As founder and co-director of Touchstone Healing Arts Niko brings over 20 years of experience to her private practice.

Integrating Body, Mind and Spirit through Somatic Coaching and Bodywork.
Niko was born and raised around the Great Lakes in Ontario, Canada and graduated from the 2400 hour program at West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Vancouver, British Columbia. A massage therapist since 1987, originally licensed in B.C. Niko became nationally certified in 2000. She has worked in hotel spas, physiotherapy offices, and her own private practice.

In 1994, after some world travel and the birth of her first child, Niko was delighted to settle down in Vermont, home of the ‘sixth great lake’ where she, along with her partner Mark, established Touchstone Healing Arts in 1998.

Niko’s love of learning took her to Spirit of Learning at the Body Therapy Institute in North Carolina in 2001, a teacher training program for massage and body workers. In 2005 she attended a Vipassana meditation intensive training and continues to explore alternative bodywork modalities.

Since Spring 2007 she has been studying in-depth with her teacher, Richard Strozzi-Heckler and became a certified Somatic Coach in March 2008.

Presently, she and her family reside in Burlington where she enjoys gardening, reading, cooking, swimming in lake Champlain as well as her regular meditation practice and contemplating the stunning Adirondak mountains.
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