StarryPines

Alicia Upchurch is a Reiki master and sound-healing guide who helps people reconnect with their inner clarity, balance, and vitality. Through gentle touch, intuitive listening, and the vibrational medicine of channeled song and medicine drumming, she creates sessions that feel both deeply restorative and quietly transformative.

At StarryPines — her light-filled sanctuary in Palenville, NY — Alicia offers a healing experience rooted in presence. Her approach blends traditional Reiki with vocal chakra toning, singing bowls, and subtle energy work to help clients release tension, soften emotional blocks, and return to a grounded sense of self. Each session is tailored, intuitive, and designed to meet people exactly where they are.

Alicia's work is guided by the belief that healing doesn't have to be dramatic to be profound. Sometimes it's a shift in breath, a warm pulse of energy, a tone that vibrates through the chest and unlocks something long held. Her clients describe her sessions as calming, clarifying, and unexpectedly powerful — a place where the body remembers how to feel safe again.

Through workshops, one-on-one sessions, and community offerings, Alicia invites people into a practice of gentle self-partnership: listening inward, allowing the body to speak and lead the way. Her mission is simple — to help others feel more aligned, more open, and more at home in their own energy and strength.

Tess Raine Robinson has been teaching yoga for over a decade, dedicating her years of practice to the study of yoga philosophy, the lineage of asana, kriyas, pranayama, Ayurveda, sound healing, nervous system regulation, and the art of making yoga accessible to every person who steps onto the mat.

With over 1,000 hours of yoga teacher training from a variety of respected schools and a certification in Nutrition and Health Coaching through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Tess brings a holistic approach to wellness that honors the connection between body, mind, and spirit.

Her classes are known for their thoughtful storytelling, grounding presence, and invitation to connect with the Atman — the true individual Self that exists beneath the distractions of everyday life. Whether moving through a gentle practice or a more dynamic flow, students are encouraged to cultivate awareness, curiosity, and a deeper relationship with themselves.

Tess's teachings are suitable for practitioners of all levels unless otherwise noted as advanced. Drawing from years of study and personal experience, she creates a welcoming space where students can explore movement, breath, mindfulness, and self-discovery in a way that feels authentic and sustainable.

Wherever you are on your journey, Tess invites you to step onto the mat, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and discover the transformative power of yoga.

Masha Zolotarsky is a Catskill-based healing arts practitioner and Keith's Cacao Practitioner who has been sharing the heart-opening spirit of ceremonial cacao through workshops, private ceremonies, and community gatherings for years.

Drawing from her own experience with ceremony, plant medicine, somatic healing, astrology, and Family Constellations, Masha creates warm and welcoming spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, listen more deeply to their inner guidance, and live more intentionally. One of her passions is bringing people together and sharing the transformative magic of ceremonial cacao.