Mind-Body Medicine. While experiencing her own healing transformation, she realized her calling to practice these gentle yet powerful modalities.
Jen's practice is grounded in science and the new research that supports what indigenous healers have always known: the healing ability of compassionate touch, the potential of the mind-body connection and the power of spirituality. She combines the use of massage, hypnosis and her intuition with many other techniques to maximize the impact of each session. She continues to have great success helping people overcome anxiety, depression, fertility challenges, digestive complaints, addictions, breastfeeding concerns and much more.
Her intention is to support you in your process of releasing old patterns and helping you discover simple changes that you can weave into the fabric of your life that will allow you to move into more fulfilling realms of experience. Jen maintains balance in her own life through a daily spiritual and meditation practice, eating delicious food, practicing yoga, dance running, maintaining strong relationships and play.
Jen is a Registered Nurse and is currently in the process of becoming a Nationally Board Certified Holistic Nurse. She is a Maya Abdominal Therapy Practitioner and she had the pleasure of learning from Dr. Rosita Arvigo during her professional training. She is a Certified Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner and Certified Lactation Counselor. She has training in Healing Touch and Reiki and is a member of the Minnesota and American Holistic Nurses Associations. Jennifer speaks professionally on topics ranging from Mind-Body Medicine, Holistic Nursing, Self-Care and Integrative Medicine.
She received her undergraduate degree in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and has received education through their Center for Spirituality and Healing as well as the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing and Minnesota Institute for Advanced Communication.
Lynell Hage has a passion and gift for helping people find natural and healthy ways to address health concerns and maintain health. She joins her over 30 years of experience as an RN in Western health care with her experience of various integrative holistic modalities to find the best solution for her clients.
As a Certified First Line Therapy (FLT) Life Style Educator, Lynell works with her clients to individualize meal plans and changes in the foods you eat, to help you address body composition (implement a weight loss program), cardio metabolic syndrome (lower cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and insulin resistance), detoxification, food allergies and other life style conditions that interfere with you feeling your best and having the energy you want for fun, family and work activities.
Lynell also offers Frequency Specific Microcurrent & Low Level Laser Therapy (cold laser,) two very effective and synergistic modalities for pain relief, wound healing, soft tissue repair and reducing inflammation.
Complimentary energy healing modalities that Lynell offers to her clients include Total Body Modification (TBM), Natural Healing, Theta Healing, and The Healing Codes, when patients have an interest in exploring these integrative methods.
Lynell graduated with an associate degree in nursing from St Mary's Junior College in Minneapolis, MN, obtained a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Minnesota, and completed the nurse practitioner program at The College of St Catherine in St Paul, MN, becoming a certified adult nurse practitioner (1989 - 2005). She has over 30 years of nursing experience in many clinical settings, including intensive care, oncology, hospice, rehab, low back care, long term care, occupational health and community health which lends a deeper understanding of the complexity of the alterations in the functions of the body.
As a member of the Adagio Team, Lynell will challenge you to set high goals with your health and will support you in achieving them.
Our Environment:
Your treatment will take place in our office. We have created an environment that is free of interruptions, quiet and private.
Our Professional Ethics:
We will perform only those services for which we are qualified and represent our education, certification, professional affiliations and other qualifications honestly.
We have a sincere commitment to provide the highest quality care to those who seek our professional service.
We acknowledge the inherent worth and individuality of each person and, therefore, do not unjustly discriminate against clients or colleagues, and work to eliminate prejudices in the profession.
We acknowledge the confidential nature of the professional relationship with a client and respect each client's right to privacy.
We respect the integrity of each person and, therefore, do not engage in any sexual conduct or sexual activities involving clients.
"We all have a private world. It is a privilege and sacred to be allowed in." - Dr. Arvigo