Located in an historic building in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, Southwind Health Collective has long been a quiet oasis of relaxation and rejuvenation. We have been serving the Lawrence community since our creation in 1987.

The name Southwind was inspired by the welcoming warmth of the prevailing wind in Kansas, and the Konza tribe who lived here and for whom the state is named. The Konza referred to themselves as people of the south wind. Health speaks of our commitment to help improve the lives of our clients through the benefits of massage, bodywork, energy work, Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture. As members of the Collective, we are individually trained therapists working in a shared space, providing a wide variety of innovative techniques. We have over 120 years of collective experience, and we look forward to helping you on your path to your best health.

​Our mission and vision is to provide effective nourishing and healing services that bridge the gap in our current medical system. We specialize in Comprehensive Integrative Pain Care, Mental Wellness & Holistic Health to support Stress Disorders, Anxiety, Grief, Chronic Illness, and for Pre-op/Post-op recovery. As a Certified-IAYT Yoga Therapist and Registered Nurse, I partner alongside your healthcare team to support your healing journey.

We offer several healing modalities, including Massage Therapy, Thai Yoga Therapy, Pranassage, Shiatsu, Reiki Energy Healing and Infrared Sauna Therapy, along with a full schedule of small group yoga therapy classes designed to reduce pain & tension, support postural health, cultivate stress resiliency and restore vibrant well-being. Class sizes are limited to allow for individual attention and personal modifications. Take a look on Schedulicity, our online booking site.

-Julianne Hutchcraft, Owner, RN, BSN, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, E-RYT 500, YACEP, AYS

Paul Rudy, "Life as creative prayer"

I am a composer, performer, sound healer, photographer, writer, speaker, art-maker, and teacher, and my work plays in the obvious and the hidden while honoring everything in between in the circle of life. I have been called “the High Priest of Sound,” and my music described as “The Universe unfolding one sound at a time.” In sound healing sessions the music I play is a reflection of your inner state, so the healing works its magic from the inside out, creating new pathways for your body, mind and soul to connect and heal more deeply. I offer in-person and remote sessions, and if in person, a walk on my 70 acres with land art and sacred spaces, your healing experience will integrate more deeply.

I am Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Composition at UMKC where I’ve taught since 1998, and am a recovering academic. Life, to me, is more than thought, proof, and probabilities. I live to think, but it’s only one side of my human experience. My aural life has expanded from an early love of music when I got my first cornet, to composing and a sound healing practice where I feel and experience sound physically, mentally and spiritually.. In 2012 I moved onto 70 acres in NE Kansas. On this land of woods and prairie, I harmonize with everything physical and metaphysical. I honor the energies and ancestors as I nurture feminine energies to rebalance in harmony with the masculine. I play in mind, body, and spirit, and have built land art and a labyrinth where the laws of physics feel suspended at times. In 2014 I saw "the Universe in a single breath" through a photograph I took on Halloween night. Magic happens at Harmony Farm, and I invite you to come experience it!

Dr. Rudy also provides personal compositions for meditation and mantra. Explore his offerings.

Accessible Yoga

Jivana Heyman (he/him), C-IAYT, E-RYT500, is the founder and director of the Accessible Yoga Association, an international non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to the yoga teachings. He’s the author of two books, Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body, and Yoga Revolution: Building a Practice of Courage & Compassion (Shambhala Publications).

Jivana coined the phrase, “Accessible Yoga,” over ten years ago, and it has now become the standard appellation for a large cross section of the immense yoga world. Accessible Yoga believes that all people—regardless of ability or background—deserve equal access to yoga. Through education and advocacy, we share the teachings and benefits of yoga with those who have been marginalized.

My name is Luis Mojica (pronounced Lew-Eace {rhymes with peace} Mo-hee-ka). I teach people how to release stress and trauma through listening to their bodies.

I'm not here to change you or judge you. My work is all about teaching. I give you the language, the practices, and the space to learn how to communicate with your own body & mind.

I come to this work from a deeply personal experience with suffering and healing that suffering. I didn’t read it in a book - I lived it. I know suffering well and I know bliss well. I will teach you as best as I can to find your bliss and transform out of suffering.

I'm a trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Herbalist, Holistic Nutritional Counselor, and Life Coach. Still, I credit my own life experiences, and how I healed from them, as the best training I could have ever received.

Everything I learned over, almost, two decades brought me to this moment here with you. What I teach, the spaces I hold, and the events I create blossom from my own experiences as well as my formal and informal studies.

I’ve come to see trauma as a Spirit that moves through us to save us and, when it gets stuck, we suffer. Teaching people how to revere this Spirit through movement, sensations, nutrition, and mindfulness has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.

Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Clinical Psychologist and Yogi.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist, author, wife, and mother in Boulder, CO. I offer trainings for therapists, maintain a private practice, where I provide psychotherapy, consultation, and supervision. I am the developer of Resilience-Informed Therapy which applies research on trauma recovery to form a strength-based, trauma treatment model that includes Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), somatic (body-centered) psychology, mindfulness-based therapies, and time-tested relational psychotherapy. I have been teaching therapeutic yoga since 2008 with an emphasis on applied polyvagal theory. I have a passion for hiking in nature combined with my love of photography. I believe that that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.

Vagus nerve yoga for trauma recovery integrates information from neuroscience, psychology, and the yogic path. Applied polyvagal theory can help you heal from adverse and challenging life events.

If you’d like to practice with me live, my next class is .

May 6, 2023: Please bring a mat, 1-2 blocks, strap, and blanket.

When? May 6th, 9 am until 10:30 am MST

Where? Wherever you are via Zoom

All classes are donation based.

NIKKI MYERS , FOUNDER

Nikki is an accomplished speaker and teacher, possessing an MBA, E-RYT500, Yoga Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Addictions Recovery Specialist, and Ayurvedic Specialist. Born from her struggles with addiction and work with countless students, Nikki is the founder of Y12SR, Yoga of 12-Step Recovery. Based on its theme ‘the issues live in the tissues’, Y12SR is a relapse prevention program that weaves the art & science of yoga with the practical tools of 12-step programs.

Y12SR ‘s Holistic Model is designed to Address the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Dis-ease of Addiction.

The characteristics and effects of addiction can easily be described as separation. Addictive behaviors disconnect us from ourselves, our loved ones, our environment and so much more.

Meetings, in person and virtual can be found at the website listing.

For mental health pharmaceuticals that utilize an integrated medicine approach we recommend Dr Peter Bongiorno and DNP Advanced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Kailee Lenczycki.