My Roots

My journey into the healing arts began more than twenty years ago through the practice of yoga.

What started as a way to improve my own health and well-being soon became a lifelong path of study, self-discovery, and service. Through yoga, I discovered the profound connection between movement, breath, mindfulness, and healing. The deeper I traveled into the practice, the more I realized that true wellness extends far beyond the physical body.

My studies naturally expanded into meditation, yogic philosophy, breathwork, and energy healing. Over time, I became a Level III Reiki Master and continued exploring holistic approaches that support balance of body, mind, and spirit. These early experiences taught me the importance of presence, awareness, and treating the whole person rather than simply addressing symptoms.

In 2013, I completed my Yoga Teacher Training through Swan River Yoga, building upon years of personal practice and study. Yoga remains the foundation of everything I do today. It shaped the way I understand movement, healing, self-care, and the body’s innate capacity for transformation.

My path eventually led me halfway around the world to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I lived with my two young children while studying Traditional Thai Massage and Therapeutics. Immersed in Thai culture and traditional healing practices, I received extensive training in therapeutic bodywork, assisted stretching, energy line theory, herbal therapies, and therapeutic protocols rooted in centuries of healing wisdom. This experience was life-changing and deeply influenced the direction of my work.

After returning to the United States, I founded Lotus Mudra Therapeutics as a way to bring together everything I had learned through yoga, meditation, Reiki, Thai therapeutics, and holistic wellness education. As my practice evolved, I pursued formal massage therapy training and became a Florida Licensed Massage Therapist, further deepening my understanding of anatomy, physiology, pain management, and therapeutic care.

My journey continues today through my studies in Ayurveda and Integrative Wellness. Ayurveda has provided a beautiful framework for understanding the relationship between lifestyle, nutrition, daily routines, the seasons, and overall well-being. It has helped me weave together the many threads of my experience into a truly integrative approach to healing.

Lotus Mudra Therapeutics is the culmination of that journey.

My work combines therapeutic bodywork, Thai therapeutics, Ayurveda, yoga-inspired movement principles, energy awareness, mindfulness practices, and wellness education to support each client’s unique path toward greater balance and vitality.

I believe healing happens when we create space to listen—to our bodies, our breath, our inner wisdom, and the rhythms of nature. It is my honor to walk alongside others as they reconnect with themselves, cultivate resilience, and discover a more sustainable path to health and well-being.

I look forward to meeting you and supporting your journey.

Cynthia spent the Summer and Fall of 2016 with her two young children in Chiang Mai Thailand. It is here that she began her first of many Thai Yoga courses and became a Certified Thai Yoga Therapeutics Practitioner.
Along with her training included An overview of the 3 basic massage lines and 10 Major Sen (energy) Lines, Herbal Treatment and Steambath, and 60 hours of Therapeutic Massage Techniques where they practiced over 20 protocols for the most common ailments. Therapeutic Sessions include Breathing techniques for the practitioner and patient, alignment, and the use of Thai Pressure Points for relieving Back, Neck, Shoulder, Hip, Leg and ankle pain or displacement due to previous or even unknown injuries. She also offers treatments for Migraines, Menstruation pain, Stomach issues, wrist, hand and finger problems.
Cynthia studies at The Sunshine Massage School in Chiang Mai Thailand. Sunshine Massage School was Founded by the Western Teacher, Yogi and Buddhist Monk, Asokananda (Harald Brust). Asokanada believed that one should approach a more holistic and homeopathic cure for common ailments, turning to exercise and nutrition, and plant based remedies instead of the expensive “Miracle cures” found in chemical composed pills in the West. Arriving in Asia during the mid 1980’s he found that most Easterners could not afford Western Medicine and that in Villages in Thailand they were practicing the healing Art of Thai Massage to keep fit and healthy which was unseen by the City folk who had only seen the ancient Art of Thai Massage being diminished and lost to Prostitution in the Big City Brothels..
Asokananda was the first Westerner to write a Published book about Thai Massage “The art of Traditional Thai Massage” (1990, Ed. Duang Kamol) It was the first book ever written about the art of massage even in Thailand, where it arose the interest about this healing practice which unfortunately was, at the time, only known to a few real masters.
Thai Yoga Therapeutics is based on a 2500 year old Healing System founded by The Ayurvedic Doctor from India known as Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha. Jivaka was a close friend of the Buddha and the physician of the Buddhist Sangha to which the Buddha overseen. This type of healing Massage along with Buddhism is believed to have arrived in Thailand as early as the 3rd or 2nd century B.C. It is unknown whether there was any native form of massage in the region before that time and is also unknown how much Chinese concepts of Acupuncture, Acupressure or other traditional medicine influenced the practice of Massage in Thailand.